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1960's French Portrait - Caricature of Clerical Gentleman

C.1960s

French Character Portrait French school, Mid 20th Century Gouache paint on unframed paper stamped on reverse Image: 25. 75 x 19.75 INCHES Superbly decorative 1960's French portrait...

French Character Portrait French school, Mid 20th Century Gouache paint on unframed paper Image : 11 x 10 inches Superbly decorative 1960's French portrait painting. Ideal for man...

Abraham Walkowitz (March 28, 1878 - January 27, 1965) was an American painter grouped in with early American Modernists working in the Modernist style. Walkowitz was born in Tyumen, Siberia to Jewish parents. He emigrated with his mother to the United States in his early childhood. He studied at the National Academy of Design in New York City and the Académie Julian in Paris under Jean-Paul Laurens. Walkowitz and his contemporaries later gravitated around photographer Alfred Stieglitz's 291 Gallery, originally titled the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession, where the forerunners of modern art in America gathered and where many European artists were first exhibited in the United States. During the 291 years, Walkowitz worked closely with Stieglitz as well as Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, and John Marin (often referred to as "The Stieglitz Quartet"). Early Career and Training Portrait of Abraham Walkowitz - 1907 - Max Weber - Brooklyn Museum Walkowitz was drawn to art from childhood. In a 1958 oral interview with Abram Lerner...

Zdzisław Lachur (born on July 14, 1920 in Zagórz , died December 29, 2007 in Warsaw ) - Polish painter and graphic artist, founder of the first Polish label of drawing movies in Bielsko-Biała . In the years 1945-1950 he studied painting and graphics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow . He was a pupil of prof. Eugene Eibisch . The artist's works were presented at collective and individual exhibitions at home and abroad, including in Jerusalem , London , New York , Stuttgart , Paris , Vancouver and Toronto . Lachur's paintings were in possession of, among others, George Harrison , former US lady Jacqueline Kennedy and singer Barbra Streisand . In recognition of his achievements in painting and graphics, in 1961 he received the Minister of Culture and Art Award for lifetime achievement, and in 1979 he was awarded the medal of the Israeli Institute Yad Vashem in recognition of his work devoted to the Jewish people. one of a number of great Polish jewish artists...