Frank Diaz Escalet (1930-2012), was a Puerto Rican-American artist who originally lived in New York before settling in Maine. Escalet’s bold and brilliant paintings art chronicle both the everyday lives and cultural expressions of Hispanic Americans in the mid-20th century. Much of Escalet’s is autobiographical, including his attempts to escape the Spanish Harlem ghetto of… Read more »
Jack Kirby and Stan Lee were, without doubt, the greatest team in the history of comics: they were to comics what John Lennon and Paul McCartney were to songwriting. Together, they worked on quite a number of projects, including the Avengers (a classic grouping of comic heroes) the X-men, the Fantastic Four and the Hulk…. Read more »
Judging Zhang Daqian (aka Chang Dai-chien) as an artist isn’t hard to do: he was a versatile, daring and highly accomplished painter. Judging Zhang Daqian as a man is much more difficult, as he was a dedicated forger who paid for his extravagant lifestyle by creating absolutely convincing copies of ancient Chinese paintings and duping… Read more »
Xu Beihong: An Introduction Xu Beihong (aka Hsü Pei-hung) was a Chinese painter whose lifelong project involved re-invigorating Chinese art by hybridizing it with Western influences. Motivated by his conviction that the tradition of Chinese painting had gone slack and that over-reliance on mimicry of the past left Chinese art unable to carry the necessary… Read more »
As a boy in Shanghai, the artist Chen Yifei once leapt from a second floor window holding an umbrella, hoping the wind would carry him gently to the ground Mary Poppins style. In that daring act his nature was already apparent: he had a restless spirit and was prone to taking risks in his quest… Read more »
Between November 16th and December 17th of 1972, the 74 year old Chinese artist Zhang Daqian (aka Chang Dai-chien) was the subject of a major retrospective exhibition in San Francisco at the Center of Asian Art and Culture (now the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco). It was a triumphant event for the aging artist… Read more »
Before the 1989 release of the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, few people outside of the upper reaches of the art world had ever heard of Alfonso Ossorio, the Philippine-born artist and collector who was Pollock’s close friend and most important patron. Ossorio died about a year after the book was published–he… Read more »
Austrian-born Roland Strasser (1885-1974) was an artist, writer and world traveler who explored remote areas of Asia before the cultural transformations wrought by modern warfare and air travel forever altered their local customs. An adventurous spirit who packed a revolver and often dressed like the locals when he traveled, Strasser explored China, India, Indonesia, Mongolia,… Read more »
GeringerArt.com is now fully re-designed as a “mobile-friendly” website that can be viewed on all computers, tablets and mobile phones. The site includes the biographies of 108 artists, as well as images of works that GeringerArt has sold in the past twenty years, all organized by region. There is also an embedded blog that features short… Read more »
On February 6th of this year, the Leon Gallery, located in Makati City, held an auction of 73 works of art by Fernando Zóbel de Ayala (1924-84). The article that follows, which was written for the auction catalog by John Seed, describes the friendship between Zóbel and Jim and Reed Pfeufer, from whose estate… Read more »
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