Further details can be found at www.candidarts.com & www.icadf.com
Sunday, 29 August 2010
British Art Fair 15-19 September.
A date for your diary:
From the website (here):
The 20/21 BRITISH ART FAIR, the only fair specialising exclusively in modern and contemporary British art, will take place at the Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7, from 15 to 19 September 2010 .
Here you will find all the great names of 20th century art: Bacon, Freud, Frink, Frost, Hepworth, Hockney, Hodgson, Lanyon, Lowry, Moore, Nash, Piper, Riley, Scott, Sutherland and Spencer. Alongside is a large selection of work by both emerging and established contemporary artists – Hirst, Emin, Grayson Perry et al together with others who may be the stars of tomorrow.
The 20/21 BRITISH ART FAIR, now in its 23rd year, not only offers an enormous variety of art under one roof but also an opportunity to tap into the expertise of the 60 leading dealers. Whether your taste is for the earlier work, Scottish Colourists, pop art or the contemporary, the breadth and depth of over a hundred years of British art may well surprise. With prices from the low hundreds to hundreds of thousands, it is not to be missed!Sunday, 22 August 2010
Adam Styka (1890-1959) - Orientalist painter
From the Styka Family website: :
Adam Styka was born in Poland in 1890. He completed his formal education at the French Academy of Fine Arts, Academie de Beau Arts, and painted closely under the tutelage of his father, Jan Styka. Each year he exhibited his paintings in Paris's most prestigious galleries such as Salon de Paris, Champs Des Elysses and others in Europe and countries of both Americas, where he was awarded the highest accolades.
After graduating from the French Military Academy in Fontainebleau, Styka served in the French Artillery during WWI. He was decorated with a Cross of Merit. Also as a reward, he was granted the French "Nationality Citizenship" and a special assistance from the French Government to visit French colonies in Northern Africa. As the result of these annual journeys, Styka developed an entire genre of Middle-Eastern and Oriental themes. His exquisite ability of captivating and conveying to his paintings the vibrating strong colours full of contrast of the hot Sahara Desert of Northern Africa, colours harmoniously blended together, made him a master without compare and earned him the appellation, "The Master of Sunlight".
Styka's Western paintings of the American Wild West were regarded by art critics such as Dick Owens, as the best Western paintings whenever painted by any artist. Later years of his life he spent on creating religious painting such as The Assumption of Virgin Mary and The Ascension of Jesus; all of them are located in the churches of Europe and the United States.
Adam Styka died on 23rd of September 1959 and is buried in the Alley of the Merit in the cemetery if the "New Czestochowa" of the Pauline Fathers in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Marakesh - oil on board 12½" x 15½". Est £15000-20000
Unsold
The Donkey Ride - oil on canvas 21¼" x 25¾". Est £12000-£18000
Sold for £17500 (inc BP)
Les amoureux - oil on canvas 36¼" x 28¾". Est €30000-40000.
Sold fo €43910 (inc BP)
Sold for £6214
Adam Styka was born in Poland in 1890. He completed his formal education at the French Academy of Fine Arts, Academie de Beau Arts, and painted closely under the tutelage of his father, Jan Styka. Each year he exhibited his paintings in Paris's most prestigious galleries such as Salon de Paris, Champs Des Elysses and others in Europe and countries of both Americas, where he was awarded the highest accolades.
After graduating from the French Military Academy in Fontainebleau, Styka served in the French Artillery during WWI. He was decorated with a Cross of Merit. Also as a reward, he was granted the French "Nationality Citizenship" and a special assistance from the French Government to visit French colonies in Northern Africa. As the result of these annual journeys, Styka developed an entire genre of Middle-Eastern and Oriental themes. His exquisite ability of captivating and conveying to his paintings the vibrating strong colours full of contrast of the hot Sahara Desert of Northern Africa, colours harmoniously blended together, made him a master without compare and earned him the appellation, "The Master of Sunlight".
Styka's Western paintings of the American Wild West were regarded by art critics such as Dick Owens, as the best Western paintings whenever painted by any artist. Later years of his life he spent on creating religious painting such as The Assumption of Virgin Mary and The Ascension of Jesus; all of them are located in the churches of Europe and the United States.
Adam Styka died on 23rd of September 1959 and is buried in the Alley of the Merit in the cemetery if the "New Czestochowa" of the Pauline Fathers in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
I quite like his paintings and will add more as and when I come across them.
For now, here are a couple that came up at the Orientalist sale at Sotheby's 12/11/08:
Marakesh - oil on board 12½" x 15½". Est £15000-20000Unsold
The Donkey Ride - oil on canvas 21¼" x 25¾". Est £12000-£18000Sold for £17500 (inc BP)
Another Adam Styka came up at auction at Aguttes in Paris on the 14/06/10:
Les amoureux - oil on canvas 36¼" x 28¾". Est €30000-40000.Sold fo €43910 (inc BP)
From a Christies sale of 19th Cent European Art at Sth Ken 2/12/04:
A donkey watering in a desert landscape - oil on board
14 7/8" x 18". Est £3000-5000.
A donkey watering in a desert landscape - oil on board Sold for £6214
One painting came up in the Sotheby's sale in New York 23/10/08:
Zohra, A Moroccan Dancer - oil on canvas
30¼"x25". Estimate: US$40,000-60,000.
Sold for US$42,500.
Waddington's Auctions in Toronto sold a painting on 13/05/08:
Sold at Hampel Auctions in Munich December 10th 2011:
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| Eastern Beauty - oil on canvas 25½"x 21". Estimate: Can$20,000-25,000 Sold for Can$54,000 |
Young girl with a Bedouin Arab - oil on canvas
32"x25". Sold for €11,000
On December 4th 2011, Christie's Paris offered the following picture:
Couple enlacé - oil on canvas
33"x24". Estimate: €18,000-25,000
Unsold
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