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Tjalf Sparnaay's paintings hit the retina like bolts of lightning in a clear blue sky. No other painter confronts us quite so clearly with ordinary objects that we hold dear.

Since 1987, he has been working on his imposing oeuvre, constantly seeking new images that have never been painted before. What he calls Megarealism is part of the contemporary global art movement of Hyperrealism, and Sparnaay is now considered one of the most important painters working in that style.

Prices of the original oils are between 15.000 and 85.000 USDollar

The Limited Edition were introduced to allow the images created by Sparnaay to live on as intensely and broadly as possible. A very limited number of reproductions are available for each Limited Edition.

In an image-saturated era where anything can be reproduced anywhere in unlimited quantities, it has become apparent that rare, unique, powerful images are cherished more deeply than ever before.

Bernarducci.Meisel Gallery, New York
In September of 2000, Frank Bernarducci and Louis K. Meisel opened Bernarducci Meisel Gallery at 37 West 57 Street at 5th Avenue in New York, a long established crossroads of the art world. The focus is the presentation of the finest contemporary realist art including established and emerging artists of the genre. Since the Gallery's inception, our artists have exhibited both nationally and internationally and their work has been included in important museum surveys and featured in solo museum exhibitions. Bernarducci Meisel Gallery also continues to present important historical shows such as early works on paper by Chuck Close, classic paintings by Richard Estes, Ralph Goings, Robert Bechtle and Mel Ramos, artists proven to be influential to the upcoming generation of realist artists. In addition to exhibiting the artists it represents, the Gallery is actively involved in the secondary market of artists important to its history.

Plus One Gallery represents the artist in the UK.
'Plus One Gallery has over the past decade established itself as one of the worlds leading specialists in modern contemporary British and International photorealist and hyperrealist art.'

Sparnaay had a solo show of 9 paintings there in 2009, and his work is also presented at the annual group shows.

Collectie Harms Rolde, The Netherlands, has been presenting his work in the Netherlands since 2006. This art dealership represents wellknown contemporary artists as Sam Drukker, Henk Helmantel, Wim Heldens, Enrice Colar and Willem van Veldhuizen. Along with the Mokum gallery, they offer the very best in realistic painting in the Netherlands. The Collectie Harms Rolde displays artworks every year at De PAN Amsterdam, as well as a number of other art fairs in the Netherlands and abroad.

Galerie Mark Peet Visser, 's Hertogenbosch is een internationaal opererende galerie voor hedendaagse figuratieve kunst en vertegenwoordigt zowel jonge als (internationaal) gerenommeerde kunstenaars in de disciplines; schilderkunst, beeldhouwkunst en fotografie.

De galerie organiseert circa zeven solo-tentoonstellingen per jaar en heeft daarnaast een doorlopende expositie met wisselend recent werk van haar vaste kunstenaars.
Ook zijn zij aanwezig op diverse kunstbeurzen in binnen- en buitenland

The book Exactitude: Hyperrealistic Art Today was published in 2009 in cooperation with Plus One Gallery. This standard reference work, published by Thames & Hudson and written by John Russell Taylor, includes an extensive section on Sparnaay's work, which also features prominently on the cover. Exactitude describes and illustrates the work of fifteen contemporary international hyperrealists and is a worthy successor to the widely acclaimed standard work entitled Photorealism, by Louis K. Meisel, New York.

Boekcover with 'Girl with a Pearl Earring in Plastic',
75 x 60 cm oil/canvast uit 2003)

Sparnaay's work is published in several papers and glossy's