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Clifford Holmead Phillips,
gen. Holmead
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Rainer Zimmermann
Holmead
Leben und Werk des Malers
(His Life and his Work)
Verlag Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart, 1987.
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Maria Anczykowski
Holmead
Ein amerikanischer Expressionist in Europa
(A American Expressionist in Europe)
Kunstsammlungen Böttcherstraße, Bremen, 1998.
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Stéphane Rey
Holmead
Le Musée de Poche, Fall, Paris, 1973.
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Daniel Schreiber
Holmead
und der Triumph der Malerei
(and the Triumph of Painting)
Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Ars Vivendi, 2006
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Auf leisen Pfoten
Die Katze in der Kunst
(On silent feet - Cats in Art)
Städtische Galerie Karlsruhe, Heidelberg, 2007
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Stefano Zuffi
Katzen in der Kunst
(Cats in Art)
Köln, 2007
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Holmead - American Expressionist in Europe
Dear Art Lovers,
Customers and Friends
We have the pleasure to offer in the following two interesting fine works by the American artist Clifford Holmead Phillips, called Holmead.
Directly from the estate of the private collection of the international recognized art historian Dr. Rainer Zimmermann, so as Holmeads well known biographer.
Available as of now on receipt of this email. If any questions come up, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Best regards
F.E.STAINLESS - FINE ARTS
Frank E. Stainless
Contact us via email: info@fineart-selection.de
PS, Related link to a German website about the artist.
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Clifford Holmead Phillips
(Shippensburg/Pennsylvania 1889 - 1975 Brüssel) |
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Angelo (Portrait of a Cat),
Oil on canvas mounted over board, 51 x 41 cm (20.1 by 16.1 in). Signed lower right "Holmead", so as monogram "HP" and dated (19)"58" upper right. Inscripted on the reverse: "Angelo", „Holmead“, „HPinx“ und datiert „(19)58“, „...Katze gemalt in USA (Cat painted in US)".
Provenance: Collection Dr. Rainer Zimmermann.
Further details and price on request.
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This painting is illustrated at: Rainer Zimmermann, Holmead, His Life and his Work, 1987, P. 118, fig..
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... as he usually portrait his friends from a temporal and spatial distance only (eg, Monod, Regnier or Boznanska), he is now building in a series of paintings of several cats, that the family kept in the U.S., picturesque monuments of accurate characterization: a black cat with a white spot on the breast and observant yellow eyes, the friendly kitten "Angelo"(1958) or a striped dignified lying queen. These are not representations of animals for the purposes of observing specific behaviors, they are real "Animal Portraits" with the essence of a particular individual, one might say representing an "animal person". Obvious the creatures portrayed take on "human" traits. Amazingly, in this context is that there exists only relatively few animal paintings from Holmeads hand ... (Rainer Zimmermann, Holmead, His Life and his Work, 1987)
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...A few thoughts at rabdom: A monsieur interested in art and philosophy and I were discussing questions of life, and he was interested in my logic when I said I had my painting and my cats and needed nothing else. „Ah“, he shouted, „you have found it!“... (Letter to his Daughter Christiana, Brussels, 1974)
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| ... Holmeads artistic legacy deserves attention for several reasons. It is one of the timeless products of major painting. It has expanded through a creative transformation of Expressionism the province of this art, that corresponds to the skeptical and realistic spirit of that era. And finally his Oeuvre clamped in a very personal way, major tendencies of American and European painting in the middle of this century ... (Dr. Rainer Zimmermann, 1984) |
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