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54206: Antique Erotica Etching Signed Bruno Heroux - $700.00
Beautiful erotica antique etching artist signed and numbered Bruno Heroux. Bruno Heroux born in Leipzig in the 19th century. He obtained an honorable mention at the salon of French artists in 1906. Excellent condition. Height 20-1/2 inches by 13-1/4 inches wide.
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54205: Antique Erotica Etching Signed Bruno Heroux - $493.00
Rare and unusual antique etching signed Bruno Heroux. Bruno Heroux was an engraver and lithographer born in Leipzig in the 19th century. He obtained an honorable mention at the salon of French artists in 1906. This etching depicts a nude man and woman in a forest scene. He is playing the violin while she admiringly rests her head on his lap and her hands on his leg. Heroux also added some music and some other drawings to this etching. It measures 20-1/2 inches tall by 13-1/4 inches wide and is artist signed. Excellent condition.
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54209: Antique Erotica Etching Signed Bruno Heroux - $880.00
Beautiful erotica antique etching artist signed and numbered Bruno Heroux. Bruno Heroux born in Leipzig in the 19th century. He obtained an honorable mention at the salon of French artists in 1906. Excellent condition. Height 20-1/2 inches by 13-1/4 inches wide.
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73455: Chick Bragg Etching Black Cat 3 22/200 - $250.00
Chick Bragg etching Black Cat 3 pencil signed in the lower right and numbered 22/200. Image size 14-1/2 inches wide by 10-3/4 inches high. Frame size 20 inches wide by 16-3/4 inches high. It is in excellent condition set in a gallery frame. On the back it has the old gallery sticker, the title Black cat 3, and media etching. Guaranteed to please as are all our items. Los Angeles based artist Charles Lynn Bragg was born in 1952. His parents are professional artists (Charles Bragg and Jennie Tomao) and they began his training at an early age. Over the next 40+ years, he studied at the California Institute of the Arts (1974-5), UCLA extension, Otis School of Art and Design, other Southern California universities, private lessons with artists in the USA, Italy, and Japan. He is currently a full time student in the BFA Sculpture program at California State University, Long Beach. He is best known for his compassionate environmental and marine images of animals and our planet. In 1994 he designed four U. S. postage stamps, "Wonders of the Sea", and Turner Publishing reproduced his work in the book "WILD LIVES, The Animal Kingdom of Charles Lynn Bragg". His images have been seen in galleries, corporate offices, logos, conservation groups, zoos, toy stores, and jewelry stores in the USA, Europe, Japan, and Australia on a multitude of products. He describes his style as "Realism, Surrealism, Fantasy, Humanism, with a touch of Disney."
He is an accomplished draftsman, painter, print maker (etchings, stone and plate lithographs, serigraphs, monoprints, and computer giclees), photographer, stone carver, clay and wax modeler, bronze and metal sculptor, and mixed media artist. He has a prolific past, currently twenty+ works in progress, and scores of sketches for future projects. His work could range in size from objects that would fit in the palm of your hand to colossal stone carvings and monumental constructions.
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73454: First Edition Proof Charles Bragg Pediatrician Litho - $295.00
First edition proof litho Charles Bragg Pediatrician (from the Medical Suite 1). This is the first edition proof signed Charles Bragg in the lower right. It is in excellent condition and professionally framed. The image size is 7 inches wide by 5 inches high, not including the border. The framed size is 16 inches wide by 14-3/8 inches high. Guaranteed to please as are all our items.
Amidst the abundance of fertile and varied talent that flourishes on the West Coast today, Charles Bragg occupies a peculiarly unique position. Though he portrays people, he is not a figurative artist in the plastic sense in which California artists have come to be known.
Bragg’s concerns start with the narrative, even anecdotal. It seems to me that his means evolve not only from Rembrandt, Fouquet and Clouet, Goya and Roger van de Weyden, but from Voltaire, Thoreau, Brecht, dada, Arthur Szyck, Jung and most of all, the almost unbelievable Strangelovesque absurdities of today’s events.
In a most consistent manner, he has created a cast of characters who have lost their souls while acting out depravities through tragicomic burlesques of morality and ethics. Like a visual re-enactment of Gertrude Stein’s wonderful tale, “I Know I’m a Queen Because I Wear a Crown,” his half-ass generals embody their values in symbols of their acquisitiveness and vanity such as phony and ornate medallions. Bragg’s sinful universe is home to inept warmarkers frozen (clinically but not without humanity) as they plot, plan, scheme, pose, and rattle phallic sabres; they fumble and bristle beneath Prussian sashes and Edwardian haircuts while breathing heavily through forced smiles (psychosomatic asthma?).
Bragg’s bittersweet people are pompous, voiceless, pious and cruel! They are completely believable, even lovable; yet they are deranged, pretentious deathmongers and benevolent despots with serious oral problems. They obviously overeat to compensate for a lack of normal gratification. To sum up, they are nice-looking, costumed 20th century cousins of Goya’s Saturn devouring his son.
How dare Bragg make art of castrated cherubs as generals, or gaily-draped ritualistic hypocrites as clergymen! Holbein’s skeletons dance once again with reincarnate joy!
There is so much to see in Bragg’s work that one is apt to forget what one is looking at, that is—a work composed of lush, intuitive geometry modeled architectonically, using subtle renaissance form. Genteel fantasies are woven into a complexity of visual (image-idea) and psychological patterns in such a way that gestalt experience occurs surprisingly often.
Though his scale is intimate, Bragg’s compositions are monumental enough to be translated verbatim into mural scale. But enough about the physicality of these works! The crux of the matter is simply that these remarkably communicative expressions go infinitely beyond storytelling into the real of affirming truth by exposing myths and lies! Mean old Charley pricks pins into pomposity, not people. He loves people, and his work transcends being merely narrative because his work basically expresses conditions and values, not itsy-bitsy genre situations. False prophets and soulless mythic heroes are on their way out and Charley Bragg is recording Act III for posterity.
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