Contemporary Nostalgic Huge Painting New York Neoclassical Statue of Liberty





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1 Fine Contemporary Modern Nostalgic Huge Painting New York Neoclassical Statue of Liberty.

Impress your guests & clients in your home or office with this visually iconic American landmark masterpiece.

Subject the known historical statue of Liberty in New York Harbourwith buildings skyscrapers in the background and shipping barges steaming along, above a mainly clear blue sky day with some white cloud, the background also features a mosiac pattern of heart symbols and letters I along with NY for I Love New York.

Title “New York Historic Statue of Liberty” By Nick Holdsworth.

Signed in the bottom corner by the known listed British artist Nick Holdsworth.

Presented in original contemporary black heavy frame.

A really impressive display size with the frame being 94.5cm wide and 123.5 cm high.

Medium mixed media.

Circa 21st century.

Artist biography Nick Holdsworth is a British contemporary artist, his unique style combines modern artistic methods with nostalgic imagination creativity. He uses both digital manipulation, creative graphics together with hand-painting to produce dramatic telling images. Each of his artworks is focused around a certain graphic, like a known brand logo connected with the subject matter, this results in a unique fusion of the iconic past and future direction. This method adds depth also intelligence with a lasting quality to his contemporary works of art, looking back on Holdsworth passage through iconic participation and creative change. He starts with choosing an online image to intensify, magnify them by taking away defects and altering details via Photoshop's layered approach. Then he separates mixed elements into unrelated different layers, this allows for intense purification.

Nick can also include extra detail sourced from other images, merging them so smoothly through concealing. He pixelates the image and adds his preferred duplicated icon. He masterly refines each layer, making certain that the graphics remain seen and are in harmony. Nick will then add hue colour to each layer, skillfully hand-painting using a tablet, complementing the colours that he will use for the final airbrushed version painting. The final piece is printed monochrome in mosaic form, later then perfected during many hours of his personal hand painting touches , utilising airbrushing, inks, stencils, pens, and brushes to achieve the finished tone with detail.

Before Nick began as an artist in the late 20th century, Nick was known to have co-founded a fashion label Purple Om / Random which was A cult T-shirt brand. The clothing range was sold all over the world in top end stores like Harvey Nichols, Harrods, Libertys, Collette in Paris also Barneys in Tokyo. He also worked on collaborations with Levis Red-Japan, Eliminator-Japan, Block 60-Italy, Griffin Studio-UK and Harvey Nichols. Nick’s unique techniques and style that began to gain interest from the art industry. He soon started to find other ways to express his greatest passion for fashion, music & pop culture via his individual pieces of fine art. His background in design gave him a great advantage along with his digital skills mastery which opened up a world of amazing artistic possibilities. After many years of experimentation, he is now producing breath taking mixed –media pieces.

The Statue of Liberty (Liberty Enlightening the World; French: La Liberté éclairant le monde) is a colossal neoclassical sculpture on Liberty Island in New York Harbor, within New York City. The copper-clad statue, a gift to the United States from the people of France, was designed by French sculptor Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi and its metal framework was built by Gustave Eiffel. The statue was dedicated on October 28, 1886.

The statue is a figure of a classically draped woman, likely inspired by the Roman goddess of liberty Libertas. In a contrapposto pose, she holds a torch above her head with her right hand, and in her left hand carries a tabula ansata inscribed JULY IV MDCCLXXVI (July 4, 1776, in Roman numerals), the date of the U.S. Declaration of Independence. With her left foot she steps on a broken chain and shackle, commemorating the national abolition of slavery following the American Civil War. After its dedication the statue became an icon of freedom and of the United States, being subsequently seen as a symbol of welcome to immigrants arriving by sea.

The idea for the statue was conceived in 1865, when the French historian and abolitionist Édouard de Laboulaye proposed a monument to commemorate the upcoming centennial of U.S. independence (1876), the perseverance of American democracy and the liberation of the nation's slaves. The Franco-Prussian War delayed progress until 1875, when Laboulaye proposed that the people of France finance the statue and the United States provide the site and build the pedestal. Bartholdi completed the head and the torch-bearing arm before the statue was fully designed, and these pieces were exhibited for publicity at international expositions.

The torch-bearing arm was displayed at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia in 1876, and in Madison Square Park in Manhattan from 1876 to 1882. Fundraising proved difficult, especially for the Americans, and by 1885 work on the pedestal was threatened by lack of funds. Publisher Joseph Pulitzer, of the New York World, started a drive for donations to finish the project and attracted more than 120,000 contributors, most of whom gave less than a dollar (equivalent to $34 in 2023). The statue was built in France, shipped overseas in crates, and assembled on the completed pedestal on what was then called Bedloe's Island. The statue's completion was marked by New York's first ticker-tape parade and a dedication ceremony presided over by President Grover Cleveland.

The statue was administered by the United States Lighthouse Board until 1901 and then by the Department of War; since 1933, it has been maintained by the National Park Service as part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument, and is a major tourist attraction. Limited numbers of visitors can access the rim of the pedestal and the interior of the statue's crown from within; public access to the torch has been barred since 1916.

Provenance Artists own label verso & in collection of Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD.

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Condition report.

Offered in fine used condition, the painting surface is in very good order, the frame has general wear, scuffs, stains & minor chips commensurate with usage & age.

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Dimensions in centimetres of the frame

High (123.5 cm)
Wide (94.5 cm)
Depth (6 cm)






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