Vintage Cees Penning Realism Still Life Grapes Grapevine Oil Painting Canvas 29"

Description

Vintage oil on canvas realistic still life painting titled “Grapes” by Cees Penning.

Born in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, Cees Penning is a self-taught photo-realistic painter. Cees (pronounced ""Case"") began drawing and painting when he was in Kindergarten. Initially, his paintings were watercolors. Fascinated by realism, he was first attracted to a career in Graphic Design. He graduated fron the Graphic Academy in Amsterdam in the mid ""60's, and worked as a transparency- retoucher in The Netherlands and Germany until 1974 when he moved to New York.

Once in the United States, he established a successful enterprise in the very precise and demanding field of color transparency-retouching. Twenty years later, in the mid '90's, digital retouching completely started to take over the hand retouching. He decided to leave the retouching business, to take-up oil painting, which medium was completely new for him. He has been creating portraits, nudes, exotic animals, still-life and floral since 2000. A distinctive hallmark of his personal style is his ability to understand so well colors and execute a high degree of contrast between light and dark- a rare skill refined through decades of photo color transparency-retouching.

Condition

Very Good - A couple light dings

Dimensions

23” x 1.5” x 29” / Sans Frame - 18” x 24” (Width x Depth x Height)