[sgolby]

Just received my first purchase from Avant Arte, they really do a bang up job on the packaging, and the little touches like a hand written note are quite a nice addition to the feeling of joy when opening up a new piece of art.

I love this Johnson Tsang piece, it is significantly larger and heavier than I thought which makes it even more lovely in my opinion.

[pollen]

Having a sort out, keep badging stuff in the wardrobe. Love the Bubba.

[mcgill14]

Apr 10, 2021 14:16:42 GMT 1 pollen said:

Having a sort out, keep badging stuff in the wardrobe. Love the Bubba.

Lovely little Thierry Noir.

[jocondor]

Last arrival waiting to be framed!! RUN Little original, here in the forum I've heard little about it, for me a great artist

[Coach]

Apr 11, 2021 9:47:34 GMT 1 jocondor said:

Last arrival waiting to be framed!! RUN Little original, here in the forum I've heard little about it, for me a great artist

I like Run. Have a lovely book. Sadly I can’t see your picture (if you posted one)

[jocondor]

I posted it and I see it... Maybe I made some mistakes

[jocondor]

[Coach]

Apr 11, 2021 11:45:22 GMT 1 jocondor said:

This is great!

[mcgill14]

Not the latest buy but certainly the latest piece out. Bought this Takashi Murakami Kai Kai when I visited his Bar Zingaro in Tokyo two years ago. She has lived in her bag until I decided to buy a wooden hand to display her on...

[obaki69]

[Humble Art Collector]

too funny... I just bought the other 2 of those that he had available and they are at the framers now.

Like minds...

[chichi carter]

Haven't posted in this thread in quite a while. Art related purchases are few and far between these days. I've always loved this Charming Baker print, be it the main or gold leaf edition and seized the opportunity to acquire the latter...

[Tobi187]

That's a nice one chichi carter

[TAXED]

Charming Baker fans www.discogs.com/The-No-Marks-Hyalin-The-No-Marks-Hyalin/master/659046

[Spenie]

[Coach]

Apr 14, 2021 19:34:10 GMT 1 Spenie said:

Chuffed you got one mate.

[scavos]

Apr 14, 2021 19:34:10 GMT 1 Spenie said:

Nice board. Love that Josh Keyes' Guardian 1. Is that the print on wood version Spenie? Looking very nice there indeed.

[Spenie]

Apr 14, 2021 20:22:55 GMT 1 scavos said:

Apr 14, 2021 19:34:10 GMT 1 Spenie said:

Nice board. Love that Josh Keyes' Guardian 1. Is that the print on wood version Spenie? Looking very nice there indeed.

Hi Scavos, nice to see you back again, this is the wood version, it was sent to me as a sample by the printer to test the postage and also for my feed back on how it looked, not sure if it ever go released in this size I think it it was done slightly smaller, from 2016.

[scavos]

Apr 14, 2021 20:30:38 GMT 1 Spenie said:

Apr 14, 2021 20:22:55 GMT 1 scavos said:

Nice board. Love that Josh Keyes' Guardian 1. Is that the print on wood version Spenie? Looking very nice there indeed.

Hi Scavos, nice to see you back again, this is the wood version, it was sent to me as a sample by the printer to test the postage and also for my feed back on how it looked, not sure if it ever go released in this size I think it it was done slightly smaller, from 2016.

Nice one and good to see you're still here Spenie. Yes glad I asked as I thought yours looked large for the wood edition but maybe slightly smaller than the print. Great backstory. Thanks for sharing.

[Happy Shopper]

New addition to the kids’ room
Noritoshi Mitsuuchi

Thanks Poleart

[ant0187]

[LJCal]

Just spent last of kids inheritance getting in a few grail pieces.

[Gurn]

That Fertilty Suite piece is an absolute banger. Definitely a grail piece, for me.

[velo]

This is my first post on here, hello to all.

Received my Stender 'Asylum Seeker' print during the week. Currently in a white frame but will change to black soon. Really pleased with it.

[Poleart]

Glad to see that well hanged .

don’t hésitate if you need something more 

[theclash]

Just bought these amazing original hand drawn works from Hans Jenssen. www.hansjenssen.co.uk/ Figuring out which wall to hang them.

Funny background; my father in law was teaching Hans to fly a glider plane and mentioned my kids and I liked Star Wars. Hans told my father in law that he actually was an illustrator for a number of Star Wars books. Each illustration took about 250 hours with lots of back and forth with Lucas. There were deep discussions on the detail of these works, such as engine structure as  they ended up being used as engineering schematics for the ships and have influenced much Star Wars related works. 
Hans had only ever sold some to Lucas and never tried to sell any others. Anything he has a bid on he has to offer first to LucasFilm. He has about 10 remaining works and I bought these 3. The detail and intricacy is staggering. In an increasingly digital world, I love having hand drawn illustrations of my favourite other universe.
Death Star - 1997, Venerator Star Destroyer - 2005, Anakin's Pod - 1999

[Erik Ibiza]

Delighted with this new Helen Beard print.
"Wetting a new tongue with no telling"

[shinji]

First post...

[Coach]

Apr 20, 2021 17:29:04 GMT 1 shinji said:

First post...

Some quality books there.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Jonathan Safran Foer novel. Picked up a signed copy of his second novel.

[met]

Apr 20, 2021 19:08:11 GMT 1 Coach said:

Apr 20, 2021 17:29:04 GMT 1 shinji said:

First post...

Some quality books there.
I thoroughly enjoyed the Jonathan Safran Foer novel. Picked up a signed copy of his second novel.

What I see is incongruity between the mathematical precision of Alex Colville's piece and the arrangement of those books.

If I were a guest at shinji's home, I'd patiently wait for them to go to the loo, or the kitchen for more drinks. Then (at the risk of causing offence and never again being invited back) I'd exploit that moment to rearrange all the books according to author, height or colour.


Here's a preliminary sketch for Pacific, which shows the importance that Colville placed on composition:




Apparently, the gun was also his own — his WWII service-issue revolver*.