Jean Soyer

Small Deep Red Orange Black and Grey Squared Abstract Oil Painting

A striking abstract painting by Jean Soyer featuring dynamic compositions in vivid crimson and black. This 25.6 x 25.6 inch oil on canvas showcases Soyer's signature technique of usi...

A powerful abstract painting by Jean Soyer featuring dynamic red, black, and white movements across canvas. The artwork measures 38.2 x 51.2 inches (97 x 130 cm) and is created using...

Dramatic abstract oil painting on canvas (39.4 x 31.9 inches) by Jean Soyer, featuring bold sweeping strokes in red, blue, and black. The artwork showcases distinctive textural eleme...

Dynamic abstract oil painting on canvas (12x12 inches) by contemporary artist Jean Soyer. The artwork features bold horizontal strokes in fiery reds, yellows, and deep blacks, create...

Homenaje al tapiz- original abstract mixed media painting. frame GRAU-GARRIGA, Josep (San Cugat del Valles, 1928 - Angers, 2011). Grau-Garriga was a Catalan artist, muralist and o...

Myron Lechay Abstract Interior of Room, 1923 Signed upper right corner and dated upper left corner Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches Provenance: Estate of the artist Spanierman Gallery, ...

Angelo Ippolito Untitled, 1952 Signed and dated on the reverse Oil on canvas 16 x 36 inches Provenance: Gloria Torrice Estate of the above Liana Torrice, West Orange...

William Scharf Tropic of Crucifix, 1957 Signed and dated on the reverse Oil on canvas 40 x 47 inches Provenance: The artist Robert Barnet, New York (gift from the above) Private Collection, by descent A visionary painter with ties to the avant-garde artistic community in New York at midcentury, William Scharf nevertheless defies art historical categorization. His abstracted compositions of organic and geometric formal elements recall the free associations of Surrealism and the all-over grandeur of Abstract Expressionism, and at the same time embody a very individual and immediately recognizable pictorial sense. Scharf combines virtuoso paint handling, vibrant color, and rich symbolic language in canvases that engage the viewer in a transcendent and emotional dialogue. This dialogue is accomplished in part through recurring symbols, which allude to hidden, mysterious narratives. Scharf plumbs the psychological wells of collective myths for symbolic content: the crown of thorns, the ladder, the fish, and the cross can be found throughout, functioning not, as one might expect, as religious symbols, but rather as a means through which to access a deeper, symbolic level of visual communication. Born in 1927 in Media, Pennsylvania, an early friendship with renowned artist N.C. Wyeth encouraged Scharf’s artistic efforts from a very young age. After a time with the Army Air Corps in the mid-1940s, Scharf formalized his art studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under Franklin Watkins...