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Item Ships From: USA
Period: 20th Century
Abstract expressionist blue, black & green mid-century geometric painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013)
Untitled, c. 1949
oil on canvas
18 x 32 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University.
Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school.
They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages.
At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute).
He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.”
Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller designed and made the simple gold wedding ring Avis wore for their 65 years of marriage. During those 65 years neither wavered in their mutual love, nor in the respect they shared for one another’s art.
The couple lived in a converted chicken coop in Missouri while Richard was in boot camp. At the camp, he would volunteer for any job offered and one of those jobs ended up being painting road signs. His commander noticed how quickly and neatly he worked and gave him more painting work to do - eventually recommending him for a position painting murals for Army offices in Panama. Until her dying day, Avis remained angry that “The army got to keep those fabulous murals and they probably didn’t even know how wonderful they were.” In Panama, their first son, Mark, was born. After Richard’s discharge in 1953, they moved back to the Cleveland area and used the GI bill to attend Kent State gaining his BA in education. The small family then moved briefly to Buffalo, where Richard taught at the Albright Art School and the University of Buffalo – and their second son, Peter, was born. Richard had exhibited work in the Cleveland May Show and the Butler Art Museum during his art school years, and during the years in Buffalo, his work was exhibited at the gallery he had so loved as a child, the Albright Art Gallery.
In 1956, the family moved back to the Cleveland area and Richard began teaching art at Lincoln West High School during the day while working toward his MA in art at Kent State in the evenings. Avis and Richard, with the help of an architect, designed their first home - a saltbox style house in Hudson, Ohio, and in 1958, their third son, Max (after Max Beckmann) was born. Richard enjoyed the consistency of teaching high school as well as the time it gave him to paint on the weekends and during the summer months. In 1961, he received his MA and his daughter, Claire, was born. With a fourth child, the house was much too small, and Avis and Richard began designing their second home. An admirer of MCM architecture, Richard’s favorite example of the style was the Farnsworth house – he often spoke of how the concepts behind this architectural style, particularly that of Mies van der Rohe, influenced his painting.
Andres described himself as a 1950’s...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Raggedy Ann Dolls by Grace Pischner Miller
Located in Soquel, CA
Grace Pischner Miller was born in Washington on January 12, 1912. She painted primarily in watercolors. She specialized in landscapes and seascapes of California.
Two paintings of "Raggedy Ann...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Still Life of Ornate Pottery - Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Stately still life of terra cotta pottery by A. Peterson. Five pieces of pottery sit atop a table with a tablecloth. Each piece of pottery is decorated with ornate patterns, mostly i...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Interior Scene with Figure and Mantel" Post-Impressionism Oil Painting on Panel
Located in New York, NY
A cozy little jewel, we are charmed by the rich choice of color and intimate details throughout this miniature work. This painting depicts a woman in her bedroom near the Mantel with...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
"Morning Hours" - Impressionist Portrait
Located in Soquel, CA
Moody depiction of a woman on a sunny morning by Shirley Polovy (American, b. 1942). On the left side of the composition, a woman sits in the shadows, with a slight smile. Behind her...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Still Life in Purple with Jug and Apples by Alvin R. Raffel 1928
Located in Soquel, CA
Jug and Still Life in Purple with Apples by Alvin R. Raffel 1928
Oil on Linen of An Urn with a bowl and apples in a Purple background by Alvin R. Raffel (American, 1905-1987.) Linen ...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
20th Italian Oil Painting trompe l'oeil Studio Interior Palm Tree Realist Museum
By Andrea Vizzini
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original late 20th Century realist interior scene by Italian artist Andrea Vizzini.
This important work was exhibited at The Anderson Gallery an...
Category
Photorealist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Oil
"Nature Morte" Paris School Still-Life with Coffee Grinder Mill
By Maurice Blond
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century kitchen still-life with an antique coffee grinder, ladle, and measuring cup on a table by Maurice Blond (Polish, 1899-1974), c.1950s. Signed ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Large Modernist Oil Painting Card Poker Player Aaron Fink Pop Art Americana
By Aaron Fink
Located in Surfside, FL
Aaron Fink (American, b. 1955)
Hand signed and dated 1986, verso.
The large canvas size measures approx: 72" x 66". This painting is part of the artist's "Images of Gambling" series, amongst his best figural work.
Aaron Fink was born in Boston in 1955. He received his MFA from Yale University and his BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. His work has been exhibited widely throughout the U.S., Europe and Japan and Australia, and is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, among many others. He lives and works in the Boston area. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Muskegon Museum of Art, Michigan, the Rockford Art Museum, Illinois, and Colorado State University, Fort Collins. Figurative abstract expressionist art.
In 2002 a monograph on Fink’s work, Out of the Ordinary, was published, with text by Eleanor Heartney. In 1983 Fink met the collector John Powers, who remained a strong supporter of his work until his death in 1999. Fink’s work is represented in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hara Museum, Tokyo, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, among many others. Fink currently divides his time between Boston and Rockport, Massachusetts.
He was included in the show The Expressive Voice: Selections from the Permanent Collection at the Danforth Museum of Art. An exhibition of Boston Expressionism, a school that embraced a distinctive blend of visionary painting, dark humor, religious mysticism, and social commentary. Historical roots of this movement can be traced to European Symbolism and German Expressionism, but artists living and working in the Boston area from the 1930’s through the 1950’s, were particularly inspired by Chaim Soutine and Max Beckmann. Artists included; Aaron Fink,
Bernard Chaet, David Aronson, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Hyman Bloom, Jack Levine, Jackson Pollock, Jason Berger, Karl Zerbe, Lawrence Kupferman, Michael Mazur, Sigmund Abeles and Willem de Kooning.
He was included in the show 40 Years of Printmaking: From the Center Street Studio Archives, along other great figural artists Gabor Peterdi, John Walker, Lester Johnson and Nell Blaine.
S E L E C T E D C O L L E C T I O N S
Art Institute of Chicago
Bank of America
Boston Public Library
Bouwfonds Nederlandse Gemeenten, The Netherlands
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Castelli Collection, New York
Chase Manhattan Bank
Chemical Bank
Choate Rosemary Hall, Wallingford, CT
Citizens Bank, Boston
Coopers & Lybrand
Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA
Danish House of Parliament
Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park Lincoln, MA
Farnsworth Museum, Maine
Fidelity Investments, Boston
Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA
G.E. Corporation
Goldman Sachs & Company
IBM, New York
Indianapolis Museum of Art
Library of Congress
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
New York Public Library
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
United States Department of State
University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Awards
Residency, Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO, 1998, 1996
National Endowment for the Arts, 1987, 1982
Artist Fellowship, Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities, 1984
American Academy in Rome, Prix de Rome – Alternate in Painting, 1979
Yale University, Ford Foundation Special Project Grant, Fall 1979
Skowhegan Scholarship Award, conferred by the Maryland Institute College of Art, Spring 1976
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Contemporary Responses to Modernism: A New England Perspective, University of Southern Maine
Color and Line: Expressive Tradition in Boston, Endicott College, Beverly, MA,
Beautiful Decay, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, MA
MICA Then and Now, Ethan Cohen Gallery, Beacon, NY
Bon Appetit, Concord Art Association
Celebrating Ten Years, Galerie D’Avignon, Montreal, Canada
New England Impressions: Exploring the Woodcut, Concord Art, Concord, MA
Go Figure: The Figure in Contemporary Art – A Response to Art History,
Painting in Boston: 1950-2000, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
Working Sources: The Painter and the Photographic Image, Alpha Gallery, Boston, MA
The Unique Print: Six Innovative Approaches to the Monotype, Starr Gallery, Newton, MA
Selections from Atelier Mourlot, Hankyu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan
Yale Collects Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, 1993
70’s and 80’s: Printmaking Now, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1986-1987
Skowhegan Alumni, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, and Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine,
Public and Private: American Prints Today, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Contemporary Miami Collectors, Metropolitan Museum, Coral Gables, FL, 1984
The American Artist as Printmaker, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 1983-84
Jon Abbott, Aaron Fink, Tom Lieber, Chris Wool...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Knitting by the Herth
By Sam Uhrdin
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on canvas, signed and dated in the upper left and inscribed on the reverse. Painting features a Swedish girl knitting by the fire. The work has a lovely warm feel to it. Sam Uhrdin...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Autumn Flowers Post Impressionist
Located in Greenwich, CT
Incredibly beautiful paint surface! Incredible French Gilt frame.
René Demeurisse began his exhibition career at the Salon de la Societé Nationale de...
Category
French School 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modern Yellow Toned Figurative Abstract Painting of a Young Girl Laying on a Rug
Located in Houston, TX
Modern abstract painting by Houston, TX artist Margaret Nobler. The work features a young girl with a bow in her hair laying on a matching rug. Signed b...
Category
Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Door
By Don Perlis
Located in New York, NY
Warm light shines through the door of a home.
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sicilian Well
By Don Perlis
Located in New York, NY
Painting of a well in Sicily, Italy.
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
By the Dawn's Early Light, mid-century abstract black, red, yellow oil painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Charles Green Shaw (American, 1892-1974)
By the Dawn's Early Light, 1955
Oil on masonite
Signed lower left, dated and titled verso
35.5 x 23.75 inches
38 x 26.25 inches, framed
Provenance: The estate of the artist to Charles H. Carpenter
Charles Green Shaw, born into a wealthy New York family, began painting when he was in his mid-thirties. A 1914 graduate of Yale, Shaw also completed a year of architectural studies at Columbia University. During the 1920s Shaw enjoyed a successful career as a freelance writer for The New Yorker, Smart Set and Vanity Fair, chronicling the life of the theater and café society. In addition to penning insightful articles, Shaw was a poet, novelist and journalist. In 1927 he began to take a serious interest in art and attended Thomas Hart Benton's class at the Art Students League briefly in New York. He also studied privately with George Luks, who became a good friend. Once he had dedicated himself to non-traditional painting, Shaw's writing ability made him a potent defender of abstract art.
After initial study with Benton and Luks, Shaw continued his artistic education in Paris by visiting numerous museums and galleries. From 1930 to 1932 Shaw's paintings evolved from a style imitative of Cubism to one directly inspired by it, though simplified and more purely geometric. Returning to the United States in 1933, Shaw began a series of abstracted cityscapes of skyscrapers he called Manhattan Motifs which evolved into his most famous works, the shaped canvases he called Plastic Polygons.
The 1930s were productive years for Shaw. He showed his paintings in numerous group exhibitions, both in New York and abroad, and was also given several one-man exhibitions. Shaw had his first one-man exhibition at the Valentine Dudensing Gallery in New York in 1934, which included 25 Manhattan Motif paintings and 8 abstract works. In the spring of 1935 Shaw was introduced to Albert Gallatin and George L.K. Morris. Gallatin was so impressed with Shaw's work, he broke a policy against solo exhibitions at his museum, the Gallery of Living Art, and offered Shaw an exhibition there. In the summer of 1935 Shaw traveled to Paris with Gallatin and Morris who provided introductions to many great painters. Shaw regularly spent time with John Ferren and Jean Hélion. The following year Gallatin organized an exhibition called Five Contemporary American Concretionists at the Reinhardt Gallery that included Shaw, Ferren, and Morris, Alexander Calder, and Charles Biederman...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sicilian Villa
By Don Perlis
Located in New York, NY
Painting of a Sicilian villa.
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Magic Garden, vibrant mid-century abstract expressionist colorful geometric work
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013)
Magic Garden, c. 1962
oil on canvas
signed lower left, signed and titled verso
50 x 42 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 19...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Interno
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Interno" c.1990 is an oil painting on canvas by noted Italian artist Umberto Bianchini, 1934-1990. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist and also t...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstracted Still Life with Flowers and a Statue
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful still life of a vase of flowers by an unknown artist (20th Century). No frame. Image size: 12"H x 16"W
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Still Life with Pink Roses, Framed Interior Oil Painting with Pink and Orange
By David Spivak
Located in Denver, CO
Untitled (Still Life with Pink Roses) is an oil on canvas painting by David Spivak (1893-1932) . Presented in a custom gold frame, outer dimensions measure 19 ⅞ x 24 x 1 ¼ inches. Image size is 12 x 16 inches.
Painting is clean and in very good vintage condition - please contact us for a complete condition report.
Provenance: Private Collection, Denver, Colorado
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About the Artist:
Born in Philadelphia in 1893, David and his family moved to Denver in 1895 due to his mother’s ill health. He attended elementary and high school in Denver, and was briefly enrolled at the University of Denver, where his mother taught Russian. He was drawn to art at a young age, however the University of Denver did not offer a degree program in fine art, and art education in the Denver area was lacking. Spivak’s father, Dr. Charles Spivak, prominent Denver physician and founder of the Jewish Consumptives Relief Society, was concerned about his son’s career choice, hoping David would instead follow in his footsteps. David’s mother, however, recognized her son’s artistic talent and felt it needed nurturing. In 1912, Spivak moved to Chicago to attend the Chicago Art Institute where he worked under John Morton and Wellington Reynolds (1865 – 1949). After a two-year stint in Chicago, Spivak spent 3 years in New York attending the Arts Students League where he studied under Robert Henri, a prominent Ashcan School artist. Between 1914 and 1917, Spivak mostly painted portraiture, and Henri’s artistic influence can be seen in Spivak’s work during this period.
Spivak was drafted into the Army in 1918 because of World War I. He spent a year stationed at Kelly Field in San Antonio, Texas. In 1919, he moved back to Denver in and began working as an artist. His dedication to art extended beyond art making into education. He taught at various high schools throughout Denver, as well as the Denver Academy of Applied Arts, the Denver Art Institute, and the Chappell School of Art. Spivak was also a central figure in the art community, helping to develop the Denver Art Museum, as a founding member, along with Dean Babcock and Albert Bancroft, of the Denver Artists’ Guild in 1928 (where he served as president at the time of his death), and as the head of fine art exhibits at the Colorado State Fair. He believed that bringing art into the lives of all people, regardless of status or class, was paramount.
In his short life, Spivak was quite prolific, producing over 300 paintings between 1914 and 1932. He excelled in landscape painting and portraiture, and his style was rooted in impressionism. Spivak’s contemporaries who also painted in an impressionistic manner include Robert Graham, Frank Vavra...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Preparing the Meal
By Sam Uhrdin
Located in Wiscasett, ME
This oil on canvas is signed and date in the upper left and measures 38" x 45.25" including the frame.
Sam Uhrdin (Swedish School, 1886-1964). Sam Uhrdi...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Hot Dogs and Mexican Fruit Cups', Very Large Pop Art Painting, Vasos de Fruta
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed indistinctly lower right, (Matt Baum?) and dated 1994.
N.B. The photo of the signature detail is included for clarity and has not been color corrected.
A very large (6'6" x 6'6") and vibrant still-life showing a close-up selection of fruit cups...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Life's Souveniers, Surrealist Oil Painting by Tito Salomoni
Located in Long Island City, NY
Life’s Souvenirs by Tito Salomoni, Italian (1928–1989)
Date: 1984
Oil on Canvas, signed lower left
Size: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: 25 x 2...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Pool Players
By Vincent Campanella 1
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Oil on artist board signed and dated lower right featuring pool players playing a point match in the pool hall. Great WPA feel and texture impasto. Most likel...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shoe
Located in Bayonne, NJ
This is a rare oil painting by Anton Solomoukha from 1990s executed in realistic style. Yet Solomoukha is playing with concepts here by almost extending the shoe's shade outside of c...
Category
Post-Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Piano And Violin Recital', Paris Salon, Royal Academy, Still Life of Tulips
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Alf. Broge' for Carl Harald Alfred Broge (Danish, 1870-1955) and dated '1918'.
Alfred Broge first studied with Helger Gronvold and, from 1889 to 1891, at Denmar...
Category
Academic 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism
By Kyra Markham
Located in New York, NY
"Sock Hop" Mid-Century American Modernism WPA Female Artist 20th Century Realism. 30 x 24 inches. Oil on canvas. Signed on stretcher, c. 1940s. Frame is likely original to the painting.
Realist painter-printmaker Kyra Markham...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Femme du Cirque
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original oil by French artist Paul Charlemagne, “Femme du Cirque”, an original oil on canvas, signed, c.1930, with an image dimension of 30 x 24 inches.
Category
Art Deco 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bright as Yellow
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Bright as Yellow by Lu Haskew
Oil Painting Still life of sunflowers in blue vases with lemons
18x20" image size
22x24" framed size
signed lower left
...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shore V, large colorful red, black & blue mid-century abstract expressionist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013)
Shore V, c. 1964
acrylic on canvas
signed lower right, signed and titled verso
54 x 44 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University.
Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school.
They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages.
At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute).
He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.”
Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Blue Wall, mid-century abstract expressionist, geometric blue, black & pink work
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013)
Blue Wall, c. 1959
oil on canvas
signed and titled verso
42 x 60 inches
Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University.
Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school.
They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages.
At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute).
He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.”
Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller designed and made the simple gold wedding ring Avis wore for their 65 years of marriage. During those 65 years neither wavered in their mutual love, nor in the respect they shared for one another’s art.
The couple lived in a converted chicken coop in Missouri while Richard was in boot camp. At the camp, he would volunteer for any job offered and one of those jobs ended up being painting road signs. His commander noticed how quickly and neatly he worked and gave him more painting work to do - eventually recommending him for a position painting murals for Army offices in Panama. Until her dying day, Avis remained angry that “The army got to keep those fabulous murals and they probably didn’t even know how wonderful they were.” In Panama, their first son, Mark, was born. After Richard’s discharge in 1953, they moved back to the Cleveland area and used the GI bill to attend Kent State gaining his BA in education. The small family then moved briefly to Buffalo, where Richard taught at the Albright Art School and the University of Buffalo – and their second son, Peter, was born. Richard had exhibited work in the Cleveland May Show and the Butler Art Museum during his art school years, and during the years in Buffalo, his work was exhibited at the gallery he had so loved as a child, the Albright Art Gallery.
In 1956, the family moved back to the Cleveland area and Richard began teaching art at Lincoln West High School during the day while working toward his MA in art at Kent State in the evenings. Avis and Richard, with the help of an architect, designed their first home - a saltbox style house in Hudson, Ohio, and in 1958, their third son, Max (after Max Beckmann) was born. Richard enjoyed the consistency of teaching high school as well as the time it gave him to paint on the weekends and during the summer months. In 1961, he received his MA and his daughter, Claire, was born. With a fourth child, the house was much too small, and Avis and Richard began designing their second home. An admirer of MCM architecture, Richard’s favorite example of the style was the Farnsworth house – he often spoke of how the concepts behind this architectural style, particularly that of Mies van der Rohe, influenced his painting.
Andres described himself as a 1950’s...
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Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
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Oil
'Still Life of Roses on a Tea Table', Paris, Academie de la Palette, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'A. Naur' for Albert Naur (Danish, 1889-1973) and painted circa 1955.
A cheerful, mid-century oil showing a pair of leisure chairs wit...
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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Unexpected Visitors" original acrylic on canvas painting by Anne Coe
By Anne Coe
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Unexpected Visitors" is a classic and wonderful early example of Anne Coe's painting on canvas.
Titled "Unexpected Visitors" and signed "Anne Coe" in pencil on the back of the painting, this is a gem of a wholly original work painted by Anne.
Coe’s early paintings were humorous and comic-book styled. Over the years, her paintings evolved from lighthearted whimsy (such as radioactive, mutant Gila...
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Other Art Style 20th Century Interior Paintings
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Acrylic
"Anna" - Portrait of a Reclining Woman
Located in Soquel, CA
Boldly colored portrait of a woman on a sofa by Nealon A. Mundt (American, 1939-2015). A woman is reclining on a dark blue sofa, with a pink wall in the background. The woman is wearing a white top and a pink skirt, with a red bandana on her hear. Her skin is rendered in a fauvist style, mixing bold yellows and greens with skin tones. There are paintings hanging on the wall behind the sofa.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner.
Titled, signed, and dated on verso.
Presented in a wood frame with a linen fillet.
Canvas size: 24"H x 36"W
Nealon Mundt...
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American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Pink & White Roses in Crystal Vase Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Delicate mid century still-life of white and pink roses in crystal vase with a soft, lime green background by listed California artist Helen Mae Enoch Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997)...
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American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
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Canvas, Oil
Polish French Jewish Artist Oil Painting Girl with Doll, School of Paris Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Framed 27 X 24 inches
Sight 18 X 15 inches
Walter Spitzer (Polish/French, 1927 - ) born in Cieszyn, Poland. A Polish Jewish Holocaust survivor, he made his first drawings in a concentration camp. Walter Spitzer has lived and worked since WWII in France, where he studied at the École des Beaux Arts in Paris. Walter Spitzer has achieved great renown as a painter and printmaker. Whether in his paintings of Biblical subjects or in lithographs of Shtetl scenes, His humanity was inspired by the writings of Sartre, Montherlant and Kazantzakis, Walter Spitzer is occupied with two great, interlinked themes: man’s inhumanity to man, and the humanity of man. He will surely be recognized in the future as one of the great witnesses to the twentieth-century experience. Walter Spitzer was born in Chieszyn, Poland, the son of a Jewish liqueur producer, and attended the German school there. He began to draw and paint at an early age. In 1939 the Spitzer family was forcibly removed by the Germans to the town of Strzemieszyce, which was turned into a ghetto in 1942. When the ghetto was liquidated in June 1943 Spitzer’s mother was shot, and the sixteen-year-old Walter was deported to Blechhammer, a subcamp of Auschwitz. There he painted portraits of Wehrmacht soldiers and fellow inmates in exchange for food. He was one of the few to survive the evacuation march from Auschwitz to Buchenwald, where to begin with, in late February 1945, he was held in the Little Camp. To enable him to make drawings documenting life in the camp, the Communists organized his transfer to the main camp. While on a death march in early April he made his escape in the vicinity of Jena and was soon in the hands of the Americans. Spitzer served as an interpreter with an American army unit, and at the same time executed numerous drawings depicting the world of the camps. In June 1945 the Americans took him to Paris, where – following the advice of his father, who had died in 1940 – he began to study art at the École des Beaux-Arts in Par the following year. After completing his training as an artist he produced paintings expressing a critical view of the society of his day. In 1955, in commemoration of the camps and the death marches, he executed a cycle of nine etchings in an edition of thirty, which he gave to various museums in Israel and in France. In the 1960s he established himself as an illustrator of exclusive editions of works by such authors as André Malraux, Jean-Paul Sartre, Joseph Kessel and Nikos Kazantzakis. The Six-Day War prompted him to begin painting subjects from Jewish and Biblical history; At age 19, he was asked to make the scenery for the Edouard VII Theater in Paris, which was showing The Dibbuk of Ansky. In 1947 the same theater asked him to make the scenery for the Hill of Life ( Max Zveig).
Spitzer has been a member of the Salon d'Automne since 1952. He was the last remaining survivor of the Montparnasse Ecole de Paris. A group of Jewish expats that included Issachar Ber Ryback, Abel Pann, Abraham Mintchine, Isaac Antcher, Alexandre Altmann, Henri Epstein, Mane Katz, Marcel Janco, Gregoire Michonze...
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Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figure Multiple
Located in Long Island City, NY
Make an offer on the fabulous Figure Multiple painting by Giancarlo Impiglia, Italian/American (1940).
Date: 1989
Oil on Canvas, signed, dated, and title...
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Art Deco 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Home Office Interior
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming interior scene by a unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Slanting light enters the room from the viewer's left, illuminating part of the large desk at the center of the ...
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Contemporary 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Abstract Modern Painting by Benjamin Benno
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original oil painting on canvas by Benjamin Benno, American (1901 - 1980) measuring 40 x 24 inches, unsigned. Provenance: O'Hara Gallery, NYC. By the early 1930's Benno had estab...
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Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hotel Interior
By Don Perlis
Located in New York, NY
Hotel interior painted using watercolors on paper.
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20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Woman Playing the Piano Forte
Located in Lawrence, NY
Marguerite Stuber Pearson was a firm proponent of the Boston School tradition, characterized by her mastery of academic technique and the selection of traditional subjects of portraiture, figures in interiors and still lifes. In her debut exhibition at the Guild of Boston Artists in 1931, one reviewer happily reported that her paintings were “executed in the best Boston School tradition.” Upon seeing the show, Edmund Tarbell...
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American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Still Life, Rust and Jade', American School Spring Flowers Post-Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'S. L. Kramer' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1960.
A mid-century, oil still-life showing a bouquet of spring flowers informally arranged in a glass ...
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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Plugged In, Surrealist Oil Painting by Tito Salomoni
Located in Long Island City, NY
Plugged In by Tito Salomoni, Italian (1928–1989)
Date: circa 1984
Oil on Canvas, signed lower left
Size: 20 x 20 in. (50.8 x 50.8 cm)
Frame Size: 28 x 28...
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Surrealist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Museum Piece #2 Art Lover in Museum Exhibition
Located in Miami, FL
Arnold Friedman studied with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League in 1905 .
Yet as he developed his style he abandoned the academic influence of his teacher.
He started experimenting with materials and techniques.
Friedmans intimate style recalls a variety of post-impressionist artists such as Pointillism of Pisarro, Vuillard and Nabis, and perhaps even Seurat.
His thick application of paint has definitive textual impasto that was influenced by his trip to Paris in 1909.
In "Museum Piece...
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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Floral Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Fun, vibrant floral still life with lime green background by Rudolf (American, 20th Century). Presented in a white painted wooden frame. Signed "Rudo...
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American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
la sala de la bruja, surrealist interior, green, bird, nude
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Narrative, colorful and surreal fantasy of a room interior.
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Other Art Style 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, ABS
Oak Barrels in the Wine Cellar, Saratoga, California Mid Century Interior Scene
Located in Soquel, CA
Detailed mid century depiction of a wine cellar with large oak barrels by Zoe Thompson (American, b.1923). Signed lower left corner, but signature is now ...
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American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard, Canvas
Bit of Blue
By Lu Haskew
Located in Loveland, CO
Bit of Blue by Lu Haskew
Oil Painting Still life of Tulips and Lilacs in a vase with two blue stripes.
26x26" image size
26x26" framed size
signed lower left
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Lul...
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American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Blue Vase
Located in Lawrence, NY
Estate of artist.
Russian-Jewish-American artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984) is known for his intriquing cubo-surrealistic-symbolist works which feature a strong psychological ele...
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Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Adhesive, Oil
Still Life with Fruit & Flowers
By André Gisson
Located in Milford, NH
A fine still life painting with fruit and flowers by André (Gittleson) Gisson (1921-2003). Gisson, born Anders Gittleson in Brooklyn, NY, graduate...
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Realist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Venice, Petit Pont Sur Le Rio di San Aponal, 1959" Jacques Martin Ferrières
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Beautiful and atmospheric, this painting perfectly captures the tones and colors of a steamy summer's day in Venice during a trip to that city in 1959.
"Venice, Petit Pont sur le Ri...
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Post-Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In the Studio, Large Painting by John Winslow
Located in Long Island City, NY
A large (48 x 48 inch) painting of a scene in the art studio by American artist John Winslow (1938 - ).
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American Realist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Dogs in a Japanese inspired interior surprising a cat
Located in Woodbury, CT
Very decorative animal scene of two dogs in an interior surprising a cat walking towards them.
Grover Hawking was a late 20th-century painter active in New Jersey and Long Island.
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Victorian 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Daumier French Impressionist Museum Interior Women Framed Cool Colors Blue Pink
By Jean Daumier
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on canvas painting by French artist Jean Daumier (b. 1948).
This endlessly charming work depicts three young women inside a museum in the artist's signature style,
...
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Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Garden Harvest, Mid Century Vegetable Bounty Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous American Impressionist still life oil painting of a basket of vibrant vegetables with a white curtain background by Monterey, California artist Genevieve Rogers (American, 1...
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American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Page Ogden and The Kitchen
Located in Long Island City, NY
This oil painting is a portrait of artist Page Ogden capturing a moment in time when she was sitting at a table reading a book by American artist John Hardy.
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American Realist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Trojan Cat, surrealist, fantasy, whimsical, cat
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagina...
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Surrealist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Il Dormiento, La Caduta di Icaro a Torino
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Max Pellegrini. "Il Dormiento, La Caduta di Icaro a Torino" contemporary painting, oil on canvas in a dark and earth-tone palette by Italian artist max Pellegrini. The ...
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Contemporary 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas