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Period: 20th Century
Large Monotype Monoprint Print Scenic Lake Landscape Susan Hall Woman Artist
By Susan Hall
Located in Surfside, FL
Monotype Monoprint
Hand signed and numbered 1/1
Lake landscape
Sheet: 37.5" X 27"
Image: 29.5" X 19.75"
Susan Hall lives and works in Point Reyes Station, California, a town in the heart of the Point Reyes National Seashore. This pristine wilderness area is dominated by a mosaic of bays and ocean, rolling grass lands and forests. It is inhabited by a diversity of wildlife, including over 450 species of birds, mountains lions, deer, bobcats, foxes, and elk. Ms. Hall who is a native of this area returned after spending twenty years in New York City.
In her book, “Painting Point Reyes”, Hall says, “Point Reyes is the center of my painting life. Point Reyes has been my life and when I haven’t lived here, it has been an underground stream that spoke to me in dreams and visions.”
While living and painting in New York City, Ms. Hall exhibited her work widely in museums and galleries. Among them are the Whitney Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Trabia MacAfee Gallery, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago; Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles.
In addition, her work has been featured in group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad, including in 2020 Bud Shark's Ink: The California Crew at BMoCA, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Colorado USA representing the panoply of aesthetics, cultural backgrounds, viewpoints, and talent held within the bounty of art “made in California.” This remarkable grouping of artists, Brad Brown, Enrique Chagoya, Roy De Forest, Amy Ellingson, Susan Hall, Don Ed Hardy, Mildred Howard, Robert Hudson, Hung Liu, Kara Maria, Rex Ray, Alison Saar, Italo Scanga, and William T. Wiley.
Women to the Fore, Hudson River Museum Yonkers 2021
A group of women artists working in oil painting and drawing, lithograph prints and photograph, collage and sculpture. Many icons of feminist art history. Judy Chicago, Judy Giera, Marisol, and Shanequa Benitez, Ann McCoy, Anna Walinska, Audrey Flack, Barbara Morgan, Berenice Abbott,
Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Georgia O'Keeffe, Hannelore Baron, Harriet, Judy Chicago, Louise Nevelson, Marisol, Mary Frank, Nancy Graves, Susan Hall, Yvonne Thomas...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Monotype
Antique Western Impressionist Landscape Monument Valley Arizona Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Large American impressionist landscape painting of Monument Valley. Oil on canvas. Apparently unsigned. Nicely framed. Image size, 36L x 30H.
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,200 Sale Price
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Antique American Impressionist New York Cityscape Framed Original Oil Painting
By Kamil Kubik
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century impressionist oil painting by Kamil Kubik (1930 - 2011). Oil on board. Housed in a nice giltwood impressionist frame. Signed.
Category
Cubist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
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Impressionist Harbour Scene with Boats and Steeple at Sunset in Golden Tones
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Impressionist Harbour Scene with Boats and Steeple at Sunset in Golden Tones
By Fanch Lel
Size: 18 x 21.5 inches (height x width)
Oil painting on board, unframed
Condition: Th...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Set of Four Miniature Watercolor of Bristol Theatre Royal and St John’s Gate
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Set of Four Miniature Watercolor of Bristol Theatre Royal and St John’s Gate
by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist
Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed
Measureme...
Category
English School 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Impressionist Val D"Orcia Tuscany Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3405 Val D'Orcia Tuscany Landscape ,acrylic on board displayed in a gilt-wood frame, signed by Wosley .Image size 10.50 H x13.50 W
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
French Autumn Landscape with Country Cottages and Tree Lined Path
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Autumn Landscape with Country Cottages and Tree Lined Path
By Fanch Lel
Size: 13 x 18 inches (height x width)
Oil painting on board, unframed
Condition: The painting is...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Impressionist Mountain Village Landscape with River Cypress Trees and Wildflower
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Impressionist Mountain Village Landscape with River Cypress Trees and Wildflowers
By Fanch Lel
Size: 18 x 21.75 inches (height x width)
Oil painting on board, unframed
Conditi...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Impressionist Oil Painting of Boats Floating on Turquoise Water
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Boats Floating on Turquoise Water
by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930)
Size: 10.5 inches (height) x 10.25 inches (width)
Oil painting on card, un...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Boats in the Harbor - Mid Century Industrial Seascape
By Pieter Hashager
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful post war oil painting of boats navigating through the Bremen, Germany Industrial harbor by Pieter Hashager (20th Century). Signed and dated "P. Hashager '47" lower left. Di...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Giner Bueno Reparando redes original painting
By Giner Bueno
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Giner Bueno (1935-2000)
Reparando Las Redes
Painter from Alicante, son of the painter Luis Giner Valls.
He studied at the School of Arts and Crafts of Valencia and finished his stu...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
'Port of Saint-Malo', French Modern School
Located in London, GB
'Port of Saint-Malo', oil on canvas affixed to board, French Modern School (1984). Although the artist dated this painting '84, it depicts a nostalgic view of the port of Saint-Malo in Western France's, Brittany in 1884 judging by the clothing worn by the characters depicted. The crowd on the shoreline is watching a sailboat regatta starting just inside the port's breakwater. A rather rare sunny day in Brittany brought out the parasols of the sitting ladies on the edge of the old ramparts. The walled city...
Category
Modern 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
$663 Sale Price
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Early 20th Century California Pasture with Cow & Eucalyptus Trees Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th Century California Pasture with Cow & Eucalyptus Trees Landscape
A small-scale, idyllic early 20th century California landscape of a rolling green pasture...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
$1,480 Sale Price
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menders on the beach Spain oil on canvas painting spanish seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Francisco Carbonell Massabe (1928) - menders on the beach - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 60x73 cm.
Frameless.
Category
Other Art Style 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paris Rooftops
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Claudine Berechel (1925-2011)
Parisian Rooftops, ca. 1955-60
Oil on canvas measuring 15 x 24 inches. Framed measurement, 20 x 29 inches.
Signed lower center.
Janet Fleisher Ga...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Midcentury California Mountain Landscape, after Carl Sammons
Located in Soquel, CA
A classic mid-century California mountain scene of Payne Lake near Mammoth Mountain in the Sierra Nevadas, by Clare Shipton Mayhew (Mrs. J.O. Harvey)....
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
$559 Sale Price
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Paul Bolot FRENCH MID CENTURY colourful POST IMPRESSIONIST oil painting FRAMED
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Paul Louis Bolot (1918-2003) French
TITLE: "Landscape In Chardonnay France"
SIGNED: lower right
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
SIZE: 76cm x 67cm inc f...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Fishing Boats in Harbour with Rocky Coastline Gouache Painting
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Fishing Boats in Harbour with Rocky Coastline Gouache Painting
by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930)
Size: 5.75 inches (height) x 6 inches (width)
Gouache painting on card, unframed
Condition: The painting is in good condition, with minor signs of handling at the edges.
Provenance: All the paintings we have for sale by this artist have come from the artists estate and have had no previous owners at all.
Description:
This charming gouache scene by French artist Fanch Lel captures a quiet coastal harbour where small fishing boats bob gently in the shallows. With its expressive brushwork and earthy palette, the painting evokes the rugged beauty of traditional French fishing villages...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
abstract hills, desert
Located in Belgrade, MT
This painting by Lucien Durand is part of my private collection. It is signed by the artist.
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,400 Sale Price
25% Off
Sunlit Village Landscape Vibrant Impressionist Oil Painting Hillside Hamlet
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sunlit Village Landscape
French School, 1970's
oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas : 18 x 22 inches
Provenance: private collection, Paris
Condition: very good condition
Description:
This...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Au Jardin" 20th Century French Oil Painting Figures in a Garden Landscape Scene
Located in New York, NY
A stunning oil painting depicting figures in a garden picking flowers executed in the 20th Century. Duteurtre was known for his charming intimate figurative scenes portraying life in Europe. He was active, picking up subjects from the markets, beaches, parks, restaurants, and home life. This painting comes housed in a stunning carved giltwood frame. Signed lower left.
Art measures 20 x 24 inches
Frame Measures 26 x 30 inches
Pierre Eugene Duteurtre...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vue de Rouen
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Gaston Sebire (1920-2001)
Vue de Rouen
Oil on canvas
Size : 65 x 81 cm
Signed lower right
Provenance : Private Collection, France
Very good condition. Original canvas.
Frame included...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Myles Meehan (1904-1974) - 1957 Oil, River Tees at Barnard
Located in Corsham, GB
This charming mid-century oil depicts a picturesque view of the River Tee, on the North bank of Barnard Castle. The artist has painted the scene in an impressionistic manner with tex...
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$240 Sale Price
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Collioure - Retour des Pecheurs - Post Impressionist Oil by J Martin-Ferrieres
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in landscape oil on canvas c.1920 by French post-impressionist painter Jacques Martin-Ferrieres. The piece depicts a harbour at Collioure, a commune in the southern Fr...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Street Market
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Street Market" c. 1975, is an oil painting on canvas by noted Dutch artist Johannes Josephus Hovener, b.1936. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The artwork (canvas) size is 24 x 32 inches, framed size is 33.5 x 41.5 inches. Framed in original wooden gold frame, with fabric liner. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Johannes Josephus (Jan) Hovener (1936) Johannes Josephus (Jan) Hovener was born in Rotterdam on 14th August, 1936. Hovener enjoyed the study at the Rotterdam Academy. After his studies, Hovener won the Talens Prize in 1959. It was therefore Willem Sandberg, director of the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, who wrote the following about a self-portrait by Hovener: As someone who could do something and had an incredible vision. Especially for someone of twenty years old. Hovener initially started as a pottery painter with Delft blue at the Porceleyne Fles. Meanwhile, Hovener has more than half a century of experience and has become a all round...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Watercolor of Château d’If Marseille Watercolor with Historic Fortress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of Château d’If Marseille Watercolor with Historic Fortress
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper
S...
Category
French School 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Nautical New England Realist Painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful seaside boathouse painting by Franklin Shores (1942-2020).
Watercolor on rag paper measuring 22 x 29 inches.
Signed lower right. Excellent condition.
Provenance: Collec...
Category
Realist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Watercolor
Johnny Walker’s Place
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Johnny Walker’s Place, by 1929, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 34 x 42 inches, exhibited 1) 28th International Exhibition of Paintings, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, Octobe...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Mid 20th Century French Signed Post-Impressionist Oil - Busy City Street
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Amedee Boucher, French mid 20th century, signed lower corner
Title: Busy French street scene
Medium: signed oil painting on board fram...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sailing Yatch, Ron Charles Mitchell (b.1960)
By Ron Charles Mitchell
Located in London, GB
The painting Sailing Yacht by Ron Mitchel is an exquisite oil on canvas laid on board, capturing the dynamic energy and serene beauty of a sailing yacht at sea. The composition is bo...
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Plage a Belle Ile - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Georges D'Espagnat
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed post impressionist landscape oil on panel by popular French painter Georges D'Espagnat. The piece depicts the beach at Belle Ile, an island off the coast of Brittany in France, at sunset. An exceptional early painting by D'Espagnat which shows the precursor influence of Fauvism which was to dominate his paintings in the following few years.
Signature:
Signed lower right
Dimensions:
Framed: 23"x26"
Unframed: 15"x18"
Provenance:
Private French collection
A certificate of authenticity from Mr. Jean-Dominique Jacquemond is available upon request.
This work will be included in the catalogue raisonne of Georges D'Espagnat under preparation by Mr. Jacquemond
From the beginning of his career, it was a constant concern of Georges d'Espagnet to assert his originality. His studies at the École des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, did not last very long, for he wanted immediate independence and decided to follow courses in the private academies of Montparnasse. In about 1900, he became acquainted with Maurice Denis, Bonnard and Vuillard, and his collaboration with Denis led to a renewal of religious art in France.
In 1903, d'Espagnet was one of the founders of the Salon d'Automne, and was appointed professor in charge of studios at the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris, in 1934. He illustrated a number of books: Rémy de Gourmont's Evil Prayers ( Oraisons mauvaises) (1896), The Saints of Paradise ( Les Saintes du paradis) (1898), Simone (1907), Sistine ( Sixtine) (1922); Alphonse Daudet's The Immortal ( L'Immortel) (1930); André Gide's The Pastoral Symphony ( La Symphonie pastorale); Francis Jammes' Clearings in the Sky ( Chairières dans le ciel) (1948).
D'Espagnet belongs to the group of artists who made the Courrier Français so successful. The drawings of his which are published in it are strongly expressive and some bear comparison with the designs of the great Renaissance masters. He also contributed to L'Image. He often placed cheerful nudes in a landscape, reminding us that, though he moved away from the Fauves, he retained their freedom of colour and arabesque. He painted many portraits, including those of Albert André, André Barbier, Victor Boucher, Déodat de Séverac, Albert Marque, André Marty and Albert Roussel. He also painted mural decorations, including a wall for the Palais de la Découverte (1937), the ceiling of the Victor Hugo Room in the Palais du Luxembourg (1939), a decorative panel for the Palais de Justice, Toulouse (1941) and interior decorations for private houses. His landscapes are Impressionist in inspiration, and work for a certain sobriety, an intimacy, both in their composition - one, two or three sketched figures and large open spaces - and in the choice of colours and treatment with the special hazy brushstroke that marks his style.
D'Espagnet took part in a number of annual Parisian exhibitions, including the Salon des Indépendants, the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts, the Salon d'Automne (from 1903 to 1949, except in special circumstances), the Salon de la Libre Ésthétique, Brussels (1899, 1901), the Berlin Secessionists (1940). He also exhibited at the first Salon de la Société de la Gravure sur Bois. Among other exhibitions were 1912, A Century of French Art ( Centenaire de l'art français), St Petersburg; 1916, Kunstverein, Winterthur; 1918, 1926, Galerie M. Bertheim, Paris; 1930, Contemporary French Art...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
'Morning Sun', San Francisco Bay Area Modernist Harbor Scene, Seascape, Seafood
By Jack Wilson
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Morning Sun', San Francisco Bay Area Harbor Scene, Seascape, Seafood
Signed lower right, 'Jack Wilson' (American, 1919-1988) and painted circa 1965; additionally signed, verso, ti...
Category
Modern 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Impressionist, Woodland Walk and A Fauvist Village Scene (Double Sided)
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th century Impressionist oil on canvas view of a woodland walk by Italian artist Mario Menin. The painting is signed on the back stretcher and there is also a Fauvist village...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Signed Oil on Canvas Painting Figure Walking by River Green Cityscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, indistinctly signed, circa 1970's
Title: Walking by the River
Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, framed.
framed: 23 x 29 inches
canvas: 19...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Scottish Highlands Historic Loch Landscape Scene Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Scottish Highland Loch Landscape
by Jack Maurice Ducker, British 1920's
signed, titled and dated verso
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 21 x 29 inches
canvas: 16 x 24 inches
provenance:...
Category
Victorian 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Crashing Waves - Mid Century California Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid-century seascape of turquoise and lavender waves crashing on coastal rocks by California artist Lee Ervast (American, 1916 - 1975), c.1950s. Si...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
Virgin Islands Landscape
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Inez McCombs (1895-1975).
Virgin Islands, ca. 1950.
Alkyd on paper mounted to masonite panel.
Measuring 13 x 16 inches; 18 x 21 inches framed.
Signed lower right.
Philadelphia-...
Category
Modern 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Paper, Alkyd
Landscape with Boats - Paint by Mustapha Yehya - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Realized by Mustapha Yehya in the mid-20th century.
Hand signed.
In excellent condition, it includes a coeval wooden frame.
Category
Modern 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Interlaken Switzerland
Located in Douglas, Isle of Man
George Hornemann, is an unknown painter of either Swiss, Austrian or German extraction. Our curators have so far been unable to trace this artist where we are wondering if the name a...
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Villajoyosa, Spain #2 by Alexandre de Spengler - Oil on canvas 46x55 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Alexandre de Spengler (1893–1973) was a Swiss painter and engraver active in Geneva and Paris.
He is known for his land and seascapes, as well as...
Category
Modern 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Winter Landscape Signed Framed Oil Painting
By Rosario Urbino Gerbino
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist landscape abstraction. Oil on board, circa 1940. Signed. Image size 30L x 25H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category
Modern 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's Large French Post Impressionist oil Summer in the Woods Green Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Summer Woodland
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed verso, dated 1954
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 21 x 29 inches
Very good condition
Provenance: from the artis...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large French Impressionist Oil after Manet Figures Sitting by Boats on River
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French Impressionist, after the earlier work by Manet (see verso).
Title: Figures by boats on the river
Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 24 x 19.7...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Claire de Lune - Moonlight - British 1916 Impressionist landscape oil painting
Located in London, GB
This stunning British Impressionist landscape oil painting is by noted British artist Joseph Vickers de Ville. It is entitled Clair de Lune verso and dated 1916-1919. Clair de Lune, ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Watercolor of Les Alyscamps Arles with Church of Saint-Honorat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of Les Alyscamps Arles with Church of Saint-Honorat
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper, mounted
...
Category
French School 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
Mid Century Hyper Realist Marine with Boats Vigo Bay Spain, French Oil
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful atmospheric seascape by French Henri Cadiou (1906-1989), depicting the Galician beach of Vigo - a rare painting, exhibited at a major international exhibition in 1958!
He...
Category
Realist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
French Quarter Street - Mid Century New Orleans Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Street scene in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana by New Orleans artist Melba Hildreth Dukes Gianelloni (American/Great Britain, 1914-2012). ...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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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