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Period: 20th Century
Item Ships From: Florida
Rene Marcil Cubist Still Life
By René Marcil
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rene Marcil: 1917-1993. Very well listed Canadian artist who has auction records as high as $100,000. This fabulous fresh to the market oil painting is either on a thin board or thic...
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1970s Cubist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Art Deco Begonia and houseplants Still Life interior
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Laura M. GREENWOOD (1897-1951). Still Life with Portrait, ca. 1930's Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 inches. Unsigned. Excellent condition. Would benefit from a cleaning. Original condit...
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1930s Art Deco Florida - Paintings

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Oil

"Girl in the Cottage Garden”, Summer English country landscape, oil on canvas
Located in Naples, Florida
Henry John Yeend King (1855-1924) was a landscape and rustic genre painter. He began his artistic career by working for three years in a glassworks. King went on to study painting under William Bromley in London, and also with Bonnat and Cormon in Paris. He exhibited from 1874 to 1924 at The Royal Academy and The New Watercolour Society. He was elected to the Royal Society of British Artists in 1879, the Royal Institute in 1886, later becoming Vice President. He was also a member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters. In 1898 his picture 'Milking Time' was purchased by the Tate Gallery in London. Yeend King was a fine late-Victorian oil painter...
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20th Century Romantic Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Sailors at Cafe du Globe
By Charles Rocher
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Charles Rocher (1890-1962. Sailors, ca. 1920s. Gouache on paper. Sheet measures 19 x 25 inches. Considerable damage and loss as depicted. Signed lower left.
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1920s Realist Florida - Paintings

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Gouache

Cubist Floral Still Life
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Isabelle Graham Reese (1927-2005). Floral Still Life, ca. 1950s. Oil on canvas measuring 16 x 20 inches; 22 x 26 inches in period frame. Signed lower right. The artist lived and wo...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Abstract Landscape
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mary Kiisel Greenwood (b.1924) Studied: PAFA Exhibited: Gross McCLeaf Gallery, Philadelphia Landscape with Pond, ca. 1950. Oil on canvas measuring 24 x 29 inches. Signed on st...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Florida - Paintings

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Oil

Lone Horse in Abstract Landscape
By Ethel Magafan
Located in Miami, FL
A stylized horse is depicted grazing in an abstract landscape. Most likely, the location is Woodstock, New York, where the artist lived. Signed Lower Right; Framed; Note: titled and signed on verso. Ethel Magafan (August 10, 1916 – April 24, 1993) was an American painter and muralist. Magafan was born in Chicago to Greek parents who had recently immigrated to the U.S. The family soon relocated to Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Magafan's artistic training occurred at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center under the tutelage of Peppino Mangravite, Boardman Robinson and Frank Mechau, who hired Magafan and her twin sister, Jenne, to assist on mural projects. In 1937, aEthel won the commission to paint a mural in the U.S. post office in Auburn, Nebraska, making her the youngest recipient of such a commission. It would be the first of seven government-sponsored commissions for the artist. Murals "Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1814" E. Magafan, 1943 Under President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, several programs were created to employ Americans during the Great Depression. The Magafan twins worked under the New Deal's Section of Painting and Sculpture, a program that hired thousands of artists to paint murals in public spaces, particularly post offices. Ethel and her twin sister, Jenne Magafan, became widely known for their murals painted during the Great Depression. Ethel received her first of seven Government commissions when she was commissioned to produce a painting for the United States post office in Auburn, Nebraska, titled Threshing.Other murals commissioned by the US Government hang in the United States Senate Chamber, the Social Security Building and the Recorder Deeds Building in Washington, D.C., and in post offices in Wynne, Arkansas, titled Cotton Pickers in 1940; in Madill, Oklahoma, titled Prairie Fire in 1941; and Englewood, Colorado, titled The Horse Corral in 1942.Her final mural, entitled Grant in the Wilderness, was installed in 1979 in the Chancellorsville Visitor Center at the Fredericksburg National Memorial Military Park in Virginia, She was a member of the National Academy of Design. Magafan died April 24, 1993, in Woodstock, New York, at the age of 76. References "Collections National Academy Museum". Retrieved 2017-03-08. "Jenne Magafan". Retrieved 2017-03-08. Marlene Park and Gerald E. Markowitz, Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984. "Browse New Deal projects by State and City". Living New Deal. Retrieved 9 January 2015. "Ethel Magafan Passes Away". New York Times. No. Obituary. April 29, 1993. Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book...
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1960s Contemporary Florida - Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Tempera

Mid Century Jewish Expressionist Oil Painting Floral Vibrant Colorful Flowers
By Belle Golinko
Located in Surfside, FL
Gestural impasto painting of flowers in a vase. 23.5" x 17.5" sight size , 22" x 28" framed hand signed lower right. Born in 1899, Belle Golinko is a listed Jewish mid-century New ...
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1950s Expressionist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Angel Watches Over Them Oil On Wood Panel
By Purvis Young
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Angel Watches Over Them 1977 Oil on wood panel artist signed. This is a wonderful, example of early Purvis work, signed user right. Purvis Young (1943-2010) was an American artist fr...
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1970s Expressionist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Large Original Vintage oil Painting on Canvas, Figures, Framed, Signed Colvin
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is a one-on-kind vintage oil painting on canvas depicting two figures. Presented in a nice gold frame The painting is in good vintage condition. Please see the photos. Measur...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Impressionist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled Abstract Expressionist painting
By Eve Peri
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Watercolor on paper, sheet measures 8.25 x 10.5 inches. Unframed. Signed and dated lower right. Estate stamp on verso. EVE PERI (1897-1966) Born in Bangor, Maine, Eve Peri work...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Florida - Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Jewish Wedding Chuppah and Marriage Ring Painting
By Freda Leibovitz Reiter
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Judaica Subject: People Medium: Oil Surface: Board Country: United States Dimensions w/Frame: 25 1/4 x 21 1/4 Freda Leibovitz REITER (1919-1986), born in Philadelphia, PA, was a painter, graphic artist, illustrator, etcher, and lithographer. She studied at the Moore Inst. Des.; PAFA; Barnes Found.; San Carlos Acad., Mexico, D.F. Exhibited: PAFA, 1936, 1938, 1941, 1942, 1954; Graphic Sketch Club, 1938 (prize), 1940 (prize); NAD, 1941, 1944-46, 1957, 1958; CI, 1943; MMA, 1943, 1949; Carlen Gal., 1942 (solo); Phila. Pr. Club, 1944 (solo); Phila. YW-YMHA, 1954. Member: AEA; Nat. Lg. Prof. Women Artists; Phila. Pr. Club Work: LOC.; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Inst.; CI; National Mus. of TV Arts and Sciences; drawings, Phila. Inquirer. Lectures: Mexican Art. Courtroom sketch artist...
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20th Century Modern Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Newfoundland Canadian Loggers
By James Floyd Clymer
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982), ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin. James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist st...
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Early 20th Century Abstract Florida - Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil

Cubist Female Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Nude Woman, 1966. Watercolor on paper, sheet measures 10 x 13.5 inches. Signed, dated and titled lower right. Excellent condition. Born in Newark, New ...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

Portrait of Lady Caroline Price
By George Romney
Located in Miami, FL
DESCRIPTION: Perhaps the best Romney in private hands. If Vogue Magazine existed in the late 18th century, this image of Lady Caroline Price would be ...
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1970s Old Masters Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Art Nouveau Female Nude William Shakespeare - "The Dryad Tree Forest of Arden"
Located in Miami, FL
The Dryads… Ancient beings of old growth forests, with wisdom of ages long forgotten, knowing much of what us busy folk have forgotten. The Forest of Arden is famously featured in S...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Florida - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Savage Garden
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Timothy Berry (b.1948). Savage Garden, 1996. Oil on canvas, 34 x 32 inches. Sigh on verso. Original gallery label affixed on verso. Canvas stretched over...
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1990s Surrealist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Judy Rifka, Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting on Paper Hockey Players
By Judy Rifka
Located in Surfside, FL
Judy Rifka (American, b. 1945) "Ice Hockey" Acrylic or oil paint on Fabriano paper paintings featuring multiple hockey players executed in yellow, white, purple, and black hues. Ha...
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1980s Pop Art Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Rare Hungarian Jewish Rabbi Judaica Oil Painting Portrait
By Lajos Polczer
Located in Surfside, FL
Rare Pre World War II (Pre Holocaust) Judaica Art. European Judaic art from this period is exceedingly rare. Polczer was an Hungarian artist, his foundations of painting were taught by a painter Bertalan Karlovszky. His works were exhibited in the National Salon and the Art Hall from 1928. His works are held by the Hungarian National Gallery. In his later years he worked in the United States, he was working in New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 1960s. Known for his Jewish genre scenes, Chess scenes and other early 20th Century salon style nude paintings. In the tradition of Moritz Oppenheim...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil

CHOCOLATE BUNNY FS IIIA.49
By Andy Warhol
Located in Aventura, FL
Screenprint, on Stonehenge paper, with full margins. Unsigned. Warhol Foundation stamp on verso. Sheet size 30.25 x 22 inches. Image size 22.5 x 18.125 inches. Custom framed as p...
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1980s Pop Art Florida - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Screen

Memory original engraving pianting
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Memory original engraving pianting. "Formed with his father, one of the most eminent Catalan teachers in the study of Art and growing up in a family where art and music were a vita...
Category

1970s Contemporary Florida - Paintings

Materials

Engraving

Spring Scattering Stars, Nude allegory scattering stars from a crescent moon
By Edwin Howland Blashfield
Located in Miami, FL
Spring Scattering Stars is a 1927 Neoclassical painting by American artist Edwin Blashfield. It depicts a nude female allegory of spring on a w...
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1920s Surrealist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil

UNTITLED (PAINTING ON WOOD)
By Purvis Young
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media painting on wood. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be cons...
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Late 20th Century Outsider Art Florida - Paintings

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media

Almazan Realistic Still Life watercolor Painting
By Luis Almazan Miquel
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Almazan Realistic Still Life watercolor Painting MIQUEL was an artist focused on the art of realism. His structured works on his great mastery of drawing, are romantic and translate...
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Late 20th Century Realist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Pastel

Modernist Gestural Abstract Color Field Painting Woman Artist Francine Tint
By Francine Tint
Located in Surfside, FL
Francine Tint (b. 1943) Another Time Thick acrylic impasto on board, 1999, Hand signed 'Francine Tint' titled, dated Inscribed 'To Piri, Enjoy Much Love' on the reverse. 14 x 15 1/...
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1990s Color-Field Florida - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Acrylic Polymer, Wood Panel

Clipper at Sail - Running with the Wind, Marine Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Naples, Florida
Carl Georg Wallin (Sweden 1893-1978) Carl Wallin was born into a sea faring family in a small fishing village on the Southernmost tip of Swe...
Category

20th Century Victorian Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled
By Richard Pousette-Dart
Located in Miami, FL
Acrylic on masonite. This is a pivotal work in deep and radiant cobalt blue from 1950. It dipicts calligraphic and hieroglyph structures over a grid and pyramidal base by the first generation abstract expressionist. Provenance: Skinner: November 13, 1992 [Lot 00219}, The entry in the Skinner catalog indicates that the painting came directly from the artist to the family of the consignor to Skinner. Kaminsky Auctions. There is an unbroken paper trail that traces the ownership of the painting from the current owner, through two auction houses to the artist. Perfect unbroken provenance. Pousette-Dart was among the most inventive of the Abstract Expressionist generation, His uncanny talent was to expand the nature of abstraction and still make each mark each element very much his own; a reflection of what he called   "the concealed power of the spirit," he said, “not of the brute physical form."   His was not aiming for a singular, realized aesthetic formula but to expand the possibilities of painting; the transcendental in painting. Typical of such invention and exploration is this  painting  Untitled 1950 when the artist was only 34 years old and represented by one of the champions of the new American painting, Betty Parsons.  
A banner year for Pousette-Dart, the Museum of Modern Art acquired their first painting by the Minnesota born artist.  He worked on easel size works such as this painting an oil on masonite. At the same time Pousette-Dart was also working on larger scale works such as Path of the Hero, running over ten feet in length now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Both contain fields of color articulated by a highly sophisticated white hieroglyphic vocabulary. Rather than demonstrate an expressionist sensibility, Pousette-Dart harnesses his more cerebral ideas transforming thick areas of paint into a more refined composition of geometric forms akin to the pattern and forms of say a stained glass window. In a way he is looking back at Fugue, 1940 a black and white composition which makes use of a similar format of painting albeit smaller. Color and form are minimal, but what Pousette-Dart has maximized is the rhythmic and syncopated character of painting casting his ideas into purely symbolic terms that one might link to the pictograms of Adolph Gottlieb. Nonetheless, nature is always at the core of Pousette-Dart’s thinking and dreaming. Here he has transformed the local Ramapo Mountains—where he will eventually move with his family to live and work— into a complex series of articulated fragments linked by style, scale and color.  The painting’s imagery built on two large triangles and reduced to just two colors, cobalt blue and white all outlined in black.  Pousette-Dart symbols stacked in horizontal and vertical rows:  blue is ground, white is language, symbolic of light, consciousness and awareness . The painting maintains a mystical character images compounded that formulate a secret code and linked to the series of white paintings Pousette-Dart authored in the first half of the 1950s. Get up close to the picture and you discover images within images a kind of picture puzzle...
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Acrylic

Old Time Football in the 1920s - Football 1920s - Classic Football
By Walt Louderback
Located in Miami, FL
You Got to be a Football Hero to Get Along with a Beautiful Girl. Masterfully composed and dynamic illustration that show a player getting punched in the jaw. During this period, there were no face...
Category

1920s Academic Florida - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Italian Modernist Surrealist Woman Color Oil Painting Lazzaro Donati La Signora
By Lazzaro Donati
Located in Surfside, FL
Lazzaro Donati (Italian, 1926-1977) Oil on board. Colorful woman. La Signora, Vestita Di Giallo, 1969 Hand signed upper right. signed, titled on back of panel. Dimensions: (Frame) H 38" x W 30", (Panel) H 28" x W 20" Lazzaro Donati was born in Florence and attended the Academy of Fine Arts. He began to paint in 1953, and in 1955 held his first exhibition at the Indiano Gallery in Florence. Within three years eleven exhibitions followed in Italy, and as his reputation grew he was invited to give major exhibitions in London, Paris, New York, Chicago, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo. He is considered one of the foremost contemporary Italian painters and his paintings hang in museums and private collections throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. His work is recalling the works of the french Raoul Dufy, Dunoyer de Segonzac, Francois Gall and Jean Jansem. This particular work is reminiscent of the work of Manolo Valdes. Donati lived and worked at 24 Piazza Donatello in Florence, the square where generations of artists have created works worthy of the great Florentine tradition. As you entered the narrow hallway to his studio, a gilded life-size Venetian angel beckoned you to his door. Once inside, the present faded away and you found yourself in an atelier where early masters might have worked during the Renaissance. Within, luxurious Persian rugs set off the innumerable objects d’art and antique furnishings...
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1960s Surrealist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Boston Harbor"
By Brian Coole
Located in Jacksonville, FL
A finely rendered oil by the nautical artist Brian Coole. The scene shows various vessels entering and leaving the Boston harbor with an iconic display of an American flag, including...
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Mid-20th Century Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Modernist Oil Painting Bucolic Valley Woods Landscape Ralph Della Volpe
Located in Surfside, FL
RALPH DELLA-VOLPE (1923-2017) Fine Art Painter, American Contemporary The Valley Oil on canvas Hand signed lower left and again to stretcher and verso 16 x 20 inches. frame dimensions: 22 1/4 x 26 inches, wood frame Provenance: The Estate of the artist Ralph Della Volpe TRAINING: National Academy of Design The Art Students League, NYC Ralph Eugene Della-Volpe's semi-abstract paintings of often simplified, minimalist, beach scenes and anonymous portraits "convey profound awareness of mood and character", and his paintings are hardly as literal as they may first appear (Arts Magazine. "New York Exhibitions". 1965). His brightly-colored, light-infused, ornamental compositions bring together aspects of many modernist art movements including Fauvism, Impressionism, Symbolism, and abstraction. Della-Volpe first studied painting at the prestigious National Academy of Design before joining the Army during World War II. As a soldier, the artist saw action on Utah Beach, winning a Purple Heart, and his experiences undoubtedly affected his later artistic style. The Fauvist "coloristic exuberance" found in the works beginning in the mid 1960's, with their vibrant fuschias and yellows, seem to offset what could be an otherwise solemn tone to many of his works at the time. Upon his return from military service, Della-Volpe’s style evolved significantly. In the years following the second world war, his work was solemn, imbued with a quiet darkness. Over time, this darkness faded: by the 1950s, influenced by his time at the Art Students League, his oeuvre was overtaken by the tenants of Abstract Expressionism. Paintings from this period boast bold brushwork, energetic compositions, and strong color. Although the next decade saw Della-Volpe trade expressionist abstraction for figuration, his love of color continued to shine through his work.Della-Volpe took a teaching position as the first artist-in-residence at Bennett College in Millbrook, New York where he remained for 28 years, serving as chairman of the Art Department for most of that time. Obviously influenced by impressionism 's preoccupation with the treatment of light, Della-Volpe's own works have a "faultless tonal quality, with its sense of failing light—the areas of silvery gray deepening into rosy tans" (Arts Magazine. "In the Galleries". 1960). Della-Volpe has exhibited widely throughout his career and has lectured on art at colleges, universities, and galleries across the country. SOLO SHOWS: Hotchkiss Library, Sharon, Conn Millbrook Library, Millbrook,NY Gregory James Gallery...
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20th Century Fauvist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ram Kumar Painting
By Ram Kumar
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Ram Kumar (Indian, 1924-2018) Marking(s); notes: signed; 1961 Materials: oil on canvas Dimensions (H, W, D): 35"h, 27"w image; 45"h, 37"w canvas (work ...
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1960s Florida - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

F.N. Souza Abstract Painting, Town Scene, 49"W
By F.N. Souza
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Artist/Designer; Manufacturer: Francis Newton Souza (Indian, 1924-2002) Marking(s); notes: signed; 1975 Materials: acrylic on canvas Dimensions (H, W, D): 30"h, 49.75"w image; 35.5"h...
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1970s Expressionist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Highland Lighthouse, Truro MA
By Sandor Bernath
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Sandor Bernath (1892-1984). Highland Lighthouse at Dusk, Truro MA. Watercolor on heavy wove paper, 17 x 17 inches; 18 x 18 inches framed. Excellent condition with no fading. Signed lower right. Silver leaf custom frame. Sandor Bernath was known for his stylized watercolors of sailing ships. He was a student of Edward Hopper. Born in Hungary on December 30, 1892, Bernath immigrated in his youth to the United States, and by the early 1920s had begun to establish himself within New York art circles. In January of 1922, he was given a one-man show at Mrs. Malcolm's Gallery on East 64th Street. Although little is known about Bernath's education and early training, this exhibition of nineteen watercolors included works, which suggest that by 1922, the artist had traveled and studied abroad. "Coast of Normandy" and "Shrine, Czechoslovakia" are two works the subjects of which certainly resulted from time spent in Europe. Other paintings exhibited in the 1922 show, such as "Brooklyn Bridge", "Weehawken Freight Yards" and "East River" reveal that on the whole, Bernath's earliest subjects remained those found in New York. After his show at Mrs. Malcolm's Gallery, Bernath became a member of the American Watercolor Society and later that year, showed six works at their annual exhibition. Unlike the works exhibited on East 63rd Street, the watercolors featured at the AWS show, such as "Grand Manan Coast" and "Fishing Boats", reflected a growing attraction to the subjects offered within the Maine landscape, an attraction which truly took hold in the summer of 1922. Like many of his peers, Bernath worked as a teacher and illustrator to support himself. In order to escape the tedium of these dreaded day-jobs, many retreated to the villages of Maine and Massachusetts where artists' communities such as those at Monhegan Island, Gloucester and Ogunquit had sprung from the modern artist's desire to study natural forms. By 1923, Bernath's fascination with these forms becomes apparent with the complete shift in focus of his subject matter from the sights and scenes of his urban surroundings to the land and seascapes of New...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Harbour Scene II
By Fernand Herbo
Located in Naples, Florida
Harbour Scene II
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20th Century Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil

MEYER KUPFERMAN (1926-2003) ABSTRACT PORTRAIT OIL PAINTING ON CANVAS 1975
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is a unique original abstract oil painting on canvas by Meyer Kupferman(1926-2003) depicting a portrait of a young boy. Good condition. Unframed. Measures 30" x 40". Signed and dated 1974 in the lower right corner. Please see the photos. Meyer Kupferman(1926-2003): Was a versatile and eclectic composer who incorporated diverse elements in his works, from aleatoric music and jazz to Impressionism, from serial music and atonality to Romanticism. He wrote works in most genres, including opera, ballet, symphonies, concertos, film scores, chamber, vocal, and choral music. Kupferman was born in New York City on July 3, 1926. He exhibited talent as a child, first showing interest in the violin but then taking up the clarinet at age 10. He soon taught himself piano, as well, and then later studied music at New York's High School of Music and Art. Though he pursued music studies at Queens College, he learned composition on his own. Around the mid-'40s Kupferman served as an arranger for several jazz bands. His first opera, In a Garden (1948), drew considerable attention at its first performances at the Tanglewood Festival and later at the Edinburgh Festival. In 1951 he joined the faculty at Sarah Lawrence College, teaching composition and chamber music. He eventually became chairman of the music department...
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20th Century Impressionist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Gestural Abstraction, Miniature Abstract Expressionist Korean Modernist Painting
By Don Ahn
Located in Surfside, FL
*Card pictured after painting not included. Dongkuk Ahn (1937-2013), better known as Don Ahn, was a South Korean artist and t'ai chi master who resided in New York City. Don Ahn (Ahn Dong Kuk) was born in Seoul, Korea. He studied at Seoul University (BFA), graduate student at Miami University, Oxford Ohio 1962...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Acrylic

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...
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20th Century Contemporary Florida - Paintings

Materials

Monotype

Jose antonio, Martes 7 de julio, Figurative painting
By Celso José Castro Daza
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Jose antonio, Martes 7 de julio 2016, by Celso Castro Crayon Pastel on archival paper Image size: 60 H in. x 38 in. W Unframed On The back of the painting: Abstract, 1986 Pencil a...
Category

1990s Contemporary Florida - Paintings

Materials

Crayon, Pastel, Archival Paper

Le Jardin de Lagny - Garden with young girl Post-impressionist
By Henri Lebasque
Located in Miami, FL
Le Jardin de Lagny Provenance: Arthur Tooth, London Radon Gallery, NY This beautiful evocation of a lyrical French landscape is a fine example of of Po...
Category

Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lois Mailou Jones Still Life
Located in San Francisco, CA
Lois Mailou Jones: 1905-1998. Well listed African American painter and one of the most important African-American female artists of the 20th c...
Category

1930s Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Portrait of Man in Trench Coat
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). Portrait of Man in Trench Coat, 1950. Ink on paper, measuring 8 x 12 inches. Signed, dated and titled lower right. Unframe...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Realist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink

Provincetown (Cape Cod landscape)
By James Floyd Clymer
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). At the Weir Trap, ca. 1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 15 x 20 inches. Signed lower margi...
Category

Early 20th Century Abstract Florida - Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil

Large American Modernist Watercolor Painting Leeks Bernard Chaet Expressionist
By Bernard Chaet
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed and dated leeks on a kitchen table 31.5 X 39.5 framed. 21 X 28.5 sheet without frame. Bernard Chaet (born 1924, Boston, MA - 2012) was an American artist; Chaet is known for his colorful, dynamic modernist paintings and masterful draftsmanship, his association with the Boston Expressionists, and his 40-year career as a Professor of Painting at Yale University. His works also include watercolors and prints. In 1994, he was named a National Academician by the National Academy of Design. Chaet was instrumental in transforming Yale’s traditional art program into one with a more modernist approach that gained national prominence. Chaet melded landscape and abstraction in a traditional established by Vincent Van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Edvard Munch, Piet Mondrian, and Ferdinand Hodler. His own tenure began in 1951 at Yale, where he worked closely with Josef Albers to revamp Yale’s art program. Between 1959 and 1962 he was the chair of what was then called the Yale Department of Art of the School of Fine Arts — prior to becoming one of the independent professional schools at Yale in 1973. Chaet taught painting and drawing and mentored generations of emerging talents. Chaet was the author of the 1970 textbook “The Art of Drawing” and “An Artist’s Notebook 1979,” both of which have since been reissued several times. In the latter book, alongside examples of work by his favorite artists, are student drawings by Yale graduates such as Robert Birmelin, Michael Mazur and Eugene Baguskas. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1924, Chaet studied at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and then earned a B.A. at Tufts University. Known for his expressionist landscapes and still lifes, Chaet’s work has continuously been shown in galleries in his native Boston, in New York City, and around the country. In 2010, a retrospective of his seascapes was featured at the Cape Ann Historical Society in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where he had a home and a summer studio in nearby Rockport. His has also exhibited at David Findlay Gallery in New York and at Swarthmore College. Many of Chaet’s students went on to notable art careers, including Janet Fish, Chuck Close, and Richard Serra. His work is represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum in Lincoln, Massachusetts, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, CT, and the Addison Gallery of American Art in Andover, MA. Chaet is the recipient of many awards including: the National Foundation of the Arts and Humanities, Sabbatical Grant in 1967-68, the National Academy of Fine Arts, Benjamin Altman Award in Painting in 1997, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters Jimmy Ernst Prize in 2001. Chaet was born and raised in the Dorchester neighborhood of Boston, MA. He completed a dual program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston—studying painting with Karl Zerbe—and Tufts University, graduating with a B.S. in 1949. Chaet is known for his association as a first generation Boston Expressionist. (along with Hyman Bloom and Jack Levine) Chaet was a contributing editor to Arts Magazine. In 1960 he published the book Artists At Work, which features in depths conversations with artists Pat Adams, Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Al Blaustein, Hyman Bloom, James Brooks, Robert Engman...
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1970s American Modern Florida - Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Affection Mixed Media
By Jürgen Görg
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Affection 1989 Artist signed lower right Oil, graphite on linen canvas 38x30, framed 52x44 inches. Jurgen Gorg was born in 1951 in​, Dernbach Germany. His formative years were spen...
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1980s Expressionist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil, Graphite

“Paris”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of a Parisian street scene done in post impressionist style by the Portuguese artist, Hilario Roberto. Street scene complete with iconic Parisian flo...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Synagogue Interior Jerusalem French Judaica Oil Painting Israeli Bezalel School
By Jacques Zucker
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Post Impressionist Subject: Landscape Medium: Oil Surface: Canvas Country: France Dimensions: 24" x 20" Jacques Zucker was born in 1900 in Radom, Poland. He was a notably famous Jewish American artist mostly known for his expressionist figure paintings. In his young years he traveled to Palestine to study fine arts at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem. In 1917 he joined the British Royal Fuesiliers under the leadership of General Allenby to liberate Palestine from the Turks. After the first World War he settled in Paris, where he continued his studies at Académie Julian and Academie Colarossi. He then emigrated to the United States in 1922 and continued his art studies at the National Academy of Design. He supported himself by designing jewelry. In 1925 he returned to Paris and studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumier et Colarossi. During the Depression he worked for the WPA. From 1928 he took part in the Paris Salons: Autumn and the Tuileries. His works are expressionistic variations in the type of the Ecole de Paris. As a protégé of both Chaim Soutine and Renoir, hints of their style can be observed in much of his own work. Zucker’s style, that may have been influenced from the art of artists such as Marc Chagall, took pride in being an “internationalist”, standing the art of painting in its highest expression is universal no matter where the canvas was created. People who respond to quality in art will understand the beauty and meaning, in their own land or in a foreign land, this was his main idea behind his artworks that was exhibited in numerous solo show in leading galleries and museums in New York, Paris, Tel Aviv, and other art centers. Claude Roger-Marx of Figaro Litteraire, dean of French art critics, write a comprehensive study of Zucker’s illustrated with 135 color and black and white plates. He traveled widely, including Italy, Spain, Portugal, Mexico and Israel. From then on Zucker lived alternately in New York and Paris, maintaining homes in both places, and spent considerable time painting in Mexico, Portugal, Greece, and Israel. Zucker's post-impressionist works including town and landscapes, still-lives, and portraits, are part of an array of permanent installments in numerous museums and private collections in Tel Aviv, including the Joseph Hirschorn collection in Washington, D. C., the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, and the Bezalel Art Museum in Jerusalem. In 1947 he settled in Arcueil near Paris. Zucker died in 1981 in New York. The School of Paris, Ecole de Paris, was not a single art movement or institution, but refers to the importance of Paris as a center of Western art in the early decades of the 20th century. Between 1900 and 1940 the city drew artists from all over the world and became a centre for artistic activity. School of Paris was used to describe this loose community, particularly of non-French artists, centered in the cafes, salons and shared workspaces and galleries of Montparnasse. Before World War I, a group of expatriates in Paris created art in the styles of Post-Impressionism, Cubism and Fauvism. The group included artists like Pablo Picasso, Marc Chagall, Amedeo Modigliani and Piet Mondrian. Associated French artists included Pierre Bonnard, Henri Matisse, Jean Metzinger and Albert Gleizes. The term "School of Paris" was used in 1925 by André Warnod to refer to the many foreign-born artists who had migrated to Paris. The term soon gained currency, often as a derogatory label by critics who saw the foreign artists—many of whom were Jewish—as a threat to the purity of French art. Art critic Louis Vauxcelles, noted for coining the terms "Fauvism" and "Cubism", Waldemar George, himself a French Jew, in 1931 lamented that the School of Paris name "allows any artist to pretend he is French. it refers to French tradition but instead annihilates it. The artists working in Paris between World War I and World War II experimented with various styles including Cubism, Orphism, Surrealism and Dada. Foreign and French artists working in Paris included Jean Arp, Joan Miro, Constantin Brancusi, Raoul Dufy, Tsuguharu Foujita, artists from Belarus like Michel Kikoine, Pinchus Kremegne, and Jacques Lipchitz, the Polish artist Marek Szwarc and others such as Russian-born prince Alexis Arapoff. A significant subset, the Jewish artists, came to be known as the Jewish School of Paris or the School of Montparnasse. The core members were almost all Jews, and the resentment expressed toward them by French critics in the 1930s was unquestionably fueled by anti-Semitism. Jewish members of the group included Emmanuel Mané-Katz, Chaim Soutine, Adolphe Féder, Chagall, Moïse Kisling, Maxa...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

UMBRELLA MAN
By Peter Max
Located in Aventura, FL
Original mixed media drawing with watercolor on paper. Hand signed by Peter Max. Frame size approx 17 x 21 inches. Artwork size 11 x 15 inches. Artwork is in excellent condition....
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Late 20th Century Pop Art Florida - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Watercolor

Large French Figurative Expressionist Oil Painting Seated Figure Claude Weisbuch
By Claude Weisbuch
Located in Surfside, FL
WEISBUCH, Claude. Oil on Canvas Framed size: 39” H x 28” W Canvas, without frame: 32” high x 21 ¼” wide. Carved wooden frame with antique gold-leaf finish Claude Weisbuch, 1927-2014 French painter, draftsman and engraver. He studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts (School of Fine Arts) in Nancy and upon graduation became a professor of engraving at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de of St. Etienne. His first solo exhibition was in 1957. In 1968 , he became a full member of the Society of French Painters-Engravers . In 1997 he was awarded the Legion of Honor His work is essentially devoted to engraving, by which he likes to translate, thanks to the line, the life, movement and character of his characters: Punchinels, harlequins, musicians or equestrian scenes. He practices various techniques ( lithography, drypoint etching etc.) that he puts to use in the illustration of bibliophile books. Claude Weisbuch is also a painter and draftsman. His favorite colors are ochres, browns and whites, with which he seeks to introduce the effects of light by compositions where the line and finesse of the drawing preserve the life found in his engravings. His precise and dynamic line delivers a moving and swirling work on themes he loves: theater, opera, equestrian, musicians, card players, Kabuki dancers and many portraits. His works have the appearance of unfinished sketches mixing few colors but a great vivacity of the line. He illustrated many limited edition signed fine art books. Alon with Christo, Arman and Cesar he is considered among the great post war French artists of the last generation. Exhibitions 1957: Saint Placide Gallery, paintings and engravings 1958: Galerie de Presbourg, Paris, paintings - Saint Placide Gallery, Paris, paintings - Galerie des Arts, Nancy, etchings 1960: Galerie Hervé, "Extraordinary Pantomimes", Paris, paintings 1961: Salon of the young painting and painters witnesses of their time 1962: O'Hanna Gallery, London , paintings 1963: Galerie Hervé, "Portrait Of Man", Paris, Paintings - Nichido Gallery, Tokyo, Paintings 1965: Hervé Gallery, "100 Drawings", Paris Dresdener Gallery, Toronto, paintings 1966: Dantesca Gallery, Turin , paintings, engravings, drawings 1968: New Vision Gallery, Paris, engravings 1969: Galerie Hervé, Paris, paintings - Galerie Reflets, Brussels , prints, paintings - Galerie Dresder, Montreal , paintings 1970: Taménaga Gallery, Tokyo, paintings - Sagot Gallery - The Garrec, Paris, etchings - Museum of Modern Art of the City of Paris ARC, Paris, prints 5 1971: War Gallery, Avignon , etchings Biennial of Engraving, Epinal 1972: Dantesca Gallery, Turin Festival, Sarlat , paintings 1973: Wayss Gallery, Nancy , paintings, engravings, drawings Auguste Comte Gallery, Lyon , paintings, engravings, drawings Taménaga Gallery, Tokyo, paintings - New Vision Gallery, "Homage to Rembrandt", Paris, etchings 1974: Esthetika Gallery, Kortrijk, engravings - Galerie Hervé Odermatt, Paris, paintings Ésthetika Gallery, Kurne, prints - Galerie Wayss, Nancy, engravings, drawings, pastels Dietesheim Gallery, Neuchâtel , engravings - Grafikhuset Gallery, Stockholm , prints, drawings 1975: Schwarzer Gallery, Vienna , engravings, paintings, drawings Fogola Gallery, Turin, drawings, pastels Sotheby-Parke Benett, Munich, engravings, drawings Hervé Odermatt Gallery, Paris, drawings Joly Gallery, Washington , engraving 1976: Taménaga Gallery, Tokyo, paintings - Wayss Gallery, Nancy, engravings, drawings - Tabula Gallery, Tübingen, engravings, drawings - New Vision Gallery, "The horse-The painter and his model", Paris, drawings, engravings 1977: Grafikhuset, Futura, Stockholm - Jivô Gallery, Vänersborg Pigalle Gallery, Norrköping Celsius Gallery, Uppsala Möbius Gallery, Gothenburg - New Vision Gallery, Jerusalem - Cultural Center of Sainte-Menehould Castle, retrospective, engravings 1978: David Barnett Gallery, Milwaukee , engravings, drawings Orangery Gallery, Cologne , engravings, drawings, pastels Grafikhuset Futura, Stockholm, paintings, drawings Les Cordeliers, Châteauroux, engravings, drawings, paintings House of Culture, Montbéliard, engravings House of Culture, Chelles , engravings, paintings, drawings 1979: L'Empreinte Gallery, Strasbourg, prints, drawings - Galerie Reflets, Brussels, prints, drawings - Galerie Bon à tirer, Los Angeles , prints, pastels 1980: Hervé Odermatt Gallery, Paris, "Calligraphy of the figure", paintings - E. Gollon Gallery, Saint-Paul-de-Vence 1981: European Biennale of Engraving, Baden-Bade Galerie The Art Shop, Nice Galerie Hélène Trintignant, Montpellier Martine Remy Gallery, Strasbourg 1982: Vallen Gallery, Stockholm - Sagot Gallery - The Garrec, Paris - Taménaga Gallery, Tokyo, paintings - New Vision Gallery, Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, etchings 1983: Hélène Trintignant Gallery, Montpellier 1984: Perrine Museum, Laval , etchings - Music Festival, Quimper , etchings Etchings, Moscow - Presence Gallery, Brussels, paintings, etchings 1985: Galerie Moyon-Avenard, Nantes, paintings - Taménaga Gallery, Paris, paintings - New Otani Hotel, Ōsaka, realization of murals 1986: Taménaga Gallery, Tokyo, paintings - Greenhouse of the School of Fine Arts, Saint-Étienne , paintings, engravings 1988: Retrospective paintings, Château de Chenonceau Retrospective engravings, Artothèque Museum Montpellier Taménaga Gallery, Paris, drawings, pastels New Vision Gallery, Tokyo, engravings 1989: Galerie Taménaga, Paris, paintings Exit of the book Weisbuch , texts of Jean-Denis Bredin of the French Academy, preface by Jean-Marie Tasset. 1990: Taménaga Gallery, Paris, paintings 1992: Retrospective, Sarlat - Taménaga Gallery, Paris, drawings 1993: Taménaga Gallery, Tokyo and Osaka 1994: Paintings for the second international meetings of the cello ensemble, Beauvais - Elegance Gallery, Taipei - Sanbi Gallery, Tokyo, graphic works - Mitsukoshi, Tōkyō 1995: Taménaga Gallery, Ōsaka - Exhibition of the Gobelins Municipal Circle, Paris 13 th 1996: 2nd Music Trades Fair, Premonstratensian Abbey , Pont-à-Mousson , paintings - Ginza Spring, Tokyo, paintings - New Otani Museum, Tokyo, paintings 1997: Galerie Raugraff, Nancy, paintings, pastels, drawings, engravings, lithographs - Theater Gallery, Besançon, paintings, drawings, engravings, lithographs 1999: A retrospective "Weisbuch, 50 years of prints", 230 works exhibited in Strasbourg under the direction of its publisher, L'Estampe Éditions 3 - Taménaga Gallery, Paris, Tōkyō 2000: Retrospective Château de Vascœuil , by L'Estampe - Theater Gallery, Besançon , paintings, drawings, engravings, pastels, lithographs - Retrospective Chamber of Commerce, Strasbourg - engravings (retrospective), Jacques Brel cultural center, Thionville - engravings (retrospective ), chamber of commerce, Nancy 2001: Retrospective Orangerie of Madame Élisabeth, Versailles , paintings 2002: Taménaga Gallery "Movements", Paris 2003: L'Estampe Gallery, in partnership with the Theater Gallery - prints and paintings, Besançon 2004: Taménaga Gallery "Prometheus presenting the secret of fire to humans", Paris Crid'Art Gallery, L'Estampe Gallery, Amnéville-les-Thermes , paintings, prints, drawings, prints - Galerie des Arts, Nîmes , paintings 2010: Galerie125, Argancy , recent works, exhibition of 100 recent works by the artist. 2012: Exhibition at the Château de Malbrouck . More than 150 works by the artist. Organized by the General Council of Moselle and L'Estampe (editor Claude Weisbuch). 2012: Print, Strasbourg, paintings, engravings, drawings 2012: Exhibition at the House of wines of Graves de Podensac in Gironde. 150 works by the artist Event organized by Course N ° 3. 2013: Galerie125, Argancy, "Weisbuch, major works", exhibition of drawings, engravings, lithographs and oils on canvas 2014: Galerie125, Argancy, "Weisbuch, from 1947 to 1960", exhibition of 100 ancient engravings...
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20th Century Modern Florida - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hatsoeg-5
By Victor Vasarely
Located in Miami, FL
Exhibition: Sotheby's, Milan :’’Contemporary Curated” . Dec.17 2020, Lot # 39. Provenance: Galleria Pater, Milan. Galleria Annunciata, Milan. Private Collection, Milan C.O.A by Pierre Vasarely, Vasarely Foundation. Victor Vasarely was a French-Hungarian artist credited as the grandfather and leader of the Op Art movement. Utilizing geometric shapes and colorful graphics, the artist created compelling illusions of spatial depth, as seen in his work Vega-Nor (1969). Vasarely’s method of painting borrowed from a range of influences, including Bauhaus design principles, Wassily Kandinsky, and Constructivism. Born Győző Vásárhelyi on April 9, 1906 in Pécs, Hungary, he briefly studied medicine, but after two years he dedicated himself to learn academic painting. In the late 1920s, Vasarely enrolled at the Muhely Academy in Budapest, where the syllabus was largely based on Walter Gropius’s Bauhaus school in Germany. After settling in Paris in 1930, Vasarely worked in advertising agencies to support himself as a graphic artist while creating many works including Zebra (1937), which is considered by some to be one of the earliest examples of Op Art. The artist experimented in a style based in Surrealism and Abstract Expressionism during the 1940s, before arriving at his hallmark checkerboard paintings...
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20th Century Florida - Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

Judy Rifka, Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting MIxed Media 3D Construction
By Judy Rifka
Located in Surfside, FL
Hand signed verso, mixed media on two sections of joined canvas Work is titled "Ego Wall with Mess," circa 1983. Provenance: Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, New York. bearing their label verso. 24 x 30 x 3-3/4 inches (61.0 x 76.2 x 9.5 cm) Hand signed on the reverse: Judy Rifka Judy Rifka (born 1945) is an American woman artist active since the 1970s as a painter and video artist. She works heavily in New York City's Tribeca and Lower East Side and has associated with movements coming out of the area in the 1970s and 1980s such as Colab and the East Village, Manhattan art scene. A video artist, book artist and abstract painter, Rifka is a multi-faceted artist who has worked in a variety of media in addition to her painting and printmaking. She was born in 1945 in New York City and studied art at Hunter College, the New York Studio School and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. Rifka took part in the 1980 Times Square Show, (Organized by Collaborative Projects, Inc. in 1980 at what was once a massage parlor, with now-famous participants such as Jenny Holzer, Nan Goldin, Keith Haring, Kenny Scharf, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Kiki Smith, the roster of the exhibition reads like a who’s who of the art world), two Whitney Museum Biennials (1975, 1983), Documenta 7, Just Another Asshole (1981), curated by Carlo McCormick and received the cover of Art in America in 1984 for her series, "Architecture," which employed the three-dimensional stretchers that she adopted in exhibitions dating to 1982; in a 1985 review in the New York Times, Vivien Raynor noted Rifka's shift to large paintings of the female nude, which also employed the three-dimensional stretchers. In a 1985 episode of Miami Vice, Bianca Jagger played a character attacked in front of Rifka's three-dimensional nude still-life, "Bacchanaal", which was on display at the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale. Rene Ricard wrote about Rifka in his influential December 1987 Art Forum article about the iconic identity of artists from Van Gogh to Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring, The Radiant Child.The untitled acrylic painting on plywood, in the collection of the Honolulu Museum of Art, demonstrates the artist's use of plywood as a substrate for painting. Artist and writer Mark Bloch called her work "imaginative surfaces that support experimental laboratories for interferences in sensuous pigment." According to artist and curator Greg de la Haba, Judy Rifka's irregular polygons on plywood "are among the most important paintings of the decade". In 2013, Rifka's daily posts on Facebook garnered a large social media audience for her imaginative "selfies," erudite friendly comments, and widely attended solo and group exhibitions, Judy Rifka's pop art figuration is noted for its nervous line and frenetic pace. In the January 1998 issue of Art in America, Vincent Carducci echoed Masheck, “Rifka reworks the neo-classical and the pop, setting all sources in quotation for today’s art-world cognoscenti.” Rifka, along with artists like David Wojnarowicz, helped to take Pop sensibility into a milieu that incorporated politics and high art into Postmodernism; Robert Pincus-Witten stated in his 1988 essay, Corinthian Crackerjacks & Passing Go that "Rifka’s commitment to process and discovery, doctrine with Abstract Expressionist practice, is of paramount concern though there is nothing dogmatic or pious about Rifka’s use of method. Playful rapidity and delight in discovery is everywhere evident in her painting." In 2016, a large retrospective of Rifka's art was shown at the Jean-Paul Najar Foundation in Dubai. In 2017, Gregory de la Haba presented a Rifka retrospective at the Amstel Gallery...
Category

1980s Pop Art Florida - Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Florida Oil Painting African American Woman Art Annie Nobles Miller Indian River
Located in Surfside, FL
"Annie Nobles Miller" Abstract Florida landscape oil on board painting Hand signed lower left Inscribed on verso St. Lucie County. Measures: Board 24"H x 30"W; Framed - 32"H x 38"W. Annie Miller was a member of the Indian River School of Painting, which was not a formal school but was a group of mostly African-American Florida working class people who wanted to paint. Following is the explanation of that school and its participants. Indian River School is a name applied to Floridian artists in the 1950's and 1960's. They were heavily influenced by nature. Most of the artists in this movement were African American. Their work is characterized by quick strokes and eschews traditional methods of paintings. The main influence for the group was a man named A.E. Backus, a Bohemian white man who mentored the group of young black artists. The group used to congregate in his studio and learnt to paint from 'Beanie' (as he was called) as a way out of their lower class labour jobs. Their work was powerful, dramatic yet captured the serenity and beauty of the Florida Although the exact count of artists mentored by A.E. Backus remains unknown, experts estimate it to be around 20 individuals, many of whom he supported through college. Albert Ernest "Beanie" Backus (1906–1990) was famous for his vivid, naturalist Florida landscapes capturing a fast-vanishing Florida wild lands. Backus would come to be seen as the seminal Florida landscape painter, and others who followed would emulate him. Primarily of the Indian River and Everglades areas of Florida. Backus was a Native Floridian artist of great importance recreating scenes of Florida's sky, rivers, ocean, back country, unpredictable weather, clouds, and birds. Born in Fort Pierce, FL to a family of talented boat designers and builders. His "Uncle" Reg Goodwin helped Backus as a young painter go to the Parsons School of Fine Art in New York in 1924. He was referred to as “Florida’s painter laureate,” and the “Dean of Florida’s landscape painters.”In addition to his influence on the Florida Highwaymen painters (Alfred Hair...
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1960s Abstract Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Abstract Cityscape 1960 Oil Painting Signed Chait Expressionist NYC City Scene
Located in Surfside, FL
This is a bold, abstracted city scene. It appears to be New York City, It could be any large metropolis with skyscrapers and a bustle to it. It is signed S. Chait and signed with ini...
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1960s Abstract Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Social Realist Street Scene Modernist Landscape Oil Painting
By Paul Zimmerman
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil Painting Mid 20th century, signed P. Zimmerman Reminiscent of the Mid Century Social Realist and WPA works of Ben Shahn this captures an architectural street scape...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Florida - Paintings

Materials

Oil

Portrait of Don Nieves
By Pablo O'Higgins
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Pablo O’Higgins (1904-1983). Portrait of Don Nieves, 1960. Watercolor on paper, 18 x 24.5 inches; 19 x 25.5 inches in original frame. Signed lower righ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Florida - Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Untitled
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Jean Sanglar was born in France in 1926. He draws with taste and talent from an early age, however, his family will only consider this a mere hobby. After studying law, he later took...
Category

Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Florida - Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Untitled: Street Art - Graffiti Art Before Basquiat - African American
Located in Miami, FL
Sometimes, the most celebrated artists are not the most original. Such is the case with Jean-Michel Basquiat, known for bringing into mainstream abstract yet representational street ...
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1970s Street Art Florida - Paintings

Materials

Metal

Flowers 1978, Op Art Floral Oil Tempera on Board Roses Pop Art Large Painting
By Lowell Nesbitt
Located in Surfside, FL
Lowell Nesbitt (American, 1933-1993) Flower, 1978 tempera on board 60 1/2 x 40 1/2 inches. Provenance: Sold: Christie's East, May 18, 1999, Lot 224 Blair Nesbitt is an American p...
Category

1970s Pop Art Florida - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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