George Weissbort

George Weissbort (1928-2013) - 20th Century Oil, Gifts for the King

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This finely detailed mid to late 19th Century oil depicts a fresh-faced young woman in the Baroque style, with a Classical setting. The artist portrays the woman smelling a single rose, while balancing a large floral basket on her head, within which is nestled a winged cupid or 'putti', holding an arrow. The Classical setting is typical for the 18th Century French Baroque manner, with a large stone urn...

A vibrant oil painting with areas of impasto, depicting a coastal view under a bright blue sky and white clouds. Signed illegibly to the lower left-hand...

Maurice Newman was active/lived in Massachusetts / Lithuania. Maurice Newman is known for sculpture-abstraction, impressionist landscape painting, diorama. Born in Lithuania, Mauric...

David Mellen's work is not easily defined, vacillating between human flesh and metaphoric representation, the paintings beg you to look deeper and to consider their physical properties. Duchamp, de Kooning, Bacon, Giacometti, Rothko are all direct influences for Mellen, yet he can not be strictly categorized as a representational or an abstract artist. Mellen paints forms reminiscent of human bodies, building them one day at a time for the duration of several months. An endless process of addition and subtraction is at work as the loosely defined figures emerge in sharp contrast with precisely executed geometric backgrounds of neutral colors. The juxtaposition between exposed canvas, well-defined geometric background and a form as the subject of the painting is a motif that has followed Mellen’s work through the years. The entities in Mellen’s work reference actions rather than concrete characters. For example, in Descent (2020) a fall from grace...