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Jean Sardi, French (b. 1947). "Beach Scene" Signed Lower Right Framed 16 x 19. image 11 x 14 Jean Sardi is a French Post War & Contemporary painter who wa...

Signed lower right “Iv. Constantin Svartlöga 1940” for Ivan Constantin Sannesjö Johansson, also known as Iwan Constantin, (1887 - 1946) - was a Swedish painter and graphic artist. Sp...

A very attractive Post Impressionist landscape painting of La plage de I’ll Adam, Seine-et-Oise, by Lyonnais artist Jean Dulac. Jean Dulac was born on Bourgoin but from the age of 5...

Emilio Longoni (Barlassina 1859 - Milan 1932), Alpine Lake (1910) Oil painting on canvas pasted on board 20 x 41 cm signed lower right in Emilian frame late 16th century.

Oil on artist board painting by the American artist, Marion Gray Traver. The painting is entirely executed with a palette knife, a familiar tool used by this artist. Signed lower r...

Abstract landscape, oil painting This is hand signed lower right dated 1947 There is also a hand written inscription in french lower left. Moussia Toulman ( 1903-1997), Artist and poet, was born in Uman Ukraine (famed as the tomb site of Chassidic Rebbe Nachman of Breslov) and came to Israel (British mandate Palestine) when she was 19 years old. Just a few months after her arrival she married, settled in Metula however, she didn’t forgo her ambition to study art. In 1923 she enrolled to study at the Bezalel Art Institute in Jerusalem and completed her studies there in 1926. Like Ziona Tagar, who preceded her a few years earlier, Moussia Toulmann chose to become an artist-woman in the full significance of the term. She wasn’t satisfied with the local studies framework that was available and chose to continue her studies in Paris, France which at that time was considered the art capital. From 1929 onwards Musia lived in Paris, studied art and joined the ‘Independent Salon’ society. She made contacts with artists and writers and exhibited during the 1930’s in a number of select group exhibitions. In 1936 Tolman visited Israel and forged bonds with artists she studied with at Betzalel, among them Aharon Avni, Gliksberg and Avigdor Stematsky. She exhibited at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 1936 in a group exhibition with Aharon Avni, Arie Aroch, Yosef Zaritsky, Mordechai Levanon, Eliyahu Sigad, Chaya Schwartz, and Yehezkel Streichman. She painted landscapes and portraits and presented one of the works she painted in Paris to the Tel Aviv museum. It was a portrait of the poet and art critic Gustave Kahn who had died the same year. Moussia returned to Paris and exhibited a one-man show just before the outbreak of the Second World War. During the war all the works she exhibited in this exhibition were lost without a trace and Moussia Toulman herself wandered around France moving from one hiding place to another. After the war, in 1946 Moussia Toulman continued painting but was reluctant to exhibit her works. She became a well-known public figure and volunteered for aid programmes for Holocaust survivors, especially orphans. Later on she founded together with Mane Katz, Jacques Atlan and other artists the ‘Art’ organization with the object of developing cultural ties with Israel and to aid Israeli artists during their stay in Paris. In addition to painting Moussia Toulman wrote poetry, published articles and was involved in art criticism. She was included in the rare publication of 'Association des artistes, peintres et sculpteurs juifs de France' in French and Yiddish. The School of Paris Jewish artists included Edmond Kayser, Abram Krol, Meyer Lazar, David Lan-Bar, Jacques Lipchitz, Jacques Loutchansky, Lubitch, Rene Mendes-France, Adolphe Milich, Lea Nikel, Jules Pascin, David Peretz, Camille Pissarro, Nathan Rapoport, Moussia Toulman, Roger Worms...

Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - View of a Spanish town - Oil on panel Oil measurements 53x64 cm. Frameless. Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan paint...

Signed lower right: F.A. SILVA.

A very charming mid 20th Century, Post Impressionist work by Paul Altman. Despite the limited information available about Altman, it doesn't diminish the ...

Signed figure in landscape oil on board circa 1920 by sought after French Post-Impressionist painter Victor Charreton. The piece depicts a lone figure walking through a wooded area i...

A very attractive Post Impressionist landscape painting with a dolman by Lyonnais artist Jean Dulac. Jean Dulac was born on Bourgoin but from the age of 5 ...

Monogrammed lower left: ABierstadt