Caleb Althin

The Wounded Man by Caleb Althin, Mixed Media on Paper, Signed

early 1900

Drawn at Danviken Hospital between 1841 and 1842. Swedish art of the late 19th and early 20th centuries would appear significantly diminished if the works of artists who struggled w...

Gerhard Ludwig Lahde (Bremen 1765–1833 Köpenhamn) A Tailor Working at his Desk Ink and wash on paper, mounted on a 19th-century backing inscribed “G. L. Lahde del.” unframed: 14.2 ...

This watercolour portrait by Finnish artist Hugo Backmansson depicts an Arab man from the Rif region of Morocco. Created during Backmansson’s journey to Morocco in 1939, the work cap...

Unknown Swedish Artist Composition with Reading Girl inkl on paper indistinctly signed and dated Eric Eric SON? 1922 frame included

Sympathy is a watercolor on paper realized by Pierre Laurent Brenot (1913-1998). Good conditions, aged. Included the Passepartout: 32 x 24. There is the lithograph of the same artwork included: 18.4 x 14. Here the artwork represents a couple sitting together in a candlelight. The artwork is depicted skillfully through confident and soft strokes in a well-balanced composition and harmonious colors. Pierre-Laurent Brenot (1913-1998) In 1928, he entered the École Estienne where he attended classes for three years. Then he continued his training as a designer with Fernand Hertenberger. Pierre-Laurent Brenot's gifts of observation and precision in his pencil stroke were immediately noticed.During the fashion years (from 1936 to 1950),he was hired by Monsieur Chatard, a great tailor for men and women, in his Fashionable store, at number 16 boulevard Montmartre. He then created a line of men's suits. On his momentum, he produced numerous fashion designs for other great couturiers (Christian Dior, Jacques Fath, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Nina Ricci, Jeanne Lafaurie...

"My work principally consists of deeply abstracted figure compositions--intuitive constructions that begin with random marks establishing larger masses of torsos, heads, and limbs in an undefined setting. The emphasis is almost purely on intuition. The figures are born of their surrounding environment, emerging only partially and fugitively from the layers of pigment. A narrative is evident but never overt. A crown, a shield, a boat, a wheel. Though the subject has recently coalesced around my reading of Dante and Shakespeare, the settings remain extremely vague- a beach, an interior, a woodland. The paintings are, in the end, meditations on the relationship between the protagonists in a wordless drama. In my paintings, I use a cold wax medium...

"Le Portrait Equestre" is an original color lithograph by Claude Weisbuch. This piece depicts a number of figures in black robes looking at horses. The a...

The Dead Christ is an original drawing in pencil on paper realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th century. Good conditions. The artwork represe...