Gallery of Art
Here’s a sneak peek at part of the art collection I’ve assembled over the years. I have about 30 more pieces to add to this page, so please bear with me as this page is still under construction. Everything here is an original, and even the Rembrandt etchings were pressed by his own hand.
Degas pastel in poor shape
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Durer Woodcut, Original
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Touissant pencel sketch in fine condition
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Matisse Drawing in poor condition
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My best Degas
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Picasso pencil sketch in fair condition.
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Original Rembrandt etching in fair condition.
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The Corpulent Beggar Rembrandt etching
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Another fine Rembrandt etching.
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Nice, second rate Picasso
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Nice little Toulouse-Lautrec
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Renoir Charcoal in pretty rough shape
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I love this Renoir charcoal/pencil/crayon study
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This is my best Renoir
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A figure by Rodin
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My Manet, which is part of a series, only a couple are not in museums.
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A Toulouse-Lautrec that was one of my first and is in very poor condition.
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My tiny little Van Loo which is in ink point.
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Beautiful ink of Matisse’s “Beautiful woman in Thought.”
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Renoir Etching “Le Chapeau Epingle”
J’adore la Matisse.
daniel
October 26, 2008 at 4:55 am
Wow, thanks for putting these up.
Rhett
rhett
October 30, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Rhett,
I’ll post more as soon as I get time. Right now, about 1/2 of the collection is posted.
Jeff
masteroftheuniverse
October 31, 2008 at 12:55 am
Oh, god, are these lovely. I can imagine nothing better than a Sunday morning as you describe – with fine music, coffee, and the ability to take in the extraordinary otherworldly beauty of these pieces. Unfortunately my current boyfriend, though brilliant in his own right, is not a lover of that Sunday morning routine. We have very little covering the walls, and he prefers television to the sounds of Mozart over coffee.
Poor, poor, pitiful me, right?
I love the Degas pastel, as well as your best Degas. I love Degas!
Your Rembrandt ‘Corpulent Beggar’ and that gorgeous colorful Picasso are striking. I do love your Renoir charcoal/pencil/crayon study far more than your best Renoir. (Something about that woman’s chin is bothersome!)
That Manet is breath-taking, as is the little Van Loo.
My favorite of what I see so far is the Rodin. I have such a thing for Rodin, as my first exposure to his greatness was not by viewing a sculpture or a sketch, but in watching a figure skating program by the the peerless Russian pair of Ekaterina Gordeeva and her partner and late husband Sergei Grinkov, as choreographed by Marina Zoueva. It was sculpture in motion, a living piece of art. It was based on The Kiss, and I think they called it Vocalise. Look for it; there are performances of this piece on youtube.
I have not been to Paris, but when I do get there the Rodin museum is tops on my list. I am not a sight-seer by nature, but museums I savor.
Steph
December 2, 2008 at 12:25 am
Steph,
Thanks for the critique of my collection. I’m probably going to be buying a lot more art in the near future, as the art market has really been hammered as of late. I’m bidding on this weeks auction in Paris, and hope to pick up some bargains. I only buy art if I like it, and never for investment purposes, as the bulk of my collection will end up in my alma mater’s collection when I die. I let my alma mater know that half of my collection was a bequeathed to them, and I think they want me to die real soon:)
As for your boyfriend, you need to educate him by breaking your TV cable connection, and setting up a scenario that you like. Who knows, he might like the change of pace.
Please post more food ideas.
Jeff
masteroftheuniverse
December 2, 2008 at 1:13 am
Jeff,
My words can hardly be qualified as a critique! You have a beautiful collection. I will post more food ideas soon, once I get back into the rhythm of actually cooking meals!
Thanks for the advice re: the boyfriend. If I were to break the cable connection, he would have it up and running in no time. But it could buy me a Sunday morning.
Steph
December 2, 2008 at 1:19 pm
Hi Jeff,
I don’t know why it took me so long to get here to your gallery, but I love it. Call me cliche’ but Rembrandt is THE MAN. His etchings are always phenomenal. I saw some at the Norton Simon in LA a few years back and the detail blew me away. I have also been fortunate to visit the Rijksmuseum a few times over the years, and his paintings transfix me. His small self portrait as an old man has always been a favorite. How many painters would have had the courage and honesty to paint themselves as he did, old, frail, and with a touch of perhaps fear of death in his eyes. I am not a religious guy, but it is hard to believe such greatness can come from a mere mortal. I hope you post more art in the future.
Formerly ADD Trader
addtrader
January 14, 2009 at 6:25 am
addtrader,
I have about 25 other pieces to add to my gallery and will do when I get around to it. I’ve been buying some paintings for my collection this past year, and plan on hitting some more Sotheby’s auctions in the next few months. Art is good value right now. I’m getting away from the drawings and pastels, and going for the oils and watercolors. A bit more expensive, but hell….it’s only money. The way I look at it, the price of a decent Renoir is only 40 cents on 200 contracts of wheat.
I don’t buy to invest, but to enjoy. That being said, I still hate to pay retail.
Jeff
masteroftheuniverse
January 15, 2009 at 2:32 am
Hi!
About 10 years ago I purchased an original sketch by Degas (signed with “little original” printed beneath his signature). It is of a faceless shopgirl(?) with a newspaper tucked under her arm and holding an umbrella. She is holding something else in her right hand. It appears to be done in pencil and ink.
I also purchased an original etching by Salvador Dali titled “Don Quoxite.”
Since you seem to be an accomplished collector, can you tell me anything about these works?
I bought them at an estate sale of a university professor who summered in Europe.
Thanks for any insight you can provide.
Janis Bean
January 26, 2009 at 12:35 am
Those are lovely – you own a Renoir…
Thank you for sharing them.
sahlah
February 4, 2009 at 4:15 am
Sahlah,
I own a lot of different artists, mostly drawings, but am buying paintings at a rapid pace as the art market implodes. I have about 75 pieces to our collection which has taken us over 30 years to collect. Our collection includes Renoir, Degas, Picasso, Toulouse-Lautrec, Manet, Monet, Rembrandt, Rodin, Durer, Touissaint, Van Loo, and a bunch of others. I only have about 30% of my collection posted here. All of this work is bequeathed to my alma mater and the Ringling Museum on my death.
Jeff
masteroftheuniverse
February 4, 2009 at 4:24 am
Jeff, if the trading thing doesn’t work out you could always become an art pawnbroker.
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February 28, 2009 at 9:26 pm
very uplifting to see these beautiful heroic example ow what man can accomplsh. ayn rand would love these too. vic niederhoffer, ( a fellow traveler). v
vniederhoffer
March 4, 2009 at 12:06 am
The Rodin drawing is a great example of how dynamic a drawing can be – I love the pure motion it evokes. You’ve got a lovely collection to contemplate. Lucky man!
There’s really nothing like having original art (compared to prints and reproductions). The tactile sense of them is so important, and the scale of them too.
K
also posting as artiseternal.wordpress.com
lookingforbeauty
March 5, 2009 at 6:37 am
Lovely; I’d love to own some Durer, Kollwitz, or Church some day.
Stef
March 28, 2009 at 6:41 pm
The “Renoir Charcoal in pretty rough shape” is the standout in this collection for me. Some years ago I went to a Picasso exhibit at the High Museum in Atlanta and purchased a poster (!) of his “Boy Leading a Horse”, an early work that foreshadows what Picasso would become. That Renoir charcoal grabbed me in the same way, in that it appears realistic, but there is something not quite right about it. The “not quite right” part is the part that allows you a glimpse into the mind of the artist. As you can see, knowledge of art (along with mathematics)is not one of my strong points, which as usual, does not stop me from plowing in anyway.
fakename2
August 16, 2009 at 1:10 pm