Joseph Martinek

Joseph Martinek (American/Czech, 1915-1989)

Olja Ivanjicki "Florence or Hell of l'Inconnue De La Seine" original oil circa 1965 Original oil on board. Dimensions 26" wide x 42" high. The frame measures 30" wide x 46" high. Signed and dated at the upper border. She has auction results over $9,000 which was earlier in 2021. Olga Ivanjicki, the daughter of Russian emigrants was born in Pancevo, Danube Banovina. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, graduated in 1957, and in the same year she was the only woman among the founders of MEDIALA Belgrade, an art group of painters, writers and architects such as Leonid Šejka, Vladimir Velickovic, Ljubomir Popovic, Miodrag Ðuric. In 1962, she received a scholarship of the Ford Foundation to pursue her art studies in the United States, and in 1978 she was a selected artist of the Fulbright program Artist in Residence at the Rhode Island School of Design. She had over ninety individual exhibitions and participated in numerous national and international group exhibitions. Ivanjicki’s painting was influenced by Symbolism, Surrealism, Pop art and Fantastic art. In the course of her career, the artist received the Vuk Lifetime Achievement Award (Vukova nagrada, 1988), the Seventh of July Award (Sedmojulska nagrada, 1988) and the Karic Award. L'Inconnue de la Seine (English: The Unknown Woman of the...

Poignancy. A little girl hugging her black kitty rendered in any realistic palette would be cloying. But not here. You look longer. Tight little patterns bubble over in the backgroun...

18th to 19th Century English Oil Portrait Original oil on canvas Canvas dimensions 26" wide x 34" high The frame measures 31.75" wide x 39" hig...

Almost a folk painting in its naiveté and awe of the abundance on display. It’s a direct reminder of another era when such fruits, imported from warmer, faraway climates were an uni...

Threshold (Abstract painting) Oil and graphite on canvas — Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying...

Approach (Abstract painting) Oil and graphite on canvas — Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying ...

Utterance (Abstract painting) Oil and graphite on canvas — Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying...

Dawn (Abstract painting) Oil and graphite on canvas — Unframed. McCagg's work is informed and influenced by formal elements such as line and space, which provide an underlying aest...