Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Ball Playing Nudes

1931

ALEXEJ VON JAWLENSKY 1864-1941 Torzhok 1864 - 1941 Wiesbaden (Russian/German) Title: Seated nude with Face in Profile Sitzender Akt mit Gesicht im Profil, 1912 Technique: Signed Pencil Drawing on Wove Paper Paper size: 50 x 40 cm. / 19.7 x 15.7 in. Additional Information: This drawing is signed in pencil by the artist “A v Jawlensky” at the lower right image. It is dated in pencil “1912”, at the lower left image. Provenance: Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover Sotheby's London, 28 June 1978. Lot 176. Jacqueline Kohler-Krotoschin, Zurich Beurret & Bailly, Basel, 20 June 2018. Lot 107. Exhibited: “Zwischen Tradition und Moderne”. Galerie Rosenbach, Hanover. 1975. Recorded as no. 222, cat. 14 (Illustrated). Literature: 1. Weiler,C. (1970) Alexej Jawlensky...

LASZLO BARO MEDNYANSZKY 1852-1919 Beckó, Slovakia 1852-1919 Vienna (Hungarian) Title: Rooftops, circa 1912 Technique: Original Hand Signed Pencil Drawing on Paper size: ...

A wonderful example of Czobel’s most expressive drawing. Signed, lower right

In this painting the artist uses gestural brushstrokes, which causes distortion and exaggeration for emotional effect. Andre Elbaz uses as his subject figures walking in old city Jerusalem. André Elbaz (born April 26, 1934, El Jadida, Morocco) is a famous Moroccan painter and filmmaker. Elbaz studied art and theatre in Rabat and Paris from 1950 to 1961. He started painting only at the age of 21, until which age he had been interested mainly in theatre. A few years later, he managed to combine his two passions into a new approach in art-therapy, inventing together with his wife, a psychiatrist, the Pictodrame, which brought him world recognition. His first exhibition, which was very successful, took place in Casablanca in 1961 and earned him an appointment as Professor at the Beaux-Arts school in Casablanca. Years later, in 1976, he exhibited his paintings at the Tel-Aviv Museum. In parallel to his career as a painter, Elbaz is also known as a filmmaker. He produced several short films in France, Canada and the United States. One of them, La nuit n'est jamais complète (The night is never complete), won a prize at the "5th Biennale de Paris in 1967". Among the themes chosen for the many films he produced, there was a short one about the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, as well as a series of drawings entitled Seuls (Alone), with texts written by both Elie Wiesel...