$4,800.00
"Parrot Chair" - a seemingly quiet oil-on-canvas painting made in 1967 by the American artist Jennett Lam (1911-1985). Muted browns, grays, and beiges contrast with more saturated greens and teals. Lam has placed the chair at center; we can think of this as a still-life but curiously we are also invited to think of the idea of a "sitter" for a portrait - the seat without a sitter. Or maybe the chair is first of all an object that affects the space around it and vice versa. What is at front and what recedes? The title may allude to an optical color effect made by the chair's open-back woodwork and the wall behind, which gives a beautiful symmetry of two bird-like silhouettes.
This painting has been re-stretched and cleaned. It comes in its original metal-trimmed wood frame.
Signed on lower right and dated on the backside of the stretcher.
Frame dimensions:
30.75 in. width x 34.75 in. height x 1.5 in. thickness
Sight dimensions:
30 in. width x 34.25 in. height
Condition notes:
In overall good condition with visible craquelures in the paint surface. The canvas has been re-stretched and cleaned.
$9,800.00
Titled "1934," this black-and-white pigment print is a striking portrait by the renowned photographer Christopher Makos. It is an intimate headshot of a young man. The portrait first appeared in Makos's 2004 book "Exhibitionism," which featured sensual photographs of men....
$28,000.00
This 1940s, unsigned oil-on-canvas portrait, newly restored and framed, came from the estate of scholar John Githens (1937-2024) and artist Ingeborg ten Haeff (1915-2011). The couple lived and hosted lively dinner parties at their Washington Square bohemian townhouse, where many...
$2,800.00
Made in the Mid-20th Century by an unknown Connecticut artist, this small abstract oil-on-canvas painting packs an incredible amount of color and texture. A harmony of blues, greens, and grays are applied in thick impasto and arranged to create the...
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This series of framed vintage pen and ink drawings on paper depicts a curious relationship between two groups of parent-and-child figures who seem to mirror each other. Each frame presents two drawings: at top are mother bear and child bear;...
