Bernard Labbe

20th Century Modernist Painting Bare Tall Tree Over River Bank Landscape

1950's

Tending their Nets French School, contemporary oil on canvas 15 x 21.5 inches provenance: private collection, France The painting is in very good and presentable condition.

The Tree by Michel Kritz (French 1925-1994) signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 10.75 x 9 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound condition

Duncan Gleason lived in New York and other places for work or studies but it was really Southern California where he felt most at home, and looking at his body of work, that love of ...

Hal Frater passed away on February 3, 2008, just a month from celebrating his 99th birthday. Hal Frater had a long and prolific career. He became a sought after commercial artist for over fifty years and was an early member of the well-know Society of Illustrators in New York City. All the while he would return to his studio and paint for himself rather than his clients. Yet he always retained his illustration roots in wanting to tell a story on canvas with his keen eye of observation on the human condition. Often he would join fellow artists in informal sessions and paint from a model - no formal art school training but a mutually beneficial learning experience. His contemporaries that influenced him were Jack Levine, Raphael Soyer, John Sloan, Thomas Hart Benton, Reginald Marsh and Phillip Reisman...