First Season

Edition # : 407/1200 
Hand Signed : Lower Left In Pencil
Condition : Excellent

Framed with Glass : Wood

Framed Size : 31 x 38 in  |  79 x 97 cm

Purchased from : Gallery

 in 1984

Provenance : The SkechBox Gallery, Little Rock, Arkansas

Certificate of Authenticity : Greenwich, SkechBox Gallery

ROBERT KENNEDY ABBETT BIOGRAPHY

Artist Art Brokerage: Robert Kennedy Abbett (b. 1926, Hammond, Indiana) is an American artist and illustrator. During the late-1950s, 1960s and 1970s, Robert Abbett, also credited as Bob Abbett, illustrated book covers for war novels, detective novels, thrillers, historical fiction and science fiction. Today, Abbett is best known for his paintings of wildlife (in particular, dogs), wilderness, sporting, and fishing. His illustrations have been featured in a large number of books, magazines, and advertising. He has also authored or been featured in several art-related books, including A Season for Painting: The Outdoor Paintings of Robert K. Abbett and Wings from Cover: The Upland Images of Robert Abbett and Ed Gray. Abbett is a graduate of both the University of Missouri and Purdue University. In 1953, Abbett moved to rural Connecticut where he built a house on an old farm (namely, Oakdale Farm). There, Abbett was inspired by the untouched wilderness and forests, and began painting what he has become famous for today: animals and countrylife.

CLAUDIO ABATE BIOGRAPHY

Artist Art Brokerage: Claudio Abate Italian artist: Claudio Abate, was born 1943 in Rome, Italy. 

As as a teenager he showed interest in the world of art and photography. The son of a painter who was friends with De Chirico, in 1955 he started his career as a photographer with Michelangelo Como in Via Margutta. From 1961 to 1963 he worked for Life Magazine as assistant to Eric Lessing, one of the founders of the Magnum photo agency.

 

 He actively took part in the sixties scene and his photographs, as well as providing precious testimony, are often the only proof of events of which otherwise we would not have any record. Complex works of environmental art – hard to trace to a single point of view – are portrayed in a single, never celebrative image, in the attempt to capture the relationship between the work, the surroundings and the spectator. After the so-called ‘hot years’ when he became the photographer/reader of avant-garde contemporary art, he experimented with his own language. This led to his "Contatti con la superficie sensibile", comprising black and white works created through direct contact with light-sensitised photographic paper, presented at the Incontri internazionali d’Arte at Palazzo Taverna in Rome in 1972. In the 1980s he approached colour for the first time, and while retaining his intimate dialogue with the work and the artists, he abandoned loyal descriptions of reality to highlight its mystery. 

 

Abate's photos have been displayed in many national and international shows.

MAGDALENA ABAKANOWICZ Info

Artist Art Brokerage: Magdalena Abakanowicz Polish Artist: Magdalena Abakanowicz was born in Poland, near Warsaw, to a family that traced its heritage back to Genghis Khan.

 Her home life was disturbed by the occupation of Poland by Germany and then Russia. She stayed in Poland through the years of Communist rule and then through the changes under the Solidarity movement and afterwards. Her sculpture often reflects the emotional heritage of her political environment. Magdalena Abakanowicz studied at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, 1950-55. 

Honorary doctorates from the Royal College of Art in London and the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz, Poland. Magdalena Abakanowicz began working as a painter, as a weaver and as a sculptor working in the fiber arts, as a weaver, and moved to other media including clay, wood, and sacking. She is noted for groups of large figures which she has called "Abakans." Her work is in many major public museums.

WAINO AALTONEN BIOGRAPHY

Artist Art Brokerage: Finnish sculptor and artist, Wäinö Valdemar Aaltonen (1894 – 1966) was born to a tailor in the village of Karinainen, Finland. He became interested in art after being deaf as a child, and attended the School of Drawing of the Turku Art Association from age 16. He had spent many of the early years at this school studying painting, but he was self-taught as a sculptor. A journey he made to Italy in 1923 opened his eyes to cubist and futurist art. These elements can primarily be seen in his paintings.

 

 As the Republic of Finland arose, and the First World War raged, he sculpted War Memorials. He soon became a nationalist icon, the exemplar Finn, establishing an exhibition in Stockholm in 1927. His sculpture is nationalist in nature, and he is noted for monumental figures and busts portraying citizens of Finland. An example is the 1925 sculpture of Paavo Nurmi, a cast of which is exhibited outside the Helsinki stadium. Another notable work is that of Jean Sibelius, a bust of 1928.

 

 These two works, like the main body of his work, are bronze casts—though he did work in stone and even glass. He was one of the early 20th-century pioneers of direct carving. A large collection of his works are on permanent exhibition at the Wäinö Aaltonen Museum of Art in Turku.

A1ONE BIOGRAPHY

BIOGRAPHY 

Artist Art Brokerage: Persian artist, A1one, was born in Tehran. He is a visual artist who created graffiti and street art in Iran, particularly on the walls of Tehran. He was the first person who started painting on walls of Tehran so his nickname ended to be "Alone" which then mutated into A1one. He started his street art project in 2003 and inspired his close friends at that time to also begin painting on the streets. Artists such as Elle, isba, K.T. and Magoi were the first people to join him in Tehran. He is one of the pioneers of the urban art scene in Middle East.

 With his public space art, he describes his view on the Iranian society and puts himself regularly in danger. When he began, it was a time when nobody even knew what graffiti was in his country. He has also been known and called as Iranian Banksy just because of his importance in the rise of street art and stenciling within Iran, for art lovers and ordinary people.

 "When I decided to do my painting on walls I bought some spray cans - at that time we had just some very low quality colors in Iran. My first work was a very simple work titled “searching for friends” painted on a wall right next to the Tehran-Karaj expressway late at night. It was a really frightening night for me… The next morning I got three calls from friends who recognized my style of painting. They were shocked to see my work on a public wall. My first stencil was a Munch's Scream Print on Art University walls and after that, I experimented with many techniques and methods, but I continue with stencils, graffiti and sticker art. A1one's art world is dynamic and made of many different styles. from portraits to calligraphy and funky characters which he mostly uses for his stickers.

 A1ones artworks combine both, Persian calligraphy and Western graffiti. His art has been documented by many photographers and featured in Art Asia Pacific Magazine.The artist has also been working on Arabic Graffiti Style Design from 2003 and developed graffiti style in Islamic graffiti world. He has made a handful of the greatest Style walls with Arabic letter graffiti since 2004.

Vytautas Kasiulis

Vytautas Kasiulis (1918 m. balandžio 23 d. Simnas – 1995 m. kovo 12 d. Paryžius) – Lietuvos tapytojas.