Pastel Paintings

Adolphe Aizik Feder (Ukrainian, 1886-1943), alternate spelling Adolf Feder "Vieux Port, La Rochelle" Watercolor and pastel depicting a sailboat in the old harbor of La Rochelle, France. Hand signed and inscribed 'Feder La Rochelle' lower center 18 1/4 x 11 3/8 inches sight; 24 7/8 x 17 3/4 inches framed Adolphe Féder (1886 – 1943) was a Jewish-Ukrainian painter and illustrator. He moved to France in 1908, where he remained until his deportation and subsequent murder at the hands of the Vichy regime. Adolphe Feder is best-known today for the artwork he produced of those interned with him in the Drancy internment camp. Born to Jewish Ukrainian merchant parents, in 1905 Féder found himself involved in the revolutionary Bund Labor Movement. His involvement in the organization would force him to flee to Berlin, Germany at the age of 19. Following his time in Berlin, Féder moved to Geneva, Switzerland before moving to Paris, France in 1908 to study at the Académie Julian. At the Académie he studied painting and worked closely with the French Impressionist, Henri Matisse in his workshop. In 1926, Féder made a trip to British Mandate Palestine (Israel). On his trip he encountered many Judaic elements, which he painted. The trip's impact on him yielded many of his most notable paintings such as "Juif à barbe tenant un plateau" ("Bearded Jew holding a tray"). When Féder returned to Paris, he brought many of these paintings back with him, which garnered him recognition in the Parisian artistic community. Before Féder was sent to Auschwitz he painted prisoners and guards in the Drancy internment camp. When Nazi troops marched across France in 1942, Féder, aged 52, tried to get in contact with the French Resistance but was caught by the Pétain militia. He and his wife were arrested on 10 June 1942 and imprisoned in Cherche-Midi prison; he was transferred to the Drancy internment camp in September 1942. In Drancy, Féder continued to paint, creating portraits of those around him such as the other prisoners and guards. His paintings stopped with his deportation to the Auschwitz concentration camp on 13 December 1943 where he was murdered. Féder's wife, Sima Féder, donated Féder's works from inside Drancy to the Ghetto Fighters' House upon her death in 1967. Féder's success came in 1912 when his landscape works were displayed at the Salon d'Automne. He continued to paint following this including a series of 45 illustrations created for a book of poetry by French poet Arthur Rimbaud. The book received a limited run of 350 copies in 1924, but was commended for its watercolor illustrations. When Féder's work appeared in the Fearon Galleries in 1923, his work received great praise. A monograph on Féder was written in 1929 by Gustave Kahn. (also known as Aizik Féder or Айзик Федер) He was associated with The School of Paris, Ecole de Paris, which was not a single art movement or institution, but refers to the importance of Paris as a center of Western art in the early decades of the 20th century. Between 1900 and 1940 the city drew artists from all over the world and became a centre for artistic activity. School of Paris was used to describe this loose community, particularly of non-French artists, centered in the cafes, salons and shared workspaces and galleries of Montparnasse. Before World War I, a group of expatriates in Paris created art in the styles of Post-Impressionism, Cubism and Fauvism. The group included artists like Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani and Piet Mondrian. Associated French artists included Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes. The term "School of Paris" was used in 1925 by André Warnod to refer to the many foreign-born artists who had migrated to Paris. The term soon gained currency, often as a derogatory label by critics who saw the foreign artists—many of whom were Jewish—as a threat to the purity of French art. Art critic Louis Vauxcelles, noted for coining the terms "Fauvism" and "Cubism", Waldemar George, himself a French Jew, in 1931 lamented that the Ecole de paris, School of Paris name "allows any artist to pretend he is French. it refers to French tradition but instead annihilates it. The artists working in Paris between World War I and World War II experimented with various styles including Cubism, Orphism, Surrealism and Dada. Foreign and French artists working in Paris included Jean Arp, Joan Miro, Constantin Brancusi, Raoul Dufy, Tsuguharu Foujita, artists from Belarus like Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, and Jacques Lipchitz, the Polish artist Marek Szwarc and others such as Russian-born prince Alexis Arapoff. A significant subset, the Jewish artists, came to be known as the Jewish School of Paris...

FIGURE IN PASTEL 46 x 65 cm (including frame) Pastel on Paper An excellently executed nude figure study in pastel, framed behind glass. This nude study captures the female form ele...

Umberto Romano, Italian-American (1906-1982) Corrado Painting Pastel on Paper, In Original Carved Wood Frame Under Glass. Dimensions: Sight: 12" x 9" Frame: 16.75" x 16.75". Prove...

Miguel Herrero Muniesa was a Spanish artist born in 1922. Miguel Herrero Muniesa's work has been offered for auction several times. As of 2016, the record price for this artist at au...

Lilies. 1995. Paper, watercolor, pastel, 47.5x34.5 cm Dzidra Bauma (1930) Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, po...

'The Port of Nice', pastel on paper, by Alfred Salvignol (1951). The simple boats and maritime cranes in this painting belie the glamour normally associated with Nice and the French ...

'Woman Mending a Fishing Net', pastel on paper, by Alfred Salvignol (circa 1950s). The role of women as support to seagoing spouses has been both very impo...

Prakash Karmakar - Untitled - 29 x 19 inches ( unframed size ) Pastel on Board Inclusive of shipment in roll form. These old pastels of Nude woman in Sarees are vbery well lauded ...

A vibrant Expressionist-style coastal landscape showing a view of old wooden cabins overlooking the deep blue waters of the Monterey Bay. Signed lower r...

Genre: Other Subject: Figures Medium: Other, Gouache Surface: Paper Country: United States sight size 17 X 13 inches Emigrating to Boston in 1913 from Poland with his Russian-Jewish parents, Presser was admitted in 1921 at age 12 to the Boston Museum School of Art with a full four-year scholarship, the youngest student ever accepted at the school. The lack of challenge for the boy who could draw everything with ease set the stage for Presser’s search as an adult for new forms and styles of expression. After completing 4 years at BMFA, Presser’s boundless curiosity led him to Europe in the late 20’s, signing on as a crew member of a freighter, jumping ship in Hamburg, and working on horse-drawn canal barges in Belgium and France and with small traveling circuses. It was at this time that Presser began reaching for new ideas of expression while still embracing the “old world masters.” In Paris, his studies of Renaissance painters in the museums of Europe are reflected in “Cybele.” His first major painting...

'Archangel Michael', pastels on paper, by Marcella (1958). Believers say angels visit all people before they die. Just before the moment of death, th...

Dancer,girl Edgardo CORBELLI (Turin, 1918 - 1989) From the traditional composition of the 1930s, the painting of Corbelli leads to technical and expressive results dominated by an ...