Cruise Auctions at Sea Thrill Park West Art Collectors

PARK WEST GALLERY CUSTOMERS provide us with lots of wonderful feedback about our art auctions and artists. We want to share the following compliments from some Park West art collectors who recently experienced our Park West cruise art auctions at sea…

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“We are still completely enjoying the Lion and Elephant paintings that we bought of Andrew Bone’s. Thank you for sending word about him and his artwork. Please keep sending information.

I really love all the artwork I bought from you.“

Susie L.
Estero, Florida

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“I received my Michael Milkin original oil, Tender Moments. The framing is beautiful and the packaging was perfect. We just hung it and I am so thrilled. My son also purchased a print and is equally happy with his purchase.

Many thanks and see you next cruise!”

Pattie C.
Chesapeake, Virginia

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“This was our first cruise and we found the art auction to be an unexpected bonus! Your staff was engaging, informative, friendly and FUN!

We are thrilled with our two purchases and we are now looking forward to future auctions.”

Maripat R.
Winthrop, Massachusetts

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Related Links:

• Visit the Park West Gallery - Andrew Bone website
• Visit the Park West Gallery – Fanch Ledan website
• Discover more about your favorite artists at Park West Gallery
• Read More Testimonials from Park West Art Collectors

Top Ten Lefty Artists

AUGUST 13 is International Lefthanders Day!! The holiday was first observed on this day in 1976 as an effort to promote awareness of the inconveniences facing left-handers in a predominantly right-handed world. It is often speculated that lefties are right-brain dominant – the side of the brain linked to non-verbal thinking, artistic ability and creative skills.

So southpaws, celebrate your uniqueness along with the other 7-10% of the world’s left-handed population, including these TEN ARTISTS:

1)  Albrecht Dürer

2)  Raoul Dufy

3)  M.C. Escher

4)  Thomas Kinkade

5)  Paul Klee

6)  Michelangelo

7)  LeRoy Neiman

 8)  Raphael

9)  Rembrandt van Rijn

10)  Leonardo da Vinci

[Source: About.com]

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Related Links:

• See more famous and celebrity lefties
• Learn more about the history of International Lefthanders Day
• Visit the Park West Gallery – Thomas Kinkade website
• Visit the Park West Gallery – Rembrandt website
• Discover more about your favorite artists at Park West Gallery 

Artist Birthdays, August 13: GEORGE BENJAMIN LUKS

GEORGE B. LUKS (August 13, 1867 – October 29, 1933)

• Nationality: American
• Field: Painting, illustration
• Art Movement: Ashcan School
• ARTiFact: A heavy drinker who prided himself as the “bad boy” of American art, he died in the early hours of the morning after a barroom brawl – a policeman found his body slumped in the doorway of a speakeasy.
• Artist Quote: “In the arts the matter is notorious. There are young geniuses and child prodigies, who are admired like the aardvark and the Ornithorhynchus paradoxus, but all the solid and enduring work is done by men who have lived long enough to have mastered their metier and life itself.”
• Important Artwork (shown below): The Wrestlers (detail), 1905.

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Related Links:

• Learn more about the artist George Benjamin Luks
• Discover your favorite artists at Park West Gallery