Nude in the Garden Fauvist Nude Original Oil on Canvas by Anna Norman

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Nude in the Garden Fauvist Nude Original oil on canvas

Vintage Fauvist study (2006) of woman in the garden signed … Read more Nude in the Garden Fauvist Nude Original oil on canvas

Vintage Fauvist study (2006) of woman in the garden signed by Annamarina Norman, a California Monterey Bay artist (American, b. 1959). Pure, unblended primary and secondary paints in painterly style is en pointe representation of Fauvist school. Composition adds balance and a breakthrough by being unburdened by traditional modes and methods of portraiture.

Signed: Lower right corner "Annamarina Norman"
Medium: Oil paint on stretched canvas
Condition: Very good, new UV-resistant varnish applied
Canvas size: 20"H x 16"W
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The Fauves painted directly from nature, as the Impressionists had before them, but Fauvist works were invested with a strong expressive reaction to the subjects portrayed. First formally exhibited in Paris in 1905, Fauvist paintings shocked visitors to the annual Salon d’Automne; one of these visitors was the critic Louis Vauxcelles, who, because of the violence of their works, dubbed the painters fauves (“wild beasts”) See less