Robert Berran

"The Matchmaking Ghost" Book Cover

1998

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right

Medium: Oil on Canvasboard Signature: Signed Lower Left This illustration was published as the paperback cover of High Priced Party Girl by Bart Frame, A C...

Story illustration for “Beethoven: A New Life” by Emil Ludwig for Cosmopolitan, published December 1928, page 22. The full caption reads: “At the premiere of Beethoven’s heroic oper...

Story illustration for “Cobb” by Baroness Von Hutton for The Red Book Magazine, published January 1912, illustrated page 421. Signed lower right, inscribed on stretcher: "Models: Ho...

The gallery is pleased to offer a work by Ceravolo, one of The Hampton's most sort after urban Pop artists who's work is collected by Elton John, Rod Stewart, and Alice Cooper among ...

A classical anatomical figure in an artist's studio, surrounded by brushes and a palette, with muted tones creating a contemplative and intimate atmosphere. Contemporary figurative painting by Mark Beard [Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Artist’s Studio n.d. Signed in red, u.r. Oil on canvas 36 x 18 inches $4,000 + $300 framing The pure and brilliant world of Bruce Sargeant’s art seems terribly removed from our own, unhampered by the prevalent inconsistencies of today’s world. Peopled with comely thoroughbreds, his paintings project a world vision unchanged from the models cherished by idealist writers like E. M. Forster and Rupert Brooke in that golden decade that led up to the Great War. Neither buff nor narcissistic, his fair-haired young athletes pose, somewhat uncomfortably, before the painter’s gaze, not wanting the attention yet feeling their duty to submit. Though tantalized by the New World dabbings of Robert Henri and John Sloan, Sargeant found his true inspiration in the art and ethos of fifth-century Athens, where the achievement of the kaloi kagathoi, young men who were “beautiful to look at and worthy of admiration,” were the perfect models for artistic rendering and public adulation. At base, Sargeant’s models, like the sculptures of Lysippus and Praxiteles, are idealized heroes whose achievements on the playing field earn them their renown. However, unlike his precursors, the painter requires no civic responsibility from his ephebes, only physical stamina, gymnastic prowess, and good looks. His work bespeaks a class that existed briefly, but was prolonged and attenuated in the languorous novels of writers such as Denton Welch...

A contemporary figurative painted portrait of a man in a blue shirt by Mark Beard/[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Portrait with Blue Shirt n.d. Signed in red, u.l. Oil on canvas 14...

An oil painting by Mark Beard of a man wearing an animal fur on his head in a gold gilded frame. Man with Fur Cap, 1872 Signed and dated in red, l.l. $3,450 + $350 framing