Josef Marc Plotast

London, Big Ben Cityscape Mid Century Architectural Modernist Gold Leaf

1959

'Snow in Provence', oil on board, by Yves Brayer (circa 1960s). A rare and atmospheric landscape by Yves Brayer, capturing an exceptional moment in the Provençal countryside. Snow in...

Henry Prellwitz Into the Woods Oil on board 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches Henry Prellwitz studied art at the Art Students League of New York, where his chief mentor was Thomas Wilmer Dewing; he later became its director.[3] He also studied at the Académie Julian in Paris. In 1892, he set up his studio in the Holbein Studios building on West 55th Street in Manhattan, where his future wife, the artist Edith Mitchill, also had a studio. They married in 1894 and had a son, Edwin. By the mid 1890s, he was teaching portrait painting at the Pratt Institute, where one of his students was the Cubist artist Max Weber. In 1899, Henry and Edith moved to the north shore of Peconic Bay on Long Island, where their artist friends Irving Ramsay Wiles and Edward August Bell were already established. They painted plein air paintings and also worked in adjoining studios at High House, their Peconic Bay home. Prellwitz painted Impressionist and Tonalist waterscapes of Peconic Bay and allegorical figure paintings such as the 1904 Lotus and Laurel. He exhibited mainly on the east coast and at expositions like the St. Louis World's Fair, where he won a silver medal. He won the Third Hallgarten Prize from the National Academy of Design (NAD) in 1893 for The Prodigal Son, and his Venus won the Thomas B. Clarke Prize at the 1907 NAD exhibition for the best figure composition by an American citizen painted in the United States. Both Prellwitzes disappeared into obscurity for several decades after their deaths in the early 1940s. Rediscovered in the 1980s, they have been called one of the best-kept secrets in art...

QUAYSIDE CONVERSATION Size: 54 x 65 cm (including frame) Oil on board A charming and serene mid-century modernist harbour scene by a coastal town, executed in oil onto board and dat...

A Cheerful, 1930s American Scene Landscape Painting with Church and Country Road by Notable Chicago Modern Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A gem of a painting, exemplifying ...

Olof Thunman Moonlit Night Signed Olaf Thunman lower right Oil on canvas laid on board 10 5/8 x 10 5/8 inches Provenance: Shepherd Gallery, New York Private Collection, New York Est...

THE SHIFTING SKY Size: 62 X 93.5 cm (including frame) Oil on board A large and striking mid-century modernist abstract landscape composed in rich, geometric swathes of colour, execu...

RED ROOFS Size: 45 x 53 cm (including frame) Oil on board A mid century modernist village street scene, painted in oil onto board. The composition is symmetrical and well-balanced,...

SEASIDE PASSAGE Size: 40 x 48 cm (including frame) Oil on board A striking modernist style coastal landscape with figure oil painting, by Swedish artist Eric Elfvén (1921–2008), who...

THE WHITE COTTAGE Size: 33 x 36 cm (including frame) Oil on Canvas A small but impactful mid century modernist landscape composition, painted in oil onto canvas. This painting is a...

SUNLIT CART Size: 37.5 x 44.5 cm (including frame) Oil on board A lively mid-century modernist style landscape oil painting, by Swedish artist Eric Elfvén (1921–2008), whose works h...