John R. Grabach

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Pages, Jules (American 1867 - 1946) “Pont Neuf, Paris” Oil on artist board, Pencil sketches and estate stamp verso Estate Stamp signed 13 ½ x 10 ¼ Inches, 23 ½ x 20 ½ Inches, Framed Provenance: Niece of the artist, Normandy, France About A prominent landscape and marine painter, Jules Eugène Pages...

Signed lower left Landscape and figure painter William Partridge Burpee was born in Rockland, Maine on April 13, 1846. As a young man, he was educated in Rockland schools and in the Kents Hill Academy in Readfield, Maine. He exhibited a great deal of interest as a youth in painting and drawing, In the late 1870s, he studied with marine painter, William Bradford (1823-1894). Burpee's early work of the 1880s reflects Bradford's influence as well as other painters such as Martin Johnson Heade, Fitz Hugh Lane, Frederic Edwin Church, A. T. Bricher and F. A. Silva. After briefly advertising himself as an artist in the Rockland City Directory in 1882, Burpee appeared that year in Boston. By September 1, 1885, he was painting figures on Lynn Beach...

Signed lower right. A prominent landscape and marine painter, Jules Eugène Pages spent most of his career in France where he was a well-known Impressionist painter, but he mainta...

David Solot, a dentist and painter, was born in Falciu (Romania) and settled in Paris in 1928. His art was surrealistic dentally inspired plus portraits and city landscapes. **************************** Translated from an article by Luana Hrisanti Rigot: "In 1956, at the Charlotte Norberg Gallery (Paris), he presented his first personal exhibition, composed of an ensemble of surrealist paintings of professional inspiration (dental elements). Two years later, at Gallery Royale (Rochefort), he exhibits another 50 paintings on the subject. At that time, a decisive event for the painter David Solot was made: a great new-York-born antibiotic producer Lederle Cy learns about his work and contacts him through the US Ambassador to Paris, proposing an advertising contract and buying the reproduction right for 24 of its canvases. A year later, the same company bought the right to print three of its cloths in color. This was the starting point of his international notoriety. In 1959, the American Dental...

Signed lower left. "Scholars continually rediscover competent American artists who enjoyed successful careers at the turn of the century, but whose legacy has been lost over time. One of these, William Merritt Post, was a tonalist landscape painter often associated with the Barbizon school and the early New England Impressionists...

Signed lower right. Following his graduation, he toured the United States and Canada as lead baritone for the Grand Opera Company, after which he taught voice - first as his alma matter...

Signed lower right: G.W. Sotter; on verso: MINER HILLARD / MILLING Co.

A wonderful Danish landscape by Max Nathan (Danish, 1880 - 1952), c.1940. Oil on artist's board. Signed lower left corner "M. Nathan." Presented in wood frame. Image size: 20"H x 14....

Bright and charming painting of springtime in an El Salvadorian village by Guardado Aguilera (Salvadoran, 20th Century), c.1980s. The artist shows a snapshot of a back street in a vi...

Gorgeous period painting of the Cape Cod Lighthouse with dunes and beach in the foreground by L. Clogston (American, 20th century). Oil on artist's board. Signed indistinctly "L. Clo...

Serene mid-century winter landscape with a cabin near a lake covered in snow and tall mountains in the distance by W. Dunn. Signed "W. Dunn" lower left. Displayed in a giltwood frame...

Colorful scene of shoppers at a rural farm stand under cloudy skies, by Polish artist Gongor (Polish, 20th Century). Signed "Gongor" lower right. Displayed in a dark gold finish wood...