An eclectic collection of murals consisting of bas relief, high relief, frescoes, friezes and mosaics including classic frescoes from ancient Crete and Egypt and stone reliefs from Mesopotamia. A large body of Art Deco wall reliefs and Mid Century murals are also on display with a selection of new contemporary pieces.
Fernand Legers’s ‘Femmes au Perroquet’ (Woman with a Parrot), which he painted nearly 70 years ago, looks stunning in a bronze relief of fluid perspective and completely at home in a new contemporary architectural setting. Likewise William George Mitchell’s ‘Flock of rams’ bas relief facade, created with bronze- faced glass fibre, is bursting with detail and is a fine example of the eternally intriguing Mid Century brutalist architecture and art. He was the first artist to create integral pieces of concrete art, which were poured into molds at the site and despite receiving much criticism from the art establishment at the time, he endured with creating his bold abstract public sculpture innovations which has gone on to create continued interest to otherwise drab walls of concrete. (wharfrej),
An excellent 1946 cubist sculpture panel by Le Corbusier is shown along with a lavish bronze African panel from Bruce Onobrakpeya.
Art Deco Winged Male Bas Relief
Union Terminal Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio.
‘Double Door’ sculpture – Toza and Carl Ekstrom
1960’s — photo Lynn Fayman
Art deco relief panel with heron and parrots on the Wacker Tower building, Chicago
Atelier Teee — Flickr
Angelo Biancini & Anselmo Bucci
1946, Italy
“Romeo with a crown of grapes playing the guitar while dancing with the sea and the sun,” Cork mural — Saimir Strati
Nearly 230,000 corks were used
Mosaic and relief mural — Cadet Chapel, Colorado
Ceramic relief created in 1965 depicting missionary Willibrord.
Petrus Canisius College, NL
Wood carved Mid Century wall panel Evelyn Ackerman, California
‘Femmes au Perroquet’ — 1952 bronze relief art sculpture by Fernand Leger
Léger believed in the 30’s that ‘modern art’ represented the dawn of a new and potentially transformational social consciousness — presenting the opportunity to bring art out of the studio and into the everyday sensibility of the public.
Citygarden in downtown St. Louis, Missouri.
‘Femmes au Perroquet’ (Woman with a Parrot) – Fernand Leger
Christie’s Auctions
Abstract Mid Century wall relief
Belgium, 70’s
Art Deco relief art – Rockefeller Center Architectural Detail, NY
Bas Relief of the “News” by Isamu Noguchi
Rockefeller Plaza, New York City, Manhattan
Emoivbo/Beroma – Bruce Onobrakpeya, Nigeria
“My childhood experience of the cultural environment of Urhobo and Benin formed the artistic bedrock on which I continue to build,” Bruce explained. “My early exposure to these arts sustained my artistic expressions by giving me access to a world of imagination, through bridging the thin gap between realism, surrealism and abstraction.”
Art Deco panel with Orpheus
Rescued from California Theater
Sanssouci Palace marble bas relief
St. Petersburg
Bas Relief and painting panel — Janusz Obst
Marcel Bouraine-large art deco Bas Relief wall panel
1930
Bedri Rahmi Eyuboglu wall mural
Turkey
Hercules bas relief,-U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis,Maryland
Paul McClure-flickr
‘The confluence of the Civilizations in the Americas’ mural by Carlos Mérida
San Antonio, Texas, 1968
Ceiling painting of Diana—hallway between statue fountain and lobby
Netherlands Hilton Hotel
Large coffee bean mosaic mural – Saimir Strati
Sunken wall relief by Le Corbusier
Darius I Receiving a Median Dignitary Relief Sculpture
Mesopotamia
William George Mitchell bas relief mural, UK
Eduardo Vega mosaic mural at Cuenca , Ecuador
Double Barrelled Travel
‘Bridge of Chochas’ — Eric Danquah
Eduardo Vega tiled ceramic wall panel
Long abstract mural spanning 50 metres – Jan Dijker
1960’s
‘Heart of Gold’ —John William Moore, USA
My art represents for me the re-discovery of guiltless instinct to reveal what Shelley described as “the blank astonishment .. that charms every sense and makes all thought take wing”
Jean Dunand, ‘The hunter of gazelles’, lacquer panel designed for the smoking den of the Normandy ocean liner
1935
Joan Miró — Gourmet Restaurant at the Terrace Plaza Hotel
1948 – Cincinnati, USA
‘La Musique’ – Antoine Bourdelle
Musée Bourdelle, Paris
Abstract ceramic mural by Frank Matranga
Diamond Bar Library, 1977
Le Corbusier– ‘Demi Relief’
1946
Horus wall art Egypt
Lessing
Marcello Fantoni ceramic wall plaque
Vintage Metal wall sculpture of an armed Warrior
Decorative Ceramic Flower Wall Sculpture-by Perignem and Paul Vermeire
1965
Mid Century Vintage Marcello Fantoni Ceramic Pottery Tiles
Top of a relief depicting Hammurab on a basalt stele standing nearly 2 meters tall
Babylon
Mural by Rodolfo Bardi
Mural with Ban Chao & King Yule
Zhong of Kashgar, 73 CE
Mural de Rodolfo Bardi en la Ciudad de Buenos Aires. Corvalán
OgreBot-Wikimedia
Bas Relief #8 — Janusz Obst
Paul Belmondo — Bas relief terracotta Apollo
1950
“Phylogenic Continuum” by Lyndon Pomeroy
1966.
Large bas relief Goddess mural
PDS Bali Stones
Raul Coronel Miles mural, 1966
eTruth 3
Bas relief found at Ariccia, south of Rome, which illustrates the celebration of religious rites in Egypt, identified by the ibises.
1st C AD
Roman relief from a sarcophagus depicting a Bacchic procession.
Werner Forman Archive, N.J. Saunders – Capitoline Museum, Rome
Sergey Karlov stone mosaic panel
Rock face relief at Naqsh-e Rustam
Persian emperor Shapur I (on horseback) capturing Roman emperors Valerian (kneeling) and Philip the Arab (standing)
‘Spirit of Light’ mural, Pennsylvania
‘The Saffron Goddess’ (1600 B.C.)
Detail from a Minoan fresco depicting a saffron harvest. She sits supervising the plucking of flowers and the gleaning of stigmas
“History of Navigation” Art Deco mural by Jean Dupas
SS Normandie
Thomas Hart Benton-, ‘Instruments of Power’
Tsolak Shahinyan, Gyumri, Armenia
Mosaic mural Treetanic bar, Utila Island, Honduras
Lady in long red gown mosaic panel — artist?
Bruce Onobrakpeya— ‘Eton’ —metal foil on resin on wood
1984
Anafartalar Bazaar mural by Füreya Koral
Yannis Nanouris-relief wall panel
Fabric 3D wall art
John Maltby
Flows Ceramic wall art — Fenella Elms
Carved walnut Art Deco plaque, Jesus with disciples by William Ehrich
circa 1934 – 1stDibs
‘The Story of Wool’ bas relief mural by William George Mitchell
1968, West Yorkshire, UK
William George Mitchell abstract mural
Mitchell Kirby Library — Seva nmb—flickr
