OIL PAINTING LARGE (NAVY ADMIRALTY 20th CENTURY PIECE

PAINTING REF 11716
 
OIL PAINTING LARGE (NAVY ADMIRALTY 20th CENTURY 
Very good condition for age , (see pictures)
FINE RARE MARTINE PAINTING ORIGINAL 
20th Century OLD MASTER STYLE OIL PAINTING GOLD GILT FRAME
By Similar $4,000 Premier Collection
NEW COLLECTION Of RARE PIECES OF OLD HISTORY
 
Description
 
( 19th century Style ) 
 
 
Title: Paradise
 
Signed: Godon Close
 
Signature : Bottom Left
 
Provenance: john castagno art 
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Medium : Oil painting 
on Canvas
 
 
Condition: Very good
 
Country: British school 
 
Frame size : 42.5 in x 30.5 in 
( 108 cm x 78 cm)
 
 
Panel size : 36" x 24" 
 
b. 1958, Sunderland, UK
education:
1978 – 1982 BA Fine Art (Hons) Sunderland Polytechnic College of Art & Design
Gordon Close trained as a sculptor and his work, which is now predominantly paintings and drawings, has originated from the working drawings he made for life-sized
figure compositions; sculptures that were fashioned from traditional materials 
referring to, and making heavy use of, classical imagery. Now the drawings and 
paintings are of a world that embraces the domestic and everyday as well as historic (personal and in the wider sense), folklore and myth. Narratives inhabiting a familiar 
timeless interior or pastoral landscape often contain subtle references to the earlier sculptures.

The collaborations with master printer Lee Turner and Hole Editions has explored 
again these themes and subject matter. Some of the images have taken the title 
or lines from traditional songs as their starting point (‘Stepping on the Floor’, ‘Oh Shenandoah’), all are a catalogue of events, recollections and memories. The challenge has been to make these images work as lithographic prints. The use of a base colour and the orange/red under drawing are references to, and characteristics of earlier
work, but the scale, how colour is used, the texture of the ink and the use of line 
were decisions that had to be made for each print and this is where the project
has been fully collaborative.
Gordon Close received Northen Arts Awards in 1983, 1984 and 1986. He taught at 
Sunderland University College of Art & Design from 1993 to 1999 and has exhibited
at: Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth; Yorkshire Sculpture Park; Broadgate Arena, London; Queen’s Hall, Hexham; Blackheath Gallery, London; Sally Hunter Fine Art, London.
 
 
With an estimate of £2500 - £3000 In a London West End Gallery
 
framed with a beautiful  gold gilt moulding