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Art Subject: People
Large Antique American Southern Folk Art BLUE EYED SIBLINGS Portrait Painting
By Thomas Sully
Located in New York, NY
Probably one of the most amazing detailed American 19th century folk art paintings I have ever owned!!! I have attached a picture of my 3 year old next to it, so you can see how beau...
Category
1870s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Arrangement Eight - Contemporary Figurative Rabbit Animal Botanical Shapes, 2024
By June Glasson
Located in Kent, CT
This contemporary painting in ink, gouache and pencil on archival paper is composed of solid shapes, botanical and animal forms in rich gold, dark umber and jewel-toned hues. The arr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil
Amor Cutting Bow, Parmigianino, Old Master, Mannerism, Prague, Large Painting
Located in Greven, DE
Already in the collection of Emperor Rudolf II in the first decade of the 17th century this composition was famous. The original is by Parmigianino and Rudolf's court painter Joseph Heintz...
Category
17th Century Mannerist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
You Broke My Heart
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this painting, I blend expressionism, surrealism, and symbolism to explore deep emotional narratives. The canvas features fragmented figures and abstract forms, evoking a sense of...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Canvas
20th Century Surrealist Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
20th century modernist oil painting on canvas . Signed with artists monogram and Dated 1991.
This large and impressive painting evokes a range of emotions and interpretations. With...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
150 Years From Now 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Modern
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Let love lead. Let's be genuinely happy for each other. No malice, no backbiting. No jealousy. No comparison. Life is not a competition. At the end of the day, we will all transit to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic
Seated Figure In Boudoir
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful figurative oil on canvas of a woman seated in her boudoir by Monterey California-area artist Patricia Gillfillan (American, 1924-2016). Signed "Gillfillan" lower left. Unfr...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Romantic Elegantly Dressed Couple Mid Century French Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided
Size: 13 (height) x 10 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
Pr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Military Encampment Soldiers on Horseback Dusk Landscape 1700's Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Military Encampment
Circle of Carel van Falens (1683-1733, Flemish)
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 8 x 10.5 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very good and so...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1960's French Signed Oil Figures on Parisian River Seine Island I'le de Citi
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris
French artist, circa 1960's
signed oil on on canvas, framed
framed: 26.5 x 32 inches
canvas : 20 x 25 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: very good conditi...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Knight - painting - XVII century
Located in Roma, IT
The Knight is an original oil painting on canvas realized during the XVII century by an anonymous artist.
Provenance: Pecci-Blunt collection. Good condition...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Inner Nature 3 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Women on African Fabric
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
“Listen to your inner nature… for it is a deep and powerful source of wisdom, beauty and truth, ever flowing through you… Learn to trust it, trust your intuition, and in good time, a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Cassiopeia. original painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
Embodied within this piece is a dance of textures and hues, a fusion of realism's clarity with surrealism's dreaminess, expressionistic emotion, and the delicate play of light charac...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Sicilian Farmhouse
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Sicilian Farmhouse', oil on canvas, by Yves Brayer (circa 1950s). A dedicated lover of Mediterranean countries and their varied landscapes, this charming and diminutive work by the ...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Astounding She Monster
Located in Norwich, GB
US One Sheet Film Poster
41¼ x 27 in. (105 x 68.5 cm.)
Backed on linen
Artwork by Albert Kallis.
Country of origin U.S. One Sheet poster for the 1958 B-...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Dead Bird, Large Oil Painting on Canvas by Louvre Copyist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Dead Bird"
After Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725-1805)
oil painting on canvas, late 20th century
from the studio of Dagher, Paris (read notes below), stampe...
Category
18th Century Renaissance Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Panorama on a cathedral
Located in Paris, IDF
Louis Étienne WATELET
(Paris, 1780 – Paris, 1866)
Panorama of the river, a cathedral in the distance
Oil on canvas
24.5 x 32.5 cm
Son of a merchant haberdashery, Louis Étienne Wat...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Chamberlain
Located in Napa, CA
René Romero Schuler is an American painter and sculptor who creates powerful images that speak to the complexities of the human condition and the spirit that connects all human being...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Amy's Find
By Hunt Slonem
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique artwork by Hunt Slonem.
Oil on wood
Painting is framed, as seen in the images.
Signed Verso, titled and dated.
Please note that Hunt Slonem paintings with frame...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Composition with jugs, oil painting by Pierre Coquet
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
Composition with jugs, oil painting by Pierre Coquet
Reference number F486
Framed with a natural oak floated frame
43 x 72 x 2 cm (48 x 77 x 3,5 cm frame included)
This work is painted with oil on a paper that is laid on a canvas and placed in a made to measure wood strectcher. Stamp of the signature in the bottom right and stamp of workshop on the back.
With simple, soft colors, Pierre brings these objects together in a neutral atmosphere, enhanced by this orange, which adds a luminous touch to the composition. Mostly broad brushstrokes, sometimes barely a sketch in the background. The material effects stand out well, the light coming from the right reinforces the contours of each of the objects presented.
Still lives are one of Pierre favourite subjects. Always in a very quiet atmosphere, with simple objects or alive nature.
Provenance : Workshop of the artist (stamped and numbered on the back)
Pierre Coquet (1926-2021) is a French painter who was born in Limas near Lyon, France.
He entered the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Lyon in 1942 and followed the teaching of Antoine Chartres, Henri Vielly and René Chancrin...
Category
1980s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1940's French Impressionist Oil Portrait of Young Blonde Haired Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Blonde Lady
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
oil painting on board, unframed
measures: 18 high by 15 inches wide
condit...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century French Modernist Oil Painting of a Young Woman in Pensive Thought
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Young Woman in Thought
by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933)
Unsigned
Medium: oil painting on board, unframed
Painting size: 11.25 inches (height) x 9.5 inches (width)
Condition: over...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Wild Horses, " Oil Painting by Zoa Ace, Horses and Shells
By Zoa Ace
Located in Denver, CO
Zoa Ace's (US based) "Wild Horses" is an original, handmade oil painting depicting seven horses with a coyote in the distance. The piece is on gallery wrapped stretched canvas and is...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century French Pencil Sketch of A Blonde Women with Bright Red Lipstick
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
Signed by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Crayon on artists paper, double sided
Size: 9.5 height) x 7 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
Pro...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Crayon
Painting Oil On Canvas, a Reclining Nude by Legendre French school
Located in Gavere, BE
Painting Oil On Canvas, a Reclining Nude by Legendre French school of the 20th century
Beautiful and large oil on canvas, French school from the 1920's representing a naked young rec...
Category
1920s French School Nude Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Home Liquors" (2024) By Mikael Olson, Oil Still-Life Painting
By Mikael Olson
Located in Denver, CO
Mikael Olson's (US based) "Home Liquors" (2024) is an original, handmade oil painting, which depicts the interior of a liquor store, behind the service counter.
Artist Biography an...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French School Belle Epoque Period Oil Painting c1900
Located in Holywell, GB
Alexandre-François BONNARDEL (1867-1942)
French School Belle Epoque Period Oil Painting c1900
An exquisite painting of a young woman, probably the artist’s daughter, set amongst the...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fisherman Returning to Port Pastel on paper
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Fisherman Returning to Port
Artist: Domingo Álvarez Gómez
Technique: Pastel on paper
Dimensions: 13 x 16 in (unframed)
Year: c. 2000
Condition: Good conservation
Description:
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Strangled Planet
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A contemporary oil painting that resembles an early renaissance mural. Old masters throughout Art History come to mind, like Hieronymus Bosch, Jan Van Eyck, or Pieter Bruegel.
Gordon depicts the "Strangled Planet" we live in: war, protests, and unrest abounds. At the same time, exploration, cooperation, and humanity persists. She uses European Medieval, Renaissance, and Neoclassical references around the main contemporary action. This is perhaps a reference to the uncertainty that is inherent in life—hardships as well as victories have always been depicted in grand compositions. The skeletons that climb, cling, and swing on either side of the painting are the reminders of this finite life.
Artist Bio
Kristy Gordon’s work is a frank and intimate reflection of her curiosity about other people, transformations and self-discovery. Her paintings hang in over 500 public and private collections worldwide including the Government of Ontario Art Collection. She has been a full-time, professional painter since 2004, exhibiting her work internationally and earning numerous awards including the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation Grant (2010, 2013), an Exceptional Merit Award from the Portrait Society of America (2014), and was a finalist for the 2013 Kingston Prize for Canadian portraiture.
She has been widely featured in numerous magazines, art publications, radio and television shows, including International Artist, Fine Art Connoisseur, The Artist’s Magazine, Southwest Art and Bravo!’s Star Portraits.
Gordon has seven years of experience teaching and conducting painting workshops throughout North America. She has taught at numerous academies and schools including The Academy of Realist Art Ottawa, The Lake Country Art House, and The Okanagan School of Arts in Penticton and has also substitute taught at the New York Academy of Art. She has lectured at China Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing, New Century Artists in New York City and the Art of the Portrait in Washington, DC.
She received her MFA degree in Painting from the New York Academy of Art and holds a BFA in Drawing and Painting from the Ontario College of Art and Design. Additionally, she has studied classical drawing and painting at the Academy of Realist Art in Toronto and Andreeva Portrait Academy in Santa Fe. She has also studied privately with artists including Yuqi Wang, Odd Nerdrum, Juan Martinez, Jeremy Lipking.
Gordon is represented by Dacia Gallery in New York, Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor and Cube Gallery...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
This Can't Be! - Woman in a Blue Dress Expressing Shock, Original Oil, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting is part of a series of portraits by Richard Gibbons in which the subject displays shock, dismay, anger or ambivalence in response to an unknown outside event. The portr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Feelings - Figurative work on paper with ballerinas and text
Located in East Quogue, NY
Original mixed media work on paper by Adam Baranello.
Mixed media, acrylic, spray paint on canvas.
Size 17 x 14 in.
Offered unframed. Ships rolled
Multidisciplinary artist Adam Ba...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Oil Pastel, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Onigele Yii
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The painting "Onigele Yii" depicts a striking black African woman wearing a vibrant Ankara head tie, known as gele, in the Yoruba language. Rendered with oil on canvas, the artwork c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Menton French Riviera Sunny Harbour French Mid Century Post-Impressionist Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
''Menton"
by Édouard Righetti (1924-2001)
Signed lower front
oil painting on canvas, beautifully painted with rick thick impasto oil and bold colors.
very good condition
size: 25....
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Impressionist Vibrant Ceremonial Gathering at the Chapel Breton France
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Ceremonial Gathering at the Chapel
by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930)
Size: 10.75 x 9.75 inches
Oil painting on cardboard, unframed
Condition: The painting is in good condition, with mino...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
After Carl Werner - Framed Early 20th Century Oil, Nuns Under Siege
Located in Corsham, GB
J. Taylor after Carl Friedrich Heinrich Werner (1808-1894), oil on canvas. Signed to the lower right. Presented in a gilt effect frame with bead course to the inner window.
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hypnos God of Sleep #1 signed Paula Craioveanu oil on canvas Neo Mythology
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Hypnos God of Sleep #1", oil on canvas, 27.5x19.68in / 70x50cm
Hypnos is the personification of sleep, the god who touches humans with his wings , his mission is to help people slee...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Independent
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
At first glance, "Independent" captures the viewer's attention with its striking imagery of a woman wearing a vibrant yellow coat. The choice of yellow as the dominant color is symbo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sur la Plage - Impressionist Oil, Figures in Coastal Landscape by Alfred Stevens
By Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated figures in seascape oil on panel by Belgian impressionist painter Alfred Emile Leopold Stevens. The work depicts an elega...
Category
1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Down Is The New Up 10 - Contemporary Expressive Figurative Oil Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
The inspiration for Daniel Wimmer’s art consistently stems from the human body. He is particularly fascinated by the beautiful colors of the skin and is constantly searching for intr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Morandi Bottle 41 (Geometric, Abstract Still Life of Bottles in Black and White)
Located in Hudson, NY
Mixed media still life of black and white bottles inspired by Giorgio Morandi still life paintings
Morandi Bottle 41 (Geometric, Abstract Still Life of Bottles in Black and White) b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite, Charcoal
Pair of Detailed European Landscapes in Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Pair of Detailed European Landscapes in Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
These two watercolor and gouache paintings depict idyllic European rural scenes with soft colors and detailed...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Laid Paper
1940's French Oil Painting Figures South of France Busy Market Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Le Marche
by Regine David (female French artist, 1910-2018)
signed verso
oil on board, unframed
board : 15 x 18 inches
inscribed verso
Provenance: the artists estate, France
Conditio...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
AT THE BEACH - Modern Women Portrait, Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Marzena Ślusarczyk
Located in Salzburg, AT
The patient waiting for Bresson's “decisive moment” characterizes the pictures of the young Polish painter Marzena Slusarczyk. The compositions of her works have the magic of a successful photography. Often with a powerful neckline, they use expressive foreshortened perspectives and unusual versions and they take us into an intimate dimension of the women portrayed.
However, Slusarczyk's pictures are mainly emotions captured on canvas, and this is what makes her works so special. The women she paints perform normal, banal activities in everyday life. But they are the key to reading the feelings of the female figures lost in thought. The lack of clarity in the artist's pictures allows the viewer to make their own interpretations. As the painter herself emphasizes, the aim of playing with the audience is to awaken the viewer's imagination and imagination so that they notice the seemingly invisible.
This mystery and the unspoken are reminiscent of the paintings by Michelangelo Caravaggio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Japanese Contemporary Art by Miyuki Takanashi - Pirika and Yume
Located in Paris, IDF
Mixed media (acrylic, gouache,oil) on canvas
Miyuki Takanashi is a Japanese artist born in 1961 who lives & works in Sapporo in Japan. She is graduated from Hokkaido University of E...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Gouache
Mid Century French Portrait of A Female in Draping Flowing Dress Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Pencil on artists paper, double sided
Size: 10 height) x 7.5 (width)
Stamped Verso
Condition: Good
Provenan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pencil
Chinese Contemporary Art by Su Yu - Spark in the Sunlight
By Su Yu
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas
Su Yu is a Chinese artist born in 1987 who lives & works in Beijing in China. He was an old student of prestigious art teachers as Shi Liang & Chen Danqing at Oil Pain...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century English Oil Pastoral Landscape with Woodcutter and Cattle Grazing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pastoral Landscape with Figure and Cattle
English School, mid 19th century
signed lower front corner
oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 18 x 24.5 inches
Canvas: 14 x 21 inches
Provenance:...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Brunch at Claudette" Plein Air Restaurant Oil Painting 5th Avenue New York City
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
"With shades of Pierre Bonnard’s Parisian street vistas and Edward Hopper’s New York shopfronts, American impressionist Cindy Shaoul’s oil paintings depict the much-loved locales and hotspots of contemporary city life." - Financial Times, Baya Simons. This painting depicts an impressionistic scene of Figures dining at Claudette, a New York City Restaurant...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Childhood
Located in Zofingen, AG
This painting will come to you stretched on a wooden stretcher and completely ready to be placed in the interior.
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
"In 'Childhood' from my 'Madeleine' series, I exp...
Category
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Joyline 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Women Breastfeeding Child
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
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Ships in a well-protected tube.
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Artist
Josue M...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"The Ledge" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Upstate New York Country Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Georgina Klitgaard
The Ledge, 1936-37
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
30 x 52 inches
Georgina Klitgaard’s art has sometimes gotten lost in the critical propensity to assign artist...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boats by the river Oil on cardboard, 47.5x80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Boats by the river
Oil on cardboard, 47.5x80 cm
The main focus of the artwork is a fauvistic stylized landscape featuring boats by the river. The artist's intention is to convey the landscape in bold and vivid earth tones, characteristic of the fauvist style.
Biruta Baumane...
Category
1950s Fauvist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Tickled Pink, Original Abstract Painting, Bright Contemporary Abstract Artwork
Located in Deddington, GB
Tickled Pink by Alison Gilbert is an original painting and a statement piece at 120cm x 120cm (48″ x 48″) These bold pastel colour combinations are having a party as they dance across the canvas in a vibrant celebration of joy and life. This painting is sold framed, the frame will be custom made upon sale, so please allow for an extra week for dispatch.
Discover original artwork by Alison Gilbert with Wychwood Art online and in our Deddington gallery. Alison is a British contemporary abstract artist...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mid 20th Century French Oil Pre-Raphaelite Portrait of a Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Working Sketch
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
oil painting on artist paper stuck on board, unframed
measures: 10.5 high by 12 inche...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Angel Numbers -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women, Fashion
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube.
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Artist
Elie HATUNGIMAN...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Interior Scene with Figure" Expressionistic Style Oil Painting on Masonite
Located in New York, NY
A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1969 by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful representation of his bold still life paintings, with expressive use of color, shape, and form. Later in his career, Baxte explores Expressionism, infusing both European and North American stylistic trends. This piece is from later in his career, but we can feel this underlying style throughout.
Art measures 21.75 x 18 inches
Michael Posner Baxte was born in 1890 in the small town of Staroselje Belarus, Russia. For the first half of the 19th century it was a center of the Chabad movement of Hasidic Jews, but this group was gone by the middle of the 19th century. By the time the Baxte family immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish population numbered only on the hundreds. The native language of the Baxte family was Yiddish. It is likely that the death of Michael Baxte’s father triggered the family’s immigration. Three older brothers arrived in New York between 1903 and 1905. Michael and his mother, Rebecca, arrived in 1907. By 1910 Michael, his mother, and brother, Joseph, were living in New Orleans and may have spent some time on a Louisiana plantation. Around 1912, Michael Baxte returned to Europe to study the violin. In 1914 he, his mother, and Joseph moved to New York City.
Meanwhile, in Algeria, a talented young woman painter, Violette Mege, was making history. Since for the first time, a woman won the prestigious Beaux Art competition in Algeria. At first, the awards committee denied her the prize but, with French government intervention, Mege eventually prevailed. She won again 3 years later and, in 1916, used the scholarship to visit the United States of America. When Violette came to New York, she met Baxte, who was, by then, an accomplished violinist, teacher, and composer. Baxte’s compositions were performed at the Tokyo Imperial Theater, and in 1922 he was listed in the American Jewish Yearbook as one of the prominent members of the American Jewish community. As a music teacher he encouraged individual expression. Baxte stated, “No pupil should ever be forced into imitation of the teacher. Art is a personal experience, and the teacher’s truest aim must be to awaken this light of personality through the patient light of science.”
By 1920 Michael Baxte and Violette Mege were living together in Manhattan. Although they claimed to be living as husband and wife, it seems that their marriage did not become official until 1928. On their “unofficial” honeymoon around 1917, in Algiers, Baxte confided to her his ambition to paint. There and later in New Mexico where the wonderful steeped sunlight approximates the coloring of Algiers, she taught him his heart’s desire. He never had any other teacher. She never had any other pupil. For ten years she devoted all her time, energy, and ambition to teaching, encouraging, inspiring him. Then in 1928, their mutual strivings were rewarded, as his works were being chosen as one of the two winners in the Dudensing National Competition for American Painters. Out of 150 artists from across the country participated in the Dudensing, and Michael Posner Baxte and, Robert Fawcett...
Category
1960s Expressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
The Nuturing
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jean Dominique Van Caulert, (1897-1979), although most often associated with his celebrity portraits and works for the theater, he was also a true symbolist in the tradition of the Belgian symbolist's.
"The Nurturing", oil on canvas, dated 1947, is Van Caulert's depiction of the nurturing of post war Europe, as the shrouded woman offers an apple to an androgynous figure.
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Nu au guéridon" - Acrylic on Canvas Cubist Painting
Located in PÉRIGUEUX, FR
Nu au guéridon
60 x 49 cm
Acrylic on canvas
"Nu au guéridon" offers a glimpse into Grégoire Mathias's creative process, capturing the dynamic atmosph...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Cubist Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
