20th Century French School

The School of Arms, Pen and Ink Fencing Drawings, c.1920s French

c.1920

Watercolour and ink on paper, signed bottom right Image size: 7 x 10 1/2 inches (17.75 x 26.5 cm) Gilt frame An original artwork by an early 20th Century French illustrator, this is...

Red chalk on paper Image size: 9 x 7 inches (23 x 17.75 cm) Acid free mount The Greek god Attis was the spouse of Cybele, the fertility goddess.  He was from Phrygia, a kingdom in c...

Ink and ink on paper, signed and dated 19'90' bottom left Image size: 7 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (19 x 16.5 cm) Mounted and framed Peter Gardner Peter Gardner was born in London in 1921...

English School 15th Century The Consecration of a Church Illuminated manuscript on Vellum Image size: 5 ½ x 5 inches (14 x 12.7 cm) 18th century ornate Tabernacle frame

Ink on lined paper Image size: 3 x 2 3/4 inches (8 x 7 cm) Hand made frame Sam Rabin Samuel (Sam) Rabin, originally Samuel Rabinovitch, was an English sculptor, artist, teacher, singer, wrestler and Olympic bronze medallist. Rabin, who was Jewish, was born Samuel Rabinovitch on 20 June 1903 at Dewhurst Street, Cheetham, North Manchester. His parents were both Russian Jewish exiles from Vitebsk (now in Belarus). During his childhood, the family moved to Salford where Rabin grew up and where his parents encouraged his talent for drawing. In 1914 Rabin won a scholarship to the Manchester Municipal School of Art making him, at the age of 11, the youngest pupil ever to attend the college. There he was taught drawing by French artist Adolphe Valette. In 1921 he moved to the Slade School of Fine Art in London where he continued his studies under Henry Tonks until 1924. After the Slade, Rabin studied in Paris where he met and was greatly impressed and influenced by sculptor Charles Despiau. Rabin's own sculpture from this time is little known as he was a perfectionist and destroyed work that he considered unsatisfactory. In 1928, working under his full surname, he was commissioned by architect Charles Holden to carve West Wind, one of eight personifications of the four winds for the headquarters of the Underground Electric Railways Company of London at 55 Broadway. The sculpture was partly completed in-situ on the building. In 1930, he produced his only other public sculptures; two decorative winged masks, The Past and The Future, for the Daily Telegraph building in Fleet Street. These were carved on the building directly from the scaffold. Both commissions were well received at the time, but Rabin was unable to make a living as a sculptor and turned to another career – wrestling, for which he abbreviated his surname. Rabin was physically strong and had boxed and wrestled as an amateur to fund his art. He won a bronze medal in the middleweight division of the free-style wrestling at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam. Rabin turned professional in 1932 and fought as Rabin the Cat and Sam Radnor the Heb. Alexander Korda cast him as a wrestler in The Private Life of Henry VIII in 1933 and as Mendoza, a Jewish prize-fighter, in The Scarlet Pimpernel in 1934. Despite lacking any formal musical training, Rabin was a talented baritone and worked professionally during the 1940s singing with Stars in Battledress and sang operatic arias with the army's Classical Music Group. In 1946 he auditioned for La Scala's conductor, Victor de Sabata. In 1949, Rabin began teaching drawing at Goldsmith's College of Art in New Cross, London. His disciplined teaching style including the production of demonstration works, followed that of his own teacher, Valette. His students included Mary Quant, Bridget Riley and Tom Keating...

Ink and watercolour on paper Image size: 18 x 19 3/4 inches (46 x 50 cm) Contemporary style hand made frame

Original drawing on paper Handsigned Unique piece PINKHAS (né en 1975) EXPOSITIONS SOLOS 2022 Galerie 55 TLV Tel Aviv Israël 2021 Galerie 55 TLV Tel Aviv Israël 2019 Expo Pinkhas / Galerie Kinor, Rue de Rivoli - PARIS, France 2018 Expo Pinkhas / Tiny Tiny Gallery - TEL AVIV, Israël 2018 Expo Pinkhas / Galerie Kinor, Rue de Rivoli - PARIS, France 2017 Expo Pinkhas / Maison d'exposition générale - Safed, Israël 2017 Expo Pinkhas / Centre Communautaire - Perpignan, France 2015 Expo Pinkhas / Galerie Zi Artifice, Rue Quincampoix - PARIS, France 2012 Expo Locaux Du Magazine Le P'tit Hebdo / Jérusalem, Talpiot - jerusalem, Israel EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES 2017 NEW YORK ART EXPO / PIER 92/94 711 12th Ave (55th Street & the West Side Highway) - New York, États-Unis 2014 Solutions en Lumière / PALAIS D'IENA - PARIS, France 2013 2ème Biennale internationale d'Art Naïf / Salla Polyvalente - OTTMARSHEIM, France 2013 Ecoles de la Paix / Espace Pierre Cardin - PARIS, France 2012 Salon d'Autome / Hangar 2, Port de Jaffa - Tel Aviv, Israël 2012 Festival International d'Art Naïf / Cinémathèque de Jérusalem - Jérusalem, France 2012 festival de la francophonie / Maison de France...

Original mixed media on paper Handsigned Unique piece PINKHAS (Born in 1975) SOLOS EXHIBITIONS 2022 Gallery 55 TLV Tel Aviv Israël 2021 Gallery 55 TL...

Hippolyte Victor Valentin SEBRON (Caudebec-en-Caux, 1801 – Paris, 1879) Convent interior Ink, pen and wash Signed and dated lower left 27,5 x 20 cm 1839 Pupil of Daguerre from the age of 29, Sebron entered the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris under the teaching of Cogniet. He exhibited regularly at the Paris Salon between 1831 and 1878. First employed in the painting of dioramas, he then produced numerous paintings, particularly interiors of churches...

Mixed media on paper Unique piece Combining felt pen and ink Hand signed

Original drawing on paper Stamp of signature Unique piece Certificate of authenticity from the artist's expert (Marc Metayer) included

In this charming scene a maid appears bashful as she is introduced by her mother to the shepherd’s son. Ink and wash on hand made, cool-toned cream laid paper, 6 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches...