LOYALIST & THE REVOLUTIONARY MAJOR OIL BY OSCAR DE MEJO Start Price USD 22,500.00 Current Price USD 22,500.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, October 26, 2008 End Time Tuesday, November 25, 2008 Location cooperstown, NY See more about 'LOYALIST & THE REVOLUTIONARY MAJOR OIL BY OSCAR DE MEJO' Description   WE ARE PLEASED TO OFFER FOR SALE AN INPORTANT NARRATIVE PAINTING BY NOTED ARTIST OSCAR DE MEJO. THE PAINTING IS TITLED "CHILDREN OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION" OR ALTERNATIVELY "THE LOYALIST AND THE REVOLUTIONARY" DE MEJO WAS AN IMPORTANT ARTIST, AUTHOR AND ILLUSTRATOR OF THE 20TH CENTURY. HE SURELY RANKS WITH GRANDMA MOSES. RALPH FASANELLA AND EARL CUNNINGHAM. THE PAINTING CAME FROM THE ESTATE OF THE ARTISTS WIDOW. THE PAINTING MEASURES 26 BY 36 INCHES AND IS IN PRISTINE CONDITION. SIGNIFICANT EXAMPLES BY DE MEJO HAVE SOLD IN NEW YORK GALLERIES AND PRIVATELY FOR $35,000 AND MORE.   Born in Trieste, Italy in 1911, De Mejo had degrees in both Law and Political Science. A believer in the occult and in particularly the I Ching, he even chose his art dealer, Ken Nahan, according to the I Ching's advice. De Mejo's one constant obsession since boyhood had been painting. After World War II, he married the movie star Alida Valli, and they came to the United States. After a stint as a jazz composer, De Mejo finally returned to his first love - painting. Oscar deMejo's paintings are a mesmerizing mixture of the naive and the sophisticated, the literal and the outlandish. His witty, whimsical depictions of American life are immediately engaging, but upon closer observation their complexity becomes fully apparent, and his unique brand of surrealism is revealed. The myriad irrational and incongruous details that fill his works prod both the conscious and unconscious mind. Oscar de Mejo's works have been featured in such publications as: American Heritage, Architectural Digest, Art Today, Sciences, Harpers, International Economy, Town and Country, MD Magazine, Vogue Magazine, Die Kunst (Germany), Oggi and Graza (Italy), Yale Literary Magazine, Penthouse, Travel & Leisure and the New York Times. The art of Oscar de Mejo is both 'sophisticated and 'primitive'. It is 'primitive' in the sense of being direct, playful, brightly colored and precisely delineated. It is 'sophisticated' in its choice of themes - and the degree to which it is artfully influenced by the 'primitive.' De Mejo learned things about vision and subtle distortion by studying the work of such naive painters as Bombots and Rousseau, just as Tamayo learned how to disembody his peasants by studying Picasso, or Picasso, in turn, had gone to school to the African sorcerers - and with as much right. Place a Bid!