Bertoldo Taubert

Le Mas

1965

Enrique Climent (1897-1980). Casas de Ibiza, c.1960. Oil and sand on canvas, 35 x 46 inches; 44.5 x 55.5 inches (frame). Signed lower left. Excellent condition with no damage or conservation. Instituo National de Bellas Artes lebel affixed en verso. Biography: Enrique Climent ( Valencia , Spain, 1897- Mexico City , 1980) was a Spanish painter and graphic designer, present in the Spanish Pavilion of the International Exhibition of Paris in 1937 , two of whose works are conserved in the National Museum Art Center Reina Sofía , as part of the collection of the Spanish Museum of Contemporary Art (MEAC). Exiled in Mexico , country in which he died at 83 years of age. He has been associated with the driving group in Spain of the "New Art". Born in a bourgeois family of the Valencian capital, despite paternal opposition, Climent studied at the School of Fine Arts of San Carlos , and with a scholarship received in 1919, traveled to Madrid to complete them in San Fernando . In the capital of Spain he participated in the gathering of Ramón Gómez de la Serna , for whom he illustrated some greguerías , and in the avant-garde activities of the then-called first Escuela de Vallecas , Associated with the Society of Iberian Artists . He also collaborated as an illustrator of Blanco y Negro magazine, 3 and illustrated books by Elena Fortún , Azorín , Juan Manuel Díaz Caneja and Manuel Abril . 3 Before, in 1924 he had been in Paris for two years, where he came to design some stage sets for opera shows. 6 He participated in three of the exhibitions of "Los Ibéricos" (San Sebastián in 1931, Copenhagen in 1932 and Berlin in 1933), as well as in the International Exhibitions of Contemporary Spanish Art in Paris and Venice in 1936. He was one of the Spanish exiles who in 1939 landed in Veracruz , after the crossing of the Sinaia , along with other intellectuals and artists (such as José Moreno Villa , Arturo Souto...

Byron Browne (1907-1961). Provincetown Beach, 1957. Oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches, 30 x 36 inches in vintage solid chestnut frame. Signed lower righ...

James Earl Ray (1928-1998). Landscape with Orange Sky. ca. 1975. Oil on masonite panel measures 6.5 x 8.5 inches, 10.5 x 12.5 inches framed. Signed lowe...

Renee Theobald (1926-2014). Passage, ca. 1965. Oil on canvas, 13 x 16 inches, 18.5 x 21.5 inches framed. Painting is in excellent condition; frame has minor loss and has been repainted but is original to the piece. Studied at the Sorbonne and the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris GROUP SHOWS and SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS Salon des Jeunes Peintres, Catalogue 1954-55-58 Museum of Modern Art: Selection of the Pacquement Prize “Les Peintres Temoins de leur Temps” Musée Galleria, Paris, 1967 Europeinture Group in Frankfurt, Germany “Les Artiste Français” Montreal, Quebec Tapestry design: Chartres 1971 Guilhall Art Gallery, London 1972 “Les Peintres Temoins de leur Temps” Japan 1973, 1974 First exhibition of French Art at the Museum of Fine Art of Kuwait , 1975 First contemporary French Art...