MARC CHAGALL 1887-1985
[Shagal, Mark, Zakharovich, Moses]
Vitebsk, Belarus 1887-1985 Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Alpes-Maritimes
Title: The Champs-Elysées, 1954
Technique: Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph on Arches paper
Paper Size: 69.5 x 47 cm / 27.3 x 18.5 in
Image Size: 59 x 42 cm / 23.2 x 16.5 in
Additional Information: This lithograph is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Marc Chagall" at the lower right margin.
The lithograph is also hand numbered in pencil "189/200" at the lower left margin. It is signed in the plate "Marc Chagall" at the lower right corner of the image.
The work was printed by Charles Sorlier based on Chagall's painting of 1952.
It was published in 1954 by Galerie Maeght, Paris in an edition of 200 signed and numbered impressions.
The paper bears the Arches watermark.
Provenance:
The collection of Dr. Gertrude Ticho
The collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (accession no. UCPS04.31)
Literature: Sorlier Charles, Chagall: Lithographe 1974-1979,  Monte-Carlo: Editions Andre Sauret, 1984.
Reference: Sorlier 6.

PABLO PICASSO 1881-1973
Figures / Personnages, circa 1899
Original Hand Signed Charcoal and Colour Crayon Drawing on paper.
21 x 13 cm / 8.3 x 5.1 in

Gilden's Arts Gallery is proud to show this original drawing, hand signed in blue crayon "Picasso" in the lower left of the image.The work is accompanied by a certificate by from Monsieur Claude Ruiz-Picasso dated, le 3 octobre 2011.
The authenticity of this work has kindly been confirmed by Madame Maya Widmaier-Picasso.
The precise date and location in which this artwork  was executed in not known, but the year 1901 was certainly a turning point in Picasso's career and development as an artist.
For the first five months of the year, Picasso lived in Madrid, before moving to Paris to hold an exhibition of sixty four of his works at Ambroise Vollard's Gallery in June 1901. At the age of just nineteen, the show was a huge success for the young artist, but Picasso's money from the proceeds soon ran out, as did his buoyant mood. He descended into a depression which was deepened by the suicide of his close friend Carles Casagemas, whose love interest Picasso had been courting.
He abandoned the bright colours which had dominated the works he had exhibited at Galerie Vollard and turned to a sombre, monochrome palette, often dominated by blue tones. This was to mark the start of his famous Blue Period, during which Picasso would depict the Parisian underclass of gaunt prostitutes, beggars and prisoners. Executed on the precipice of this change in style, the present work however, shows the average person on the street, well dressed and respectable. It is executed though in a reduced palette of browns and blues, and the figures are formed with bold, deft strokes. Picasso captures a sense of movement in the diagonal thrust of his lines, catching the men, women and children as they move about their daily business.

This drawing is very similar in style and techniques to the ones realised by Pablo Picasso from 1900 until 1901. It is known that 11 sketchbooks were realised by Picasso in Barcelona, Paris and Madrid. These sketchbooks are very homogene in style and always represent the same motifs: coffee and street scenes (like in ours), brothels and public places.
The sketchbooks would allow the artist to make notes of ideas, drawings and scenes for his later paintings.

This our beautiful new acquisition: a hand signed lithograph by Henri Matisse representing Madame Pompadour. She was a beautiful and fascinating woman, a member of the French court, and was the official chief mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to her death.

Gilden’s Arts Gallery is proud to present our new exhibition devoted to Marc Chagall (1887-1985), master of form and colours. His incredible combination of colourism and highly personal symbolism makes of Marc Chagall one of the main artists of the 20th Century.
The works by Marc Chagall transport their audience into a dreamlike, fantastical world. Comprised of visions taken from his mind and memory, Chagall’s compositions combine floating lovers and flying beasts in magical compositions that exude charm and beauty.
Chagall’s whimsical, folkloric works demonstrate the importance he placed upon dreams as a source of inspiration, as his subjects are repeatedly seen floating with little regard to the forces of gravity.

“But I had never wanted to paint like any other painter. I always dreamt of some new kind of art that would be different. In Paris, I at last saw as in a vision the kind of art that I actually wanted to create. It was an intuition of a new psychic dimension in my paintings.”

The work below, Banks of Bercy, is an important lithograph, part of a famous series in which Marc Chagall celebrates the French capital.
“Banks of Bercy”, like its fellow pictures in this series, sings with the poetry of Chagall’s unique vision; romance, flowers, a horse, a bird and a cityscape are intertwined in this poetic, dreamlike composition.
Chagall’s relationship with Paris had begun in 1910, when he had gone there on a near pilgrimage, a young artist seeking inspiration from the capital of the Avant-guard. It was there that he had begun to forge his own reputation and his incredible combination of colourism and highly personal symbolism.

View the exhibition's catalogue:

Marc Chagall: Poems in Colours

Gilden's Arts Gallery is exhibiting in Art Karlsruhe until Sunday!You are more than welcom to come and visit our 3 exhibitions in stand U08, Halle 1:

- Works on Paper by Modern Master, including rare drawings by Pablo Picasso and Joan Miro

- a rare collection of paintings by the Hungarian avant garde artist Bela Kadar

- an important solo Show by the leading Israeli artist Jacob Gildor.

Gilden's Arts Gallery is proud to show this new acquisition:
HENRI MATISSE 1869-1954
(Emile Benoît) Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869-1954 Nice
Title: Sitting Nude with Tulle Shirt  / Nu Assis a la Chemise de Tulle, 1925
Technique: Original Hand Signed and Numbered Lithograph on Chine paper
Paper Size: 48.9 x 37.5 cm / 14.2 x 11.25 in
Plate Size: 36.5 x 28.6 cm / 19.25 x 14.8 in
Additional Information: This is an original lithograph by Henri Matisse.
It is hand signed in pencil by the artist "Henri Matisse" at the lower right margin.
It is also hand numbered in pencil at the lower right margins "40/50".
This early work was printed by Fernand Mourlot, Paris in 1925 in a small edition of only 50 impressions. There were a further 10 artists' proofs.
Odalisques were the most popular subject of Matisse's Nice period, during the 1920s. They appear in diverse poses: reclining, lounging, seated, or standing, frequently with their arms raised or folded behind the head. Dressed or semi-dressed in exotic attire, they are placed against a decorative background of richly patterned fabrics and oriental rugs and surrounded by oriental accoutrements. Matisse's primary model for these depictions, from 1920 to 1927, was Henriette Darricarrière (born 1901), a young woman skilled in the arts of ballet, piano, violin, and painting who lived near Matisse's studio.
The model's sculpturesque body, languorously stretching on the couch, exudes sensuality and carnality. The mood of "luxe, calme et volupté" is clearly palpable. Yet, contemplating the work, one gets the impression that the artist somehow distanced himself from the erotic content of the picture while leaving the excitement of recognition to the viewer.
The theme of odalisques during Matisse's Nice period is central not only to his prints, but also to his paintings, sculptures and drawings.
Literature: Henri Matisse: Catalogue Raisone de L'oeuvre grav'e, Claude Duthuit, Paris,1983.
Reference: Duthuit 465

ART KARLSRUHE 8-11 March 2012

We are delighted to invite all you to Art Karlsruhe 2012. This is a leading Art fair in Germany, whose focus is Classical Modern and Contemporary Art.

We are going to exhibit there for the 2nd time this year, presenting THREE EXHIBITIONS at stand U08, Hall 1:

- Our collection of Modern Masters, including several important new acquisitions by Chagall, Picasso, Miró, Dalí, Braque, Ernst, Matisse, Bacon, Giacometti, Vlaminck and Kandinsky;

- A solo show with important works by the leading Israeli contemporary artist Jacob Gildor. The exhibition will focus on the theme of the introvert figure which has been central in his works since the early 90s;
- a rare collection of early 20th Century avant-garde masterpieces by the Hungarian artists Béla Kádár and Hugo Scheiber.