Artist: Richard Reiner
Title: Sun, Sky, Sea
Year created: 2020
Medium: Original Oil Painting on Canvas, with brushes and palette knife
Edition: Original Unique Artwork
Height (inches): 48
Width (inches): 48
Depth (inches): 3/4
Signed by the artist
Signed Area: front
The artwork is gallery-stretched and comes ready for display
Description of piece:
Richard Reiner began with a perfectly square canvas, measuring 48” in height x 48” width, to create this serenely uplifting artwork. Owing its calming, meditative color palette to the ocean and sky of Reiner’s native Los Angeles, this dramatically-sized new work on canvas is a classic showpiece, inspired by the artist's walks on the beaches of Southern California. Sun, Sky, Sea was created by Reiner in 2020, using brushes and palette knife to bring his signature dimensionality and rich textural elements to the work.
Sun, Sky, Sea was prominently featured in the season finale of NBC’s This Is Us, which had as a main story plot an art gallery showing an exhibition of Richard Reiner’s paintings. This painting— Sun, Sky, Sea— was hung prominently in the set’s art gallery.
Photos of Reiner’s exhibition from the set of This Is Us are viewable in the images for this auction item.
At once uplifting and soothing, the painting is hand-signed by the artist, front lower right. The artwork is gallery-stretched and comes ready for display.
If so wished by the winning bidder, Richard Reiner will personalize the artwork, adding your favorite quote, line of poetry, song lyric, or other personal inscription on the reverse side, along the surface of the wood stretcher framing.
Artist bio:
Richard Reiner's landscape and abstract paintings are equally masterful: visually moving and often tempestuous, his landscapes reflect his love of the outdoors and nature, and capture both the serenity and power of nature; his abstracts capture that essence, and are emotive of the same power of nature, utilizing color and pattern to express strong feeling and movement.
With Hollywood in his veins, it’s no surprise that Richard’s art has made it to the small screen, appearing on the last seven seasons of the hit CBS show The Mentalist, on the NBC show The Player, several seasons of Showtime's The Affair, and most recently on the last season of This is Us. He credits his family with his exposure to the arts from an early age. After studying and pursuing acting (inspired by his uncle, Carl Reiner), Richard Reiner followed a career as a Hollywood talent agent for 25 years. A dramatic artistic shift led him back to his first great artistic interest: fine art painting.
Studying at an impressive list of schools, Richard Reiner names as some of his influences John Singer Sargent, Richard Schmid, William Turner, Richard Diebenkorn, Edward Hopper, and the Bay Figurative Artists. With galleries in Hawaii and the Hamptons, his credits include 20 exhibitions since he began showing his work in 2008. Richard Reiner's work is held in significant corporate and private collections including those of Carl Reiner, Rob & Michele Reiner, Tim Allen, Jane Goodall, Dan Fogelman, and numerous other Hollywood personages.