Benjamin G. Benno

A Rock and a Hard Place, Abstract Oil on Canvas Painting by Benjamin Benno

1934

La Sortie 2 Pierre Marie Brisson, French (1955) Date: 2001 Oil on Canvas, signed lower right and dated verso Size: 31 x 31 in. (78.74 x 78.74 cm) Provenance...

USA (13) John F. Leonard American (1921–1987) Date: circa 1965 Oil on Canvas Size: 16.5 in. x 21.5 in. (41.91 cm x 54.61 cm)

"Riviera" is an exquisite painting of American Modern - primary colors actively composed in energetic movement and structure on the painted surface. These colors formulate the painting, play both for and against each other and create a lively surface with hints of either an architectural structure or freeway. This painting hints to future Modernists such as Richard Diebenkorn "Driveway" and David Hockney "Garrowby." Unframed the piece measures 18 x 24. "Riviera" is signed on lower left. On verso is Provenance of over 70 years, 3 galleries in New York and one in Detroit, Michigan: Andrew Crispo Gallery, Sid Deutsch Gallery and Linda Hyman Gallery in New York and Collected Detroit Gallery in Detroit, Michigan. Abstractionist Carl Robert Holty was known for his biomorphic abstract forms as well as the geometric abstractions he painted with his vibrant color palette. Born in Frieburg, Germany his family immigrated to the United States settling in Wisconsin. In 1919, he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago, and shortly thereafter attended the Parsons School of Design. He spent a short time at the National Academy of Design and studied with Francis Coates Jones...

Vintage American signed interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Signed. Framed. Image size, 14L x 11H.