Modern Paintings

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size is with frame. Motke Blum was born in Racacun, Romania in 1925. Early in his childhood, the Blum family moved to Bukarest where they settled in a house situated near a circus. ...

In this piece the artist choice of colors is muted, and there is a deft blending of them. Israel has had a Vibrant Folk Art, Naive art scene for a long time now, artists like Yisrael Paldi, Nahum Guttman, Reuven Rubin and even Yefim Ladizhinsky had naive periods. The most well know of the strict naive artists are Shalom of Safed, Irene Awret, Gabriel Cohen, Natan Heber, Michael Falk and Kopel Gurwin. Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective. One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide. Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. "Primitive art" is another term often applied to art by those without formal training, but is historically more often applied to work from certain cultures that have been judged socially or technologically "primitive" by Western academia, such as Native American, sub saharan African or Pacific Island art (see Tribal art). This is distinguished from the self-conscious, "primitive" inspired movement primitivism. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art. There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee). At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries. The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. Art brut, primitive art, primitive, art naïf, naïve art. Outsider art. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius. Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924) Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson (1860–1961) Nikifor (1895–1968) Poland, Horace Pippin (1888–1946) Jon Serl (1894-1993) United States Alfred Wallis (1855–1942) Scottie Wilson (1890–1972) Gesner Abelard (b. 1922) Jan Balet (1913–2009) Michel Delacroix (b. 1933) France Howard Finster (1916–2001) Ivan Rabuzin (1921–2008) Spontaneous Art Museum in Brussels Art en Marge Museum in Brussels MADmusée in Liege International Museum of Naive Art of Brazil in Cosme Velho, Rio de Janeiro Gallery Jacques Ardies in São Paulo Musée international d'art naïf de Magog in Magog Croatian Museum of Naïve Art in Zagreb Gallery of Croatian Naïve Art...

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Sterling Strauser "Nude" 1962 Oil on board Framed 13.25 x 7.25 x 1 in Signed and dated in pencil lower right Sterling Strauser was born in Bloomsburg, PA on August 15, 1907. He rece...

CALM SHORE Size: 55.5 x 63 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A beautiful and expressive composition of a coastline, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1960. The painting captur...

BASKETS Sheet size: 58 x 45.5 cm Image size: 49 x 38 cm Lithograph on paper A mid century limited edition (164/260) coloured lithograph, signed by Esaias Thorén and dated 1957. It ...

A beautiful oil on canvas impressionistic painting featuring a young lady dressed in white and holding a white umbrella while watching the sea and seagulls. The sky shows rainbow col...

A beautiful oil on canvas which has been laid on board by the English artist David William Burley depicting a group of friends playing football in a park. Signed lower right and pres...

Unsigned White Dahlias, c. 1970s Oil on Canvasboard 13" x 11" Housed in a 2 3/4" Carved Frame Overall Size: 18 3/4" x 15 3/4" In very good condition overall.

Hermann Haider war einer der wichtigsten Künstler der Linzer Jahre der Galerie und die Beziehung mit ihm ging weit über eine rein berufliche Zusammenarbeit hinaus. Meinem Vater gelan...

Sounds in colors. 2023., canvas, oil, 90x70 cm

Beni E. Kosh/Charles Elmer Harris (American, 1917-1993) Untitled Oil on canvas board Estate stamped #611 verso 24 x 18 inches Charles Elmer Harris was born in 1917 in Cleveland, Oh...

A beautiful Modern British oil on board by Ruth Farrelly which depicts a lady putting her washing out on a line in her garden. Superb quality and striking painting, presented in the ...

Antique American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed "Lee Tang".

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William Schock (American, 1913–1976) The Fisherman, c. 1955 Oil on canvas Signed lower right 26 x 40 inches 34 x 48 inches, framed William Schock was...

This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Jefferson Market Library (Courthouse), c. 1930s, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 inches, signed lower right; presented in a newer silver painted frame About the Painting Writing about an exhibition of Charles W. Adams’ work at the Eighth Street Art Gallery in the mid-1930s, Emily Grenauer observed in The World-Telegram that the artist’s paintings were “distinguished for their solid form, well organized design and sumptuous color” and the art critic for The Herald Tribune found Adam’s work “a strong, formal realization of his subject . . . he paints with vital emphasis on structure and composition.” Although we do not know which works these critics referenced, it is likely they were writing about paintings like Jefferson Market Library (Courthouse). With its carefully designed reality, strong angles, solid forms, and well-disciplined puffs of smoke in the background, Adams presents a highly structured version of the Greenwich Village landmark, the Jefferson Market Library, which was a courthouse at the time Adams completed this work. The Jefferson Market Library was a prized subject for downtown painters, including the Ashcan School painter, John Sloan, the modernist, Stuart Davis, and the precisionist, Francis Criss...

Katharyn Gwendoln Truesdell - (American; 1909-1996) This colorful painting depicts a Southern California valley, likely near Sun City, over the mountains from Los Angeles and San Di...

Antique American modernist surreal oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.

Maurice Newman was active/lived in Massachusetts / Lithuania. Maurice Newman is known for sculpture-abstraction, impressionist landscape painting, diorama. Born in Lithuania, Mauric...

Work on canvas Gilded wood frame 53 x 44,5 x 2,5 cm

This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Abstract Street (Untitled), 1939, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 12 x 32 inches; provenance includes a private collection in Venice, California; presented in what is likely the artist's original handmade frame About the Painting The present work is the culmination of a series of mainly horizontal urban abstractions Harari completed between 1937 and 1939. Deeply influenced by Stuart Davis, Harari’s New York streetscapes began with clearly recognizable objects and landmarks as in Into New York (1937 - Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art), New York Harbor (1937), Up and Downtown (1938), and his other mural proposals for the Nurses Home on Welfare Island (1937) and the Williamsburg Housing Project (1938). At the end of the series, Harari’s vistas became increasingly abstract with broad planes of color representing buildings and streets, the slightest cross-hatching forming a bridge or elevated train track and the vague suggestion of a streetlight looping in the right center of the composition. Figures, birds, and a street vendor’s cart are reduced to pictograms scratched into the surface of the canvas. Abstract Street (Untitled) is among Harari’s most spare works of the 1930s and 1940s and calls to mind the seemingly childlike, but deeply sophisticated works of Paul Klee from the 1920s. It serves as an excellent reminder of why Harari was heralded as one of the earliest members of the American Abstract Artists. About the Artist Hananiah Harari was an artistic polyglot who was equally at home working in styles as diverse as Cubism, Constructivism, Expressionism, Hard Edged Abstraction and trompe l’oeil Realism. A native of Rochester, New York, Harari initially studied as a child at the Memorial Art Gallery in his hometown and later as a scholarship student at the College of Fine Arts at Syracuse University. In 1932, Harari left for Paris where he befriended Nahum Tschacbasov, Benjamin Benno and John Graham and studied at the ateliers of Lhote, Leger and Gromaire. He also studied fresco painting at the Ecole de Fresque. By 1933, Harari had completed enough work and gained a sufficient reputation to have a solo exhibition at the American Club in Paris. The following year, Harari and his childhood friend and fellow artist Herzl Emanuel traveled to Palestine, where the artists worked hard in the orchards and fields of Kibbutz Deganiah, but produced little art. After returning to New York, Harari married Emanuel’s sister, Freda, and set out on the development of what noted scholar Gail Stavitsky has called an “original synthesis of the old and new." Harari became an early member of the American Abstract Artists (AAA), an organization formed to give modernists exhibition opportunities. Harari was also a member of the socially conscious Artist’s Union and the American Artist’s Congress. From 1936 through 1942, Harari worked on the Federal Art Project and assisted Marion Greenwood on a project as part of the Mural Division, but to his disappointment did not lead his own project. During the late 1930s and early 1940s, Harari completed a series of paired paintings with the same subject matter depicted in a Cubist manner and in trompe l’oeil Realism. Harari was acclaimed by Clement Greenberg and six of the artist’s works were selected for the Museum of Modern Art’s important 1943 exhibition American Realists and Magic Realists. During World War II, Harari served in the US Army Air Corps. Following the war, Harari continued to produce fine art while also producing commercial art. During the McCarthy Era, Harari’s progressive politics and leftist leaning art...

A musical instrument is not a sum of its parts.. Look at a piano, look at a viola, look at a CELLO; They are surely things, materials put nicely together- with a purpose. And when we...

The Finding Space series of work was inspired by images I had seen through shop windows at twilight. With only vague references to objects, I have tried to capture a sense of the lig...

This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Quarry Workers, c. 1930s, mixed media on board, unsigned, 24 x 24 inches, possibly exhibited at...

American School, Artist Unknown

Duncan Gleason lived in New York and other places for work or studies but it was really Southern California where he felt most at home, and looking at his body of work, that love of ...

Antique American modernist interior scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.

Antique American modernist signed landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.

A really stylish portrait of a young man relaxing in an interior, painted in a unique, almost cubist style and wonderful texture to the brushwork. Garlick Barnes ( 1891-1987) A man reading in an interior Signed Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches without frame 29 x 24½ inches with frame Barnes raised four children before turning her full attention to art. She studied at the Sidney Cooper School of Art, Canterbury, and at Heatherley's. In 1936 Garlick became a pupil of Walter Richard SICKERT...

"The good chance" is a figurative painting by Maestro Stefano Georges. About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: Mixed media STYLE: Contemporary Edition : Unique, signed Weight: Approximately...

Work on canvas

Genre: Modern Subject: Abstract Medium: Mixed Media Surface: Board Dimensions: 28.75 X 24 (size includes frame. signed with initials and bearing a label verso. Reminiscent of the Ar...

"Point of View" is a figurative painting by Maestro Stefano Georges. About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: Mixed media STYLE: Contemporary Edition : Unique, signed Weight: Approximately 3...

Antique American signed modernist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 24L x 20H.

This mural study is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s San Pedro Post Office: History of Writing Mural South, Preliminary Mural Maquette right panel...

This pastel painting by Catherine Bres-Rhocanges (1947 -) is titled "Group of Bathers" and signed on the bottom right corner "Bres-Rhocanges." Catherine Bres-Rhocanges paints women w...

Antique American modernist street scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed.

Antique American modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed illegibly. Framed. Image size, 12L x 8H.

Virginie MATZ Brin de filles, 2022 Acrylic and collage on canvas Size: 50 x 73 cm Signed lower right. Titled and signed on the back Frameless Sold with invoice and certificate of ...

CITY VIEWS Size: 42 x 49.5 cm (including frame) Oil on board A mid century Swedish cityscape painted in oil onto board. Distinct and expressive brushstrokes convey the energy and hustle and bustle of the city. Rich, earthy, and textured colours in deep reds, blues and greens have been applied swiftly, creating a sense of depth and space in the picture. The artist has probably painted this ‘en plein air’ (outdoors), and so has captured the dynamism of the view before him/her. The painted is housed a very complementary light wood mid century frame...

Genre: Modern Subject: Hasidic Rabbi preaching in Synagogue Medium: Oil Surface: Board, size includes artist decorated frame Country: United States The imagery of Maurice Kish (189...

Portrait is an original artwork realized by Virgilio Guidi in the half of 20th century. Tempera on board Good conditions. Includes frame. Hand-signed on the lower right. Virgili...

Work on canvas

A fine oil by Bengy Hansson ( Danish) circa 1974. Landscape with a quarry . An extensive natural landscape interupted by mans activity scaring the natural topography creating artific...

This small work by Francis X Pavy measures 13" x 20". About Francis X Pavy In the vast tapestry of the art world, Art collectors are attracted to the enigmatic and mesmerizing w...

A fine example of precisionist style painting by a rarely seen for sale Pittsburgh artist. It is in excellent condition with the original frame.

A lovely small oil on canvas painting in the style of the legendary artist Fernando Botero ( Columbian, 1932) showing people in large figures, "Boterismo...

This is an oil on canvas painting depicting a group of people, seaside. The gilt frame is finely hand carved. The piece is from the 1980s and is signed Dimensions: Framed 18" H, ...

Henri A. Hebert was born in Geneva in the 19th century. Genre painter and son of Jules Hebert both belonging to the Swiss school. The Geneva museum prese...

Paritosh Sen - Untitled 22 x 15 inches (unframed size), 1995 Mixed Media Paper Pasted on Board ( Unframed & Delivered ) A stunning work in colors on "red ,Blue Gold in Acrylic on Bo...

Suhas Roy - Untitled Watercolour on Paper, 11 x 15 inches, 1954 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Suhas Roy 's mystic woman which he calls 'Radha', either Oil on canvas or soft colored past...

Here is a small paper piece produced in 2019 by Louisiana artist Francis X Pavy . About Francis X Pavy In the vast tapestry of the art world, Art collectors are attracted to the ...

Signed lower right, 'Agger' for Knud Agger (Danish, 1895-1973) and painted circa 1940. Born in Holstebro, Denmark, Knud Agger was exposed at a young age to theories of art and paint...

Prakash Karmakar – Beach Series, 16 x 23 inches (unframed size) Mixed Media on Paper, 2004 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Karmakar is best known for his landscapes and nudes, whi...

Suhas Roy - Radha Conte on Paper, 11 x 9.6 inches ,2011 ( Unframed & Delivered ) Suhas Roy 's mystic woman which he calls 'Radha', either Oil on canvas or soft colored pastel on Pap...