From out of the past art collectors contact the artist to describe the joy Hyacinthe’s work has brought to their family for almost 50 years. Delighted to be able to discover the artist again and to reach her and to learn of the current value of the works they own, many collectors would not think of parting with their “Hyacinthe” and are now able to insure the works and pass them on to their children. Others are downsizing and reluctantly must make their piece available to the art market. Hyacinthe Kuller Baron has maintained a Premiere Portfolio on the outstanding web site absolutearts.com, since 2003 and received 500 to 5,000 visitors a day and over 11,000 viewers in a month. Her works receive even more views on the search engines due to the popularity of this site.
To the artist’s delight she discovers the whereabouts of many of the early paintings she thought lost to her forever. In the past art galleries did not feel it necessary to inform the artist when a sale was made.
1962 - Christopher Street, Greenwich Village, NYC: The first art gallery exhibition of large paintings on the themes of Motherhood and Womanhood by New York City Artist Hyacinthe Kuller-Baron, (a companion of many of the artists of the 50’s and 60’s, Jackson Pollok, Franz Kline, Marcel Duchamp.Wilhelm DeKooning, John Chamberlain, George Segal and so many others, Bob Dylan, Bill Cosby, Joan Baez, Judy Collins.) A young couple admires and purchases an oil painting of a young mother and child. An older sophisticated couple buys a large 4ft by 5ft canvas of three women based on the mythic image of the Three Graces and painted in a modern idiom.
Distributed exclusively by the fine art dealer Herbert A. Starr, expensively framed, Hyacinthe’s original oil paintings find their way to art galleries nationwide - W&J. Sloane, Lord & Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue, NY; Merrill Chase, Chicago; Howard Mann in New Hope, Pa.; Graphic Art Galleries, La Cienega; and Todd Galleries, Beverly Hills, CA and N.J.; and so many others. Art collectors buy most every painting the prolifically inspired young artist creates and exhibits. Expensive for the times but due to an economic boom, a frenzy of art collecting of Hyacinthe’s art and other young living artists begins in earnest.
Today Hyacinthe’s contemporary images of women, and mothers and children stand as icons of modern artistic expression of the beauty of the female spirit. Early paintings from the 60’s are considerably rare as the artist no longer creates originals on these themes and few have ever been re-released to the art market, until now.
True to the tradition of master artists Hyacinthe moved on to produce a diverse body of artistic works that include sculptures, videos, published books and ultimately fashion collections created from the love for fashion that always informed and inspired her art.
Today Hyacinthe’s ICON paintings have increased in value to where the prices might range $350,000 and up. Also a demand for giclees of early original paintings has been created. Often they replace an original that has been sold and are shared with family members. These photographic prints digitally rendered on canvas are touched by the artist’s hand and signed Hyacinthe. These prints are custom created and available in the affordable $3,500 to 7,500 and up price range, a new generation of collectors of ICONIC Images by Hyacinthe has developed.
Ed Baron has stated: “It is not only the value that makes Icons of Hyacinthe’s paintings from the past, or that they were sold at auctions and in galleries, it is the artistic talent, mastery of technique, intrinsic knowledge of the figure, and display of undeniable inspiration and emotion. Perhaps it is the sense of movement in time, capture of moments before or after, the loose brushstrokes and dripping of paint, stark shadows that delineate form and draw the viewer in to complete the figures and to see images derived from their own imaginations that has brought Hyacinthe’s art full circle."
In the future art gallery websites on the Internet will feature ongoing exhibitions of Hyacinthe’s Collector’s Art from the Past as they continue to become available. New collectors will join those from the past: Elizabeth Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Martha Raye, Malcolm Forbes, Maude Adams, Joan Lunden, Jack Benny, Rod McKuen, Fred de Cordova, Joan Crawford, Charles Mingus, Ambassador and Mrs. Bartle Bull, Princess Luciana Pignatelli, John Lennon, Hal Linden, and so many more, private collectors and public institutions.
Art buyers and wholesalers can negotiate the terms of a purchase directly with the Barons or through barongallery.com, absolutearts.com and many other website internet links.
For questions, or just to let the artist know of your experience of her art contact hyacinthe@barongallery.com
View more works by Hyacinthe Kuller-Baron at absolutearts.com http://www.absolutearts.com/hyacinthebaron
IMAGE
Artist: Hyacinthe Kuller-Baron
Title: Mother and Child
ID: 317706
Year Created: 1966
Medium: Oil Painting
Width: 2 feet
Height: 3 feet
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