Cayetano De Arquer Buigas | Impressionist painter

Cayetano de Arquer Buigas (1932-2012) was a Catalan contemporary figurative painter, especially known for capturing the beauty, sensitivity and delicacy of women of his era through pastel, oil and charcoal techniques.

With an equal mastery, he explored portraiture, figure studies, equestrian subjects, landscapes, scenes of daily life, maternity, taverns and more.

Arquer Buigas stands as perhaps one of the most emblematic inheritors of 19th-century Catalan and French Impressionist style (seen in artists such as Ramón Casas and Eduard Degás).

With his elegant, restrained color palette and compelling balance between composition and subject choices, Buigas’s output has afforded him the status of a beloved, enduring master.

Master of the Female Half-Lengths | St. Catherine, 1530

The master, who ran one of the most prolific workshops of the northern Renaissance, derives his name from the series of works depicting half-length female figures behind a writing desk, reading, or playing a musical instrument, that he painted in Antwerp, but which were inspired by the art of Bruges, during the second and third decades of the 1500s.

Title: Saint Catherine

Author: Master of the Female Half-Lengths (1525-1550)

Date: 1530

Medium: Oil on panel

Dimensions: cm 45 x 36

Current location: Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

Juan Fortuny, 1939 | Impressionist / Realist / Figurative painter

Juan Fortuny* is an Spanish painter*, known for working in the Realist, Impressionist* e Figurative style.

Juan Fortuny was born in Badalona, a small fishing town near to Barcelona, on the 20th of April, 1939.

For biographical notes -in english and italian- and other works by Juan Fortuny see: Juan Fortuny, 1939 | Impressionist / Realist painter ➠.

Annick Bouvattier | Pittrice figurativa

Più attratta dalle sfilate che dalle boutique di moda, Annick Bouvattier inizia la sua vita lavorativa nel cinema e nella pubblicità.

Costumista, lavora spesso negli studi di Cinecittà a Roma.

Dei suoi soggiorni in Italia conserva il sapore dei colori caldi, sensuali, profondi: gli ocra solari, i rossi sordi, gli azzurri intensi, i verdi profondi.

Annick Bouvattier è la pittrice dei silenzi, dei piccoli gesti insignificanti compiuti ogni giorno, dei momenti banali, degli sguardi fugaci, delle parole non dette, delle storie senza parole - ma molti collezionisti hanno già sentito quei silenzi.

Hanan Milner, 1949 | Figurative painter

Hanan Milner was born in Lithuania, former USSR.

Studied at Tel-Aviv art schools Renanim and TelmaYallin and at the Bezalel art academy in Jerusalem.

Participated in two seminars of the distinguished Austrian artist, Ernst Fuchs Exhibits in galleries in the US, England and Israel.

Lorenzo Lotto | The Recanati Annunciation, 1534

The Recanati Annunciation is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Lorenzo Lotto, executed around 1534 and housed in the Civic Museum of Villa Colloredo Mels, Recanati, Italy.

History

The work could date to the artist's sojourn in Venice, from where it would be shipped to the Marche around 1527. Otherwise, it could date to a later period when he moved there to executed other works. Today it is generally assigned to a few time after the Crucifixion of Monte San Giusto (1533-1534).

Stephanie Clair | Cubist Romantic painter

With the matrimony of emotion, cubes and color, Stephanie Clair, American painter, shares her inspiration from happy, dreamy moments in life that we can all relate to, but so easily forget.

A first love, a last love, a memory, lovers sipping wine, being enlightened, inspired by sweet music... those moments are ours to remember- but the speed of time can erase the memories we all take for granted.

Michele Byrne | Plein Air / Figurative painter

Michele Byrne is recognized for her figurative plein air work. She lives and works in Reading, Pennsylvania. However, she travels extensively, painting in various locations including, Manhattan, Paris, California, Colorado and Key West, Florida. Michele was a Faculty Demonstrator for the Annual PleinAir Convention in Monterey, CA in April of 2014.