Five works: (i) Blakam's stone (watermelon); (ii) Blakam's stone (lemon); (iii) Blakam's stone (orange); (iv) Blakam's stone (pear); (v) Blakam's stone (apple)
2012
Nicolas Party's 'Five works: Blakam's stone' series from 2012 consists of five acrylic paintings on stone, each depicting a different fruit including watermelon, lemon, orange, pear, and apple. The series demonstrates Party's interest in color, form, and the integration of painted imagery with natural stone surfaces.
- Medium
- acrylic on stone
- Location
- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
- Spotted At
- Auction House · PhillipsView on map
🔨 Auction Lot
20th Century & Contemporary Art Day Sale
February 14, 2020
Artists in conversation
Wayne Thiebaud
American · b. 1920
Thiebaud painted bold, colorful still life subjects including fruits and foods with a playful decorative quality and strong graphic forms, closely mirroring Party's vibrant and whimsical approach to depicting fruit as simplified, visually striking objects.
Cézanne Paul
French · b. 1839
Cézanne is renowned for his repeated still life studies of fruits like apples, pears, and oranges, exploring form, color, and composition in ways that directly parallel Party's focused investigation of individual fruits as pure colorful geometric forms.
Tom Wesselmann
American · b. 1931
Wesselmann created bold, flat, intensely colorful still life paintings featuring isolated fruits and food objects with a decorative and playful sensibility that shares Party's graphic simplicity, vivid palette, and celebratory treatment of everyday edible subjects.
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