Miguel Montaner

The Letter

c.1970

This artwork "Nuns at the Museum" c.1950 is an oil painting on hardboard by Australian artist Joan Wilkie, 1903-? It is signed at the lower right corner by...

This artwork "Two Nuns Facing the Ocean" c.1950 is an oil painting on hardboard by Australian artist Joan Wilkie, 1903-? It is signed at the lower right co...

This artwork "Untitled, Woman posing" dated summer 1985 on the back, is an oil painting on canvas by noted New York artist (Helen Director, 1919-2006) It is inscribed Helen Director ...

This artwork "Au Cafe (Three Women Sitting)" is an oil painting on canvas by noted Israeli artist Isaac Maimon, b.1955. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas size is 19.75 x 23.75 inches, framed size is 37.75 x 33.75 inches. It is custom framed in a gold frame, with double liner. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Painting in bold colors society scenes, Isaac Maimon was born in Israel in 1951 to French-speaking parents, and in his artwork, he shows much influence of the "boulevard culture" of French society and the Paris school of art...

This artwork "Untitled, Woman Sitting" c. 1960 is an oil painting on canvas by noted New York artist (Helen Director, 1919-2006) It is signed at the lowe...

Artist: Fermin Santos Alcade Title: Catedral d Toledo, Espana Year: Circa 1960 Medium: Oil on canvas Canvas size: 29 x 21.5 inches Framed size: 35 x 27.5 inches Signature: ...

ROGELIO DE EGUSQUIZA Y BARRENA LADY IN YELLOW signed "R. Egusquiza" (lower right) oil on panel 28-5/8 X 20-3/4 inches (72.5 X 52.7 cm.) framed: 32-5/8 X 24-3/4 inches (82.5 X 62.5 cm.) Rogelio de Egusquiza y Barrena (1845 – 10 February 1915) was a Spanish painter, known for his friendship with the German composer Richard Wagner, whose works he helped make familiar in Spain He was born in El Astillero, into a well-to-do family. He studied in Madrid and with Léon Bonnat at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris. In 1868, after travelling and participating several times in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, he returned to Paris and settled there. At first, he painted historical scenes, but later turned to genre scenes and portraits in the Academic style. Following the death of Marià Fortuny, he moved to Rome at the invitation of the Madrazos, Raimundo and Ricardo, taking Fortuny's place at their studio through 1875 and attending classes at the Spanish Academy in Rome. He heard Wagner's music for the first time in 1876, after returning to Paris. Three years later, he travelled to Munich to hear a performance of The Ring of the Nibelungen. His enthusiasm for what he heard led him to go to Bayreuth, where he introduced himself to Wagner and became his friend. In the following years, he and Wagner got together again several times; in Venice (1880), Berlín (1881) and Bayreuth (1882); where he was a guest at the premiere of Parsifal. After his first meeting with Wagner, he decided to devote his career to doing works on Wagnerian themes; mostly portraits of the characters rather than specific scenes. During his visits to Germany, he also created portraits of Arthur Schopenhauer (posthumous) and King Ludwig II...

Interior ,Yellow,Italian living room, Luisa Albert was born in Turin, Italy where she currently lives and works. In 1989 she enrolled at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Milan and around that time she began working for publishing houses as an illustrator. In 1992 she graduated with a degree in Illustration. She began to study painting with Ottavio Mazzonis...

Parisian Chandeliers by Lesley Ann Derks [2017] original Oil and enamel on canvas Image size: H:40 cm x W:50 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:...

BACKSTAGE (with Custom Seamless 22K Gold Frame) Evgeny Balakshin was born in 1962 in Saransk, Russia. A member of the Professional Union of Artists of Russia, he received systematic art education in Saransk Art School under the direct tutelage of M. P. Shanin. Evgeny has worked and exhibited in France, England, Spain, Portugal and America. His works are included in the Mordovia Republican Museum of Fine Arts, the Collection of S.D. Erzya and other private collections. The paintings of Balakshin have a deep and philosophical presence, characteristic of the Russian school of painting...

ARTHUR BOYD HOUGHTON (1836-1875) Sunday Afternoon Signed l.l.: Houghton Oil on canvas Framed 20.5 by 25.5 cm., 8 by 10 in. (frame size 30.5 by 34.5 cm., 12 by 13 ½ in.) Provenance: William Drummond; Private collection. Probably painted in 1864, the present work evokes the peaceful contentment of everyday family life, with its small scale further reinforcing the intimacy of the scene. It is one of a series of small intimate family scenes produced during this happy period of his life. A male figure, possibly the artist’s himself, slumbers in a chair, a handkerchief draped over his face whilst Susan, the artist’s young wife reads by the window. Their child, either Arthur or Georgina, plays on the floor with a discarded newspaper. The room is at 4 Adelaide Villas, St Mary’s Grove, Richmond, the house Arthur and Susan moved to shortly after their marriage in 1861. The chaise and window, with its pots of geraniums, also feature in the 1864 painting Coach and Horses (private collection) which depicts Susan, with her hair down, playing with Arthur and Georgina. A pot of daffodils placed beside the same geraniums in the present work suggest it may have been painted in the spring of that year. Such domestic bliss would shortly come to a tragic end when Susan died of pyaemia following the birth of their third child in June 1864. Houghton was born in India, the son of a captain in the East India Company’s marine service. Both is father and older brother were accomplished military draughtsmen and he probably received early training from them. His family returned to England in the early 1850s and he began studies at Leigh’s and the Langham...

Bernard de Hoog was born in Amsterdam in 1866. He studied under J.F. Hulk and J.C. van Essen at the Quellinus School in Amsterdam. Mainly a genre and portrait painter, he occupies a distinguished place among the masters of Dutch modernism. He was associated with The Hague School, primarily a movement of realism, a reaction against Romanticism. He lived and worked in Laren, Haarlem, Bussum, and The Hague enjoying much commercial success. His paintings were readily exported to the United State, Canada, and England. De Hoog advocated the simple country life and produced many endearing interior scenes inspired by compassion for the impoverished existence of the Dutch peasantry. Set within a quiet domestic interior space, our painting catches a meditative moment of a woman in the midst of her sewing. A large window illuminates this intimate interior. de Hoog’s delicate brushwork captures the sunlight reflected in the woman’s red dress...