Bernard Labbe

1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Black and White Roof Top Town Landscape

1950's

French Figure by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original gouache on paper, mounted on card size: 17 x 11.5 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provenance: t...

Green Eye Girl by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original gouache on paper, mounted on card size: 16 x 13 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provenance: th...

Glassblowers WPA American Scene Mid- 20th Century Modern Figurative Workers. Dated and signed "32 Harry Gottlieb" lower right. Sight: 13 1/8" H x 18 1/4" W. Harry Gottlieb, painter, screenprinter, educator, and lithographer, was born in Bucharest, Rumania. He emigrated to America in 1907, and his family settled in Minneapolis. From 1915 to 1917, Gottlieb attended the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. After a short stint as an illustrator for the U.S. Navy, Gottlieb moved to New York City; he became a scenic and costume designer for Eugene O"Neill's Provincetown Theater Group. He also studied at the Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts and the National Academy of Design. He was one of America's first Social Realist painters, influenced by that Robert Henri-led movement in New York City where Gottlieb settled in 1918. He was also a pioneer in screen printing, which he learned while working for the WPA. He married Eugenie Gershoy, and the couple joined the artist colony at Woodstock, New York. He lectured widely on art education. In 1923, Gottlieb settled in Woodstock, New York and in 1931, spent a a year abroad studying under a Guggenheim Fellowship. In 1935, he joined the Federal Art Project...

Excellent work from this Indian Born (1930) artist, who moved to South Africa. She has received International critical aclaim and her work rarely reaches the market Reddy’s style of...