Sam Francis

Untitled, 1984

106.7 X 73 inch

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Gary Hume

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Gary Hume, born in Kent, England, is a contemporary painter and is considered to be a part of the Young British Artists (YBA) movement. This movement, also known as the Brit artists or Britart movement, and consists of a wide variety of artists, many of whom graduated with Gary Hume in 1988 from Goldsmiths College. 
 
« My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. »
Gary Hume
He is best known for his choice of medium, using high gloss, industrial grade paints in his works and for the every day objects he paints with them. During the 90's, Gary Hume's medium and focus shifted and he began to use high gloss, household paints instead of industrial paints and also started to use sheets of aluminum for canvases.
 
« A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic. »
Gary Hume


Some of Hume's first major exhibitions included Freeze (1988), hosted by fellow Goldsmiths alum Damien Hirst, and East Country Yard in 1990. Finding meaning in the redundant, in the ordinary, in our normal, every day lives is where Gary Hume seems to have found his niche. During a Read More

Gary Hume

Window Painting (from 1000 Windows Paintings), 2013

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Oil On Paper

USD 680

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What is Colour Field Painting?

What is Colour Field Painting?

Colour Field Painting is an abstract style characterized by large areas of a single color or simple, solid colors. The term was first used in the 1950s to describe the work of three American Abstract Expressionist painters—Barnett Newman, Mark Rothko, and Clyfford Still. Their work emphasized the emotional power of color and the creation of vast, meditative spaces through expansive color fields.

Bernar Venet 218.5 Arc x 13 rolled steel sculpture with semi-circular arcs on a patinated steel base plate.

Bernar Venet

218.5 Arc X 13, 2007

Sculpture / Object

Metal

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Bernar VENET | 83.5 ARC x 8 | Metal available for sale on composition gallery

Bernar Venet

83.5 ARC X 8, 2017

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Metal

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Robert Rauschenberg Bradley Anagram inkjet dye transfer featuring Coca-Cola sign

Robert Rauschenberg

Bradley (Anagram), 1995

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Mixed Media

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Marc Quinn Ice Age circular print featuring a blue iris blended with a world map outline

Marc Quinn

Ice Age, 2023

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Mixed Media

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