Fiberboard Animal Paintings

It was a winter evening. The artist was walking past the window and noticed out of the corner of his eye a cat lying on a windowsill among the flowers. It looked very cute. As a resu...

Vibrant, wonderful contemporary painting of koi fish feeding by the American artist, Eleanor Grace Miller. Signed lower right. Circa 2005. Condition is excellent. Oil paint on board. Framed in a wide contemporary gold leaf gallery frame. Overall framed measurements are 39.5 by 49.5 inches. Provenance: A New York collector. Eleanor Miller A classically trained artist, Eleanor Grace Miller received her BA from Monmouth University, where she studied under Eleanore Mikus, a vanguard Minimalist, and Bernard Aptekar, one of the original SOHO Ten Downtown, and continued her studies at the National Academy School of Fine Arts. Miller has exhibited extensively throughout the East Coast, both in fine art galleries and corporate venues, and is the recipient of numerous awards, including Best of Show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, MA, the Anna Hyatt Huntington...

Here for your consideration is a modern painting oil on heavy fiberboard of a mother ape with her baby done by the well known Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Signed lower right and dated 1944. The painting is housed in a white washed period solid mahogany frame. Overall framed measurements are 22.5 by 18.75.inches. Condition is very good. Provenance: The estate of the artist Nahum Tschacbasov. Nahum Tschacbasov Biography : Russian-American artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984) is known for his cubo-surrealistic works which feature a strong psychological element. Some of his work bears a resemblance to work of another Russian-American artist--David Burliuk. He was somewhat of a late starter, moving to Paris in 1932 to study under Adolph Gottlieb, Marcel Gromaire and Fernand Leger. He had his first exhibition in Paris in 1934. He then returned to the US where he joined Rothko and Gottlieb at the Galery Seccession. He was one of the co-founders of The Ten, a group of social conscious abstract painters which included Rothko, Gottlieb, Joseph Solman and Ilya Bolotowsky, among others. In 1944, he began to work at Stanley Hayter's Atelier 17, a center for surrealistic ideas. Between 1936 and 1943, he had five one-man exhibitions at the ACA Galleries and participated in five group shows. He also exhibited at the Whitney, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Knox Albright Museum, the Chicago Institute of Fine Art and Corcoran, among others. His work can be found in the permanent collections of the Met, the Whitney, the Brooklyn Museum and the Jewish Museum. Tschacbasov has been the subject of two recent retrospective at Fletcher Gallery, Woodstock, NY and Arthur Kalaher...

Dereck has been painting in oils for 50 years, the first box of oil paints was a gift for his 9th birthday. He is self-taught although he used to study paintings in Municipal art gal...