Emilio Adan Martinez

Cuban Artist Emilio Martinez Untitled Painting

Pierre Courtens is a French painter of Belgian origin, born in Brussels in 1921 and died in Ribérac Dordogne in 2004. Baron Pierre Courtens is the third generation of painters with his brother Jacques Courtens , son of Hermann Courtens, grandson of Franz Courtens. His grandfather and then his father, director of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of Brussels, were ennobled by the King of the Belgians...

Edward Avedisian ( 1936-2007 ) Gouache or oil on paper, 3 guys around a car, hand signed in paint lower left, Measures 30"x 22.5" Edward Avedisian (June 15, 1936, Lowell, Massachusetts – August 17, 2007, Philmont, New York) was an American abstract painter who came into prominence during the 1960s. His work was initially associated with Color field painting and in the late 1960s with Lyrical Abstraction and Abstract Expressionism. He studied art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. By the late 1950s he moved to New York City. Between 1958 and 1963 Avedisian had six solo shows in New York. In 1958 he initially showed at the Hansa Gallery, then he had three shows at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery and in 1962 and 1963 at the Robert Elkon Gallery. He continued to show at the Robert Elkon Gallery almost every year until 1975. During the 1960s his work was broadly visible in the contemporary art world. He joined the dynamic art scene in Greenwich Village, frequenting the Cedar Tavern on Tenth Street, associating with the critic Clement Greenberg, and joining a new generation of abstract artists, such as Darby Bannard, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, and Larry Poons. Avedisian was among the leading figures to emerge in the New York art world during the 1960s. An artist who mixed the hot colors of Pop Art with the cool, more analytical qualities of Color Field painting, he was instrumental in the exploration of new abstract methods to examine the primacy of optical experience. One of his paintings was appeared on the cover of Artforum, in 1969, his work was included in the 1965 Op Art The Responsive Eye exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art and in four annuals at the Whitney Museum of American Art. His paintings were widely sought after by collectors and acquired by major museums in New York and elsewhere. He has been exhibited in prominent galleries, such as the Anita Shapolsky Gallery and the Berry Campbell Gallery in New York City. Edward Avedisian was known for his brightly colored, boldly composed canvases that combined Minimalism's rigor, Pop art exuberance and the saturated tones of Color Field painting. Roberta Smith of the NYT writes of Avedesian: "Edward Avedisian helped establish the hotly colored, but emotionally cool, abstract painting that succeeded Abstract Expressionism in the early 1960s. This young luminary harnessed elements of minimalism, pop, and color field painting to create prominent works of epic proportions that energized the New York art scene of the time." In 1996 Avedisian showed his paintings from the 1960s at the Mitchell Algus Gallery, then in SoHo. His last show, dominated by recent landscapes, was in 2003 at the Algus gallery, now in Chelsea. Selected Exhibitions: Op Art: The Responsive Eye, at the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum’s Young America 1965 Expo 67, held in Montreal, Canada. Six Painters (along with Darby Bannard, Dan Christensen, Ron Davis...

Hea-Sook Yoo, artist, internationally renowned, has her paintings hanging in residences, businesses and art galleries on three continents over three decades.Ms. Yoo is classically tr...

Measures 16.5 X 20 without frame. heavy craquelure. it seems like some sort of experimental technique the artist used. paint is stable. please see photos Abram Tromka was born May 1, 1896 in Poland. At the age of seven he immigrated with his family to the United States, settling in New York City. It was on the boat coming to New York where Tromka first became interested in art. Fascinated by a woman who was painting, he decided that he wanted to become an artist. Upon arrival at immigration headquarters, Tromka’s family adopted the surname “Phillips,” which he kept until 1930. Hence the artist’s early works bear the signature — ‘A. Phillips.’ Having a rough childhood, Tromka left home at 15 and spent the remainder of his teenage years living at the Henry Street...

Hanna Ben Dov is an Israeli abstract painter who was born in Jerusalem in 1919 and died in Paris in 2008. Ben Dov's father, Yacov Ben-Dov, was a famous Israeli photographer who founded the photography department in the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in 1910. Hannah herself attended Bezalel during the 1940s, and later continued to Camberwell College of Arts in London. After the completion of her formal education she moved to Paris, where she exhibited for the first time in 1948 and has been living and working there since, as a part of the local abstract artists school. She took part in the first French Biennale of 1951, that was held in Menton. Collections Her paintings can be found in several collections, including the French State Collection, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art collection, the Bezalel National Museum collection in Jerusalem and the Rockefeller Museum collection in New York. Ben Dov resided for her last two years at the Maison Des Artistes Home in Nogent-Sur-Marne, France, just outside Paris. Exhibitions Gallery97 Tel Aviv Paintings...

Abstract watercolor composition bearing the influence of the earlier color-block compositions of Paul Klee. Pawel August Kontny, (Polish-German-American artist) He was born in Laurahuette, Poland, in 1923, the son of a wealthy pastry shop owner. In 1939 he began studying architecture in Breslau where he was introduced to the European masters and to the work of some of the German Expressionists, soon afterward banned as "degenerate artists" and removed from museums throughout Germany by the Nazi regime. His studies were interrupted by World War II. Drafted into the German army, traveling in many countries as a soldier, he sketched various landscapes but in 1945, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war in Italy. After the war, he studied at the Union of Nuremberg Architects to help design buildings to replace ones destroyed in the war. He recorded his impressions of the local population and the landscapes through his watercolors and drawings. Pawel Kontny thereafter moved to Nuremberg, Germany, becoming a member of the Union of Nuremberg Architects and helping to rebuild the city's historic center. He soon decided to concentrate on his professional art career. He married Irmgard Laurer, a dancer with the Nuremberg Opera. Pavel Kontny 's career as an artist was launched with his participation in an all German exhibition, held at the Dusseldorf Museum in 1952. He held one-man shows in Germany, Switzerland and the United States. During his trip to the United States in 1960, Kontny became instantly enamored with Colorado, and decided to relocate to Cherry Hills with his wife and two children. He quickly established himself in the local art community, being affiliated for a time with Denver Art Galleries and Saks Galleries. His subject matter became the Southwest. During this time he received the Prestigious Gold Medal of the Art Academy of Rome. His extensive travel provided material for the paintings he did using his hallmark marble dust technique. he also worked equally in pastel, watercolor, charcoal and pencil-and-ink. in a style which merged abstraction and realist styles, influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting and South Western American landscapes. In the early 1960s he was one of only a few European-born professional artists in the state, a select group that included Herbert Bayer (1900-1985), a member of the prewar Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, Germany, and Roland Detre (1903-2001), a Hungarian modernist painter. As a Denver, Colorado resident, Pavel Kontny exhibited at galleries and museums throughout the United States, Germany and Japan. There, he was inspired by frequent trips to Native American pueblos in the Southwest, as well as by the study of the Plains Indians of Montana and Wyoming. Over the years Kontny had a number of students and generously helped young artist by hosting exhibitions at his Cherry Hills home. For many years he generously donated his paintings to support charitable causes in Denver. Influences during his European years included German pastelist C.O. Muller, German Informel painter Karl Dahmen and Swiss artist, Hans Erni. In the early 1950s his painting style showed the influence of the Die Brücke (The Bridge), a group of German expressionist artists formed in Dresden in 1905 who had a major impact on the evolution of modern art in the twentieth century in Germany. By the middle of the decade his style incorporated more referential abstraction and total abstraction, resulting in part from his study of Hans Hartung, a German artist based in Paris who exhibited his gestural abstract work in Germany. The American moon landing in 1969 inspired Paul Kontny...

This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s Untitled (Cubist Portrait), 1945, oil on masonite, signed and dated lower middle, 20 x 16 inches, remnant of exhibition label verso, perhaps exhibited at Murry's solo exhibition at the Los Angeles's Screen Cartoonists' Gallery, July , 1945, presented in its original frame Jerre Murry was a California modernist painter. Born in Columbia, Missouri, Murry studied at the Detroit Academy of Art and worked as an artist for the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. Murry traveled to the Bahamas, where he was inspired to paint modernist scenes of island life and people. By the early 1930s, Murry had relocated to Los Angeles, where he caught the attention of Synchromist painter Stanton Macdonald Wright, State Supervisor for the Federal Art Project (FAP) in Southern California. MacDonald Wright enrolled Murry into the FAP. Murry’s Gauguin-influenced painting Sun Image was exhibited together with other FAP artists at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1936, and Murry was also included in the FAP exhibit at the Paris Exposition in 1937. Stendahl Galleries in Los Angeles, the Chamber of Commerce Gallery in Santa Barbara, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art also showed Murry’s work during the 1930s. Murry created a murals for Los Angeles Water & Power Company, the Boise, Idaho Post Office, and Glendale Junior College. In 1939, Murry's work was exhibited at the Golden Gate International Exposition and the New York World's Fair. He also was included in the All California Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of art that same year. He went on to exhibit in Los Angeles at the Foundation of Western Art's Trends in Southern California Art shows in 1940 and 1941, at Raymond and Raymond Gallery in Hollywood and USC’s Elizabeth Holmes...

The avant-garde artist Vladimir Sterligov created his own system of forms and symbols here. These, as well as his other constructions, deal with non-representational reality. The two...

Ukrainian artist Mykola Zhuravel breaks the boundaries between painting and sculpture, performance and installation art. Zhuravel turns to nature to create thriving monuments to man’s links to the Earth itself. He searches for compatibility between Earth and mankind, while pointedly making reference to the obstacles that human beings have placed in the way of a harmonious existence. Zhuravel’s ambitious style results in a remarkable series of living images of a visionary utopia. By using levkas, a traditional primer employed by icon painters, Zhuravel unites the legacies of Byzantine and Rus icon painting with his contemporary painterly technique. The result, richly vibrant and inventive contemporary works that emerge as modern-day icons. EDUCATION: 1979 - Crimean art school im.Samokisha, Simferopol, Ukraine 1989 - graduated from the prestigious Kyiv State Arts Academy, Kyiv, Ukraine EVENTS: 1995 - Member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine 1996 - The artist is a member of the National Artists' Union of Ukraine and the BG-ART 2009 - Academician of the Academy of Rome-modernist art 2011 - The nominee on the Shevchenkovska award Included in the 30 of the best artists of Ukraine by version of the "100 names" publication 2016 - 1 Prize on the international Kunstpreis ART Worpswede 2016. Berlin, Germany EXHIBITIONS: 2017 "Transformation of space", White World gallery, Kiev, Ukraine 2016 Gewalt Macht Herrscher ". Kunstverein ART-Project Worpswede. Berlin, Germany (First Prize) 2016 "Invasion: Redux»,White World gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2016 Ukrainian painting triennial Kyiv 2016 (nomination first prize to Mykola Zhuravel), Kyiv, Ukraine 2016 Invasion Redux. Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, USA 2015 Art Kyiv Contemporary X, Art Arsenal, Kyiv, Ukraine 2014 Institute of problem of Contemporary Art, art project "Strength of Materials", Kiev, Ukraine 2014 Taras Sevchenko's Museum, "Following The Inner Light", Kiev, Ukraine 2014 Ukrainian Institute of America "Following The Inner Light", New York, USA 2014 SCOPE international contemporary art show, New York, USA 2014 "Ukraine. Archetype of Freedom", Vienna, Austria 2013 "Zorya Fine Art" gallery, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA 2013 Art Toronto Fair, Toronto, Canada 2013 Solo exhibition in "Bezpala Brown Gallery", Toronto, Canada 2013 "Triptych Gallery", Kiev, Ukraine 2013 Art Studio Voluiky, Palace of Arts, Lviv, Ukraine 2013 "Anatomy of Spring", "Art Zbirka Gallery", Kiev, Ukraine 2013 Art Contemporary, Arsenale, Kiev, Ukraine 2012 Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago, USA 2011 Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, USA 2011 "Apiary", Venice Biennale, Italia 2010 “lu Hisu” museum , Shanhai, China 2010 ART Shanhai, China 2010 ART KYIV CONTEMPORARY «Herytazhe» gallery, Moscow, Russia 2009 Personal exhibition «Lavra» gallery, «A-Hause» gallery Kyiv, Ukraine 2008 Personal exhibition – the “Apairy” art project Voltahalle gallery Basel 2008 Personal exhibition painting «A-Hause» Kyiv, Ukraine 2007 Fine art ЦДХ, , Moscow, Russia 2007 Personal exhibition painting «Herytazhe» gallery, Moscow, Russia 2006 Personal exhibition – the “Apairy” art project presentation for the 52nd 2004Venice Festival of Contemporary Art, “Soviart” art gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2004 Personal exhibition - Retrospective review of M. Zhuravel’ projects, the Ukrainian Institute of America, New York, USA 2004 Group exhibition - 350 years later, Artists House, Kyiv, Ukraine 2003 Personal painting exhibition, the Municipal Art Gallery, Kharkiv, Ukraine 2003 The “Apairy” project’s draft-exhibition, the “Soviart” Contemporary Art Center, Kyiv, Ukraine 2003 Personal painting exhibition, the “L-Art” gallery, Kyiv, Ukraine 2003 Personal exhibition – Four Steps: Zhuravel, Painting, Gallery ArtEast, Kyiv, Ukraine, catalogue 2002 Art of Ukraine, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia, catalogue 2002 Sophine Symbols of Being (part II); group exhibition with P. Bevza, O. Lytvynenko, M. Malyshko, N. Denysova, A. Hurenko, O. Fil, curated by P. Bevza. Hlibnya exhibition hall, Kyiv, Ukraine, catalogue 2001 Sophine Symbols of Existence (part I); group exhibition with P. Bevza, O. Lytvynenko, M. Malyshko, O. Malyshko, N. Denysova, curated by P. Bevza, with text for the exhibition catalogue by S. Krymsky, Hlibnya exhibition hall, Kyiv, Ukraine, catalogue 2001 Land-art, joint project with V. Shkarupa, H. Hidora, A. Bludov, village of Mohrytsia, Sumy region, Ukraine 2000 Group...

Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021), Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...

Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021), Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...

Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021), Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studies at the Beaux-Arts in the workshops of Jean Souverbie and Edmond Heuzé, between 1954 and 1959. Since 1962, she has exhibited regularly at the Salons de L'Art Libre, Salon de L'Union des Artistes, and in major Parisian galleries: Galerie Raymond-Creuze, Galerie Cimaise de Paris and Galerie Everarts. She also exhibited regularly in Germany, including in Dortmund and Königswinter-Oberpleis. In her paintings, which tend to be figurative, she always tries to put color and line at the service of the subject, eliminating all the details that could be detrimental to the overall expression. Elisabeth Hahn's painting fully deserves to be rediscovered again. Title: Figures in Street...