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Romanian Woman watercolor by Sandu Liberman
By Sandu Liberman
Located in New York, NY
Sandu Liberman (1923-1977)
Untitled, c. mid-20th century
Watercolor on paper
Sight: 13 1/4 x 10 in.
Framed: 22 1/4 x 18 3/4 x 3/4 in.
Signed lower right: Sandu Liberman
Sandu Liberm...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sandu Liberman Watercolor of a Craftsman
By Sandu Liberman
Located in New York, NY
Sandu Liberman (1923-1977)
Untitled, c. mid-20th century
Watercolor on paper
Sight: 13 3/4 x 9 3/4 in.
Framed: 22 1/2 x 19 3/4 x 3/4 in.
Signed lower right: Sandu Liberman
Sandu Lib...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
1930 French Portrait on Wood signed Marie Yvonne
Located in New York, NY
Marie Yvonne Picard-Pangalos
[French Title Illegible], 1930
Oil on wood panel
25 1/2 x 19 in.
Signed, dated, and inscribed lower left
Exhibition label verso
According to the 1999 "...
Category
1930s French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Reclining Nude Woman with Cat Painting by Charles Burdick
By Charles Burdick
Located in New York, NY
Charles Burdick (1924 - 2016)
Untitled (Reclining Nude)
Oil on paper (?)
Sight: 7 x 10 1/4 in.
Framed: 14 x 16 1/4 x 3/4 in.
Signed lower right: Burdick
Excellent midcentury style r...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mother and Daughter Italian School by Giuseppe Costa
Located in New York, NY
Giuseppe Costa (Italian, 1852-1912)
Untitled, c. late 19th-early 20th century
Oil on wood panel
12 x 7 in.
Framed: 16 1/2 x 11 2/3 x 1 in.
Signed lower right
Giuseppe Costa was an I...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Art Nouveau Ballerina Painting by Mystery European Artist
Located in New York, NY
Mystery European Artist
Untitled, c. 20th Century
Oil on canvas board
31 x 22 3/4 in.
Framed: 36 1/4 x 28 x 1 1/2 in.
Signed lower right
Category
20th Century Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Portrait After John Constable, Sotheby's Provenance
By John Constable
Located in New York, NY
After John Constable (British, 1776-1837)
Portrait of A Man, c. 1800
Oil on canvas
23 3/4 x 19 3/4 in.
Framed: 34 x 29 3/4 x 2 3/4 in.
Sotheby'...
Category
19th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Charming Impressionist Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in New York, NY
Untitled, 20th Century
Oil on canvas
27 3/8 x 19 1/2 in.
Framed: 33 3/4 x 26 x 1 1/2 in.
Signed lower right
Category
20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Joseph Margulies, Portrait of a Girl Oil Painting
By Joseph Margulies
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Margulies (American, 1896-1984)
Untitled (Portrait of a Girl), 20th Century
Oil on canvas (or possibly linen?)
29 3/4 x 25 in.
Framed: 33 3/4 x 26 x 1 1/2 in.
Signed lower rig...
Category
20th Century American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1986 Intimate Couple Portrait by Mystery Artist
Located in New York, NY
Mystery Artist
Tennessee, 9/12/86
Oil on canvas
34 x 43 3/4 x 1 in.
Titled and inscribed upper left
Category
1980s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Portrait of a Child by NY Artist Syril Frank
Located in New York, NY
Syril Frank (American, 1929-2021)
Untitled, c. 1960s
Oil on canvas
35 7/8 x 23 3/4 x 3/4 in.
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
Syril Harriet Frank was born in Brooklyn to Israel and...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Girl Eating an Apple, Modernist Style, Agnes Mills WPA Artist
Located in New York, NY
Agnes Mills (American, -2008)
Untitled (Girl Eating an Apple), c. Late 20th - Early 21st Century
Watercolor (?) and pastel on canvas
30 1/8 x 23 3/4 in.
Framed: 37 3/4 x 31 5/8 x 1 ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Watercolor
Sir Francis Dicksee Portrait, c. 1900
Located in New York, NY
Sir Francis Dicksee (English, 1853-1928)
Untitled (Portrait of a Woman), c. 1900
Oil on canvas; period frame
Sight: 13 1/4 in.
Framed: 21 1/8 x 21 1/8 x 3 3/8 in.
Frank Dicksee was a member of a noted artistic family, his father, brother, and sister Margaret were all well-known painters, and the family lived in the Bloomsbury area of London. He was initially trained by his father, before entering the Royal Academy schools in 1870. Amongst the visiting lecturers who trained him, were the famous senior academicians Leighton [1830-1896] and Millais [1829-1896].
Dicksee was a star student, earning many distinctions and medals. Like many other artists of the day his early career was largely spent in book illustration, as well as some stained glass window design. He started exhibiting at the RA in the mid 1870s, and also exhibited at the Grosvenor Gallery, though his real base was always the Academy. Dicksee made his reputation with Harmony, exhibited at the Academy in 1877, and bought by the Chantry Bequest.
Frank Dicksee was elected ARA in 1881, and became a full RA ten years later. Many of his pictures were of dramatic historical and legendary scenes. He also was a noted painter of elegant, highly-finished portraits of fashionable women, which of course helped to bring him material success. Many of these portraits are so beautiful, it is really difficult to disapprove of them - happy was the fashionable lady whose portrait was painted by Dicksee! He also painted landscapes.
Dicksee lived in St John's Wood, and remained a bachelor. He was, of course, one of the nineteenth century artists who outlived his time, and was, to his credit, very unhappy with developments in the early twentieth century. Rather surprisingly, Dicksee was elected President of the Royal Academy in 1924, fulfilling the role with panache and tact. Physically he was a tall, good-looking, patrician figure, with a charming easy-going manner. Like his predecessor but one Edward Poynter...
Category
Early 1900s English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a Young Prince, 19th c., by Mystery Artist
Located in New York, NY
Mystery Artist
Untitled (Young Prince), c. 1800-1900
Oil on canvas
16 x 13 in.
Framed: 23 x 19 1/2 x 2 in.
Category
19th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Equestrian Show Jumping Portrait by Leonid Gervits
Located in New York, NY
Leonid Gervits (Russian/American)
Untitled (Show Jumping), 2000
Oil on canvas
28 x 22 in.
Initialed and dated lower left: LG 00
Leonid Gervits was born April 12, 1946 in a middle cl...
Category
Early 2000s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Circus Figures by French Artist Jean Dassonval, 1989
Located in New York, NY
Jean Dassonval (French, 1939-2012)
Untitled, 1989
Acrylic and mixed media on canvas
19 3/4 x 25 3/4 in.
Signed lower right: Dassonval
Stamped verso: Jean Dassonval
Inscribed in Fren...
Category
1980s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media
Surrealist Painting by Hungarian Artist Attila Szucs
Located in New York, NY
Attila Szűcs (Hungarian, b. 1967)
Figure with Mockup, 2010
Oil on canvas
39 3/4 x 55 x 1 in.
Signed and inscribed verso: Attila Szűcs, "Figure with Mockup...
Category
2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tiger Tamer Painting by Attila Szucs, Contemporary Artist
Located in New York, NY
Attila Szűcs (Hungarian, b. 1967)
Uncovering, 2009
Oil on canvas
71 x 75 x 1 in.
Signed and inscribed verso: Attila Szűcs, "Uncovering", o.c. 180 x 190 c...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sequoia Emmanuelle Original Earth Child Painting
Located in New York, NY
Sequoia Emmanuelle (American)
Untitled, 2005
Mixed media on canvas
71 x 21 1/4 x 1 1/2 in.
Signed and dated lower right
LA based artist, Sequoia Emmanuelle, has a unique voice as a ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Haitian School, Caribbean Marketplace Signed H. Malcolm Jawi
Located in New York, NY
Unknown Haitian School Artist
Untitled (Marketplace), 2002
Acrylic on canvas
29 x 19 1/4 in.
Signed and dated lower right: H. Malcolm Jawi 2002
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mystery Modernist Italian Artist Portrait of a Topless Woman
Located in New York, NY
Mystery Italian Artist
Untitled (Portrait of a Topless Woman), 1983
Oil on canvas
27 1/2 x 23 1/2 in.
Framed: 28 1/2 x 24 1/2 in.
Signed lower right
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mystery Modernist Italian Artist Portrait of a Woman in Hat
Located in New York, NY
Mystery Italian Artist
Untitled (Portrait of a Woman With Hat), 1985
Oil on canvas
31 1/2 x 23 3/4 in.
Framed: 33 x 25 x 3/4 in.
Signed an...
Category
1980s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
American Portrait of the Artist's Wife by Herman Hyneman
By Herman Hyneman
Located in New York, NY
Herman Hyneman (1849-1907)
Portrait of the Artist's Wife, c. late 19th century
Oil on canvas
21 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.
Framed: 27 1/2 x 35 1/4 in.
The following is from Peter Jung who credits "a friend named Jeff Gold on Long Island."
Herman N. Hyneman (1849 - 1907) was born in 1849 to one of the most prominent Jewish families in Philadelphia. Unlike most Jewish families of the time, his embraced and encouraged his artistic talent. In 1874, Hyneman followed his first cousin Moses Ezekiel, National Academy member, to Europe to study. They first went to Germany and then to France where Hyneman began eight years of study with Leon Bonnat, the French Master.
In Paris, the twenty-five year old Hyneman resided in a studio building at 75 Boulevard Clichy, with expatriates Frederic Arthur Bridgeman, Charles Sprague Pearce, Milne Ramsey, and Edwin Blashfield. Hyneman was clearly exposed to the works of these more experienced artists, as well as that of Walter Gay.
In 1879, one of Hyneman's genre paintings, entitled "Desdemona", was accepted into the Paris Salon. That painting received favorable reviews both in Europe, and later in Philadlephia where it was exhibited alongside the works of other Philadelphia Artists exhibiting at the Salon that included Thomas Eakins, Pearce, Edward May...
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Signed Anthony Triano Dancer Painting
Located in New York, NY
Anthony Triano (American, 1928-1997)
Untitled, 20th Century
Oil on canvas
14 1/8 x 18 in.
Framed: 17 3/8 x 21 3/8 in.
Signed lower right: Triano
Proven...
Category
20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Portrait of a Young Girl by Poppy Mills, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Poppy Mills
Untitled, c. 1990-2000
Oil on canvas
30 x 24 in.
Framed: 39 x 33 in.
Signed lower right: Poppy Mills
Inscribed verso: Poppy Mills
Poppy Mills is a fine arts painter of people and still life whose award winning paintings have appeared in exhibitions at The Allied Artists of America, The American Artists Professional League, The Audubon Society, The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Club, The National Arts Club...
Category
1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ross Bleckner Geometric Abstract Painting, 1960s
By Ross Bleckner
Located in New York, NY
Ross Bleckner (American, b. 1949)
Untitled (Geometric Abstraction)
Acrylic on board
19 1/2 x 16 3/4 in.
Signed lower right: Ross '66
Ross Bleckner grew up in Hewlett, Long Island, N...
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Ross Bleckner Childhood Clown Watercolor Painting
By Ross Bleckner
Located in New York, NY
Ross Bleckner (American, b. 1949)
Untitled
Watercolor
13 3/4 x 11 in.
Signed: Ross
Ross Bleckner grew up in Hewlett, Long Island, New York; drawing all the time without being aware ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Graphite
Vibrant K Dorfman Portrait of a Black Woman
Located in New York, NY
K. Dorfman
Untitled (Portrait of an Unknown Black Woman)
Oil on canvas
36 x 28 in.
Framed: 37 1/2 x 29 1/2 x 2 in.
Signed lower right: K. Dorfman
Category
Mid-20th Century Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American School Portrait of a Lady
Located in New York, NY
Portrait of a Lady, c. 1900
Oil on canvas
36 x 28 1/2 in.
Framed: 37 3/4 x 30 1/2 in.
Category
Early 1900s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Portrait by African American Artist Charleston Wilson
Located in New York, NY
Charleston Wilson (1919-?)
Untitled (Modernist Portrait), 1970
Oil on board
19 1/4 x 14 3/4 in.
Framed: 25 1/4 x 21 1/4 in.
Signed lower left: Charleston Wilson '70
Charleston Wilson was born 1919. Death date and place are unknown. He was a portrait sketch artist...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Original Arthur Smith Modernist Erotic Painting
By Arthur Smith
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Smith (American, 1897-1972)
Untitled, 20th century
Oil on board
8 x 9 7/8 in.
Framed: 14 1/4 x 16 3/8 in.
Signed lower left: A Smith
Arthur Smith is a listed American paint...
Category
20th Century American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Modern Surrealist Painting by Richard Ericson
By Richard Ericson
Located in New York, NY
Richard Joseph Ericson (American, 1922-2010)
Untitled, 1950
Oil on canvas
36 x 25 in.
Signed lower right: RJE '50
Richard Joseph Ericson (b. October 22, 1922-d. November 21, 2010), born in Chicago, Illinois. Son of Claire (b. 1899) and Arthur Ericson (b. 1899). His father was an accountant for a food products company and the family moved to Mount Vernon, Westchester County, New York, when he was a young child.
Ericson, a twin, first began to draw at age five and took up painting in oils at age twelve. He studied at the Art Students League in New York City in 1941, where he received an honorable mention during the annual scholarship competition held that year. During this period he worked as a commercial artist.
After America's entry in World War II Ericson enlisted in the Army in 1942, where he served as a warrant officer. He saw service in North Africa, France, and Germany. While overseas, he did many drawings of the places in which he was stationed. He eventually found himself guarding Italian prisoners of war who had been captured in Sicily and southern Italy. While performing his duties during 1943 and 1944 he found time to paint several important, large scale portraits of the prisoners who were happy to pose for him. As the war concluded he was able to visit Holland to study.
After nearly three years overseas, Ericson returned to America and traveled back to his home town of Chicago where he furthered his studies at the Art Institute of Chicago.
He married in 1948 and moved his young family to Mexico, where he attended Mexico City College. He studied art and exhibited while living there, receiving his Master of Arts degree, cum laude, in 1953.
For a time after his return to the United States he taught art in Dutchess County, New York, where he and his wife built their own house by hand. Eventually the family, which would come to include seven sons, settled in Hicksville, Long Island, New York. Ericson joined the staff of Hicksville High School as the art teacher in 1962, a position he would hold until his retirement in 1983.
As a teacher, Ericson was open to all fields and styles of art, constantly experimenting and experiencing new forms and styles. He had started printmaking in the late 1940's and continued to work in this medium for many years, producing mezzotints, etchings, and wood block prints. He also continued to paint, creating portraits, scenes in southern Dutchess County, and Long Island landscapes - for which he would become well known.
Ericson grew to love the area in which he lived, and depicted it quite often in his paintings. He became enamored with the historic village of Cold Spring Harbor...
Category
1950s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Herman Hyneman Original American Portrait, Signed and Dated 1907
By Herman Hyneman
Located in New York, NY
Herman Hyneman (1849-1907)
Sunday Morning, 1907
Oil on board
15 3/4 x 11 1/2 in.
Framed: 21 1/3 x 17 1/2 in.
Signed lower right: Copyright 1907 by H.N. Hyneman
Inscribed verso: Sunday Morning by H.N. Hyneman
The following is from Peter Jung who credits "a friend named Jeff Gold on Long Island."
Herman N. Hyneman (1849 - 1907) was born in 1849 to one of the most prominent Jewish families in Philadelphia. Unlike most Jewish families of the time, his embraced and encouraged his artistic talent. In 1874, Hyneman followed his first cousin Moses Ezekiel, National Academy member, to Europe to study. They first went to Germany and then to France where Hyneman began eight years of study with Leon Bonnat, the French Master.
In Paris, the twenty-five year old Hyneman resided in a studio building at 75 Boulevard Clichy, with expatriates Frederic Arthur Bridgeman, Charles Sprague Pearce, Milne Ramsey, and Edwin Blashfield. Hyneman was clearly exposed to the works of these more experienced artists, as well as that of Walter Gay.
In 1879, one of Hyneman's genre paintings, entitled "Desdemona", was accepted into the Paris Salon. That painting received favorable reviews both in Europe, and later in Philadlephia where it was exhibited alongside the works of other Philadelphia Artists exhibiting at the Salon that included Thomas Eakins, Pearce, Edward May...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pedro Gasto Vilanova - Modernist painting of a family, dated '44
Located in New York, NY
Pedtro Gasto Vilanova (Spanish, 1908-1997)
Untitled (Family), 1944
Oil on canavas
21 7/8 x 18 3/8 in.
Framed: 24 3/4 x 21 1/3 in.
Signed and dated on left side.
Inscribed verso: PAG...
Category
1940s Abstract Geometric Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Emilio Greco Painting, titled "Roma", 1972
By Emilio Greco
Located in New York, NY
Emilio Greco (Italian, 1913-1995)
Roma, 1972
Oil on canvas
45 1/2 x 28 3/4 in.
Signed and inscribed lower left: Emilio Greco, Roma, 1972
Emilio Greco, (born Oct. 11, 1913, Catania, Italy—died April 5, 1995, Rome), Italian sculptor of bronze and marble figurative works, primarily female nudes and portraits.
At the age of 13, Greco was apprenticed to a stonemason, and he later studied at the Academy of Art in Palermo. Though he began exhibiting in Rome in 1943, he was not well-established until after World War II. His first solo exhibition was held in 1946, and in 1948 he became a teaching assistant at the Artistic Secondary School in Rome.
His subject matter varied little throughout his career. In their refined, elongated forms and assertive balance, his sculpted figures...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modern Surrealist Winter Painting by Richard Ericson
By Richard Ericson
Located in New York, NY
Richard Joseph Ericson (American, 1922-2010)
Untitled, 1962
Oil on canvas
18 x 16 in.
Framed: 20 x 18 in.
Signed lower left: RJE '62
Richard Joseph Ericson (b. October 22, 1922-d. November 21, 2010), born in Chicago, Illinois. Son of Claire (b. 1899) and Arthur Ericson (b. 1899). His father was an accountant for a food products company and the family moved to Mount Vernon, Westchester County, New York, when he was a young child.
Ericson, a twin, first began to draw at age five and took up painting in oils at age twelve. He studied at the Art Students League in New York City in 1941, where he received an honorable mention during the annual scholarship competition held that year. During this period he worked as a commercial artist.
After America's entry in World War II Ericson enlisted in the Army in 1942, where he served as a warrant officer. He saw service in North Africa, France, and Germany. While overseas, he did many drawings of the places in which he was stationed. He eventually found himself guarding Italian prisoners of war who had been captured in Sicily and southern Italy. While performing his duties during 1943 and 1944 he found time to paint several important, large scale portraits of the prisoners who were happy to pose for him. As the war concluded he was able to visit Holland to study.
After nearly three years overseas, Ericson returned to America and traveled back to his home town of Chicago where he furthered his studies at the Art Institute of Chicago.
He married in 1948 and moved his young family to Mexico, where he attended Mexico City College. He studied art and exhibited while living there, receiving his Master of Arts degree, cum laude, in 1953.
For a time after his return to the United States he taught art in Dutchess County, New York, where he and his wife built their own house by hand. Eventually the family, which would come to include seven sons, settled in Hicksville, Long Island, New York. Ericson joined the staff of Hicksville High School as the art teacher in 1962, a position he would hold until his retirement in 1983.
As a teacher, Ericson was open to all fields and styles of art, constantly experimenting and experiencing new forms and styles. He had started printmaking in the late 1940's and continued to work in this medium for many years, producing mezzotints, etchings, and wood block prints. He also continued to paint, creating portraits, scenes in southern Dutchess County, and Long Island landscapes - for which he would become well known.
Ericson grew to love the area in which he lived, and depicted it quite often in his paintings. He became enamored with the historic village of Cold Spring...
Category
1960s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed Edwin Austin Abbey oil painting of the Virgin and Child with saints
By Edwin Austin Abbey
Located in New York, NY
Original Edwin Austin Abbey (American, 1852-1911) oil painting of the Virgin and Child with saints, circa late 19th-early 20th century.
Signed low...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Nude Portrait by Henri Burkhard
By Henri Burkhard
Located in New York, NY
Henri Burkhard, Born in New York in 1892, began his studies at the Art Students league in New York and then pursued international studies at the Académie Julian, Acadêmie Colarissi, and Académie de la Grande Chaumière, Pariss.
Once the artist returned to New York, he began to exhibit frequently frequently at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1926-36; the Corcoran Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in the 1930's. Works by the artist have been handled and sold over the last hundred years at major American auction houses and dealers, such as Heritage...
Category
1930s Fauvist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil