ORIGINAL OIL BY EDNA HIBEL LITTLE PRINCESS! HUGE BEAUTIFUL OIL FRESCO & GOLD LEAF 45" x 57" Start Price USD 65,000.00 Current Price USD 65,000.00 Time Left - Bid Count 0 Buy It Now Price - Reserve Price - Start Time Sunday, June 29, 2008 End Time Wednesday, July 09, 2008 Location Sarasota, Florida See more about 'ORIGINAL OIL BY EDNA HIBEL LITTLE PRINCESS! HUGE' Description Welcome! Above is the ORIGINAL painting 'LITTLE PRINCESS' with the ARTIST, EDNA HIBEL (b. 1917), beside HER MASTERPIECE AND ENJOYING EVERY MINUTE OF LIFE TO THE FULLEST. I suggest if you are not aware of 'who' Edna Hibel is you should go to hibel.com and see her accomplishments, accolades and the many DIGNITARIES who have honored her in the past, including kings, queens and Presidents from all OVER THE WORLD! She has exhibited in nearly every country in the WORLD and still at 91 years of age, painting daily and LOVING EVERY MINUTE. Below is the link to the hibel website when 'LITTLE PRINCESS' was still available before I bought it directly from the Hibel Corporation a few years ago. If a 'click' doesn't work, please paste it in your brouser window to go to it. http://hibel.com/HIDE/originals.htm This MAGNIFICENT painting done in oil FRESCO and fantastic LAYERED GOLD LEAF IS TRULY AMAZING TO SEE. THE SIZE IS ALSO EQUALLY IMPRESSIVE: Framed 57 INCHES HIGH (ALMOST 6 FOOT) 45 INCHES WIDE CANVAS SIZE 49 INCHES HIGH 37 INCHES WIDE THIS IS ONE VERY VERY LARGE AND IMPORTANT MASTERPIECE BY EDNA HIBEL PAINTED IN 1995 AND LOOKS LIKE IT WAS PAINTED YESTERDAY - FROM A 'SMOKE' FREE HOME AND THE BEST OF TODAY AND TOMORROW WILL CONTINUE TO ESCALATE IN VALUE! I HAVE INCLUDED PICTURES TO ILLUSTRATE HOW WELL ONLY EDNA CAN 'BUILD' UP THE OIL AND GOLD LEAF FOR ADDITIONAL ENJOYMENT OF THE SHADES AND BRIGHTNESS OF THIS BEAUTIFUL PAINTING FROM ANY ANGLE. EDNA IS THE TRUE MASTER! FRESCO IS FANTASTIC WITH EDNA BEHIND THE BRUSH WITH HER LOVE AND COMPASSION EDNA STATES THAT A PAINTING OF HER'S IS 'NEVER' FINISHED UNTIL SHE CAN LOOK AT IT AND SAY 'THAT IS THE BEST I CAN PAINT IT' OBVIOUSLY, 'LITTLE PRINCESS' IS NO EXCEPTION WITH THE PERFECTION IN THIS PAINTING BY OUR BELOVED EDNA HIBEL AND THE PAINTING IS MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN THE PICTURES REFLECT ***************** AMERICA LOVES EDNA HIBEL!!! ********************* I first met Edna in 1883 and my first impression confirmed what I LOVED about her art, because she IS her art. I instantly saw the LOVE and COMPASSION as seen through her paintings and knew at that moment that Edna is PURE LOVE and COMPASSION and paints those into ALL of her PAINTINGS. I have several long stories but won't go into them now. I must say that if I have a bad day, I just go sit and look at her calming and beautiful paintings and in a few minutes, the stress of the day is replaced with a feeling of comfort and relaxation. I get up with a new attitude and ready for the day to improve and it always does. I LOVE our beloved Edna more than I can express in a few words but it is time to give others those cherished times of viewing her painting in their own, on display for themselves and ALL their friends. This painting is on a 'SPECIAL' wall I like to call 'THE GREAT WALL OF EDNA'.  An endearing term for our beloved EDNA HIBEL and her FANTASTIC PAINTINGS and COLLECTIBLES she has designed for decades for US to ENJOY! THANK YOU EDNA!!! *********************** Biography:Edna Hibel, a painter of sentimental pictures of children, has had a more than 60-year career as painter and lithographer and promoter of peace through exhibitions of her artwork.She was born in 1917 in Boston, Massachusetts. Her parents were Abraham and Lena Hibel, and she was raised in the Boston area and educated at Brookline High School where she met her future husband, Theodore Plotkin.She began to paint when she was nine years old and learned watercolor during summers at the shore where her family vacationed in Maine and Hull, Massachusetts. Hibel studied at the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts, from 1935-39, receiving a Sturtevant Traveling Fellowship to Mexico. In Boston, in 1966, she began lithography, continuing in 1970 in Zurich, where she still works every year. She has created lithographic works with up to 32 stones (or colors) on paper, silk, wood veneer and porcelain. The latter pieces are called lithographs on porcelain and result from a complicated process, that she keeps a secret, whereby she transfers stone lithographic color separations onto Bavarian hard paste porcelain. Hibel has created the "Arte Ovale" series and various plaques with this technique. She organized the Edna Hibel Museum of Art, in Jupiter, Florida, to display and promote her work and also created a United Nations stamp, "Mother Earth." In 1995, she was commissioned by the Foundation of the U.S. National Archives to commemorate the 75th anniversary of women receiving the universal right to vote. At the ceremony, Ms. Lucy Baines Johnson referred to Hibel as the "Heart and Conscience of America." In November, 2001, the World Cultural Council based in Mexico City gave her the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts. Hibel's work has been exhibited in museums and galleries in more than 20 countries including Russia, Brazil, China, Costa Rica, and the United States, and under the royal patronage of Count and Countess Bernadotte of Germany, Count Thor Bonde of Sweden, Prince and the late Princess Rainier of Monaco and Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II of England.Pope John Paul II gave her a medal of honor as did the late Belgian King Baudouin. She also received honorary Doctoral degrees including from Eureka College, and Northwood University of Florida, Michigan and Texas. She also has received many humanitarian honors for her charitable efforts for children's and medical charities. Her exhibitions "Golden Bridge" and " Peace Through Wisdom" were efforts to promote peace and cultural understanding between China, the United States, Yugoslavia and Russia, and a television documentary titled "Hibel's Russian Palette" was based on her trips and art shows in Leningrad, now St. Petersburg. In 2001, Edna received a Lifetime Achievement Award from "Women in the Visual Arts," an organization of artists in the South Florida area.Today (2003) from her home and studio in Riviera Beach, Florida, Hibel continues to paint in oil and watercolor and also hand enhances her original stone lithographs, serigraphs and giclee with pastels, oil paint, gold leaf, pencil, ink, conte crayon and charcoal.Source:http://www.hibel.org/aboutartist.htm ********************* Other stuff to mention: There is NO problem with this painting.  The canvas is intact with NO chips, rub marks, etc. It is in EXCELLENT CONDITION! AND DID I MENTION....BEAUTIFUL? As you can tell from the pictures, the frame is also in EXCELLENT condition and to the the beauty of 'LITTLE PRINCESS' *********************** Now for other stuff: NO PAYPAL! Cash, Certified Check, or wire transfer ONLY. Sorry, no exceptions. International bidders MUST use a U.S. bank in U.S. Dollars only. International bidders MUST contact me prior to bidding. NO SHIPPING! LOCAL PICKUP ONLY. Buyer is responsible to arrange packing and shipping, if desired or pick it up in person after funds clear my bank. Sorry, NO exceptions.  Sold 'AS IS', NO REFUNDS OR RETURNS. Powered by eBay Turbo Lister The free listing tool. List your items fast and easy and manage your active items. Place a Bid!