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Mid-Century Modern Figurative Street Scene Oil Painting - Love Under the Trees

1960s

BY THE ARCHES Size: 36.5 x 76 cm (including frame) Oil on board A striking and very well executed mid century modernist composition in oil, painted onto board by by Swedish artist E...

BASKET CARRIERS Oil on Canvas Size: 74 x 43.5 cm (including frame) A wonderful mid century modernist composition, painted in oil onto canvas. Two figures with baskets on their head...

The 1970s oil-on-paper painting illustrates semi-abstractly a street scene with two figures, vehicle and building. Mulberry, yellow and green are the stand-out colors. Cream mat with...

Painting, Street Scene, Signed Bela Kadar, (Hungary 1877-1955), un-framed, oil on board. Bela Kadar was born in Hungary in 1877. Amongst his early interests was mural painting. Like many of the artists of his day he was drawn to Paris and Berlin, and by 1910 he had visited both cities twice. In 1923, Kadar showed his paintings in Berlin at the invitation of Herwath Walden. Walden was an important figure in the German avant-garde, being the publisher of the journal Der Sturm which featured the works of Franz Marc, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Marc Chagall and Oskar Kokoschka. During the group exhibition at Walden's gallery with other artist's of Der Sturm, Kadar met Katherine Dreier whose Societe Anonyme was instrumental in bringing the work of the European avant-garde to New York. With her help two major exhibitions of his work were planned for the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the second of which in September 1928 Kadar travelled from Europe to attend. Bela Kadar incorporated themes of Hungarian...