El Meyer

Cast net mending

c. 1980s

Nina Mirkovich b. 1951 well established Houston artist. "And When The Music Subsides" Measures: 24 X 30 inches, acrylic on canvas, signed. Overall size is 31 X 37 inches.

Francois Gall ( 1912-1987) François Gall was a Hungarian-born French painter best known for his Impressionistic style. Primarily focused on the figure, his brushy oil paintings are largely inspired by the Impressionist masters, Edgar Degas in particular. Gall often painted women engrossed in traditionally feminine activities—ballet, fixing their hair, sewing—rendered in loose, expressive marks and bright pastel colors. In addition to his figurative work, the artist also captured the French landscape, most notably the beach. In A Day at the Beach (c. 1948), loosely sketches bathers frolic under striped umbrellas in a picturesque rendering of French summer vacation. Born in 1912 in Transylvania, Romania, Gall received his formal training at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Workshop Coromaldi in Rome, Italy. He would later settle in Paris in 1936, where he befriended prominent artists of the day—including Pablo Picasso—and became a naturalized French citizen in 1942. As his work grew in esteem, Gall was granted the Francis Smith...

Luis Szepesi, signature lower left. Dimensions: 32 x 38 inches oil on fabric. Executed in an expressionistic style, depicting Life cycle of Christ. The unusual composition of the sub...

Lazar, Krestin (1868-1938) was an artist famous in the German art world for Judaic genre scenes and his many sober portraits of Eastern European Jews. He was also a noted Zionist. His father was a Talmud teacher. His first lessons were at the drawing school in Vilnius, followed by studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna and the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich and he was one of the most prominent students of Isidor Kaufmann. He worked in Munich, Vienna and Odessa before going to Jerusalem in 1910 at the request of Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design founder, Boris Schatz...

Well listed post-impressionist artist Gall was the recipient of the "Medaille D'Ore" at the Paris Salon of 1947. Oil on canvas, 16"h x 14"w, overall size is 10" x 8", signed and in...

Russian Icon, oil on wood, with beautiful cloisonné enamel around. Icon is surrounded with floral motifs decorative insert that is placed into the thick carved wooden frame. Icon is signed verso with dedication to the church that it was made for. c. 1860s 23.5”h x 20.5”w, overall size is 47.5” x 34” Wring on the back of the icon says: "Painted family icon was donated to the church of the name of Pokrova of Virgin Mary with additions of flora and laurel and with 3 saints: Vasiliy the Great, Gregory the Theologian and John Chrysostom by people born at the village of Gubino and later by the merchant Vasiliy Miheev from Saint Petersburg with his wife Tatiana Yakovleva-Miheeva. Done in the memory of completion of this church with stone fence...

“Moving 5” is 60”x 48”. The vibrant yellow surface tones of this piece are broken in several places allowing random glimpses of Arnold’s dreamlike underpainting for a multi-dimension...

"Studio 1528" Oil on Canvas presents a bold visage in blues and white on a mixed field dominated by blues and green tone. Frank Arnold is thought by many to be one of the foremost ab...

Frank Arnold is thought by many to be one of the foremost abstract figurative painters and sculptors of our time. He is a living master whose work is considered to be both personal a...

"Half Way 8", an Oil on Canvas painting of Sienna and very pale aqua-blue. Frank Arnold is thought by many to be one of the foremost abstract figurative painters and sculptors of our...

"Freed 58" Oil on Canvas is full range of blues from near white to Blu Black surrounding central figure. Frank Arnold is thought by many to be one of the foremost abstract figurative...

"Z58" Oil on Canvas with heavy impasto range of Blue pigments. Frank Arnold is thought by many to be one of the foremost abstract figurative painters and sculptors of our time. He is...