Description
This is a tiny watercolour painting of a peaceful riverside scene beautifully executed by award winning Brazilian artist Henderson Cisz. This is an early Henderson Cisz painting, he is now known for his oil and acrylic paintings on canvas of cityscapes. This could not be more different. It is a beautifully atmospheric little watercolour painting which is very simple in its appearance but expertly accomplished. The river is completely calm as it meanders away from the viewer around a wooded out cropping with birds flying overhead there is a small riverside cottage in the distance. The picture is framed, mounted and glazed. The frame measures 27 x 22 cm (10.5″ x 8.5″). The painting itself measures 9 x 9 cm (4″ x 4″).
Henderson Cisz Brazilian contemporary.
Henderson Cisz was born in 1960 and grew up in a small village near Maringa, Brazil. Despite showing a huge talent for painting from an early age he went into a banking career, but by the mid 1980’s he realised that painting was more important to him than his current career so in 1986 he decided to come to Europe to study art. London was his first stop and although he has, and continues to, travel extensively he has settled in London where his following is the most passionate. In 2007 he won The Artist of The Year award and The John Solomon Trophy
Excerpt from a newspaper article about this very painting….
“Artist of The Year 2007….The Boy From Brazil.
This week I am featuring a modern art piece by a very fashionable and current artist, who has come half way around the world to create a movement that is paying dividends.
Henderson Cisz was born in 1960 in a village near Maringa in Brazil. He showed a massive amount of talent for drawing and painting from a very early age but being a clever lad, decided that painting in Brazil was not going to be a serious career move, so he worked hard and got himself into the banking sector, maintaining his art as a pure hobby. By the mid 80’s Henderson had worked out that banking was not for him long term and decided to pursue his passion for painting. Having made that initial decision, the next was to leave, not only his banking career, but his native Brazil too, to make his name as an artist in Europe. He left his home for London and his first step in his new career was to paint portraits for tourists on the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue with, because of his ability, an amazing level of success. His portraits became highly sought after, but he quickly realised he was in the wrong location to promote himself as a serious artist. So, he swapped Shaftesbury Avenue for the railings along the Bayswater Road. This turned out to be a defining moment as he started to become a sought-after artist, regularly selling his simple paintings for hundreds of pounds and he even started to develop a following with regular customers coming back to buy anything he produced. His works started to become highly collectible and word spread about this exciting new young “London” artist…His star was on the rise and his prices began to soar.
Over 25 years later he has travelled around the world painting many of Europe’s major cities, has become a world renowned urban scene artist with many of his large acrylic cityscapes selling for many thousands of pounds each, many of his limited edition prints now sell out before they are even released. He has won many awards including Artist of The Year in 2007 and in the same year won the prestigious John Solomon Trophy. He has settled in London and has his own stunning riverside studio in London, his adopted home city.
This beautiful little painting is piece of Henderson Cisz history. It is an early work. A watercolour of a riverside scene presumably from his homeland, Brazil. It only measures 4” x 4” (9 x 9 cm) or 10.5” x 8.5” (27 x 22 cm) in its mounted frame, but it oozes quality. The minimalist nature of the view is striking in its simplicity, which is difficult to achieve in a painting so small and with so few colours used. But one look at it, even to the untrained eye, shouts brilliance.
The painting shows a wide, curving river with woodland to both banks and a small red roofed house surrounded by trees to the rear on one bank away in the distance. A branch of a tree is being swept towards the viewer by the powerful surge of the river as birds fly away to settle for the evening.”
