Jean Dufy

Le cirque

Dated 1927

Gustave Léonard de Jonghe 1829-1893 | Flemish Afternoon Repose (The Artist's Studio — Antibes) Signed “Gustave De Jonghe” (lower right) Oil on canv...

Andrea Landini 1847-1935 Italian A Mandolin Concert Signed “A. Landini” (lower right) Oil on canvas A cardinal delights in a musical performance in this painting by Italian Card...

Georges Croegaert 1848-1923 Belgian The Letter Signed "Georges Croegaert Paris" (lower right) Oil on panel A cardinal pauses while composing a letter in this oil on panel by Belg...

Georges Croegaert 1848-1923 Belgian The Connoisseur Signed "Georges Croegaert Paris" (lower right) Oil on panel A Cardinal peers through a magnifying glass at gilded treasures in...

André Brasilier B. 1929 French Le miroir Vénitien Signed "André Brasilier" (lower right) Oil and pencil on canvas Quiet and contemplative, French a...

René Magritte 1898-1967 Belgian Le carnaval du sage (The Sage’s Carnival) Signed “Magritte” (lower right); titled and dated "Le carnaval du sage 1947" (en verso) Oil on canvas The enigmatic paintings of René Magritte have become some of the most familiar and celebrated of the Surrealist movement. Among the most influential of the Surrealist painters of the 20th century, Magritte is an artist of international renown, as beloved for his popular appeal as he is for the psychological intensity of his works. The present oil on canvas, entitled Le carnaval du sage, was executed in 1947 at the height of his career, and it is a tour-de-force example of the haunting, mysterious scenes that comprise his oeuvre. Painted in the years following the Second World War, Le carnaval du sage showcases several recurring themes from Magritte’s oeuvre. Chiefly, a juxtaposition between the visible and the hidden is keenly felt. Throughout his career, Magritte explores the psychological obsession with revealing what is hidden, particularly with regard to the human face. In his Le fils de l’homme, he obscures the face of a man in a bowler hat with an apple, while his Les amants (Metropolitan Museum of Art) conceals the faces of two lovers with white sheets. In Le carnaval du sage, Magritte juxtaposes the blatant nudity of his central figure by masking her face, simultaneously revealing and concealing her from the viewer. The work also incorporates two of Magritte’s most common tropes – the glass of water and the baguette. Lending the scene a strange sense of domesticity, they appear infinitely familiar and distinctly out of place, and thus heighten the uncanny effect of Magritte’s composition. In the background hovers a ghost obscured by a sheet, a figure which was of particular fascination to Magritte beginning in 1946. He once wrote to his fellow Surrealist Paul Nougé: "I saw in a dream an answer to the problem of the ghost: the traditional ghost draped...

Oil on canvas

CELSO LAGAR Spanish, 1891 - 1966 LES MUSICIENS signed "Lagar" (lower right) signed again, located & dated "Lagar / Paris 1928" (on the reverse) oil on canvas 23-3/4 x 28-3/4 inches ...

female bathers by visionary artist Stephen Basso

Genre: Impressionist Subject: People Medium: Oil Surface: Panel Frederick Serger (given name Frederick Bedrick Sinaberger) was born in 1889 to a family of Jewish manufacturers in the village of Ivancice near Brno Moravia, a province of Czechoslovakia. Showing artistic talent at a young age, he attended art schools in Brno, Vienna, and Munich. During World War I, Serger joined the Austrian Army...

Fun and colorful contemporary Fauvist interior scene of a black cat lounging on a red couch in a brightly hued room in primary colors, by Jonathan Taylor (American, b.1966). Signed...

Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman Oil on canvas. Work measurements 77x79 cm. Frame size 81x83 cm. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanish painter. He t...