Luis Szepesi

Crucifixion

c. 1950s

Francois Gall ( 1912-1987) François Gall was a Hungarian-born French painter best known for his Impressionistic style. Primarily focused on the figure, his brushy oil paintings are largely inspired by the Impressionist masters, Edgar Degas in particular. Gall often painted women engrossed in traditionally feminine activities—ballet, fixing their hair, sewing—rendered in loose, expressive marks and bright pastel colors. In addition to his figurative work, the artist also captured the French landscape, most notably the beach. In A Day at the Beach (c. 1948), loosely sketches bathers frolic under striped umbrellas in a picturesque rendering of French summer vacation. Born in 1912 in Transylvania, Romania, Gall received his formal training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Workshop Coromaldi in Rome, Italy. He would later settle in Paris in 1936, where he befriended prominent artists of the day—including Pablo Picasso—and became a naturalized French citizen in 1942. As his work grew in esteem, Gall was granted the Francis Smith...

Lazar, Krestin (1868-1938) was an artist famous in the German art world for Judaic genre scenes and his many sober portraits of Eastern European Jews. He was also a noted Zionist. His father was a Talmud teacher. His first lessons were at the drawing school in Vilnius, followed by studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and he was one of the most prominent students of Isidor Kaufmann. He worked in Munich, Vienna and Odessa before going to Jerusalem in 1910 at the request of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design founder, Boris Schatz...

Nina Mirkovich b. 1951 well established Houston artist. "And When The Music Subsides" Measures: 24 X 30 inches, acrylic on canvas, signed. Overall size is 31 X 37 inches.

Russian Icon, oil on wood, with beautiful cloisonné enamel around. Icon is surrounded with floral motifs decorative insert that is placed into the thick carved wooden frame. Icon is signed verso with dedication to the church that it was made for. c. 1860s 23.5”h x 20.5”w, overall size is 47.5” x 34” Wring on the back of the icon says: "Painted family icon was donated to the church of the name of Pokrova of Virgin Mary with additions of flora and laurel and with 3 saints: Vasiliy the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom by people born at the village of Gubino and later by the merchant Vasiliy Miheev from Saint Petersburg with his wife Tatiana Yakovleva-Miheeva. Done in the memory of completion of this church with stone fence...

Antonio De Ignacio (1944 - ) Spanish artist. His works are widely represented in the multiple private and commercial galleries. “Los Esponsales Opus Pictórico N* 5, Otelo” Oi...

Frederick William Becker (1888-1974) American Artist Well represented and listed. Oil on board, signed lower left c. 1930s 8.5” x 11.5”,...

'Agay, le château et le Sémaphore'. Oil on canvas. +/- 1922 Signed lower right Measurements : 60 x 73 cm. This painting will be recorded in the second volume of the Catalogue Raisonn...

Grigory Gluckmann Vitebsk 1898 – 1973 Los Angeles "Daydreams" Oil on panel 71 by 89 cm Signed (lower right) “Gluckmann”; variously labelled (on the frame) Born in Russia in 1898, G...

Grigory Gluckmann Vitebsk 1898 – 1973 Los Angeles "Composition" Signed in Latin (lower right) “Gluckmann” Born in Russia in 1898, Grigory Gluckmann studied in Moscow and eventually ...

Robert Spencer paints a sun-drenched scene of figures moving about outside red clay buildings in his work entitled, “Courtyard at Noon.”

A child of the American South, Elliott Daingerfield was born in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where his father, C...

Signed and dated oil on canvas by French impressionist painter Charles Theophile Angrand. This wonderful and good-sized piece depicts an artist painting "en plain air" in a beautiful...