"The Revelation, " Oil on Canvas by Victor Urgadumou, 1989

Large oil on canvas by Paul Ackerman, entitled « personnage dans l’arbre » (« character in a tree »). Biography Paul Ackerman, Romania-France (1908-1981) Paul Ackerman is a Romanian painter, lithographer, sculptor and theater designer, living in France since 1912, he belongs to the School of Paris . Paul Ackerman was four years old when, in 1912, his father, a company director and great art lover, decided, out of constraint in the face of « the anti-Semitism which is a harsh reality in Romania », to come and settle in Paris, in a large villa facing the Bois de Vincennes. He did his secondary studies at the Lycée Charlemagne (where he befriended Gabriel Arout, future playwright for whom he would later design the sets), then at the Ecole Alsacienne. From 1925, Ackerman studied law and letters at the Sorbonne, but, frequenting the Louvre Museum assiduously, he knew that his vocation lay elsewhere. In 1933, Paul Ackerman met Simone Laverrière, a native of Royan, whom he married in 1935. In 1936, in his studio at 100, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, he designed projects for posters, fabrics and jewelry for Elsa Schiaparelli and Marcel Rochas while visiting Fernand Leger’s studio. In 1939 Paul Ackerman was mobilized, taken prisoner then released, he found his wife Simone in Vichy where he was expelled as a Jew and left for Saint-Tropez. He then leads a cloistered life in the south of France, made up of small means (painting on...

Large oil on canvas depicting farm animals (sheeps, goat, horse, dog) at the watering trough, against a backdrop of a Roman countryside landscape. Philipp Peter Roos was a German pa...

Series of seven 1970s paintings signed "N. L." on the subject of the cosmos. Mixed media with sand, pebbles, grains and paint on panel. Each is different. Three sizes: largest height...

1950s oil on canvas painting by Jean-Claude Dragomir of the school of Montmartre, representing the "Place Vendôme" in Paris. No frame.

1950s painting signed by Claude Candela in oil on isorel (a material made of compressed wood or cardboard). Not framed.

Seashell, bag holder or centerpiece in gilded bronze and rock crystals. Biography Claude Victor Boeltz, France (1937) Claude-Victor Boeltz, is born in 1937 in Paris. Complete arti...

‘The Myth Of The Submarine,’ is a painting based on the distant memory of the artist, Ben Cockett, spotting a fast moving periscope, presumably from a military submarine, from the be...

An early abstract painting by Leonard Nelson (1912-1993) signed and dated 1957 lower right. Acquired directly from the Nelson estate.

Framed oil on canvas "The Tempest" abstract scene by Dino Savio. Unframed 40" x 30" Dino Savio earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsy...

Exceptional singed oil painting from 1974 on canvas. Titled “The First Sin”, subject is a bathing woman before the apple.  

Sailing out into the open creating misty ripples in the water. This beautifully oil planing on canvas give as the impression that we are in the ocean. Signed and dated by the artist.

Zhai Xinjian (China, b. 1950) "The Model" oil on canvas depicting a female nude model posing seated on a draped stool, within a giltwood frame. Signed in Chinese and dated: 1987-9-20 (lower-right). Listed and illustrated in The Hefner Galleries contemporary oil paintings from The People's Republic of China Brochure of Zhai Xinjian, recent paintings, May 3-28, 1988. (See the images of brochure/pamphlet from Hefner Galleries - The brochure/pamphlet is included with the purchase of this item.) Canvas height: 29 inches (73.7 cm). Canvas width: 22 1/2 inches (57.2 cm). Frame height: 35 1/2 inches (90.2 cm). Frame width: 28 1/2 inches (72.4 cm). The current auction...