what did I buy? How do they call this movement? surialist? Artist help please

I really dont know what I bought. But it looked interesting and old and it came cheap. Its a fairly large colorful and busy painting. I'm trying to research it but no luck. Where do I start? How old is it? Help please?

 

teenage girl 5th form fantasy school IMO

 

Cant help but I love it ! Pop it out and see if theres a signature .

 

Don't have it yet. Literally just bought it on Facebook but the seller is not close to where I live. Will collect it this weekend when I go a bootsale which is in her area. Oh Yeah,, Bootsales willen open up here in the UK. I will be visiting one tomorrow for the first time in months....

 

couldn't wait with researching what I bought.

 

Could be hihi. But I can also say that of the works by Edvard Munch

or oskar kokoschka



Landscape At Ullapool
- oil on canvas by Oskar Kokoschka (Austria 1945)

 

oh silly me - i didn't realize it was a Kokoshka! sorry!

 

dont judge a book by its cover.

A other 5th form fantasy school drawing
cy twombly $35.000+ USD
https://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Lot/cy-twombly-1928-2011-roman-notes-iii-5813109-details.aspx

 

your painting is amateur.

 

How was it described to you? Is it signed? It could be a portrait. Or it could be surrealist. Depends on the artist's intention. To my eye, it's a portrait of the artist at different stages in her life but could be wrong.

Debora

 

It was described as a colorful vintage oil painting on board. Dont think she had any knowledge of art as she was only selling women clothing on her facebook store.

it could be a self portrait in different stages but dont think it is. There are also different man with beards and also a man with a sailors hat, people with glasses. I see cats, a snake, fishbowl etc. Its a very busy painting from the looks of it. I every time see something new when i look at the picytures. I also see a faiy sitiing on something and such. Its maybe fantasia?

 

just realize. I forgot that she mentioned that it was painted on board. Maybe we are already looking at the back?

 

I see a portrait of a woman at different stages of her life surrounded by people and things from those moments. But doesn't matter what you call it. As long as it speaks to you.

Debora

 

Frame look 1970s.

Debora

 

If there were not so many other humans in the scene, I would think Alice in the Pool of Tears.

 

to be honest i dont really like it. I guess im turning into a treasure hunter, it came cheap £15 gbp and was hoping i could pinpoint it to a artist and maybe add a zero or two to the figure

 

possible. but why winnie the pooh and the fairy.? or is that not winnie

 

There are at least a couple of little squatting boys (one you've circled as a fairy) who remind me of illustrations Arthur Rackham did for Barrie's Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. (If you only know the Peter who lives in the Neverland, this one is an earlier, very different Peter.)



Not sure about Winnie. Could represent the stuff we all carry in our heads: parents; friends; teachers; boyfriends/girlfriends; stories we loved as kids. The stuff we're all drowning in.

 

Possible yes. thats a good observation. Maybe its not a fairy. I looked up this peter pan in kensignton gardens and found this statue of a boy playing the flute. I tried to get a closeup of the boy and and it maybe looks like he is also playing the flute, so i guess its not a fairy who is blowing bubbles.

Yeah i guess a lot of memories in this work. i hope i will find out more about it once i receive it

 

The sculptor took some real liberties. Statue is more influenced by the Peter of Peter & Wendy. Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens is a tale within a tale in Barrie's Little White Bird. In that version Peter is only 2 weeks old, a baby in a nightgown, when he flies away from the unbarred window of his nursery, & settles down to rest, perched on a branch of a tree on the island in the Serpentine where the birds live. He's able to do this because all babies were birds before they were born & he doesn't realize that he is not a bird anymore. He still believes he can fly & 'to have faith is to have wings.' Once he is disabused of this notion he is no longer has the ability. Over time he gives most of his nightgown away in strips for the birds to line their nests, saving only a sleeve, & goes about without clothes after that. What he does with the sleeve & how he eventually gets across the water to the Gardens, meets the fairies & becomes the piper for their balls is another story.