Descriptions

4513

The number of the house on 10th Avenue in Brooklyn where I grew up.  Memory has distorted the vision of my upbringing and the surroundings of the neighborhood.  My father so far away and my son who will never know what it is to grow up on the streets.

Giclée on Archival 300 GSM Cold Pressed artists fine art watercolor paper

Image: 15 x 20

Edition of 100

$500 with certificate of authenticity

Unframed with certificate of authenticity is available upon request.

THE ABDUCTION OF PERSEPHONE - Bernini

The goddess of the season, flowers, fruit and grain.  By arrangement, she spent half the year with Hades in the Underworld, causing fall and winter above.  The other half she returns to her mother, bringing spring and summer with her.  This pencil is a portion of Bellini’s work that in is the Palacci Borghesi in Rome.

Giclee on 315 GSM Innova

Edition of 100

$150 Unframed with certificate of authenticity.

AIR FRANCE

Part of an Air France poster depicting a Da Vinci portrait and Charles De Gaulle Airport.  It has been refolded à la Agam

Paper Fold

NFS

ANATOMY

Pencil

NFS

ANEMONE

A Greek legend says that the anemone was born after Adonis, beloved by Aphrodite, was killed in the forest on a wild boar hunt.  Aphrodite was so grief stricken that the gods took pity on her and allowed Adonis to spend each spring with her in the form of a flower, the anemone, rising from his blood.  We are looking up from the stem.  The light and colors are seen after it has passed through the delicate petals of this plant.

Giclée on Somerset Velvet Radiant White

Image: 18 x14

Edition of 100

$400 with certificate of authenticity

ANNUNCIATION - Da Vinci

This is a portion of a classic painting by Leonardo Da Vinci as it would appear after restoration.  The original was painted in 1475 and now hangs at the Uffizi in Florence.

Giclée on Canvas

Edition of 100

$500 Unframed with certificate of authenticity

ARTEMISIA

Artemisia I of Caria who reigned in Halicarnassus between 484-460 BCE was an intelligent and courageous woman, who showed no fear in battles. She was respected by Xerxes I, King of Persia who made her an ally.  She plundered both Greek and Persian ships, and she seemed to be loyal to no-one.  She is mostly known through the writings of Herodotus, himself a native of Halicarnassus, who praises her courage and the respect.

Giclee on 315 GSM Innova

Edition of 100

13 x 10

$450 Framed with certificate of authenticity

 BACH:  FUGUE IN FRINGED IVORY

These fringed ivory flowers were sketched while listening to Baroque music.

Giclee on 315 GSM Innova

Edition of 100 

$600 Unframed with certificate of authenticity.

BIRDS OF PARADISE – ST LUCIA

A small fishing village on the island of St. Lucia.   The Caribbean sun has passed its zenith.   All the fishing boats have returned with their catches and people are resting before the evening meal and party only to be disturbed by a flock of flamingoes.

Giclée on Milano GSM fine Art Archival Watercolor

Edition of 100

$600 Unframed with certificate of authenticity.

18 x 38 inches 

THE BIRTH OF VENUS - Botticelli

The face of Venus as rendered by the immortal Botticelli.

Giclée on Somerset Velvet Radiant White

Edition of 100

$450 with a certificate of authenticity

COLOUR STUDY V

Felt tip pens

NFS

BASKET OF FRUIT - Carivaggio

This bowl of spoiling fruits was painted when he was about 25 years old.  I have added a background found in a renaissance fresco.  Today it hangs in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan.

 Edition of 100

Giclée on Somerset Velvet Radiant White

$550 Unframed with certificate of authenticity

DOLCE FAR NIENTE

This is the in my life series of symbolisms.  Over the archway is a Roman aphorism:  Times change and I change with them.

Giclee on 315 GSM Innova

Edition of 100

$400 Unframed with certificate of authenticity

EDEN REDUX

God, in all her wisdom, decided to forgive. 

Giclee on 315 GSM Innova

Edition of 100   

450 Unframed with certificate of authenticity

GERMANICUS

Germanicus Julius Caesar (15 BCE –19 ACE was a popular and prominent Roman general, known for his campaigns in Germania. He was born a Claudia. He official member of the gens Julia, another prominent family was further consolidated through a marriage between himself and Agrippina the Elder, a granddaughter of Augustus. He was also the father of Caligula, the maternal grandfather of Nero, and the older brother of Claudius.  He commanded eight legions, about one-third of the entire Roman army, which he led against the Germanic tribes. He returned to Rome, where he received a triumph before leaving to reorganize the provinces of Asia Minor.His death has been attributed to poison by ancient sources, but that was never proven. As a famous general, he was widely popular and regarded as the ideal Roman long after his death.] To the Roman people, Germanicus was the Roman equivalent of Alexander the Great due to the nature of his death at a young age, his virtuous character, his dashing physique, and his military renown.

Giclée on Somerset Velvet Radiant White

Edition of 100

$400 Unframed with certificate of authenticity

INDIAN SUMMER

The beauty of architecture as it becomes part of nature’s landscape.  My thoughts of how Manhattan would appear when the Lenape Indians return thousands of years from now.

Giclée on Somerset Velvet Radiant White

Edition of 100

$400 Unframed with certificate of authenticity

INSPIRATION OF ST. MATTHEW - Caravaggio

The Inspiration of Saint Matthew (1602) is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio. Commissioned by the French Cardinal Matteo Contarelli, the canvas hangs in the Contarelli chapel altar in the church San Luigi dei Francesi (The Church of Saint Luis of the French) in Rome, Italy.  This restored canvas has a few additions not in the original

Giclee on 315 GSM Innova

Edition of 100

$500 Unframed with certificate of authenticity.

ISABELLA OF URBINO

The daughter of the Duke of Urbino has just accepted a gift from a wandering minstrel.  Will this turn into an affair that we have read about through the ages?

Giclée on 315 GSM Innova

Edition of 100

$500 with certificate of authenticity

JE CRÉER DONC JE SUIS

 The creation of my universe.  A Garden of dreams.

Giclée on Milano 300G watercolor

Edition of 100

$600 Unframed with certificate of authenticity

JOURNEY THROUGH TIME

It all began with my desire to put on canvas my views of Hadrian’s Villa outside of Rome.  From there it included antiquities of other cultures with homage to two creations of the 20th century. Can you find them?

Giclée on Milano 300G watercolor

Edition of 100

$450 Unframed with certificate of authenticity.

THERE IS JUSTICE SAID THE HAWK

Ask the bird or the mantis

Giclée on Milano 300G watercolor

Edition of 100

$450 Unframed with certificate of authenticity.

MALE FEMALE HERMAPHRODITE

A pointillistic abstract

Poster

Edition of 250

$50 Unframed.

MOONLIGHT

A full moon can cast wondrous light onto a landscape.

Giclée on Somerset Velvet Radiant White

Edition of 100

$450 Unframed with certificate of authenticity.

Michelangelo Buonarroti: AWAKENING SLAVE

Pencil

NFS

NEVER ENDING STORY

A portrait of my daughter and her coming of age.

Giclée on Archival 300 GSM Cold Pressed artists fine art watercolor

Edition of 100

$450  with certificate of authenticity.

OPHELIA

Hamlet’s forlorn and childlike lover.  A young noblewoman of Denmark, the daughter of Polonius, sister of Laertes, and potential wife of Prince Hamlet.  She represents the dual nature of woman.  She was visualized by Hamlet as a callous sexual predator, when in fact she was virtuous and naïve.  Was she truly hiding her base nature under a guise of innocence?  A mystery then….a mystery now.

Giclée on Archival 300 GSM Cold Pressed artists fine art watercolor paper

Edition of 100

$600 with certificate of authenticity

OUT TO PASTURE

Where all sneakers, that have served us so well, go when their time is up.

Giclée on canvas

Edition of 50

$500 Unframed with certificate of authenticity.

OZYMANDIAS

A personalized cityscape of New York as seen from a Moorish castle in 1997.  Like Shelley’s poem, it is full of historic symbolism and set in the context of great civilizations, both past and future. Giclée on Archival 300 GSM Cold Pressed artists fine art watercolor paper

Giclée on Archival 300 GSM Cold Pressed artists fine art watercolor paper

Edition 0f 100

Giclee on canvas

Edition of 50 (Sold Out)

$600 Unframed with certificate of authenticity,

PICASSO’S JERUSALEM

You are at an affair seated with many others at a round table.  Along comes the photographer makes half of us get up and stand behind those seated.  A distortion yet complete and truthful.  And so it is with Picasso.

Giclée on Milano 300G watercolor

Edition of 100

$600 Unframed with certificate of authenticity.

PIETA 4012 - Michelangelo Buonarroti

My teacher and I often wonder what Renaissance and modern art would look like given the same time to age as Roman or Greek art.  When Michelangelo created the Pieta he wanted the world to know it was him.  On the sash it says Michelangelo Buonorroti of Florence made this.   On the well situated above Christ’s head is a saying in Latin Vita non est de exspectans pro tempestas transere. est de docens quam saltare in pluviam. Life is not about waiting for the storm to pass; it is about dancing in the rain.

Giclée on Milano 300G watercolor

Edition of 100

$450 with certificate of authenticity.

POPPIES

A symbol of our fallen heroes.

A source of comfort from pain.

A creator of political instability and addiction.

Giclée on Milano 300G watercolor

Edition of 100

950 Framed with certificate of authenticity

$450 Unframed with certificate of authenticity.

PRIMATIF

A study in contrasts.

Giclée on Somerset

Edition of 50

$300 Unframed with certificate of authenticity

RENDEVOUS

A Norwegian three-masted schooner (built in 1905 to train Norwegian cadets) is plying the North Sea on its way to a mystical rendezvous.  Creating the waves are two figures from Boticlli’s Birth of Venus. The wind god Zephyr is in the water in this canvas and carries a young female goddess of lesser winds.  Both have wings. Vasari was probably correct in identifying her as "Aura", personification of a lighter breeze.  Their joint efforts are blowing the ship towards its rendezvous.

Giclée on Somerset.

Edition 100

$450 with a certificate of authenticity

RINALDO AND ARMIDA - Tiepolo

This is an almost identical copy of a Tiepolo painting now hanging at the Chicago Institute of Art.  The original was part of a series of 9 paintingsthat depicts the epic Italian poem titled Rinaldo and Armida.   Its alternate name is Kennedy Abandoning America.  Can you find the twist?

Edition of 100

Giclee on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag

$500 Unframed with certificate of authenticity

SARAH BERNHARDT

A portrait of Sarah, the soon to be famous actress, when she was 16 years old.  Dissatisfied with what she was wearing in the 1862 portrait, the photographer, Félix Nadar tore down the window curtains and posed her in it.

Giclée on Arches Watercolor

Edition of 100

$450 Unframed with certificate of authenticity.

SEA ESCAPE

There you are on the southern coast of France.  You have anchored your yacht so that you can walk your dog.

Giclée on Canvas

Edition of 100

$500 Unframed with certificate of authenticity

SAINT JOHN’S WORT

A family allegory

Edition of 100.

Giclee on Giclee on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag

$400 Unframed with certificate of authenticity

STILL……..LIFE

Set in a Siberian Forest, this still life is homage to two couples who married before the holocaust, suffered and were reunited afterwards.  Depicted is the sum total of the remaining possession of two families.  It is also a symbolic tribute to loved ones that we shall never know.

Giclée on Archival 300 GSM Cold Pressed artists fine art watercolor paper

Edition of 50

Image: 22 x 15

$500 Unframed with certificate of authenticity

THREE CLOSE FRIENDS

This drawing of three English porcelain figurines was part of a famous series celebrating Arab diversity.  Study a face long enough and you get to see more than you ever expected.

Giclée on Somerset Velvet Radiant White

Edition of 50

$450 Unframed with certificate of authenticity

VENEZIA, LA REGATA SUL CANAL GRANDE

Third in the Venezia series.  The first historical record of the event dates back to the mid13th century, when it was part of the Festa delle Marie celebrations. The etymology of the word is uncertain, but it probably derives from aurigare, a verb used in the 16th century as a synonym for racing. Originally regattas were either races between boatmen and gondoliers or regate grandi.  The water parade commemorates the welcome given in 1489 to Caterina Cornaro, the wife of the King of Cyprus, who renounced her throne in favor of Venice.

Giclée on Elegance Velvet Platinum 100% Cotton Rag

Edition of 100

$500 with Certificate of Authenticity

VENEZIA, RIA DE LA VESTE

In an instant, the scene that captures your hear,  is gone.   This canal takes its name from a tailor’s shop where they made veste di zentilomini, gentlemen’s clothes.

Giclée on Elegance Velvet Platinum 100% Cotton Rag

Edition of 100

500 Unframed with certificate of authenticity.

VENEZIA, PONTE DEI FRARI

Frari or friars who were followers of Francis of Assisi, built this bridge near their church in the 13th century.  They insisted the bridge and the church be a “a place of sanctuary for malefactors as it was erected on holy ground.”  This is how the bridge may have looked 300 years later.

Giclée on Elegance Velvet Platinum 100% Cotton Rag

Edition of 100

$500 Unframed with certificate of authenticity.

VENEZIA, LA REGATA SUL CANAL GRANDE

Third in the Venezia series.  The first historical record of the event dates back to the mid13th century, when it was part of the Festa delle Marie celebrations. The etymology of the word is uncertain, but it probably derives from aurigare, a verb used in the 16th century as a synonym for racing. Originally regattas were either races between boatmen and gondoliers or regate grandi.  The water parade commemorates the welcome given in 1489 to Caterina Cornaro, the wife of the King of Cyprus, who renounced her throne in favor of Venice.

Giclée on Elegance Velvet Platinum 100% Cotton Rag

Edition of 100

$500 Unframed with certificate of authenticity.

If purchased as a triptych, the cost is $1000 for all three. 

WINTER BIRCH Somewhere in a northern woodland, someone is returning home after having their bouquet rejected.  Having stopped to ponder the meaning of life they cast away the past.

Giclée on Elegance Velvet Platinum 100% Cotton Rag

Edition of 100

$500 with Certificate of Authenticity