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Item Ships From: USA
Period: 20th Century
Large Surreal Latin American Oil Painting
Located in Rochester, NY
Surreal hyper realistic trompe l'oeil oil painting by Latin American artist Victor Del Castillo. Peaches, grapes and cherries in rich brilliant colors and incredible detail. Measures...
Category
Realist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Floral Oil Painting Roses, Flowers in Vase WPA Artist Nicolai Cikovsky
Located in Surfside, FL
framed: 23 x 19.75
image: 15.5 x 11.5
Nicolai S. (Nicola) Cikovsky (1894 - 1984) was active/lived in New York / Russian Federation. Nicolai Cikovsky is known for Shore landscape, figure, still life and portrait painting, printmaking.
His mural "Irrigation," and "Gathering Dates" is at the Department of Interior, Washington, D.C. (WPA, GSA)
Landscape and figure painter Nicolai S. Cikovsky, 1894-1984, was born in Russia, where he studied at the Vilna Art School, 1910-1914; the Penza Royal Art School, 1914-1918; and Moscow High Tech Art...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Arts and Crafts Japonisme Floral Painting
Located in Rochester, NY
Floral painting in the Japonism style. Monogrammed "A.S", circa 1900. Matted. Unframed.
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Green Teapot Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful still life oil painting of a green teapot next to a pear and persimmon on a red table by American Impressionist artist Genevieve Rogers. S...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard, Laid Paper
Visions
By Alain GAZIER
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Alain Gazier has been born in 1956 in Paris, France.
Quietly the viewers’ gaze is drawn through the deserted interiors created by Alain Gazier (1956). Sil...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Spiritual paintings, oriental idols painting by Hovsep Pushman.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Title: Little God (La Petite Dieu).
This painting was displayed March 27th - April 7th , 1928 artist exhibition at Grand Central Art Gallery, New York. Also published exhibition ca...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Cascading Flowers)
By Ian Hornak
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002)
Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Cascading Flowers)
Year: 1963
Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper
Size: 29.5 x 21 inches
Condition: Go...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Still-Life with Fruit, Pineapple, and Pitcher
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant, colorful still-life of fruit arranged in front of a bowl and pitcher by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). Circa 1940. This piece is partially incomplete. Unsigned, but...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Southwest Zuni Pottery Still Life by Amaranta
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautifully executed realistic Southwestern still life of traditional Native American pottery, with a patterned textile, feather, and ear of red corn, by an unknown artist (20th cent...
Category
Realist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Nude by the Mirror" Mid-Century Modern Expressionist and Cubist Figure
By Byron Browne
Located in New York, NY
Byron Browne (1907 - 1961)
Nude by a Mirror, 1958
Oil on canvas
26 x 20 inches
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Doyle New York, Doyle + Design, June 7, 2017, Lot 20
Born in Yonkers,...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American School Museum Interior "Studying Anatomy" Humorous Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school museum interior oil painting by Nathaniel E. Reich. Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Image size, 32L x 24H. Housed in a period wood frame.
Category
Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Goldfish Bowl
By Richard Edward Miller
Located in New York, NY
The Goldfish Bowl by Richard Miller (1875-1943)
Oil on canvas
37 ½ x 29 ¾ inches unframed (95.25 x 75.565 cm)
46 ⅝ x 36 ¼ inches framed (118.428 x 97.155...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Yellow Nude, oil on paper, figural, modern
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1921, artist Norman Rubington studied at the Yale School of Fine Arts and Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris where he participated in a number of group exhibitions and his first solo show at the Salon d'Automne in 1948, which received high acclaim. Following his studies, he returned to the States and exhibited in a series of shows in Boston, New York and San Francisco.
Rubington was awarded a grant from the Tiffany Foundation, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Prix de Rome prize and was a fellow of the McDowell Art Colony in New Hampshire. Rubington exhibited at the Salon d'Automne, Paris, City Center, New York, Carl Siembab Gallery, Boston, Berman Museum of Art, Pennsylvania, American Academy, Rome, Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco, Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C., Art Institute of Chicago, American Art Gallery, Copenhagen, Rome Art Club, and Museo Berera, Milan.
Rubington's work is held in numerous private and public collections including permanent collections of the J.H. Hirschorn Museum, Washington, D.C., San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, Obelisk Gallery, London, Court Gallery, Copenhagen, Grace Cathedral...
Category
Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Red Toned Abstract Expressionist Gallery Scene Painting
By Karen Lastre
Located in Houston, TX
Large red toned gallery space of a selection of the artist's own work in the style of Mark Rothko's color field paintings. This piece is part of a series that the artist did explorin...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
At the Table
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large American Modernist Watercolor Painting Irises Bernard Chaet Expressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed Irises (purple and yellow flowers)
30 X 37 framed. 20.5 X 26.5 sheet without frame.
Bernard Chaet (born 1924, Boston, MA - 2012) was an American artist; Chaet is known for his colorful, dynamic modernist paintings and masterful draftsmanship, his association with the Boston Expressionists, and his 40-year career as a Professor of Painting at Yale University. His works also include watercolors and prints. In 1994, he was named a National Academician by the National Academy of Design. Chaet was instrumental in transforming Yale’s traditional art program into one with a more modernist approach that gained national prominence.
Chaet melded landscape and abstraction in a traditional established by Vincent Van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Edvard Munch, Piet Mondrian, and Ferdinand Hodler. His own tenure began in 1951 at Yale, where he worked closely with Josef Albers to revamp Yale’s art program. Between 1959 and 1962 he was the chair of what was then called the Yale Department of Art of the School of Fine Arts — prior to becoming one of the independent professional schools at Yale in 1973. Chaet taught painting and drawing and mentored generations of emerging talents. Chaet was the author of the 1970 textbook “The Art of Drawing” and “An Artist’s Notebook 1979,” both of which have since been reissued several times. In the latter book, alongside examples of work by his favorite artists, are student drawings by Yale graduates such as Robert Birmelin, Michael Mazur and Eugene Baguskas.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1924, Chaet studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and then earned a B.A. at Tufts University. Known for his expressionist landscapes and still lifes, Chaet’s work has continuously been shown in galleries in his native Boston, in New York City, and around the country. In 2010, a retrospective of his seascapes was featured at the Cape Ann Historical Society in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he had a home and a summer studio in nearby Rockport. His has also exhibited at David Findlay Gallery in New York and at Swarthmore College. Many of Chaet’s students went on to notable art careers, including Janet Fish, Chuck Close, and Richard Serra. His work is represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT, and the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA.
Chaet is the recipient of many awards including: the National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities, Sabbatical Grant in 1967-68, the National Academy of Fine Arts, Benjamin Altman Award in Painting in 1997, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Jimmy Ernst Prize in 2001. Chaet was born and raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, MA. He completed a dual program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—studying painting with Karl Zerbe—and Tufts University, graduating with a B.S. in 1949. Chaet is known for his association as a first generation Boston Expressionist. (along with Hyman Bloom and Jack Levine)
Chaet was a contributing editor to Arts Magazine. In 1960 he published the book Artists At Work, which features in depths conversations with artists Pat Adams, Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Al Blaustein, Hyman Bloom, James Brooks, Robert Engman, Esther Geller, Seymour Lipton, Conrad Marca-Relli, Gabor Peterdi, Irwin Rubin, Elbert Weinberg...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Henry Charles Hannig "Mother and Daughter" Original Oil Painting C.1930
Located in San Francisco, CA
Henry Charles Hannig "Mother and Daughter" Original Oil Painting C.1930
Original oil on panel
Dimensions 15" wide x 18" high
The lightly distressed frame measures 18" wide x 21" h...
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Modernism WPA Realism industrial Colorful
Located in New York, NY
NYC Subway Mid 20th Century American Modernism WPA Realism industrial Colorful
"New York Subway," 36 x 48 inches. Oil on Masonite (backed with a wood frame), Signed and dated ’47 upper left. The colors of the painting are extraordinarily vibrant. The white gold frame, signed Richard Tobey...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Large American Modernist Watercolor Painting Leeks Bernard Chaet Expressionist
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and dated leeks on a kitchen table
31.5 X 39.5 framed. 21 X 28.5 sheet without frame.
Bernard Chaet (born 1924, Boston, MA - 2012) was an American artist; Chaet is known for his colorful, dynamic modernist paintings and masterful draftsmanship, his association with the Boston Expressionists, and his 40-year career as a Professor of Painting at Yale University. His works also include watercolors and prints. In 1994, he was named a National Academician by the National Academy of Design. Chaet was instrumental in transforming Yale’s traditional art program into one with a more modernist approach that gained national prominence.
Chaet melded landscape and abstraction in a traditional established by Vincent Van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Edvard Munch, Piet Mondrian, and Ferdinand Hodler. His own tenure began in 1951 at Yale, where he worked closely with Josef Albers to revamp Yale’s art program. Between 1959 and 1962 he was the chair of what was then called the Yale Department of Art of the School of Fine Arts — prior to becoming one of the independent professional schools at Yale in 1973. Chaet taught painting and drawing and mentored generations of emerging talents. Chaet was the author of the 1970 textbook “The Art of Drawing” and “An Artist’s Notebook 1979,” both of which have since been reissued several times. In the latter book, alongside examples of work by his favorite artists, are student drawings by Yale graduates such as Robert Birmelin, Michael Mazur and Eugene Baguskas.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1924, Chaet studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and then earned a B.A. at Tufts University. Known for his expressionist landscapes and still lifes, Chaet’s work has continuously been shown in galleries in his native Boston, in New York City, and around the country. In 2010, a retrospective of his seascapes was featured at the Cape Ann Historical Society in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he had a home and a summer studio in nearby Rockport. His has also exhibited at David Findlay Gallery in New York and at Swarthmore College. Many of Chaet’s students went on to notable art careers, including Janet Fish, Chuck Close, and Richard Serra. His work is represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT, and the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA.
Chaet is the recipient of many awards including: the National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities, Sabbatical Grant in 1967-68, the National Academy of Fine Arts, Benjamin Altman Award in Painting in 1997, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Jimmy Ernst Prize in 2001. Chaet was born and raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, MA. He completed a dual program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—studying painting with Karl Zerbe—and Tufts University, graduating with a B.S. in 1949. Chaet is known for his association as a first generation Boston Expressionist. (along with Hyman Bloom and Jack Levine)
Chaet was a contributing editor to Arts Magazine. In 1960 he published the book Artists At Work, which features in depths conversations with artists Pat Adams, Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Al Blaustein, Hyman Bloom, James Brooks, Robert Engman, Esther Geller, Seymour Lipton, Conrad Marca-Relli, Gabor Peterdi, Irwin Rubin, Elbert Weinberg...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper
Courtyard Interior
Located in Soquel, CA
Skillfully executed courtyard scene by H. von der Planitz (german, 19th-20th cent ). Several trees cast dramatic shadows on the dirt floor of a courtyard, next to a colonnade that fr...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen, Illustration Board
'Flowers in a Blue and White Jug', Louvre, Academie Chaumiere, California, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'Di Gesu' for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and dated 1960; additionally titled, 'Blue Pitcher'.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attende...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Abstract American Modernist Oil Painting "Dressing for the Party" by Zoute 1951
Located in Rochester, NY
Abstract Modernist oil painting by Zoute dated 1951. Oil on Masonite. I believe the subject in the painting is the artist's wife Thelma Salter. Zoute used himself and his wife almost exclusively as models. Painted in 1951. Unframed.
Presented by Joseph Dasta Antiques.
Zoute (Born-Leon Salter, 1903-1976) was self-taught and well exhibited during his lifetime. He painted from 1940-1954 (he stopped painting at this later date due to his wife's illness and death and never painted again) A self-taught artist, he was part of the great modern wave. He exhibited with many of the most notable artists of the day such as Picasso, Braque, Klee and others at the invitation only State University of Iowa International Show 1946-1947. He had numerous one man shows at NYC galleries, Mortimer Levitt / Joseph Heller...
Category
Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Vintage Original Old Hollywood Portrait -- Peter Lorre with Yellow Scarf
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful old Hollywood portrait of a middle aged Peter Lorre (1904-1964) by Charles Kingham (American, 1895-1984), circa 1955. Unsigned. Acquired with oth...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
James Jahrsdoerfer, "Springtime in Still", Floral Vase Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Springtime in Still", is a 10x8 oil painting on canvas by artist James Jarhsdoerfer featuring a glass vase filled with fresh cut white and pink flowers from the garden. A blue ceramic jug...
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Interior, Ivory and Jade', France, Atherton, California, Hawaii, Large Oil
By Judith Gaulke
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'J. Gaulke' for Judith Gaulke (American, born 1946) and painted circa 1995; additionally titled, verso, 'Biot, France' and signed.
Since her first solo show in ...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Men Playing Cards, Painting by Joseph Margulies
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original Gouache painting measuring 16 x 20 inches by Joseph Margulies. The painting is signed lower right. Born in Vienna, Joseph Margulies becam...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
"Tuesday - 8 O'clock, " Frank Boros, View of Manhattan Skyline, New York City
Located in New York, NY
Frank J. Boros (1943 - 2017)
Tuesday - 8 O'clock
Oil on canvas
48 x 51 inches
Signed lower right
Accompanied by original purchase invoice and letter from the artist.
Provenance:
T...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Irises and Daisies Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful 1970s still life of Japanese irises and marguerite daisies by Winona Cappell (American, 20th century). Signed lower right corner. Unframed. Image size: 24"H x 18"W.
Cappel...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Abstract Expressionist Figurative -- Mother and Baby
By Honora Berg
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid century abstract figurative of nude mother with baby and bird in background by Honora Berg (American, 1897-1985). A nocturnal setting adds more interest and dimension. Signed on verso "Berg." Unframed. 34"H x 37"W.
Honora Berg an early Bay Area Figurative and Abstract Expressionist painter. She studied at the San Francisco Art Institute with David Park, Elmer Bischoff, and James Budd Dixon. Berg's friend Edith Truesdell...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mural Study 1933 Depression Era Mid-Century WPA Modern American Scene Drawing
By Michael Loew
Located in New York, NY
Mural Study 1933 Depression Era Mid-Century WPA Modern American Scene Drawing.
Study to Scale Mural Sketch for “Evolution of Textile Production” East. All,...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Board, Egg Tempera
An American Tradition, Saturday Evening Post, Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Sight Size 11.75" x 14.00," Framed 25.50" x 27.00"
Framed under glass.
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Watercolor
French Expressionist School of Paris Oil Painting Women with Umbrellas Rainy Day
Located in Surfside, FL
Michel De Gallard, France (1921-2007).
Oil on canvas signed lower left, Silver gilt and dark wood frame.
Provenance: Label on verso Galerie de la Presidence, Paris,
Titled: 'Femme...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Interior
By Diana Kurz
Located in Lawrence, NY
The story of the post-WWII New York School artists is still being written. The role of women in the art of the day still needs examination and study. Kurz is one such example. Diana Kurz (b. 1938) was born into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family whose business was Aryanized after the Anschluss forcing the family to flee, first to Spain, then across Europe, and finally to the United States. Brought up as a "normal" American girl, Kurz always wanted to be an artist. She studied at Brandeis, at Hunter with Robert Motherwell and received her MFA from Columbia. She received instruction from Hans Hoffmann, studied with Phillip Guston and Phillip Pearlstein...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Eva With Violin
Located in Atlanta, GA
Item is in excellent condition and has only been displayed in a gallery setting. This painting was procured direct from the artist's studio.
Cornelis le Mair is truly a renaissance ...
Category
Northern Renaissance 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
'Chez la Modiste', Interior Figural Oil, Post-Impressionist, Woman Folk Artist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Elisabeth' for Elisabeth Gevaert (Belgian, 1934-2016) and dated 1970.
A finely-painted, whimsical study of the interior of a milliner's shop with a woman seated...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Resting, Expressionist Portrait of Young Man by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Resting" is an interior portrait of a young man resting on a sofa. This work was painted by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon. The 24" x 32" oil on board painti...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Vintage Oil Painting "Strings and Brass" Symphony Oil Painting c.1989
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vintage Oil Painting "Strings and Brass" Symphony Oil Painting c.1989
Original oil on canvas
Canvas dimensions 24" wide x 16" high
The simple maple frame measures 25" wide x 17" h...
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fruit in Glass Bowl - Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant still life by Henri Georges Cheval (French, 1897-1987). Several pieces of fruit are arranged in a glass bowl, placed atop a white cloth on a table. Two pears are outside the bowl to the left, and there is a glass to the right. The glass pieces have a greenish tint, and there are teal shadows in the cloth.
Signed in the lower right corner in pencil.
Presented in a new cream mat with foamcore backing.
"#0267" is written on verso
Paper size: 12.25"H x 19.5"W
Included with the sale is the backing cardboard from Atelier 68 Inc., stating artist's info with the reference to his listing in the Benezit, French Dictionary...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
The Birdcage
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Robert McIntosh(1916-2010), was a prolific American artist that worked and exhibited throughout his life in California. In 1948, McIntosh was awarded first prize at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and again ion 1949 at the San Francisco Museum of Art.
"The Birdcage...
Category
Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Interiors
Located in Lawrence, NY
Casein on board
In American art circles in the second decade of the twentieth century, Cramer was an early emissary of European modernism. Born in Wurzburg, Germany, in 1888, Cramer...
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Casein
1925 Viennese Oil Painting Interior Still Life with Porcelain Vase, Tapestry Rug
Located in Surfside, FL
Framed 21.2 X 25.5
Unframed 17 X 21
Signed and dated 1920.
Nina Karasek (Joële)
born 1883 Kuttenberg, Czech Lands, Austro-Hungarian Empire, died in 1952 (I have also seen the date recorded as 1933) Vienna, Austria. Nina Karasek was an Austrian Impressionist & Modern artist who was born in 1883. Her work was featured in exhibitions at the Es Baluard, Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art and the Bildraum Bodensee.
Little is known of Nina Karasek's life. She was born in 1883 in Kuttenberg (Kutná Hora) in Bohemia, studied art at the Kunstschule für Frauen und Mädchen (Art School for Women and Girls) in Vienna, Austria, under Adalbert Seligmann and Tina Blau. She studied at the Frauenakademie in Vienna and Munich. In the 1920's she worked first as a landscape painter and an illustrator, later turning toward symbolism, painting mystical subjects after her interest in spiritualism. Her conventional works were shown at various exhibitions. At the age of 44, while she was copying a work by Rembrandt in an Italian museum, she fell into an altered state of consciousness. Rembrandt appeared to her, took possession of her arm, and immediately her hand started to draw something quite different from what she had intended. From then on, for the rest of her life Nina Karasek was in “supernatural” contact with a series of great masters like Rembrandt, Albrecht Dürer, Goya, Raphael, Leonardo da Vinci, Gustav Klimt and others. Under their guidance and inspiration, she drew and painted works "in the style" of the masters. But very soon her works became stylistically more and more unrestricted and Symbolist, showing an enormous range of creative expression, ranging from symbolic and allegorical motifs to bewildering images with a fantastic arsenal of figures and private characters, signs, and symbols, and to frantic, gestural sketches and abstract compositions. From then on, she often signed her works with her esoteric “primordial name” Joële. (Nina Karasik-Joel)
Almost everything we know about her life was from what she noted on the reverse of her drawings: sometimes diary-like notes of her horrible living conditions during World War II, but often strangely impenetrable explanations of the depicted motifs – often as fascinating and mysterious as the drawings themselves. In her works and notes, an exciting private cosmology and mythology unfolds, a drama of hidden powers and principles that flow through macrocosm as well as microcosm. Shortly after their discovery, Nina Karasek's Spiritualist, mediumistic works have found their way into galleries and major international collections.
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2019 The Medium’s Medium: Spiritualist Art Practices From the Turn of the Century and Beyond. The Gallery of Everything, London, (she showed with Madge Gill...
Category
Symbolist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Seated Woman in Pink Dress & Bouquet of Flowers yellow red blue green rose
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Lovely painting - Unframed
Category
Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Lilies and Teapot Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid-century still life of a vase of white lilies next to a green teapot and lemon by listed California artist Helen Enoch Gleiforst (American, 19...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
1950's Expressionist Interior Oil Painting Still Life with Flowers and Trumpet
Located in Surfside, FL
Herbert Katzman 1923-2004 (American artist active in New york, Illinois and Italy)
Oil Painting Dated 1946. Signed.
Dimensions; Sight-16" x 20", Frame-23.5" x 27".
Provenance: this bears an old stamp verso from Christie's auction house.
Herbert Katzman was born in Chicago on Jan. 8, 1923, His father believing that discipline was a good teacher, sent Herbert and Bob to St. John's military academy for their elementary education but it wasn't long before Herbert found his way to the Art Institute of Chicago where he wanted to study sculpting. His Father vehemently objected and refused to finance his studies, but that wasn't enough to discourage the young artist. He put himself through school working as a student janitor and a few other odd jobs. At 17 he entered the Advanced School of the Art Institute, his interest having turned to painting. His study there was briefly interrupted by a short stint in the navy (1942-44). After receiving a medical discharge, he returned to Chicago to work with Boris Anisfeld, who introduced him to German and French Expressionism...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Door #1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Door #1
1988/89
33 inches x 24 inches
oil on canvas
Artist Statement: "This is an early work I produced in my studio at 11th street and Ave 'B" NYC. I was working at free expressio...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Jewish Expressionist Oil Painting Floral Vibrant Colorful Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Gestural impasto painting of flowers in a vase.
23.5" x 17.5" sight size , 22" x 28" framed
hand signed lower right.
Born in 1899, Belle Golinko is a listed Jewish mid...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
'Still Life of Tulips', Post-Impressionist, Royal Academy of Art, Copenhagen
By Poul Nielsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left with monogram 'P/N' for Poul Nielsen (Danish, 1920-1998) and dated 1954.
A vibrant and light-filled still-life by this well-listed Danish Modernist and disciple o...
Category
Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Blue Walls
By Alain GAZIER
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Alain Gazier has been born in 1956 in Paris, France.
Quietly the viewers’ gaze is drawn through the deserted interiors created by Alain Gazier (1956). Sil...
Category
Post-War 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Artist's Studio, Painting by John Hultberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: John Hultberg, American (1922 - 2005)
Title: Untitled - Artist's Studio
Year: circa 1960
Medium: Acrylic on Board, signed l.r.
Size: 24 x 29.5 in. (60.96 x 74.93 cm)
Frame: 2...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Cat Scratching Table, " Oil Painting on Canvas Interior signed by Nicolas Dreux
By Nicolas Dreux
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Cat Scratching Table" is an original oil painting on canvas by Nicolas Dreux. The artist signed the piece lower left. It depicts a cat and a bird in a pastel-colored interior.
18" x 14" art
27 1/4" x 23 1/4" frame
Nicolas Dreux was born on March 10, 1956 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He began to paint as a student of painter Calixte Henri...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Carrigan", Modern Harvest Still-Life with Autumn Squash
Located in Soquel, CA
Modern expressionist autumn still-life of winter squash harvest by Bay Area artist Michael Pauker (American, b. 1957), c.1970s. Despite the more traditional subject matter, the artis...
Category
Modern 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New Hat, Expressionist Portrait of Woman by Philadelphia Artist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"New Hat" is a figurative, interior portrait painting by Philadelphia born Expressionist painter Bernard Harmon from 195. The 20" x 16" oil on board portrait features a young African...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
“Contours of Thought” Abstract Still Life
Located in Houston, TX
Large warm toned figurative painting by Lars Carsen depicting abstracted interior still life with a vase, slices of apples, pears, and oranges. Signed "Lar...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 20th Century 1920s Spring Floral Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Elegant floral still life of a beautiful spring bouquet in an antique ivory soup tureen by Elizabeth Fitzgerald Forbes (Dallam) (American, 1875-1933). Exhibition placard on verso signed "Elizabeth Forbes...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Introduction at a Formal Affair
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: 'To 'Shipwreck'/with my admiration/and best wishes' bottom right
LITERATURE:
Faith Baldwin, "The Moon's Our Home," in Cosmopolitan, n.d.
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mission Cloisters, San Juan Capistrano
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Joseph Kleitsch. "Mission Cloisters, San Juan Capistrano" is an oil on canvas painting executed in feathery strokes primarily of oran...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Berlin, MD
Andre Cottavoz (French, 1922-2012) Untitled, Paris scene with multitude of French flags. Canvas on board, framed. Frame: 20 1/2" x 22" x 1 1/4, Board 13 3/4" x 15"
Category
Abstract 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Expressionist Judaica Havdalah Oil Painting Jewish American Modernist Ben Zion
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil Painting of still life Havdalah scene with braided candle, spice tower box and kiddush cup.
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name.
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolph Gottlieb, Louis Harris, Yankel Kufeld, Marcus Rothkowitz (later known as Mark Rothko), Louis Schanker, and Joseph Solman. The Art of “The Ten” was generally described as expressionist, as this style offered the best link between modernism and social art. Their exhibition at the Mercury Gallery in New York held at the same time as the Whitney Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, included a manifesto concentrating on aesthetic questions and criticisms of the conservative definition of modern art imposed by the Whitney. Ben-Zion’s work was quickly noticed. The New York Sun said he painted “furiously” and called him “the farthest along of the lot.” And the triptych, “The Glory of War,” was described by Art News as “resounding.”
By 1939, The Ten disbanded because most of the members found individual galleries to represent their work. Ben-Zion had his first one-man show at the Artist’s Gallery in Greenwich Village and J.B. Neumann, the highly esteemed European art dealer who introduced Paul Klee, (among others) to America, purchased several of Ben-Zion’s drawings. Curt Valentin, another well-known dealer, exhibited groups of his drawings and undertook the printing of four portfolios of etchings, each composed of Ben-Zion’s biblical themes. He worked as a WPA artist.
Ben-Zion’s work is represented in many museums throughout the country including the Metropolitan, the Whitney, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Phillips Collection, Washington. The Jewish Museum in New York opened in 1948 with a Ben-Zion exhibition.
Ben-Zion consistently threaded certain subject matter—nature, still life, the human figure, the Hebrew Bible, and the Jewish people—into his work throughout his life. "In all his work a profound human feeling remains. Sea and sky, even sheaves of wheat acquire a monolithic beauty and simplicity which delineates the transient as a reflection of the eternal. This sensitive inter- mingling of the physical and metaphysical is one of the most enduring features of Ben-Zion's works." (Excerpt from Stephen Kayser, “Biblical Paintings,” The Jewish Museum Catalogue, 1952). Mystical Imprints: Marc Chagall, Ben-Zion, and Ben Shahn presents the print work of three prominent 20th century Jewish artists born in the Russian Empire. Among these seventy pieces are etchings and lithographs from Chagall’s Bible series...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel