A trio of galleries visited today, the first two with my aunt Nancy and the third on my own.
LeSoleil Fine Art Gallery
Representing a large and diverse set of contemporary artists, and also offering for sale several small Renoir sketches and paintings, a Dufy and even a Picasso (for a cool CAD $1.3m) along with a handful of other recognised masters. Of the contemporaries, I liked Johanan Herson's colourful and deliberately somewhat softly naive paintings, and Cecilia Aisin-Gioro's works - the accompanying material makes much of her being the grandniece of the last Chinese Emperor.
Challi-Rosso Art Gallery
A range of prints, drawings etc for sale by Dali, Miro, Matisse, Chagall, Picasso, Kandinsky, Lichtenstein and maybe one or two more. Interesting to see these less developed - ie non-painted, and accordingly much cheaper - works by them. Included two of Dali's Alice in Wonderland pieces; also responsible for a striking Dali bronze statue in the street elsewhere.
Vancouver Art Gallery
Happily, my one day downtown was the first day of an exhibition of Guo Pei's designs, "Couture Beyond". It spanned her entire couture runway career - "Samsara" (2006), "An Amazing Journey in a Childhood Dream" (2008), "1002 Nights" (2009), her ongoing Chinese bridal attire collection, "Legend of the Dragon" (2012), "Garden of the Soul" (2015) and "Legend" (2017 - the one which introduced me to her at the NGV).
LeSoleil Fine Art Gallery
Representing a large and diverse set of contemporary artists, and also offering for sale several small Renoir sketches and paintings, a Dufy and even a Picasso (for a cool CAD $1.3m) along with a handful of other recognised masters. Of the contemporaries, I liked Johanan Herson's colourful and deliberately somewhat softly naive paintings, and Cecilia Aisin-Gioro's works - the accompanying material makes much of her being the grandniece of the last Chinese Emperor.
Challi-Rosso Art Gallery
A range of prints, drawings etc for sale by Dali, Miro, Matisse, Chagall, Picasso, Kandinsky, Lichtenstein and maybe one or two more. Interesting to see these less developed - ie non-painted, and accordingly much cheaper - works by them. Included two of Dali's Alice in Wonderland pieces; also responsible for a striking Dali bronze statue in the street elsewhere.
Vancouver Art Gallery
Happily, my one day downtown was the first day of an exhibition of Guo Pei's designs, "Couture Beyond". It spanned her entire couture runway career - "Samsara" (2006), "An Amazing Journey in a Childhood Dream" (2008), "1002 Nights" (2009), her ongoing Chinese bridal attire collection, "Legend of the Dragon" (2012), "Garden of the Soul" (2015) and "Legend" (2017 - the one which introduced me to her at the NGV).
This was my favourite - stunning (the headpiece is made from porcelain, and the whole pattern references the same)
