Site objectives:
1. You learn interesting things -
Question:
What is arguably the most important painting of the 19th century?
Answer:
According to Paul Johnson in his book Art A New History it may be Repin's They Did Not Expect Him (1884) at the Tretyakov - Moscow. See page 7 (Art History) of this site for more information.
2. You learn how to buy fine art: The Articles of Roger Dunbier.
3. You learn of our products:
We provide original fine art by listed artists (those who have merited inclusion in art reference guides such as Ask Art, Art Price (Paris based), etc., in a retail setting. For example - if an artist is included in a database such as Artists Bluebook, they are by definition one of the top 34,000 artists living or dead (in the estimation of the editors) and therefore in the top 2% of all the approximately 2 million individuals (plus), in the United States alone, living or dead who define(d) themselves as artists - but will likely be forever unlisted, unreferenced - unknown.
We believe it may be useful for the consumer to understand what factors most drive the price of art in the wider marketplace.
What you should understand before you purchase any fine art, has been most effectively set forward by the late Roger Dunbier, a pioneer in the science of real estate comparables (MLS) and thereafter the fine arts.
Welcome to the Historic "Antiques District" located in Downtown Fargo ! Art Gallery 227 miles northwest of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
FIND ONE OF OUR PAINTINGS YOU LIKE - THEN CALL FOR THESE VERY SPECIAL END OF SUMMER
PRICES ! Big end of summer savings ! PHONE: 701- 451-9111
Plus shipping:
Paul Bois $695.00
Richard Leroy Corbaley $495.00
Dorsey Edwin Doniphan $595.00
Walter Farndon $675.00
John Plummer Ludlum $795.00
Mary Theresa Menton $375.00
Abraham Palansky $550.00
Michael Reichardt $510.00
more to come.....
The new chic - the real ultimate expression of a cultivated, cultured, wealthy person - was art. Crystalline clear. That was it. The handwriting on the wall.
Ben Heller quoted in Jackson Pollock: An American Saga by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith
See more images and report on the recent Downtown Arts Street Fair.
Listed Artists Gallery, at Antiques on Broadway, # 6 Broadway North, Fargo, North Dakota 58102, United States
Phone (701) 451-9111
The United States - where your Euro goes further.
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Having said this - art is sometimes about enjoyment - if you are looking for a guaranteed investment, speak to your investment advisor (how about Canadian T-bills?).
Visiting Minneapolis on vacation, attending a convention, or looking at Fargo real estate? Whatever is bringing you to Fargo - Welcome!
We would be pleased to act as your buyer in the fine art market.
The Euro will now buy more in the United States.
We can either bring paintings to your attention that fit your criterea or buy directly for you following your criterea.
Paintings by artists listed in numerous art reference books are available in the market starting in the mid hundreds of dollars and artists whose works are represented in the collections of museums are typically available starting in the low thousands.
These are not prints but the artists original work of art. The more famous an artist typically the more expensive are his or her works.
We are 227 miles nw of the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul Minnesota, off interstates 29 and 94. Downtown Fargo ND.
Robert Motherwell
National Gallery of Art
Washington DC
Beside the Sea # 42, 1966
black ink on wove paper
77.79 x 56.51 cm
Various Artist quotes.
Robert Motherwell (American 1915-1991):
Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
Every man becomes, to a certain degree, what the people he generally converses with are.
If you can't find your inspiration by walking around the block one time, go around two blocks-but never three.
It may be that the deep necessity of art is the examination of self-deception.
It's not that the creative act and the critical act are simultaneous. It's more like you blurt something out and then analyze it.
Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.
Walk on a rainbow trail; walk on a trail of song, and all about you will be beauty. There is a way out of every dark mist, over a rainbow trail.
Wherever art appears, life disappears.
Site updated September, 14, 2008
Quotes.
Gustave Courbet (1819-1877 French):
Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Fine art is knowledge made visible.
France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients.
I hope to live all my life for my art, without abandoning my principles one iota.
Painting is an essentially concrete art and can only consist of the representation of real and existing things.
Painting is the representation of visible forms. The essence of realism is its negation of the ideal.
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
When we see men of worth, we should think of equalling them; when we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inward and examine ourselves.
Gustave Courbet
Woman with Parrot, 1866
Oil on canvas, 129.5 x 195.6 cm
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY
(February 27 - May 17, 2008 - at the Metropolitan, a Courbet Retrospective. Exhibition overview.)
Graduation Party for Jon at AOB. Proud Dad, Doug , is one of the store partners.
Senate Candidate for Minnesota - DFL is Al Franken at an appearance at Gooseberry Park, Moorhead , Minnesota - USA.
