Park West Re-Launches Picasso Website

Website features expanded information and imagery of the 347 Series, La Celestine, and Suite Vollard artwork

PARK WEST GALLERY is pleased to announce the re-launch of its Pablo Picasso Website. The site includes expanded information about Picasso's 347 Series and the La Celestine images. Additionally, more imagery of Picasso's 347 Series and Suite Vollard has been posted.

The 347 Series is a compilation of 347 etchings, engraving and drypoints and represents one of the last great collections of Picasso graphic works. The entire series was created in only seven months (from March 16 - October 5, 1968) and was part of Picasso's historic battle against the wave of conceptual and theoretical "art" that was the rage in avant-garde circles in the late 1960’s.

Sixty-six of the 347 images were created for a small folio called Tales of Celestine, which explored Picasso’s fascination with the character of Celestina from the Tragicomedia de Calisto y Melibea (Book of Calisto and Melibea and the Old Whore Celestina), a novel published in 1499 by Fernando de Rojas.

Suite Vollard is 100 etchings created by Picasso between 1930 and 1937 and was one of Ambroise Vollard's most impressive undertakings. Ambroise Vollard, while relatively unknown in his day, has come to be recognized as one of the greatest art dealers and publishers of the 20th century. Over the years, history has vindicated Vollard's artistic instinct and his championship of once controversial painters, including Cézanne, Renoir, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Rousseau, Rouault, and Picasso.

Visit picasso.parkwestgallery.com to view Park West's latest updates and learn more about Master Artist Pablo Picasso.

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Picasso once asked, “Who sees the human face correctly: the photographer, the mirror, or the painter?” What do you think and why? Share your ideas here!

Related Links:

• View Picasso artwork selections from the Park West Gallery collection sales.parkwestgallery.com



• Visit the Park West Gallery - Rembrandt van Rijn website http://rembrandt.parkwestgallery.com/



• Visit the Park West Gallery - Salvador Dali website dali.parkwestgallery.com

Looking forward to joining Park West at sea...

Dear Park West Gallery,

Recently received my Bellet purchases. I couldn't be happier!!!!!!!! Gave me the incentive to rearrange my furniture and re-hang (even give away) stuff I've collected over the years along the gulf coast to free up prime wall space.

Thanks to Kathy and Al, I learned so much. Attending seminars and auctions was the major activity of the day for me, whether mornings, afternoons or evenings. Kathy knows how to keep the attendees interested and as the cruise continued quite a crowd collected to hear her. This was an experience I am not likely to forget.

Looking forward to my next Art cruise,

Arthur S.
Pensacola, FL

World Environment Day 2009

Happy World Environment Day! What are you doing to be green?

Green Landscape by Holland Berkley

The United Nations created World Environment Day to:

Give a human face to environmental issues

Empower people to become active agents of sustainable and equitable development

Promote an understanding that communities are pivotal to changing attitudes towards environmental issues

Advocate partnership which will ensure all nations and peoples enjoy a safer and more prosperous future

Park West Artist Romero Britto Receives Humanitarian Award

On Saturday, May 30 the American Heart Association held its annual Heart and Stroke Ball for 200 people at the Eden Roc hotel in Miami Beach. The organization surpassed its fund-raising goal of $250,000 before the event even started, despite having fewer corporate sponsors than in years past.

In addition to cocktail hour, dinner, entertainment and a live auction, the American Heart Association’s inaugural Big Heart Humanitarian Awards were presented. Awards were given for contributions to the fields of music, the arts, journalism, business and goodwill, with Romero Britto receiving an award for his contribution to the arts.

Read the Full Article

Learn More about Romero Britto

View Romero Britto Artwork

CNN Video: Peter Max, Painting Through the Recession

Artist Peter Max explains how creativity can be a great tool during economic difficulties.

Watch the Video

Park West Gallery Twitter Contest: Art Book Giveaway

Park West Gallery is giving away a FREE Hardcover Art Book to one of our Twitter Followers!! Our last Twitter contest was so successful, we've decided to do it again! Here's how you can join in on the fun...

Prize Details and Contest Rules

THE PRIZE:

Agam The Elysee Salon

In 1968, Yaacov Agam, world famous pioneer of the Kinetic Art movement, designed an antechamber to mark the entrance to the private apartments in the East Wing of the Elysee Palace in Paris. His chamber now stands as an integral and permanent part of the Centre Pompidou. The Elysee Salon, a glossy hardcover book published by editions du Centre Pompidou, contains extracts, interviews and gorgeous color plates of the entire sculpture chamber; a testimony to the vision of Pompidou, the philosophy and creativity of Agam, and the commission, politics, installation, and reinstallation of the Salon that took place over a thirty-two year period from 1968 to 2000. Most recently, Agam completed work on a sculpture gracing the entrance to a new stadium built in Kaohsiung, Taiwan for The World Games 2009.

CONTEST RULES:

1. You must be following Park West Gallery @ParkWestGal on Twitter.




2. Tweet the message below (including the link) on your Twitter feed:
   

Follow Park West Gallery @ParkWestGal and you could win an #ART prize! Details --> http://twurl.nl/udp3fj




3. Each time you tweet the message above it will count as a separate entry -- so the more you tweet, the greater your chance of winning! However, we will only count one entry per hour for each account (we're not trying to spam the twitterverse).




4. One winner will be randomly selected when @ParkWestGal reaches 1,000 followers -- we're already close, so it should be soon!




5. The winner will be announced via Twitter and will be asked to Direct Message @ParkWestGal with their shipping info.

GOOD LUCK and HAPPY TWEETING!

Customer Corner: Thanks Park West Gallery!

I just wanted to thank you for the opportunity to attend our first VIP event. We had such a wonderful time learning about art, talking to the guest artists and their families and meeting fellow art lovers.

The Park West staff, Chris Lindsay, Sam, Rebecca and Daniel (PW ship staff) were great. Chris is so knowledgeable, he is a walking-talking book on art. Please extend our gratitude to everyone involved for all their hard work in planning and executing this event and for making this so memorable for us.

Best Regards,

Alan and Sharon W.

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I just wanted to write and say how much we enjoyed the cruise and the company. We had a great time and really appreciated the invite. Please tell everyone hey for us and how much we enjoyed getting to know everyone. You guys were great and it could not have been better. Thanks again for bringing us along.

Matt & Melody H.
Earlysville, VA

Park West Gallery Art Auctions at Sea Featured on CNBC

Park West Gallery cruise art auctions were featured on CNBC's new documentary "Cruise Inc. Big Money on the High Seas"!

Show Summary: It's the ultimate getaway... an exclusive look inside the $30-billion cruise industry. Correspondent Peter Greenberg spends seven days aboard the Norwegian Pearl, one of the newest in Norwegian Cruise Line's fleet.

The 15-story floating city is a destination of its own. It's a hotel, a shopping mall, a casino and full-service Spa - sailing the oceans of the world.

Park West Auctions: A Great Art Experience

"Dear Park West Gallery:

Recently we were invited to a VIP cruise event aboard Freedom of the Seas. We had an excellent week and very much appreciated the invitation. The Park West personnel were outstanding and very professional in seeing that all their guests had a great art experience (in addition to a very nice vacation week).

Meeting Noah Elias, Tim Yanke, and Marcus Glenn was really a great privilege. Watching Noah and Tim paint was a true honor. Thank you for that experience.

As expected, Royal Caribbean was great and the ship is a real beauty. We had a wonderful time – and are now on diets!

The Park West staff was superb. We can’t say enough. You have excellent people doing the job! Keep up the good work.

Thank you again."

Marla & Spencer
Cicero, Indiana

Park West Foundation - Celebrating a Life and a Cause

Article and Image courtesy of the Detroit Free Press

March 16, 2009

Written by Rochelle Riley

A life’s goal will matter after death

Weusi Olusola lived every day with a sense of purpose.

So it’s no surprise that his funeral will have that same sense of purpose.

On Saturday, Olusola’s family will host a peace march and life celebration to honor the 38-year-old antigun and antigang activist who died Friday of cancer. The march will begin at 11 a.m. at Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Park at West Grand Boulevard near Rosa Parks Boulevard. The celebration will begin at 1 p.m. under tents behind the Joseph Walker Williams Center, 8431 Rosa Parks, where Olusola last played basketball standing, and where, for 20 years, he played wheelchair ball.

Olusola was paralyzed at 16 by bullet wounds from a drive-by shooting that left an 8-year-old girl dead. Ten years later, he cofounded Pioneers for Peace, an organization of shooting survivors who convinced hundreds of kids that a long life legal is better than a short life with guns.

Celebrate a life and cause

In life, Olusola rarely asked for anything. But now his family and friends are asking for him.

“We want every youth, adult, block club, organization, school, fraternity, sorority, musician, high school band, private and government agency, corporation and elected official in southeast Michigan to come to the park, grab T-shirts and march,” said Saba Gebrai, director of the Park West Foundation, which worked with Olusola on several peace efforts.

His family members are asking all of southeast Michigan to come to the march and walk for him. They are asking southeast Michigan to come to the life celebration and sign up to be a Pioneer for Peace for him, offering guidance to young people in a city that saw 344 homicides last year and 8,443 violent crimes in just the first half of 2008.

They are asking youth organizations to set up tables under the tent for him, to explain to young people how they can change their lives.

The 38-year-old activist would want people to come and say good-bye on Saturday. But he also would want them to come to work.

Contact ROCHELLE RILEY at 313-223-4473 or at rriley@freepress.com.

Gift of inspiration

The Rehabilitation Institute of Michigan today announced a donation of $2,000 to the Andrew Olusola Education Fund, created to provide a college education for Weusi Olusola’s 11-year-old son. Other donations may be sent to the Andrew Olusola Education Fund, 29469 Northwestern Highway, Southfield 48034.

“He’s just an inspiration to all of us with all the work he’s done,” Terry Ahwal, the institute’s director of development, said in announcing the donation and an employee drive for the scholarship fund. “I keep thinking of that quote, some people live until they’re 90 years old and live a short life — but he’s going to live forever.”

Donations also can be made to Olusola’s foundation. Send checks to Wheel to S.U.R.V.I.V.E., 29469 Northwestern Highway, Southfield 48034. Click Here for the Full Article

Learn More about the Park West Foundation

Park West Gallery Artist Speaks to Fine Art Magazine

"THE LUCKIEST DAY OF MY LIFE was the day I met Mr. Albert Scaglione. You don't need many art dealers. You need the best. The trick is to find him amongst the others. There are not great artists without great dealers, because, while one is creativity, the other is its revelation;...they can only exist in recognizing each other and working with each other. The triumph of the artist will be that of the dealer, but the artist will never have any limelight or recognition if his dealer doesn't bring it about. The only way for an artist to exist is to be seen by others. The art dealer offers this to him." - LINDA LE KINFF Published in Fine Art Magazine, Spring 2009

Park West Gallery Blog Poll #3: The Results

Thank you to all who participated in Park West Gallery's Blog Poll #3!

Question: If you were renowned as a “master artist”, in which medium would your skills be recognized?

Here are the results:

Oil Painting = 37%

Drawing/Sketching = 20%

Acrylic Painting = 19%

Watercolor Painting = 12%

Sculpture = 12%

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Be sure to vote in this week's poll:

Question: I typically collect artwork from...?

• Art Galleries
• Art Auctions
• Internet Websites
• Flea Markets/Garage Sales
• Art Fairs

Voting ends Tuesday, March 17 at 9am EST

Park West Gallery FREE Giveaway: Twitter Contest #1

Park West Gallery is giving away a FREE PRIZE to one of our Twitter followers!!

Prize Details and Contest Rules are as follows:

THE PRIZE

The winner will receive Linda Le Kinff: The Graphic Work, a 278-page hard cover book featuring a chronology and a beautiful, full-color retrospective of the artist's work. The book also contains a foreword written by Anthony F. Janson, co-author of History of Art - the most widely used textbook on fine art ever written; and a biographical essay contributed by Joseph Jacobs - art historian, author, critic, and former Curator at the Newark Museum.

Visit Linda Le Kinff's website

CONTEST RULES

1. The winner must be following Park West Gallery (@ParkWestGal) on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ParkWestGal
2. The winner must Tweet the following message on their Twitter feed:
   
   Follow Park West Gallery ( @ParkWestGal ) for a chance to win a FREE artist coffee table book! Details --> http://twurl.nl/oqm72z
3. One winner will be randomly selected when @ParkWestGal reaches 500 followers (hopefully this will be sooner than later)!
4. The winner will be announced in an upcoming Blog Post and on Twitter.
5. The winner will be asked to Direct Message @ParkWestGal with their shipping address.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL!!

Park West Gallery in Detroit Free Press: Dick Purtan's Radiothon

Purtan gears up for Radiothon

COMPILED BY B.J. HAMMERSTEIN • DETROIT.METROMIX.COM EDITOR

[Excerpt from The Detroit Free Press, February 27, 2009]

Kicking off at 6 a.m. today and concluding at 10 tonight is Dick Purtan’s 22nd annual Radiothon. It benefits the Salvation Army’s Bed and Bread Club, a program that targets Detroit’s homeless and hungry people through shelters, feeding centers, after-school programs and mobile services.

The “Morning Show with Purtan’s People” host explains that the fund-raiser has raised about $2.3 million over the past two years. When listeners make a contribution of $120 — which can be done in a variety of payment plans — one person will be supplied with meals for a year.

People who contribute $240 (which would feed two people for a year) receive a commemorative art print by Park West Galleries, matted and signed by Dick Purtan, and the 3D animated short “Harrison’s First Day.”

“This is no baloney. Despite the tough economy our community is exceptional and very giving,” Purtan says...Read More

FREE Artwork Offer from Park West Gallery

FREE Seriolithograph : Practice II by Hua Chen

Receive this 9 5/8" x 7" Chen seriolithograph FREE for only $4.95 shipping & handling.

Please call Park West Gallery @ 800.521.9654 x 1290 to take advantage of this special offer.

One per customer / Only $4.95 Shipping & Handling / U.S. residents only / Please allow 6-8 weeks for delivery.

Park West Gallery 2009 SPRING SALE - Jewelry

Park West Gallery

2009 SPRING SALE - Jewelry

Park West Gallery has acquired a wonderful selection of designer watches and fine jewelry, all available for purchase at liquidation prices.

Collect unique pieces from designer names like Alpina Geneve, Bellport, Elini, Olivia, and Roberto Coin.

Peruse jewelry selections from Park West Gallery's Spring Collection

View our Sale Brochure for a complete listing of all sale pieces

Extra! Extra! Park West Gallery Newsletter - January Issue

Attention Park West Gallery Newsletter fans - the January issue is here!

> CLICK HERE TO READ ISSUE 5

> CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE TODAY!

This month's features include:

• Simon Bull Unveils Painting of Muhammad Ali & Obama,
• Peter Max Reveals Obama painting,
• Social Media News - Join Park West Gallery on Flickr & Twitter,
• Victor Spahn Featured in Univers des Arts Magazine,
• You're Invited! Art Meets Tech at Lawrence Tech,
• Park West Gallery Features Fine Jewelry Collection - Perfect for Valentine's Day!

Artist Peter Max Reveals Painting of Barack Obama - Watch the Video Here!

January 15, 2009/ CBS Early Show -- Artist Peter Max revealed his latest painting, featuring 44 portraits of president-elect Barack Obama.

"What is your feeling as an artist as we come up on to this inauguration time and time of change?" asked CBS reporter, Harry Smith.

Max explained, "Unbelievable, unbelievable. You know that night when he was announced being president and the whole country cried, I was in that same place."

>> Read more about artist Peter Max

>> Visit Park West Gallery to inquire about our collection of exclusive Peter Max artwork available for purchase

Thank You Park West Foundation and Park West Gallery

The Park West Foundation was established by Albert and Mitsie Scaglione who maintain a passionate ambition to improve the lives of others through personal giving. Each month, Park West Gallery and the Park West Foundation support many causes, non-profit organizations and foundations. Following are just a handful of the many establishments who recently received contributions from the Park West Foundation.

"Your generosity will enable us to carry on Muhammad's legacy and ideals, promoting respect, hope, and understanding and inspiring adults and children to be as great as they can be." -- Muhammad Ali Center http://www.alicenter.org/

"On behalf of kids fighting cancer and their families, thank you so much!" -- St. Baldrick's Foundation

http://www.stbaldricks.org/

"We are grateful you joined us in the battle against blindness. Together, there is a cure in sight." -- Foundation Fighting Blindness
http://www.blindness.org/

"We'd like to thank you for your most generous contribution. Your gift was a critical part of making the Student Event such a wonderful success." -- ArtServe Michigan http://www.artservemichigan.org/

"We are thrilled that Park West Gallery was able to contribute an auction item to make our 5th annual gala so successful! -- Presbyterian Villages of Michigan http://www.pvm.org/

Park West Gallery Winter Sale Provides the Perfect Escape From "Mall Madness"!

Fine art and jewelry treasures await in a serene and elegant setting

Avoid the long lines and madness of the holiday shopping season. Instead, step into the serene and elegant setting of Park West Gallery and shop for unique gifts at the Winter Sale.

During the sale, more than 700 works will be on display from some of the world's greatest artists including Picasso, Chagall, Dali, Norman Rockwell, Peter Max, Thomas Kinkade, Yaacov Agam and Dominic Pangborn. Customers can find the perfect gift in Park West's outstanding collection, which features paintings, jewelry and even autographed sports memorabilia. In honor of Park West's 40th anniversary, some prices will be reduced by as much as 40 percent.

Park West Gallery is providing extended hours during the holidays from November 28 - December 23. Monday - Wednesday, 10am - 8pm; Thursday - Friday, 10am - 9pm; Saturday - Sunday, 11am - 6pm

View the Park West Gallery Winter Sale collection