£2,000 - £3,000
Original Marsha Hammel Painting
4550 - Fabulous framed original oil on gesso by the American artist Marsha Hammel. This Painting depicts a Jazz Diva with her band and inspired by Marsha Hammels superb knowledge of the history of Jazz music. This original painting will be supplied with insurance replacement valuation for £3500 along with biographical details on the artist (free of charge) note: The Artist recently has had a limited edition book published worldwide on her life story that retails for £250. The vibrant cultures acquired in her home cities, in particular from her time in New Orleans, Miami and Quebec, have inspired Marsha Hammel's passion for the two prevalent themes in her art, music and figure. During her education, Marsha Hammel was taught a classical and European approach to art and, in spite of being told later that contemporary artists should produce conceptual or abstract pieces, the classical idea still governs her work. In its mastery of line, Singer with the Band shows clearly the skills of the draughtsman which Marsha Hammel acquired through her early training of this kind. Marsha Hammel was inspired particularly to paint this scene by a film of the young singer Billie Holliday, whose trademark was a large white flower behind her ear. The painting is also characterised by the artist's sense of colour. Marsha Hammel decided in the 1980s, when painting in the sub tropics, that colour was taking over her compositions and decided to limit her pallet to earth pigments: black, white, ultramarine, alizarin crimson and cadmium yellow medium. Since then, colour has gradually returned to her art but, as this painting shows, this simple pallet is still the basis of her work today. H: 125cm W: 94cm D: 3cm
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