Jacques (Jakub) Zucker

Rare Self Portrait Oil Painting Polish, Ecole D'Paris, WPA, Bezalel School

c.1940

Ramon Antonio Carulla (Cuban, born 1936). Oil paintings on paper. Titled "When Dreams Become Reality" Artist signature lower right. Title on verso. Retains original Joy Moos Gallery label. Sheet measures measures approximately 14 in. x 22 in. (paper). Framed 20.5 X 28.5 This painting is a mixed media with oil paint, on paper It is hand signed recto and signed and titled verso. An abstract naive, folk art, work depicting depicts colorful imaginative Surrealist figures. . Ramon Carulla, born in Havana, Cuba in 1936 moved to the United States in 1967. He has exhibited widely throughout the United States, Latin America and Europe. He has participated in personal and group exhibitions in Canada, Venezuela, Mexico and Spain and throughout the USA. Select Gallery Exhibitions: Lowe Art Museum (Coral Gables, Florida), The Museum of Fine Arts (Montreal, Canada), The International Monetary Fund (Washington, D.C.) The Art Expo (New York City). Select Awards: First Prize at the VI Graphic Biennial of Latin America (1983; San Juan, Puerto Rico), the Silvia Daro Dawidowicz Award for Painting (1980; Metropolitan Museum) the Samuel Golan Award (1982, Fine Art Auction Exhibition; CH 2, Miami, Florida). the Cintas Fellowship (Institute of International Education; United Nations, New York) SELECTED INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS 2005 Sonnet Gallery (Sarasota, Florida) 2000 Ramon Carulla: People and Places - Corbino Galleries, 1998 The Dreamers - Cuban Collection Fine Art (Coral Gables, Florida) 1997 The Immigrant Series – Metro-Dade Cultural Resource Center (Miami, Florida) 1996-96 Ramon Carulla: Works on Paper – PJorn (Hamburg, Germany) 1994 Ramon Carulla: New Paintings, Plates & Boxes – The Barbara Scott Gallery Rostros para recordar – Galería Traz (Mexico City, Mexico) 1993 Ramon Carulla, Exhibición Personal – Contemporary Art Museum (Panama) 1992 Ramon Carulla: Recent Work - The Barbara Scott Gallery (Bay Harbor, Florida) 1991 Cabinet Room – The Capitol (Tallahassee, Florida) 1988 Sofa & Hostage Series – Jay Moos Gallery 1987 20 Years After – Bacardi Art Gallery (Miami, Florida) 1985 Malcom Brown Gallery – (Cleveland, Ohio) Mask Series...

Framed 24.5 x 28.5 image 19.5 x 23 inches. Franz Anton Coufal (Austrian, 1927 - 1999) Painter and sculptor known for figure painting, bronze sculpture, genre paintings and as a graphic artist. After completing an apprenticeship as a locksmith, Franz Anton Coufal attended the Graphic Education and Research Institute in Vienna from 1947 to 1949 as a student of André Roder and from 1949 to 1953 took lessons from Ignaz Schönbrunner. From 1953 to 1959 he finally studied with Fritz Wotruba at the Academy of Fine Arts (diploma and master school award 1959). Coufal then went on study trips to Germany and Italy and then settled in Vienna as a sculptor and graphic artist. His work bears the influence of Austrian Magic Realism and the artists Friedensreich Hundertwasser, Arik Erich Brauer and Ernst Fuchs. THis work also has Expressionist elements to it. He organized exhibitions in Vienna (from 1955), Paris (1962, 1970) and Brussels (1964) as well as in other Austrian cities. His most important works include the honorary grave for Leopold Figl in the central cemetery (1966). In 1979 he provided the design for the face of the silver 100 schilling coin "Festival and Congress House Bregenz", in 1980 he created the Lehár monument for the city park, and in 1987 he received the special prize in the "Danube Region Vienna" competition. A select list of his sculptures in public spaces "Standing youth" (19, Hameaustraße - Celtesgasse, urban residential complex; 1960) "Reclining youth" (22, Kagran [Meißnergasse - Maißauer Gasse - Anton-Sattler-Gasse]; artificial stone, 1962) "Flammender Turm" (16, Thaliastraße 159; marble) Cubist marble sculpture (11, Molitorgasse at 15) Drinking fountain (20, Adalbert-Stifter-Straße primary school; 1968) Figldenkmal (1, Minoritenplatz, 1973) Coufal created some of his later works for the "Harmonie" rest home for the blind in Unterdambach near Neulengbach (memorial for the 144 blind people who perished in concentration camps, unveiled in 2000; stone sculpture "Monument to Humanity" on the terrace; rose-thorn cross and tabernacle for the in-house Odilien- Chapel; bronze portrait sculpture by Robert Vogel in the entrance hall, unveiled July 3, 1994). Bibliography Rudolf Schmidt: Austrian artist lexicon. From the beginning to the present. Vienna: Tusch 1974-1980 Who's Who in the world. Volume 2: 1974-1975. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who 1974 Who's who in the world. Volume 3: 1976-1977. New Providence, NJ: Marquis Who's Who 1976 Who is Who in Austria with South Tyrol part (Hübner's "Blue Who is Who"). Zug: Who is who, Verlag für Personalenzyklopädien 12 1995 Otto Breicha: Franz Anton Coufal In: Franz Anton Coufal. Österreichische Staatsdruckerei, December 9-22, 1964. Vienna: Staatsdruckerei 1964 The press, July 30, 1963 Of the generation of Viennese artists Alois Mosbacher, Josef Mikl, Oswald Oberhuber, Christian Ludwig Attersee, Peter Sengl, Max Weiler, Franz Ringel, Gunter Brus, Hubert Schmalix, Wilhelm Kaufmann, Paul Flora, Oscar Larsen, Hans Staudacher, Siegfried Anzinger, Ernst Huber...

Late 20th century modernist oil painting of Greco Roman wrestlers done in the classical style. By David Loeb. Oil on handmade paper. Signed on reverse and dated 1989. Loeb was born in 1953 and raised in Chappaqua, New York, David Loeb’s mother and her identical twin were painters, and he has been painting since childhood. He studied with Gillian Pederson-Krag at Cornell University; Reed Kay at Boston University; Louis Finkelstein, Wolf Kahn and Philip Guston at the Yale Summer School of Art and Music; and attended graduate school at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he studied with Robert Barnes...

Under The Sea Series, Nº 10. Úbeda. Oil paint fantasy blue green underwater landscape. Oil on paper, (H) 28 x (W) 39 X (D) 0.2 cm. Author: Úbeda. The sheets that make up this proj...