Starry Night by Vincent van Gogh

The Starry Night is a painting by the Dutch post-impressionist artist Vincent van Gogh. Painted in June 1889, it depicts the view outside of his sanatorium room window at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (located in southern France) at night, although it was painted from memory during the day. It has been in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, part of the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest, since 1941. The painting is among Van Gogh's best-known works and marks a decisive turn towards greater imaginative freedom in his art.

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Pablo Picasso Old Guitarist

The Old Guitarist is an oil painting by Pablo Picasso created late 1903–early 1904. It depicts an old, blind, haggard man with threadbare clothing weakly hunched over his guitar, playing on the streets of Barcelona, Spain. It is currently on display in the Art Institute of Chicago.

At the time of The Old Guitarist’s creation, Modernism, Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, and Symbolism had merged and created an overall movement called Expressionism which greatly influenced Picasso’s style. Furthermore, El Greco, Picasso’s poor standard of living and the suicide of a dear friend influenced Picasso’s style at the time which came to be known as his Blue Period. Several x-rays, infrared images and examinations by curators revealed three different figures hidden behind the old guitarist.

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Experts find elusive Dali paintings

A picture released by the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation/VEGAP shows a newly identified painting by Spanish artist Salvador Dali titled "Libre inclinacion del deseo" (Free inclination of Desire) and "Simulacre de la nit" (Simulation of the Night). Picture: AFP / GALA-SALVADOR DALI FOUNDATION

BARCELONA - Two oil paintings, including one owned by Yale University in the United States, have been certified as being the work of Spanish surrealist artist Salvador Dali, officials said on Tuesday.

Art experts from the Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation knew that the two works existed but up until now they had been unable to locate and authenticate them.

"We had identified the works but we did not know where they were or how to link them to Dali. We thought they were made by him but we had to verify," the director of the foundation's research department, Montse Aguer, told AFP.

"These are works from Dali's surrealist period. Both are very significant. They depict dreamlike landscapes that are typical of Dali, with shadows and big pedestals."

The two paintings were painted in 1930 and they were put on display by Dali only once, in separate exhibitions.

The Gala-Salvador Dali Foundation, located in the mustachioed artist's native Figueres in northeastern Spain, discovered the existence of the works through press clippings about the exhibitions that were published at the time.

One painting, Free Inclination of Desire, which depicts a large rock along with ants, keys and other random objects, was shown in an exhibition in 1935 in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the capital of Spain's Canary Islands.

It belongs to the art gallery of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Simulation of the Night depicts a veined hand on a column in a barren landscape and appeared at an exhibition in San Francisco in 1965.

It is in the hands of a private collector who does not wish to be identified.

Dali, who is praised by some as a creative genius for his striking and bizarre images, died in Figueres in 1989 aged 85.

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Clara Berta hosts regular art classes at her downtown studio.

Artist Biography

Clara Berta

is a passionate, award-winning mixed-media artist of Hungarian heritage. Inspired by her love of nature and the beauty she sees all around, her highly textural abstract works often evoke the deep blues of the ocean she loves, or the golden glow of a Tuscan sunset from her trips to Italy. 

Berta has concentrated on abstract expressionism through painting and unique monotypes.  Her paintings and prints explore themes such as the ebb and flow of memory, the significance of personal heritage, renewal, the passing of physical time, desire, passion, and love. Her large-scale abstract works often include recycled reminders of her travels, bits of fabric, or eco-friendly / organic materials such as palm bark. Manipulating the texture with many layers of paint, she will work and re-work her canvases, layering, scraping, piling up textures to give added dimension, creating works that intrigue and invite the viewer in for closer inspection.

 Believing that art offers therapeutic relief from the challenges and stress people face in their daily lives, Berta shares her beliefs and abilities by teaching advanced painting techniques and collage classes in her beautiful sunny loft/studio in downtown Los Angeles. Growing up in a culturally rich and stimulating environment, a Hungarian enclave in Romania, Berta moved to Chicago at the age of eleven.   She relocated to Los Angeles when she began her formal education, receiving a BA in Psychology from Antioch University.

Marilyn Monroe Art

Original painting of Marilyn Monroe.

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Hand signed Peter Max

PETER MAX - PRINTED ART SIGNED IN INK 1988

PETER MAX. Printed Image signed: "Peter Max/1988". Color, 8½x6 postcard. Depicts his 1986 painting, Lady on Red (With a Flowering Vase), from his "Ladies of the 80's" series, which also included Deco Lady, Lady By Window, Lady With Degas, Lady With Flowers, Nude and Vase and Zero Amarillo. Peter Max, born in Berlin in 1937, spent most of his first ten years in Shanghai, and then traveled the world with his parents before immigrating to the US in 1953. Already an award-winning graphic artist and designer, Max burst on the cultural scene in the 1960s, first with his "psychedelic art" and then with a new concept, "cosmic art." Max, who works in many mediums, has been the official artist for the Grammy Awards, the New Orleans Jazz Festival, the Woodstock Music Festival and 5 Super Bowls. He has decorated a Boeing 747, a Dale Earnhart racecar, and 265 murals on the US border. He has designed popular US and UN stamps, painted five US Presidents, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Mikhail Gorbachev and the Dalai Lama. He painted individual portraits of 356 firefighters who lost their lives heroically on 9/11, presenting these portraits to the families, and then at President Bush's request designed 356 more for the firefighters' memorial. Fine condition. Framed in the Gallery of History style: 17x20¾.

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