Alan Davie

Improvisations on a Chagall Theme no. 1 - Alan Davie, painting, modern, british

December 1966

Alan Davie (1920-2014) Queen Emma June 1968 oil on canvas (triptych) 213.5 x 404 cm signed, dated and titled (on the verso) Price: £300,000 GBP (inc. 20% U...

Andre Lanskoy (1902-1976) Composition 1964 oil on canvas 73 x 100 cm signed and dated ‘LANSKOY 64’ (lower left) Price: €55,000 EUR Provenance: Private collection (acquired from the artist in 1965) Sale: Christie’s London, 21 March 2002, lot 206 Private collection, UK (acquired at the above sale) Sale: Christie’s London, 21 October 2008, lot 273 Private collection, Ravenna Notes: This work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Michel Népomiastchy, on behalf of the Comité Lanskoy, dated 5 April 2016 and will be included in the forthcoming catalogue raisonée. Andre Lanskoy was born in Moscow on the 31st of March 1902. He was a pupil at the School of Pages in St. Petersburgh. After serving for the Czarist forces during the Russian Revolution, Lanskoy moved to Kiev where he began to paint under the guidance of Soudeikine, a fashionable painter and decorator. He then attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris in 1921, where he discovered the work of Van Gogh and Matisse. During this time Lanskoy also associated with Soutine, whose influence is clearly evident in his early expressionist paintings...

signed 'A. Istrati' (lower right); signed and dated 'A. Istrati, 1984-87' (on the verso) Provenance Private collection, Paris Exhibited Paris, Salon d'Automne, November 1988 Dunkir...

signed and dated 'A. Istrati, 65' (lower left); signed, dated and located 'A Istrati, 1965, Mairie XIV' (on the verso) Provenance Private collection, Paris

signed ‘ozenfant’ (lower right) Provenance: Sale: Christie's London, 4 April 1989, lot 198 Dr. Arthur Brandt, New York (acquired at the above sale) Literature: P. & M. Guénégan, 'A...

signed (lower right); signed, titled, dated and marked with the artist’s thumbprint (on the verso) PROVENANCE Portal 11 Art Gallery, Kiev, Ukraine (acquired from the artist)

Dramatic abstract oil on canvas painting by Gladys Regier-Vaughan (American 1923-1987). Vaughan was a New York stage director who started painting in 1970. Signed and dated verso.

Modern abstract oil on canvas painting titled "The Red Forest" and dated 2007 verso. Signed by Artist bottom left corner verso. Beautiful thick textures and...

Giulio Turcato (Mantova, 16 marzo 1912 – Roma, 22 gennaio 1995) è stato un artista italiano, fra i principali esponenti dell'astrattismo informale italiano.

The Orchestra, 1950, oil on canvas, 21 ½ x 25 3/4 inches, signed and dated lower left, labeled verso “Brown University, Trustee, The Walter Feldman Trus...

Amish Farmscape #3, 1984, oil on canvas, 40 x 30 inches, signed and dated lower right; signed, dated, and titled verso About the Painting Amish Farmscape #3 is part of a multi-painting series of barns completed in the early 1980s for an exhibition at New York’s prestigious Sid Deutsch Gallery. Lewandowski painted this work at an important point in his career. It was the first major project undertaken by Lewandowski after his retirement from serving as the Chairman of Winthrop University’s Art Department, the last academic position he held after teaching for nearly thirty years. Lewandowski had been inspired to work on the series by a visit to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Like his friend and mentor, Charles Sheeler, Lewandowski had always been fascinated by vernacular architecture and the Amish barns of Pennsylvania brought back memories of rural scenes Lewandowski had painted in the Midwest much earlier in his career. Amish Farmscape #3 is a strong example of Lewandowski’s late precisionist work. The complexity of the composition and Lewandowski’s technical acumen are on full display. Being relieved of the burdens of teaching and administering a university art department likely allowed Lewandowski greater freedom and most importantly more time to complete the Amish Farmscape series. Although Lewandowski’s brand of precisionism changed throughout the years, he never deviated from the core tenets of the Immaculate School artists. In this work, we see simplified and flattened forms, the use of ray-lines to define light and space, the elimination of extraneous details, a polished almost machine-like finish, and the complete lack of visible brushstrokes, all hallmarks of the precisionist painters. Lewandowski was the last of the 20th century precisionists and in Amish Farmscape #3, we see just how successfully he continued to work in this style until his death in 1998. About the Artist Edmund Lewandowski was among the best of the second-generation precisionist painters. He was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and studied at the Layton School of Art with Garrett Sinclair. Lewandowski achieved early success when in 1936 two of his watercolors were shown at the Phillips Collection as part of a Federal Art Project exhibition. Then, in 1937, his work was first exhibited at Edith Halpert’s Downtown Gallery which represented Lewandowski into the 1950s. Under Halpert’s guidance, Lewandowski continued to explore watercolor as his main medium during the 1930s and 1940s, since the gallery already represented Charles Sheeler, who worked primarily in oils. Sheeler became Lewandowski’s major influence as the primary leader of the ill-defined, but very recognizable Immaculate School artists, which included other Downtown Gallery painters, Niles Spencer, George Ault, and Ralston Crawford, as well as Charles Demuth and Preston Dickinson, both of whom died at a young age and had been represented by the Charles Daniel Gallery. Sheeler is credited with giving Lewandowski technical advice on how to make his paintings more precise and tightly rendered and by all accounts, Sheeler was a fan of Lewandowski’s work. Through the Downtown Gallery, Lewandowski’s paintings were accepted into major national and international exhibitions and purchased by significant museums and collectors. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt and Nelson Rockefeller acquired works by Lewandowski. He was included in the Museum of Modern Art’s important 1943 exhibition, American Realists and Magic Realists as well as juried exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and the Art Institute of Chicago. Lewandowski also completed commissions for magazines during the 1940s and 1950s, including several covers for Fortune. Throughout his career, Lewandowski explored urban and rural architecture, industry, machinery, and nautical themes. Looking back on his career, Lewandowski wrote, “My overwhelming desire as an artist through the years has been to record the beauty of man-made objects and energy of American industry on canvas. For as far back as I can recall, the cityscapes, farms and depictions of industrial power and technological efficiency has had a great attraction for me. I try to treat these observations with personal honesty and distill these impressions to a visual order.” Lewandowski is credited with extending precisionism to the Midwest and successfully continuing the style into the 1990s, three decades after Sheeler’s death and six decades after Demuth’s passing. Late in his career, Lewandowski enjoyed a resurgence of popularity as he was represented during the 1980s by New York’s Sid Deutsch and Allison Galleries...

Signed and dated "Mary Spencer Nay '74" lower left. Titled "Pyromaniac's Pyre" verso. Exhibited: 1976-1977 "Mary Spencer Nay: Recent and Retrospective Works". J.B. Speed Art Museum...