Francois Gerome

'Paris, Flower Market', Young Mademoiselles, Gamines des Fleurs, Jeunes Filles

Circa 1955

Signed lower right, 'Anton Sipos' (Bosnian-American, born 1938) and dated 1974. A substantial Impressionist oil painting showing two young women relaxing in a sunny garden with a peacock and a peahen. Born in Bosnia, Anton Sipos began drawing at an early age and left home in his teens to work as a film animation artist. He achieved immediate success with his first work, "Surrogate", which won an Academy Award for best-animated short subject under the direction of Yugoslav animator Dushon VuKotic. In 1964, Sipos moved to Montmartre to study at the École de Paris. During this early period, Sipos exhibited widely and with success including at the Salon d'Automne and Le Salon d'Artistes Françaises. While in France, he made numerous painting trips to Provence, Giverny, Rouen and the Cote d'Azur as well as to Italy. In 1970, Sipos arrived in California where he painted landscapes of Los Angeles and marine scenes of the harbor in San Diego. He also worked as an artist for the film industry, most notably with Eleanor Ettinger Studio in New York where he was given the responsibility of transferring Norman Rockwell...

An early 19th century, figural oil of a young woman with chestnut hair, shown wearing a headscarf and glancing towards the viewers left. A detail from a copy of 'Rebeca at the Well',...

Initialed upper right 'A.B.' for Axel Bentzen (Danish, 1893-1952) painted circa 1925. Axel Bentzen studied art as a child and, by the age of 14, was copying Old Master paintings at Copenhagen's National Museum of Art. He traveled to Italy in 1919 and, from 1923-1939, spent every second year there or in Paris, painting and furthering his understanding of the principles of Modernism. Bentzen was the recipient of numerous scholarships including the prestigious Hielmstierne-Rosencrone scholarship which he was awarded twice (1925, 1927) and the Copenhagen Akademie scholarship which he received three times (1927, 1929, 1931). He exhibited internationally with success including, from 1922, at the Charlottenborg as well as at prominent salons in Paris, Berlin, Venice, Budapest, Riga and Belgrade. The artist is listed in all relevant art reference works including both Benezit's Dictionary of Artists and Thieme-Becker's Kunstlexikon (Vollmer Supplement). We are pleased to offer this dramatic and psychologically penetrating oil study of a young man dating to circa 1925. Reference: E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 2, p. 122; Vollmer Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler des 20. Jarhhunderts, Hans Vollmer, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, Vol. 1, p. 173; et al. Scholarships: Hielmstierne-Rosencrone 1925, 1927; Raben-Levetzau 1926; Bielke 1926; Carlson's Pr. 1926; Akkadian. 1927, 1929, 1931; Oluf Hartmann 1928, 1930; Eckersberg Med. 1930; Kaufmann 1930; March 1931; Zach. Jacobsen 1932, 1936. Exhibitions: KE 1922-26; Charles. Spring 1925; The free Exhibition 1927-38 (inc. from 1930); Association of painters, Helsinki, 1928; Funen Spring Exhibition. 1930, 1938; Tour exhibition 1930-36; Newer Painting, Germany 1932; in Venice 1934, 1954; as exhibited in Budapest, Riga, Bucharest and Belgrade 1936-37; Nerd Mässhallen, Gothenburg 1939; Grønningen 1939-47, 1952 (commemorative issue), 1953, (commemorative issue), 1955, 1965; Icelandic, Swedish art, Mässhallen, Gothenburg 1941; Ny Carlsbergfondet Jubilee Charlottenborg and others 1952; That then buying convention, Fr. 1952 (commemorative issue); The Freeman's Memorial Exhibition, Kunstforen, Kbh 1966; Easter 1974, Skive Museum 1974; Modern art owned by Vejle, Vejle Kunstmuseum 1977; Inside, outside, Mouse at Koldinghus 1981. Solo exhibitions: Anton Hansen, Copenhagen 1917; The free Exhibition building, 1921; Kunstforen, Copenhagen 1937; Jugelsalan, Aarhus 1946-47, 1950; Storstrøm's Kunstmuseum 1953 (commemorative issue); Open Mouse, 1972. Artworks: Egyptian Woman on Balcony (1920); Self-Portrait (1925, Stat. Museum for Art); The Hospital Garden (1925); The Dreamer (1925, Storstrøm Art Museum); The Blind (1925, Carlsons Pr for 3 last names); Marsk Stig's daughters (1926, Nordjyll Kunstmuseum); Young Italian woman on a chair...

Signed upper right, 'Oda Lauritsen' for Oda Lauritsen Isbrand (Danish, 1904-1987) and dated, upper left, '1928'. A powerful oil portrait of the artist's husband-to-be, the notable D...

This huge Italian 19th century armorial painting features the coat of arms of Montini, a noble Italian family that has among its ancestors the Archbishop of Milan, later known as Pope Paul VI. The large oval canvas has a brown and red background, the latter shaped like a shield, in which six mountains (from the etymology of the surname) and three white fleur de lis are painted. This big scale palatial oil painting...

This oil painting on canvas, created by an artist from the 17th Century Flemish School, depicts one of the most significant scenes from Greco-Roman mythology: Aeneas saving his famil...

"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...

"A58" is 72” x 66”. The electric blues on black stand out from the figure on a mixed background of medium earth tones and heavy textures. Frank Arnold’s paintings exhibit the highest...