Louis Kronberg was a prolific painter, who was renowned for his oil and pastel portraits of ballet and Spanish flamenco dancers. His nudes were as notorious, but often pieces such as this one were even more beautifully rendered. Born in Boston, Kronberg began his formal artistic training at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, where he studied with the highly regarded painters Edmund C. Tarbell and Frank Benson. He continued his studies in New York with William Merritt Chase at the Art Students League. In 1894, Kronberg was awarded a Longfellow traveling scholarship, which enabled him to go to Paris for several years to study at the Académie Julien with Benjamin Constant, Jean Paul Laurens and Raphael Collin. While in Paris, Kronberg was exposed to the bright, expressively painted work of the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists, which differed from his academic and somewhat dark and subdued style. Furthermore, Kronberg was drawn to a new subject matter — theatrical performers, ballet and flamenco dancers — and the radical compositions of Edgar Degas, with whom he studied the medium of pastel. He was also influenced by the likes of James McNeill Whistler and Japanese woodcuts, which were popular at the time. Kronberg returned from France and settled in his native Boston, where he had a studio in Copley Hall. He frequently exhibited works in the Boston Arts Club and at the Art Institute of Chicago during the first decade of the 20th century. His early works were well received and included portraits, nudes, and paintings depicting ballet dancers and Spanish flamenco dancers. By the 1910s, Kronberg was exhibiting at all of the major venues in the United States including the National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and Pan-Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco. His work combined the formal elements of the Boston School of painting — strong figural presence and a high degree of craftsmanship — with the subject matter and unusual cropping of the Impressionists, and he gained recognition as being “the Degas of America.” Kronberg moved to New York in 1919 and continued to execute scenes of ballet and Spanish flamenco dancers. He frequently traveled to Europe, specifically Paris, for leisure and work. Following the death of the famous art advisor and scholar Bernard Berenson, Kronberg acted as the advisor to Isabella Stewart Gardner, purchasing works for her museum while in Europe. Louis Kronberg received recognition and awards throughout his life, including being elected an associate to the National Academy of Design, as well as later being inducted as a knight in the Legion d’Honneur in 1951. His work is included in numerous museums in the United States and France, notably the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Later in his life, Kronberg worked almost exclusively in watercolor and pastel; he even funded and organized the outstanding watercolor of the year award for the Art Association, which began at his request in 1949. His pieces reside in the collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Museum of Fine Art and New York Museum of Fine Arts, all in Boston; the Musée d’Orsay, Paris; the Newark Museum of Art; the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia and the San Diego Museum of Art.
Louis Kronberg Oil Painting Portrait of a Flamenco Dancer 1901
By Louis Kronberg
Located in Milford, NH
A wonderful impressionist oil portrait of a Spanish Flamenco dancer with tambourine by American artist Louis Kronberg (1872-1965). The painter, dealer and art advisor Louis Kronberg ...
Oil, Panel
Post Impressionist Ballet Dancer Oil Painting Louis Kronberg French Ballerina
By Louis Kronberg
Located in Surfside, FL
Louis Kronberg (American 1872-1965) Oil on canvas. Hand signed lower right. (very faintly, almost illegibly) "Ballerina" Dimensions: 24 inches high x 18 inches wide. Total Framed ...
Canvas, Oil
$3,800Sale Price|20% Off
“In the Dressing Room”
By Louis Kronberg
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautifully executed oil pastel on archival paper by the renowned American artist Louis Kronberg. Signed lower left with the artist’s trademark Star of David symbol after his signat...
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
Dancer in White
By Louis Kronberg
Located in Mc Lean, VA
American Impressionist
Pastel, Cardboard
Nude with Fan
By Louis Kronberg
Located in Mc Lean, VA
American Impressionist
Canvas, Pastel
Dancer in Green
By Louis Kronberg
Located in Mc Lean, VA
American Impressionist
Pastel, Cardboard
Dancer in Green
By Louis Kronberg
Located in Sheffield, MA
Louis Kronberg American, 1872-1965 Dancer in Green Pastel on board 14 by 21 in, w/ frame 20 ½ by 27 ½ in Signed lower right Louis Kronberg, a popular portraitist of the early 20th ...
Pastel
"The Dancers Begin" & "The Dancers Finish"
By Louis Kronberg
Located in Lambertville, NJ
One is Signed Lower and the Other is Signed Lower Right Louis Kronberg (1872 - 1965) Kronberg, often referred to as "the American Degas,"was born in Boston on December 20, 1872. He displayed artistic talent in his elementary school years and while he was only fifteen years old, his brother, who had become an impresario, made it possible for Louis to copy portraits of stage and concert celebrities backstage. Louis came to know Ignaz Paderewski, Boris Chaliapin...
Canvas, Pastel
Dancer in Pink
By Louis Kronberg
Located in Mc Lean, VA
American Impressionist
Pastel, Cardboard
$595
H 18.3 in W 18.3 in D 0.5 in
1960s Vintage Swedish Oil Painting Fish Market Scene by Modernist Henry Eldin
Located in Stockholm, SE
This mid-century oil on canvas by the renowned Swedish modernist Henry Eldin (b. 1921) reveals an expressive harbour scene, where a young woman purchases fish against a backdrop of p...
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Rebuttal
By Ryan Morse
Located in Denver, CO
Portrait in profile with blue
Oil, Panel
$327Sale Price|20% Off
H 7.09 in W 5.12 in
A girl II - XXI century, Contemporary Realistic Figurative Mixed Media Drawing
By Andrzej Szypluk
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary realistic figurative mixed media drawing PROVENANCE Exhibited at Katarzyna Napiorkowska Gallery. The Gallery is a primary representative for this artist. The Gallery o...
Chalk, Pastel, Pencil, Cardboard
"Dragon, " Original Pastel Drawing
By Quang Ho
Located in Denver, CO
"Dragon," by Quang Ho, is a secondary market work with one previous owner. It is signed and dated (1988) on the lower left. The painting comes with it's original frame (measures 50 x...
Paper, Pastel
Rabbis
By Mane Katz
Located in New York, NY
MANE-KATZ RABBIS, c. 1935 Oil on canvas 18 H. x 14 W. 1/2 in. (45.5 x 35.8 cm.) Signed PROVENANCE Dominion Gallery, Montreal Christies, New York, November 04, 1982. Lot 177: $11,000 Private Collection, New Jersey, 1982-2021 Estate of the above, 2021. Raised in an orthodox Jewish family in Russia, Mane-Katz was born in the Ukraine and became an early 20th-century artist, known especially for portraits and paintings with Jewish themes. From childhood, he had been influenced by stories of Jewish mysticism, which was reflected in his paintings. He had a peripatetic life between Russia, France, Israel, and America. He first studied art in Kiev at the Beaux Arts Academy, and in 1913, went to Paris where he associated with Chaim Soutine and Marc Chagall and continued his art studies there at the Beaux Arts Academy. During World War I, he tried to join the Foreign Legion but was rejected because he was too short. He went back in Russia again, this time joining the Soviet Revolution but rejected the cause because he was so horrified by Josef Stalin. He worked briefly for the Russian ballets, and in 1921, he returned to Paris where in 1927 he took French citizenship. For the next twelve years, he traveled widely, showing his art work and doing many paintings. In 1939, as World War II was breaking out, he was drafted by the French and then was taken prisoner by the Germans. He escaped and went to the United States and remained there until 1945, exhibiting his paintings at Katia Granoff Gallery and Wildenstein Gallery. After the war, he returned to Paris where he had exhibited in the Salons. In Paris to the end of his career, he worked happily, painting hundreds of portraits of rabbis...
Canvas, Oil
$1,079Sale Price|20% Off
H 22 in W 18 in
Antique French Fauvist 1920's Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Fashionable Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady French School, fauvist style indistinctly signed circa 1920's period oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 22 x 18 inches provenance: private collection condition: very ...
Oil, Canvas
$600
H 8 in W 8 in D 1.25 in
You Should Have Seen the Other One Female Portrait Boxing REDUCED
By Jeanie Tomanek
Located in Houston, TX
You Should Have seen the Other Gal By Jeanie Tomanek is an 8" x 8" oil painting on panel. It has on a custom frame. You Should Have seen the Other Gal was part of a boxing exhibiti...
Oil, Panel
$1,727Sale Price|20% Off
H 22 in W 18 in
1940's French Portrait of Young Man Original Signed Oil on Canvas Period Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Man by Roger Allain (French 1920-1992) signed and dated 1941 (a very rare period due to WW2) oil on canvas canvas: 22 x 18 inches provenance...
Oil, Canvas
$1,800
H 21 in W 17 in
Three Figures Reading the Torah, Framed Judaica Drawing by Tully Filmus
By Tully Filmus
Located in Long Island City, NY
Tully Filmus (1903 - 1998) was a Russian/American artist who was known for his realist drawings of Jewish life. This pastel drawing on paper is signed low...
Pastel
$2,500
H 40 in W 29 in D 0.1 in
Jose el velezolano, Sabado 25 de junio. Figurative Drawing
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents. Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry...
Crayon, Pastel, Cardboard
$575,000
H 51.25 in W 39.25 in
Lo, I am Black - American Figurative Work on Paper, c. 1967
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Charles White’s "Lo I Am Black” (c. 1967) is a powerful, large-scale charcoal drawing that exemplifies the artist’s unwavering commitment to figuration and social consciousness at a ...
Charcoal, Crayon, Board
$534Sale Price|20% Off
H 27 in W 21 in
Mid 20th Century French Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Man in Tie
By Jean Laforgue
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975) signed oil on unstretched canvas, unframed painting: 27 x 21 inches provenance: the artists estate, France condition: the painting is on unstretched...
Oil, Canvas
Souvenir of Algeria
By Louis Kronberg
Located in Milford, NH
A fine oil portrait of an Algerian woman in native attire by American artist Louis Kronberg (1872-1965). The painter, dealer and art advisor Louis Kronberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at the Arts Student League in New York and at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, where he was influenced by Edmund Tarbell and Frank Benson. At the Museum School, Kronberg won a Longfellow Traveling Scholarship, which gave him the opportunity to continue his studies at the Academie Julian in Paris from 1894-1896. There he studied under Benjamin Constant, Jean Paul Laurens and took private lessons with Raphael Collin. In Paris, Kronberg saw and admired Edouard Degas’ paintings of ballet dancers...
Canvas, Oil
La Premiere Danseuse
By Louis Kronberg
Located in Sheffield, MA
Louis Kronberg American, 1872-1965 La Premiere Danseuse Pastel on board 18 by 24 in, w/ frame 25 ½ by 31 ½ in Signed lower left Louis Kronberg, a popular portraitist of the early 2...
Pastel
Girl with a Green Parrot
By Louis Kronberg
Located in Sheffield, MA
Louis Kronberg American, 1872-1965 Girl with a Green Parrot Oil on Canvas 19 ¾ by 23 ¾ in, w/ frame 24 ½ by 28 ½ in Signed Louis Kronberg 1907 upper right Louis Kronberg, a popular...
Oil
Ballerina
By Louis Kronberg
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist pastel painting of a ballerina by American artist Louis Kronberg (1872-1965). The painter, dealer and art advisor Louis Kronberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He studied at the Arts Student League in New York and at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School, where he was influenced by Edmund Tarbell...
Paper, Pastel
Guitar Player
By Louis Kronberg
Located in Sheffield, MA
Louis Kronberg American, 1872-1965 Guitar Player Oil on canvas Signed “Louis Kronberg” and dated “Paris 1961” 24 by 20 in. w/frame 30 by 26 in. Loui...
Oil
La Premiere Danseuse
By Louis Kronberg
Located in Sheffield, MA
Louis Kronberg American, 1872-1965 La Premiere Danseuse Oil on board 19 ½ in. by 20 ¼ in. W/frame 28 in. by 29 in. Signed lower left “Kronberg” Signed lower right “Paris” Louis Kro...
Oil
“Waiting for the Dance”
By Louis Kronberg
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a beautiful oil on canvas painting by the American artist, Louis Kronberg. In very original condition with a period gilt frame. Signed and dated lower left, 1936. Exhibition label verso Golden Gate International exhibition 1939, San Francisco, California. Overall framed 34.25 by 39.25 inches. Louis Kronberg was born in 1872 in Boston. He studied at the Art Students League in New York with William Merritt Chase and at Boston’s Museum School under Edmund Charles Tarbell and Frank Weston Benson. Kronberg won the Longfellow Traveling Scholarship at the Museum School, which sent him to France where he studied at the Académie Julien. While in Europe, he was taken by the paintings of Edgar Degas and began to paint his own works of theater performers, especially ballerinas. Upon his return from Europe, Kronberg became an important figure in the Cape Ann artists...
Canvas, Oil