Jonah Kinigstein

Large Expressionist Oil Painting Venice Palazzo, Gondola, Night Jonah Kinigstein

c.1950's-1960's

Risa Propst Kraid (Romanian - Israeli, 1894-1983) Jewish Israeli Woman artist. enigmatic picture of either women picnicking or refugees huddling together. Painting and Sculpture We...

Genre: Modern Subject: People Medium: Acrylic Surface: Canvas Country: United States Dimensions: 20" x 24" Scene of a family leisurely gathering together in a park to picnic and enjoying their day by the artist Ben Benn. Ben Benn, Russian/American (1884-1983) Ben Benn, a Russian-born American still-life and Post Impressionist landscape painter who was part of the first generation of artists in America to try to digest the lessons of Cubism Benn Benn was a pioneer American modernist whose independent style defied stylistic classification. Despite excursions into Cubism and Abstract Expressionist style, Benn “seems always to have been a ‘subject’ painter. Considering this, it is remarkable that he remained visible at all during the 50’s and early 60’s, when prejudice against the representational amounted nearly to a proscription of it.” Benn’s prominence in the art world over 6 decades was reaffirmed at a 90th birthday show at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington , D.C. in 1974. Benn was born Benjamin Rosenberg in the town of Kamenets Podolsk in the Russian empire in 1884. This town was the regional capital of an area in what is today, SW Ukraine, and was historically known as Podolia. the Rosenberg family chose, along with thousands of others, to immigrate from Podolia to the United States in 1894 or 1899. “Between 1904 and 1908 Benn attended the National Academy of Design and he studied at the Arts Students League In New York City. He spent most of his career in New York City including memberships with the American Society of Painters and Sculptors, American Artists Congress and the Woodstock Artist Association. Academy curriculum stressed portraiture built up with broad, painterly brushstrokes, a technique that remained the foundation of Benn’s style. In his first group show, in 1913, he exhibited with Max Weber and Man Ray. By the mid teens his canvases were bolder in color and more decorative in style. In 1916, Benn participated in the important "Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters...

similar in style to David Azuz a new Expressionist Israeli market scene possibly by Roz Rice.

"School of Paris" Isis Kischka was born in Paris on the 26 October 1908 to a Polish Jewish family who had migrated from the Ukraine two years earlier. After completing studies in c...

Jean Vinay was a self-taught artist though he received artistic guidance from Albert Marquet, the Fauvist, who he knew through his travels in French North Africa. Jean Viney lived from 1907 to 1978. Jean Vinay was from the post war Ecole de Paris along with Pierre Cales, Bram van Velde, Bernard Buffet, Emile Gilioli, Yves Brayer and Camille Hilaire. Bibliography: 4 French realists: André Minaux, Ginette Rapp, Roger Montané, Jean Vinay by Arts Council of Great Britain (1955) Selected French Paintings by Richard Bellias; Bernard Lorjou; André Minaux; Roger Montané; Yvonne Mottet; Jean Vinay Publisher: London : Adams Gallery, 1959. Jean Vinay est un peintre français né le 2 février 1907 et décédé le 23 août 1978. Après des études secondaires, il se passionne pour l’art. Dès 1933, il s’établit dans Paris, à Montmartre et décide de devenir peintre. Il travaille avec acharnement, se formant principalement dans les musées. Dès le début de l’occupation allemande, il se rend à Alger chez un ami d’enfance et rencontre Albert Marquet qui lui prête son atelier. Il devient vite un grand nom de la peinture et sera reconnu par tous comme étant “Le peintre de Paris”. C’est à L'Albenc qu’il repose depuis 1978 où il vécut près de sa mère en partageant sa vie entre Paris et l'Albenc. Une importante donation au département de l’Isère, a donné naissance au Musée Jean Vinay qui ouvrait ses portes en 1979 à Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye en Isère. Ses expositions Principales expositions personnelles 1942 Paris - Galerie Raspail Alger - Galerie Hotchkiss 1943 Oran - Galerie Pozzallo Alger - Galerie La Pompadour 1944 Casablanca - Galerie Derche Oran - Galerie Colline Alger - Galerie Charlet 1945 Casablanca - Galerie Derche Rabat - Galerie La Boutique d’Art Londres - Royal Water Colour Society’s Gallery 1946 Paris - Galerie Raspail 1947 Casablanca - Galerie Derche Oran - Galerie Colline 1948 Paris - Galerie Durand Ruel 1949 Paris - Galerie Paulette Dubois Londres - Galerie Adams Lyon - Galerie des Jacobins 1950 Paris - Galerie du Bac New York - Wally Findlay Galleries 1951 Grenoble - Galerie Repelin-Perriot 1952 Lyon - Galerie des Jacobins Bourges - Galerie Jacquet Vals les Bains - Galerie Robert Valence - Galerie Bost (de 1952 à 1969) 1953 Lyon - Galerie des Jacobins Vals les Bains - Galerie Robert 1954 Paris - Galerie La Boétie Paris - Galerie Bruno Bassano 1957 Paris...

Vita P. Solomon Born December 16, 1916 in Philadelphia, PA to Harry Petrosky and Rose Bobrow, Vita graduated from Overbrook High School in 1933 and earned her diploma in Illustration and won the Lewis European Fellowship in 1937 from Moore College of Art. While raising a family she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts, with Honors, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Education, with Honors, from Temple University Tyler School of Fine Art in 1958, and a Master of Fine Arts from Tyler in 1960. She was commissioned to paint official oil portraits of such notable Pennsylvanians as George Leader, Governor of Pennsylvania (1955-1959); Alfred Williams, Dean of the Wharton School...

Alphons (Alfons) Müller (Swiss, * 24.8.1898 Mitlödi, † 8.6.1955 Biel) ' Im Häfeli ' The small harbor at the Lake of Biel / Bienne in Switzerland • Oil on artist board, ca. 47 x 38 cm • Frame, ca. 54 x 45 cm • Signed bottom right Alphons Müller lived and worked in the watch industries in Biel/Bienne in Switzerland up to about 1933. He then decided to become a full-time artist and painted landscapes, still lifes, portraits/nudes in various styles up to his early death in 1955. Alphons Müller was the proverbial hardworking bohemian artist. He lived in a small cold room above a pup and often struggled to make ends meet. On one hand he would paint commercial views of local beauty spots - often of the Lake of Bienne. These paintings were generally executed using very thin paint layers (to make the expensive material last longer ...) in a very bright impressionist style. On the other hand, he would create intelligent, generous and deep reaching images - especially during the war. In the late thirties he meets his two loyal patrons, the baker Werner Gass and the pharmacist...

Substantial small painting of a Swiss Mountain village by Otto Hamel (German, 1866-1950). Signed "Otto Hamel" lower right. Presented in a giltwood frame. Image, 9.5"H x 13"L. A German Expressionist, Otto Hamel studied at the Royal Art School in Erfurt under Eduard von Hagen...

Paris. 2009, canvas on cardboard, oil, 30x40 cm Sunny day in Paris with people and cars

Old Town Streets, Mid Century Modern Chilean Village Figurative Landscape Vibrant and expressive mid century modern figural landscape oil painting by Luis Valenzuela (Chilean, 20th Century), 1965. Small silhouetted figures stroll down the colorful yellow and blue city streets of old Santiago, Chile at night. The artist uses loose, painterly brushstrokes and dots the canvas with warm red highlights, giving this piece a sense of exuberance and life. Signed "Luis Valenzuela 1965" lower left. Presented in a carved period giltwood frame. Board size; 20"H x 24"W. Luis Valenzuela was born in Santiago de Chile. He studied his elementary and middle school in Victorino Lastarria (Providencia). At age 17 he started in the oil painting arts, where his innate talent flows. It was perfected in the Palace of Fine Arts (1964, 1965), receiving instruction from teachers Carlos Pedraza, Reinaldo Villaseñor, Matilde...

Figurative Expressionist portrait and scene of a travellers gypsy caravan. The painting is signed bottom right, Fayo (?) but further research is necessary for an attribution. Presented in a fine chip carved Montparnasse frame. Provenance: from a Private French collection, South of France. A strong and powerful scene, part portrait part scene of a travellers life. Both characters seem to be in quiet contemplation aware of each other but not looking. The artist has created a mood to the painting featuring simple lines with an almost monumental quality and muted colour harmonies. The work is very reminiscent of the paintings of Ramiro Arrue and the scenes of his beloved Basque country. Ramiro Arrue was born in Bilbao, into an artistic family: his three older brothers, Alberto, Ricardo, and José, were also artists and frequently held joint exhibitions with him. He also had two sisters. Their father, Lucas Arrue, was an art collector who sold his collections (including a Goya) to pay for the artistic training of his sons. At the age of nineteen, Ramiro travelled to Paris to take courses at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. Living in Montparnasse, he became an associate of his countrymen Ignacio Zuloaga and Paco Durrio, as well as the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, who became a close friend. He was also associated with Picasso, Modigliani, and Jean Cocteau. In 1911, Arrue exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1922, along with his friends Philip Veyrin and Commandant William Boissel, he founded the Musée Basque at Bayonne. In 1925 Arrue won a gold medal at the Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs. He exhibited in Bayonne, Pau, Strasbourg, Bilbao, and Cordoba. Along with his brother José, he travelled and exhibited in South America, to Buenos Aires and Montevideo. He often, however, returned to the Basque Country, particularly to Saint-Jean-de-Luz, where he settled in 1917 and where he found his main inspiration for landscapes, portraits, and everyday scenes. In 1929, he married Suzanne: they went on honeymoon in St. Tropez. Arrue produced illustrations for Francis Jammes (La Noce basque), Pierre Loti (Ramuntcho), Joseph Peyré (Jean le basque...

A very stylish image of a French harbour. Painted with great panache - wonderful brushwork and a vivid palette, reminiscent of the work of Chaim Soutine Circle of Chaïm Soutine (189...