UP FOR BID IS A SIGNED   DAVID BREGA   ORIGINAL OIL PAINTING ON 1/2 INCH THICK HEAVY MASONITE 36 X 24 INCHES.  THE PAINTING IS OF SINGER DENNIS DAY, COMEDIAN  RED BUTTONS, AND STRIPPER TEMPEST STORM.  I DID NOT KNOW OF DAVID BREGA BEFORE I BOUGHT THIS PAINTING. I DID RECOGNIZE THE VERY HIGH QUALITY OF THE WORK.  WHEN I SEARCHED FOR THE ARTIST I FOUND OUT HE IS  A VERY ACCOMPLISHED AND SUCCESSFUL TROMPE L'OIL ARTIST,EXHIBITING IN MANY FINE GALLERIES. I BELIEVE THIS WAS DONE FOR A VEGAS SHOW. IT IS SIGNED AND DATED '81 IN THE LOWER RIGHT.THERE ARE A FEW MINOR SCUFFS BUT NO DAMAGE .THE PAINT SURFACE IS VERY GOOD.  HERE IS A LITTLE INFO I GOT FROM HIS WEB SITE. THANKS FOR LOOKING, NO RESERVE

Following his years at Paier and further studies at the San Francisco Art Institute and Los Angeles Trade Technical College, David began a seven year stint as a pictorial artist painting larger than life portraits of recording artists and film stars on billboards in California and Nevada.  Highlighting his career as a pictorial artist were two commissioned murals for Caesars Palace, each 80 feet high by 45 feet wide of Frank Sinatra commemorating the singer’s 64th birthday and 40th year in show business.

 

In 1986 David received his first real break, a solo show on Madison Avenue in New York City at Alexander Gallery.  This exhibition “David Brega, Trompe l’oeil: The Provocative Language of Illusion” sold out within minutes of its opening catapulting David into major private and corporate collections including that of Richard Manoogian, considered one of the world’s preeminent collectors of American Art.