Ilona Sapka

Interior - XXI Century, contemporary oil painting, Light & shadow contrasts

2004

MALGORZATA ROZMARYNOWSKA (born in 1955) She studied in the Public High School of Plastic Arts at the Department of Painting and Graphic and graduated in 1981 in Professor Wladyslaw J...

MIKOŁAJ MALESZA (born in 1954) a painter and a stage designer. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, at the Department of Interior Design, where he graduated from in 1979...

MIKOŁAJ MALESZA (born in 1954) a painter and a stage designer. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, at the Department of Interior Design, where he graduated from in 1979...

MIKOŁAJ MALESZA (born in 1954) a painter and a stage designer. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw, at the Department of Interior Design, where he graduated from in 1979...

JOSÉ GARCÍA Y RAMOS Spanish, 1852 - 1912 FAUST signed "J. García y Ramos" (lower right) oil on canvas 21-1/2 x 24-5/8 inches (54.5 x 62.5 cm.) framed: 24-5/8 x 27-3/4 (62.5 x 70.5 cm.) PROVENANCE Private Collection, France José García y Ramos (Seville, 1852-ibídem, 1912) was a Spanish painter and illustrator. He was a student of the Provincial School of Fine Arts of Seville from a young age, completing his training in the workshop of José Jiménez Aranda...

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...

FERNANDO LIGER HIDALGO Spanish , 1880 – 1945 "Interior of Alcazar of Seville" Signed & located "F. Liger, Sevilla " (lower left) Oil on canvas 2...

JOSÉ VILLEGAS CORDERO Spanish, 1844 - 1921 THE BARBER OF SEVILLE signed & dated "J. Villegas. / Junio 1913." (lower left) oil on canvas 19-3/8 x 28-3/4 inches (49 x 73 cm.) framed: 27-1/2 x 36-3/4 inches (69.5 x 93 cm.) PROVENANCE Private Collector, Seville, Spain José Villegas Cordero (Seville, August 26, 1844-Madrid, November 9, 1921) was a Spanish painter. He directed the Prado Museum between 1901 and 1918. He was the brother of the painter Ricardo Villegas Cordero. He began his apprenticeship very young with José María Romero, with whom he remained for two years until entering the School of Fine Arts in Seville, where he was under the tutelage of Eduardo Cano. In 1860, when he was only 16 years old, he sold his work Little Philosophy for 2,000 reais at the Seville Exhibition. In 1867 he traveled to Madrid, where he entered Federico Madrazo's studio. There he established friendship with painters Eduardo Rosales and Fortuny. He went regularly to the Prado where he copied Velázquez, from whom he acquired spontaneity and the use of color for his technique. Finally, and out of admiration for Fortuny's orientalist painting, he returned to Seville and organized an excursion to Morocco. At the end of 1868 he decided to travel to Rome accompanied by the painters Rafael Peralta and Luis Jiménez Aranda...