Jorge Castillo, painter and sculptor, was born on June 16, 1933, in Pontevedra. Only one year after his birth his family emigrated to Argentina for political reasons. Castillo spent his childhood and youth in Buenos Aires. He tried to migrate to Paris, but due to a lack of economic resources, he was established in Spain. He soon came into contact with the art critic José María Moreno Galván, who admired his work and introduced him to the Madrid artistic circles. In 1958, he started selling his drawings at the gallery in Biosca and the painter Antonio Saura bought several of them. The following year, he exhibited his works on paper and watercolors at the Altamira Fine Art gallery in Madrid. In 1960, he was selected for the São Paulo Art Biennial in Brazil. Thereafter, he exhibited his work internationally in galleries and museums in New York, San Francisco, Tokyo, Paris, Lisbon, Turin, Hanover, Dusseldorf and Geneva. He has participated in the Venice Biennale in 1964 and 1976 and 1970, performed a solo exhibition at the Nationalgalerie Berlin, the first major exhibition in a museum. In 1964, Castillo won the International Drawing Prize in Darmstadt, Germany and 1975, Darmstadt Prize for Painting. Works of Jorge Castillo are at the Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne, the Museu Fundación Juan March, the National Galleries in Edinburgh and Berlin, the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco, the Kunsthalle Bremen, the Albertina Museum Vienna, the National Library of Spain and the Guggenheim in New York. Since the early 1980s, Castillo has lived in New York, where he was commissioned to create public sculptures in La Coruña, Messina and Barcelona.
JORGE CASTILLO - PEZ SOBRE MESA ESCULPIDA - NEW YORK - 1986
By Jorge Castillo
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
JORGE CASTILLO (Pontevedra 1933) "Pez sobre mesa esculpida" New York 8 febrero 1986. Acuarela sobre papel. Firmado y fechado en margen superior izquierdo. Medidas: 56 x 75 cm; 79,5 x...
Watercolor
Little Theater - China Ink Drawing by Jorge Castillo - 1960
By Jorge Castillo
Located in Roma, IT
Little Theater is a fascinating drawing in China ink made by the Spanish Surrealist artist Jorge Castillo (1933), dated around 1960. The paper is glued on the four corners on a card...
Ink
Surrealist Composition - Original China Ink Drawing by Jorge Castillo - 1960 ca.
By Jorge Castillo
Located in Roma, IT
Surrealist Composition is a fascinating drawing in China ink made by the Spanish Surrealist artist Jorge Castillo, dated around 1960. The artwork was drawn on a paper that presents, ...
Ink
$22,500
H 15.75 in W 13.75 in
George Edwards : A Set of Twelve 18th Century Etchings of Hummingbirds
By George Edwards
Located in Richmond, GB
George Edwards: ""A History of Uncommon Birds"", 1749-1761. A prominent English naturalist and ornithologist, George Edwards (1694 -1773) is best known for his work, ""A Natural His...
Watercolor, Etching
Studies of Goats and Sheep, Cairo (c. 1871)
By Egron Sellif Lundgren
Located in Stockholm, SE
Swedish artist Egron Lundgren sketched a small herd of goats and sheep resting together in this scene. Two goats recline quietly at the center while another stands nearby, creating a...
Paper, Watercolor
Resting Dromedar, 1861
By Egron Sellif Lundgren
Located in Stockholm, SE
Egron Sellif Lundgren (1815–1875) Sweden Resting Dromedar, 1861 watercolour heightened with white unframed 21 x 29.2 cm (8 ¼ x 11 ½ in.) framed 40 x 48 cm (15 ¾ x 18 ⅞ in.) Provenance: Sale, Stockholm, Bukowskis, 12 December 1894, lot 42; Signe and Ernst Trygger (1857–1943), Villa Trygger, Stockholm. Ernst Trygger was Swedish Prime Minister (1923–24), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1928–30) and University Chancellor (1926–37); A Swedish private collection. Literature: Förteckning på oljemålningar, aquareller och handteckningar m.m. av Egron Lundgren utställda i Akademien för de fria konsterna, 1876, no. 259. Karl Asplund, Egron Lundgren, Vol. II, 1940, p. 40, note 1, p. 166. Exhibited: The Royal Academy, Egron Lundgren, 10 April 1876, no. 259. Sveriges Allmänna Konstförening, Memorial Exhibition, February 1915, no. 70, Hvilande kameler (owner Ernst Trygger). The Royal Academy, Svenska Akvareller (Swedish Watercolor Exhibition), 1925, no. 224, Vilande kameler (owner Signe Trygger). Essay: This delicate watercolour, executed during Lundgren’s first journey to Egypt in the winter of 1861–62, depicts a resting dromedary in the shade at Giza. Painted in transparent washes with touches of white gouache, the work captures the intense desert light and atmosphere with a remarkable immediacy. The reclining animal dominates the composition, rendered in warm ochres and browns against a cool, shadowy background, while highlights on its saddle and coat give the scene a subtle radiance. The quiet stillness of the subject reflects Lundgren’s sensitivity to the everyday motifs of the Orient, which he observed and painted directly on site. Lundgren travelled to Egypt in the company of two British artists, Frank Dillon (1823-1909) and George Price Boyce...
Paper, Watercolor
$15,000
H 19.25 in W 16 in
Birds at a waterhole, Heron, Flamingos, Swans, Egrets- San Diego Zoo
By Jessie Arms Botke
Located in Miami, FL
The iconic subject matter from Botke's oeuvre often features birds, particularly white peacocks, geese, egrets, and cockatoos. Women artists are on fire and very much in demand today...
Watercolor, Paper
$536
H 8.08 in W 10.04 in
The Young Flutist and the Bird: 20th Century Symbolist Watercolor
Located in Paris, FR
French school early 20th century The Young Flutist and the Bird, bears a monogram on the lower right (see photographe please) watercolor and gouache on paper 20.5 x 25.5 cm framed ...
Watercolor, Gouache
Surrealist composition with Arm (Ink)
By Camille Bryen
Located in London, GB
CAMILLE BRYEN 1907-1977 [CAMILLE BRIAND] Nantes 1907 – 1977 Paris (French) Title: Surrealist composition with Arm (Ink), circa 1935 Techn...
Ink
Anthem (Black Surrealist Philadelphia artist)
By Roland Ayers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roland Ayers (1932-2014). Anthem, 1972. Ink on Paper, 4.75 × 7 inches. Signed and dated. Measuring 12 × 16 inches in acid-free matting. Artist and art educator, Roland Ayers...
Paper, Ink
Chinese Pith Painting of Fish
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Rare framed and matted antique Chinese painting of fish. Painted on pith paper with gouache in bold colors in a scholastic style. Having the expected ...
Gouache
$2,200
H 25 in W 37 in
Orange Crush - Gyotaku Style Japanese Sumi Ink Painting, Large Orange Octopus
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
A Gyo-Tako print of large octopus is seen here in Jeff Conroy's work entitled "Orange Crush". To achieve this remarkable painting, the artist inks the octopus using traditional sum...
Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper
Mixed Media Painting of a Parrot in a Faux Bamboo Frame
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Lofty mixed media painting on brown paper of a parrot executed in classic Art Deco style with a bold stroke using watercolor and gouache. Signed by not...
Watercolor, Gouache
"Fish" Watercolor cm. 18 x 14 1937
By Giulio da Milano
Located in Torino, IT
Fish,red,yellow,sea, animals Italian 1937 Giulio DA MILANO (Nizza, 1895 - Torino, 1990) Giulio Da Milano was a Giacomo Grosso's disciple and he was very close to the artists that...
Watercolor
Chinese Pith Painting of Fish
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Rare framed and matted antique Chinese painting of fish. Painted on pith paper with gouache in bold colors in a scholastic style. Having the expected ...
Gouache
Circus figures
By Jorge Castillo
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork is an original watercolor by surrealist Spanish artist Jorge Castillo, born 1933. It is signed and dated 78 at the upper right corner. The image size is 21 x 29.5 inches...
Watercolor