Master Copies
Cezanne: "The Card Players" 1890-1892. 30 x 40.
Original is at the Barnes Foundation Philadelphia. There are five different versions of the Card Players by Paul Cezanne. This is the largest, I have seen three in person and hopefully will see a fourth in London. One version was purchased by a royal family in Qatar for $250 M. This one is one of the most valuable paintings in the world.
Edward Hopper Train Car Scene (updated) 24 x 24, 2024
Cezanne "Still Life with Green Pot and Pewter Jug" 1887
Original at the Musee D'Orsay, Paris. We did see this in person although it was a pleasant surprise!
Vincent Van Gogh "Still Life with Grapes, Lemons, Pears and Apples" - 1887
Original is at the Art Institute of Chicago
Renoir - "Roses and Jasmine in a Delft Vase" 1881
Original is in the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia. Although we were there in 2019 we didn't see it.
Claude Monet - "Adolphe Monet Reading in the Garden" 1887
Original at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. The last I heard this was owned by Larry Ellison, head of Oracle. Sometimes I paint two at once, thinking that I may sell one and keep the other. In this case the second one is for sale.
Matisse - "Forget Me Nots in the Window" 1916
Original Painting is in the Detroit Institute of Arts. Sometimes I paint two at once. In this case the other was for a friend. I hope to see the original some day.
Shishkin - "Morning in a Pine Forest" 1889
30 x 48 This, along with the Cezanne Card Players, was the most difficult and also the most treasured of my paintings. They were both very tedious and required a LOT of work and patience. Shishkin was part of the Russian group of painters called "The Itinerants" who were sort of like the French Impressionists, who broke away from the art establishments of their time in creating and promoting a new style of painting.
Claude Monet - "The Magpie" 1868 - 1869
The original is in the Musee D'Orsay, Paris
Eduard Manet - Still Lifes with Flowers, 1882 & Carnations and Clematis, 1882
The originals of these are in the Musee D'Orsay in Paris and yes we did see them.
John Singer Sargent - "Basin with Sailor" - 1917
The original is in Orlando and a watercolor. Sometimes it's fun to paint them in oil which is what I did here. Sargent is perhaps the most revered of all American artists.
Claude Monet - "Sailboat at Le Petit-Gennevilliers" 1874
Monet and Renior were painting buddies and you can find the same scene by Renior, interesting to see the differences and they painted this side by side.
Francis Bacon - "Figure with Meat" 1954
Original in the Art Insitute of Chicago. Margaret Thatcher called Bacon "that man who painted those hideous pictures." Perhaps a further explanation is in order: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Figure_with_Meat
Andy Warhol - "Diamond Dust Shoes" 1980
"Giving Thanks" 2017 - after a drawing by Vincent Van Gogh
Vincent's was a drawing but I painted it in oils, taking liberty on colors etc.
Hokusai: "Inume Pass in the Kai Province" 16x20 Oil on Board
from the artist's "36 views of Mount Fiji" set of wood block prints, done in the early 1830s. Japanese wood block prints were revered by the Impressionists and influenced many including Vincent Van Gogh.
Hokusai: "Lake Suwa in the Shinano Province" 16 X 20 Oil on Board
Another of his "36 Views of Mount Fuji" scenes.
A Study of a Picasso Head
A Study of a Cezanne Still Life
"Sargent's Spanish Fountain" oil on panel, 11 x 14, 2024
This was copying a watercolor by John Singer Sargent. I tried another technique of doing it upside down, just concentrating on abstract shapes, values, and colors. Then when you are done and turn it right side UP it looks cool !