Paintings dropped off at his studio for minor repairs might be unrecognizable when they were picked up, and he was even known to have repainted the work of another artist who was out when Inness visited his studio.
With the French invasion of 1672 and the subsequent Dutch economic collapse, the demand for paintings dropped heavily, and in the last decades of the 17th century many Dutch painters either stopped painting or, like the van de Veldes Willem I and Willem II, left the country to work in England or Germany.
Anyone curious to see the opulent interiors, cluttered with Georgian furniture and Old Masters paintings, may drop by the house during the presale exhibition, from May 31 to June 6.
"This machine" is a 53,000-pound carousel suspended above the stage from which scrims and set pieces like paintings and windows drop, traverse and revolve.
As with his ink drop paintings, Uklański employs a meticulous technique for his collages, transforming a hands-on low craft tradition into a dynamic and aesthetically complex exercise.
Witnesses described the thieves as clumsy, even dropping the paintings on the way out.
Looking in from outside the whole door is covered in their finger paintings – squiggly patterns, rain drops and a frowning sun.
In landscapes and marine paintings the horizon tended to drop, and a continuous and coherent recession into depth was attained, particularly in the paintings of Esaias van de Velde, Jan van Goyen, Hercules Seghers, and Jan Porcellis.
Reflecting Young's tuned-in, dropped-out sojourns in Costa Rica and Oaxaca, there are also canvases stretched on branches of Ponderosa pine, and "bead paintings" — canvasless chunks of polychrome acrylic strung like necklaces.
Up close, the paintings are coated with tiny drops of resin, like the sweating walls and bodies of an overheated nightspot.
