Patti (Keister) #Cooprider (28 April 1940- 4 January 2020)

Exactly one year ago today, the 62 year old “Winning Team” of Patti & Coop Cooprider became minus one, Metastatic Vulvar Cancer. Patti said “No Grieving!”

Patti in #Erfenbach, #Germany with #DIEGO gracing the #Cooprider Villa walls 1980’s.

In the end, she was still leading by example. If you haven’t seen Patti in the mini-video on her next to last day in hospice bed, it’s an exhilarating testimony of Patti’s unique ability to rise above it with buoyancy and “joie de vivre” , in a spontaneous singing response to Coop’s “I Love You” with Teddy Bear in hand. (Be sure to wait ‘til Patti sings!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVq5VnYo1cs

It’s precious. And, a reminder to all of us. We can find the reserves of joy in the darkest moments. HAPPY NEW YEAR from Coop and Family!

PS: Thank you Stephen Max, DIEGO VOCI PROJECT Producer for helping with the video.

See Coop’s remaining DIEGO Art Collection:https://www.artworkarchive.com/profile/cooprider-family-collection/collection/antonio-diego-voci

#DIEGO’s Clowns and Children

This month in the DIEGO_VOCI NEWSLETTER, Stephen Max, DVP Producer, shares with you his thoughts on #Clowns and #Children, both subjects that Antonio DIEGO Voci never tired of putting to canvas. Here are two that were discovered this August! Click on the Newsletter link below our 2 excellent DIEGO images. There is a BONUS video, too!

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  “The Two Clowns”, Oil on Canvas, #851-309, 80x 60cm, Framed 38.25 x 30.5 in, 1975, Private Collectors Jack and Iremengard Beckett.

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  “Ragazzi A Tavola”, Oil on Canvas, #951-347 80x60cm, Framed 38.5 x 30.5 inc., 1975. Private Collectors Jack and Iremengard Beckett.

Read more and watch the “Children” video by Stephen Max: https://mailchi.mp/00bb428bdeff/children-clowns-children?e=%5BUNIQID%5D

Contact us if you too own a DIEGO #artwork: diegovociproject@gmail.com

See more #CLOWNS here: https://www.pinterest.com/diegovoci/clowns-diegovocitm/

#SALE ON NOW thru 31 AUGUST – #DIEGO_VOCI Paintings

#Women with Bananas”, Oil on Canvas by DIEGO_VOCI, 23.5 x 31.5, Private Collection Dr. Jawdat #Naffouj now in Coop Cooprider’s Family Collection.

#Composition, Oil on Canvas by DIEGO_VOCI, 23.5 x 31.5, in Coop Cooprider’s Family Collection.

#Flowers and #Figure Composition, Oil on Canvas by DIEGO_VOCI, 23.5 x 35.5, Private Collection Dr. Jawdat #Naffouj now in Coop Cooprider’s Family Collection.

View more of #Cooprider’s DIEGO Collection on Sale: https://www.artworkarchive.com/rooms/cooprider-family-collection/db627d

Check out our #GOOGLE MY BUSINESS site: https://posts.gle/5VZiGu

#DIEGO VOCI #ART FOR #SALE through 31 AUGUST!

Take a virtual tour of Coop Cooprider’s Private selection of DIEGO artworks he is letting go, though not easily! Couretsy of Stephen Max, DVP Producer and DIEGO COLLECTOR. Find out #SPECIAL PACKAGE #DEALS and #BOGO Details at link below images.

https://www.artworkarchive.com/rooms/cooprider-family-collection/db627d Thank you!

http://www.diegovociproject.com

40 #DIEGO_VOCI PAINTINGS FOR #SALE THROUGH AUGUST 31st!

#BOGO on #COOPRIDER #DIEGO_PAINTINGS

Contact us: coopriderfamilycollection@gmail.com or call: 858-731-9635

#DIEGO COLLECTOR FOUND IN #CALIFORNIA

3 years ago, we the DIEGO VOCI PROJECT posted an exquisite artwork by Antonio DIEGO Voci asking “Where is it Now?” We heard nothing. So, I (Kami Cooprider) happened to see the Index Card which #Helga_Voci created to track #DIEGO’s sales over the years, shown below the true color image here: “Arlequin sur la Plage” by #DIEGO

“Arlequin sur la Plage” by DIEGO_VOCI (161-433, 20 x 24 in. Overall size 26.25 x 30.25 in.)

I decided to search for the owner’s name on the card. Low and behold there was a man of the same name right nearby in Chula Vista, CA – just miles down the road from San Diego. Making a photocopy, I snail-mailed the images to Gene A. and gave him our DVP phone number! 2 days later the call came in. Gene was as surprised by our mail as we were to hear back from him. YES, he still owned this exquisite oil painting “Arlequin sur la Plage” and it graces Gene’s walls still today! And,he owns 2 more #DIEGO artworks!

Better still is the story Gene shared about how, while visiting with DIEGO, he noticed there was a trace of a figure on the wall on the left next to the #Harlequin:

So, Gene asked DIEGO to paint over it some before taking it home. Yet, here we are 40 years later and the figure is starting to slowly reappear according to Gene. The next day Gene sent an image of the back of the canvas – here you see it. DIEGO often painted over canvases and always said, “You don’t ask yourself what day do you have the idea… it grows from yourself.” – DIEGO Quote from Victoria Williams article 1974.

#Arlequin Sur La Plage by #DIEGO_VOCI (161-433 20 x 24 in. Overall size 26.25 x 30.25 in.)

We’ll be featuring another of Gene’s DIEGO artworks soon! Keep an eye out for more . . .

CHECK OUT #Harlequins, #Alequins, and #Harlekins by Antonio DIEGO Voci:

(89) Pinteresthttps://www.pinterest.com/diegovoci/harlequins-diegovocitm/

#DIEGO #EXHIBITION 1981 #TORONTO, CANADA

Just over 40 years ago in Toronto Canada, Stephen and Wendy Max created an exhibit for Diego that was unprecedented on this continent. In the illustrious and exceptionally large Columbus Centre they presented Diego through their own Goldcrest Galleries LTD. Advertising in the Toronto Star the outreach was beyond what DIEGO had seen across the ocean. Stephen and Wendy new Diego well before they left Germany where Stephen was stationed with the Canadian Royal Air Force.

#DIEGO EXHIBITION #TORONTO, #CANADA 1981

#DIEGO EXHIBITION WENDY and STEPHEN MAX 1981

Little could we know that 30 years later Stephen and Coop Cooprider, Diego Voci Historian since 1974, would join forces to promote and enhance the legacy of Antonio Diego Voci (1920-1985). Stephen has since created our diegovociproject.com website, produced and published three books, over 40 videos, and promotes a free monthly newsletter. There is a great story about how Coop and Stephen connected in 1974 and didn’t know it. Read more here: https://www.artifactcollectors.com/diego-voci-antonio-diego-voci-3984818/Page15.html#88728

WHEN DEMAND FOR DIEGO #ARTWORKS EXCEED SUPPLY

Someday in the distant future, the gravesite of internationally collected artist Antonio Diego Voci 1920 to 1985 will be a tourist destination for art aficionados traveling to Neuhof In Germany to see Diego’s home/studio in his last years.

Helga Voci’s mother Gertrud Brandl who passed away in 2006 is buried next to Diego.

Here is “Neuhof” as it looked to Diego 40 years ago.  The Tempera drawing is still available for sale among the remnants of his works in possession of Helga. Title: Neuhof | copy-diego-apr2017 (diegovociproject.com)

Help us locate more DIEGO COLLECTORS diegovociproject@gmail.com

#CALLING ALL DIEGO #COLLECTORS

Deadline for submission for the coming book “Artist of a Thousand Faces” is this Saturday May 24, 2020 (we extended the deadline because of the overwhelming responses to DVP).

But, DVP still wants to catalog all Diego Voci works, so send yours in anyway. diegovociproject@gmail.com

(f yours is super, super, maybe it could pre-empt a lesser work in the book, if you hurry)

CALLING ALL #DIEGO COLLECTORS

Deadline for submission for the coming book “Artist of a Thousand Faces” is this Saturday May 24, 2020 (we extended the deadline because of the overwhelming responses to DVP).

But, DVP still wants to catalog all Diego Voci works, so send yours in anyway. diegovociproject@gmail.com

(f yours is super, super, maybe it could pre-empt a lesser work in the book, if you hurry)