Exhibitor listing
Nikola Rukaj Gallery
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Exhibitor's Artists:
Bailey William
Biography :
Established American painter William Bailey is known as a contemporary realist painter, who works in styles ranging from abstraction to realism and is best known for his still lifes. Unlike other still-life painters, Bailey composes his paintings on the canvas from his imagination, adjusting the light source and relative scale of each object as he paints.
Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Bailey had a youthful vocation for drawing that led him to study with Josef Albers at Yale University. There he made friends with artists such as Willem De Kooning and Jackson Pollock.
William Bailey’s work can be seen in a host of public and private collections, most notably the Smitshsonian American Art Museum, Washington; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; The Art Institute of Chicago; Stadtisches Surmondt-Ludwig-Museum, Aachen, Germany; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; The Phillips Collection, Washington; The New York Times, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Yale University Art Gallery. His work is currently on display at the Betty Cunningham Gallery, located at 541 West 25 Street, New York, NY.
Bailey is the subject of two monographs, one by Mark Strand and the other by John Hollander and Guiliano Briganti. He won a Guggenheim Fellowship and was elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters. Mr. Bailey has taught at Yale University and Indiana University, and later served as Dean of the Yale School of Art, where he currently teaches painting and drawing.
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Delaunay Sonia
Biography :
SONIA DELAUNAY (nėe TERK) was born November 14, 1885. She was a Russian-born, Jewish-French artist who, with her husband Robert Delaunay and others, cofounded the Orphism art movement, noted for its use of strong colours and geometric shapes. Her work extends to painting, textile design and stage set design. She was the first living female artist to have a retrospective exhibition at the Louvre in 1964, and in 1975 was named an officer of the French Legion of Honor.
Born Sarah Ilinitchna Stern, she was probably born in Gradizhske, then in the Russian Empire, today in Poltava Oblast in the Ukraine. At a young age she moved to St. Petersburg, where her mother’s brother, Henri Terk, an affluent Jewish lawyer, and his wife Anna adopted her. She assumed the name Sonia Terk and received a privileged upbringing. She spent summers in Finland and traveled widely in Europe. She attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe, Germany until 1905.
At the age of 20, she enrolled at the Académie de la Palette in Montparnasse. In Paris she continued to study, work, and live for the rest of her life. She married Robert Delaunay in 1910 and worked with him to create a new form of Cubism (Orphism). The Delaunays' friend, the poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire, coined the term Orphism to describe the Delaunays' version of cubism in 1913, which used bright colours, and a feeling of rhythm to produce a unique and new world of expression.
During the war years they lived in Spain until their return to Paris in 1921. In 1923, for the staging of Tristan Tzara’s play Le Cœur à Gaz, she designed the set and costumes. In 1924 she opened a fashion studio together with Jacques Heim. Over these years she developed her wide-ranging talents in the design of theatrical costume, set design, interiors, textiles, book covers, and fashion, remaining active in these areas for over half a century.
In 1966 she published Rythmes-Couleurs (color-rhythms), with 11 of her gouaches r
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Dubuffet Jean
Biography :
JEAN DUBUFFET was born on July 31, 1901, in Le Havre, France. He attended art classes in his youth and in 1918 moved to Paris to study at the Académie Julian, which he left after six months. During this time, Dubuffet met Raoul Dufy, Max Jacob, Fernand Léger, and Suzanne Valadon and became fascinated with Hans Prinzhorn's book on psychopathic art. He traveled to Italy in 1923 and South America in 1924. Then Dubuffet gave up painting for about ten years, working as an industrial draftsman and later in the family wine business. He committed himself to becoming an artist in 1942.
Dubuffet's first solo exhibition was held at the Galerie René Drouin, Paris, in 1944; the Pierre Matisse Gallery gave him his first solo show in New York in 1947. During the 1940s, the artist associated with André Breton, Georges Limbour, Jean Paulhan, and Charles Ratton, and his style and subject matter owed a debt to Paul Klee. From 1945, he collected Art Brut, spontaneous, direct works by untutored individuals, such as the mentally ill and children. He additionally founded the organization Compagnie de l'Art Brut (1948–51) together with writers, critics, and dealers from Dada and Surrealist circles. For the first public Art Brut exhibition at Galerie René Drouin in 1949, Dubuffet published a manifesto in which he proclaimed the style's superiority over officially recognized art.
From 1951 to 1952, Dubuffet lived in New York. He then returned to Paris, where a retrospective of his work took place at the Cercle Volney in 1954. His first museum retrospective occurred in 1957 at the Schloß Morsbroich (now Museum Morsbroich), Leverkusen, West Germany. Dubuffet exhibitions were subsequently held at the Musée des arts décoratifs, Paris (1960–61); Museum of Modern Art, New York, and Art Institute of Chicago (1962); Palazzo Grassi, Venice (1964); Tate Gallery, London, and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1966); and Guggenheim Museum (1966–67).
A collection of Dubuffet's writings,
Also exhibited by:
Contessa Gallery,
Antoine Helwaser Gallery,
Rosenbaum Contemporary,
Dzubas Friedel
Biography :
FRIEDEL DZUBAS was born in Berlin in 1915. He left Germany in 1939, moving to Chicago, where he found work as an illustrator. By the late 40’s, he settled in New York City and became associated with some of the leading young painters of the time. Jackson Pollock was his close friend, and he shared a studio with Helen Frankenthaler.
He had his first show at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in 1952. Several years later, the critic Stuart Preston, writing in the New York Times, admired his “airy explosions of shape and color,” which could bring to mind storms and sea swirls. By the late 50’s and early 60’s, his art could also be described as “ a sort of delightful rococo postscripts to the baroque thunder of Abstract Expressionism,” as the critic Brian O’Doherty put it in The Times.
During the mid-60’s Mr. Dzubas painted hard-edged blocks of color. But he soon returned to a more expressive and improvisational manner that sought to bridge the contemporary concerns of American abstraction with his European past. He especially admired the Romantics, and his art was sometimes linked in spirit to the German Romanticism.
Friedel Dzubas died in New York in 1994 at age 79.
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Francis Sam
Biography :
SAM FRANCIS was born Samuel Lewis Francis on June 25, 1923, in San Mateo, California. He began painting in 1944 after being diagnosed with spinal tuberculosis, resulting from a U.S. Army Air Corps accident. In 1947 he studied privately with painter David Park, and soon gave up his intended medical studies, earning a BA in 1949 and an MA in 1950 at the University of California, Berkeley.
He experimented with the dominant and emerging styles of the late 1940s, particularly Abstract Expressionism and Surrealism, eventually developing a personal style of abstraction focused on dripping, cell-like forms, an allover instability, and sensitivity to color and light, as in Opposites (1950). In 1950 Francis moved to Paris and attended the Atelier Fernand Léger, where he was exposed to the work of Pierre Bonnard and Henri Matisse, which reinvigorated his interest in light and vibrant color, visible in his 1953 painting Big Red. Producing such work led to his association with Art Informel, although Francis never fully associated with any movement. A visit to Japan in 1957 coincided with an opening up of expanses of white space in much of his work, and his subsequent move to a larger studio in Paris resulted in the production of large-scale paintings and mural commissions, including a 1959 painting for the Chase Manhattan Bank, New York.
Francis returned to California in 1962 and resumed painting with combinations of bright colors. Clement Greenberg's landmark exhibition Post Painterly Abstraction (1964) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which focused on paintings emphasizing color over gesture, included works by Francis. In the late 1960s, however, color increasingly vanished from his canvases. In 1973 he formed a lithography production company, which published his own prints. Over the next decades, Francis's style in painting and print production evolved from the depiction of bright, centrally placed shapes evocative of Tibetan mandalas (influenced by Jungian psy
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Osborne Samuel,
Rosenbaum Contemporary,
Arcature Fine Art,
Scott White Contemporary Art,
Hollis Taggart Galleries,
Gallery Valentine,
Giacometti Alberto
Biography :
ALBERTO GIACOMETTI was born October 10, 1901, in Borgonovo, Switzerland, and grew up in the nearby town of Stampa. His father, Giovanni, was a Post-Impressionist painter. From 1919 to 1920, he studied painting at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and sculpture and drawing at the Ecole des Arts et Métiers in Geneva. In 1920, he traveled to Italy, where he was impressed by the works of Alexander Archipenko and Paul Cézanne at the Venice Biennale. He was also deeply affected by African and Egyptian art and by the masterpieces of Giotto and Tintoretto. In 1922, Giacometti settled in Paris, making frequent visits to Stampa, and occasionally attended Antoine Bourdelle’s sculpture classes.
In 1927, the artist moved into a studio with his brother, Diego, his lifelong companion and assistant, and exhibited his sculpture for the first time at the Salon des Tuileries, Paris. His first show in Switzerland, shared with his father, was held at the Galerie Aktuaryus, Zurich, in 1927. The following year, Giacometti met André Masson, and by 1930 he was a participant in the Surrealist circle until 1934. His first solo show took place in 1932 at the Galerie Pierre Colle, Paris. In 1934, his first American solo exhibition opened at the Julien Levy Gallery, New York. During the early 1940s, he became friends with Simone de Beauvoir, Pablo Picasso, and Jean-Paul Sartre. From 1942, Giacometti lived in Geneva, where he associated with the publisher Albert Skira.
He returned to Paris in 1946. In 1948, he was given a solo show at the Pierre Matisse Gallery, New York. The artist’s friendship with Samuel Beckett began around 1951. In 1955, he was honored with retrospectives at the Arts Council Gallery, London, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. He received the Sculpture Prize at the 1961 Carnegie International in Pittsburgh and the Grand Prize for Sculpture at the 1962 Venice Biennale, where he was given his own exhibition area. In 1965, Giacometti exhibitions were organized b
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Hofmann Hans
Biography :
HANS HOFMANN was a German-American, born in Weissenberg, Bavaria on March 21, 1880 and died in New York on February 17, 1966 at age 85.
Hans Hofmann was enormously influential as both a teacher and a painter. He is often cited as one of the key figures of Abstract Expressionism. He always maintained that his paintings were all about painting as a medium and as such each brushstroke, line, colour and so on was loaded with meaning and purpose.
Hofmann was raised in Munich where he studied at various art schools. From 1904 to 1914 he lived in Paris where he met many of the leading figures of Fauvism, Cubism and Orphism (a movement similar to Cubism practised by Robert Delaunay and others). In 1915 he set up an art school in Munich and went on to teach there for 17 years. Two years after emigrating to the US, he established the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts in New York in 1934. Then a year later began a summer school at Provincetown, Massachusetts.
In 1958 after gaining a huge reputation as a teacher, he took up abstract painting full-time. He worked in many different styles but is best known as the pioneer of drip painting more popularly associated with Jackson Pollock. Later his paintings were to feature large rectangular blocks of solid colour on a fragmented background.
"Depth in a pictorial plastic sense is not created by the arrangement of objects one after another toward a vanishing point, in the sense of Renaissance perspective, but on the contrary by the creation of forces in the sense of push and pull." Hans Hofmann.
Also exhibited by:
Hollis Taggart Galleries,
Jerald Melberg Gallery,
Antoine Helwaser Gallery,
Yares Art Projects,
KM Fine Arts - Chicago | LA,
Jensen Alfred Julio
Biography :
ALFRED JENSEN was an American painter and printmaker, born in Guatemala December 11, 1903. Of Polish, German and Danish heritage, he started school in Denmark and completed high school in San Diego, CA, after working as a seaman and as a farmer in Guatemala. He eventually decided to train as a painter, studying at the San Diego Fine Arts School in 1925 and with Hans Hofmann in Munich in 1926–7. He settled permanently in the USA only in 1934. The patronage of Saidie Alder May (d 1951), a wealthy woman whom he met in 1927 as a fellow student of Hofmann, made it possible for him to dedicate himself to the study of colour theory (especially that of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), Mayan and Inca cultures, science, mathematics and philosophy. Much of this knowledge was later transposed into complex, diagrammatic pictures such as Family Portrait (1958) and The Great Mystery II (1960; both Buffalo, NY, Albright–Knox A.G.), which are characterized by grid structures of tiny squares in bright opaque colours. Although there is sometimes a superficial resemblance between works by Jensen and the use of particular motifs by other artists—for example the colour circles of Robert Delaunay and Sonia Delaunay or the numbers of Jasper Johns—his purpose in using such forms and symbols was highly personal, bordering on the metaphysical. The complexity of the relationships of colour was paralleled by mathematical sequences which reflected Jensen’s interest in magical numerical systems. In works of the 1970s, such as Doric Order (1972; Pittsburgh, PA, Carnegie), he returned to the use of repeated signs, letters and especially numbers, which he had first used around 1960. Jensen died in Livingston, New Jersey on April 4, 1981.
Artist's Documents:
Jensen, Alfred Julio biography
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Marca-Relli Conrad
Biography :
CONRAD MARCA-RELLI was born Corrado Marcarelli on June 5, 1913 in Boston, Massachusetts and died on August 29, 2000 in Parma, Italy at age 87.
Marca-Relli was known for his Cubist and Abstract Expressionist style of collages as well as paintings. He lived for most of his professional life in New York City but was an inveterate and enthusiastic world traveler. Because his father was a news commentator and journalist, he made many trips to Europe as a child. He began to draw at an early age and his parents encouraged him to the extent that he received his first art lessons in Italy. Upon returning to New York City, he completed his education at night in order to devote more time to painting.
In 1926, he settled in New York City where he studied at various schools including Cooper Union. From 1935 to 1938, he was a WPA artist with the Federal Art Project which gave him the time to devote his energy to developing and experimenting with his art. It also brought him into contact with other New York artists such as Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, and Franz Kline. After his service in World War II, he returned to Europe to paint. These paintings were later exhibited in New York City at the Niveau Gallery.
Returning to New York, he continued with a style of controlled sharp edged shapes. On a trip to Mexico in 1953, he was impressed by the contrasts between the white adobe buildings and the black shadows from the luminous sun. Marca-Relli was completely consumed by this sight and, according to his mythology, when he ran out of paint, he began gluing material and paper in order to achieve a greater incisiveness of the borders. He immediately found that collage provided the density and texture he sought. These early collages were created from segments of either raw canvas or natural linen, cut out with razor blades. They were pinned to the supporting canvas after being coated with a mixture of paint and glue. Soon he introduced volumes of color to his work. In 195
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Hollis Taggart Galleries,
Martin Agnes
Biography :
AGNES MARTIN was born in 1912 in Maklin, Saskatchewan, Canada, and grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia. She came to the United States in 1932 and lived in Washington and Oregon until 1940. Martin studied at Western Washington State College, Bellingham, and the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. She received her BS and MA from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York and taught at public schools in Washington, Delaware, and New Mexico during the late 1930s and the 1940s, at the University of New Mexico in the late 1940s, and at Eastern Oregon College, La Grande, in 1952–53. She became a United States citizen in 1950.
Martin lived and taught periodically in New York in the 1940s and early 1950s. In 1957, she settled in Coenties Slip in lower Manhattan, where her friends and neighbors included Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, and Jack Youngerman. In 1958, her first solo show took place at Section Eleven of the Betty Parsons Gallery, New York. By the late 1950s, Martin’s landscape and figurative watercolors, surrealistic oils, and three-dimensional sculptural objects were supplanted by her highly simplified abstractions. These mature works—distinguished by square formats, grids, lines drawn on canvas, and monochromatic color with subtle variations in hue—have been an important influence for younger artists. In 1966, her work was included in the exhibition Systemic Painting at the Solomon R. Guggenheim as representative of the Minimalist art current in New York.
After Martin left New York and moved to Cuba, New Mexico, in 1967, she did not paint for seven years. However, she returned to painting in 1974 and produced a number of works in which she replaced neutral tones with brighter color. After 1973, she exhibited regularly and major traveling exhibitions of her work have been organized by the Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Philadelphia (1973), Hayward Gallery in London (1977), Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam (1991), Whitney
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Perehudoff William
Biography :
WILLIAM PEREHUDOFF was born in 1918 in Langham, Saskatchewan and is one of Canada’s foremost modernist painters. With a career that has spanned six decades he is known primarily as a colorist and part of the Colour Field movement. His representation of space has often been influenced by the expanse of Canada’s prairies.
Perehudoff’s early interest in muralists like Diego Rivera took him to the Colorado Springs Fine Art Center to study with the eminent French muralist, Jean Charlot in 1949. In New York he studied with Amédée Ozenfant, one of the co-founders with Le Corbusier of Purism, an offshoot of Cubism.
In the early 60’s, Perehudoff’s direction turned to pure abstraction and he attended a variety of Emma Lake Artists’ Workshops including those led by New York critic, Clement Greenberg and artist Kenneth Noland.
William Perehudoff has exhibited internationally and his work is found in numerous public collections. He curently lives in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
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Ross Eberhard
Biography :
EBERHARD ROSS explores what he calls "Organic Geometries" ; the dynamic subtleties, structures and patterns found in nature.
Inspired by Eastern philosophy and scientific investigation, he has developed a keen sense of observation. His work is soothing, minimal, meticulously rendered and nuanced.
Capturing a moment in time, like the flight maneuvers of flocking birds, he creates a meaningful and poetic balance between flashes of randomness and order.
BORN in 1959 in Krefeld, Germany
STUDIES
University Essen (Folkwang School) with Laszlo Lakner, Frederick Gräsel
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1999 "Force Field", Zeche Zollverein, Essen
1999 "Stille Zeichen"
2001 RWW, Mülheim an der Ruhr
2002 "Gerade.Ungerade" Renate Moltrecht Gallery, Essen
2003 "Memory", Renate Moltrecht Gallery, Essen
2005 "Art in the Rotunda," GEA head office in Bochum
2005 Villa Brandenburg, Ralf Schmitz Collection, Kempen
2006 "Organic Geometry", Art Museum Old Post Office, Mülheim an der Ruhr (painting)
2006 "Organic Geometry", City Gallery Strünkede Castle, Herne (drawing)
2006 "Organic Geometry", GAM Obrist Gallery at the Museum Folkwang,
2007 "Organic Geometries", The Study Gallery, Poole, Bournemouth, UK
2007 "Organic Geometry", City Gallery Brunsbüttel
2007 Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Physiology, Dortmund
2008 "Biosphere 1", Cora Hölzl Gallery, Düsseldorf
2009 "Source", GAM Obrist Gallery at the Museum Folkwang,
2010 "Between Space", Four Square Fine Arts, Redchurch Gallery London, UK
2010 "Organic Geometry 2", Museum Kalkar
2010 "Organic Geometries", Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto, Canada
ART FAIRS
"Art in London," Four Square Fine Arts, Lewes, UK
"Toronto International Art Fair", Nikola Rukaj Gallery Toronto, Canada
"Arts in Zurich," Upstairs Gallery at Museum Folkwang, Germany
"London Art Fair", Four Square Fine Arts, Lewes, UK
"Glasgow Art Fair", Four Square Fine Arts, Lewes, UK
"Art KARLSRUHE" GAM Obrist Gallery at Museum Folkwan
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Schapiro Miriam
Biography :
Earth, 1959 Earth, 1959
Lamb with Figures, 1961 Lamb with Figures, 1961
MIRIAM SCHAPIRO, painter “femmagist”, sculptor, printmaker, was born in Toronto, Canada in 1923 and lived and worked in New York and California. She received her BA in 1945, MA in 1946 and MFA in 1949 at the University of Iowa in Iowa City. She is a renowned artist and teacher, the recipient of six honorary doctorates, and has been the subject of numerous doctoral and masters degree dissertations. She is known as a leader in two art movements: the “Feminist Art Movement” and “Pattern and Decoration.”
She has received many honors and awards including The National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, the Ford Foundation Grant, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, the Skowhegan Medal for Collage and the Rockefeller Foundation Grant for Artist’s Residency at the Bellagio Study and Conference Center in Italy. Ms. Schapiro has been honored by the National Association of Schools of Art, and the National Women’s Caucus for Art. She was awarded a Lifetime Achievement Award from the College Art Association and the Harrison-Hooks Artist Lifetime Achievement Award from the Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland Florida. The Miriam Schapiro Archives for Women Artists at Rutgers University was established in January 2006. In March 2006, Ms. Schapiro was awarded The Elan Award from the Women’s Studio Center, New York.
Her work appears in numerous museum collections in the United States, Europe, Australia and Israel including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC; The Museum of Modern Art, NYC; The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC; The Brooklyn Museum, NYC; The Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC; The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; The National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC; The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; The Orlando Museum, Orlando FL; The Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, CA
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Schatzberg Jerry
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JERRY SCHATZBERG was born In the Bronx, New York in 1927. He attended the University of Miami. His started his career as a freelance fashion photographer as assistant to Bill Helburn (1954-1956). He was published in magazines such as Vogue, McCalls, Esquire, Glamour, Town and Country, and Life in the 1960's.
His debut as a film director began in 1970 with “Puzzle of a Downfall Child”. Starring Faye Dunaway, the film centers on the world he knew best, fashion photography, and the woman who was closest to him. With it’s fractured narrative, complex sound-track and unconventional shots, the film reflected his daring, Manhattan-based, international style.
He scored with his the gripping “The Panic in Needle Park”(1971), a bleak study of heroin addiction starring Al Pacino. Pacino costarred with Gene Hackman in his next film, “Scarecrow” (1973) which won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival. Marking the end of an era in the history of film, with the rise of the blockbuster and the fall of introspective narrative, his critical following shifted with 1979’s “Seduction of Joe Tynan”. He received international success with 1989’s “Reunion”.
Schatzberg’s photography and cinematic world share a continuity. His work shows a sensitivity to vulnerable characters. It was his portrait photography that taught him how to deal with actors. He engaged openly with people to get beyond the surface, to see and capture thoughtful and emotional gestures. His great portraits of the sixties.. Bob Dylan, Francis Coppola, Andy Warhol, Arlo Guthrie, Roman Polanski, Fidel Castro, Milos Forman, Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa, The Rolling Stones and many more.. reveal many strikingly candid moments.
In more than forty years of photography and cinema, Schatzberg has achieved a delicate balance between classic mise-en-scene and spontaneity, tension-building and release. He has a particular gift of avoiding the obvious through the
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Specializing in Contemporary and Modern Fine Art, North American and European.
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Rukaj Nikola
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Featuring exhibitions of fine art paintings, works on paper, master prints and sculpture. Advisory to collectors who wish to sell or consign works of art or estates. Established in 1984. Member of the Art Dealers Association of Canada.
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