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Elsbeth Juda (1911-2014) - Framed 20th Century Mixed Media, Rembrandt & Model

20th Century

Completed with expressive brushwork in acrylic and ink. Very well presented in a contemporary wood frame. Signed in ink to the lower corner. On paper.

An engaging collage composition by the British artist Susan Paine. The materials used include magazine cutouts and watercolour. Signed to the lower right-hand corner of the mount. We...

A recently made painting of a lady by an unknown Dutch artist. The mixed media collection of materials on canvas depicts a lady's face and is framed in a simple wood frame. Be sure t...

This haunting image by Eugene Berman was painted on a sheet of paper cut in the shape of a heart, mounted to a paint-speckled ground, encircled with metal shavings, and placed in a frame of the artist’s own devising. Berman wrote the title, Radiograph of a Heart, on the back. It refers to the medical X-rays that doctors had recently come to rely on. Yet Berman’s point seems to be that while a heart can be monitored scientifically, the emotions associated with it lie beyond the power of medical science. Russian by birth, Berman fled St. Petersburg during the Revolution and settled in Paris. Later, as a Jew, he fled the Nazi advance and took refuge in New York and Hollywood. His peace of mind, however, was shattered by the suicide of his wife, actress Una Munson (who played Belle Watling in Gone With the Wind). That distressing event — “Don’t follow me” she admonished in her suicide note...