OSUNA ART & ANTIQUES
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January 2015
| FEATURED ITEMS
A Message from The Warehouse |
| | Osuna Art & Antiques would like to wish you a Happy New Year. This months Featured Items includes an intriguing three panel screen depicting "The Conquest of Peru," a rare Howard Mehring Drawing, a pair of bronzes by Felix Lecomte, an important painting from the Pattern Painting Movement by Mary Grigoriadis, and a large painting by the German artist Ursula Schultze-Bluhm. If you would like additional information please email [email protected] or call 202-332-0331
This month Osuna Art & Antiques will also be making it's annual appearance at The Original Miami Beach Antique Show, Booth 3417. We will be in South Beach at the Miami Beach Convention Center from January 30-February 3. This is the world's largest indoor antique show and we're proud to have been a part of it for over 20 years.
In addition, items continue to be added to our website at osunaart.com and on 1stdibs
The Warehouse will continue to be open on Saturdays from 11-4 as well as by appointment. Please call 202-332-0331 for an appointment.
Our best,
Ramon Osuna
Owner, Osuna Art & Antiques
Darrell J. Andruski
Director, Osuna Art & Antiques |
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T. Allain [Peruvian, Active Mid-20th Century]
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"Conquest of Peru", 1949
T. Allain [Peruvian, Active Mid-20th Century]
"Conquest of Peru", 1949
Three Panel Screen
Each Panel Measures 71 x 26.5 x 1 inches
Overall: 73.5 x 79.5 x 1 inches
The conquest of Peru, also known as the Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire was one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. After years of preliminary exploration and military skirmishes, 168 Spanish soldiers under Francisco Pizarro and their native allies captured the Sapa Inca Atahualpa in the 1532 Battle of Cajamarca. It was the first step in a long campaign that took decades of fighting but ended in Spanish victory and colonization of the region as the Viceroyalty of Peru. The conquest of the Inca Empire led to spin-off campaigns into present-day Chile and Colombia as well as expeditions towards the Amazon Basin.
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| Howard Mehring [American, 1931-1978]
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Untitled, 1965 
Howard Mehring [American, 1931-1978]
Untitled, 1965
oil pastel on paper
5.5 x 4.5 inches
Howard Mehring (1931-1978) was a twentieth-century painter born in Washington, D.C. He is associated with Color Field painting and the Washington Color School. Mehring received a grant from The Woodward Foundation to travel in Europe during 1971 to broaden his art background. Early in his career (1956-1958) he shared studio space with Thomas "Tom" Downing, with whom he had been a student of Kenneth Noland at Catholic University. Some of their paintings from that period are difficult to tell apart.
Mehring's early work is a "Washington version" of abstract expressionism, with the loose handling of paint on a surface but a much more transparent use of magna paint, an acrylic paint developed by Leonard Bocour. The stylistic resemblance to Mountains and Sea by Helen Frankenthaler is obvious.
As Mehring developed as an artist his work became much more structured. He went from a painted surface with an all-over pattern to cutting up canvas with the all-over pattern and gluing it back together. Later he used some of those same forms to make "hard-edge paintings", "T's", "Z's" and "E's".
Mehring and the other Washington Color School painters were in debt to the writings of Clement Greenberg. In 1964 Greenberg included Mehring in his traveling museum exhibition called Post-painterly Abstraction. |
| Felix Lecomte (1737-1817)
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Bronze Statuettes Of A Satyr And Nymph 
Bronze Statuettes Of A Satyr And Nymph By Felix Lecomte (1737-1817)
This pair of French bronze statuettes depict a satyr wearing a pelt and blowing a ram's horn, and a nymph playing a xylophone. Each has an integrally cast naturalistic base and is mounted on a white marble plinth with gilt bronze rosettes and turned feet.
According to "The French Bronze 1500-1800" by Francis Watson these models were inspired by decorations painted by Hugues Taraval for the ceiling and panels of the Grande Galerie of the Louvre. In the center was Bacchus surrounded by his usual retinue of satyrs and nymphs. As Dionysiac creatures satyrs are lovers of wine and women, ready for every physical pleasure and often in pursuit of nymphs.
Lecomte was a pupil of Falconet, patronized by the Marquis de Marigny and the Comtesse du Barry.
French late 18th century.
One rosette is missing.
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| Mary Grigoriadis [American, b. 1942]
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Mary Grigoriadis [American, b. 1942]
"Titus", 1974
oil and acrylic on linen
66 x 66 inches
Grigoriadis's richly hued, oil on linen paintings, which she referred to as 'secular icons', integrate poly-ethnic patterned borders using sources as diverse as Byzantine and American Indian art. A leading artist in the Pattern Painting Movement, she applies layer upon layer of paint to build up a sumptuous, glowing surface of varnished brushstrokes which stand out in contrast to the neutral raw linen support. She describes her work as "a paean to beauty, opulence and order."
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| Ursula Schultze-Bluhm [German, 1921-1999]
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"The Swimming Garden," 1964
Ursula Schultze-Bluhm [German, 1921-1999]
"The Swimming Garden," 1964
oil on canvas
44 x 78 inches
The artist was discovered by Jean Dubuffet in 1954 for his Mus�e de l' Art Brut in Paris, where she adopted the use of the single name Ursula. That year she had her first solo exhibition at Gallery Franck in Frankfurt am Main. In 1955 she married the German painter Bernard Schultze. This painting dates from the very beginning of a three year period where she traveled frequently between New York, Washington DC, and Paris.
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