ARTIST: David Delamare (Oregon, British, 1951 - 2016)
NAME: Angel Gazing at Moon
YEAR: 1995
MEDIUM: acrylic on board
CONDITION: Excellent
SIGHT SIZE: 24 x 24 inches / 60 x 60 cm
FRAME SIZE: unframed (In-House framing available)
SIGNATURE: lower right
NOTE: has artist's business card attached to verso
CATEGORY: antique vintage painting
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SKU#: 121364
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BIOGRAPHY:
David Delamare was born in Leicester, but lived most of his life in the United States. He began painting in childhood and never had another job, except a brief stint as a blues guitarist. He lived in the bohemian Hawthorne District of Portland, Oregon with his wife and print publisher Wendy Ice, two rabbits, and a giant tortoise named Pip.David worked in a variety of media including etching, acrylic, and gouache, but in later years painted almost exclusively with oil on canvas. His dream-like paintings have appeared on book and album covers, in television programmes (such as Marsalis on Music) and in numerous films.David Delamare was the artist who created the fabled mermaid painting that hung in the dining room of Buttertoes Restaurant. The mermaid painting for Buttertoes was the first time he painted mermaids. David became fascinated with them, becoming one of the preeminent mermaid artists in the world.David adopted his artist name "Delamare" from his British grandmother's vaudeville stage name "Ida Delameare." He was a prominent and longtime member of the Sunnyside neighborhood, living in an apartment on Hawthorne above the Buttertoes Gift Shop, with his wife Wendy. David was an art student of Jerry Bosco's at Benson High School.David was a life-long artist, and published many illustrative art books, including his last and perhaps best known, Alice in Wonderland, which was co-authored by Carly Simon. David passed away suddenly in 2016 at home one night while playing with his beloved pet rabbits.A great fan of theatre, David was particularly fond of William Shakespeare, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard and Samuel Beckett, and was very pleased to design sets and costume concepts for the American premier of Trevor Nunn's Peter Pan. He was also a passionate film buff, so he enjoyed creating production art for Warner Brother's Animated Pictures and Francis Ford Coppola.