Vanessa Stafford

'Minotaur Descending', California woman artist

1991

Signed lower right and dated 1982. An elegant figural watercolor showing a view of figures in classical greek dress contrasted against a striated polychrome background. This signature member of the Northwest Watercolor Society...

Painted circa 1955 by Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and stamped verso with Victor di Gesu estate stamp. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los...

Signed lower right, 'Storer' for Inez May Storer (American, born 1933) and dated 1978. Inez Storer first studied at the San Francisco College for Women, the San Francisco Art Institute and the University of California at Berkeley. She later earned a bachelor's degree at Dominican College in San Rafael and, in 1971, a graduate degree in at California State University in San Francisco. From Inverness, California, north of San Francisco and working from a studio in Point Reyes, Inez Storer creates mixed-media narrative paintings, collages and assemblages in naive-sophisticated style, which she describes as Magic Realism: "I am a visual raconteur. I use paint to tell stories." Most of these stories are explorations of the human condition with characters who seem allegorically to be walking tightropes. She gets many ideas from her studio collection of old postcards, toys, photos and other random items that she often incorporates into her work. Inez Storer is also known for her prints and drawings. Storer was born in Los Angeles to German parents who left that country in 1933 to avoid Hitler. Her father got a job in Hollywood with Billy Wilder as an art director, and her mother was an actress and dancer. Inez spent much time as a child on movie sets. She was raised a Catholic as her parents wanted no one to know her mother was Jewish and uses Catholic imagery in her work. In 1974, she met Andrew Romanoff, a Russian artist who became her second husband. In this marriage, she became a part of Russian royalty because Andrew was the grand nephew of the Czar Nicholas II, Russia's last emperor...

Di Gesu estate stamp verso and painted circa 1955. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and the Chouinard Art School before movi...

"Alarming Willingness " is a watercolor/acrylic painting on handmade paper by Indian artist Binay Sinha. Sinha delicately illustrates the relationship between man and nature in this...

"Bites of Trivial Matter," is a six panel work by Binay Sinha, but each piece is also available for sale individually. The artist discusses modernity, specifically the effect in has ...

"Alarming Willingness II" is water color/acrylic painting on handmade paper by Indian artist, Binay Sinha. Sinha delicately illustrates the relationship between man and nature in th...

"Bites of Trivial Matter," is a six panel work by Binay Sinha, but each piece is also available for sale individually. The artist discusses modernity, specifically the effect in has ...