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20th century French provincial farmyard oil on canvas.

By J P Vezzeos
49 x 57cm
I’m strongly considering re colouring the frame, or at least the oak mount, possibly gold touch the plaster frame.
Years ago I wrote an article “To Frame or not to Frame” for Period Style Magazine, you can see on my website under Media.
I often re frame, re colour existing frame or remove frame completely, as the painting doesn’t need anything to compete with its beauty.
Usually on 17th century art. That’s just my personal taste.
I was going to colour the oak mount to the same deep warm brown of the farm house.
Then see whether to highlight the plaster frame or leave?
 One customer earlier today said, looks perfect as is! Maybe this has become more of a habit..
Such beautiful greens in this painting. Matching the 18th century English hepplewhite side chair.
I often mix English chairs with French tables or vice versa.
This just made me think of another story to write soon..

‘Bathers’ Oil by Gustav Michael Pillig

Oil on canvas

67x51cm

Gustav Michael Pillig

1877 Gelsenkirchen – 1956 Melbourne

Studied around 1900 in Stockholm.
From 1901 to 1908 at the Royal Academy in Berlin and alternately at the Düsseldorf Academy.
Several monuments, including gravestones by his hand in Aachen, Essen, etc.
Also the Hugo Schulze monument at the entrance to the miners’ school in Bochum.
1913 moved to Australia, exhibited in Sydney and Melbourne.
Died in Melbourne in 1956.

Countryside Landscape Oil by Gustav Michael Pillig

Oil on board

29x24cm

Gustav Michael Pillig

1877 Gelsenkirchen – 1956 Melbourne

Studied around 1900 in Stockholm.
From 1901 to 1908 at the Royal Academy in Berlin and alternately at the Düsseldorf Academy.
Several monuments, including gravestones by his hand in Aachen, Essen, etc.
Also the Hugo Schulze monument at the entrance to the miners’ school in Bochum.
1913 moved to Australia, exhibited in Sydney and Melbourne.
Died in Melbourne in 1956.

‘The Gatherer’ Oil on Canvas. 107x101cm

A decorative antiqued visual montage of the artists favourite objects.
The pretty girl has gathered a pomegranate and auricula flower from the display.
Inspired by 18th – 19th century New England naive portraiture art.
In foreground
Auricula flowers in full bloom
A wooden jardinier with overflowing magnolias
A delftware blue and white urn and pomegranates.
Finished with an antiqued glaze.
107 x 101 cm
Oil on canvas 2022
Below,
An unusual 19th Century French Fruitwood, Burr Elm and Oak Dough bin
Resting on a Wide Kilim Hall Rug. ‘Ardabil’
North East Iran
Wide Kilim Hall Rug
First half 20th Century
In good sound condition
4.8m x 1.36m
Unusually large 18th Century blue and white,
Dr Wall Worcester jug.
I purchased this privately over 30 years ago. I’ve had in my private collection and used in many displays and advertisements over the years.
A decorative 19th century English acanthus leaf styled stoneware jug.
Unusually large 19th century Masons Ironstone mug (my private collection)
Early 19th century English Masons Ironstone jug.
Dated 1813.

‘HER KIND’ – HEIDI YARDLEY

‘Her Kind’ Solo Exhibition 31.08.11 to 24.09.11

Her Kind explores 19th century Spiritualism and its influence on the mystical renaissance of the 1960’s. Yardley’s small monochromatic paintings are reminiscent of the earliest forms of photography and its reproduction in postcard format. Suggestions of paranormal activity refer to the Spirit photography invented by William Mumler in 1860 where unexpected lights and apparitions of presumed ghosts sit alongside the living sitters. However, rather than appearing in Victorian costume Yardley’s figures resemble the free living characters of the 1960’s; the hippies, beats, nudists and New Agers. The paintings draw on print material and cinema of the 1960’s occult revival exemplified in the films of Kenneth Anger and Roman Polanski. Figures and scenes emerge luminous out of the inky sepia coloured oil paint paying homage to the paintings and etchings of the Symbolists such as Eugene Carriere and Fransisco Goya.

Buckmaster – Breaking Fog

Stock AA1639

‘Breaking Fog’

Goulburn River, Molesworth

Ernest Buckmaster

1897 – 1968

Oil on canvas

61 cm x 72 cm

Children playing in field

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‘Children playing in field’

Australian School

Oil on canvas

20th Century

91.5 cm x 182 cm

Valerie O’Neill – Melbourne in Winter – 1980s

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‘Melbourne in Winter’

Oil on Canvas

1980s

Valerie Marie Therese O’Neill

14/9/1929 – 8/8/2010

Valerie was born on the 14 September 1929. She grew up in Wright Street, Middle Park, and attended the Brigidine Convent, Kilbride, on Beaconsfield Parade.

As a young women she demonstrated prodigious artistic talent and studied under Archie and Amalie Colquhoun, contemporaries of Max Meldrum and later, at the National Gallery School under Sir William Dargie, eight times winner of the Archibald Prize for portraiture.