Baden-Württemberg’s top art fair, Art Karlsruhe, came to a close on Sunday with a record 50,000 visitors streaming through its halls over the past week. For its tenth anniversary edition, the fair welcomed 220 galleries from 13 countries.  Though certainly still a regional fair, sales topped those in recent memory, with a significant number of collectors coming in from Switzerland and France.
Those collectors were decidedly safe in their purchases focusing on established, Impressionist, modern and post-modern artists such as Sigmar Polke, Josef Albers, Markus Lüpertz, and Camille Pissarro. London’s Gilden’s Arts Gallery sold one Pissarro to an unnamed German collection as well as several other works by Max Pechstein, Max Beckmann, André Derain and Hugo Scheiber. Gallery director Petra Kaffeesieder noting their pleasant surprise that the metabolism collectors in the region have for high-priced works.

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http://blogs.artinfo.com/berlinartbrief/2013/03/11/art-karlsruhe-touts-visitor-record-and-significant-sales-for-its-10th-anniversary/

Camille Pissarro Pastel

CAMILLE PISSARRO (1830-1903)
West Indies, Virgin Islands 1830- 1903 Paris, France (French)

Figure of a Peasant Woman

Original Hand Signed Pastel Drawing on paper

Paper Size: 62 x 40.5 cm / 24.4 x 15.9 in

This amazing pastel drawing by the French Impressionist artist Pissarro is one of the galleries most recent acquisitions and is on display in our gallery in Hampstead at the moment. This stunning work is simplistic yet incredibly striking. With her bright blue skirt and yellow bonnet, this peasant woman has been transformed into a soft and sensuous figure, with rosy cheeks and gentle pastel strokes to help emphasize the naturalistic beauty of the figure. The rapid pastel work also helps to highlight the idea of the woman being captured instantaneously, in a fluid motion and caught unawares going about her daily chores.

Provenance: 

Collection Anneberg, USA. Walter Annenberg, an American philanthropist and his wife Leonore Annenberg were avid collectors of art and collected a large amount of French Impressionist works during their lifetimes. Many pieces from the collection are now housed at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Literature:

"The Impressionists, Camille Pissarro"by Charles Kunstler,Gruppo Editoriale Fabbri,Milan 1972. Edited by Daniel Wildenstein Produced with the collaboration of Widenstein Foundation,Paris. illustrated in page 36.

Figure of a Peasant Woman

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Gilden's Arts Gallery London Art Fair 2013

Keith Haring London Art Fair 2013

London Art Fair 2013

We are delighted to be exhibiting at the London Art Fair this year, and amongst our display will be new acquisitions to the gallery such as this Keith Haring work below. This phenomenally bright and colourful screen print optimizes all of Haring's most iconic artistic traits. The polka dot background and boldly outlined figures have become now become synonymous with his work.

KEITH HARING 1958-1990

Pennsylvania, US 1958- 1990 New York

Pop Shop I, 1987

Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Screenprint in colours on wove paper

Paper Size: 96.5 x 76.2 cm / 38 x 30 in
Image Size: 86.4 x 66 cm / 34 x 26 in

This work is hand signed and dated in pencil by the artist "K. Haring 87" at the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil "65/200" at the lower right margin.
The work was printed in a limited edition of 200 impressions and published by Martin Lawrence Ltd. Editions, New York.
This is the second silkscreen out of four that Haring created for the suite "Pop Shop I" in 1987.

London Art Fair Selection 2013

London Art Fair Selection 2013

Here is a little selection of works we will be exhibiting at the London Art Fair in January 2013. We hope you like them and look forward to seeing you there.

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Tamara de Lempicka

"I was the first woman to paint cleanly, and that was the basis of my success. From a hundred pictures, mine will always stand out." 

Tamara de Lempicka

The Polish Girl, circa 1933

 Hand Signed and Numbered Aquatint with Roulette in colour on Chine Colle paper

De Lempicka's cool, crisp and precisely executed works are in many ways at odds with her incredibly turbulent and exotic personal life, which spanned various artistic movements and European countries before finally settling in America. This 'glamour girl' of the art world was indeed a notorious figure not just for her paintings but also for her exciting and bohemian lifestyle. Part of the Parisian roaring 20's set, she was not only an artist, but a socialite from a wealthy Polish family. Her bold and distinctive style was further developed on her move to France and has often been suggested as a softer form of the Cubism movement.

TAMARA DE LEMPICKA 1898-1980

1898 - Berlin-1980 (Polish/American)

The Polish Girl / La Polonaise, circa 1933

Technique: Hand Signed and Numbered Aquatint with Roulette in colour on Chine Colle paper

Paper Size: 45.1 x 36.2 cm / 17.75 x 14.25 in

Plate Size: 34.5 x 26.5 cm / 13.4 x 10.4 in

Additional Information: This work is hand signed by the artist "T. de Lempicka" at the lower right margin,

It is also hand numbered "86/200" at the lower left margin.

The work was printed in a limited edition of 200 impressions in circa 1933.

This aquatint was closely based on Tamara de Lempicka's Oil painting on wood panel "La Polonaise" from 1933 (recorded in the catalogue raisonne as B.182)

The image of a girl, wearing a brightly-colored Polish shawl over her head, looks up from her prayer book. Along with several others, this devotional image, painted on the little mahogany panels of which the artist was so fond, is reminiscent of the art of icons.

Provenance:

Galerie Alain Blondel, Paris (label verso)

Private Collection, New York

Sotheby's New York, March 31, 2007, lot 156

The Hascoe Family Collection of Czech and Modern Art, Greenwich, Connecticut.

Literature:

1. Alain Blondel, 1999, Catalogue Raisonné de l'Oeuvre Complete deTamara de Lempicka, Lausanne: aux éditions Acatos.

reference: A.151, p. 472

Gioia Mori, 2011, Tamara de Lempicka: La Regina del Moderno, Rome, 2011, p. 361

David Hockney

'What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing: you wouldn't be an artist if you didn't want to share an experience, a thought.'  David Hockney

Lillie's

1970

Original hand signed and numbered lithograph on Japan Paper

 One of the most important and influential British artists of the twentieth century, David Hockney's work embodies the very essence of 60's Pop Art. His most recent retrospective, 'A Bigger Picture,' at the Royal Academy, showcased a major collection of 150 of Hockney's works spanning his three decades in the art world. Not only famous for his paintings, Hockney has worked with various different media, including photo collages, and most recently creating still life's and landscapes using his iPad.

Paper Size:  75.5 x 52.8 cm / 29.7 x 20.7 in

Image Size: 64 x 52 cm / 25.1 x 20.4 in

Additional Information: This original lithograph is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Hockney" in the lower right margin.

It is hand numbered in pencil "XXX/XXXV" (30/35) next to the signature. It is also dated "71" (1971) in pencil. 

This lithograph was the third plate in the portfolio "Europäische Graphik VII-Englische Künstler" (European Graphic-English Artists) published by Edition Galerie Wolfgang Ketterer with co-operation of the editor Felix H. Man, Munich, 1971

It was printed by Stanley Jones at the Curwen Studios, London,  in a limited edition of 35 impressions on Japan paper and 65 on Arches paper. There were a further artists proofs of respectively 12 for the edition on Japan paper and 18 for the edition on Arches.David Hockney realised this print just after the Grimms illustrations. He, at the time, found that cross-hatching could add a textural variety to his lithographs, a in Lillies 1971, and in the black and white colour versions of Flowers made of paper and ink of the same year. (See illustrations in Hockney, Pleasures of the Senses)

Literature: David Hockney prints 1954-77,  Petersburg Press for the Midland Art Group And the Scottish Arts Council, 1979

Reference: Scottish Art Council 118

Condition: Very Good Condition.