271 Gladiolus

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Category Art
Auction Currency USD
Start Price 7,500.00 USD
Estimated at 15,000.00 - 20,000.00 USD
Gladiolus
Artist: Sharp, Joseph H.Date of Birth: 1859-1953
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 25 x 30 inches
Signed: Signed lower right
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In his seminal work on the subject, In Poetic Silence: The Floral Paintings of Joseph Henry Sharp, Thomas Minckler suggests that floral still life paintings were a way for Sharp, who was deaf, to express himself in a symphonic mode. As Minckler writes, “His [Sharp’s] arrangements ultimately expressed his view of the flowers he painted. Besides consistently placing leaves and petals on the tabletops, Sharp’s technical accomplishments, both from an artistic and perceptual dynamic, were enhanced by his portrayal of the flowers’ spirit. Since the age of twelve he had been living in a world of silence, and now he had arrived at the true poetic side of his life. (Minckler, p. 111) Cut perhaps from his own extensive gardens in Taos, the flowers in Gladiolus, in full bloom, are arranged in a vase to decorate and enliven a room. But one or two already droop, and several lay outside the vase, on the table. Beautiful, they testify to the fleeting nature of beauty, and of life.