Apr 18, 2019 | All Articles
Red Flowers in Glass Vase – by Andre de Monte – MacDonald Gallery SOLDMacDonald Gallery presents fine art by various artists and is always in search of high quality paintings for the collector/investor. Coming up are two very special paintings. One of...
Mar 12, 2019 | All Articles, Amedeo Modigliani, Ooh La La! French Culture
Without going into too much detail, while living in Paris I sometimes felt like I was living the Modigliani life…I painted this painting in 2002 after seeing the original at the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium.
Mar 11, 2019 | All Articles, Claude Monet, Robert Paintings
Monet is such an inspiration for an artist. With that, this painting stems from one of the paintings of his famous water lilies. I am currently accepting offers for this painting on eBay. Monet is such an inspiration for an artist. With that, this painting stems from...
Aug 17, 2016 | All Articles, Investing in Art
MacDonald Gallery is introducing a new concept to appreciating, collecting and especially investing in art – An Art Investment Guarantee. The art market can be very daunting, especially for entry-level art collectors. That is why I wanted to take away...
Apr 14, 2015 | Voyage Van Gogh, All Articles
The most significant, as far as producing paintings go, in Van Gogh’s career: Arles, Saint Remey and Auver sur-Oise are among my favorites! When I found out that Van Gogh went to Arles in southern France in February 1888 to fulfill his dream of an Artist’s colony.!...
Nov 23, 2014 | All Articles, Peace In The Valley
PEACE IN THE VALLEY Peace In The Valley, is the cover of Willie Nelson’s album of the same title. The painting is a 6’ x 6’ allegorical depiction of the classic gospel song as recorded by Willie Nelson. For more on the cover painting see: Willie Nelson –...
Nov 23, 2011 | All Articles, Pasaje Picasso, Portraits
I wanted to walk in Picasso’s footsteps (Pasaje Picasso) and needed to learn Spanish better first so that I could get off the tourist path. I spent a year before my first trip to Spain studying Spanish in Latin America. One country I studied in was Ecuador...
Nov 23, 2011 | All Articles, Portraits, Voyage Van Gogh
Painted after Van Gogh. Portrait of Dr. Gachet. Dr. Gachet watched over Van Gogh in Auvers-sur-Oise. Van Gogh painted two versions. In 1990, the other version sold for $82.5 million. I sold this painting for a much, much, smaller fortune. Ironically, I still got...
Nov 23, 2011 | All Articles, Peace In The Valley
Even though the painting has intentional symbolic representations varying in degrees of disclosure, one was quite unintentional – at least by the artist. Being unsatisfied with the way Willie‘s shirt looked in the area shown in the enlarged box (left), MacDonald...
Nov 19, 2011 | All Articles, Flowers
This is one of my favorite paintings. I painted it in about 10 minutes. I have paintings that I have spent days, even weeks or more on, then absolutely hated them….
