Created and Sold by Gregg Chadwick
Bookseller's Night Painting
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| Dimensions | Weight |
|---|---|
66H x 48W x 2D in 167.64H x 121.92W x 5.08D cm | 15.88 kg 35 lb |
My oil on linen painting "Bookseller's Night" was inspired by a sojourn in Paris near Montmartre. That summer the light hung on late into the evening until the sky rolled into a blue hour. While walking the Parisian streets under those deep blue skies, I would often stop to glance at books spread out like magical treatises on art and life. We lived that summer in the shadow of Monet, Manet, and Caillebotte. Two of Manet's last studios were on our street and nearby on the Place de Dublin, Caillebotte set his magical painting "Paris Street; Rainy Day" ("Rue de Paris, temps de pluie"). Nearby was the Gare Saint-Lazare which inspired Monet to create Turneresque images of trains and steam.
I carried those memories with me as I painted "Bookseller's Night" along with time traveling thoughts of
San Francisco and New York.
A few years ago, I stood outside in a clearing of a Monterey, California forest near the coast in the middle of the night with my brother and René Boitelle, a painting conservator at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Unlike the skies in Los Angeles, we were able to see the stars in the night sky and of course thought of Vincent Van Gogh's painterly evocations of the glittering night. Van Gogh was able to capture the night in his paintings with his skillful use of midnight blue and starry yellow. Gazing at a Van Gogh painting of a star filled sky, it seems as if he knew that the lights he saw in the dark night sky had traveled from the deepest reaches of time. According to physicists, as we gaze at the stars, in essence we are looking back towards the beginning of time.
Notes on Technique:
Ghosts of earlier ideas appear within my artworks and combine with other transparent moments to create a semblance of movement, of time passing. I build a combination of shadow and illumination in each painting to create a sensation of light emanating from the work. I work with oil paint and usually create at least one color in each painting from ground pigments mixed by hand with linseed oil. Linseed oil has the propensity to grow more transparent with age and visible traces of earlier painted marks gradually appear because of this tendency - called pentimenti. I embrace this eventual outcome in my work and incorporate planned and unplanned pentimenti in my process.
"Bookseller's Night" is painted with the finest quality oil paints on Belgian linen. The artwork is wired and ready to hang.
MEDIUM
Oil on Linen
DIMENSIONS
66" x 48" x 1.5"
INSTALL INFO
Gallery Wrapped. Ready to Hang. Not framed.
YEAR
2023
AUTHENTICATION
Signed and dated by the artist on the rear of the painting.
If requested by client, Gregg Chadwick will sign the front of the painting.
I carried those memories with me as I painted "Bookseller's Night" along with time traveling thoughts of
San Francisco and New York.
A few years ago, I stood outside in a clearing of a Monterey, California forest near the coast in the middle of the night with my brother and René Boitelle, a painting conservator at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Unlike the skies in Los Angeles, we were able to see the stars in the night sky and of course thought of Vincent Van Gogh's painterly evocations of the glittering night. Van Gogh was able to capture the night in his paintings with his skillful use of midnight blue and starry yellow. Gazing at a Van Gogh painting of a star filled sky, it seems as if he knew that the lights he saw in the dark night sky had traveled from the deepest reaches of time. According to physicists, as we gaze at the stars, in essence we are looking back towards the beginning of time.
Notes on Technique:
Ghosts of earlier ideas appear within my artworks and combine with other transparent moments to create a semblance of movement, of time passing. I build a combination of shadow and illumination in each painting to create a sensation of light emanating from the work. I work with oil paint and usually create at least one color in each painting from ground pigments mixed by hand with linseed oil. Linseed oil has the propensity to grow more transparent with age and visible traces of earlier painted marks gradually appear because of this tendency - called pentimenti. I embrace this eventual outcome in my work and incorporate planned and unplanned pentimenti in my process.
"Bookseller's Night" is painted with the finest quality oil paints on Belgian linen. The artwork is wired and ready to hang.
MEDIUM
Oil on Linen
DIMENSIONS
66" x 48" x 1.5"
INSTALL INFO
Gallery Wrapped. Ready to Hang. Not framed.
YEAR
2023
AUTHENTICATION
Signed and dated by the artist on the rear of the painting.
If requested by client, Gregg Chadwick will sign the front of the painting.
Item Bookseller's Night Painting
Created by Gregg Chadwick
As seen in Creator's Studio, Santa Monica, CA
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