Daily Archives: October 6, 2009

Cruise Ship Guests Get Bitten By the Art Bug

Cruise Ship Art Auctioneers strive to make cruising with Park West at sea an enjoyable, exciting experience for all. It is always wonderful to hear about someone’s first experiences with Park West Gallery Art Auctions – and of course we love hearing from our seasoned collectors as well!
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Igor Medvedev. Shimmering. 2005.

My name is Carol and in May 2009 my sister Donna and I cruised on Royal Caribbean’s Monarch of the Seas to the Bahamas. This was my 1st cruise, and my sister’s 3rd cruise. I had never been to an art auction before, but I am an art enthusiast. My sister also had never attended an art auction and only went because I wanted to go.

I had visited the gallery on the ship and spoke with Yevgeny about the serigraph on canvas by Igor Medvedev titled Shimmering; I fell in love with it. Yevgeny signed me up for the auction. The auction information and my number were delivered to my cabin along with a Park West catalogue of the some of the artist’s works.

I did purchase Shimmering as well as a Krasnyansky and an Erte bronze medallion. My sister purchased a Krasnyansky and two Erte bronze medallions. The art all arrived safely and beautifully framed.

My sister, her husband, and 3 other couples are booked for a Mediterranean cruise in October 2010. My sister has caught the art bug and intends on purchasing a Fanch Ledan work of art on the cruise; it is one we saw on the Monarch of the Seas. This will be our way of remembering each cruise. She was also looking forward to finding a Medvedev – his landscapes are beautiful. We especially liked the way he does light and shadows.

In closing Derek and Yevgeny were very helpful and informative. The auction was a lot of fun. We are both extremely pleased with our art.”

Carol R.
Ontario, Canada

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Park West Gallery Art and Artist News, ISSUE 14: OCTOBER 2009

Attention Park West Gallery Newsletter fans,
ISSUE 14: OCTOBER 2009 is here!

Issue 14 features include:

  • Park West Gallery news, October 2009, art, artistAlchemic Nature of Painting
  • An Artist’s Perpetual Quest for Inspiration 
  • All You Need Is Love and Art of Peter Max 
  • Forbes Interviews Celebrity Artist Romero Britto
  • Simon Bull Art Exhibit At the Muhammad Ali Center 
  • Morris Shapiro Hosts Live Auction for PBS Premiere Night

READ ISSUE 14: OCTOBER 2009 >>
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The Daily Reviewer Ranks Park West Gallery as Top Arts Blog!

Top 100 Blogs AwardThe Daily Reviewer has selected The Park West Gallery WordPress Blog as a Top Arts Blog!

According to their website:

The Daily Reviewer selects only the world’s top blogs (and RSS feeds). We sift through thousands of blogs daily to present you the world’s best writers. The blogs that we include are authoritative on their respective niche topics and are widely read. To be included in The Daily Reviewer is a mark of excellence.

Thank you to The Daily Reviewer for selecting Park West Gallery… and thank you to all of our blog readers for your continued support!

Stay tuned to the Park West Gallery blog for the latest art, artist and gallery news from around the globe!
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Mirό of Majorca

Joan Miró is viewed by the art world and collectors, as one of the most important artist of the 20th century and the precursor for much of Modern Art. Since 1969, Park West Gallery has been a reliable resource for the artwork of Modern Masters, including  Joan Miró. Park West Gallery Artist Biographies: Joan Miró >>
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Pilar i Joan Miró a Mallorca Foundation

THESSALONIKI, GREECE — The Teloglion Foundation and the Foundation Pilar i Joan Mirό of Majorca present one of the artist’s greatest exhibitions in Greece, Mirό of Majorca. The exhibit includes a significant number of Joan Mirό’s works and documents (over 400) of all themes including: painting, sculpture, etching, drawings, sketches for sculptures or public art, for sobreteixisms, for ballet, for music, material for King Ubu of Jarry (of special importance to Mirό). The scale model of the Sert workshop - along with documents, notes, furniture, objects, etc. - convey the atmosphere, the internal aspect of his way of thinking.

The works date back to 1908 (his only salvaged early landscape painting) until his death in 1983. However, the exhibition mainly presents mature Mirό in Majorca and the works he created in the workshop designed by his architect friend Josep Lluis Sert in 1956. This workshop is a landmark in Mirό’s work, because it is in this workshop that he reviewed his up to then course and decided to make a new beginning.

This is about a period of endless independence and search. Having drawn experience in America, and being acquainted with the painters of the ‘Action painting’, he now lives within the atmosphere of European ‘Αrt Informel’. He is influenced by the prehistoric caverns’ painting, the art of the Far East, the Catalan folk tradition, his country’s own tradition, and the twelve-note music. His eagerness to enter new fields is evident in his own artistic technique – stains, spatters, streams, graphics, tinctures, cracks, sutures, nails, ropes, use of random elements, of violent gestures, persistent deepening in the expressiveness of materials. His themes include bioform surreal symbol figures, the woman, the birds, landscapes, the realm of the sky, the sun, the moon, the constellations.

Mirό of Majorca is currently on view through February 5, 2010.

For more info on this exhibit, please visit the Teloglion Foundation of Art
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Artist Birthdays October 6 – ROMERO BRITTO

ROMERO BRITTO (October 6, 1963 – )

  • Nationality: Brazilian
  • Field: Painting, sculpture
  • Art Movement: Neo-Pop
  • ARTiFact: Britto – whose favorite color is yellow - sold his first painting in Brazil at age 14.
  • Artist Quote: “For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. At the end of the day, my art is about happiness, and that’s what I want to bring to my life and work.”
  • Notable Artwork (shown below): Absolut Britto, 2004.

Romero Britto, Absolut Vodka

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