Heather James Fine Art
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What won't we do for Art? The list is pretty short.
After 27 years in business, we really LOVE what we do, and our operations team works hard to make sure it's done impeccably. Even when the weather is hot, and the art is heavy, they get down and dirty to get the job done with style and grace.
Stop by our Palm Desert gallery to experience this monumental Indiana AMOR sculpture.
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02/05/2023
Impressionism is one of our specialties.
We are delighted with these works on paper by Alfred Sisley and Camille Pissarro on display in our Palm Desert, CA gallery.
These pastel drawings are ripe with impressionist preoccupations. The medium beautifully captures the play of light across bountiful landscapes occupied by stoic workers diligently engaged in their labor.
Stop by for a closer look. Can't get there physically, click the link and immerse yourself in our impressive history with Impressionist artworks. https://bit.ly/3d9MZDL
30/04/2023
Have you met Mary?
She's our Basel-based acquisitions specialist. Always on the hunt for stellar artwork, Mary stopped by TEFAF Maastricht to meet with clients and take stock of the current market.
TEFAF New York opens May 12th, our consultants will be there and available for private meetings.
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26/04/2023
"Art is a creation of a higher order than a copy of nature which is governed by chance…" – Paul Signac 💬
Paul Signac's outstanding contribution to modern art is often underestimated. In the years following Seurat's early death in 1891, Signac carried Neo-Impressionist principles forward to influence painters such as Theo van Rysellbergh and Henri Cross. Soon thereafter, he laid the groundwork for the Fauves and Matisse, Braque and Derain. Signac died in Paris in 1935, but his oeuvre stands as a pillar of modern art, his paintings and watercolors all but de rigueur for museums and institution collections throughout the world.
Click the link to learn more about Signac and this painting: https://bit.ly/3Ni6LMW
23/04/2023
Happy St. George's Day! Feliç Diada de Sant Jordi! 🐉
St. George is the patron saint of many countries including England and Catalonia. The tale of St. George has inspired generations of artists including Salvador Dalí. Dalí was born in Figueres in Catalonia and this engaging work is a Surreal take on the famous duel between St. George and the Dragon.
Did you know that books and roses are exchanged on St. George's Day in Catalonia?
Click the link to learn more about this work by Dalí: https://bit.ly/3L46cUk
20/04/2023
"The unexpected provokes a shock, and that's something that attracts me." – Joan Miró 💬
We're celebrating one of the most famed and beloved artists from Catalonia, Joan Miró.
Click the link to learn about this Surreal sculpture of a bird: https://bit.ly/3GZVBs8
20/04/2023
"The figure is nothing unless you twist it around like a strange miracle." – Willem de Kooning 🖌️
Today is Willem de Kooning's birthday. Willem de Kooning is one of the most celebrated American artists, not least for his pioneering work developing the Abstract Expressionist movement.
Emerging from the destruction of World War II, the loosely associated movement worked through the trauma of the past and the anxiety of a new present. Along with Jackson Po***ck, De Kooning helped to cultivate the action painting branch in which artists appeared to attack the canvas with bold and dynamic brushwork.
Click the link to learn more about this painting and de Kooning: https://bit.ly/36IwMC9
19/04/2023
What does it mean to portray somebody? What is our legacy? Although no definitive answer can be made, this work by famed Colombian painter Fernando Botero gives tantalizing glimpses into the possibilities 🤔
Happy Birthday to one of the most beloved painters, Fernando Botero.
Click the link to discover the hidden depths of portraiture in this piece: https://bit.ly/3JWALZs
17/04/2023
"A picture is in the same way a universe – it holds its own life and mirrors a mind and a soul. Within all these laws seem to be a directing will and we are also directed by this will – this will is the urge to create – it is a cosmic will that determines all creation." – Hans Hofmann 💬
Hofmann is one of the most important artists and teachers of the 20th century. His influence in his paintings and in his lessons continue to this day. No artist bridged the gap between European Modernism and American Abstract Expressionism the same way Hans Hofmann did.
Click the link to discover more about this painting and Hans Hofmann: https://bit.ly/3MUNm4F
15/04/2023
The invention of the photograph profoundly effected the course of art history. The accuracy and detail it captured alleviated painters from the burden of realism, affording them new levels of creative experimentation. Impressionism, Pointillism, and all manners of abstraction are direct reverberations.
Stop by our Palm Desert gallery and expose yourself to the breadth of photography we have on view, from Man Rey to Eggleston. After you've finished basking in these bromide beauties, be sure to indulge a bit more and slide through our amazing collection of paintings and sculptures.
Can't make it to the gallery physically? Click the link to get there digitally. http://bit.ly/2uszwAy
14/04/2023
"Painting is an essential function of human life. Wherever human beings live, painting has existed and exists. Painting is a language, as with words." – Diego Rivera 🇲🇽
In Diego Rivera's portrait of Enriqueta Dávila, the artist asserts a Mexicanidad, a quality of Mexican-ness, in the work along with his strong feelings towards the sitter. Moreover, this painting is unique amongst his portraiture in its use of symbolism, giving us a strong if opaque picture of the relationship between artist and sitter.
Click the link to discover the relationship and symbolism between Rivera and the sitter, Enriqueta Dávila: https://bit.ly/3wauQuG
12/04/2023
Happy Birthday to Manuel Neri! 🎉
Manuel Neri was a central figure in the Bay Area Figurative Movement in the 1960s. Instead of abstract forms, the group emphasized emotion through the power of the human form.
Click the link to explore this sculpture: https://bit.ly/3JzDTue
10/04/2023
Happy Easter from Heather James Fine Art 🐰
Damien Hirst
"Forgotten Thoughts"
2008
butterflies and household gloss on canvas
68 x 68 x 1 3/8 in.
Click the link to discover more about this Hirst Butterfly painting: https://bit.ly/3cfqhmX
07/04/2023
"It is sunshine…which I have been principally interested in. If I could only reproduce it exactly as I see it, I would be satisfied." – Frederick Frieseke
Happy Birthday to American Impressionist, Frederick Frieseke 🎂 Frieseke is often regarded as the finest American Impressionist painter of the figure.
Did you know this painting was commissioned by the department store magnate Rodman Wanamaker?
Click the link to learn more about Frieseke and this painting: https://bit.ly/3A4siAi
03/04/2023
In the 1980s, Andy Warhol found new fame with his Society Portraits, capturing the rich and famous and even the infamous 📸
This portrait depicts the New York socialite, Patty Raynes, who was also the daughter of oil tycoon Marvin Davis. These Society Portraits radiate the gaze of Warhol as he coolly looks into the heart of American culture and society.
Click the link to learn more about Warhol and this painting: https://bit.ly/3m1xSAz
30/03/2023
Meet Julia Jackson, our Fine Art Consultant based in New York, discussing the work of British artist, Anish Kapoor 🎨
Julia has helped place pivotal works by Andy Warhol, Camille Pissarro, Alfred Sisley and more in public and private collections across the globe.
Click the link to learn more about Julia: https://bit.ly/3ZrCdec
27/03/2023
We've got the artist Joseph Stella on the brain for National Joe Day 🤔
Joseph Stella was a leader of American modernist artwork. He expressed a bright vision for the future through his paintings.
Click the link to discover more about Stella and this piece: https://bit.ly/3TKP7Tl
26/03/2023
"I'm not just interested in the pictorial aspects of the landscape – see a pretty place and try to paint it – but in some way to manage it, manipulate it, or see what I can turn it into." – Wayne Thiebaud 🖼️
Celebrate National Wayne Day with one of art history's most important artists, Wayne Thiebaud.
Thiebaud explained his process as "orchestrating with as much variety and tempo as I can." Brightly lit with a fauve-like intensity, this painting is a heady concoction of vibrant pigment and rich impasto.
Click the link to learn more about Wayne Thiebaud and this artwork: https://bit.ly/3OXNpvd
25/03/2023
Break out the Old Bay Seasoning, it's Maryland Day 🦀
We're celebrating with works by one of the most famous artists to emerge from Maryland, Morris Louis. Louis was born in Baltimore in 1912.
These paintings are rare early works before Louis created his famed stained paintings. They showcase his exploration of Expressionism. Did you know not many of these early works survived?
Click the link to learn more about Morris Louis: https://bit.ly/3OH3rJU
We're spinning out for this painting by Francis Celantano 🌀
Celantano was one of the leaders of the Op Art (or Optical Art) movement.
Click the link to learn more about Celantano and this moving painting: https://bit.ly/3TDe1UC
22/03/2023
"My aim in painting is to create pulsating, luminous, and open surfaces that emanate a mystic light in accordance with my deepest insight into the experience of life and nature." -Hans Hofmann ☀️
Happy Birthday to one of the most important Abstract artist and teacher of the 20th century, Hans Hofmann.
Click the link to learn why Hofmann was so instrumental in the development of abstract art and how this painting fits into his process: https://bit.ly/3JArKHt
18/03/2023
Happy St. Patrick's Day from Heather James Fine Art ☘️
This painting is by Irish American artist Sean Scully. Scully was born in Dublin in 1945 and moved to the US in 1972.
Click the link to discover more about this landmark artist and maybe it'll bring you some luck: https://bit.ly/3I5mc8G
15/03/2023
A Sérgio de Camargo sculptural relief is now on view at our Palm Desert, CA gallery 🇧🇷
This piece is a great example of the monochromatic white sculptures for which the Brazilian artist is best known. Taught by Lucio Fontana in Buenos Aires, and Constantin Brancusi and Jean Arp in Paris, he synthesized the approaches and aesthetics of Constructivism, Spatialism, and Minimalism.
His work is often associated with the Neo-Concrete movement that emerged in Brazil in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This movement was characterized by a rejection of traditional artistic mediums and materials in favor of non-traditional materials such as found objects and industrial materials. Neo-Concrete artists also prioritized viewer participation and sought to engage the viewer in the creative process.
Click the link to discover more about this piece and Sergio de Camargo: https://bit.ly/3mTb3PE
14/03/2023
"To us art is an adventure into an unknown world, which can be explored only by those willing to take the risks." – Adolph Gottlieb
Happy Birthday to one of the pioneers of Abstract Expressionism, Adolph Gottlieb 🎂
Did you know this painting was exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1968 during Gottlieb's great retrospective, a simultaneous exhibition between the Guggenheim Museum and the Whitney in their only collaborative effort.
Click the link to learn more about Gottlieb and this painting: https://bit.ly/32XkjVK
American artist and designer Harry Bertoia was born 🥳
Harry Bertoia's Willow sculpture resonates as an expression of grace and delicacy; qualities that bely the usual associations we have with the intrinsic properties of the alloy of which it is made. This suspended version – the rare version of Willow - seems to have a self-aware presence; one that delights in that contrast of properties. Yet it invites nothing more than existential pleasure in the viewing of it.
Think of Willow as a boldly articulated version of Calder if the latter master had a more organic or corporeal evocation in mind. Suspended, it commands its area yet respects its spatial relationship to its surround. Light, form, space – these are conceptual tools of the sculptor. But who else would think to use reflective material more readily associated with inflexibility and tensor strength to create a bouquet of cascading strands of stainless steel, suspended in space, flora-like and so gracefully beautiful?
Click to the Link to learn more about Bertoia: https://bit.ly/3tMt4Aq
09/03/2023
Happy Birthday to David Smith, one of the pioneers of abstract sculpture in American art 🎂
Throughout his career Smith's largely abstract work evoked the figure. Often executed in series, his sculptures fully explored particular ideas about materials and composition.
These rare paintings evoke the same abstract figure as Smith's three dimensional form.
Click the link to learn more about Smith: https://bit.ly/3J4gCCq
We are jazzed to announce the opening of our new Herb Alpert exhibition, Whimsical Conversations, tomorrow March 8th. This exhibition kicks off his new spring concert series with his wife, famed jazz singer, Loni Hall.
Alpert is a prolific creative soul whose career spans decades and disciplines. Described as lyrical, his paintings and sculptures speak to his love of music. Every work is an uninhibited exploration of the creative life force within him.
Stop by our Palm Desert gallery or click the link to learn more: https://bit.ly/3YD4lKO
It's that time again! Desert X returns to the Coachella Valley, and we are twirling with excitement. With so many immersive art experience throughout the desert, it's hard to decide where to being. Allow us to make a suggestion.
Kick off your Desert X adventure with a romp around our flagship gallery.
We have been a staple of the local fine arts community, dedicated to bringing museum quality artwork to the Coachella Valley for over 25 years. Our consultants would love to give you a tour of our amazingly diverse collection.
Click the Link to learn more about this work: https://bit.ly/3IUylMr
07/03/2023
Today is Casimir Pulaski Day, a holiday that celebrates Pulaski, a Polish-born soldier who was crucial in the war of American independence 🇺🇸
To mark the occasion we are showcasing another important Polish figure, artist Wojciech Fangor. Fangor made significant contributions to Op Art and was featured in the landmark exhibition, "The Responsive Eye" at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
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04/03/2023
It's National Ray Day and we're celebrating with Man Ray!
Man Ray is one of the most important Surrealists and Dada artists particularly when it came to his Surrealist photography 📸
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02/03/2023
Horses really are larger than life, symbols of wildness and strength. Few creatures have had such a profound impact on human progress; carrying humanity on their backs throughout the centuries, enhancing our capabilities and relieving our hefty burdens.
The horse, for Deborah Butterfield, is a much a symbol of humanity as it is of nature. Her early horses served as self-portraits; focusing on the mare as subject, she sought to imbue the symbol of the horse with a calm and powerful feminine energy.
Butterfield's works have since evolved into examinations of place and process. Highlighting the relationships between nature and creature, wildness and discipline, presence and absence. Her horses exist as portraits of the landscapes from which her materials are collected, and as evidence of her particularity within them.
Trot on into our Palm Desert gallery or click the link to learn more about Deborah Butterfield and this whimsical steed: https://bit.ly/3hpIkNG
At Heather James Fine Art, we pride ourselves on the relationships we build with clients. From Monet to Picasso, Mary Cassatt to Ai Weiwei, we have been fortunate to place these artists in many of our client's collection 🖼️
Enjoy this video showcasing a selection of some of the works we've sold
Which work is your favorite in the video?
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28/02/2023
Today is Museums Advocacy Day 🖼️ From the American Alliance of Museums:
"Museums Advocacy Day is a unique opportunity to join with fellow museum professionals and supporters to speak up for museums."
How do you support these important community institutions? Many of our Fine Art Consultants have worked with museums and work with them to build their collection and audience.
Art fair? We'll be there.
Our consultants are always on the prowl.
Here's a peak at our visit to the 11th annual Intersect Art and Design Fair in Palm Springs.
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Modernism week is almost over … have you made your way to Palm Desert yet?
Palm Springs may be the modernism mecca of the world, but we've got plenty modernist gems in our stretch of desert too. From the midcentury neighborhoods of Shadow Mountain to the shops on San Pablo, Palm Desert has a lot to offer the Mod maniac.
And so do we! From Pablo Picasso to Sérgio de Camargo we've got a regular Rat Pack of midcentury artists on display. Don't let this week fly away without paying us a visit. Cruz on by because the best is yet to come.
24/02/2023
"The challenge for an artist is always to find your own way of doing something." – Tom Wesselmann
Happy Birthday Tom Wesselmann! 🎉 Few artist could capture sensuality like Wesselmann and few others could claim creating a new process. Wesselmann combined drawing and sculpture with his steel cut wall pieces.
Click the link to learn more about this piece and the artist: https://bit.ly/35hO0oW
22/02/2023
California, Here We Come! Today is National California Day and we're basking in the glow of the California Impressionist artists ☀️
The allure of California is hard to deny. From its vibrant cities to its dramatic landscape, the state has been a haven for artists both in person and in spirit. Some of the most prominent of the California Impressionists include Edgar Payne, Joseph Kleitsch, and Jessie Arms Botke.
Click the link to learn more about why the California Impressionists were so important: https://bit.ly/3ARPWiw
21/02/2023
Happy Mardi Gras! It's also Paczki Day, a Polish doughnut 🍩
We're celebrating both festivals with this colorful painting by Richard Anuszkiewicz, the son of Polish immigrants.
How are you celebrating today?
Click the link to discover more about Anuszkiewicz: https://bit.ly/38ErDMB
20/02/2023
The wild landscapes of California inspired famed artist William Wendt. Wendt was born in 1865 🎂
A German immigrant to the US, Wendt was one of the leaders of the California Impressionists. He was a founding memeber of the California Art Club and a member of the Laguna Beach Art Association which became the Laguna Art Museum.
Click the link to discover more about Wendt: https://bit.ly/3SZ2nC6
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ABOUT HEATHER JAMES FINE ART
Heather James Fine Art presents a rare look into art history’s past and present, offering important works from a cross-section of periods, movements, and genres including Post-War, Contemporary, Impressionist, Modern, American, Latin American, and Old Masters.
In 23 years, Heather James Fine Art has expanded into a global network with galleries located in Palm Desert, California; New York City, San Francisco, California; Montecito, California; Jackson Hole, Wyoming along with consultancies in Los Angeles, Basel, Newport Beach and Austin.Each year, its galleries present an array of museum-quality exhibitions exploring historical and contemporary themes, or examining the work of individual influential artists.
Heather James Fine Art is dedicated to bringing exceptional art to private clients and museums globally while providing the utmost personalized logistical, curatorial, and financial services.
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