Tony Karpinski

Whitehall

Oil on board Board size: 18 x 12.5 inches Framed size: 24 x 18.5 inches Signed lower left

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 14 x 16 inches Framed size: 16.5 x 20.5 inches Signed lower left

This artwork titled "Fleet Street, London" c.1925 is a color etching by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist estate at the lower center. The plate mark (image) size is 20.5 x 15 inches, framed size is 34 x 28 inches. Custom framed in the wooden original brown and gold distressed style frame, with light beige fabric matting and gold color fillet. It is in excellent condition, the frame have very small minor restorations, practically invisible. About the artist. Luigi Kasimir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kasimir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his future wife, the artist Tanna Hoernes...

This is an original work by Andre Kohn. Growing up near the Caspian Sea, Kohn's received a formal art education from the University of Moscow where he studied with members of the la...