Over the last four decades Mary Heilmann, 68, has been painting with an infectious, unabashedly hedonistic joie de vivre. Working with big brushes and generous quantities of paint, she continues to produce wildly colorful abstractions that riff with irreverent verve on basic elements of Modernist painting: the grid, the monochromatic rectangle, stripes, organic forms, linear [...]
(Flat Rock, N.C.) – An original oil painting by the renowned Irish artist Colin Middleton (1910-1983), titled Teresa and executed in 1947, sold for $71,500 at a multi-estate sale held Sept. 26-27 by Richard D. Hatch & Associates. The painting was the top lot in an auction that grossed just under $500,000 and saw over [...]
Animals have been depicted in art all the way back to prehistoric times. In the Stone Age, hunters and gatherers lived in caves that had drawings on the walls. In fact, drawings of bison, deer, horses, cattle and wild boars can be seen in remote recesses of caves all over the world. Archaeologists speculate that [...]
Tennessee and I got on like a house on fire – and he nearly burnt the house down once with his cigarettes. We were friends and neighbours in London in the late 70s. I met him through Ava Gardner, who had a balcony flat in Kensington. I was doing a portrait of Ava, which I [...]
