Purchases outside the continental US - please call for shipping rates
New York state residents are charged sales tax
The work(s) of art is/are sold by the Seller and purchased by the buyer upon the following terms and conditions:
1. Except as otherwise provided herein or elsewhere agreed in writing, payment in full is due and payable on the date of the invoice.
2. This is an invoice only. Title to the work(s) of art purchased shall not pass until payment in full has been received.
3. All applicable sales taxes have been charged on this transaction. The payment and remittance of use tax is the Buyer’s obligation. Seller reserves the right to collect out-of-state sales taxes from the buyer after the sale if seller becomes assessed with them.
4. The Buyer’s sole remedy for breach of any implied or express warranty therein shall be an action for rescission and, in any event, the absolute limit of the Seller’s liability and responsibility hereunder shall under no circumstances exceed the total sales price and seller shall not be responsible for any special, incidental, or consequential damages or lost profits.
5. A non-exclusive right to reproduce the work(s) of art is reserved by the Seller.
6. Risk or loss of the work(s) of art purchased shall pass to the Buyer upon delivery by the Seller to the address specified by the Buyer.
7. In accordance with the UCC and the New York Arts and Cultural Affairs Law, Seller guarantees that the work(s) of art purchased is by the named artist. If such work(s) proves not to be of such authorship as described, Seller will accept the return of the work(s) and return the sales price in full.
8. Any disputes arising out of this sale shall be governed by the laws of the State of New York without regard to its choice of law provisions, and shall be submitted to the American Arbitration Association for an arbitration to be held before a single arbitrator in New York City, New York. The prevailing party in such arbitration shall be entitled to its costs and attorneys’ fees in connection with such arbitration proceeding, and the costs of enforcement and collection of any resulting arbitral award.
EXCEPT FOR THE WARRANTY OF AUTHENTICITY SET FORTH ABOVE, NO WARRANTIES OR AGREEMENTS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, HAVE BEEN MADE BY THE SELLER.
Price:
$37,800.00
Shipping:
$1,000.00
Tax:
$0.00
Total:
$0.00
8.87500
Margo Selski
Summer Goddess
Oil on canvas
60 x 42 inches
Signed
Provenance
Margo Selski
Rehs Contemporary Galleries, Inc., New York City
Notes
I began the painting and collaboration with my model of the Summer Goddess in the early spring after a long, frozen Minnesota winter. During solitary morning hikes, I dreamed of the warmth of summer, hope, and abundance. I considered the environmental issues impacting my favorite place, Sleepy Hollow. It is an unspoiled backwoods park on the outskirts of downtown St. Paul.
Being enveloped by the lush green forest and the buzzing insects fed my soul with awe and gratitude. One evening at dusk, I watched a rabbit stretch high on its hind legs, nibbling bits of bark off a sapling soon after a rabbit emerged in my canvas garden. The painting allowed nature into my brick-and-mortar studio, surrounding me with beauty and meaning.
BIOGRAPHY
Twin City-based figurative surrealist painter Margo Selski’s large-scale oil paintings lead her viewers on a little trip down the rabbit hole into an imaginary world that is nuanced, sly, quirky, dark, uncanny and fabular. Rooted in the world of fairy tales, she uses a theatrical troupe: queens, young girls, flora and fauna, predator, and prey. They become the raw materials used to invent and examine the tension between opposites-contemporary and classical, old and new, safe and unsafe and discretion and confession.
Margo collides old world regal design with 21st century concerns with the intention to examine her life through a mirror at a distance. Through excessive accumulation, revisioning and camouflage she freezes the movement of life in a permeable disguise of theatrical fantasy.
Her provocative oil and beeswax paintings have been featured in several solo exhibitions including Plains Art Museum, Hollywood Glass Garage Fine Art Gallery, Richard J Demato Fine Art NY Gallery, the Minneapolis Art Institute International, the University of Minnesota, Illinois Central College, Saint Cloud State University, Augsburg College, Rochester Museum of Arts Center, the Arkell Museum, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Her work has been recognized for its excellence, producing numerous awards and honors and has been collected by various museums including the Plains Art Museum, Tweed Museum, Frederick Weisman Museum, the Contemporary Museum of Art in Colorado, The Clymer Museum of Art, Springfield Museum, Ohio of Art, Wooster Art Museum, Allen County Art Museum and the North Dakota Museum of Art.
She has been featured in a variety of publications including See Yourself X, Human Futures Expanded by Madeline Schwartzman, Alice Inspiration, by Carolina Amell, Fine Art Connoisseur, The New York Times, American Art Collector, The Advocate, ARTNews, Juxtapoz, Arts and Antiques, The Observer, and The Huffington Post.
