Oil Painting by Tore Nyberg, Sweden, 1957

Painting by Swedish artist Tore Nyberg. Gouache on paper made in 1955. Very good condition with few sign of age. Tore Nyberg, 1911-1993, was a Swedish artist. Born in Stockholm ed...

Original drawing, ink on papper "Seston" by Lennart Rodhe. Made in 1961 with monogram signature and dedication "To Chr from your friend Lennart". The "Seston" painting was inspired b...

Swedish modern mirror produced by Fröseke. Made in Sweden during the 1940s. wavey frame made from mahogany. Good vintage condition with age related wear and patina. Designer: Unkno...

Set of four dining chairs designed by John Vedel Rieper. Produced in Denmark by Erhard Rasmussen. First presented at the Copenhagen Cabinetmakers’ Guild exh...

Signed oil painting on canvas by Swedish artist Ragnar Hult (1916-1986).

An early 20th Century Oil on canvas by Gustave Wiegand (1870-1957). The painting depicting assorted vibrant flowers in a yellow vase. Original frame. ...

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

Signed oil painting "Sydländska hus" by Swedish artist Eric Elfwen.