Colin Ruffell

Modern British, Interior with an old record player, port decanter and glass

circa 1970

Attributed to Randolph Caldecott, a well-known English painter, and illustrator of English Pub interior scenes. The scene is great fun, as we can see di...

17th century European oil, Christ and is disciples seated around a table. An interesting and very unique painting. Possibly a fragment originally from a piece of furniture. The s...

English 19th century Victorian Antique portrait of a seated lady in her Interior Victorian portrait interior. John Waston Chapman was a pa...

Scottish Impressionist 20th century oil, figures inside a clothing market. He exhibited at the Royal Academy; Royal Society of British Artists; Royal Hibernian Academy; Royal Glasgow Institute of Fine Arts; Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. Murray Urquhart was the son of Dr. Andrew Urquhart, Oakley, Kirkcudbright.  His mother, who died two weeks after Murray’s birth, was the daughter of Alexander McNeel Caird, Procurator Fiscal for Wigtownshire. This is a very unusual subject and market scenes like this are quite rare, I guess due to the complex nature of the subject and the difficulty in balancing the composition. The artist has done a wonderful job of painting this subject, it is a wonderful example of Scottish Impressionist painting...

Daniel Pasmore the Younger was a London genre and portrait artist who exhibited mostly at the Society of British Artists in Suffolk Street, London. He i...

Very Impressive French Impressionist figure study of a Ballerina seated in an interior. A very decorative and very desirable oil on canvas dating from the early 1900's The painting...

"Tailor" WPA American Scene Social Realism Modernism Mid Century Modern Fashion The board measures 9 1/2 x 15 1/2. Provenance: Mervin Jules Estate. Bio A painter, illustrator, pri...

"Nautraleza Muerta Con Palomas" by Alvar Sunol is an original oil on board painting and measures 51x32. This painting incorporates Alvar's favorites drawing inspiration of mixing the...

Joseph Solman (1909-2008), Chair with Chinese Rug, oil paint on masonite, initialed JS on recto, titled and signed "J.S." verso, Dimensions 14" x 10" Framed to 21 X 17 Provenance...

Guy Pene du Bois' "Two Figures in Courtroom" is a WPA era American scene oil painting created in a realistic style. Modernism at its best The work is framed by Heydenryk. Pène du Bois descended from French immigrants who settled in Louisiana in 1738 and was raised in a Creole household. He was born in 1884 in Brooklyn, NY and first studied with William Merritt Chase at the New York School of Art and later continued his training with Robert Henri. Pène du Bois was greatly impressed with Henri's credo that "real life" was subject matter for art and throughout his life a realist philosophy informed his art as well as his parallel career, art criticism. In 1905, Pène du Bois made his first visit to Paris where he painted scenes of fashionable people in cafes rendered in the dark tonalities and impasto associated with the Ashcan School. By 1920, he had achieved his mature style, which was characterized by stylized, rounded, almost sculptural figures painted with invisible brushstrokes. The subjects of his paintings were often members of society whom he gently satirized. In 1924, Pène du Bois and his wife, Floy, left for France where they would remain until 1930. Returning to America showcases pictures the artist produced after this very productive period abroad. After five years of living in France, Pène du Bois was able to observe American life with fresh eyes. His work becomes more psychologically intense and less satirical. In Girl at Table a slender, blond is shown gazing at a small statue that she holds at arm's distance. The meaning is elusive, but a powerful sense of longing is evoked. Similarly, paintings such as Dramatic Moment and Jane are taut with unresolved dialogue. Both pictures depict mysterious interiors in which a lone woman anxiously awaits the denouement of a suspenseful scene. Other pictures, for example, Chess Tables, Washington Square and Bar, New Orleans, recall Pene du Bois's Ashcan origins in their depiction of urban entertainment. During this period, landscape becomes an important subject for Pène du Bois. Girl Sketching...

Into the tunnel is an original modern artwork realized by Isidore Odorico (1893-1945) in the early 20th Century. Oil on board. Hand signed on the lower margin. Includes frame

ARIEH ALLWEIL (ARIE ALWEIL) 1901-1967 Galicia 1901-1967 Safed, Israel (Ukrainian/Polish/Israeli) Arieh Allweil, born 1901, Galicia. Immigrated to Palestine in 1920. Studies: 1921-25 Art Academy, Vienna; Dresden Academy. Alweil brought with him the high values of the Central European avant-garde, which he had absorbed during his years of study in Vienna. He joined the ‘Kunstschau’ group- of artists that had formed around Gustav Klimt and Egon Schiele. He exhibited with them in the 1920’s, and emigrated to Palestine in 1926. He was one of the founders of the Tel Aviv Art Museum and the Midrasha Art Teachers College in Israel. As opposed to other modern Israeli artists in his period, Allweil's woodcuts and illustrations pertained to contemporary events such as the Holocaust and the pioneering spirit before the establishment of the State of Israel. Most notable is this work as well as the first illustrated Passover Haggada for the IDF which he made in 1950 and which was printed for 3 years with his inspirational woodcut illustrations. He published a series of linoleum cuts of Israeli and Biblical subjects and created large scale murals of the Holocaust. Teaching: In Israel, art. Prizes: Received Dizengoff Prize twice; 1955 Turov Prize for Bible Illustrations. Published series of linoleum cuts of Israeli and Biblical subjects, also illustrated a Passover Haggadah and large scale murals of Holocaust. From 1952 until his death lived in Tel Aviv and in Safed in summer. Died 1967, Safed. Education 1921-25 Art Academy, Vienna, Austria 1921-25 Dresden Academy, Germany Teaching Herzliyah Gymnasium High-School, Israel, art. Tel Aviv High School Awards And Prizes 1937 Dizengoff Prize for Painting and Sculpture, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa 1946 Dizengoff Prize 1955 Turov Prize for Bible Illustrations Select Solo Exhibition: 1933 Tel Aviv Museum, Solo Exhibition 1942 Katz Gallery, Tel Aviv 1950 Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv 1956 The Blue Dome, Safed 1968 Memorial Exhibition of the artist Arieh Allweil Yad Labanim Museum, Petach-Tikva 1969 Solo Exhibition The Knesset, Jerusalem 1987 Arieh Allweil: 1901-1967 - ''Return to Betanya Ilit'' Beit Gabriel, Zemah 1994 Arieh Allweil: Prints and Calligraphy The Isaac Kaplan Old Yishuv Court Museum,Jerusalem 2011 Arieh Allweil, Letters, Figures, Landscapes Mishkan Le'omanut, Museum of Art, Kibbutz Ein Harod Select Group Exhibitions 1929 Eged - Palestine Painters Group Allenby Street, Tel Aviv Artists: ChanaOrloff, Abraham Melnikoff, Reuven Rubin, Nachum Gutman, Sionah Tagger, Arieh Allweil, Haim Gliksberg, Yossef Zaritsky, Leon Arie Fein, Pinchas Litvinovsky, Elias Newman. 1932 The Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem Artists: Pinchas Litvinovsky, Gutman Nachum Allweil, Arieh 1936 First Exhibition of ''Hever Omanim'' Steimatzky Galleries, Jerusalem Artists: Gutman, Nahum Holzman, Shimshon Moshe Mokady, Miron Sima, Jakob Steinhardt, Zeev Ben Zvi, Moshe Ziffer...