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Period: Mid-20th Century
1940's French Modernist Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Nude Lady with Hat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Nude Lady
French Modernist, dated 1940
indistinctly signed
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 14 x 9.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vibrant Cubist Portrait of a Musician with Guitar Mid 20th Century Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cubist Portrait of a Musician
Marcel Seignobos (1892-1972)
signed oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas : 22 x 15 inches
Provenance: private collection, Cote d'Azur, France
Condition: very...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not', Girl in a Gingham Dress, 1940's, Folk Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A sensitively painted portrait of the artist's daughter, Nancy, aged two and a half, shown wearing a floral-striped, jade green gingham dress.
Signed lower right, 'Martha Tracy Frey' (American, 1915-2010) and painted 1944; additionally inscribed verso 'Picture of Nancy Jane Frey from life-sized photograph when about 2 1/2. Painted by her mother in 1944.' This Kern County...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Vicente Cristellys, Oil on canvas "Gina Lollobrigida", Late 1950s
By Vicente Cristellys
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Vicente CRISTELLYS (1898-1970), School of Paris, late 1950s. "Lolo", portrait of Gina Lollobrigida in Notre-Dame de Paris (film).
Arriving in Paris during the 1920s, Vicente Cristellys settled in Montparnasse like many of his colleagues from the Ecole de Paris. He paints characters and scenes largely inspired by his native Spain. It was after a bohemian period that he began to illustrate cinema posters and he managed to settle in the Parisian cinematographic milieu. For example, he will sign posters for The Big Sleep, The Man in The iron mask...
Category
Neo-Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Le Pantheon - Paris, 1905", Edouard Cortes, 13x18, Oil on Canvas, Impressionism
Located in Dallas, TX
Vaudeville Theatre by Edouard Cortes was painted circa 1955-60 and signed lower left. It is oil on canvas measuring 13x18 in original unlined condition. The piece is included in the ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
FERNAND AUDET (1923-2016) FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST OIL - STILL LIFE RABBITS
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Still Life"
by Fernand Audet (French, Tarascon 1923- Mulhouse 2016)
signed and dated 1968
oil painting on canvas, unframed
painting: 19.5 x 24 inches
A fine "mid century" oil pain...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Pencil Study of a Classical Female Bust Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Antique Pencil Study
pencil sketch on artist paper
painting: 20.75 x 15 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: good and sound conditio...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Color Pencil
Provence Cottages 1950's French Impressionist Vintage Oil Painting Sunny Street
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Provence Cottage
French School, mid 20th century
faint signature
oil painting on board, framed in original 'Montparnasse' style frame.
framed: 18.5 x 15 inches
board: 15 x 12 in...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gypsy Fortune Teller 1968
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3831 Oil painting of a gypsy fortune teller
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Italian Futurist Black and White Dancers Oil Painting by Simone 1960
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3901a Oversized Italian Futurist black and white dancers oil painting on framed canvas
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flower market in front of the Madeleine in Paris. Oil on canvas, 54x65 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flower market in front of the Madeleine in Paris. Oil on canvas, 54x65 cm
In this fascinating painting by artist Constantin Kluge You can view Paris. This city is famous with many t...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Lady Feeding The Birds In Gloomy Winter Park French Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Feeding The Birds
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
oil painting on board, unframed
measures: 13 high by 15.75 inches wide
condition: ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
City Street: Fifth Avenue
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a just discovered oil painting from the earliest period, c.1932, of American artist Ron Blumberg.
After completing his fine art studies art at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris Ron Blumberg left for New York in 1932, where he worked for eight years as a National Academy artist and a member of the Art Students League.
Virtually every painting from this early New York period has been sold, making this the rarest period of work in Ron Blumberg’s career.
City Street: Fifth Avenue, is an original oil on canvas, signed, c.1932, with an image dimension of 39 x 39 inches, good original condition with two very small restorations, set in a beautiful custom white gold frame.
Please contact the gallery for information, availability and pricing
Ron Blumberg
Born: 1908 Reading, Pennsylvania
Education:
National Academy of Design, New York, NY
Art Students League, New York, NY, 1930
Academie de La Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France, 1930-1931
Museum Exhibitions
Delgado Museum, New Orleans, LA 1933
Houston Museum of Art, Houston, TX 1936
Oakland Museum Oakland, CA
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, TX 1936, 1936
Denver Museum of Fine Arts, Denver, CO 1957
Tucson Museum, Tucson, AZ 1955
San Diego Museum, San Diego, CA 1962
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA 1958
H. d Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA 1967
Erma Frye Museum, Seattle, WA 1969
Gallery Exhibitions
ACA Gallery, New York, NY 1937
Arr USA, New York, NY 1939
MacBeth Gallery, New York, NY 1932
Landau Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1951
Esther Robles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1958,1959
Cushing Gallery, Dallas, TX 1972
Jean Dichter Gallery, Denver, CO 1955
Feingarten Galleries, Los Angeles, CA 1987
Trigg Ison Fine Art...
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Eugene Higgins, Age 80.
Located in Storrs, CT
Portrait of Eugene Higgins, Age 80. 1954. Oil on canvas. 30 x 25 (framed 35 x 30). Signed and dated lower right.
Cole and Higgins (1874-1958), both lived in Lyme, Connecticut. Higg...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Art Nouveau, Fleurs
By Karel VonBelle
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original oil on canvas by Belgian artist Karel VonBelle.
"Fleurs", is an original oil on canvas, signed, dated 1935, beautifully framed.
Category
Art Deco Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge 1960's French Oil Portrait of Roman/ Greek Semi Nude Lady Classical Ruins
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Pierre PIGET (1907-1990), signed
Title: 1960's portrait of a semi-nude lady standing in a Greek/ Roman setting amongst ancient ruins. Stunning image - a real 'power ...
Category
Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huge 1960s French Signed Oil - Portrait of Fashionable Woman Emerald Green Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, circa 1960's, signed with monogram
Title: Portrait of a fashionable lady in an emerald green dress.
Medium: oil...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Beach Scene with Figures" Impressionistic Oil Painting on Canvas in Amsterdam
Located in New York, NY
A wonderfully rich beach scene done in Holland in the Mid-20th Century depicting figures in the sand. Some figures are by the water as kids play in the distance with a bicylist as well. The impressionist details are greatly admired as the sun shines on the water beautifully. This painting is signed lower right and comes housed in a simple contemporary silver wood frame with hanging wire on verso.
Art measures 23.5 x 31.5 in
Framed measures 26.25 x 34 in
The Frisian-born artist Henk Gorter...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Surreal Nudes Female Figurative painting by Mury
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3809 Floating world surreal figurative painting signed on verso Mury
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Moments of Reflection Depicting a Woman Sitting by the Fire, Original Oil Paint
By Sam Uhrdin
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are pleased to present a captivating painting by the artist Sam Uhrdin (1886-1964). This beautiful artwork depicts a woman from Dalarna, sitting in front of a warm, glowing fire. The entire painting is bathed in a soft, radiant light, particularly illuminating her face and traditional white/red attire. The woman appears contemplative, lost in thought, perhaps thinking of someone dear to her heart. She is depicted in a kitchen, taking a moment to relax after a day's chores in her home.
Sam Uhrdin's artistic journey began in the early 1900s, he traveled to Stockholm in 1903 to further continue his studies in painting. He worked as a painter during the day and attended various evening schools in the evenings. In 1906, he journeyed to America to work as a sign painter, but he mainly ended up working as an upholsterer. Returning to Leksand in 1909 via London and Paris, his artistic talent gained recognition, and with the help of some patrons, he began studying at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in 1911, occasionally attending Althin's painting school in Stockholm. Financial circumstances cut his study time short, and his skill as a portrait painter earned him numerous portrait commissions, which further occupied his time.
In 1921, Uhrdin received a scholarship from the Royal Academy, enabling him to embark on a study trip in 1922 to the Netherlands, Belgium, and France, which he had to cut short due to his wife's illness. He later visited places like Spain and Portugal.
Uhrdin's breakthrough came with his portrait of the former Prime Minister Nils Edén, which he executed in 1919. In 1921, he portrayed the participants of the Swedish Academy. Among other representatives of official Sweden captured by Uhrdin were Gustav V, Manne Siegbahn, Ludvig Stavenow, and bishops Gottfrid and Einar Billing. In 1932, he held a solo exhibition at Konstnärshuset in Stockholm, and he participated in various exhibitions, including the Swedish Artists' Association in Stockholm in 1917, Swedish Art at Valand-Chalmers in Gothenburg in 1923, Dalarna Artists displayed at Liljevalchs Konsthall in 1936, and the National Museum's traveling exhibition "Barnet i konsten" (Children in Art...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1930's French Portrait of a Lady Sketchy Atmospheric Working Study on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975)
circa 1930's
oil on unstretched canvas, unframed
painting: 22.5 x 19 inches
provenance: the artists estate, France
condition: the painting is on uns...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Modern Portrait of a Dark Haired Man
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-Century Modern portrait of a man by California artist Genevieve Rogers (American, 1904-1984). The abstracted background has texture created with d...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Cardboard
River Landscape with Boaters Trees Distant Village French Mid Century Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Tranquil River
by Georges Leroux (French 1892-1972)
signed oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 15 x 17 inches
Canvas: 9 x 11 inches
Provenance: private collection, Cannes, South of Fra...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Homme d'armes, 1968, oil on canvas
Located in PARIS, FR
Pierre DE MARIA (1896-1984)
Homme d'armes, 1968
Oil on painting
Signed upper left
Dated and titled on the back
25 x 20 cm
tiny cracks, tiny paint jumps visible on photos ; frame in e...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Simka Simkhovitch WPA W/C Painting Gouache American Modernist Beach Scene Nude
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949)
This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not.
These were studies for larger paintings.
This is a watercolor and gouache beach scene three young men bathing...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Watercolor
'African Idol' — Mid-Century African-American artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Elmer Harris (Beni E. Kosh), Untitled (African Idol), watercolor, c. 1950s. Estate stamped verso, 'Beni E Kosh COLLECTION' and numbered '570' in ink. A fine, spontaneous wat...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"Girl with Guitar" Robert Gwathmey, Music, Southern Social Commentary, Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Robert Gwathmey
Girl with Guitar, 1965
Signed upper right
Oil on canvas
16 x 20 inches
Provenance:
The artist
ACA Galleries, New York
Mr. Moses Asch, New York
Terry Dintenfass Galle...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's French Cubist/ Modernist Oil Painting One of the Stations of the Cross
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
One of the Stations of the Cross
by Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) *see notes below
oil painting on canvas, housed in original metal frame
overall dimensions: 17 x 17 inches
prov...
Category
Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shepherds at Sunrise Large 1970's French Post-Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Shepherds at Sunrise
French School, 1976
oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas : 24 x 18 inches
Inscribed verso
Provenance: private collection, Paris
Condition: very good condition
Descrip...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Abstract Figures with Flowers)
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Abstract Figures with Flowers)
Year: 1963
Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper
Size: 29.5 x 21 inches
Condition: Good
Provenance...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1950’s Fashion Illustration Original Painting Of Three Figures In Robes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
3 Figures
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
ink/watercolour/pencil drawing on thin paper, unframed
paper: 13 x 10 inches
stamped verso
very good condition
provenance: from the ar...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Color Pencil
LARGE OIL PAINTING by SALVATORE COLACICCO (NAVY ADMIRALTY 20th CENTURY PIECE
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING LARGE SALVATORE COLACICCO (NAVY ADMIRALTY 20th CENTURY
Very good condition for age , (see pictures)
FINE RARE MARTINE PAINTING ORIG...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rose - Oil Painting by Giovanni Omiccioli - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Rose is a modern artwork realized by Giovanni Omiccioli in the mid-20th century.
Mixed colored oil painting.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Includes frame.
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Christmas Elf - Original oil on canvas, signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Robert SAVARY
Christmas Elf
Original oil on canvas
Signed bottom right
On canvas 42 x 33 cm (c. 17 x 13 in)
Presented in a golden wood frame 58 x 50 cm ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Contemplative Figure with Dog Abstract Watercolor Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figure and Dog Sketch
by Édouard Righetti (1924-2001)
Watercolour and pencil painting on artist paper, beautifully painted.
very good condition
size: 25.5 x inches x 17.5 inches, un...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Color Pencil
St Tropez Harbour Fishermen Tending Nets & Catch Signed Mid 20th Century Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
St. Tropez Harbour
French mid 20th century artist
signed oil on canvas framed
framed: 24 x 28 inches
canvas: 20 x 24 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very goo...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Original Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Expressionist Abstract
by Armand Rottenberg (French 1903-2000)
Signed oil painting on board, unframed
Board size: 29 x 21 inches
provenane: the artists estate, France
Stunning origi...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Overholser Family, 1890, Sterling, Illinois" Streeter Blair, 1949 Painting
Located in New York, NY
Streeter Blair
Overholser Family, 1890, Sterling, Illinois, 1949
Signed, titled, and dated lower left
Oil on canvas
8 x 10 inches
Primitive painter St...
Category
Outsider Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
God Bless Our Home, Social Realist Scene, Figurative Americana Interior Scene
Located in Doylestown, PA
"God Bless Our Home" is an interior and figurative scene of a woman sitting on her couch in serious and proper expression. The Americana style paint...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1960's French Oil Oxen & Cart in Sun Scorched South of France Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Oxen Cart
French Impressionist artist, 1960's
signed oil on canvas, framed
dated 68'
framed: 19 x 28 inches
canvas: 15 x 23 inches
provenance: private collection, France
conditio...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Highway Boat Ride, Original summer cover for The Saturday Evening Post, 1962
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Original cover for The Saturday Evening Post magazine, published July 14-July 21, 1962
This 1962 Post cover by George Hughes evokes the carefree spirit of summer road trips. While m...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Porch People" - Figurative Composition in Oil on Linen
Located in Soquel, CA
Bold composition of two people on a porch by Majel McHugh Logan (American, 1916-1982). Two people sit facing each other on a porch, backlit by warm sun. The piece is sketchy but confident, with thick brushstrokes adding high contrast shadows and highlights. Although the subjects' faces are undefined, there is nonetheless an expressive quality in their body language.
Signed "Majel Logan" in the lower right corner.\
Artist's tag on verso with title.
Presented in a wood frame with a gold accent.
Frame size: 14.75"H x 16.75"W
Canvas size: 14"H x 16"W
Majel Logan (nee McHugh) (American, 1916-1982) was born in Utah. After graduation from St. Mary of the Wasatch College in Utah, she studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. She continued to study at Idaho State University before eventually settling in Santa Clara, CA. Although she was a professional artist at the time, she nonetheless continued her studies at San Jose State University in the 1970s.
By the mid-70s, she had won 43 awards in state, regional, and local competitions, including Fiesta des Artes (Los Gatos...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
1950s French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait of Dapper Man Smoking Pipe
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Man Smoking Pipe
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
oil painting on board, unframed
board: 24 x 19.5 inches
stamped verso
very good condition
provenance: from the artists estate, ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Girl Drawing on graffiti wall.
Located in San Francisco, CA
Really kool little gem here. Oil on canvas of a young girl adding her artistic talents to a graffiti wall. It measures 16 inches wide by 12 high. Frame is 18 1/2 by 14 1/2 inches. It...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1950's French Oil Portrait of Man with Cherries & Blue Jug Mid Century original
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Man with Cherries & Blue Jug
French School, mid 20th century
circa 1950's
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 26 x 16 inches
provenance: private collection, France
conditio...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
‘Rita’ Spanish Flamenco Dancer in Fiery Motion Vibrant Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
‘Rita’ Spanish Flamenco Dancer
By Spanish artist, signed, Mid 20th Century
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
Signed by the artist on the right hand corner
size: 21 x 18 inches
This ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bay Area Figurative Movement -- Impasto Berkeley Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful impasto Bay Area Figurative Movement painting with bell tower (possibly Berkeley Campanile?) and abstracted figures on path and ...
Category
Abstract Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman - Painting by Eliseu Visconti - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Woman is an original modern artwork realized by Eliseu Visconti (1866-1944) in 1930.
Mixed colored oil painting on board.
Hand signed and dated on the lower margin.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil, Board
A Donkey - Painting by Francesco Settimj - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on wooden panel.
Good condition except for some minor losses on edges.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Man - Painting by Francesco Settimj - 1933
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas mounted on board, realized by Francesco Settimj in 1933.
Hand signed and dated lower left.
Good condition.
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
WWII Aircraft Factory Workers Industrial 20th Century American Scene WPA Modern
Located in New York, NY
WWII Aircraft Factory Workers Industrial 20th Century American Scene WPA Modern
Frederick Buchholz (1901-1983)
WW2 Aircraft Factory
18 x 24 inches
Oil ...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Chicago Jewish Modernist Judaica Painting Simchat Torah WPA Artist Israeli Flags
Located in Surfside, FL
This has young ISraeli pioneers dancing with the flag as typical of works of the late British mandate Palestine era early state of Israel.
Genre: Modern
Subject: Figurative (stained glass style)
Medium: Mixed media gouache on paper
Hand signed lower left
Alexander Raymond Katz, Hungarian / American (1895 – 1974)
Alexander Raymond Katz was born in Kassa, Hungary, and came to the United States in 1909. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. In the late 1920s, he worked as a director of the Poster Department at Paramount Studios. He was appointed the Director of Posters for the Chicago Civic Opera in 1930.
During the Great Depression, notable architect Frank Lloyd Wright urged Katz to become a muralist. In 1933, he was commissioned to paint a mural for the Century of Progress exposition in Chicago. In 1936, he painted the mural History of the Immigrant for the Madison, Ill., post office. Katz’s works were included in various exhibitions and now are part of several museum collections, including those of the Art Institute of Chicago; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; and the Jewish Museum, New York. His murals, bas-reliefs and stained glass designs adorn more than 200 Jewish synagogues in the United States.
Katz and other Jewish artists in Chicago who expressed Jewish and Biblical themes were inspired by the artist Abel Pann (1883-1963). Pann, who is regarded as the leading painter of the Land of Israel, exhibited in the Art Institute of Chicago in 1920.
Early in his career, Katz began to explore the artistic possibilities inherent in the characters of the Hebrew alphabet. He developed aesthetic and philosophical interpretations of each letter and became the leading innovator and pioneer in the field of Hebraic art.
Katz applies this concept in the woodcut Moses and the Burning Bush. Hebrew letters appears in Moses’ head, his cane and inside the flame. The initial of Moses’ name crowns his head. The letter in the flame is the first letter of the name of God. A combination of images and Hebrew letters appeared commonly in illustrations of the scene Moses and the Burning Bush in the Haggadah, the book of Passover.
The symbolism of the burning bush corresponds to the motifs of A Gift to Biro-Bidjan. Among the fourteen participating artists were notable Chicago modernists Todros Geller, Mitchell Siporin...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Portrait of a woman ironing
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Paul LUNAUD
(Brantôme 1900 – 1949)
The ironer
Oil on wood
H. 80 cm; W. 64 cm
Signed and dated on the right in the center, formerly signed lower right.
1942
Provenance : Artist's stu...
Category
French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Same Old Story (Brooklyn Dodgers & St. Louis Cardinals Illustration)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Bill Crawford (1913-1982). Original illustration artwork depicting teams as they advance to the World Series. Depicted are representations of the St. Louis Cardinals and The Brooklyn...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Ink, Gouache, Pencil
"Summer Pier Fishing" American Scene Social Realism WPA Mid-20th Century Modern
Located in New York, NY
"Summer Pier Fishing" American Scene Social Realism WPA Mid-20th Century Modern
Syd J. Browne (1907-1991)
"Summer Pier Fishing"
22 x 30 inches
Oil on canvas. c. 1930s
Signed lower r...
Category
American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fruits - Oil Paint by Gianpaolo Berto - 1967
Located in Roma, IT
Fruits is a modern artwork realized by the artist Gian Paolo Berto in 1967.
Mixed colored oil painting.
Hand signed on the lower margin.
Signature, title and date on the back
Inc...
Category
Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century French Cubist Modernist Interior Cafe Scene with Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Cafe Interior
by Guy Nicod
(French 1923 - 2021)
gouache on artist paper, unframed
painting : 20 x 26 inches
provenance: artists estate, France
condition: very good and sound cond...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
1930's French Oil Portrait Lady With Sheer Black Head Scarf
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
oil painting on canvas stuck on board, unframed
measures: 18 high by 15 inches wide
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Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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