Philip Cheney

In the Casbah

1928

Mieczyslaw Lurczynski (1908-1992). Pont Neuf/ Landscape. Double-sided canvas measures 10.5 x 13.75 inches. Canvas is a gessoed panel, unstretched. Signed lower right.

Enrique Climent (1897-1980). Casas de Ibiza, c.1960. Oil and sand on canvas, 35 x 46 inches; 44.5 x 55.5 inches (frame). Signed lower left. Excellent condition with no damage or conservation. Instituo National de Bellas Artes lebel affixed en verso. Biography: Enrique Climent ( Valencia , Spain, 1897- Mexico City , 1980) was a Spanish painter and graphic designer, present in the Spanish Pavilion of the International Exhibition of Paris in 1937 , two of whose works are conserved in the National Museum Art Center Reina Sofía , as part of the collection of the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art (MEAC). Exiled in Mexico , country in which he died at 83 years of age. He has been associated with the driving group in Spain of the "New Art". Born in a bourgeois family of the Valencian capital, despite paternal opposition, Climent studied at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos , and with a scholarship received in 1919, traveled to Madrid to complete them in San Fernando . In the capital of Spain he participated in the gathering of Ramón Gómez de la Serna , for whom he illustrated some greguerías , and in the avant-garde activities of the then-called first Escuela de Vallecas , Associated with the Society of Iberian Artists . He also collaborated as an illustrator of Blanco y Negro magazine, 3 and illustrated books by Elena Fortún , Azorín , Juan Manuel Díaz Caneja and Manuel Abril . 3 Before, in 1924 he had been in Paris for two years, where he came to design some stage sets for opera shows. 6 He participated in three of the exhibitions of "Los Ibéricos" (San Sebastián in 1931, Copenhagen in 1932 and Berlin in 1933), as well as in the International Exhibitions of Contemporary Spanish Art in Paris and Venice in 1936. He was one of the Spanish exiles who in 1939 landed in Veracruz , after the crossing of the Sinaia , along with other intellectuals and artists (such as José Moreno Villa , Arturo Souto...

Karl Drerup (1904-2000). Italian City, c.1930. Oil on masonite panel, 24 x 32 inches; 34 x 42 in custom frame. Signed lower right. Minor conservation to loss in margins. Price on request Biography: Born in Borghorst, Germany in 1904, Karl Drerup earned a Master’s Degree in graphic arts working under Hans Meid...

Beautiful landscape by American artist, David Shevlino (b.1962). Oil on wood panel measures 14 x 15.5 inches. Signed and dated lower right. Signed, titled and dated en verso.

Beautiful abstract expressionist landscape by American artist, Morris Shulman (1912-1978). Untitled Landscape, 1958. Oil on masonite panel measures 24 x 36 inches. Signed and dated l...

Byron Browne (1907-1961). Provincetown Beach, 1957. Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches, 30 x 36 inches in vintage solid chestnut frame. Signed lower righ...

Presenting large just discovered tryptich, 3 hinged oils on canvas by Belgian artists Jessica Rice 1942 -2016. This painting was recently found wrapped and stored within the privat...

“After the Rain” continues the paintings from the series “City Parks." Calm, balanced hues. Raindrops are scattered on the surface of the canvas like beads. Cobalt blue and its shade...

Artwork May shows the most beautiful time of the year in my opinion. This is the time when everything blooms. Fields, meadows, all open spaces are strewn with many flowers. Every lit...

PRICE REDUCED - previously £8,000, now £5,000 Norman Howard 1899 - 1955 Evening, The Lizard Lighthouse Oil on canvas, signed lower left Image size: 23 1/2 x 27 1/2 inches Art D...

Inspired by the highly decorative wallpapers of the Art Deco period. Painted to look like panels on a screen. The dividing lines are in fact trompe l’oeil, to trick the eye. Rich blu...

Inspired by snorkelling in the Mediterranean , observing jellyfish peacefully drifting with the current. This painting is textured and aqueous. The gesso base applied with broad swee...