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Vintage Mid Century Swedish Still Life Oil Painting, Framed - Earthenware

1960s

STILL LIFE WITH PEPPERS Oil on Canvas Size: 32 x 42 cm (including frame) A simple yet very pleasant modernist still life oil composition, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1981....

A GENTLE AFTERNOON Size: 63 x 52 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A cosy and charming mid-century interior setting composition, executed in oil onto canvas. The central focus of ...

RED TULIPS Size: 67 x 58 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A captivating and well-balanced interior still life composition, executed in oil onto canvas. Upon first glance, a vase ...

FISH & FLOWERS Size: 47 x 62 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas Laid onto Board A characterful mid-century modernist style still life oil composition, painted onto canvas. At the h...

Deux Poires Laurent Marcel Salinas, Egyptian/French (1913–2010) Date: 1998 Oil on Canvas, signed u.l. Size: 8 x 10 in. (20.32 x 25.4 cm) Frame Size: 12 x 14 inches

“Morning Light” epitomizes the abundance of Spring with its bustling bouquet of white lilies, yellow roses, and a sliced open, ready to be eaten pink grapefruit. Despite the levity of the scene, Lucas has challenged herself with space, making a clear contrast between subject and background. She is consciously rejecting the “ironed on” effect of a subject onto a canvas, a trap to which lesser artists might succumb. Artist Bio Maryann Lucas lives and works in Sag Harbor. She is primarily self-taught but has also received instruction and support from wonderful and generous members of the East End artistic community. Working exclusively in oils, Lucas sets out almost daily to create plein aire landscapes and seascapes. In her studio, she works directly from life and captures the beauty of natural light as it transforms ordinary objects into visual delights. Lucas wants her work to celebrate all that is well with this world and brilliant in this life, despite its pockets of darkness. For me, she says, I know I am in the Presence of something beautiful, when it steals my breath, silences my mind, pushes out everything else and draws me in. I trust That. I use That to guide my hands as I arrange a still life or scan a landscape to determine where to set down my easel. Ultimately, That is what drives me to paint. Becoming evermore skilled as an oil painter is another of Lucas goals. To that end she remains teachable, finding it refreshing and vital for her own growth to paint with others. She has studied with favorite artists including Michael Klein...

Signed and dated (19)38 lower right, verso on old label "Natura Morta". Exhibition: "Pittura e disegni di De Pisis" Galleria di Roma, December 1939, n. 12. Bibliography: C.E. Opp...

Antique American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.