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Period: Mid-20th Century
Landscape with Figures by Gaston Sebire
By Gaston Sébire 2
Located in Sheffield, MA
Gaston Sebire
French, 1920-2002
Landscape with figures
Oil on canvas
31 by 41 ½ in. With frame 38 by 48 ½ in.
Signed lower right
Gaston Sebire (1920 – 2002) Gaston Sebire, was one of Europe’s leading landscapists, was born in the village of Saint-Samson in Normandy in 1920. A self taught artist, he began to paint seriously at the age of eighteen. For eight years he worked as a postal clerk in the Rouen, sorting letters at night in order to support his career as a painter. In 1952 Gaston Sebire had his first exhibition at the Galerie Gosselin in Paris.
The following years he enjoyed the double triumph of winning both the coveted Prix de la Critique and the Prix Casa Velasquez. The Latter award made it possible for him to spend a year and a half in Spain. Of this formative period he said, “They were my first, wonderful years without worry. For fifteen years I had never known what the next day would bring.”
The year 1957 marked another important stage in his career. His painting “La Dinde” won the Greenshields Prize in a field of 136 competitors, making it possible for him to paint for another two years without the worry of finances. Winning the awards naturally drew public attention to the artist from Normandy, and his works were presented in highly successful one-man shows in Paris.
Sebire was a Norman, a man strongly attached to the soil, and after his exhibitions in Paris, he returned to Rouen to his large house overlooking the town and once again plunged into painting the countryside. Gaston Sebire was a strongly built man with square hands and a rather heavy walk. He had immense vitality, and used that to his advantage. As he said of himself, “When the snow falls, I can’t stay indoors. I set out with my paint box. I paint outdoors from nine in the morning until five at night. If it were only a question of money, one could just as well paint in one’s own room.” But Sebire went into the countryside, or into the village, and sets up his easel. When there is a café into which people are going; there is a fence, a telegraph pole, a few buildings in the background. The scene takes on life, vivid life, with a sense of some event about to take place in the scene. Like many artists, and like a typical Norman, Sebire was silent and solitary by nature, with a personality as strong and Frank as his paintings. A painting, he says, “must have an element of mystery, show an effort to look beyond the aura surface of things.”
Sebire’s early paintings were somber with much use of black and white tones. In 1970 he turned to colour. The subtle light of the Normandy skies; the shifting light and color along the seacoast; the magnificent blues of the Rouen pottery...
Category
Vintage 1960s French Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Still Life by Louis Sola
By Louis Sola
Located in Sheffield, MA
Louis Sola
French, 1928-2011
Still life
Oil on canvas
25 by 31 in. with frame 31 by 37 in.
Signed & dated 58 lower right
Louis Sola was born in Genoa in 1929 and studi...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Paintings
Montmatre by Jean Salabet
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th century
Montmatre
Oil on canvas
15 by 18 in. with frame 22 ½ by 25 ½ in.
Signed and dated 53 lower right
Provenance:
Private Collection, New Yor...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Paintings
Reclining Nude Painting by Marcel Dyf
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Sheffield, MA
Marcel Dyf,
French, 1899-1985.
Reclining nude.
Oil on canvas.
Signed lower left Dyf.
Measures: 23 ½ by 28 ¾ in. With frame: 33 ½ by 38 ½ in.
Marcel Dyf was born in Paris, October 7...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Urban Tensions" Painting by Emory Ladanyi
By Emory Ladanyi
Located in Sheffield, MA
Emory Ladanyi,
Hungarian, 1902-1986,
Urban Tensions.
Mixed-media on canvas.
Signed lower right.
Inscribed and titled on verso.
Dimensions: 48 by 36 in.
Born November 8, 1902 in Kecskemet, Hungary, the child of Mihaly and Maria Ladanyi, Emory Ladanyi moved with his family to Eger, a town famous for its good wine. He studied at the High School of Science and Art.
At fifteen, he discovered anatomy in a textbook and began to consider a career in medicine, and was accepted into the Medical School of The University of Budapest to become a medical student. He received his doctoral degree in 1927 and did his residency in dermatology in the largest hospital in Berlin, then one of the most prominent dematology centers of Europe.
In Berlin, he was especially impressed by the works of Edvard Munch, forerunner of German Expressionism, who exerted a lasting influence on his work. Following medical residency in Vienna, he was also impressed by the works of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Kokoschka.
In 1928 he returned to Budapest to continue postgraduate studies, also advancing his art education. His many friends were among the avant-garde poets and writers of that time.
In March 1929, he arrived in New York. June of that year, he passed the medical boards, and in September received his license to practice medice in the State of New York.
Outside of the medical profession which enabled him the livelihood to continue to paint, he moved exclusively in avant-garde circles of New York City. He was a close friend of the composer Edgar Varese. Others of his circle were poet Kenneth Patchen...
Category
Vintage 1960s Hungarian Paintings
Abstract by Maurice Golubov
By Maurice Golubov 1
Located in Sheffield, MA
Maurice Golubov,
Russian/American, 1905-1987.
Abstract.
Oil on Canvas
30 by 40 in. W/frame 34 by 44 in.
Biography
Maurice Golubov first studied art as a teenager during evening c...
Category
Vintage 1950s Paintings
Abstract by Donald Raymond David
By Donald Raymond David
Located in Sheffield, MA
Donald Raymond David.
American, 1906-2006.
Abstract.
Oil on canvas
30 by 24 in.
Donald Raymond David was born in Springbrook, Oregon in 1906. He attended Fresno State College in 1927 and studied with Alexandra Bradshaw. By the 1930s Don David was in Los Angeles, where he studied with Barse Miller and attended the Chouinard Art Institute and the Art Center School.
From the mid-1930s to the early 1940s he lived in Sacramento and exhibited at Sacramento’s Kingsley Art Club from 1934 to 1943. Throughout the 1940s David also exhibited at the San Francisco Museum of Art, the Oakland Art Gallery, the Glendale and Laguna Beach Art Associations, and the California Water Color Society. David had a solo exhibition at Los Angeles’ Francis Webb Galleries in 1946, and exhibited with Milford Zornes...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"La Bouteille de Vin" Oil on Canvas by Roger Derieux
By Roger Derieux
Located in Sheffield, MA
Roger Derieux
French, B.1922-
La Bouteille de Vin
Oil on canvas
32 by 39 in. W/frame 33 by 40 in.
Signed lower right
Biography:
Roger was born in Pa...
Category
Vintage 1960s French Paintings
Rare Art Deco Nickel with Frosted glass Chandelier, circa 1930s
Located in Sheffield, MA
A Rare Art Deco
Nickel Chandelier with frosted glass
Circa 1930’s
Height 22 in. Diameter 33 in.
Art Deco is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 192...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Nickel
“Female Nude” by Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr.
By Victor Jules Bergeron Jr.
Located in Sheffield, MA
Victor Jules Bergeron, Jr.
American, 1902-1984
“Female Nude”
Bronze
Signed and dated 1969 on base
Height 64 ½ in. Width 19 in.
The life size figure modeled as if walking with a drape held in her hand trailing behind is inscribed on the base of the sculpture “Victor Bergeron, 1969.” This original bronze sculpture was commissioned by Rudolph Pabst and his wife.. Rudolph Pabst is the beer baron for the label Pabst Blue Ribbon...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
“Paris Street Scene” Painting by Andre Gisson
By André Gisson
Located in Sheffield, MA
Andre Gisson.
American, 1921-2003.
“Paris Street Scene.”
Oil on canvas.
24 by 36 in. with frame 29 ½ by 41 ½ in.
Impressionist painter, And...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Paintings
Aux Chaise by Gabriel Godard, Oil on Canvas Painting
By Gabriel Godard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Gabriel Godard.
French, born 1933.
Aux Chaise.
Oil on canvas:
29 by 36 in. with frame 33 by 40 in.
Signed lower left and dated 62.
Gabriel Godard was born on April 28, 1933 in Delo...
Category
Vintage 1960s French Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Arbres Rouges by Gabriel Godard
By Gabriel Godard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Gabriel Godard
French, Born 1933
Arbres Rouges
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right & dated 1966
60 by 60 in. W/frame 61 by 61 in.
Gabriel Godard was born on April 28, 1933 in Delouz...
Category
Vintage 1960s French Paintings
Materials
Canvas
“Port Vendres” by Henri Verge Sarrat
By Henri Verge Sarrat
Located in Sheffield, MA
Henri Verge Sarrat
French, 1880-1966
“Port Vendres”
Oil on canvas
Signed & dated 1930
24 by 29 in. W/frame 32 by 37 in.
Henri exhibited often in Paris at the Salons ...
Category
Vintage 1930s French Paintings
Materials
Canvas
“Embracing Couple” by Itzhak Ofer
By Itzhak Ofer
Located in Sheffield, MA
Itzhak Ofer (Polish, 1910-1988), sculpture, mahogany, “embracing couple”, signed on base, "OFER", 25" h. x 12 1/2" w. x 9 1/2" d. including base.
Itzhak Ofer was a Sculptor. b. 1910, Poland. Immigrated 1935. Studies: 1941-45 American University, Cairo, plastic arts and drama. Prize: 1968 Public Council of Culture and Art for Best Play. 1981 Initiated and directed a competition of Environmental Sculpture, Ramat Gan...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Sculptures
Materials
Mahogany
“Abstract Expressionist Painting” by Max Schnitzler
By Max Schnitzler
Located in Sheffield, MA
Max Schnitzler
American, 1903-1999
“Abstract Expressionist Painting”
Impasto on board
Signed lower left
20 by 24 in. W/frame 26 by 30 in.
Excerpt...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Paintings
Materials
Paint
“Abstract, Untitled” by Nobumitsu Fukui
By Nobumitsu Fukui
Located in Sheffield, MA
Nobumitsu Fukui
Japanese/American, 1942-
Abstract, Untitled
Acrylic on canvas
60 ¼ by 48 in. W/frame 61 by 48 ¾ in.
Signed & dated 1964
Provenance: ...
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Paintings
Materials
Canvas
“Haitian Scene in Railyard” by Harry (Arijac) Jacques
By Harry (Arijac) Jacques
Located in Sheffield, MA
Harry (Arijac) Jacques
Haitian, 1937-
“Haitian Scene in Railyard”
Oil on canvas
24 by 34 in.
Arijac was born in Gonaïves, Haiti on August ...
Category
Vintage 1960s Haitian Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas
“Bouquet des Fleurs” by Johannes Schiefer
By Johannes Schiefer
Located in Sheffield, MA
Oil on canvas
Dated 1965
24 by 20 in. W/frame 31 ½ by 27 ½ in.
Johannes Schiefer, painter of landscapes and portraits and former curator of ...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
“Cartagena, Columbia” by Michael Gloeckner
By Michael Gloeckner
Located in Sheffield, MA
Oil on canvas
Dated 1964
18 ½ by 24 ½ in. W/frame 23 by 29 in.
Michael lived in NYC, he also had a home and studio in West Cornwall, CT. He painted under Otto Dix and was ...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
“A Floral Still Life” by Natalia Suvorova
By Natalia Suvorova
Located in Sheffield, MA
Natalia Suvorova
Born 1945, Leningrad, Russia.
Signed A. Cybopoba
Russian, Early 20th Century
“A Floral Still Life”
Oil on Board
Signed lower right
31 by 21in. W/fr...
Category
Vintage 1940s Russian Paintings
Materials
Board
“Untitled” by Joel Kermarrec
By Joel Kermarrec
Located in Sheffield, MA
“Untitled”
"Large" Oil & Acrylic on Canvas
Dated 1967
63 ¼ by 51 in. W/frame 64 by 51 ¾.
Joël Kermarrec moved to Paris in. H...
Category
Vintage 1960s French Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
“A Still Life in the Morning Light” by Robert Brackman
By Robert Brackman
Located in Sheffield, MA
Robert Brackman
American, 1898-1980
“A Still Life in the Morning Light”
Oil on canvas
Signed Brackman lower right
15 1/2 by 19 1/2 in.
w/frame 22 by...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
“Park Scenes with Figures” by Esther Williams
By Esther Williams
Located in Sheffield, MA
Oil on Canvas
40 by 50 in. w/ frame 48 by 58 in.
Esther exhibited at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts School; in Paris and Philip Hale. She was a member of the Rock Port Art Association, Copley Society and The New York Women...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Paintings
Materials
Canvas
“Our Garden” by Gertrude Partington Albright
By Gertrude Partington Albright
Located in Sheffield, MA
Gertrude Partington Albright
American, 1874 – 1959
“Our Garden”
Oil on canvas
Signed and titled on the back, Circa 1935
24 by 28in.
w/frame 31 by 35 ¼in.
Provenance: Perlmutter Fine Arts
Gertrude Partington Albright was born in Heysham, England on September 11, 1874. At the age of six she came to America with her parents. Her artistic career began with studies under her father J. H. E. Partington who was well known in San Francisco as a portraitist. At the turn of the century she was an illustrator for the San Francisco Examiner doing society and court room...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Paintings
“Dancing Girls” by Ben Benn
By Ben Benn
Located in Sheffield, MA
“Dancing Girls”
Oil on Board
14 ½ in. by 21 in. W/frame 21 ½ in. by 28 in.
Benn studied at the Art Student League in NYC; National Academy of Design, 1904-1908. He was a member of the American Society of Artists Congress, Woodstock Artist Association. He exhibited at the Forum Exhibition of Modern American Painters...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Paintings
Materials
Board
“Untitled” by Daniel Argimon
By Daniel Argimon
Located in Sheffield, MA
Oil on canvas
Signed on back of canvas
64 by 51in. w/frame 65 by 52in.
Daniel Argimon painted for the French Government from 1965-1966 and for the Inte...
Signed on back of canvas
64 by 51in. w/frame 65 by 52in.
Daniel Argimon painted for the French Government from 1965-1966 and for the Inte...
Category
Vintage 1960s Spanish Paintings
Materials
Canvas
“Les Bles” by Richard Bellias
Located in Sheffield, MA
Oil on canvas
Signed
47 by 37 in. w/frame 54 by 44 in.
Richard Bellias was born in Paris in 1921 and died in 1974. He studied at the Acadami...
Category
Vintage 1960s French Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Joseph Misraki, Egypt, born in 1895 “Reclining Nude”
By Joseph Misraki
Located in Sheffield, MA
Joseph Misraki
Egypt, born in 1895
“Reclining Nude”
Oil on canvas
30 by 40 in. W/frame 39 by 49 in.
He was a member of the salon d’Autom...
Category
Vintage 1940s Egyptian Paintings
Café de la Paix, L’Opera, Paris
By Antoine Blanchard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Antoine Blanchard
French, 1910-1988
Café de la Paix, L’Opera, Paris
Oil on canvas
13 by 18 in. W/frame 19 by 24 in.
Signed lower right
Framed in a fi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flower Market, La Madeleine, Paris
By Antoine Blanchard
Located in Sheffield, MA
Antoine Blanchard
French, 1910-1988
Flower Market, La Madeleine, Paris
Oil on canvas
13 by 18 in. W/frame 19 by 24 in.
Signed lower right
Provenance:
Catalda Fine Arts, Inc., New York
Private Collection, New York
Trinity House Paintings, London
Private Collcetion, New York
Alexander Avenard Collection
Le Trianon...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Manhattan Skyline
By Leon Dolice
Located in Sheffield, MA
Leon Dolice
American, 1892-1960
Manhattan Skyline
Pastel on paper
19 by 12 in. W/frame 25 by 18 in.
Signed lower right
The romantic backdrop of Vi...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
Manhattan Skyline
By Leon Dolice
Located in Sheffield, MA
Leon Dolice
American, 1892-1960
Manhattan Skyline
Pastel on paper
19 by 12 in. W/frame 25 by 18 in.
Signed lower right
The romantic backdrop of Vi...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel
La Place de la Concorde, Paris
By Charles Cobelle
Located in Sheffield, MA
Charles Cobelle
French, 1902-1998
La Place de la Concorde, Paris
Oil on canvas
20 by 24 in. W/frame 28 by 32 in.
Signed lower right
Born in Alsace-Lorraine, France, and becoming a U.S. citizen in the late 1920s, Charles Cobelle, whose birth name was Carl Edelman, began his career in Paris after earning Bachelor and Master's Degrees at the University of Munich. Later he studied at the L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and with Marc Chagall. At Menton on the Riviera, he apprenticed with Raoul Dufy.
In the United States where he lived in Brookfield and Fairfield, Connecticut, he continued to create mixed-media paintings, and also did mural work for commercial establishments such as Neiman Marcus Company in Dallas, Texas; The Desert Inn...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Photography
Materials
Oil
Bathers
By John Edward Costigan
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Edward Costigan, N.A.
American, 1888-1972
Bathers
Oil on canvas
Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left
20 by 24 in. W/frame 26 by 30 in.
John Costigan was born of Irish-American parents in Providence, Rhode Island, February 29, 1888. He was a cousin of the noted American showman, George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and was instrumental in starting him on a career in the visual arts. They were less successful in encouraging him to pursue formal studies at the Art Students League (where, however, he later taught) than in exposing him to the commercial art world through the job they had gotten him with the New York lithographing firm that made their theatrical posters.
At the H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, Costigan worked his way up from his entry job as a pressroom helper, through various apprenticeships, to the position of sketch artist. In the latter capacity he was an uncredited designer of posters for the Ziegfeld Follies and for numerous silent films. Meanwhile, he had supplemented his very meager formal studies in the fine arts with a self-teaching discipline that led to his first professional recognition in 1920 with the receipt of prizes for an oil painting and watercolor in separate New York exhibitions.
A year earlier, Costigan had wed professional model Ida Blessin, with whom he established residence and began raising a family in the sleepy little rural New York hamlet of Orangeburg, the setting for the many idyllic farm landscapes and wood interiors with which he was to become identified in a career that would span half a century.
John Costigan’s first national recognition came in 1922 with his winning of the coveted Peterson Purchase prize of the Art Institute of Chicago for an oil on canvas, “Sheep at the Brook.” It marked the start of an unbroken winning streak that would gain him at least one important prize per year for the remainder of the decade. The nation’s art journalists and critics began to take notice, making him the recurring subject of newspaper features and magazine articles. The eminent author and critic Edgar Holger Cahill was just a fledgling reporter when he wrote his first feature, “John Costigan Carries the Flame,” for Shadowland Magazine in 1922. Costigan had his first one-man show of paintings at the Rehn Gallery on New York’s 5th Avenue in November, 1924, to be followed less than three years later by another at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, Costigan’s work has been—and continues to be included, side-by-side with that of some of America’s most high-profile artists, in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the country. His renown had peaked in the early 1930s, by which time his work had been honored with nearly every major award then being bestowed in the fine arts and had been acquired for the permanent collections of several prestigious American museums, including New York’s Metropolitan (which only recently, in 1997, deaccessioned his “Wood Interior,” acquired in 1934).
Although Costigan’s celebrity had ebbed by the late 1930s, the Smithsonian Institution saw fit in 1937 to host an exhibition exclusively of his etchings. And, in 1941, the Corcoran Gallery (also Washington, D.C.) similarly honored him for his watercolors. (Another Washington institution, the Library of Congress, today includes 22 Costigan etchings and lithographs in its permanent print collection.)
During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at the end of the war, culminating in 1968 with the mounting of a 50-year Costigan retrospective at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oils, watercolors and prints were borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the country, and the exhibition was subsequently toured nationally by the Smithsonian Institution.
John Costigan died of pneumonia in Nyack, NY, August 5, 1972, just months after receiving his final prestigious award —the Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal of the Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., presented in general recognition of his “...achievement of exceptional artistic merit...” in the various media he had mastered in the course of his career.
This painting depicts one of the artist's favorite themes --the farm family bathing...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman and Child
By John Edward Costigan
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Edward Costigan, N.A.
American, 1888-1972
Woman and Child
Oil on canvas
Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left
24 by 30 in. W/frame 32 by 38 in.
John Costigan was born of Irish-American parents in Providence, Rhode Island, February 29, 1888. He was a cousin of the noted American showman, George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and was instrumental in starting him on a career in the visual arts. They were less successful in encouraging him to pursue formal studies at the Art Students League (where, however, he later taught) than in exposing him to the commercial art world through the job they had gotten him with the New York lithographing firm that made their theatrical posters.
At the H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, Costigan worked his way up from his entry job as a pressroom helper, through various apprenticeships, to the position of sketch artist. In the latter capacity he was an uncredited designer of posters for the Ziegfeld Follies and for numerous silent films. Meanwhile, he had supplemented his very meager formal studies in the fine arts with a self-teaching discipline that led to his first professional recognition in 1920 with the receipt of prizes for an oil painting and watercolor in separate New York exhibitions.
A year earlier, Costigan had wed professional model Ida Blessin, with whom he established residence and began raising a family in the sleepy little rural New York hamlet of Orangeburg, the setting for the many idyllic farm landscapes and wood interiors with which he was to become identified in a career that would span half a century.
John Costigan’s first national recognition came in 1922 with his winning of the coveted Peterson Purchase prize of the Art Institute of Chicago for an oil on canvas, “Sheep at the Brook.” It marked the start of an unbroken winning streak that would gain him at least one important prize per year for the remainder of the decade. The nation’s art journalists and critics began to take notice, making him the recurring subject of newspaper features and magazine articles. The eminent author and critic Edgar Holger Cahill was just a fledgling reporter when he wrote his first feature, “John Costigan Carries the Flame,” for Shadowland Magazine in 1922. Costigan had his first one-man show of paintings at the Rehn Gallery on New York’s 5th Avenue in November, 1924, to be followed less than three years later by another at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, Costigan’s work has been—and continues to be included, side-by-side with that of some of America’s most high-profile artists, in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the country. His renown had peaked in the early 1930s, by which time his work had been honored with nearly every major award then being bestowed in the fine arts and had been acquired for the permanent collections of several prestigious American museums, including New York’s Metropolitan (which only recently, in 1997, deaccessioned his “Wood Interior,” acquired in 1934).
Although Costigan’s celebrity had ebbed by the late 1930s, the Smithsonian Institution saw fit in 1937 to host an exhibition exclusively of his etchings. And, in 1941, the Corcoran Gallery (also Washington, D.C.) similarly honored him for his watercolors. (Another Washington institution, the Library of Congress, today includes 22 Costigan etchings and lithographs in its permanent print collection.)
During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at the end of the war, culminating in 1968 with the mounting of a 50-year Costigan retrospective at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oils, watercolors and prints were borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the country, and the exhibition was subsequently toured nationally by the Smithsonian Institution.
John Costigan died of pneumonia in Nyack, NY, August 5, 1972, just months after receiving his final prestigious award —the Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal of the Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., presented in general recognition of his “...achievement of exceptional artistic merit...” in the various media he had mastered in the course of his career.
This painting depicts one of the artist's favorite themes --the farm family bathing...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bathing Group
By John Edward Costigan
Located in Sheffield, MA
John Edward Costigan, N.A.
American, 1888-1972
Bathing Group
Oil on canvas board
Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left
12 by 16 in. W/frame 20 by 24 i...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mother & Child in a Landscape, framed in an important Carrig Rohane frame
By André Gisson
Located in Sheffield, MA
Andre Gisson
American, 1921-2003
Mother & Child in a Landscape
Oil on canvas
24 by 36 in. W/frame 32 by 44 in.
Signed lower left
Framed in an important Carrig Rohane frame...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pale Morning
By Michiel Gloeckner
Located in Sheffield, MA
Michael Gloeckner
American, 1915-1989
Pale Morning
Oil on canvas
30 by 30 in. W/frame 31 by 31 in.
Signed lower right, & titled & dated 1966 on reverse on stretcher
Michael lived ...
Category
1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Poste 1954 PARIS - Post Impressionist street scene
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
La Poste
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work is comparable to th...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
VUE DU SACRE COEUR - MONTMARTRE, PARIS
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
Vue du Sacre Coeur, Paris
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work is comparable to those of ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Place de L'Opera, Paris 1952
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
La Place de L'Opera, Paris
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work is comparable to those of...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Marche de Fleurs, a La Madeleine Paris 1954
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
Marche de Fleurs, La Madeleine Paris
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisia...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le Grand Hotel, Paris, 1954
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, B. 1900
Le Grand Hotel, Paris ,1954
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work i...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Moulin Rouge, Paris
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, B. 1900
Moulin Rouge
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work is comparable to those of Jules Herve, Antoi...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Montmartre -La Place Dutertre, Paris 1952
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
Montmartre
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work is comparable to those of Jules Herve, An...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Rive Droite - Le Marche De Fleurs au CHATELET , PARIS, 1952
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
Marchand de Fleurs, Paris
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work is comparable to those of ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Father & Child
By Renato Guttuso
Located in Sheffield, MA
Renato Guttuso
Italian 1911-1987
Father & Child
Oil on canvas
30 ½ by 19 in. W/frame 31 ½ in. by 20 in.
Signed verso "Guttuso"
Signed lower center "Guttuso"
Dated 1966
Titled vers...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Grands Boulevards et La Madeleine, Paris, 1953
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, 20th Century
La Madeleine, Paris
Oil on canvas
10 ¾ by 13 ¾ in. W/frame 16 ½ by 19 ½ in.
Signed lower right
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
At The Seaside
By Gaston Sebire
Located in Sheffield, MA
Gaston Sebire
French, 1920-2002
At The Seaside
Oil on canvas
25 by 31 in. W/frame 33 ½ by 39 ½ in.
Signed lower right
Gaston Sebire (1920 – 2002) Gaston Sebire, was one of Europe’s leading landscapists, was born in the village of Saint-Samson in Normandy in 1920. A self taught artist, he began to paint seriously at the age of eighteen. For eight years he worked as a postal clerk in the Rouen, sorting letters at night in order to support his career as a painter. In 1952 Gaston Sebire had his first exhibition at the Galerie Gosselin in Paris.
The following years he enjoyed the double triumph of winning both the coveted Prix de la Critique and the Prix Casa Velasquez. The Latter award made it possible for him to spend a year and a half in Spain. Of this formative period he said, “They were my first, wonderful years without worry. For fifteen years I had never known what the next day would bring.”
The year 1957 marked another important stage in his career. His painting “La Dinde” won the Greenshields Prize in a field of 136 competitors, making it possible for him to paint for another two years without the worry of finances. Winning the awards naturally drew public attention to the artist from Normandy, and his works were presented in highly successful one-man shows in Paris.
Sebire was a Norman, a man strongly attached to the soil, and after his exhibitions in Paris, he returned to Rouen to his large house overlooking the town and once again plunged into painting the countryside. Gaston Sebire was a strongly built man with square hands and a rather heavy walk. He had immense vitality, and used that to his advantage. As he said of himself, “When the snow falls, I can’t stay indoors. I set out with my paint box. I paint outdoors from nine in the morning until five at night. If it were only a question of money, one could just as well paint in one’s own room.” But Sebire went into the countryside, or into the village, and sets up his easel. When there is a café into which people are going; there is a fence, a telegraph pole, a few buildings in the background. The scene takes on life, vivid life, with a sense of some event about to take place in the scene. Like many artists, and like a typical Norman, Sebire was silent and solitary by nature, with a personality as strong and frank as his paintings. A painting, he says, “must have an element of mystery, show an effort to look beyond the aura surface of things.”
Sebire’s early paintings were somber with much use of black and white tones. In 1970 he turned to colour. The subtle light of the Normandy skies; the shifting light and color along the seacoast; the magnificent blues of the Rouen pottery...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Segovie
Located in Sheffield, MA
Marie Antoinette Boullard-Deve
French, 1890-1970
Segovie
Oil on canvas
29 by 21 ½ in. W/frame 39 by 31 ½ in.
Signed lower left and titled and dated 1951 on the back
Marie was born...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Djeuner Champtre
By Marcel Dyf
Located in Sheffield, MA
Marcel Dyf
French, 1899-1985
Djeuner Champtre
Oil on canvas
23 ½ by 28 ¾ in. W/frame 31 ½ by 36 ¾ in.
Signed lower left
Marcel Dyf (Marcel Dreyfus) was born in Paris on October 7,...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ballet D'enfants
By Suzanne Eisendieck
Located in Sheffield, MA
Suzanne Eisendieck
French, 1908-1998
Ballet D'enfants
Oil on canvas
36 by 29 ½ in. W/frame 44 by 37 ½ in.
Signed lower right
She was born in Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) in 1908 ...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Fruits
Located in Sheffield, MA
Andre Raffin
French, 1927-2005
Les Fruits
Oil on Canvas
18 in. by 22 in. W/frame 25 ½ in. by 29 ½ in.
Signed & dated 61 lower left
André Raffin was bor...
Category
1960s Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Studio
By Remo Michael Farruggio
Located in Sheffield, MA
Remo Michael Farruggio
American, 1905-1981
Studio
Oil on canvas
24 by 35 in. W/frame 28 by 39 in.
Signed lower right & titled on stretcher “Studio”
Circa 1959
Remo Michael Farrugg...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Signals
By Remo Michael Farruggio
Located in Sheffield, MA
Remo Michael Farruggio
American, 1905-1981
Signals
Oil on canvas
24 by 35 in. W/frame 28 by 39 in.
Signed lower right & titled on stretcher “Signals”
Circa 1959
Remo Michael Farru...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Covered Bridge
By Remo Michael Farruggio
Located in Sheffield, MA
Remo Michael Farruggio
American,1905-1981
Covered Bridge
Oil on canvas.
22 in. by 30 in. W/frame 26 in. by 34 in.
Signed lower right & titled on verso...
Category
1950s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flower Seller, Paris
Located in Sheffield, MA
Cesar Villacres
Ecuador, 1880–1941
Flower Seller, Paris
Cesar Villacres was an Ecuadorean artsit that worked in South America & Paris.
He exhibited i...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
VUE de PARIS , La TOUR ST. JACQUES et LE THEATRE du CHATELET
By Jules René Hervé
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jules Herve
French, 1887-1881
Vue du Paris
Oil on canvas
18 by 21 ½ in. Wframe 28 by 31 in.
Signed lower left
An impressionist French artist whose subjects ranged from rural genr...
Category
1960s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Scene de PARIS apres La Liberation
By Lucien Adrion
Located in Sheffield, MA
Lucien Adrion
French, 1889-1953
Scene De PARIS apres la Liberation
Oil on canvas
21 ¼ in. by 25 ½ in. W/frame 31 ¼ in. by 35 ½ in.
Signed & dated 1949 lower right
Lucien Adrion w...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil