Blue Waters By Appointment Sale - fine art etc

Prices will be Listed below on the Thursday before the sale

Artist: Forissier, Roger (French, 1924-2003) Lithograph $250 

Jasper Johns Unsigned Lithograph Summer (blue) $250 

J Brill WATER COLOR A Devon Cottage English. 19th/20th C. Watercolour Professionally matted and framed $250

Limited edition print depicting a table with onion, egg, tea and flowers on the back.
Signed in pencil lower right, numbered 95/275 lower left. Image size: 30" x 21", full size: 34" x 26". Unframed. #Art #StillLife #Flowers

Artist: Audean Johnson
Edition Number: 95/275 Country of Origin: United States, Framed $150

Prices will be Listed below on the Thursday before the sale

Filemon Santiago Oaxaca artist - purchased in Chicago $998

Tanabe artist - Canadian 

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Takao Tanabe

TAKAO TANABE has been an important figure in Canadian painting and printmaking for over six decades. Born in Prince Rupert, British Columbia in 1926, Takao Tanabe studied in Canada, Europe, the United States and Japan. Following a decade as head of the art program and artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre, he returned to British Columbia in 1980 where he lives and works.

Takao Tanabe's work is in numerous international public, corporate and private collections, including Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada Council Art Bank, Glenbow Museum, Calgary; McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton; National Gallery of Canada, Tate Museum, U.K.; Vancouver Art Gallery, Borden, Ladner, Gervais; Four Seasons Hotels, Jarislowsky Fraser Ltd., Scotiabank and UBS Canada Inc.

Tanabe is the recipient of several honorary degrees and awards, including Order of British Columbia (1993), Order of Canada (Member, 1999), the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts (2003), Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts (2013).

In 2005, the retrospective Takao Tanabe was organized by Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and Vancouver Art Gallery and toured nationally. In 2011, the traveling exhibition "Chronicles of Form and Place: Works on Paper" by Takao Tanabe was organized by the Burnaby Art Gallery and McMaster Museum of Art. In 2016, the exhibition "Takao Tanabe - Sumie: Ink Brush Paintings" was featured at the Nikkei National Museum & Cultural Centre, Burnaby, British Columbia.

Takao Tanabe has been represented by Mira Godard Gallery for over 55 years.

Called Gallery and Someone looking to purchase 

Prices will be Listed below on the Thursday before the sale

Artist: Forissier, Roger (French, 1924-2003) Lithograph $250 

Jasper Johns Unsigned Lithograph Summer (blue) $250 

J Brill WATER COLOR A Devon Cottage English. 19th/20th C. Watercolour Professionally matted and framed $250

Limited edition print depicting a table with onion, egg, tea and flowers on the back.
Signed in pencil lower right, numbered 95/275 lower left. Image size: 30" x 21", full size: 34" x 26". Unframed. #Art #StillLife #Flowers

Artist: Audean Johnson
Edition Number: 95/275 Country of Origin: United States, Framed $150

David Blackwood $2500 Molly Glover leaving Bragg Island Aquatint etching “The Parting 2/50

David Blackwood $2500 Study for Man Warning two boys  (II) 31/50 Trinity bay December 13th 1980 

Delmonica Hanover Poster framed $20

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Kitaj 

The following text was written and submitted by Jean Ershler Schatz, artist and researcher of Laguna  Woods, California:

Ronald Brooks was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1932. He took the additional name of his mother's second husband, Dr. Walter Kitaj, a Viennese Jew. At an early age, he developed a compassion for persons less fortunate and became dedicated to socialism, which had a lasting effect on his life and work.  

The artist attended high school in Troy, New York and after high school, inspired by the early travels of Joseph Conrad and Eugene O"Neill, he became a merchant seaman for four years. His travels were punctuated by periods of study at the Cooper Union in New York and the Academy in Vienna. He was drafted into the Army in 1956 and was stationed in France.  When he got out two years later, he used his G.I. Bill benefits to study at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford, transferring a year later to the Royal College of Art in London.    

He married Elsi Roessler, a fellow American student whom he had met in Vienna in 1953.  They had a son, Lem and adopted a daughter, Dominie. (Lem is a Hollywood screenwriter who goes by the name of Lem Dobbs.)  Kitaj's second wife, the painter Sandra Fisher, died at the age of only forty-seven in London, leaving Kitaj alone with their ten year old son, Max.    

After a visit to Paris in 1975 he was inspired by Degas to take up pastel which he has used for much of his subsequent work.  Late 19th century French art has been a major source of inspiration, as has a preoccupation with his Jewish identity. He was stirred by the events during World War II in Europe, especially as recollected by his parents and his Jewish step-grandmother, who moved in with his family.    

Sources include:   

From the internet, WebMuseum, Paris,  Electric Library

$350 Lithograph