Untitled San Francisco Bay Bridge and Cable Cars - California

Year2000

Hand SignedLower Right, Signed in Pencil 

Condition Mint 

Not FramedRolled in Tube 

Purchased fromGallery 2010 

Provenance / HistoryPurchased from gallery 

Story / Additional InfoVery rare 

Certificate of AuthenticityArt Brokerage 

LID151198

Paul Blaine Henrie - United States

Art Brokerage" Paul Blaine Henrie American Artist: b. 1932-1999. Paul Blaine Henrie was an American painter and illustrator who was known for seascapes and coastal scenes. Henrie was born Paul McKinley Henrie in Tampa, Florida. He established himself in 1960 in the artist community of Laguna Beach, California, where he lived in a hillside home with his wife and child. Henrie later moved to Carmel, California. Henrie became known for his watercolors and palette-knife oil paintings of California coastal scenes as well as exotic locales he had visited in Tahiti, Mexico and New Orleans. In works prior to 1961, his signature is "Paul Henrie" or "Blaine". Afterwards, he signed them "Paul Blaine Henrie". Henrie was criticized for "prostituting his undeniable talent" because he readily admitted to sometimes pumping out dozens of paintings only to maintain an expensive lifestyle. Henrie boasted he was the "fastest palette in the west" and could produce several paintings in a day. He was very prolific. Well Priced paintings wanted.