Original works · An enduring legacy
A world beyond the ordinary.
Every painting tells a story. Every colour holds a feeling.
Bert Menco saw the world differently — with imagination, tenderness, humour and a spirit entirely his own.
Through his art, we are invited into a world where ordinary moments become extraordinary, where dreams take shape, and where his imagination continues to live.
Discover his world. Explore his art. Keep his story alive.
A curated selection
Three bodies held in one quiet balance — light, reflection and the ground beneath our feet. Painted in the stillness of the Ragdale woods, it carries the calm of someone who looked up at the sky and saw a family. To live with this canvas is to keep a small cosmos in your home: warm, watchful, and endlessly turning.
She stands as a heron stands — patient, elegant, slightly apart from the world. Bert loved the moment where a person becomes something else, and here grace and wildness share a single body. A painting for someone who knows that true elegance is always a little strange.
A figure caught in the turning, where motion becomes prayer and dizziness becomes joy. The colours spin outward like a skirt in mid-whirl. It is one of the most joyful things Bert left behind — a reminder that surrender can be its own kind of freedom.
The estate collection
“No new Menco will ever be painted.
What remains is all there will ever be.”
A finite body of work, released privately by the artist's family to collectors who will cherish it.
The man behind the imagination
Dutch-American artist and scientist Bert Menco found extraordinary worlds within the everyday. His paintings weave together memory, emotion and imagination — each one a window into a life of profound curiosity.
Discover the artistIn his own words
“I divide my time between science and art...”Bert Menco · Art of Chicago, 2001Read the full interview
For the discerning collector
Originals €105,000–€150,000 · Prints €10,500–€12,000