The Capture of Major Andre

Oil on paper laid on canvas

Bruce Elliot Roberts (1910) 'The Capture of a Powdership' Oil on canvas Signed Bruce Elliot Roberts and dated 1976 (lower right) signed again and titled (on the reverse) Capt...

'A Wish To Build A Dream On' by British artist Jessica Zoob offers a tranquil place of sanctuary. Even when there are storms in evidence, metaphors for the turbulence of life, there ...

A late entry in America's string of public murals painted in the 1930s, 40s and 50s telling the story of various towns and regions, this 1962 Art Deco study b...

Framed watercolor by Albert Andre signed lower right. Measures 17" x 15" including frame and 12" x 9" sight. Provenance: Sothebys Andre came to Paris in 1889 as an industrial designer. At the age of 23 he enrolled at the studio of William Bouguereau at the Académie Julian, where he met Ranson, Louis Valtat and the young poet and dramatist Henry Bataille, who at the time was training as a painter. He illustrated L'étang de Berre by Charles Maurras and Les Petites Alliées by Claude Farrère. He produced cartoons for tapestries for the Beauvais factory. In his youth he worked in Paris and Loudun, but later settled in the Midi, where he became curator of the museum in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, building up a major collection of contemporary art, including works by Monet, Renoir, Bonnard, Vuillard, Matisse and Despiau. In 1923, as a friend of Renoir, he compiled his recollections of the painter in a preface to an album of collotypes of his works. He was initially influenced in his painting by Delacroix, and it was Cézanne's paintings that helped him discover how to give the impression of volume using colour: warm tones for illuminated surfaces and cool colours for shadow. But it was undoubtedly Renoir who had the most profound influence on him, especially as it was Renoir who noticed his paintings in 1894 and introduced him to Paul Durand...

Oil on Canvas study of the Arc de Triomphe by; Andre Gisson, (1928-2003) Andre Gisson was born with the name of Anders Gittelson in 1921 in Brooklyn, New York. As a leading American...