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Over the next two decades, Keil met and began painting with his next mentor, Joan Miró, who frequently brought Pablo Picasso over to paint with the two. As a young man, Keil accompanied Nagel on his tours of Berlin's back streets and met many artists over the years, including Otto Dix, a German artist that has sold paintings at over $100 million dollars.
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Nagel introduced Keil to painting techniques, taught him realistic imagery - a style of Keil painting that is quite rare, and how to deal with colors. At 15 years old, Keil met the infamous Otto Nagel, who became his first teacher and mentor. After the death of his father on the Eastern Front in the early years of WWII, Keil and his mother set out to make their way to West Berlin, where Keil grew up.
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Peter Robert Keil was born in August 1942 in Züllichau / Pommern (what is now Poland). This piece was purchased directly from the Keil family, and comes with a Bowen Art Reserve LLC certificate of authenticity.
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This piece is 20x24 (24x28 framed) and has minor imperfections that are shown in the photos attached to this listing. On the verso, the painting denotes “Omage to Miró.” In 2007, Bonaparte exhibited an installation of 21 oil paintings in a group show at the Untitled Gallery in Oklahoma City along with works by Ed Ruscha, Joe Goode, Jerry McMillan, Mason Williams and Lee Mullican.“Omage to Miró” is an original painting on canvas by Peter Robert Keil. The Press was founded by Tamarind Master Printer Ed Hamilton and Ed Ruscha. In addition to his paintings, Bonaparte has had work published by Hamilton Press in Los Angeles. A set of apparent personal symbols reappear in many of his paintings further adding to the enigmatic and cryptic nature of some of his artworks. Many of his works have enigmatic narrative components that invite the viewer to consider an underlying story but never fully reveal it. In 1959, Bonaparte and other young Oklahoma artists including Ruscha, Joe Goode, Jerry McMillan, and Mason Williams moved to Los Angeles in order to get involved with the burgeoning art scene there.īonaparte’s work features soft fauvist colors, a subtle sense of whimsy and an occasional nod toward surrealism. He recalled that Bonaparte was “able to draw very well” and that Bonaparte “drew cartoons and he introduced me to the first factor in my life with art, which was India ink”. In an oral history interview conducted for the archives of American Art, Ruscha mentions that he was first exposed to art-making by his friend “Bob” Bonaparte who lived two doors away. Robert Bonaparte was born in 1933 and grew up in Oklahoma City where he was boyhood friends with Ed Ruscha. This is a great abstract expressionist piece.īio from askart, Matthews gallery of Santa Fe, NM. slight paint loss to very top left corner too. There is touch up on right edge, with paint loss on right edge as well, pictured. He has an interesting bio, with nice association with artist Ed Ruscha. It is by Robert Bonaparte, signed vertically on right edge, and dated 1983. This is a wonderful original oil painting on large linen canvas.