Nicolai Cikovsky

“Bethesda Fountain, Central Park”

1946

Exquisite, early original oil on canvas painting of a harlequin by the well known artist, Charles Levier. Titled verso “L’Babit Blanc” or the “The White Robe” and signed verso. Signed lower left on the front of painting as well. Circa 1955. Condition is excellent; recently professionally cleaned. No apparent restorations. Framed in a reproduction of the period wood frame. Overall framed dimensions are 38 by 32 inches. Provenance: A Greenwich Village, New York collector. Charles Levier. 1920-2003 – Artist Charles Levier, aka Maurice Verrier, was born in 1920 of a French father and an American mother in Corsica. He held a fascination with color and form that led him, at age seventeen, to the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts Decoratifs for private studies. World War II broke out and Levier served in the French army in North Africa, later becoming Liaison Officer with the U.S. Office of Strategic Services. Coming to America...

Oil on canvas painting by the famous Russian/American artist Ben Benn. Signed lower right and dated 1962. In fine original condition . Overall in contemporary gold gilt frame 48 by...

Oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Louis Marcy. Signed lower left. Not framed. Exhibited at Salon of Indépendants in Paris in 1964. Label verso. Inventory 2613. Louis Marcy...

Oil on canvas original painting by the Soviet born artist, Oleg Vukolov. Done in 1982. Signed and dated bottom left. In good unrestored condition. Vukolov’s paintings are in the Lu...

Oil on canvas painting by the Polish born artist, Ernest Kosmowski. The painting is done with palette knife and brush typical of his style and children theme in the 1960’s. Soft, pa...

Oil on canvas painting by the Polish born artist, Ernest Kosmowski. The painting is done with palette knife and brush typical of his style and children theme in the 1960’s. Two young children dressed...

A pair of large Glasgow School oil on canvas portraits by Scottish artist Stuart Mackenzie. The works are presented in plain baton wood frames. Thoug...

Oil, acrylic polymers, grout, gold leaf, on shaped canvas

Artur Duch Puig, born 1951 in Sitges In 1971 he started studying at the St. Jordi School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. There he developed his artistic skills in the fields of sculptu...

SOLOMON ROSSINE (*1937) was born in Gomel, Belarus. He is one of the prominent artist of Leningrad underground artistic movement. Solomon Rossine aspires to understand the drama of the Russian history...

Two Ladies in Landscape by Richard Turner, British 1940-2013 signed and dated verso, 2010 oil painting on canvas, 20 x 24 inches Signed, titled and dated 2010 verso. Painted with lovely bright colours. Richard Turner's work is mainly figurative painting, within Arcadian landscape settings similar to the compositions in renaissance and mannerist art. Turneramon's first stay in Egypt had a significant effect on his painting style and content. His change from hard edge abstraction to synthetic renaissance is evident in his 5ft x 7ft painting; 'The Resurrection of Tutankhamen', leading to his work being labelled post modernist. Turner won the J. Andrew Lloyd scholarship for Landscape, enabling him to study at the Royal College of Art in London, from 1963. There, he was tutored by Carol Weight...

oil on linen canvas heavy duty stretcher reference to Hatian vessels named govi containing souls of the departed