Realist Figurative Paintings
REALIST STYLE
Realist art attempts to portray its subject matter without artifice. Similar to naturalism, authentic realist paintings and prints see an integration of true-to-life colors, meticulous detail and linear perspectives for accurate portrayals of the world.
Work that involves illusionistic techniques of realism dates back to the classical world, such as the deceptive trompe l’oeil used since ancient Greece. Art like this became especially popular in the 17th century when Dutch artists like Evert Collier painted objects that appeared real enough to touch. Realism as an artistic movement, however, usually refers to 19th-century French realist artists such as Honoré Daumier exploring social and political issues in biting lithographic prints, while the likes of Gustave Courbet and Jean-François Millet painting people — particularly the working class — with all their imperfections, navigating everyday urban life. This was a response to the dominant academic art tradition that favored grand paintings of myth and history.
By the turn of the 20th century, European artists, such as the Pre-Raphaelites, were experimenting with nearly photographic realism in their work, as seen in the attention to every botanical attribute of the flowers surrounding the drowned Ophelia painted by English artist John Everett Millais.
Although abstraction was the guiding style of 20th-century art, the realism trend in American modern art endured in Edward Hopper, Andrew Wyeth and other artists’ depictions of the complexities of the human experience. In the late 1960s, Photorealism emerged with artists like Chuck Close and Richard Estes giving their paintings the precision of a frame of film.
Contemporary artists such as Jordan Casteel, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Aliza Nisenbaum are now using the unvarnished realist approach for honest representations of people and their worlds. Alongside traditional mediums, technology such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and immersive installations are helping artists create new sensations of realism in art.
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Style: Realist
Period: 1930s
Country yard in spring. Oil on canvas, 74x96 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Country yard in spring. Oil on canvas, 74x96 cm
Oto Pladers (1897.8.III – 1970.2.V)
Oto Pladers learned in Riga city school of art (1913 – 15).
He was called into the army in 1916 a...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Hans Baluschek Sommer an der Havel ( Summer On The River Havel ), 1934
Located in Berlin, DE
Hans Baluschek ( 1870-1935 ), Germany. "New Objectivity" Style. Mixed media on paper, 1934. Signed and dated lower right: HBaluschek.34. Framed. Height: 26.18 in ( 66,5 cm ), Width:...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
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Paper, Mixed Media
A Cotswold Stonebreaker - Charles March Gere - Early 20th Century British Oil
By Charles March Gere, RA, RWS
Located in London, GB
CHARLES MARCH GERE, RA, RWS
(1884-1963)
A Cotswold Stonebreaker
Signed l.l.: CHARLES GERE; signed and inscribed with title and the artist’s address on the stretcher
Oil on canvas
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
Young Female Ballet dancer
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful WPA era ca. 1930s portrait of a ballet dancer signed F. Miller.
Oil on canvas measuring 18 x 24 inches; 24 x 30 inches in contemporary frame.
Signed on back.
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
"Nude, " Arnold Blanch, Woodstock School, WPA, Figurative
Located in New York, NY
Arnold Blanch
Nude
Signed lower right
Oil on board
20 x 16 inches
Provenance:
G. David Thompson Collection, Pittsburgh
Private Collection, New York
Bo...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
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Board, Oil
Portrait of a Lady with Pendant - British Art Deco 30's portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This gorgeous Art Deco portrait oil painting is by British female artist Elsie March. Elsie was one of 9 siblings, eight of whom became artists. Although Elsie later went on to focus...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
The Entombment - British art 30's oil painting religious landscape Jesus angels
Located in London, GB
A huge British adaptation of The Entombment. Oil/Tempera on panel by E G Tucker. The scene depicts Jesus being wrapped whilst the angels look on. The work was executed for The Roma...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
"The Artist's Portrait'
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a magnificent, early original pastel, "The Artist's Portrait", by American artist Robert McIntosh.
"The Artist's Portrait", is an original pastel on artist's paper, signed, dated 1937, 13 x 9.75, currently unframed, the portrait was acquired directly from the personal collection of the artist.
We have included the artist's biography below please contact the gallery for additional information,
Robert McIntosh
(1916-2010)
Robert McIntosh was born on March 11, 1916 near San Francisco, in Vallejo, California, the second son of Harry and Jesusita Coronado McIntosh. He found his lifelong passion for painting by the time he was ten years old and never swayed from his calling.
The family moved to Stockton when Robert was 12. Their home was just six blocks from the newly opened Haggin Museum, filled with a treasure trove of European and American paintings. He became particularly enamored with the fine examples of 19th century French pastoral landscapes. As teens, Robert and his brother Harrison befriended local painter Arthur Haddock who taught them the craft of art and brought them along on outdoor painting trips. Robert also became skilled at drawing portraits that captured the subject's personality. Soon, the sheer joy of expressing himself this way became a consuming interest.
When not sketching, McIntosh would wander the stacks of books at the public library, discovering and studying the Masters - in particular, Michelangelo, Rembrandt and Whistler. At a Gauguin exhibit at the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, Robert discovered a "whole new world of color" and the importance of designing the space in the eternal rectangle. "I envision a frame around everything I see, "he admitted. "The artists' challenge is to put something meaningful, interesting or beautiful in that space."
In 1934 McIntosh won a competition for a scholarship to the Art Center School of Design, the first award they ever bestowed. The entire family moved to Los Angeles and a new vista opened to the young artist, both visually and culturally. Robert began to take on portrait commissions and had exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Art, The Oakland Museum of Art and the Crocker Museum of Art in Sacramento.
During the Great Depression, Robert began to work at Disney Studios painting backgrounds for such classics as "Fantasia". Ron Barbagallo, of Animation Art...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
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Oil Pastel
Tavern on the Green (New Yorker Magazine cover proposal)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Tavern on the Green. Watercolor and ink on paper, 9 3/8 x 12 inches. Unsigned. Excellent condition.
Provenance: Ethel ...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Fancy Department Store Satirical Cartoon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Fancy Department Store Satirical Cartoon, ca. 1930's. Ink, watercolor and gouache on heavy illustration paper, panel measures 19 x 15 inches. Signed lower right. Very good condition. Unframed.
Provenance: Ethel Maud Mott Herman, artist (1883-1984), West Orange NJ.
For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony.
In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques.
He found that talent in Barbara Shermund.
For about two decades, until the 1940s, Shermund helped Ross and his first art editor, Rea Irvin, realize their vision by contributing almost 600 cartoons and sassy captions with a fresh, feminist voice.
Her cartoons commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony, using female characters who critiqued the patriarchy and celebrated speakeasies, cafes, spunky women and leisure. They spoke directly to flapper women of the era who defied convention with a new sense of political, social and economic independence.
“Shermund’s women spoke their minds about sex, marriage and society; smoked cigarettes and drank; and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so,” Caitlin A. McGurk wrote in 2020 for the Art Students League.
In one Shermund cartoon, published in The New Yorker in 1928, two forlorn women sit and chat on couches. “Yeah,” one says, “I guess the best thing to do is to just get married and forget about love.”
“While for many, the idea of a New Yorker cartoon conjures a highbrow, dry non sequitur — often more alienating than familiar — Shermund’s cartoons are the antithesis,” wrote McGurk, who is an associate curator and assistant professor at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. “They are about human nature, relationships, youth and age.” (McGurk is writing a book about Shermund.
And yet by the 1940s and ’50s, as America’s postwar focus shifted to domestic life, Shermund’s feminist voice and cool critique of society fell out of vogue. Her last cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1944, and much of her life and career after that remains unclear. No major newspaper wrote about her death in 1978 — The New York Times was on strike then, along with The Daily News and The New York Post — and her ashes sat in a New Jersey funeral home...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
Hamilton Beach
By Joseph Lomoff
Located in Lawrence, NY
Russian-American artist Lomoff is best known for his highly colored Social Realist works. This particular work was reviewed by the NYT in 1937. Edward Alden...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
"Ballet Lessons", 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Sebastián Llobet Ribas, Spanish
Located in Madrid, ES
SEBASTIÁN LLOBET RIBAS
Spanish, 1887 - 1975
signed "Llobet Ribas" (lower right)
signed again "Llobet Ribas" (on the reverse)
oil on canvas
32 x 25-3/4 inches (80.5 x 65 cm.)
unframed
PROVENANCE
Private Collector, Barcelona
Painter and draftsman of the twentieth century, born in Barcelona in 1887. He attended the Fine Arts Schools and was a disciple of Vicente Climent. He participated in the Self-Portraits Exhibition held in 1907, in the Drawing Exhibition in the Sala Parés in 1910, in several of the Spring and International Exhibition, and in the National Exhibition of 1942 and 1944 in Barcelona and in 1950 in Madrid. In the 1951 Exhibition of the Circulo de Bellas Artes de Palma de Mallorca, he obtained a medal for the set of drawings...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
The Music Professor
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a magnificent early oil painting by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010.)
The Professor, is an original oil on paper, laid on panel, estate stamped, painted in 1935, currently unframed with an image dimension of 20 x 16 inches, beautiful original condition, acquired directly from the personal collection of the artist. This is among the earliest work of Robert McIntosh, painted in a master level classical style.
Please contact our West Hollywood gallery...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
Landscape American Hungarian European Modernism 1938 Realism Long Island WPA era
Located in New York, NY
Landscape American Hungarian European Modernism 1938 Realism Long Island WPA era. The canvas measures 18” x 20". The artist signed the stretcher as well as the canvas.
The scene depicts a spots in New York where Queens borders with Nassau county, Rosedale, which abuts the Five Towns. The border runs through Hook Creek, another painting we are currently offering.
Stephen (Istvan) Csoka was born in Gárdony, Hungary on January 2, 1897 and died in New York in 1989. He is best remembered as a painter and etcher of portraits, nudes, landscapes, genre, and horses. Csoka studied at the Budapest Royal Academy of Art and his memberships include Associate of the National Academy of Design in New York City; the Society of American Etchers in Brooklyn, NY; the Society of Brooklyn Artists; and the Hungarian Etchers Association.
Csoka's exhibitions and awards include a medal at the Barcelona International Exhibition in 1929; a prize at the City of Budapest Exhibit in 1930; prizes at the Society of American Etchers in 1942 and 1945; prizes at the Library of Congress in 1944 and 1946; a prize at the Society of Brooklyn Artists in 1944; a prize at the Philadelphia Watercolor Club in 1945; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1945; the Carnegie Institute in 1943, 1944, and 1945; the Art Institute of Chicago in 1944; the Los Angeles Museum of Art in 1945; the National Academy of Design from 1940 through 1945; one-artist shows at the Contemporary Artists in 1940, 1943, and 1945; and the Minneapolis State Fair in 1943. *Stephen continued to recieve awards and exhibit his work throughout his life. In 1997, Hofstra Museum sponsored a Retrospective/Centennial exhibition in honor of his birth.
Collections representing Csoka's work are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the British Museum, London, England; the Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; the Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN; the Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN; the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM; the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary; Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, the Museum of the City of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary; the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY; Holocaust Museum, Glen Cove, NY; National Academy of Art, New York, NY; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; New York Historical Society, New York, NY;New York Public Library, New York, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA; Livingston Arts Center, Mount Morris, NY; Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, IN; City College, New York, NY; Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY; Hungarian Consulate, New York, NY; Hungarian Heritage, New Brunswick, NJ; Hunter College, New York, NY; IBM Collections; Princeton Print Club...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
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Oil, Canvas
Hook Creek Hungarian American European Modernism WPA 1935 Long Island Canal Boat
Located in New York, NY
Hook Creek Hungarian American European Modernism WPA 1935 Long Island Canal Boat Oil on canvas board 12” x 15". The framed size is 18 x 21.
In addition to this painting, we will include and etching of this scene.. The Print measures 3 1/2 x 6 inches and the sheet, 6 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches. It is signed: S. Csoka, 1943.
Stephen (Istvan) Csoka was born in Gárdony, Hungary on January 2, 1897 and died in New York in 1989. He is best remembered as a painter and etcher of portraits, nudes, landscapes, genre, and horses. Csoka studied at the Budapest Royal Academy of Art and his memberships include Associate of the National Academy of Design in New York City; the Society of American Etchers in Brooklyn, NY; the Society of Brooklyn Artists; and the Hungarian Etchers Association.
Csoka's exhibitions and awards include a medal at the Barcelona International Exhibition in 1929; a prize at the City of Budapest Exhibit in 1930; prizes at the Society of American Etchers in 1942 and 1945; prizes at the Library of Congress in 1944 and 1946; a prize at the Society of Brooklyn Artists in 1944; a prize at the Philadelphia Watercolor Club in 1945; the Corcoran Gallery of Art in 1945; the Carnegie Institute in 1943, 1944, and 1945; the Art Institute of Chicago in 1944; the Los Angeles Museum of Art in 1945; the National Academy of Design from 1940 through 1945; one-artist shows at the Contemporary Artists in 1940, 1943, and 1945; and the Minneapolis State Fair in 1943. *Stephen continued to recieve awards and exhibit his work throughout his life. In 1997, Hofstra Museum sponsored a Retrospective/Centennial exhibition in honor of his birth.
Collections representing Csoka's work are the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; the British Museum, London, England; the Bezalel National Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell, MA; the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH; Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH; the Sheldon Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN; the Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL; the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN; the Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, NM; the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary; Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary, the Museum of the City of Budapest, Budapest, Hungary; the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; the Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA; Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY; Holocaust Museum, Glen Cove, NY; National Academy of Art, New York, NY; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; New York Historical Society, New York, NY;New York Public Library, New York, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Peabody Museum, Cambridge, MA; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Reading Public Museum, Reading, PA; Livingston Arts Center, Mount Morris, NY; Ball State Teachers College, Muncie, IN; City College, New York, NY; Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY; Hungarian Consulate, New York, NY; Hungarian Heritage, New Brunswick, NJ; Hunter College, New York, NY; IBM Collections; Princeton Print Club...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
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Board, Oil
"Large Standing Nude" - Cordelia Brooks, Harvard Class of 1889, Paris Salon
Located in New Orleans, LA
This large and arresting painting is what I believe must have been one of a pair, with a male nude of exactly the same size and style by the artist that sold at Coletti Gallery many ...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
Card Players, Playing Five Card Stud
By Paul Valentine Lantz
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Signed lower right.
Description
A socio-political play on the smoky, masculine enclave scene of a card game, seven men from all walks of life appear in a dim room, the table beari...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
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Oil
Magazine Story Illustration, RedBook or The Saturday Evening Post
Located in Miami, FL
Signed lower left: Seymour Ball Inscribed upper left: To Morris E Weiss with best wishes Seymour Ball" Matted not framed
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
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India Ink, Watercolor
"Andes Mountains Of Chili" Pastel Rural Village Mountain Landscape Painting
By Margaret Warren
Located in Houston, TX
Lovely realist landscape done with acrylic paint of a quaint town and a pastel mountainscape in the background. Signed in lower right corner "M. Warren." With a label on reverse that reads "'Andes Mountains...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
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Acrylic
Landscape - Oil on Canvas by A. Donghi - 1937
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original oil on canvas artwork realized by Antonio Donghi in 1937.
Original title: Paesaggio.
Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower right margin.
Inclu...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Lillies
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting a magnificent early watercolor by American artist Robert McIntosh(1916-2010.)
Lillies, is an original watercolor on paper, signed, painted in 1936, currently unframed with an image dimension of 10.5 x 15 inches, excellent original condition, acquired directly from the personal collection of the artist.
Please contact our West Hollywood gallery...
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1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
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Watercolor
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Mills’ Circus Horses, Olympia 1935
Signed and dated 1935; signed and inscribed with title on the artist’s label attached to the stretcher
Oil on canvas
51 by 61 cm., 20 by 24 in.
(frame size 66.5 by 77 cm., 26 ¼ by 30 ¼ in.)
Clifford Hall was born in Wandsworth, London and studied at Richmond Art School before going to the Royal Academy Schools, 1925-7, where he won the Landseer Scholarship. In 1928 he went to Paris to study under Andre Lhote. Returning to England in the 1930s he moved into 8 Trafalgar Studios, Manresa Road, Chelsea and established himself as a painter of street scenes and portraits. At the outbreak of the war he joined a stretcher party near Lots Road...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
H 20.08 in W 24.02 in
Portrait of 1930s Society Woman - In Style of Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderfully compelling portrait of woman with red coat and fur stole circa 1930s in style of Francis Campbell Boileau Cadell (Scottish/French, 1883 - 1937). Portrait is painted with ...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
H 28 in W 22 in D 1 in
"Janine", 20th Century pencil drawing on paper by Mexican artist Ángel Zárraga
Located in Madrid, ES
ÁNGEL ZÁRRAGA ARGÜELLES
Mexican, 1886 - 1946
JANINE
signed & dated "Ángel Zárraga, 1º déc. 38.
also inscribed "étude pour l´amour dejarmé du paravent de...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pencil
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