Alexis Gritchenko

Centaur and a woman

1921

This is an oil on Belgian linen painting by a Ukrainian-American artist, Valeriy Skrypka. Numbered by the artist 1156. A label from Joan Perkes Fine Art gallery on the back. Skrypka ...

Oleh Denysenko is known for his unique style, resembling Northern Renaissance paintings, which he calls Antiqvitas Nova. It is the whole new World filled with utopia philosophers, self-sacrificing knights, eternal pilgrims, king and queen puppets, secret keys, labyrinths of illusional personalities and undiscovered emotions. This painting is done in a technique of old icon...

A small but very intricate painting by a Ukrainian artist, Vachagan Narazyan. This oil on linen painting was acquired from Tamara Tumasian gallery in Kharkiv in 2008. It is in excell...

This oil on linen framed painting is an example of an authentic stylistic composition created by Vachagan Narazyan. The painting was acquired from the gallery that represented the ar...

Remarkable composition masterfully executed in oil on linen by Vachagan Narazyan. It is framed and in excellent condition. Although small in size, this painting is very joyful, fille...

An early oil on canvas painting by Anton S. Kandinsky (also known as Anton SKY) created after the artist moved from Miami, FL to New York in late 1990s. It was gifted by the artist t...

A very substantial, early 19th century, oil-on-canvas laid down on panel showing a view of the risen Christ Pantocrator flanked by the Virgin Mary and St....

Halo presents an amazing cast of historical black figures, most of whom were legendary and mythic characters in their time, but have been nearly lost to the vagaries and biases of hi...

Halo presents an amazing cast of historical black figures, most of whom were legendary and mythic characters in their time, but have been nearly lost to the vagaries and biases of hi...

Halo presents an amazing cast of historical black figures, most of whom were legendary and mythic characters in their time, but have been nearly lost to the vagaries and biases of hi...

Halo presents an amazing cast of historical black figures, most of whom were legendary and mythic characters in their time, but have been nearly lost to the vagaries and biases of history as seen through a white lens. With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view. Many of the figures are from the 1400-1800s, a timeframe that corresponds with Europeans beginning to use racial distinction as a tool to justify slavery. Greenfield honors their simultaneously disturbing and astounding lives by bestowing them with halos, traditionally seen as reverential symbols of adoration and respect. “I am reimagining what a saint is,” Greenfield says. “Maybe in studying their stories, they can inform us on better ways to live.” Thought to have been a descendent of central African royalty...

Halo presents an amazing cast of historical black figures, most of whom were legendary and mythic characters in their time, but have been nearly lost to the vagaries and biases of hi...