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Artist House – MKR – Moroccan Kind Records

Painting

14 full color prints by Colonel Charles Waterhouse USMCR. History and museums division headquarters. Washington DC 1985

After Vincent van Gogh, Irises, oil on canvas, gold frame

Though not an exact copy, the present painting is indisputably ‘after’ theIrises painting by van Gogh now in the Getty Museum in Malibu. Contemporary records—mostly letters to his brother Theo—indicate thatIrises was painted in the first month of van Gogh’s yearlong stay at the sanitorium in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence in 1889.

HELMERS VINTAGE MODERN ABSTRACT ROCK N ROLL DANCE PARTY OIL PAINTING OLD 1949

FANTASTIC VINTAGE MID CENTURY MODERN FIGURATIVE EXPRESSIONIST OIL PAINTING ON BOARD BY NOTED PAINTER HELMERS. (CIRCA 1949). THIS WORK DEPICTS A WILD, CINEMATIC “DANCE PARTY” COMPOSITION CAPTURING FIGURES SPINNING THROUGH A VORTEX OF FIERY COLOR. THE SCENE FEELS LIKE A SURREAL DANCE FLOOR WHERE EMOTION TAKES OVER THE BODY — LAUGHTER, SHOUTS, AND MOTION BLEND INTO PURE PAINT. SIMPLY AMAZING. SIGNED AND DATED 1949 BY HELMERS. PERHAPS YOU RECOGNIZE THE ARTIST? EXCELLENT OVERALL CONDITION. DIMENSIONS INCLUDING THE FRAME: 23” W x 29” H DIMENSIONS WITHOUT THE FRAME: 16” W x 22” H