Address:
1170 Third Street South
Suite C-106
Naples, Florida 34102
Phone:
239.649.7114
Fax:
239.514.0206
Contact Person:
James Sawczuk
Hours:
Mon.-Sat. 10am-5pm
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Gallery Matisse - Welcome
Welcome to Gallery Matisse, a Naples Florida Art Gallery on Gallery Row. Established in Old Naples in 1993 Gallery Matisse is an intimate gallery with a relaxed and unpretentious atmosphere. Located at The Plaza in the Third Street South Shopping District, the gallery fronts the Naples Gallery Row.
Modern Masters as Chagall, Picasso, Matisse, and Miro can be found at the gallery. Important contemporary impressionists and realists also highlight the gallery, along with American and European paintings from the 19th & 20th centuries. Glass art by Dale Chihuly, Ulla Darni, and L.C. Tiffany add to the collection. Exquisite one of a kind Art To Wear Jewelry by Janis Kerman is an added bonus to those who visit the gallery.
With over 15 years of experience in the Fine Art business James Sawczuk has established numerous worldwide relationships and continually searches for the finest artistic talent available in the world today.
Gallery Matisse - Consignment Opportunities
Gallery Matisse is always interested in acquiring fine 19th & 20th century American and European paintings. Our inventory reflects the diverse interests of our clientele and contains exceptional examples of well known European and American artists.
For over 10 years we have discretely worked with public and private collections brokering sales of European and American works of art. We offer a safe and confidential alternative to public auctions, eliminating the risk of an unsuccessful sale. We offer years of experience and integrity with a large client base of active collectors.
Please contact the gallery at 239-649-7114 for more information on consignment and purchase or e-mail us at info@gallerymatisse.com If known please provide the following information Artist name, Nationality, Medium, Size, and Dates. We will respond promptly.
Gallery Matisse - Featured Artits' & Biographies
Aleksander Titovets
Born in Siberia and educated in St. Petersburg Russian, Alesksander’s work represents classical Russian painting combined with an exuberance and flair that has marked him as one of the very best of the new Russian artists.
He moved to the USA in 1992 and immediately enjoyed critical and commercial success. He has won numerous National awards including the National Academy of Design and Best of Show in the International Fine Art Competition-four years in a row! He has been a guest artist at the National Invitation Show, “Artists in America” and “Great American Artists”, in Cincinnati. Aleksander’s work can be found in public and private collections throughout the USA, Europe, and Russia.
Antal Goldfinger
Antal Goldfinger was born November 22, 1964 in Gyongyos, Hungary. From childhood he had a noticeable and keen ability in drawing and painting. At the age of 16 he studied at the Academy in Berze, acquiring the fundamental skills. The skills were honed with the experience and observations that come with service in the Hungarian army and Nat in Munich.
Antal Goldfinger arrived in Seattle, Washington in 1987 and supported his wife and two sons in a variety of occupations while strengthening his artistic vision. In 1990 he went back to Hungary to study with a highly regarded Hungarian master of landscape painting, learning the traditional techniques of “plein aire” painting, landscape painting done in the open air rather than in a studio. This technique encourages “alla prima” or painting without preliminary drawing and an appreciation for true values because of the frequently changing outdoor light. Antal Goldfinger spent endless days painting at Lake Balaton, the great lake of central Europe, where he fell in love with marine painting.
On his return to Seattle, Antal continued his studies in Figure painting at the University of Washington. He explains that this experience was of particular importance in “identifying color” in a formal and comprehensive approach to art. At this time he began to apply all he had learned to a new interpretation of landscape painting by painting busy market scenes brimming with the colors of the vegetable stands. With this subject matter, a gradual interest in still life painting began.
Returning to Florida with his family, he met and studied with a renowned Polish master of the genre, clarifying certain techniques and ideas in his mind concerning his objectives as an artist. Today, confident in his unique position as an important still life and marine painter, Antal’s methods of painting have become synonymous with quality. He rapidly draws the essential object of his composition, and then begins blocking in the main areas of color. Bringing the painting to completion through subtle blends of tints and tones, his us of light and dark intervals across the forms allows the eye to enjoy the overall conception of rhythms. The gestation of his subject matter may take years, but once the problems of composition are resolved in color pencil sketches, he paints directly on the canvas.
Antal Goldfinger is a master of the equilibrium achieved through combining classical balance of form and space with the spontaneous execution of color. It is this magical unity of form and color that makes him an artist recognized throughout the world. Antal’s works are exhibited in the finest Galleries of the United States and in museums worldwide, including some of the most important private collections.
Eric Michaels
Perhaps the most distinctive feature of Eric Michaels’ work is its international flavor. The subject matter spans four continents and both hemispheres. Painting in these various locations enables him to achieve an understanding of local light conditions and to participate in the native experience.
Michaels was born and raised in Illinois. His formal schooling concluded with a B.F.A in art. Because of his abiding love for music he spent several years as a classical guitarist performing throughout North America. After a short stint as a commercial illustrator, he turned to a career in fine art and now resides in Trinidad, Colorado. Extensive worldwide travel provides him with constant inspiration.
Eric Michaels has exhibited at the Royal Watercolour Society in London and is an annual exhibitor at the Artists of America Show in Denver. His paintings hang in private, corporate, museum and state collections; including the Albuquerque Museum of Fine Art, the Americana Museum, the Institute of American Indian Arts, Philips petroleum, IBM, Honeywell-Sperry Inc., and the State Collection of the Governor’s Gallery, Santa Fe, N.M. Eric Michaels is a signature member of the National Watercolor Society and the Pastel Society of America.
Janis Kerman
I always knew that jewelry making would be my direction, my métier; and I design to intrigue both the eye and the mind. There is a symbiotic relationship between fine art and all forms of design, a conceptual fluidity where influences may move freely between the disciplines, exchanging and evolving. The form, colors and textures of objects both artistic and common-architecture, furniture, ceramics and fashion- inspire me.
In 1975 after completing my fundamental studies in jewelry design, I began experimenting with various metals and techniques. Two years later Janis Kerman Design was established. The focus of my work for the next ten years was the design and production of season oriented collections, detailing for fashion accessories and some one of a kind pieces.
I worked extensively with niobium and was recognized in Canada for my unique geometric manipulation of the metal and its colors. Though I enjoyed business and manufacturing challenges and the opportunity for my designs to be accessible to many people, I became more concerned with creating unique pieces, and since 1986 have been designing one of a kind and limited collections, working exclusively in precious metals and gems.
With the shift in my work came the challenge of establishing myself in a new category. I began introducing myself to jewelry, contemporary craft and fine galleries. I felt that my work was now a caliber that would be respected and shown with established contemporary jewelers. Being Canadian meant that I was excluded from may trade shows and opportunities to exhibit in the United States, and demanded persistence and patience to reach the galleries in which I was interested. My jewelry is now shown in over twenty-nine galleries across North America, twenty-five in the United States. I participate in several trade shows annually.
Many of my clients are inspired to work with me on commission because it is the ultimate one of a kind piece. I encourage them to recycle their jewelry, or at least to incorporate stones or elements of sentimental value. It is both challenging and rewarding to remodel an object that has both strong emotional and intrinsic value. The Canadian government also regularly commissions me to design and produce protocol pieces for visiting dignitaries for various state events.
Jules Cheret
Cheret was born in Paris in 1836. He was the founder of the color pictorial poster and it’s most contributory artist. He showed the world how to use lithography effectively and economically to produce large colorful posters of every shade using only 3 to 4 lithography stones. Cheret created a new standard. His posters had a dynamic and romantic picture in motion at the center, with a background that simply supported the central action. Cheret’s most famous advertising posters were for the Moulin Rouge, the Palais de Glace on the Champs-Elysies and for Saxoleine Lampo.
It is hard to imagine the cities of the world without posters. Yet it wasn’t until the mid 1860s that Jules Chéret developed the color lithography technique which would transform Paris into the "picture gallery of the street." As Charles Hiatt wrote in 1895:
"Paris, without its Chérets, would be without one of its most pronounced characteristics...Chéret’s posters greet one joyously as one passes every hoarding, smile at one from the walls of every cafe, arrest one before the windows of every kiosk."
Cheret’s theatrical and airy style recalled Tiepolo and Watteau, representing a late but highly visible example of the Rococo Revival in France. His charming maidens became so pervasive that the Parisians nicknamed them "Cherettes."
Cheret’s innovations led to a law in 1881 which created official posting places, and an entire industry was created. Every poster required a tax stamp to indicate that a fee had been paid for the right to post it. Based on square footage, the tax led to the adoption of standard sizes. Advertisers worked with artists, printers and posting companies to create post and maintain the poster on the street.
In 1884, the first poster exhibition was held in Paris; in 1886 the first book on posters was written; and in 1890 Cheret was immortalized in the first one-man poster show (he created more than 1000 posters).
Leonetto Cappiello
Born in the Italian resort town of Livorno, Cappiello (1875 – 1942) had a natural talent for drawing and his first ambition was to be a great painter. He stared studying art with a painter’s career in mind, but meanwhile, purely as a hobby, he would make a quick sketch of anybody who caught his attention- relatives, home town characters, an occasional interesting tourist. Soon, he found that these quick caricatures were always favorably received, and y the time he was 21, he was able to make a little money by having the best of these homespun drawings published in booklet form.
That may not have swayed him in itself, but two years later, in 1898, he took a trip to Paris to visit his older brother who happened to be working there a the Stock Exchange. Leonetto found Paris intoxicating, and wanted to put off returning to his sleepy little seaside hometown for a while; the only way to it, of course, was by finding a way to support himself.
Why not utilize his gift for caricature again? His brother told him that various magazines might pay a good price for caricatures of celebrities, particularly ones that have not been done to death already. Since that was true of most of the regularly Paris stars, Leonetto to approached two famous visitors who were just then staying in town, and who, being fellow Italian, might be willing to give an untried kid a break: actor Ermete Novelli and composer Giacomo Puccini. They obliged, and Leonetto promptly sold the sketches to Le Rire; they were so well received that within weeks, he became the favored caricaturist of theater and cabaret stars of Paris.
One of the major reasons for the quick acceptance of Cappiello was the fact that his caricatures were never offensive: where other caricaturists would grossly distort their subjects’ facial features and hold them up for ridicule, Cappiello used only subtle exaggeration to spotlight their outstanding characteristics. This gave him access to the one group of performers who previously fought tooth and nail not to be caricatured: the prominent ladies of the stage. When they saw that he meant them no harm, even the most famous names of the day-Sarah Bernhardt, Rejane, Jeannie Granier- were suddenly willing to sit still for caricatures, and the young man from Livorno became the darling of the foremost beauties of Paris.
This prompted Alexandre Natanson, co-publisher of La Revue Blanche, one of the magazines that had been using his sketches, to commission Cappiello to publish a portfolio of these drawings under the title “Nos Actrices” (“Our Actresses”), which came out in 1899 and launched his career in earnest.
But he might have remained a professional illustrator if one of the editors to whom he routinely submitted sketches had not asked him to prepare a poster for a new humor magazine he was launching, Le Frou-Frou. Cappiello used a simple caricature in his usual style – a can-can girl kicking up her skirts – but now he had to use color, so he opted for a plain yellow background and a dab of red on the pantaloons peeking out from under the petticoats.
The poster, prepared so quickly in such an offhand way, made a provocative splash on the billboards that no passer-by could resist. Instinctively, Cappiello hit on the right formula: create an eye-catching character and make a bold, loud statement-and everything else becomes immaterial. It brought him immediate further offers from various advertisers, and made him aware of the enormous power of effective communication: he found the field in which he would labor the rest of his life.
His technique evolved fundamentally from that of British posterists like Hassal, Hardy and the Beggarstaff Brothers, who used simple drawings and flat colors-only Cappiello added dynamic zest and dramatic impact they had never dreamed of. The designs, for the first few attempts, are firmly rooted in his caricature style; but gradually, he frees his imagination and begins to develop a poster language even more compelling.
Maarten Platje
Maarten Platje was born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. At a very young age he proved to be a gifted artist with an exceptional talent for drawing and painting. He later attended the well known drawing and painting academy ‘Ars Aemula Naturae’ in Leiden where he developed a strong preference for maritime and aviation art.
Maarten Platje lives near the seaport of Rotterdam where he finds unlimited inspiration and passion to create maritime art. Research and study of his vast photo and technical archive enables him to achieve a very high level of accuracy and realism.
Maarten Platje’s oil paintings, showing impressive seascapes and almost photo realistic ships, are well known within maritime circles. His work has been displayed at public exhibitions, maritime events and used as illustrations in books including regular appearances as the prestigious centerfold of the Netherlands maritime magazine ‘De Blauwe Wimpel’.
Maarten Platje’s ability to transform his impressions and observations into highly accurate, lively, and impressive maritime paintings is very evident in his work. He is a true heir of a long and impressive history and is one the most talented and well known maritime artists in The Netherlands.
Nicola Simbari
The story of Nicola Simbari is now legendary. Born in San Lucido, a small village situated in Calabria, in the deep south of Italy, on the Tyrrhenian Sea, he was raised in Rome where his father, an architect, worked for the Vatican. Young Simbari was influenced by the Sistine Chapel and other art treasure of the city. He attended the Academia delle Belli Art, where he studied architecture. The influence of geometric forms made an indelible impression on him and, to this day, has played an important part in his work. After teaching architecture for a brief time he branched out on his own, taking a studio in the Via del Babuino. At the outset of his painting career he went through an important non-representational period.
A critic for Le Monde wrote in 1971, relative to a Simbari exhibition in Paris: “The originality of this painting gorged with light and color expressed with a powerful and energetic style resides principally in the strict associations of the figurative and the abstract.” A boundless restlessness helped to disassociate Simbari from either of the approaches. Local fiestas, religious processions, carabinieri’s parades, gypsies, cyclists and fishermen’s villages, were among his earliest subjects. Each of them expressed his passion for life, the spectacle of existence. Nicola Simbari showed his paintings for the first time in Rome in 1953. Clearly, to all those who saw the show, it was an auspicious beginning. An exhibition in London followed in 1956. His first one man show in this country, in New York in 1959, was pivotal to his burgeoning career. Palm Beach, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, St. Louis and London, again, followed. The rest is history.
Two major solo shows in New York catapulted Simbari to the top of the international art world. The first Exhibition, held in 1976 was the Crazy Horse Saloon, a documentation of the famous Paris nightclub, a stark view of the showgirls-on and off stage. The other show was called Le Cirque. Presented in 1977, it was a poignant interpretation of the circus, its glitz and pathos. Simbari continued to exhibit his works throughout the 1980’s. He also went through a period of graphics and found time to create a series of monumental steel sculptures. Another landmark show, with Paris as its subject, was a 1981 highlight. Exhibitions in Germany, Japan, Monaco and New York added to his international renown. His paintings of Manhattan, featuring thirteen cityscapes, were a brilliant finale to the decade.
Pauline Allard Dufour
Born in Nashua, N.H., Pauline Allard Dufour knew at an early age that she wanted to be an artist. Inspired by her grandfather, who was a famous painter and artisan, Pauline began selling her artwork and taking commissioned portrait orders at the age of twelve.
She studied for several years under artist, Mae Sherburne, and took classes at the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston, Ma. She continued her studies at Vesper George School of Art in Boston, and also studied portraiture under artist David Lowery from the Copley Art Society in Boston. For four years, Pauline traveled and painted in Europe.
Until 1991, Pauline Allard Dufour worked almost entirely on commission. Working in oil, watercolor, pastel and acrylic, she is noted for her ability to portray color and the interplay of sunlight and shadow on a given subject. Over the years, she has painted a large variety of subject matter.
Pauline Stecher
Listed in Who’s Who in American Art, 2001-2002, 24th edition.Exhibited extensively in fine galleries, mainly throughout New York and Long Island, notably its East End; currently exhibiting in Florida.
Appeared in several issues of “Palette Talk” magazine: painting centerfold and article in 1990; cover painting and lead story with paintings in 1987; featured-teacher column in 1983. Painting reproduced in 1997 in “The Literary Cyclist,” an anthology edited and with introductions by Professor James E. Starrs of George Washington University (foreword by William Saroyan).
Awards received at national competitions:The Hudson Valley Art Association’s prestigious first-prize Dumond Memorial Award for Best Light and Atmospheric Effect in 1998; the Georgie Read Barton Memorial Award in 2002- both at the Newington-Cropsey Foundation Gallery of Art in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York; the Frank Spradling Memorial Award in 2000 at the Salmagundi Club, New York; and the blue-ribbon Isabel Steinschneider Memorial Award in 1991 at the Westchester County Center, New York. The American Artists Professional League’s President’s Award in 2001 and in 1999; the Helen DeCozen Award in 1997; the John R. Grabach Memorial Award in 1994; and the Directors’ Award in 1991—all at the Salmagundi Club in New York.
Prior to and in addition to the above, many first-prize and varied awards at regional juried competitions, among them the Gold Medal at the National Art League, the Mae Berlind Bach Award at the Cathering Lorillard Wolfe Art Club at the National Arts Club, and the Council of American Artists Societies Award at the Art League of Nassau County’s Open Show at the Nassau County Museum of Art- all in the New York area.
Member of the American Artists Professional League, Hudson Valley Art Association and Art League of Nassau County. An oil painting instructor for many years, she is a guest lecture-demonstrator and exhibit judge by frequent request.
Pauline Stecher is a New Yorker. Her work is realist, occasionally bordering on impressionistic, employing varied brush and / or knife technique. Still-life’s often depict Americana or Asian themes and are interspersed with marine, landscape and figure paintings.
Robert Lebron
Among the many artists in the United States and abroad, Robert Lebron has distinguished himself over the years and is recognized by his peers, his collectors and by the general public as being one of the finest and most successful artists of the second half of this century.
Robert Lebron, a native of New York City, was born in 1928. He delved into the arts at a very young age and began his formal studies at New York High School of Music and Arts. After three years of study, with youthful impatience, he joined the armed services (under age). He soon found himself drawing cartoons for the local paper and quickly graduated to the animation department of the motion picture unit where he worked with several Walt Disney artists. Returning to New York, he attended the Arts Students League for five years, a prestigious school attended by such prominent artists at Norman Rockwell, Remington and Clark Hulings.
Later, during an extensive stay in Spain, “to find himself,” Lebron developed his person painting technique. The incredible talent to render the buildings, the people in action, essentially the entire painting with the palette knife is awesome. Thomas Hoving, former director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art writes in his latest book that paintings executed entirely with the palette Knife is an extremely difficult technique. Just as important is Lebron’s tremendous grasp of color and the ability to capture the essence of the moment in each and every painting. Lebron concentrates on painting street scenes of wonderful cities around the world. Each painting is full of life and actually tells its own story.
His paintings have been published by prestigious art publications and others, such as the National Geographic society. His list of both private and corporate collectors is most impressive spanning most of the Western world.
Ulla Darni
Reverse painting means that he hand blown glass is painted on the inside, then lighted and viewed through the lightly frosted glass surface, giving added depth and a three dimensional quality to the artwork.
Ulla Darni, a Dane by birth, began her career as a successful painter after graduating from the Royal Danish Academy of Art. Her work on canvas brought her recognition in the highly competitive art world. Her exquisite, one-of-a-kind reverse-painted lampshades now at Gallery Matisse, a Naples Florida Art Gallery have done more than just get her noticed. They have brought her worldwide acclaim.
In five short years Darni’s work has become world famous. She designs her unique lamp bases and has them cast. Her need for perfection now finds her establishing her own foundry. As she says, “Each lamp is a treasure work of art, intended to grace fine homes and interiors for generations”.
All of her lamps are numbered and copyrighted. Her signature with a fingerprint is a registered and appears on each shade. When one view Darni’s illuminated artwork, one immediately feels the impact of her creativity. It is a feast for the eyes that is unforgettable. Glass plus art plus light equals magic. Examples of Darni’s work can be found in prestigious collections throughout the world, including the Princess of Denmark, and the Prince of Whales. Her artwork is in the homes of many celebrities such as Goldie Hawn, Lee Majors, Cher, Al Pacino, Sean Conery, and many others.
At an exhibition at the Pierpont Museum director Ed Malakoff believes Darni will be recognized in the future for her glass unique art form. “Darni is tomorrow’s design genius.”
“Payes” Emilio Paya
Born on February 28, 1935 in Alcoy, Alicante, Spain. Art Schools Attended: Arts and Crafts School in Alcoy, Alicante from 1949-1953. Received a Certificate of Success in Art. Fine Arts School in Alcoy, Alicante from 1954-1958. Received a Certificate of Success in Fine Arts. School and College Attended: La Salle in Alcoy, Alicante from 1941-1950.
Emilio Paya began to paint at the age of fourteen. Upon turning eighteen he began his formal training in art. Due to his talent of drawing he was inspired and encouraged to begin training at this early age. During his education and training he studied under the Spanish professor, Mr. Edmunds Jorda.
“Payes” began painting professionally when he was 28 years old. Since this time he has exhibited in galleries including Galerie Soria, Chateauroux, France in 1995 and Galerie Hispaluz, Concepcion, Chile in 1996.
The works of Emilio Paya are in private collections throughout Japan, Saudi Arabia, Germany and the United States. A list of “Payes” collectors includes Prince Fahd Bin Salman Bi of Saudi Arabia, individuals from the French Aristocracy and the Belgian Aristocracy.
The artist describes his current style and influence of paintings as customs, manners and impressionism. His favored subjects are landscapes, harbor scenes and Parisian items. “Payes” is married with four children. |
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