Arthur Kraft

The Gift

Untitled 1957 Gouache 9.25 x 8.5 inches Framed: 17 x 16 inches

Untitled (Brown and Blue Shapes) Gouache and watercolor 18.25 x 11.62 inches Framed: 32.5 x 26 inches

Untitled This piece includes an artist hand-signed note attached to the back of the framed work.

PERLE FINE Untitled c. 1957 Graphite on paper 14 x 19 inches

PERLE FINE Untitled Graphite on paper 14 x 11 inches

Cry Me a River (a fleuve) 2017 cca. Acrylic, graphite, pen, gesso and gel medium on paper 22 x 30 inches

Miniature Abstract Totem. Signed with initials. Provenance: Virginia Field, Arts administrator; New York, N.Y. Assistant director for Asia House gallery. (she was friends with John von Wicht and Andy Warhol) Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolf Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel...

Watercolor on paper

Watercolor on paper

Watercolor on paper

Watercolor on paper

Watercolor on paper