Monte Crews

Class Reunion Gone Wrong

Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Masonite Sight Size 14.50" x 11.25", Framed 20.50" x 17.25" Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 16, 1945

Date: 1951 Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Board Dimensions: 10.25" x 12.50" Signature: Signed Lower Right The Head and the Heart, American Magazine story illustration, September 1951

Medium: 1958 Medium: Gouache on Tempera on Board Dimensions: 17.00" x 15.50" Signature: Signed and Inscribed Lower Right This illustration was published as the dust jacket for the h...

Medium: Gouache and Tempera on Board Dimensions: 16.00" x 16.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right

Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, November 13, 1948 The Post described, “Artist Stevan Dohanos felt like a baseball coach who had everything he needed excep...

Medium: Gouache and Pencil on Paperboard Signature: Signed Lower Left Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, August 26, 1961. The Post described, “The Post desc...

PIOTR FĄFROWICZ (born in 1958). He studied art history at the Catholic University of Lublin. He deals with painting and graphic design. Winner of numerous awards for illustrations, i...

PIOTR FĄFROWICZ (born in 1958). He studied art history at the Catholic University of Lublin. He deals with painting and graphic design. Winner of numerous awards for illustrations, i...

ADAM NIEMCZYC (born in 1914) Painter, graphic artist, poet, novelist. He practiced easel, mural painting and book illustration. Since 1958 he participated in numerous exhibitions in ...

ADAM NIEMCZYC (born in 1914) Painter, graphic artist, poet, novelist. He practiced easel, mural painting and book illustration. Since 1958 he participated in numerous exhibitions in ...

This original painting is hand signed by the artist "Scheiber H" in the lower left corner, and dated "1940" below the signature. Exhibited: Hugo Scheiber - Bela Kadar, Galerie Le Mi...

Mané-Katz (1894 - 1962) SCHOLARS AT STUDY Signed Mané Katz (lower right) Tempera (gouache) on paper laid down on card. 19 3/4 by 23 5/8 in. (50.2 by 60.1 cm) sight size. Frame size is 27 X 31 inches. Provenance: Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern art, 8 June 2017 (consigned by original owner who purchased it directly from artist) Mane-Katz (1894-1962) was a Litvak painter born in Ukraine best known for his depictions of the Jewish shtetl in Eastern Europe. Emmanuel Mané-Katz (Hebrew:מאנה כץ), born Mane Leyzerovich Kats (1894–1962), was a Litvak painter born in Kremenchuk, Ukraine, best known for his depictions of the Jewish shtetl in Eastern Europe. Particularly music figures and Jewish wedding scenes. Mane-Katz moved to Paris at the age of 19 to study art, although his father wanted him to be a rabbi. During the First World War he returned to Russia, at first working and exhibiting in Petrograd; following the October revolution, he traveled back to Kremenchuk, where he taught art. In 1921, due to the ongoing fighting in his hometown during the civil war, he moved once again to Paris. There he became friends with Pablo Picasso and other important French artists, and was affiliated with the art movement known as the School of Paris; together with other outstanding Jewish artists of that milieu, he is sometimes considered to be part of a group referred to specifically as the Jewish School of Paris. Includes Russian, Ukrainian and Polish painters Jankel Adler, Arbit Blatas, Marc Chagall, Jacques Chapiro, Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, Sigmund Menkes, Jules Pascin, Issachar Ryback, Jacques Lipchitz,Chana Orloff, and Ossip Zadkine. Ecole de Paris In 1931, Mane-Katz's painting The Wailing Wall was awarded a gold medal at the Paris World's Fair. Early on, his style was classical and somber, but his palette changed in later years to bright, primary colors, with an emphasis on Jewish themes. His oils feature Judaic Hasidic characters, rabbis, Jewish musicians, beggars, yeshiva students and scenes from the East European shtetl made famous in the west by Sholem Aleichem and Tevye. Mane-Katz made his first trip to Mandate Palestine in 1928, and thereafter visited the country annually. He said his actual home was Paris, but his spiritual home was Eretz Yisrael, the Land of Israel. In 1939, as World War II was breaking out, he was drafted by the French and then was taken prisoner by the Germans. He escaped and went to the United States and remained there until 1945, exhibiting his paintings at Katia Granoff Gallery and Wildenstein Gallery. After the war, he returned to Paris where he had exhibited in the Salons. In Paris to the end of his career, he worked happily, painting hundreds of portraits of rabbis...