Born in France, Thierry Despont studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris and earned a Master’s in Urban Design from Harvard. After founding his architectural firm in 1980, he built a prestigious reputation, working on landmark projects such as the Statue of Liberty’s Centennial Restoration, the J. Paul Getty Museum’s Decorative Arts Galleries, and high-end hotels like the Carlyle in New York and Claridge’s in London. His many high profile clients included the likes of Bill Gates and Calvin Klein.
While best known for these projects, Despont was a no less accomplished visual artist. His enthusiasms were myriad, and his work focused on an almost incredible range of subjects, including but not limited to entymology, ichthyology, anthopology, history, and astronomy. The very smallest of earth's creatures, like insects, captivated him no less than the universe’s very largest—planetary bodies and the cosmos. All of his work was informed by an unrivaled art-historical expertise, lead by a wholly unique imagination, and driven by an omniverous curiousity for life and the very nature of existence.
A Knight of the French Legion of Honor and an Interior Design Hall of Fame inductee, Despont also authored design books. He exhibited his paintings and sculptures globally, notably at the Marlborough Gallery in New York, London, and Monaco.
Large Framed Print of a Planet by Thierry Despont
By Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
Thierry Despont, best-known as a very successful architect, was also an accomplished artist. In his painting practice, when not analyzing the smallest, most detailed creatures of the...
Paper
Black Planet by Thierry Despont
By Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
Thierry Despont, best-known as a very successful architect, was also an accomplished artist. In his painting practice, when not analyzing the smallest, most detailed creatures of the...
Paint, Paper, Wood
Large Framed Painting of a Planet by Thierry Despont
By Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
Thierry Despont, best-known as a very successful architect, was also an accomplished artist. In his painting practice, when not analyzing the smallest, most detailed creatures of the...
Paint, Paper
Large Framed Painting of a Planet by Thierry Despont
By Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
Thierry Despont, best-known as a very successful architect, was also an accomplished artist. In his painting practice, when not analyzing the smallest, most detailed creatures of the...
Paint, Paper
Large Framed Painting of a Planet by Thierry Despont
By Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
Thierry Despont, best-known as a very successful architect, was also an accomplished artist. In his painting practice, when not analyzing the smallest, most detailed creatures of the...
Paint, Paper
Large Framed Painting of a Planet by Thierry Despont
By Thierry Despont
Located in New York, NY
Thierry Despont, best-known as a very successful architect, was also an accomplished artist. In his painting practice, when not analyzing the smallest, most detailed creatures of the...
Paint, Paper
Richard Wilt's 'Lunar Probe No. 24' (1968)
Located in Chicago, IL
Richard Wilt's Lunar Probe No. 24 (1968) captures the awe and ambition of the 1960s Space Race through a powerful depiction of the moon’s phases. Composed of 15 individual canvases, ...
Canvas, Paint
Nexus I Etching and Aquatint by Terry Haass, Signed, Framed, 27x24
Located in Alpha, NJ
An original, circa 1970's vintage etching and aquatint in colors, professionally framed in curly maple and double matting measuing 26.75" x 23.75" x 1.75". The work is signed, titled...
Paper
Goemtric Serigraphy "Cosmos" by Pierre Olofsson, Sweden
By Pierre Olofsson
Located in Hägersten, SE
Serigraphy titled "Cosmos" by Swedish artist Pierre Olofsson. Polychrome abstract composition made with silkscreen print on roughly textured paper. The print is mounted levitating wi...
Wood, Paint, Paper
Moon, 2014 (TDTESS). earth landscape
By Michael Davis
Located in Palm Desert, CA
The Day The Earth Stood Still (TDTESS) collection of drawings, wall artworks and installations focuses on images which captured pivotal events that are etched in memory and subconscious, ie. the Moon...
Etching
Large Framed Lithograph by Tony Friedlaender
By Frederic Weinberg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large Framed Lithograph by Tony Friedlaender. Signed and numbered 44/95. Nicely framed over canvas.
Glass, Paper, Wood
Large Framed Lithograph by Tony Friedlaender
By Frederic Weinberg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large Framed Lithograph by Tony Friedlaender. Signed and numbered 44/95. Nicely framed over canvas.
Glass, Wood, Paper
