Portrait Paintings

French School circa 1930 Pörtrait of a young man Oil on canvas transfered on cardboard 69 x 59 cm In a simple oak modern frame : 73 x 63 cm In good condition : Painted on a thick ca...

French school circa 1930 An Oriental Bride Oil on cardboard panel 26.5 x 21.5 cm In its original frame : 41.5 x 37 cm, some damages to the frame (see photographs please) It is the p...

Oil on hardboard panel by Cesar Vilol, Paris, 1930s. We present this oil on canvas of the 1930s in Montparnasse by Vilol. The theme of the dancer was in vogue in Montparnasse in the ...

'Girl with Flowers', oil on board (circa 1930s), by Marguerite Barrière-Prévost (1887-1981). A young girl with a bouquet of spring flowers stands bef...

Holy, Adrien (1898-1979) Born in St-Imier on January 30, 1898. Died in Geneva on December 29, 1978. Son of the engraver Jules Holy. Painter and engraver. Compulsory school in St-Imi...

Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A young girl in white Signed lower right Oil on canvas. 70 x 50 cm In quite good condition, rubbings along the left border (see photographs please) No fr...

Marguerite de Lottis (Italian Artist active in the first half of the 20th century) Portrait of a bearded man Oil on panel Signed lower right 70 x 59 cm Remai...

FRANK VOYSKA "SAILOR" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED AMERICAN, C.1935 16 X 12 INCHES Voyska was born in Yugoslavia in 1903. He became a naturalized citizen in 1933. By 1940 he was liv...

'Young Man with Cigarette', gouache on paper, by René Seyssaud (circa 1930s). Although this young cigarette-smoking man looks as though he’s just swagger...

Very elegant Russian cubist constructivist oil on canvas painting by Ivan Kliun (1873 - 1943). Ivan Vasilievich Kliun, or Klyun, born Klyunkov (His name...

Beautiful portrait of the 30s expressionist style realized on canvas by the Hungarian artist of the Parisian school Lucie Decsényi born in Budapest and mainly active in France. the p...

Frame size 64x53 cm. José Vilató Ruiz (Barcelona 1916-Paris 1969) was a Spanish painter and engraver known by the pseudonym J.Fín. He was the brother of also painter Javier Vilató and nephew of Pablo Ruiz Picasso. Son of the Barcelona neuropsychiatrist Joan Vilató and Lola Ruiz Picasso, he is the second of 7 brothers, among which is also the painter Javier (1921). The appellation of Fín has a family origin: José, Josefín, Fín. The family environment will mark his pictorial vocation. Works such as Science and charity as well as other paintings of his uncle are hung on the wall of his house and for many years, the famous Harlequin was hung on the head of his bed, just as the historian Pilar Vélez, biographer of the artist. 1 Many of these works are currently in the Picasso Museum in Barcelona. Quickly, his interest in painting passes ahead of his studies and at the age of 14 he begins to make his first works, which he will present for the first time in a collective exhibition at the Emporium Galleries in Barcelona in 1932. He briefly passes by the prestigious La Llotja and after finishing high school in 1934, he made a brief stay on the island of Mahón, where he continues painting and for the first time he lives alone. The works he paints on this trip and others will be part of his first individual exhibition at the Reig galleries in Barcelona, ​​in 1935 and in which the painter and art critic José María de Sucre will make the presentation text. According to his friend, the painter Antoni Clavé, these works had a surreal character that was not present in his previous or subsequent works, but none is preserved, probably due to the bomb that destroyed his studio during the Civil War After the war broke out, his exhibition activity was interrupted and he joined the republican army, marching to the front of Aragon, where he met Manuel Viola. Later he will be sent to Tárrega, where he will establish a lifelong friendship with Francesc Melich, who will edit his prints in the future. In 1939 he meets his brother Javier, also mobilized and crossing the border with France. There they will be admitted to the Argelès-sur-Mer concentration camp, where they will be able to leave thanks to the intervention of their uncle, Picasso. Welcomed in Paris by their uncle, the Vilató brothers return to painting. The work of Fín of those months in France moves away completely from his work in Barcelona: dark oil paintings and drawings, of sculptural character and great modernity. In those months, he approaches the graphic work for the first time in the Lacourière workshop where many of his uncle's engravings were stamped. They spend the summer with Picasso and the beginning of World War II forces them to return to Barcelona in 1939. After spending a few days in the prison of Figueres, he settled in Barcelona. Among his first activities will be to participate in a collective exhibition for the benefit of concentration camps. At first, his work acquires a surreal character with a series of paintings and engravings that he called "Fafarreic compositions", a term invented by the artist. However, in 1940, he returned to his previous painting, a sober figuration. They will be hard years in which he will combine his painting with the work of a decorator, restoring, for example, the dome of the Church of the Immaculate Conception of Aragó Street in Barcelona. At the end of 1940, he is forced to perform military service in Madrid, which will allow him to visit the Prado Museum. Taking advantage of the permits, he returned to Barcelona and continued painting and maintaining a certain exhibition activity, coming to share a gallery with Manolo Hugué, Eduardo Yepes or Llorens Artigas. 1943 will be a key year for Fín, he will end military service and return to Barcelona. Get a workshop and make friends with the painters Ramon Rogent and Alberto Fabra, with them and his brother Javier will hold various collective exhibitions of painting and engraving, among which the engraving exhibitions of the Pictoria gallery or the participation in the National Exhibition of Fine Arts, both in Barcelona, ​​or the one held at the Clan gallery in Madrid with, among others, Rafael Zabaleta, Álvaro Delgado...