Steven Sles

Mid century abstract texture painting This painting measures: 48 wide x 0.3 deep x 36 inches high Great vintage condition We take our photos...

AMBIANIC presents 1960s MCM abstract painting Mexico City Signed in lower left corner hard to read in the style of Leonardo Nierman Oil on Masoni...

19th Century English Equestrian Scene Oil on Canvas Painting by Elizabeth Shelly. Painting features riders in formal riding attire with three riders and a dog in a wooded area. The f...

Abstract Cubist oil painting on canvas from 1940s France. Moody and dynamic, the image depicts the beginnings of a town. A smoky gray sky gives the scene an industrial feeling, while...

Excellent example of a large oil on canvas abstraction by Fred Hocks from 1957. This painting was included in the 1976 retrospective at the Fine Arts Gallery in San Diego which later became the San Diego Museum of Art. No painter embodies San Diego’s early avant-garde more than Fred (Ferdinand) Hocks, a German-born painter who began visiting San Diego in the late 1920s after studies at the California School of Fine Art in San Francisco and the Art Students League in New York. Fellow painter Dan Dickey credited Hocks in 1947 with “opening up pathways for future, more enlightened generations (of artists),” and predicted that Fred Hocks would be “esteemed a master.” During the post-war years Hocks was assistant director of the San Diego School of Arts and Crafts, a private art school in La Jolla, and was instrumental in keeping affordable artist’s studios in Spanish Village. Along with modern architect Lloyd Ruocco, Fred Hocks co-founded the dynamic Allied Artists Council with Belle Baranceanu, Everett Gee Jackson, Dan Dickey and John Olsen. The well-travelled Hocks exhibited in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, Paris, Mallorca and Guadalajara, had several one-person shows at the Art Center La Jolla/La Jolla Museum of Art and at the Fine Arts Gallery (SDMA). The San Diego Museum of Art held a major retrospective of his painting in 1976, just a few years before his death. He brought a continental element to the local art scene and is described in Bruce Kamerling’s 100 Years of Art in San Diego as “one of the most adventurous local artists…an intelligent and articulate defender of modern tendencies in art.” Local arts and architecture writer James Britton called Fred Hocks “the dean of the San Diego moderns...

Robert Berger, Detroit, Partial Illegible Gallery Label

striking yet painted in mainly muted tonal colours of figures swathed in white set against an abstract landscape background. By one of our favourite swedish artists Ivar Morsing (19...

Italian harbor scene by Giuseppe Salvati (1900-1968) in oil on canvas. Beautiful warm colors and an original 1960's frame. Signed in the lower left. Overall 41 1/2 x 30 1/2. Image si...

Intriguing midcentury abstract oil painting on board painted with passion using a palette knife and brush in a tight layered composit...

Émile Godchaux 1900’ French Coastal Scene Beached Boat and Figures Oil on Canvas Big Size Artist: Émile Godchaux (1860–1938) Title: French Coastal Scene – Beached Boats and Figures ...

Antique Style Painting Featuring Two People walking Through a Forest Landscape. Splitting and Wear Consistent with Age. French Style Gold Colore...

William Hansen (1908-1991), Danish painter. Oil on canvas. Hilly landscape with house gable and church in the background. Dated 1957. In very good cond...