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Large Venezuelan Modernist Abstract Oil Painting Machu Picchu Marius Sznajderman
By Marius Sznajderman
Located in Surfside, FL
Marius Sznajderman
Hand signed and dated lower right, with an inscription on the verso
40 X 30 inches
Oil or acrylic on canvas.
Machu Picchu is an Incan citadel set high in the Ande...
Category
1980s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Modernist Oil Painting Donald Roy Purdy Village on a Hillside Fauvist Colors
By Donald Roy Purdy
Located in Surfside, FL
Donald Roy Purdy (1925 - 2016 Ct.).
Framed oil on board
'Belgian Village'
Hand signed lower right, (signed twice) labeled verso.
Genre: Modern
Subject: Landscape
Medium: Oil
Surfa...
Category
20th Century Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Modernist Oil Painting George Schwacha Brooklyn Street Scene Fruit Market WPA
By George Schwacha Jr
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed lower left corner
Oil on masonite
Dimensions: Frame H 18.25" x W 22.25". Sight H 11.25" x W 15.25
This is a great scene, vintage Americana. Possibly Crown Heights in Broo...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Modernist Oil Painting George Schwacha Carnival Circus Big Top Ferris Wheel WPA
By George Schwacha Jr
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed lower left corner
Oil on masonite
Dimensions: Frame H 18.25" x W 22.25". Sight H 11.25" x W 15.25
This is a great scene, vintage Americana. Possibly Coney Island in Brook...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Fantastic Village Scene Modern Irish Magic Realism Oil Painting
By Philip Castle
Located in Surfside, FL
Philip Castle was an Irish Painter and husband to artist Barry Castle
He is rarely exhibited. His detailed, meticulous work took a long time to complete and his output was quite li...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Oil Painting Louisa Chase Grotto Floral Garden Abstract Neo Expressionist
By Louisa Chase
Located in Surfside, FL
Title: Grotto
Dated: 1981
Size: 72 X 96 inches
Technique: Oil paint on canvas
Provenance: Robert Miller Gallery New York
Hand signed and dated lower right.
This is a large magnific...
Category
1980s Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Oil Painting Italian Synagogue Rome Antonio Caputo Architecture Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Antonio Caputo (Italian, 1933-2021)
Tempio Maggiore (The Bridge)
Hand signed lower right, 'Tonino Caputo'
Oil on canvas depicting the Great Synagogue of Rome with its distinctive ...
Category
20th Century Post-Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large American Modernist Oil Painting Baseball Game the Tryout Sidney Goodman
Located in Surfside, FL
Sidney Goodman (1936-2013)
The Tryout
Oil on Canvas
Hand signed lower right
Dated 1965
Provenance: bears labels verso from Terry Dintenfass Gallery (partial label)
George Krevsky Ga...
Category
1960s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Oil Painting Magical Realism Lionel Kalish Italian Home Fantasy Scene
Located in Surfside, FL
Lionel Kalish (American B.1931)
"A Villa on the Sea",
c. 1980
Oil on canvas
Hand signed lower right L.Kalish
Bark Frameworks Inc. N.Y. label verso
16" x 24"
Lionel Kalish born...
Category
1980s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Charles Chartier 1951 French Cubist Modernist Oil Painting Surreal Paris Village
Located in Surfside, FL
Alex Charles Chartier, French, 1894-1957
Oil painting on board
1951
Quartier Plaisance, Paris village scene
Hand signed and dated '51 lower left.
Dimensions: 21" x 25-3/4", frame...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Patina & Silkscreen Painting on Steel Canadian Contemporary Art Marjan Eggermont
By Marjan Eggremont
Located in Surfside, FL
Eggermont, Marjan (Contemporary Dutch Canadian),
Big Seeds 2006, mixed media, patina and silkscreen painting on steel,
20 x 20 inches
Hand signed, titled and dated on wood bar vers...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Steel
Patina & Silkscreen Painting on Steel Canadian Contemporary Art Marjan Eggermont
By Marjan Eggremont
Located in Surfside, FL
Eggermont, Marjan (Contemporary Dutch Canadian),
Ghost Island 2006, mixed media patina and silkscreen painting on steel,
20 x 20 inches
Hand signed, titled and dated on wood bar ve...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Steel
Original Oil Painting Pickup Crossing Gregory Sumida California Artist Americana
By Gregory Sumida
Located in Surfside, FL
Gregory Sumida (American, b.1948)
'Pick-Up Crossing'
Oil paint on masonite board.
Hand signed lower right
1976
Depicting a rural landscape and buildings, in a linen-lined pickled w...
Category
20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Large Oil Painting Beach Scene with Children Henry Benson Americana Art Seashore
By Henry Benson
Located in Surfside, FL
Children Playing on Beach
Textured Oil on Canvas
Hand signed lower right
Image: H 40 x W 30 inches; Frame: H 40.5 x W 30.5 inches
Beautiful muted pastel tone colors
This depicts a ...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Street Riot Oil Painting Mounted Police WPA artist Social Justice Americana Art
By Arthur Smith
Located in Surfside, FL
Riot, Revolution, Police figures on Horseback in City Streets.
Hand signed lower right.
Painting measures 6 x 12, framed 9 x 15 inches.
Arthur Smith is a listed American painter mos...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
French Modernist Oil Painting Expressionist Village Farm Landscape Ecole Paris
By Henri d'Anty
Located in Surfside, FL
Framed 21 X 18 canvas 13 X 10
Henri Maurice D'Anty, listed French artist,Henry d'Anty 1910-1998
Born 1910 in Belleville France. Died in December 4 1998.
Educated at the Académie de...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1948 American Folk Art Watercolor, Gouache, Painting Horse Farm, Running Horses
Located in Surfside, FL
Cecilia "Peach" Taylor (Mrs Reginald B. Taylor)
Folk Art watercolor painting of horses titled "White Horse Farm)
painted in 1948
A classic example of self taught, American Folk Art d...
Category
1940s Folk Art Animal Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Folk Art Collage Painting "Letter in a Bottle" Carol Jablonsky Woman Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Carol Jablonsky (1939-1992)
Acrylic on canvas painting with collage
titled verso "Letter in a Bottle"
17 X 17 framed
10.5 X 10.5 sight
The image is whimsical and rather mysterious,...
Category
1990s Folk Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Jewish Mystical Kabbalah Oil Painting Jerusalem Cityscape Hebrew Letters Judaica
By David Rakia
Located in Surfside, FL
"Tzadik"
A Surrealist oil painting of old mystical Jerusalem with Hebrew calligraphy
Sight 13.25" x 19.5" ; frame: 21" x 27.25"
David Rakia (1928-2012) was born in Vienna, Austria...
Category
1960s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Spoken Shadows, Large Scale Modernist Southwest Adobe Oil Painting Gustavo Novoa
By Gustavo Novoa
Located in Surfside, FL
Gustavo Novoa, Born 1941 in Santiago, Chile, He attended the Academy of Fine Arts. Novoa made his debut as an artist in the early 1960¹s selling oil paintings,watercolors and crayon drawings on the streets of Paris, principally Montmartre. His first one-man show was sponsored by the Chilean Ambassador at the Maison de L¹Amerique Latin in 1961. The late Queen Victoria Eugenia of Spain sponsored his second show in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1962. Showing in galleries in the Faubourg St. Honore and the Salon de la Jeune Peinture. Novoa constructed a dream-like Naive new jungle where the lion lies down with the zebra. Panthers and pandas share the shade with African monkeys and American raccoons.
Novoa became represented exclusively by the Wally Findlay Galleries in the early 1970s, and his one-man shows in New York, Paris, Palm Beach and Beverly Hills established him as a champion of ecology and wildlife preservation along with Henri Maik. His animals were primitive and painted in lush and colorful Folk Art backgrounds. Ringling Brothers, Barnum & Bailey commissioned him to do the poster and program for the circus that year. By 1971, Novoa¹s paintings had changed again. His show "The Grand Tour" sent his animals prowling the major cities of the world, from the Spanish Steps in Rome to the Left Bank in Paris, through the Great Pyramids and back to Park Avenue in New York. It was perhaps the most surrealistic of Novoa¹s shows. On April 3, 1988, Prince Charles of England set a new record for Novoa¹s sales by auctioning one of his paintings at a benefit sale in Palm Beach.Novoa was received at the White House by Mrs. George Bush. Miami¹s Art Deco District had chosen Novoa¹s painting "The Carlyle Hotel" to be presented to the First Lady.
The painting hangs in the President¹s Library. The prestigious Gallery 1-2-3 of El Salvador introduced Novoa at their Latin American Biennale exhibition in June of 1992. The Instituto Cultural de Santiago presented an impressive one-man show in August, 1992. His first exhibition in Chile, where the press named him "Painter of a Lost Paradise". Sponsored by Avensa Airlines of Venezuela, Novoa opened his first one-man show in Caracas, with great success, at the Galeria Oscar Ascanio in June of 1993. The Wally Findlay Galleries in New York presented his latest paintings...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Large Modernist Fauvist Oil Painting Constantin Kluge French Countryside Blooms
By Constantine Kluge
Located in Surfside, FL
Constantine Kluge (French 1912-2003)
Les Pommiers en Fleurs
Oil on canvas of apple trees in bloom
Hand signed lower right.
Provenance: purchased from Wally Findlay Galleries. (bear...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Arie Azene Israeli Photo Realist Oil Painting Manhattan New York Street Scene
By Arie Azene
Located in Surfside, FL
Arie Azene, Israeli painter, born in Germany, 1934
Arie (Eisman) Azene was born in Hamburg, Germany. He immigrated to the Land of Israel with his parents soon after birth. In 1958, after studying art in Paris, he settled on Kibbutz Tzova in the Judean Hills, where he lived for 28 years. He spent 1968-1970 in France, England and Germany. In 1984, he moved to Jerusalem.
Stylistically, Azene was influenced by the New Horizons group to which he was exposed during his studies at the Avni Institute in Tel Aviv. Other influences were Joseph Zaritsky, Avigdor Stematsky and Yehezkel Streichman.
Azene works in oil paint, pencil and aquarelle. His early work was abstract, but over the years, it has become more figurative and realistic. His colour palette is often based on two complementary hues, with a predominance of various combinations of gray.
Education
1948-51 Avni Institute, Tel Aviv
1951-52 Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem
1957-58 Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France, Advanced Studies
Select Exhibitions
Autumn Exhibition Autumn Exhibition Yad Lebanim Museum, Petach Tikva 1974
Artists: Shimon Avni, Mordechai Avniel, Azene, Arie, Eli Ilan, Michael Argov, Naftali Bezem, Nachum Gutman, Shraga Weil, Boaz Vaadia, Shmuel Katz, Ruth Schloss.
Zaritsky Artists House, Tel Aviv 1976
Artists: Yitzhak Danziger, Menashe Kadishman, Osvaldo Romberg, Michal Wolman, Raffi Lavie
The Kadishman Connection Israel Museum, Jerusalem 1979
Artists: Larry Abramson, Jacob El Hanani, Ovadia Alkara, Yosl Bergner, Marcel Janco, Lea Nikel, George Chemeche, Igael Tumarkin.
Israeli Prints...
Category
1990s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Handmade Wool Tapestry Abstract American Modernist Arthur Dove Aubusson Style
Located in Surfside, FL
Original hand made, hand woven wall hanging modern art tapestry.
Manufactura de Tapecarias de Portalegre (Portugal) (TMP Fino) tapestries are woven by hand on vertical looms.
Arth...
Category
20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wool
Rare Israeli Naive Art Oil Painting Jerusalem Israel Old City Landscape Folk Art
Located in Surfside, FL
JERUSALEM, Vielle du David, (City of David)
Oil painting on canvas
Hand signed in Hebrew (Perlman, Pearlman or Perelman. There are numerous artists with this name. we are unsure wh...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Outsider Art Brut Mixed Media Zinc Assemblage Sculpture Collage Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Mixed media assemblage sculpture/painting. Hand signed and dated recto and verso.
Provenance: Galerie Alphonse Chave, bears their label verso
Michel, Fernand (1913-1999)
Born in 1913 in Neuviller-lès-Badonviller in the Vosges, Fernand Michel began working at the age of twelve in a Landes pottery factory. When his mother died, he went to live in Alsace with an aunt and became an art bookbinder. A lover of poetry, he bonded with Jean Vodaine, Jean Dubuffet and Alphonse Chave (Alphonse Chave was an art lover, dealer and collector. On November 15, 1947 in Vence, under the name Les Mages, he opened a contemporary art gallery which would also become a high place of art brut and unique art . The gallery took its final name - Galerie Alphonse Chave - in 1960. He exhibited Dado, Philippe Dereux, Jean Dubuffet, Max Ernst, Henri michaux, Louis Pons, Man Ray, Dorothea Tanning, Zao Wou-ki as well as other creators.)
Around 1962, he began carving zinc after finding a plaque in a landfill. From this period, he made numerous assemblies, most often of large dimensions, which he called "zinc works" where buxom bathers, Venus callipyges, nuns and holy nitouches rub shoulders. The corroded and battered material over the years, used as is, gives his works a certain harshness, however softened by more ornamental pieces. Fernand Michel lived in Montpellier. He died in 1999. His work is present in the collection of La Fabuloserie in Dicy.
Publications
Revue "Création Franche" N ° 16, November 1998
Catalog "Donation Claude Massé", March 1999
Catalog "Collection Création Franche - 1989-2010", September 2010
Revue "Création Franche" N ° 38, June 2013
Franche Creation, Special Issue N ° 2, April 2015
His son Patrick Michel's collection is housed in Montpellier in the Musee d’arts brut, singulier and autres. "I used to accompany my father to his exhibitions since he was exhibited every year at the Galerie Chave in Vence. I still remember that Alphonse Chave once offered me a little toy (a car!) from his shop. I therefore met the artists Philippe Dereux, Armand Avril, François Ozenda, Pascal Verbena, Louis Pons, Jean Vodaine, Henri Comby, Fred Deux and Eugène Gabritschevsky- I took the decision to create the museum in order to save (and protect) my father’s work- my father was often classified under the ‘Art Brut’ label but in fact he belonged to the ‘Singular Art’ label...
The term Art Brut exists since Jean Dubuffet gave it to us in 1945, covering self-taught and marginalised artists..The terms Outsider Art and Art Brut are fine with me- I place Nek Chand before Le Facteur Cheval. I also like the Art Brut artists Augustin Lesage...
Category
1960s Outsider Art Mixed Media
Materials
Metal
American Modernist Abstract Oil Painting Landscape Seascape
By Bruce Samuelson
Located in Surfside, FL
framed 14.5 x 17. image 9.5 x 12
Signed verso
Bruce Samuelson was born in Philadelphia and was educated at PAFA. He has taught painting and drawing at PAFA since 1973.
Professor B...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
French Modernist Large Paris Street Oil Painting Expressionist Henry D'anty
By Henri d'Anty
Located in Surfside, FL
Large oil on canvas Paris, France street scene with house and tree.
Hand signed
Framed Dimensions 41 x 48.5 Canvas is 40 X 32 inches
Henri Maurice D'Anty, listed French artist, Henry d'Anty 1910-1998
Born 1910 in Belleville France. Died in December 4 1998.
Educated at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Académie Julian Paris. Painter of the school of Paris. ((painter of de l'Ecole de Paris et Peintre Témoin de son Temps) He participated in numerous exhibitions and was rewarded number of prizes for his work in France and abroad
D'Anty was born in Belleville, and it was here that he came to know the picturesque architectural quality of small sloping streets, sometimes broken by flights of steps, like those of Montmartre. Afterwards he moved to Saint Maurice, where he came under the spell of the banks of the Marne with its blue green reflections, the heavy river barges, sail boats, and the lock with its large dark mass, which all made their impressions, as did a later visit in northern France, long before he thought seriously about painting. But in both eye and mind, he was already storing secret visions and emotions.
During a holiday in Brittany, he discovered an entirely new awareness of colors, or rather of colors of the enchanting, subtle tones which make up the varied atmospheres of the Breton scene. He is linked to both post impressionism and expressionism. He was part of the Ecole de Paris (School of Paris) and showed with Francois Arnal, Franz Priking, Isis Kischka, Roland Dubuc, Bernard Maurice Quentin, Michel Patrix, Roger Bezombes, Lucien Joseph Fontanarosa, Bernard Buffet, Jean Marzelle, Maurice Blond, Isaac Antcher, Francis Bott, Jean Jansem, Alfred Charles Weber...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Modernist Large Floral Oil Painting Expressionist Flowers in Vase
By Henri d'Anty
Located in Surfside, FL
Frae measures 47 X 27 Image is 39 X 19.
Henri Maurice D'Anty, listed French artist,Henry d'Anty 1910-1998
Born 1910 in Belleville France. Died in December 4 1998.
Educated at the Aca...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Naive London Street Scene Folk Art Oil Painting Big Ben, Parliament, Union Jack
By Andrew Murray
Located in Surfside, FL
Big Ben, House of Parliament with Union Jack flag, Thames River, boats, barges, airplane and double decker red bus. Classic London street scene.
24 inches by 11 inches in a frame 24....
Category
20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Acrylic Photorealist Painting Nature Scene Water & Light David Kessler
By David Kessler
Located in Surfside, FL
DAVID KESSLER (American born 1950 - )
Greyed Magic #2 (Water and Light Series)
Acrylic on canvas
Hand signed and titled with artist's studio stamp on verso
60 inches x 84 inches
David T. Kessler was born in Park Ridge, New Jersey in 1950. He attended Arizona State University, where he received the award for Outstanding Graduate in Studio Art in 1972. In 1973, David was one of 12 painters accepted into the graduate program at The San Francisco Art Institute, where he received his M.F.A. in 1975. He is well known for his holographic airbrush paintings on aluminum. His paintings have been exhibited internationally since 1977, with shows in Tokyo, Strasbourg, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, Scottsdale, and New York. Kessler's paintings are in the permanent collections of The Strasbourg Contemporary Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Minnesota Museum of Art, The Museum of the Rhode Island School of Design, The Santa Barbara Museum, The Barrington Art Center, and others. Within Arizona, his work is in the collections of The Phoenix Art Museum, The Scottsdale Center for the Arts, The Tucson Museum of Art, Arizona State University Art Museum, and Northern Arizona University Art Museum.
Photorealism is a genre of art that encompasses painting, drawing and other graphic media. An American art movement that began in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Photorealism evolved from Pop Art as a counter to Abstract Expressionism as well as Minimalist art movements. Though Photorealists share some aspects of American realists, such as Edward Hopper, they tried to set themselves as much apart from traditional realists as they did Abstract Expressionists. Photorealists were much more influenced by the work of Pop artists and were reacting against Abstract Expressionism. The word Photorealism was coined by Louis K. Meisel in 1969 and appeared in print for the first time in 1970 in a Whitney Museum catalogue for the show "Twenty-two Realists." It is also sometimes labeled as Super-Realism, New Realism, Sharp Focus Realism...
Category
20th Century Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Large Israeli Naive Art Screen Enamel Oil Painting Jerusalem Old City Folk Art
By Gabriel Cohen
Located in Surfside, FL
JERUSALEM, Vielle du David, (City of David) Superlac (enamel) painting on paper, hand signed, titled and dated.
Provenance: Michael Hittleman Gallery Los Angeles.
Gabriel Cohen, (...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Alkyd
Pop Art Modernist Mixed Media Vibrant Day Glo Collage Painting Patrick Archer
By Patrick Archer
Located in Surfside, FL
PATRICK ARCHER (American b. 1926) Signed and dated at lower right, signed and titled on label verso.
Abstract landscape with vibrant dayglo fluorescent colors
Palm Beach Florida ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board
Jerusalem Modernist Landscape Oil Painting Israeli Bezalel Artist, Judaica Art
By Ivan Schwebel
Located in Surfside, FL
Ivan Schwebel, Israeli American (1932-2011) Oil on canvas.
Painting of Winter Landscape. Signed Schwebel, 1985. Sight- L-27" x W-31.5", Frame- L-28.5" x W-32".
Ivan Schwebel, Painter. Was born 1932, U.S.A. and immigrated to Israel 1963 after living in Spain, France and Greece.
Studies: 1953-55 with Kimura Kyoen whilst serving with the U.S.Army in Japan; 1955-61 Institute of Fine Arts, with Philip Guston; New York University.
Larry Abramson, who is very much in the mainstream of Israeli art, curated an exhibition of Schwebel’s work at the Jerusalem Print Workshop in the early 1980s; in the accompanying text, he described him as “an artist from the New York School ship-wrecked on a hill near Jerusalem.”
IN SCHWEBEL’S BEST WORK, THE paint speaks for itself: the pools and explosions of rich color, achieved with pigment that he would grind and mix himself, the luminous figures emerging out of dark shadows, the quirky, dramatic compositions.
Schwebel was erudite, with a passion for the bible and Jewish and Israeli history. He delved into all of it for his subject matter, bringing together characters and narratives regardless of time, and setting them in modern- day Tel Aviv or Jerusalem, the Judean hills, or New York City. He liked to play with ideas, and thoroughly mixed his visual metaphors. He showed David and Bat-Sheva next to a Nazi deportation train, and Job despairing over his relationship with the Palestinians. He based his characters on photographs of himself, friends and family, or movie stars.
On his website, he describes a series of paintings about anti-Semitism in which the Holocaust is merged with the Spanish Inquisition: “Abarbanel who tried to negotiate with Ferdinand and Isabella is reincarnated in Rumkowski – the German appointed Head of the Lodz Ghetto. The bridge connecting two parts of the Ghetto is spanned over a present-day Tel Aviv cityscape.
He was included in a portfolio that included Ivan Schwebel, Michael Gross, Liliane Klapisch and Moshe Kupferman, five of Israel's leading contemporary artists who were each approached in May 1977 with a request to contribute a hand-printed screenprint for a portfolio to be titled "Jerusalem". The sole term of reference was the name "Jerusalem", with no qualifications at all. The five artists then spent time working completely independently and individually on the project at the Jerusalem Print Workshop. Each screenprint was hand-signed by their respective artist and numbered from the edition of 200, hand-printed on BFK Rives paper Published by Whartman and Sacks Art Publications
His “Tel Aviv” series, in contrast, is fun: “Chen Cinema” shows a couple of actors who seem to have stepped out of an old romantic movie to cuddle in the shabby street outside the cinema. In his final “Safe Place” series of paintings, he goes beyond self-conscious narrative to create his own Garden of Eden.
Select Group Exhibitions:
Landscape and Nature: Contemporary Israeli Prints...
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Colorado Modernist Oil Painting Wharf Street Plein Air New Orleans Street
By Joellyn Duesberry
Located in Surfside, FL
Joellyn T Duesberry
Wall on Wharf Street, #513, New Orleans, LA
1976. Oil on linen
Dimensions: (Frame) H 50.5" x W 66.5". sight size 50 x 66"
Joellyn Toler Duesberry (1944 – 2016) was a plein air landscape artist who worked in oils.
She said that her paintings echo the work of John Marin and Milton Avery. Of her art, Duesberry said, "I am not interested in a realist painting, I am not interested in an abstract painting. I am interested in the tension."
Joellyn Duesberry was born on June 30, 1944 in Richmond, Virginia. Growing up in rural Virginia instilled in her a love for the land. She said, "All my life I think I've unconsciously tried to recreate the place where bliss or terror first came to me. Both emotions seemed so strong that I had to locate them outside of myself, in the land. This goes back to a childhood habit of living in rural Virginia and seeking woods and creeks and lakes for solitary refuge; places where I could sketch and paint." She decided to start painting at age ten after being given a pair of red tennis shoes and walking on the beach, inspired by the colorful juxtaposition of sand, shadow, and shoe. Soon thereafter she decided that "Women artists existed and she needed to be among them."
She received a BA with Distinction, Phi Beta Kappa, in art history and painting, from Smith College in 1966. In that year she was awarded a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship. While at Smith, she "honed her skills by making countless copies of masterworks." She took her master's degree at New York University Institute of Fine Arts. Despite her degrees, she is considered to be a self-taught artist.
Joellyn Duesberry was a plein air painter, who began "her canvases outdoors on an easel and finished] them in the studio, frequently making monotypes in between."
She moved to Denver in 1985, and embraced the Colorado landscape in her art. In that year she received an Individual Painting Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to work with Richard Diebenkorn.
In 1997, Duesberry won the Benjamin Altman Landscape Prize from the National Academy of Design. While she had a World Views residency with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC) from 1998-1999, Duesberry painted city studies in studio space in some vacant offices of the World Trade Center's North Tower. She says that, because of her connection to the World Trade Center, the tone of her painting saddened after 9/11.
In 2005, a PBS documentary was made of Joellyn Duesberry's life, work, and creative process titled Joellyn Duesberry: Dialogue with the Artist.
Her works are held by institutions such as Metropolitan Museum of Art and Smith College Museum of Art.
Publications
1998: A Covenant of Seasons: Monotypes by Joellyn T. Duesberry, Poetry by Pattiann Rogers,
2011: Elevated Perspective: The Paintings of Joellyn Duesberry,
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Elevated Perspective: The Paintings of Joellyn Duesberry, Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center
Joellyn Duesberry: A Passion for the Land, Leslie Levy Fine Art, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ
Joellyn Duesberry: A Passion for Western Land, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
Joellyn Duesberry Monotypes: Hidden Treasures, William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO
Joellyn Duesberry: Solace on Safari, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT.
Recent Monotypes, James Graham & Sons, Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Joellyn Duesberry: Monotypes, Lizan-Tops Gallery, Easthampton, NY
The Garden Paintings, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
Joellyn Duesberry: Paintings, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO
Joellyn Duesberry, Graham Modern, Madison Avenue, New York, NY
Joellyn Duesberry: Paintings and Monotypes, Carol Siple Gallery, Denver, CO
Joellyn Duesberry, Tatistcheff Gallery, New York, NY
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Significant Women Artists, Curtis Arts & Humanities Center, Greenwood Village, CO
Finding Abstraction, Gallery 1261, Denver, CO
Rocks on Paper, Katharina Rich Perlow Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Landscape Show, Greenhut Gallery, Portland, ME
Defining the West: 200 Years of American Imagery, Gerald Peters Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Roots, Landing Gallery, Rockland, ME
Annual Professional Painters’ Exhibition, The Century Association, New York, NY
Glory of Landscapes, Pelham Art Centre, New York, NY
Salon du Musee, Featured Artist, Salon d Arts at Gallery 1261, Denver, CO
Small Works, Gallery 1261, Denver, CO
The Urban Myth, Vision of the City, Sullivan Goss, An American Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
The Art of Printmaking, paying homage to Open Press,Archer Concept Group,Denver,CO
Twenty Years: Paintings: Joellyn Duesberry, Bunny Harvey...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Large Original Abstract Colorful Oil Painting Israeli Kibbutz Landscape Shemi
By Calman Shemi
Located in Surfside, FL
Life in Nature
Canvas measures 31.5 X 39.5
(I believe this is oil it might also be acrylic.)
Hand signed recto and signed and titled verso.
Calman Shemi, sculptor and painter, was ...
Category
1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Kibbutz Abstract Jerusalem Nightscape Israeli Tempera Collage Painting Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstract Expressionist cityscape of Old City of Jerusalem in moody blues and gold. Yitzhak Greenfield, painter, born 1932, Brooklyn, New York His focus is on the heavenly and the terrestrial Jerusalem; on the Hebrew alphabet; and on central themes in Jewish tradition and culture. He deals with the tension between figurative and abstract.
Education
1946 Educational Alliance Art School, New York City, with Abba Ostrowsky, Chaim Gross, and Louis Lozowick.
1948 Thomas Jefferson High School, Brooklyn, New York, Art
1953 Drawing and Drawing Wall Murals,Seminar at Givat Haviva with P. Pelzig, Yohanan Simon, and Naftali Bezem.
1960 Printmaking with the artist and printmaker Borin, Venice, Italy
1979-1981 Morris Blackburn Print Workshop, New York City, U.S.A.
Teaching
Art Kibbutz Gal-On and Gat
1961-1963 Arts, regional school at Mateh-Yehuda
Regional school, Mate-Yehuda
Anglican school, Jerusalem
1965–70 Bet Ha'am, Popular University Outreach Program, Jerusalem
Ruth Youth Wing, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Shira Mushkin: Majestic scenes in blue, gold and indigo, radiating spheres and grand expanses hover above architectural forms and clusters of Hebrew letters, revealing dreamlike realities. These are the creations of the artist Yitzhak Greenfield who works in watercolor and acrylic paints layered with collages of painted papers, discarded book materials, and fragments of his own prints. Applying parts of broken furniture, clock springs, iron locks and keys, the artist forms assemblages that hint at familiar settings, resonating the past. For Brooklyn born, Israeli artist Yitzhak Greenfield, these visions are the essence of the Jerusalem landscape, inspired by the city’s ever-changing magical scenery.
For generations, Jerusalem has been a focal point for the Jewish people. It is the center of Jewish life, faith, hope, history, and consciousness. Jerusalem holds a particular significance for Greenfield, who moved to Ein Kerem, Jerusalem over fifty years ago, after living on a kibbutz. Greenfield is a Jerusalem artist, and he remarks: “Living and working in Jerusalem is a special journey for me. My works are visionary landscapes, which are reconstructions of Jerusalem, not always relating to specific sites.” The artist has always been intrigued by the historical and dynamic nature of the city, as he constantly explores his own connection to the traditional and spiritual forms of Judaism. Greenfield’s art is linked to Jewish and Israeli history and symbols, such as the Hebrew letters, Jewish amulets, and the Ten Sephirot (Kabbalah emanations), containing aesthetic qualities of the material and the spiritual.
Working in a distinctive modernist method, Greenfield’s artwork lends itself to rich possibilities of expression. The exhibition Yitzhak Greenfield: Exploring Jerusalem comprises three main series from the artist’s career, which span over the course of many years and continue to this day; Jerusalem Visions, Jerusalem Assemblages, and Landscape and Meditation on the Hebrew Letter. These artworks portray timeless dream-landscapes of Jerusalem. The hidden secrets of the city are locked away in assemblage constructions, and prints depicting Hebrew letters illuminate into mystical meanings. The spectator travels along with Greenfield through his creations, exploring Jerusalem and experiencing a spiritual and living Judaism, in which the artist constantly searches for the expression of his cultural and spiritual legacy as he reconstructs Jerusalem.
1966 General Exhibition - Jerusalem Artists' House
Artists: Hirszenberg, Samuel Boris Schatz, Lilien, Ephraim Moses, Joseph Budko, Leopold Krakauer, Meir Gur Arie, Jacob Eisenberg, Ben Zvi, Zeev Palombo...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Tempera
Roger Muhl Fauvist Still Life Cactus Ecole de Paris French Oil Painting Paques
By Roger Mühl
Located in Surfside, FL
PAQUES, 1958, PARIS
Hand signed
Oil on board
Still life of a potted cactus.
DIMENSIONS: (Framed) H: 23.25" W: 20.25" (Without Frame) H: 16" W: 12.75"
(1929-2008) French
Roger Müh...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Colorful French Oil Painting Greek Island Landscape Flowers George Blouin
By Georges Blouin
Located in Surfside, FL
Ios au Bouquet, Ile Grecque
Georges Blouin (1928-2012), born in Northern France. He attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts d'Arras where he studied Decorative Painting. Georges Blouin wa...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Expressionist Oil Painting Paris Scene View Architectural Visionism Olivier Foss
By Oliver Foss
Located in Surfside, FL
"Street Scene" by Olivier B. Foss is an iconic artwork representational of mid-century French Expressionist painting. The artist's personal visionary style is at once gestural, power...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Impressionist Oil Painting Dominican Landscape Scene Hildegarde Hamilton
By Hildegarde Hamilton
Located in Surfside, FL
Hildegarde Hamilton (Florida, Virginia 1898-1970)
Oil on canvas painting of a Dominican townscape
Frame: 17.75" X 14.25"
Image: 12" X 8.5"
Hildegarde Hume Hamilton (1898 - 1970) was active/lived in Florida, Virginia. He is known for Impressionist buildings in landscape and coastal view painting, illustration.
Hildegard Hume Hamilton was born in Syracuse, New York, in 1898. After her education there, and brief training at the age of six in art schools in Venice, Italy, while on a European sojourn with her father, she studied fine art at the Académie Julian, the École des Beaux-Arts and the Académie Grande Chaumière in Paris, France, during the 1920s and 1930s.
Back in the United States, Hamilton studied for a short time at the Herron Art Institute in Indianapolis, the Cincinnati Art Academy and under the tutelage of the landscape and maritime painter Anthony Thieme (1888-1954) in Rockport, Massachusetts. The Ainslie Galleries on Fifth Avenue held an exhibit of Hamilton’s French Alpine Scenes to much acclaim. Hamilton exhibited in venues throughout the city and sold as many as 300 landscapes. In 1927, Vice President Charles Gates Dawes acquired one of Hamilton’s paintings following her one person exhibit at the Women’s National Party Headquarters in Washington D.C. In the autumn of 1928, an exhibition of her landscapes and cityscapes at the Galerie Bernheim Jeune in Paris was widely and positively reviewed. In 1929, she became the first American woman to exhibit at Philip Dillon’s club –
L’Artistique, in Provence. She also contributed to the Salon des Artistes Independants in Paris. In 1930, Hamilton exhibited at the Carlton Hotel in Washington D.C. and in New York at the Grand Central Palace, American Art Association-Anderson Galleries on 57th Street, and the Huntington Bay and Yacht Clubs. During this period, the artist resided at 9 Gramercy Park in New York City. The picturesque neighborhood inspired Hamilton’s painting entitled 4 Gramercy Park, Mayor Harper’s House, Manhattan. C. 1930. The oil painting captures the red brick façade and intricate cast iron embellishments of 4 Gramercy Park, the former home of publisher and New York City Mayor James Harper...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Modernist Abstract Expressionist Jerusalem Kotel Oil Painting Judaica
By Efraim Modzelevich
Located in Surfside, FL
Efraim Modzelevich (1931-1995) Work is abstract in subject, and expressive in terms of technique. The artist uses a muted color palette, and thick layers of paint to build up his co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hungarian Israeli Large Landscape Painting of Judean Hills, Jerusalem, Israel
By Zvi Adler
Located in Surfside, FL
In this painting the artist depicts the verdant hillsides outside Jerusalem, the use of complementary colors next to each other makes them appear more vibrant and and allows for the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Gouache
Large Monotype Monoprint Print Scenic Lake Landscape Susan Hall Woman Artist
By Susan Hall
Located in Surfside, FL
Monotype Monoprint
Hand signed and numbered 1/1
Lake landscape
Sheet: 37.5" X 27"
Image: 29.5" X 19.75"
Susan Hall lives and works in Point Reyes Station, California, a town in the heart of the Point Reyes National Seashore. This pristine wilderness area is dominated by a mosaic of bays and ocean, rolling grass lands and forests. It is inhabited by a diversity of wildlife, including over 450 species of birds, mountains lions, deer, bobcats, foxes, and elk. Ms. Hall who is a native of this area returned after spending twenty years in New York City.
In her book, “Painting Point Reyes”, Hall says, “Point Reyes is the center of my painting life. Point Reyes has been my life and when I haven’t lived here, it has been an underground stream that spoke to me in dreams and visions.”
While living and painting in New York City, Ms. Hall exhibited her work widely in museums and galleries. Among them are the Whitney Museum of Art; San Francisco Museum of Art; Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Trabia MacAfee Gallery, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago; Ovsey Gallery, Los Angeles.
In addition, her work has been featured in group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad, including in 2020 Bud Shark's Ink: The California Crew at BMoCA, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art Colorado USA representing the panoply of aesthetics, cultural backgrounds, viewpoints, and talent held within the bounty of art “made in California.” This remarkable grouping of artists, Brad Brown, Enrique Chagoya, Roy De Forest, Amy Ellingson, Susan Hall, Don Ed Hardy, Mildred Howard, Robert Hudson, Hung Liu, Kara Maria, Rex Ray, Alison Saar, Italo Scanga, and William T. Wiley.
Women to the Fore, Hudson River Museum Yonkers 2021
A group of women artists working in oil painting and drawing, lithograph prints and photograph, collage and sculpture. Many icons of feminist art history. Judy Chicago, Judy Giera, Marisol, and Shanequa Benitez, Ann McCoy, Anna Walinska, Audrey Flack, Barbara Morgan, Berenice Abbott,
Bessie Potter Vonnoh, Georgia O'Keeffe, Hannelore Baron, Harriet, Judy Chicago, Louise Nevelson, Marisol, Mary Frank, Nancy Graves, Susan Hall, Yvonne Thomas...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Monotype
French Naive, Fauvist Oil on Panel Painting "Le Petit Clocher" Michel Loeb
Located in Surfside, FL
Michel Loeb (French, 1931- )
"Le Petit Clocher"
Oil on Panel Painting
Frame: 22.5" X 26"
Image: 14.5" X 17.75"
Hand signed bottom left
Oil on board Fauve painting of a French countryside scene with trees, farmers and houses.
Michel Loeb, 1930- painter, was born in Saint-Cloud. Lives and works in Luberon. Art naïf. Pointillist, Fauvist, Surrealist, Dadai artist, unclassifiable, highly original, unique art. His works radiate a light, a love of colors, of the absurd, of the funny, of the tender and of the poetic. French Naive art. Galerie Felix Vercel showed his work. Whether in color or black & white, in painting, sculpture or a lithograph print, the world of Michel Loeb is a poetic, joyful and exuberant paradise, where humor and fantasy are never far away. Extravagant works that sparkle like their iconoclastic author whose titles often say a lot. Each work is executed with great attention to detail, often under the magnifying glass, by this former jeweler, including its very large formats. Michel Loeb has drawn parallels to his masters of painting, facetious but always majestic winks and the desire for paintings in the style of Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Edward Hopper, Hokusai.
Michel Loeb is a painter born in Saint-Cloud. He first trained as a jeweler and diamond dealer like his father and painted as an amateur. He devoted himself to painting from 1970, after his meeting with the famous art dealer Félix Vercel, who then took him under contract and exhibited him in Paris, New York and Tokyo. Galerie Felix Vercel in Paris (Avenue Matignon) and New York (Madison Avenue) showed artists as Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Armand Guillaumin, Maurice Utrillo and Claude Venard.
He is part of School of Paris artists that included Marcel Cosson, Jean Jansem, Claude Salomon, Michel Kouliche, Bernard Buffet, Bernard Lorjou, Jean Dufy, and others. Naive art was then in fashion and his work enjoyed great success; he has prepared no less than one exhibition per year since this period. Recently he had the opportunity to present his work in Provence, Oslo or Shanghai. Since 1988, he has settled in Oppède, in the Luberon, among vineyards, scrubland and olive groves where he draws his inspiration. His work is simimilar in its childish naive appeal and is reminiscent of Henri Maik and Gustavo Novoa. In the French tradition of Séraphine de Senlis, Ferdinand Cheval, Henri Rousseau, Louis Vivin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Fauvist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Modernist Old City Jerusalem Israel Landscape Oil Painting Zvi Livni Judaica Art
By Zvi Livni
Located in Surfside, FL
Jerusalem Landscape by Zvi Livni
Frame: 25.5" X 31.5"
Image: 17.5 X 23.5"
Zvi Livni was born in the town of Lodz in Poland, and commenced his artistic education at the Art Academy in Warsaw. He came to Israel as a young man. Here he lived for many years in a kibbutz and was one of the founders of the artist group of the Kibbutz Artzi. He left Israel on several occasions in order to continue his studies and spent much time in the 1930's in Germany, France and Italy. Worked in lithograph printing and oil painting. Paintings at: President's Residence, Jerusalem,Museum of Art, Toronto, Boston University Museum. A founder of the Artists' Quarter, Safed. From 1953 lived in Safed.
He was among the founders of the famous Israeli Artists' Colony in Safed, where he lives and works most of the year and where he exhibits at a permanent one-man show.
He has also achieved a reputation as illustrator of various books and illuminator of Passover Haggadot.
His paintings are to be found in many museums and well-known private collections in Israel, U.S.A., Canada and Europe, including the Residence of the President of the State of Israel, Jerusalem; the Museum of Art in Toronto, Canada; the Museum of Modern Art, Brandeis University, Boston; the Museum of Art, Yale University, New Haven; the Brooklyn Museum, New York.
He was included in the show Art in Israel Tel Aviv Museum of Art, 1951
Artists: Mordechai Avnieli, Aviva Uri...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Polish French Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting Willy Mucha, Ecole Paris
By Willy Mucha
Located in Surfside, FL
French Large Abstract Expressionist Oil on Canvas Painting by Willy Mucha 1963
Frame: 39.5 X 52.5
Image: 38 X 51
Willy Mucha (1905 - 1995) was active/lived in France. Willy Mucha ...
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Modernist Oil Canvas Architecture Painting Dan Kedar, Bezalel Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Frame: 22.5 X 25.5
Image: 15 X 18
Dan Kedar, painter, 1929-2008, Tel Aviv. Between the years 1942-52 studied at the art studios of Aharon Avni, Streichman, and Steimatsky. Also studied at Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem as a student of Mordecai Ardon. In 1957 worked for the Unity Theatre, London, England as a stage designer. 1969 Returned to painting. Published articles in newspapers 'Maariv', 'Ha-aretz' and 'Musag'. From 1987 a member of the Council for Culture and Art Plastic Arts Group. Lives and works in Tel Aviv. He illustrated many books, among them a book of poems by the President of Senegal, Leopold Senghor. Published many articles dealing with the theory of abstract art. Modern and contemporary.
Education
1942-45 Histadrut Art Studio with Aharon Avni
1945-47 Yehezkel Streichman and Avigdor Stematsky
1949 Bezalel Art School, Jerusalem, with Ardon
1950-53 Cameri Theatre School, Tel-Aviv
1956-57 Old Vic Theatre School, Bristol, England, in collaboration with The University of Bristol, Graduate, Stage direction and set design.
Teaching
1957-69 Bet-Zvi School of Theatre Art, Ramat-Gan, Principal
1957-69 Tel-Aviv Municipality Department of Education, Lecturer in Drama
1969-75 Directed School of Theatre Art, Ramat Gan
1975-79 Worked as stage manager of Cameri Theatre and director of Army Musical Bands
Cite des Arts, Paris, France
1977 Bristol University, Bristol, England, Joined Drama Department
Awards And Prizes
1950 Prize for a Young Artist, Ministry of Science, Culture and Sport
1957 Prize for Theatre Design, Bristol, England
Group Exhibitions
Summer Exhibition Yad Labanim Museum, Petach Tikva, 1975.
Artists: Jacob El Hanani, Arie Aroch, Ludwig Blum, Yosl Bergner, Nachum Gutman, Moshe Gat, Joseph Hirsch, Shmuel Katz, Lea Nikel, Kedar, Dan,
Summer Exhibition 1978 Yad Lebanim Museum, Petach Tikva 1978
Artists:
Zvi Mairovich, Avigdor Stematsky, Dan Kedar, Arthur Kolnik, Moshe Kupferman, Aaron Priver, Ruth Zarfati.
Yad Labanim Museum, Petach Tikva, 1974
Artists: Eli Ilan, Naftali Bezem, Shraga Weil, Ruth Schloss, Israel Paldi.
One Hundred Years - One Hundred Artists Yad Labanim Museum
Artists:
Anna Ticho, Moshe Tamir, Jakob Steinhardt, Boris Schatz, Samuel Bak, Mordechai Levanon, Dan Kedar, Abel Pann, Jacob Pins.
Requiem to a Wadi Requiem to Wadi Salib victims, Pevzner House, Haifa
Artists: Aviva Uri...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Oil Painting Beach Scene with Children Henry Benson Americana Art Seashore
By Henry Benson
Located in Surfside, FL
Children Playing on Beach
Textured Oil on Canvas
Hand signed lower right
Image: H 40 x W 30 inches; Frame: H 40.5 x W 30.5 inches
This depicts a boy and girl playing in the sand wi...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Mothers, Children Oil Painting Frank Kleinholz WPA Era NYC Tenements
By Frank Kleinholz
Located in Surfside, FL
Frank Kleinholz (Brooklyn, 1901 - 1987)
Mothers with children oil on canvas painting
Frame: 27 X 23
Image: 17.75 X 13.75
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Frank Kleinholz was a painter b...
Category
20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Orientalist Arab Oil Painting Merchants at the Bazaar Souq Jalal Gharbi
Located in Surfside, FL
Merchants at the Bazaar Oil Painting by Jalal Gharbi (1920-2005)
Frame: 40 X 34
Image: 29.75 X 23.75
Provenance:The Estate of Isobel Riddoch Gharbi, Manhattan, NY
Jalal Gharbi (1920-2005) who was a prolific North African, Tunisian, French painter of both Middle Eastern Arabic...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Abstract landscape of Jerusalem Israeli Oil Painting Judaica
By Avraham Binder
Located in Surfside, FL
Large gilt framed abstract modernist landscape of Jerusalem. Framed it measures 33.25 X 41.25 inches. Canvas measures 28 x 36 inches. Bold Blue sky.
Avraham Binder was born in 1906 in Vilnius (or Vilna), now part of Lithuania. He began painting at an early age and completed the prescribed studies in painting at the academy of arts in his native city. Upon graduation, at the commencement exhibition of works submitted by the graduates, he was awarded a prize in recognition of his talents.
Artistic talent had deep roots in the Binder family. Avraham's father and grandfather were both artistically inclined, as was his sister Zila Binder and daughter Yael. In fact, he came from a long line of master artistic bookbinders, hence the family surname. The Binder family emigrated to Palestine in 1920. There, his father established a bookbinding workshop in Tel-Aviv while Avraham pursued painting. Binder has not identified with any particular modern school nor narrow artistic doctrine. He struggles to verbally explain his personal conception. Instead, he derives inspiration from emotions, resulting in a great variety of artistic treatments.
Particularly memorable are his urban landscapes with their predominance of blues and aquamarines, composed of a profusion of squares and rectangles, crowding one another and covering nearly the entire canvas. The angular shapes are interspersed with radiant dots of red, gold and yellow, like the lights of the big city. Those squares and rectangles reflect, perhaps, impressions of a childhood spent among books which were scattered about the home and workshop of his father, the bookbinder. These shapes, no doubt, had their influence upon the artist whose first youthful impressions were – books.
Traces of these shapes are discernible in Binder’s work to this day, in the angularity of splashes of color which, no longer crowded together, are now well separated to create an airy spaciousness. Not only the splashes of color – the inventing space, too – creates figurative effects in the artist’s treatment.
Avraham Binder is not a “cerebral” painter. Neither identified with any particular modern school, nor preaching any narrow artistic doctrine, he is an emotional artist: his inspiration, derived from the heart, leads him on to the most varied range of treatments in his artistic work. In vain might one try to persuade him to define his personal conception of painting. He is not one to indulge in verbal explanation. But his sheer artistic skill, his virtuosity with the paint brush, did impel him to experiment widely with the artistic techniques of the modern age. And his exceptional talent stood him in good stead in all this experimentation.
Binders large-scale urban landscapes are not mere constructs to represent our present-day architecture with its pervasive angularity. Made up as they are of color, Binder’s unique color composition qualifies these canvases to be ranked among the foremost artistic works in Israeli painting. They are uniquely Binder, very different from what we see in the work of his contemporaries.
Here and there, Binder also introduces the human element into these paintings. He lives and breathes the atmosphere of his surroundings, deeply experiencing the sea and the shore of Tel-Aviv that confront him day after day, and which he has transferred to his canvases, as metaphors in paint, throughout the life. More recently, he has created a new series of shore-and-seascapes, in tones ranging from brown to blue. ochre, violet and pale yellow – marvelous views of the sea and of figures enlivening its shore. In yet another series, featuring nearly the same range of hues, he lets us view, through his eyes, the Carmel Market in Tel-Aviv, or the city’s coffee houses with their crowds of people, heads bunched together as if in search of human closeness, with the windows looking in upon them. He has also done large paintings of Jerusalem – not the Jerusalem of gloom and holiness, but a Jerusalem in contrast to the flat topography of Tel-Aviv; it is this different topography which here provides the challenge for him as a painter. And the colors – the colors are bright, full of light, an inner illumination which seems to emanate from the artist himself, rather than from the sun beating down from above.
So many great artists have built their life’s work upon watercolors. Binder’s watercolors are in no way inferior in their artistic worth to many of those, what with their spontaneity, their translucent quality, their color combinations, and the artist’s ability to say so much with an economy of brush strokes.
We have here a painter who, until the end of his life, was still in his full creative powers, and who continued to add to his impressive storehouse of artistic works. Hundreds of his paintings grace the homes of collectors in Israel and throughout the world, or hang in his private collection; they include Israel landscapes and, most importantly, cityscapes; an exquisite series of wild flowers; many portrait paintings; experimental wood sculptures; murals painted on wood panels; reliefs…, etc. All these are testimony to an artist who refuses to rest on his laurels, who forever reaches out to try his hand at new challenges, strikes out in novel directions, discovers innovative techniques, and experiments in all the dimensions of the plastic arts.
On the Israel Museum website they have listed an exhibition of his
Artists in Israel for the Defense, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Helena Rubinstein Pavilion, Tel Aviv 1967
Artists: Avraham Binder, Motke Blum, (Mordechai) Samuel Bak, Yosl Bergner, Nahum Gilboa, Jean David, Marcel Janco, Lea Nikel, Jacob Pins, Esther Peretz Arad, Dani Karavan, Reuven Rubin, Zvi Raphaely, Yossi Stern...
Category
20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Abstract Beach Scene Oil Painting Woman with Children Raoul Middleman
By Raoul Middleman
Located in Surfside, FL
Large Orange Oil on Canvas Painting by Raoul Middleman
Beach scene, family at the shore.
38 X 52.5 inches
Raoul Middleman (born 1935 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American painter. Middleman has been a member of the Maryland Institute College of Art faculty since 1961. American University Museum at the Katzen Center has described Middleman as a "Baltimore maestro [whose] nudes are not pretty—they are sagging, dimpled, and real. His cityscapes reveal the underbelly of post-industrial rot, his narrative paintings give contemporary life to his personal obsessions. They are intelligent, messy, and utterly masterful."
From an interview with RM "I was doing abstract art. Then Roy Lichtenstein came around, and I wanted to be current. I remember Grace Hartigan said, “You’ve gotta go to New York, seize destiny by the hand.” My friend Jon Schueler took my slides up to Eleanor Ward, who had the Stable Gallery. My Pop art paintings were discovered. I moved to New York into Malcolm Morley’s old loft down on South Street. Agnes Martin was upstairs... People who interest me come from different quarters. I knew guys around Schueler, like B.H. Friedman. But I also knew the Pop world pretty well – Al Hansen, Richard Artschwager, Lichtenstein. I became friends with Raoul Hague...
Category
1970s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
American Woman Artist Modernist Large Oil Painting Cubist Influenced Landscape
By Lena Gurr
Located in Surfside, FL
A beautiful wooded landscape scene with houses and trees.
Painted on a masonite board. hand signed lower right. with framers label verso.
Framed to 40 X 55 inches. 33 X 48 without the frame and mat.
It is not dated.
Lena Gurr (1897–1992), was an American woman artist who made paintings, prints, and drawings During the course of her career Gurr's compositions retained emotional content as they evolved from a naturalistic to a semi-abstract cubist style. Born into a Russian-Jewish Yiddish speaking immigrant family, she was the wife of Joseph Biel, also Russian-Jewish and an artist of similar genre and sensibility. Gurr used Lena Gurr as her professional name. After marrying Joseph Biel she was sometimes referred to as Lena Gurr Biel. Biel had been born in Grodno, Poland (later absorbed into Russia) and had lived in England, France, and Australia before coming to New York. An artist, he specialized in landscape paintings and silkscreen printing as well as photography. He studied art at the Russian Academy in Paris. After immigrating to the United States, he studied under George Grosz at the Arts Students League.
Gurr was born in Brooklyn and, apart from brief stays in Manhattan and in Paris, lived there her whole life. This painting bears the influence of Lyonel Feininger an influential German American artist. Gurr began studying art at a young age. In 1919 she studied painting and printmaking at the Educational Alliance Art School and between 1920 and 1922 she won a scholarship to attend the Art Students League where she took classes with John Sloan and Maurice Sterne.
In 1926 and 1928 Gurr participated in group shows at the Whitney Studio Club in Greenwich Village and in 1928 she also participated in the 12th annual exhibition of the Society of Independent Artists at the Waldorf Roof in New York. (Reviewing this show, Helen Appleton Read, the critic for the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, said "I made three discoveries on my first visit, Thomas Nagel, Eugenie McEvoy and Lena Gurr with two figure compositions which have something of Marie Laurencin or Helene Perdriat quality of naive sophistication.") The Waldorf Roof was a set of rooms on the top floor of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, one of which had glass sides and a glass roof. The rooms were used for concerts, dances, benefits, and exhibitions.From 1929 to 1931 Gurr took a leave of absence from her teaching position to travel in France with Joseph Biel, an artist whom she had met while studying at the Art Students League. They spent time in Nice and Mentone but mainly in Paris.
During the early months of 1931, while she was still abroad, her work appeared in group exhibitions held at the R. H. Macy department store and the Opportunity Gallery (opened by Gifford Beal). In 1932 she participated in three shows: a solo exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum, an annual exhibition of the New York Society of Women Artists, ( Its first president was Marguerite Zorach. Founding members included Agnes Weinrich, Anne Goldthwaite...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Latvian Israeli Surrealism Illustration Art Lithograph Screenprint Flying Baruch
By Maris Bishofs
Located in Surfside, FL
BARUCH, color screenprint, signed in pencil, numbered 5/175, sheet 25 ¾ x 21 ½”.
Maris Bishofs was born in 1939 in Rujiena, Latvia. In 1965 he became the first artist to graduate fr...
Category
20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Screen
1972 Gestural Oil Painting Boat in Harbor Figural Abstraction Raoul Middleman
By Raoul Middleman
Located in Surfside, FL
Raoul Middleman (born 1935 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American painter. Middleman has been a member of the Maryland Institute College of Art faculty since 1961. American University Museum at the Katzen Center has described Middleman as a "Baltimore maestro [whose] nudes are not pretty—they are sagging, dimpled, and real. His cityscapes reveal the underbelly of post-industrial rot, his narrative paintings give contemporary life to his personal obsessions. They are intelligent, messy, and utterly masterful."
From an interview with RM "I was doing abstract art. Then Roy Lichtenstein came around, and I wanted to be current. I remember Grace Hartigan said, “You’ve gotta go to New York, seize destiny by the hand.” My friend Jon Schueler took my slides up to Eleanor Ward, who had the Stable Gallery. My Pop art paintings were discovered. I moved to New York into Malcolm Morley’s old loft down on South Street. Agnes Martin was upstairs... People who interest me come from different quarters. I knew guys around Schueler, like B.H. Friedman. But I also knew the Pop world pretty well – Al Hansen, Richard Artschwager, Lichtenstein. I became friends with Raoul Hague...
Category
1970s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
French Expressionist Ecole de Paris Oil Painting Boats on French Riviera
By Jean Vinay
Located in Surfside, FL
Jean Vinay was a self-taught artist though he received artistic guidance from Albert Marquet, the Fauvist, who he knew through his travels in French North Africa. Jean Viney...
Category
20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jewish Mexican Avant Garde Fiesta of Guadalupe Expressionist Oil Painting
By Yonia Fain
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Avant-Garde
Subject: Abstract Mexican Landscape
Medium: Oil
Surface: Canvas
Country: Mexico
Dimensions:
Yonia Fain
Oil, 1947
Although this oil painting’s subject is predom...
Category
1940s Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Contemporary Gouache Painting Earthquake II, Greek Ruins, Monuments of Greece
By Konstantin Kakanias
Located in Surfside, FL
Les Ruines Des Plus Beaux Monuments De La Grece both 22 3/4" x 34" (sight) oil with arabesque artist identified on label verso. #27, Earthquake II, From 1992 show; Night Paintings, ...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Gouache
Contemporary Gouache Painting Earthquake III, Greek Ruins, Monuments of Greece
By Konstantin Kakanias
Located in Surfside, FL
Les Ruines Des Plus Beaux Monuments De La Grece both 22 3/4" x 34" (sight) oil with arabesque artist identified on label verso. #27, Earthquake III, From 1992 show; Night Paintings,...
Category
1990s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper, Gouache
Large Polish French Paris Scene Mid Century Modernist Oil Painting Moulin Rouge
By Abram Krol
Located in Surfside, FL
Wonderful scene of the Moulin Rouge cabaret nightclub at Place Pigalle in Paris. Painted in wonderful moody blue and red colors.
Size includes frame.
Abram Abraham Krol was born Jan...
Category
1950s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil