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High Summer - garden Original still life oil painting artwork impressionism
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
Contemporary painter John D Martin imparts a classic English i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cuauhtémoc, signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cuauhtémoc, 1982
by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015)
oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board
framed
Framed size: 15 x 21.75 inches
Superb oil painting by the well listed French marine artist Louis Letouche (1924-2015). The painting portrays the 20th Century ship titled: Cuauhtemoc, 1982.
ARM Cuauhtémoc is a sail training vessel of the Mexican Navy, named for the last Mexica Hueyi Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc who was captured and executed in 1525.
She is the last of four sister...
Category
1990s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Set of 7 Original Paintings - The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World Classical
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Seven Wonders of the Classical World
English School, early 20th century
set of seven (7)
7 x oil paintings on paper mounted on board, framed
Glass covering
framed: 22 x 14 inch...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Roger Muhl Fauvist Still Life Cactus Ecole de Paris French Oil Painting Paques
By Roger Mühl
Located in Surfside, FL
PAQUES, 1958, PARIS
Hand signed
Oil on board
Still life of a potted cactus.
DIMENSIONS: (Framed) H: 23.25" W: 20.25" (Without Frame) H: 16" W: 12.75"
(1929-2008) French
Roger Müh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reflections at the Spring's Entrance - Contemporary Landscape Autumn Forest 2017
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary autumn landscape in oil on panel, the densely treed forest of Gregory Hennen's Virginia home are the subject for this rich, highly detailed landscape painting. I...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Contemporary British Acrylic Painting Leopard Family in Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Leopards
by Ben George Powell, British contemporary artist
signed
acrylic on board, unframed
board: 20 x 24 inches
provenance: private collection of this artists work, UK
The paintin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Fine Victorian 1870’s English Oil Painting Lady Walking on Country Path framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'A Lady on a Country Path'
C. Ward (19th-20th Century) British
signed oil painting on canvas, framed
dated 1877
framed: 16 x 24 inches
canvas: 12 x 20inches
provenance: private coll...
Category
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Yun Xi Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Spring Stream"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Spring Stream
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 16 x 23 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This paint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wei Wang Waterscape Original Oil On Canvas "Beach Bathing Area"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Beach Bathing Area
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 19.5 x 23 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: Thi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century California Laguna Country Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful Impressionist landscape of a country scene by Paul Friederich Weindorf (German/American, 1887-1965). Signed "Paul Weindorf" lower right. Artist's bio on verso. Unframed. Im...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Linen
$1,320 Sale Price
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Mid Century French Illustration Sketch Of A Mosaic Ship In The Sea Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mosaic Drawing
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed
pastel/watercolor on artist paper, unframed
painting: 13 x 20 inches
good condition
provenance: from the artists estate, Fr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor
"Puy d'Aoust", Impressionist Hilly Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
This artwork is a unique masterpiece. Isn't it amazing how that few a number of strokes can depict reality with such accuracy ? A single stroke is more than enough for Yves Calmeja...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Finsevand Norwegian Glaciers, Early 20th Century Winter Landscape, Cleveland Art
By William Eastman
Located in Beachwood, OH
William Eastman (American, 1881-1950)
Finsevand Norwegian Glaciers, 1922
Oil on canvas
21 x 18 inches
Exhibited: 1923 Cleveland Museum of Art May Show
Born in Cleveland in 1881, Wil...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century Landscape of Shepherdess w/ Sheep & Dog, Munich, Cleveland School
By Henry Keller
Located in Beachwood, OH
Henry George Keller (American, 1869–1949)
Shepherdess with Sheep and Dog, Munich, 1891
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower left
19 x 24 inches
25 x 30 inches, framed
Keller, a lead...
Category
1890s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine British Horse Racing Oil Painting 'Steeple Chase' signed and dated 1970
By Eric Goddard
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Clearing the Fence
by Eric Goddard, British 20th century
signed and dated 1970
oil painting on board, framed
Measurements 34 x 44 cm, frame 46 x 56 cm
Condition: very good
provenanc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Paris Opera House', California Artist, Chouinard Art Institute, Crocker Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'A Heinsbergen' for Antoon Heinsbergen (Dutch-American, 1894-1989), inscribed 'Painted in Paris from the top floor of the Grand Hotel Paris' and dated 1941.
A panoramic view of early twentieth-century Paris with early automobiles, charabancs and pedestrians filling the boulevards converging on the Paris Opera beneath sunny blue skies.
Painter and theatrical designer, Antoon Heinsbergen immigrated to Los Angeles as a small boy and first studied at the Chouinard Art School and the Otis Art Institute. He subsequently became sought after as a decorator of theaters and, working with a crew of 185, designed and painted wall and ceiling decorations...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mother & Daughter by Lake Fine Impressionist Oil Painting on Canvas framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rest as the World Goes By
Juan Soler, Spanish b.1951
signed oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 20 x 22 inches
canvas: 13 x 16 inches
provenance: private collection, London
condi...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Dans la Rivière”
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful oil on canvas post impressionist painting by the French artist, Edmund Amedee Heuze. Signed lower right. Circa 1920. Condition of the painting is very good. No restorations. His paintings rarely come to the market. The painting is housed in a contemporary gold leaf gallery frame. Overall framed measurements are 24.25 by 28.75 inches. Provenance: Papillon Gallery (gallery label verso)
Edmond Heuze
1883-1967
Edmond Heuzé was a painter, pastellist, watercolourist, and lithographer. His birth name was Amédée Le Trouvé.
He was born in Paris, the son of a tailor and a seamstress. Heuzé wanted to be an artist from early childhood, and refused to follow his father into the tailoring profession. When he was 11, His parents moved to Montmartre, and it was there, in rue Cortot, that the thirteen-year-old Edmond Heuzé and his boyhood friend André Utter met Suzanne Valadon, whom Utter would later marry.
Heuzé moved into an attic room in 8, rue Cortot, with another friend, the young Russian sculptor Laxine. For two years they studied under Valadon, until Laxine entered the atelier of Fernand Cormon at the Beaux-Arts; Laxine was soon to kill himself. Edmond Heuzé too studied under Cormon, but flounced out when Cormon made fun of his large nose. Discouraged, Heuzé took up a tailoring job at the department store La Samaritaine. But when his portrait of Suzanne Valadon was accepted by the 1902 Salon d'Automne, he resolved to devote himself to art.
To support himself, Heuzé took a job as a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, where he danced with La Goulue. For two years he entered dance competitions across Europe under the name Williams. He also taught the painter Maurice Utrillo, who was the son of Suzanne Valadon. In 1908, Heuzé had his first solo exhibition, at the galerie Berthe Weill. The following year he went to Saint Petersburg, where he was the curator of the art collection of Grand Duke Nicolas.
On the outbreak of WWI Edmond Heuzé returned to Paris to join up, but was only mobilized for a few months. In Paris he survived doing odd jobs in Les Halles. Continuing with his own art, Heuzé also acted as an intermediary between collectors and artists such as Picasso, Vlaminck, and Valadon. This led to Heuzé being appointed artistic director of the galerie Sagot in rue Lafitte.
In 1920 Heuzé exhibited at Bernheim alongside Maurice Asselin, Emily Charmy, and Lucien Mainssieux...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,400 Sale Price
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Winter Landscape Scene by American Impressionist Aldro Hibbard
Located in Rockport, MA
Hibbard, known for his love of winter landscapes, was a well-known American artist. The sunlight reflecting off the water adds warmth to the chilly scene, making the snow and ice spa...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Russian Landscape (abstract painting)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Yuri Larin (1936-2014). Landscape, 1976. Watercolor on paper, 16.5 x 19.5 inches. Mounted on cardboard sheet measuring 24 x 28 inches. Signed and dated lower left. Excellent condition. Image is painted on verso side of block print wallpaper...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$1,000 Sale Price
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The Sequence of Life, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
I am fascinated by nature and the calmness it brings. That's where we all belong. That's my inspiration. This painting comes with a contemporary floater frame. It's ready to hang! ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage French Oil Painting Of A Golden Field Of Hay Bales
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Leon Hatot (French 1883-1953)
Title: Impressionist oil painting
Medium: signed oil painting on thick paper, stuck on board unframed.
dated 1944
Size: painting: 1...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Autumn mood
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this painting, I’ve captured the ephemeral beauty of autumn, where the vibrant colors of the leaves contrast with the serene blue of the lake. Using oil, I blended expressionist v...
Category
2010s Expressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
On the crest of a wave
Located in Zofingen, AG
In creating this painting, I sought to capture the dynamic and ever-changing spirit of the sea. Using oils, I blended the techniques of impressionism and realism to give life to the ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Changing Leaves
By Joseph Varga
Located in Buffalo, NY
A beautiful antique impressionist painting by American artist Joseph Varga
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,800 Sale Price
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Antique French Impressionist Winter Snow Landscape Oil Painting 1920's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6008 Winter Snow,a 1920's oil painting on canvas depicting the isolation and beauty of your girl walking thru a fresh fallen snow.Displayed in a gilt wood frame.Artist unknown
Category
1920s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Del Bourree Bach, "Summerhill", 12x24 Rural Red Country Barn Landscape Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This piece, "Summerhill", is a 12x24 acrylic painting on board by artist Del Bourree Bach featuring quiet rural landscape. The moon slowly begins to r...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Oil Painting of Irish Countryside Scene with Cathedral in the distance Ireland
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of a beautiful Irish Countryside Scene with Down Cathedral in the distance, Northern Ireland
Art measures 12 x 16 inches
Frame measure ...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Beginning to shine. Cypresses. Original paintings
Located in Zofingen, AG
The painting "Beginning to Shine. Cypresses" captures the play of light and shadow—the moment when nature holds its breath before the start of a new day. Four cypresses stand like a ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Field of Wild Poppies', American Impressionist, Woman Artist, Horticultural Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Jane Chenoweth' for Jane Chenoweth (American, 20th century).
Oil botanical showing a field of vermilion poppies with white and gold daisies contrasted against ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century French Original Pastel Painting of Rocky Coastal View at Le Trayas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Original Pastel Painting of Rocky Coastal View at Le Trayas
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Oil Pastel on artist paper
Size: 19.75 (heig...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Impressionist Still Life Apples and Flowers, Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Impressionist Still Life Apples and Flowers, Oil Painting
by Pamela Cawley, British 20th century
oil painting on canvas, unframed
board: 20 x 16 inches
Stunning original Impression...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
North African School Late 19th Century Oil - Narrow City Street
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming North African scene depicting a street with figures and fruit sellers. Unsigned. Presented in a painted gilt-effect frame. On canvas laid to board.
Category
Late 19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jingjing Wang Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Beautiful Town"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Half Hillside
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 23 x 19 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This paint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Broadway Manhattan - 21st Century contemporary realistic painting of New York
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Wijnand Driessen (Dutch artist)
Broadway And 71 street Manhattan - New York
50 x 40 cm (framed, included in price 59 x 49 cm)
Oil paint on canvas
Artist Wijnand Driessen lives and w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Continental Oil Painting City River Busy Shipping Scene framed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
European School, 19th century
View of boats on water and buildings
oil on board, framed
framed: 16 x 22 inches
board: 11.5 x 17.5 inches
private collecti...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
1930's French Impressionist Signed Oil Painting - Tranquil River Landscape Boats
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, circa 1930's, indistinctly signed
Title: The Tranquil River
Medium: oil painting on board, framed
Size: frame: 18 x 21.75 inches
pain...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Thomas M Nicholas Winter Country Scene Northeast Oil
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY
The untitled oil painting of a quiet country winter scene is a typical subject matter for T. M. Nicholas who is considered by many to be among the most prominent painter of his generation and specifically of the Rockport School of Art. Painting is signed in the lower right front corner.
He grew up admiring the rugged beauty of the U.S. northeast coastline especially the landscapes of coastal New England. His father, esteemed painter, Tom Nicholas...
Category
1990s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring Trees, Red Roof, Provence, Original Painting
By Janet Dyer
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Janet Dyer illustrates a lovely spring day in Provence with flourishing pear, cherry, and almond trees. She captures the essence of the season with a v...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist More Art
Materials
Acrylic
Paris Street Scene, Notre Dame
By Maurice Falliès
Located in Norwich, GB
Notre Dame Cathedral by Maurice Falliès (French, 1883-1965), an artist who specialised in Paris street scenes. His work was recently shown at the Musée...
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ship at Sea / Winter Landscape, Mid Century Double-Sided Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Double sided watercolor painting of a ship off the Santa Cruz, California coast and a path through the snow covered mountains on verso by Lillie Esther (Hillman) Heebner (American, 1...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$460 Sale Price
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Antique American Snowy New England Winter Horse Farm Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 16L x 12H.
Artist Bio:
Arthur James Beaumont was born in Yorkshire, England in 1877. He studied with Julius Olsson in London before moving to Paris at the turn of the century. In Paris, Beaumont studied at the Academie Julian* with William Adolphe Bougereau. The Academie awarded him a gold medal in 1905.
After completing his studies, Beaumont settled in Cornwall where he became known for his marine and landscape scenes as a member of the St. Ives School*, an artist colony. While living in Cornwall, Beaumont traveled to the United States to exhibit his paintings. In 1906 he settled in New York, buying a house on Staten Island with his brother and sister in law, Ernest and Henrietta Beaumont, also artists, who arrived from England in 1907.
Although Arthur Beaumont...
Category
1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,996 Sale Price
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Autumn Trees by Ernest Voegeli - Oil on Canvas 38x50 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Ernest Voegeli is an artist who has found his path through a combination of solid technique and a clear, insightful approach to color, form, and composition. While his work is primar...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"View of Arizona Desert near Wickenberg" Will Foote, Impressionist Western Scene
Located in New York, NY
Will Foote
View of Arizona Desert near Wickenberg, circa 1927
Signed lower center; titled and dated on the reverse
Oil on artist's board
12 x 16 inches
Foote was born on June 29, 1874 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and died on January 27, 1965, in Sarasota, Florida. He was in Old Lyme, 1901-65; and in Cos Cob, 1903.
Will Howe Foote was one of the earliest artists at Old Lyme and one who adopted the town as home. He first went there the summer of 1901 with his uncle, William H. Howe, a painter of cattle, who had been told about the beauties of the countryside by Henry Ward Ranger. Foote had himself heard of Old Lyme when he had met Clark Voorhees in France. He and his uncle were both from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where Foote's father was an executive in the furniture industry that made the city famous. Encouraged to be an artist by his father, he began his professional training at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1894. He became friends there with a fellow Michigan student, Frederick Frieseke, who would study with him again at the Art Students League in New York, where Foote worked in 1895-96 under H. Siddons Mowbray and Kenyon Cox.
In 1897 he and Frieseke went to the Academic Julian in Paris, where Foote studied under Jean-Paul Laurens and Benjamin Constant. He was at Julian's until 1900, except for an Italian trip, summers at Laren, Holland, or Etaples, France, and a short period at Whistler's school in Paris. He exhibited twice at the Old Salon, and when he returned to the United States in 1900, he had a one-man exhibition in his hometown.
Will Howe Foote's paintings were well received on his return from abroad. He exhibited frequently at the National Academy of Design and became an associate member in 1910. His awards included a bronze medal at the St. Louis Exposition in 1904 and a silver medal at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco in 1915.
Once he visited Old Lyme, Foote returned every summer. In 1902 he was hired as assistant to Frank DuMond at the Lyme Summer School of Art, which was sponsored by the Art Students League of New York. Sometime in 1903 he also taught a session in Cos Cob. After 1906, when the League moved its Lyme classes to Woodstock, New York, Foote continued in Old Lyme as a private instructor.
In 1907 he was married to Helen Kirtland Freeman, whom he had met a year or two earlier when she had come to the Lyme art colony as a student of Henry Rankin Poore. Fellow artist William Chadwick was best man at the wedding. The Footes began building a house on Sill Lane in Old Lyme and upon its completion in 1909 spent every spring, summer and fall there, where Foote devoted full time to painting. The Gregory Smiths, old friends from Grand Rapids, arrived in Old Lyme in 1910 and became neighbors. Foote's early works in Connecticut, such as A Summer's Night reflect the artist's interest in soft, atmospheric scenes dominated by a single, overriding tone. The arrival of Childe Hassam and Walter Griffin...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique Signed Framed Australian Impressionist Victoria Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted impressionist landscape of Australia by Sir Erik Langker (1898 - 1982). Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso.
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tulip Bouquet Floral Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3575B Tulip bouquet set in vintage silvered wood frame
Image size 13x10"
P.Russo Neapolitan artist
Category
Early 2000s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$260 Sale Price
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Menaggio and Bellagio
Located in Austin, TX
Title: "Menaggio and Bellagio"
Artist: Robert Butta
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 7.75" x 23.5"
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Impressionist New England Harbor Seascape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3564 Oil on canvas board
Set in a vintage wood frame
Image size 19x13"
Category
1970s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wang PanPan Landscape Original Oil Painting "Quaint Town"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Quaint Town
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 19.75 x 23.5 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This painting...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,480 Sale Price
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"West Village Coffee Stop" Oil Painting of a Plein Air Street NYC with Figures
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
"With shades of Pierre Bonnard’s Parisian street vistas and Edward Hopper’s New York shopfronts, American impressionist Cindy Shaoul’s oil paintings depict the much-loved locales and...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
$1,280 Sale Price
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Christopher Street (abstract Greenwich Village cityscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
De Hirsh Margules (1899-1965). Christopher Street, 1939. Watercolor on Arches wove paper. Signed and dated in pencil by artist lower margin. Sheet measures 15.5 x 20 inches. Window in matting measures 15 x 19 inches. Framed measurement: 23 x 30 inched. Bears fragment of original label affixed on verso. Incredibly vibrant and saturated color with no fading or toning of sheet.
Provenance: Babcock Galleries, NYC
Exhibited: The American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition.
From the facade of The Waverly at Christopher is depicted One Christopher Street, the 16-story Art Deco residential building erected in 1931. It is not a casual coincidence that the structure appears in this cityscape: 1 Christopher Street is the subject. The original intention of this project was to transform the neighborhood, bring a bit of affluence and make a bid to rival the Upper West Side. Margules, a sensitive aesthete, understood how a massive piece of architecture such as One changes a neighborhood. Sound, scale and focal points are forever altered. A pedestrian's sense of depth and distance becomes pronounced. All of these factors contribute to the intent behind this image. Tall buildings disrupt the human scale, change the skyline and carve up space. In this piece, negative space conforms to the man-made geometries. Clouds become gems fixed in settings.
De Hirsh Margules (1899–1965) was a Romanian-American "abstract realist" painter who crossed paths with many major American artistic and intellectual figures of the first half of the 20th century. Elaine de Kooning said that he was "[w]idely recognized as one of the most gifted and erudite watercolorists in the country". The New York Times critic Howard Devree stated in 1938 that "Margules uses color in a breath-taking manner. A keen observer, he eliminates scrupulously without distortion of his material." Devree later called Margules "one of our most daring experimentalists in the medium"
Margules was also a well-known participant in the bohemian culture of New York City's Greenwich Village, where he was widely known as the "Baron" of Greenwich Village.[1] The New York Times described him as "one of Greenwich Village's best-known personalities" and "one of the best known and most buoyant characters about Greenwich Village.
Early Life
De Hirsh Margules was born in 1899 in the Romanian city of Iași (also known as Iasse, Jassy, or Jasse). When Margules was 10 weeks old, his family immigrated to New York City. Both of his parents were active in the Yiddish theater, His father was Yekutiel "Edward" Margules, a "renowned Jewish actor-impresario and founder of the Yiddish stage." Margules' mother, Rosa, thirty-nine years younger than his father, was an actress in the Yiddish theater and later in vaudeville. Although Margules appeared as a child actor with the Adler Family[11] and Bertha Kalich, his sister, Annette Margules, somewhat dubiously continued in family theater and vaudeville tradition, creating the blackface role of the lightly-clad Tondelayo (a part later played on film Hedy Lamarr) in Earl Carroll's 1924 Broadway exoticist hit, White Cargo. Annette herself faced stereotyping as an exotic flower: writing about her publicist Charles Bouchert stated that "Romania produces a stormy, temperamental type of woman---a type admirably fitted to portray emotion." His brother Samuel became a noted magician who appeared under the name "Rami-Sami." Samuel later became a lawyer, representing magician Horace Goldin, among others. A family portrait including a young De Hirsh, a portrait of Rosa and Annette together, and individual photos of Rosa and Edward can be found on the Museum of the City of New York website.
At around age 9 or 10, Margules took art classes with the Boys Club on East Tenth Street, and his first taste of exhibition was at a student art show presented by the club. By age 11, he had won a city-wide prize (a box camera) at a children's art show presented by the department store Wanamakers.
As a young teenager, Margules was already displaying a characteristic kindness and loyalty. Upon hearing that two friends (one of them was author Alexander King), were in trouble for breaking a school microscope, the nearly broke Margules gave them five dollars to repair the microscope . Margules had to approach a wealthy man that Margules had once saved on the subway from a heart attack. Margules didn't reveal the source of the five dollars to King until twenty-five years later.
In his late teens, Margules studied for a couple of months in Pittsburgh with Edwin Randby, a follower of Western painter Frederic Remington. Thereafter he pursued a two-year course of studies in architecture, design and decoration at the New York Evening School of Art and Design, while working as a clerk during the day at Stern's Department Store. He was encouraged in these artistic pursuits by his neighbor, the painter Benno Greenstein (who later went by the name of Benjamin Benno).
Artistic career
In 1922, Margules began work as a police reporter for the City News Association of New York .Margules then considered himself something of an expert on art, and the painter Myron Lechay is said to have responded to some unsolicited analysis of his work with the remark "Since you seem to know so much about it, why don't you paint yourself?" This led to study with Lechay and a flurry of painting.
Margules' first show was in 1922 at Jane Heap's Little Review Gallery. Thereafter Margules began to participate in shows with a group including Stuart Davis, Jan Matulka, Buckminster Fuller (exhibiting depictions of his "Dymaxion house") in a gallery run by art-lover and restaurateur Romany Marie on the floor above her cafe.
Jane Heap, left, with Mina Loy and Ezra Pound
During the 1920s, Margules traveled outside of the country a number of times. In 1922, with the intent of reaching Bali, he took a job as a "'wiper on a tramp steamer where [he] played nursemaid to the engine." He reached Rotterdam before he turned back. He would return to Rotterdam shortly thereafter.
In 1927, Margules took a lengthy leave of absence from his day job as a police reporter in order to travel to Paris, where he "set up a studio in Montmartre's Place du Tertre, on the top floor of an almost deserted hotel, a shabby establishment, lacking both heat and running water." He studied at the Louvre and traveled to paint landscapes in provincial France and North Africa.
Margules also joined the "Noctambulist" movement and experimented with painting and showing his artwork in low light.Jonathan Cott wrote that:
the painter De Hirsch Margulies sat on the quays of the Seine and painted pictures in the dark. In fact, the first exhibition of these paintings, which could be seen only in a darkened room, took place in [ Walter Lowenfels'] Paris apartment.
Elaine de Kooning remarked that studying the works of the Noctambulists confirmed Margules' "direction toward the use of primary colors for perverse effects of heavy shadow."
It was also in Paris that Margules initially conceived his idea of "Time Painting", where a painting is divided into sectors, each representing a different time of day, with color choices meant to evoke that time of day.
In Paris, his social circle included Lowenfels, photographer Berenice Abbott, publisher Jane Heap, composer George Anthiel, sculptor Thelma Wood, painter André Favory, writer Norman Douglas, writer and editor George Davis, composer and writer Max Ewing, and writer Michael Fraenkel.
Upon his return to New York in 1929, Margules attended an exhibition of John Marin's paintings.
While at the exhibition, he "launched into an eloquent explanation of Marin to two nearby women", and was overheard by an impressed Alfred Stieglitz. The famous photographer and art promoter invited Margules to dine with his wife, the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and his assistant, painter Emil Zoler. Stieglitz thereafter became a friend and mentor to Margules, becoming for him "what Socrates was to his friends."
Alfred Stieglitz
Stieglitz introduced Margules to John Marin, who quickly became the most important painterly influence upon Margules. Elaine de Kooning later noted that Margules was "indebted to Marin and through Marin to Cézanne for his initial conceptual approach - for his constructions of scenes with no negative elements, for skies that loom with the impact of mountains." Margules himself said that Marin was his "father and ... academy." The admiration was by no means unreciprocated: Marin said that Margules was "an art lover with abounding faith and sincerity, with much intelligence and quick seeing." Stieglitz also introduced Margules to many other artistic and intellectual figures in New York.
With the encouragement of Alfred Stieglitz, Margules in 1936 opened a two-room gallery at 43 West 8th Street called "Another Place." Over the following two years there were fourteen solo exhibitions by Margules and others, and the gallery was well-respected by the press. It was in this gallery that the painter James Lechay, Myron's brother, exhibited his first painting.
In 1936, Margules first saw recognition by major art museums when both the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston purchased his works.
In 1942, Margules gave up working as a police reporter, and apparently dedicated himself thereafter solely to an artistic vocation.
"The Baron of Greenwich Village"[edit]
Margules made his mark not only as an artist, but also as an outsized personality known throughout Greenwich Village and beyond.
To local residents, Margules was known as the "Baron", after Baron Maurice de Hirsch, a prominent German Jewish philanthropist. Margules was easily recognizable by the beret he routinely wore over his long hair. Writer Charles Norman said that he "dressed with a flair for sloppiness."
He was said to "know everybody" in Greenwich Village, to the extent that when the novelist and poet Maxwell Bodenheim was murdered, Margules was the first one the police sought to identify the body. Margules' letters show him interacting with art world figures such as Sacha Kolin, John Marin and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as with prominent figures outside the art world such as polymath Buckminster Fuller and writer Henry Miller.
Most of his friends and acquaintances found Margules a generous and voluble man, given to broadly emotionally expressive gestures and acts of kindness and loyalty. In 1929, he exhibited an example of this loyalty and fellow-feeling when he appeared in court to fight what the wrongful commitment of his friend, writer and sculptor Alfred Dreyfuss, who appeared to have been a victim of an illicit attempt to block an inheritance.
The Greenwich Village chronicler Charles Norman described the bone-crushing hugs that Margules would routinely bestow on his friends and acquaintances, and speaks of the "persuasive theatricality" that Margules seemed to have inherited from his actor parents. Norman also wrote about Margules' routine acts of kindness, taking in homeless artists, constantly feeding his friends and providing the salvatory loan where needed. Norman also notes that Margules was blessed with a loud and good voice, and was apt to sing an operatic air without provocation.
The writer and television personality Alexander King said
I think the outstanding characteristics of my friend's personality are affirmation, emphasis, and overemphasis. He chooses to express himself predominantly in superlatives and the gestures which accompany his utterances are sometimes dangerous to life and limb. Of the bystanders, I mean.
King also spoke with affectionate amusement about Margules' pride in his cooking, speaking of how "if he should ever invite you to dinner, he may serve you a hamburger with onions, in his kitchen-living room, with such an air of gastronomic protocol, such mysterious hints and ogliing innuendoes, as if César Ritz and Brillat-Savarin had sneaked out, only a moment before, with his secret recipe in their pockets."
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