Art by Medium: Oil Crayon

In this vibrant painting by Perrine Honoré, color unfolds as gesture—expanding across the surface in luminous currents of pink, turquoise, coral, and deep blue. The composition emerg...

For many years Susan Squires goal has been to create encaustic paintings as meaningful, evocative experiences for herself and for the viewer. She wa...

A wonderful, museum caliber painting by Craig Kauffman. Initialed "CK" and dated "82" in the lower right corner. PROVENANCE: Asher Faure Gallery Luther Vandross Luther Vandross Estate Private Collection, New York Private Collection, San Diego, CA EXHIBITED: Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, California, CRAIG KAUFFMAN: NEW PAINTINGS April 23 through May 21,1983 CATALOGUE: Craig Kauffman Estate Archive Number CR No: P.1982.2 The following is from The New York Times, May 15, 2010, By Douglas Martin Craig Kauffman, who in the 1960s helped put Los Angeles on the art map with audacious experiments in molding industrial plastic to create ethereal wall-mounted sculptures — some resembling giant pieces of jelly candy — died Sunday in Angeles City in the Philippines. He was 78. The cause was complications of pneumonia following a recent stroke, said Frank Lloyd, his friend and dealer. Mr. Kauffman was eminent in an eclectic group of artists who reveled in the light, space and energy of postwar Southern California to forge new Minimalist, often glossy artistic approaches. Richard Armstrong, director of the Guggenheim Museum said that these Californians, sometimes called the Cool School — along with Chicago Imagists and Washington, D.C., painters called the Color School — were counterpoints to the Abstract Expressionists who ruled New York. "California was never ashamed of being a new society," Mr. Armstrong said in an interview on Thursday, "it all fit together nicely." Los Angeles was then ascending to the status of a metropolis, with a growing number of major-league sports teams, fresh industries and a surging population. There were new quarters for public galleries and the burgeoning of commercial ones. At the center of the action was the Ferus Gallery, which staged the first solo exhibition of Andy's Warhol's pop art and the first American retrospective of Marcel Duchamp. Mr. Kauffman was a featured artist at the gallery's inaugural exhibition in 1957, "Objects on the New Landscape Demanding of the Eye." Peter Plagens, in his book Sunshine Muse: Art on the West Coast, 1945-1970, (1974, 1999), wrote, "'Culture' meant 'art' and 'art' implied 'new,' and 'new,' as everybody was informed, meant California — particularly Los Angeles." The artists who seized this historic opportunity included Billy Al Bengston, Ken Price and Robert Irwin, among others. In an interview on Wednesday, Arne Glimcher, founder and chairman of Pace Gallery, which had Mr. Kauffman's first New York show in 1967, called the California scene in the late '50s and early '60s "a pressure cooker of ideas." Referring to artistic styles, he said, "It was California perfection against New York messiness." Mr. Kauffman's early paintings were critical in defining this new style. Mr. Plagens called them "the first evidence of a Los Angeles sensibility." Mr. Kauffman's later work blazed splashier trails, as he experimented with the effects of light on works that were painterly yet three-dimensional. "The true power of what he did was his incorporation and then redirection of light inside sculpture," said Mr. Armstrong, who was the curator of a show of Mr. Kauffman's work at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1987. "Many of them glowed," he said. "Others were translucent. Even the supposedly opaque had a noteworthy shimmering quality to them." What Mr. Kauffman made reflected a wide range of inspirations. In a 2008 video interview in conjunction with a show at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena California, he said that the famed lingerie store Frederick's of Hollywood provided artistic nurture. With a smile, he confessed to a "shoe fetish" that had influenced some of his art. Robert Craig Kauffman was born on March 31, 1932, in Los Angeles. He started painting regularly at age 7 and went to theUniversity of Southern California to study architecture in 1950. But art soon won out over architecture, and he transferred to the University of California Los Angeles, to study painting. He earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees there. A breakthrough came in the early 1960s when he experimented with painting on glass, but found it too fragile. He then painted on flat acrylic plastic. His next inspiration came from the plastic packaging increasingly used to wrap merchandise. He sought out craftsmen at commercial factories to learn the technique, Time magazine reported in 1968. The results were several series of three-dimensional wall hangings. Some were inspired by large plastic fruit clusters on the wall of a doughnut shop he frequented in Los Angeles. These lozenge-shaped reliefs were sometimes called "bubbles." Barbara Rose, in a catalog essay for an exhibition at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art in 1967, wrote, "Shaping the brittle sheet plastic into a series of voluptuous curves, Kauffman achieves a kind of abstract eroticism that is purely visual." Mr. Kauffman's work was shown in countless exhibitions and many one-man shows. It has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. In 2006, one of Mr. Kauffman's reliefs fell from a wall of the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, where it was part of an exhibition titled "Los Angeles: Birth of an Art Capital, 1955-1985." It shattered. After storms of publicity, the Pompidou provided technical help and money to make a new version. Mr. Kauffman was married several times. He is survived by his daughters from his marriage to Dana Kauffman, from whom he was separated: Wilhelmina, Vida Rose and Georgia Kauffman. When they started in the 1960s, Mr. Kauffman and his artistic compatriots did not foresee a legacy, much less earning an income, Larry Bell, a prominent artist in the group, said in an interview on Wednesday. "The troops sort of banded together to be our own audience," he said. "Every once in a while, we'd sell...

Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...

In this vibrant original painting, Perrine Honoré translates the expressive language of mural painting into an intimate pictorial format. Fluid lines and luminous fields of pink, cor...

Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...

Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...

mixed media on canvas John Hogan A graduate of Northeast Louisiana State University with a Bachelors degree and New Mexico Highlands University with a Masters in Art Hogan studied with Edward Schutz and Elmer Schooley...

Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...

This is a beautiful landscape painting by Alexandra Czierpka. By reducing color and form to their essentials, she invites the observer to contemplate the harmony between humans and n...

Bijin-ga Series I (Nº1) Title: Karagoto of The Chojiya Head and bust portrait of the beautiful courtesan Karagoto, of the Chojiya House, who appears looking to her left while drying her right ear with the sleeve of her yukata (a fine summer garment, normally made of cotton that was normally used after bathing). The wide sleeve falls from her ear covering her right breast and leaving the left one uncovered. This image is part of the bijin-ga series (“Pretty women”) drawn by Mario BGil, based in the Kitigawa Utamaro woodblock print...

Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), Abstract Figural Composition, Mixed Media on Paper, mounted on board, circa 1965, apparently unsigned, unframed. 8.5" H x 11" W x 0.75" D. Provena...

Tina Bluefield (American, born 1945) "Monsoon Storm" 2025 Oil paint and oil stick on canvas, stretcher bars Signed in the bottom right corner and on the verso. "Monsoon Storm" captu...

In Fluo Ocean Perrine marks a shift toward a more abstract approach, allowing her to dive deeper into a personal and emotional space. Through this abstraction, she aims to diffuse li...

Scott likes to think of his work as what it might look like if an overly observant 5 year old kid from New Jersey left hieroglyphics for alien life forms to discover. A mixture of ...

“My work can be understood through the mind, but it is best felt with the heart, experienced through the emotions, recognized as a manifestation of the spiritual that is born on the ...

Mary Billingsly Portrait of artist, Stuart Egnal, 1959. Oil crayon on paper, image measures 8 x 11 inches. Framed measurement, 12 x 15 inches. Signed with artist monogram lower...

Elfi Schuselka (Austrian, b. 1940), Abstract Figural Composition, Mixed Media on Paper, circa 1965, apparently unsigned, wood frame. Image: 10.5" H x 7.25; frame: 11.75" H x 8.25" W ...

[New Orleans, LA ::: b.1959 New Orleans, LA] ANASTASIA PELIAS was born in New Orleans, LA to Greek parents. Her artistic practice is rooted in the dual cultural identity of both her...

Tina Bluefield (American, born 1945) "Uphill Curve" 2024 Oil paint and oil stick on stretched canvas Signed in the bottom left corner and on the verso. Ready to hang. Certificate of ...

This is a beautiful landscape painting by Alexandra Czierpka. By reducing color and form to their essentials, she invites the observer to contemplate the harmony between humans and n...

Abstract expressionist work of art by Joseph Hicks. Joseph Hicks’s works are bright and colorful, full of life and creativity. His canvases are full of energy and dynamism due to t...

This abstract painting explores inner and outer landscapes through layered color fields and fluid, organic forms. Vibrant hues intersect with softer tonal passages, creating a sense ...

Abstracted and expressive figurative painting featuring a woman's back and profile in a style that emphases abstract mark-making. It incorporates a variety of techniques, incorporati...

Tina Bluefield (American, born 1945) "Mojave Cloudburst" 2025 Oil paint and oil stick on canvas, stretcher bars The artist signed the bottom right corner and the back of the artwork....

In this series, Perrine explores the profound relationship between light and color, both essential elements in her artistic expression. Without light, there would be no colors, and i...

On the Road #5 feels like landscapes remembered in motion rather than observed in place. Bands of color slide past the eye; like fields seen from a moving car, horizons blur and diss...

Signed verso Adam Umbach, b. 1986 Adam Umbach was born in Chicago, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. After being inspired from an early age by the modern masters...

Collage, oil stick, vinyl, enamel, spray paint and glass Collage or other Work on Paper Hand-signed by artist Frame: Included This work includes a certificate of authenticity.

This vibrant abstract painting radiates with the energy of a lush, imaginary landscape. Sweeping layers of turquoise, chartreuse, cobalt, and citrus tones interweave with gestural ma...

In Fluo Flower Perrine marks a shift toward a more abstract approach, allowing her to dive deeper into a personal and emotional space. Through this abstraction, she aims to diffuse l...

In this series, Perrine explores the profound relationship between light and color, both essential elements in her artistic expression. Without light, there would be no colors, and i...

TThis is a beautiful painting by Alberto de Blobs (Barcleona, 1982). Alberto is a talented painter whose elaborate mixture of figurative and free form...

Paired Studies of Lions in Profile 1960's British Modernist Drawing by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil crayon drawings on brown artist paper stuck on A4 artist paper, unframed ove...

Seymour Lipton (American, 1903-1986), Abstract Expressionist Sculpture Study Sketch, Oil Crayon on Paper, 1980, signed and dated lower right, unframed. 11" H x 8.5" W. Provenance: ...

Seymour Lipton (American, 1903-1986), Abstract Expressionist Sculpture Study Sketch, Oil Crayon on Paper, 1980, signed and dated lower left, unframed. 11" H x 8.5" W. Provenance: F...

The palette of Wave exudes a soothing, earthly, elegance. Working with a new medium and a new palette, Teichert is communicating with us more subtly than ever before: her line, while...

Young Girl Reading by Carolyn Smith, British early/ mid 20th century signed oil crayon on artist paper, unframed drawing: 7 x 10 inches double sided with sketch verso Provenance: pri...

In this series, Perrine explores the profound relationship between light and color, both essential elements in her artistic expression. Without light, there would be no colors, and i...

Tina Bluefield (American, born 1945) "Tinder I (Cinnamon)" 2024 Oil paint and oil stick on canvas, stretcher bars Signed in the bottom left corner and on the verso. "Tinder I (Cinna...

On the Road #3 feels like landscapes remembered in motion rather than observed in place. Bands of color slide past the eye; like fields seen from a moving car, horizons blur and diss...

Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates. Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...

Angela brings vibrant immediacy to her figurative paintings. She uses a depth of colour and bright outlines of her figures to emphasize shape and contours. In all her works Angela gi...

On the Road #6 feels like landscapes remembered in motion rather than observed in place. Bands of color slide past the eye; like fields seen from a moving car, horizons blur and diss...

On the Road #4 feels like landscapes remembered in motion rather than observed in place. Bands of color slide past the eye; like fields seen from a moving car, horizons blur and diss...

On the Road #1 feels like landscapes remembered in motion rather than observed in place. Bands of color slide past the eye; like fields seen from a moving car, horizons blur and diss...

In this series, Perrine explores the profound relationship between light and color, both essential elements in her artistic expression. Without light, there would be no colors, and i...

Untitled #904 by Murray Duncan Mixed media on paper Size: 32" x 40” Unframed, signed A bold mixed-media work with dynamic lines and textures. This captivating piece by Murray Dunc...

Emotions and Textures bursts with gestural freedom and expressive layering, capturing the raw vitality of contemporary abstraction. With bold brushstrokes, spray textures, and a vibr...

Set of Two Paired Studies 1960's British Modernist Drawing by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil crayon drawings on light brown artist paper stuck on A4 artist paper, unframed overal...

Set of Two Paired Studies 1960's British Modernist Drawing by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil crayon drawings on light brown artist paper stuck on A4 artist paper, unframed overal...

Set of Two Paired Studies 1960's British Modernist Drawing by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil crayon drawings on light brown artist paper stuck on A4 artist paper, unframed overal...

Set of Two Paired Studies 1960's British Modernist Drawing by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil crayon drawings on light brown artist paper stuck on A4 artist paper, unframed overal...

Set of Two Paired Studies 1960's British Modernist Drawing by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil crayon drawings on light brown artist paper stuck on A4 artist paper, unframed overal...

Set of Two Paired Studies 1960's British Modernist Drawing by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil crayon drawings on light brown artist paper stuck on A4 artist paper, unframed overal...

Jim Stella Triptych 2017 Mixed Media Oil, Acrylic, Oil Stick and Collage 48 x 72 in  24" x 48" in  each panel  Jim Stella was born in Detroit in 1954 and was attracted to art from an early age. He attended University of Detroit Jesuit high school where he was inspired by art teacher Jim Bridenstien. In 1973 he attended Pratt Institute, NY where he studied sculpture and anatomy. He later returned to Michigan to attend the University of Michigan on a medical illustration scholarship.Stella graduated with high honors. He continued his artistic education at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, where he studied watercolor under the direction of Richard Jersey...

This is a beautiful landscape painting by Alexandra Czierpka. By reducing color and form to their essentials, she invites the observer to contemplate the harmony between humans and n...

Jim Stella 2012 Mixed Media Oil, Acrylic, Oil Stick and Collage 68 x 63 inches Jim Stella was born in Detroit in 1954 and was attracted to art from an ear...

This contemporary, large-scale, expressive oil painting titled "Bond" was created by the talented French artist Natalya Mougenot. The painting delves into the depth of human connecti...

In this series, Perrine explores the profound relationship between light and color, both essential elements in her artistic expression. Without light, there would be no colors, and i...