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“"The Immigrants”" Original Painting by Alex Zwarenstein-Reduced!
Alex Zwarenstein

Lot 134A: “"The Immigrants”" Original Painting by Alex Zwarenstein-Reduced!

Est: $28,000 USD - $50,000 USDPassed
New Ideas AuctionsBrookings, OR, USMarch 07, 2019

Item Overview

Description

Huge museum oil painting by Alex Zwarenstein who was born in 1952 in Southern Rhodesia which is now Zimbabwe and is now famous thoughout the world for painting structural architecture and the elements that encompass it. Zwarenstein works in various mediums including oil, gouache and watercolor and his palette is vibrantly punctuated with contrasting surfaces of opaqueness and translucency. His art holds a very high value in investment art and he is currently featured in Carrier Pigeon Magazine! At 17 he left Africa in search to master his craft and studied in London at the Royal Academy of Art where he obtained his Master’s Degree in painting. He has received many awards such as the Royal Academy of Art Gold Medal and the Turner Traveling Scholarship. He spent 10 years giving back to the art community by teaching at the Harrow College of Art in England, Fashion Institute of Technology in New York, the National Academy of Design, and the Art Students League. This piece is framed, signed and comes w/COA.

Dimensions

59.25 x 57.25

Artist or Maker

Alex Zwarenstein

Medium

Oil on stretched canvas

Date

2006

Condition Report

Excellent

Exhibited

Alex had his first solo exhibition at the Eleanor Ettinger Gallery in New York in 1988 and has had successful exhibitions in the U.S., Europe, Africa, and Asia such as OK Harris Gallery 2012 The E. David Gallery, Pennsylvania 2007 Art Obsession Gallery,Tokyo, 2005, 2006, 2007 Ann Nathan Gallery, Chicago, 2004 Alysia Duckler Gallery. Portland Oregon, 2004 Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York, 2005 Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York, 2003 Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York, 2001 Alysia Duckler Gallery. Portland Oregon, 2001 Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York, 2000 Eleanor Ettinger Gallery, New York, 1988

Literature

Broadcast: National Geographic Special: Water Towers of New York, 2002 New York Times: Art In Soho, 2002 Feature Article in THE OREGONIAN: Alex Zwarenstein: Partisan of the Perpendicular, 2001 BOOK: The Materials and Techniques of Painting, 1981 Forbes Magazine: Cover Artist 1984-1988 New American Painters, 1989

Notes

AWARDS: THE RECIPIENT OF THE BIENNIAL ROYAL ACADEMY GOLD MEDAL IN PAINTING, 1979 William Turner Traveling Scholarship, 1979 Edward Landseer Prize. 1979 David Murray Prize, 1978 Eric Kennington Prize for Drawing, 1977 Armitage Award, 1976 Edward Stott Scholarship, 1975

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Auction Details

Original Oil Paintings Hand signed lithos, Prints and Sculptures

by
New Ideas Auctions
March 07, 2019, 10:00 AM PST

16340 Lower Harbor Rd #222, Brookings, OR, 97415, US

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