Tuesday, March 31, 2015

Matthew Snowden


In Snowdonia, Acrylic on Canvas


Windy Day, North Beach, Iona
acrylic on canvas 40 x 60 cm

Edwin Dickinson

Edwin Dickinson (American, 1891-1978)

Jetty, Point Lookout, 1953
Oil on canvas, 51.1 x 58.7 cm.

Alfred Zoff

Alfred Zoff (Austrian, 1852-1927)

Strand in Belgien [Beach in Belgium], 1926
Oil on canvas, 18 x 32 cm.

a Russian post-impressionist: Vera Rockline




The Card Players, 1919
Oil on canvas, 64 x 50.2 cm.

The Wrestlers (1919) 
oil on hessian


Landscape
oil on canvas 34.75 x 26.25 cm


 View of Paris Rooftops
oil on canvas 33 x 41 cm


Vera Rockline in 1932, at the age of 36

Véra Rockline (Russian: Вера Николаевна Рохлина, Vera Nikolaïevna Rokhlina; 1896 – 4 April 1934) was a Russian post-impressionist painter.
Rockline was the daughter of a Russian man and a French woman, and started her career in Moscow, studying in the studio of Ilya Mashkov, who considered her one of his most brilliant students. In 1918 she became an apprentice at Aleksandra Ekster's studio in Kiev, Ukraine. Ekster, who personally knew Pablo Picasso and Guillaume Apollinaire had great influence on Rockline's initial style, also inspiring her creative and free painting spirit.

In 1918 and 1919, she exhibited at the 24th Moscow Artists Association Exposition, and in other gallery and association exhibitions. Also in 1918, she married a Mr.Rokhlin, from whom she adopted his name. In 1919 she left Russia, spending two years in Tbilisi and in 1921 she immigrated to France, where she eventually obtained French citizenship. In 1922, they moved to Paris, where there were a large Russian community, of which Rockline became part, living at Rue de Hambourg, nº 12, near Montmartre.

Stuart Davis

Stuart Davis (USA 1892-1964)

Summer Landscape #2 (1940) 
oil on canvas 20.3 by 31.1 cm

Sunday, March 29, 2015

William Samuel Schwartz

William Samuel Schwartz (USA 1896-1977)

Winter Evening (1924) 
oil on panel 40.6 x 30.5 cm

Jacques Villon



Portrait of Magda Pach, 1932-47

Z.Z. Wei






Lynn Pollard



“This piece is made with a special technique I developed. I dip paper into a vat of natural indigo dye and move it in ways to create the image–no paintbrush is used. The paper is dipped multiple times over a number of days to add complexity and to take advantage of the fact that the indigo vat is constantly changing. The paper has a deckled edge, and reflects the fact that it has been wet.”

Oscar Rabin

Oscar Rabin (Russian, born in 1928)

Bouquet of Flowers in Urban Landscape

‘I worked as if possessed, trying to paint slick, syrupy, ‘safe’ things which were easily within the reach of the understanding of the ‘powers that be’. I then destroyed these paintings one by one. I just couldn’t bear to look at them’. 

Soviet material life and its dramatic absurdity was for many years the central theme of Rabin’s creativity.
The artist’s favourite genres included landscape, still-life and interiors, continuing in the tradition of 1920’s European expressionism. Rabin uses a distortion of perspective, the principals of deformation and the destruction of large-scale relationships.

Monday, March 23, 2015

Elie Anatole Pavil

Elie Anatole Pavil (Ukrainian 1873 – 1948)

La loge en teatre (1916) oil on board


Boutiques dans la Médina, Rabat (1935)
oil on board 8.25 x 10.5 in.


The theater

Eleanore Ray


Blue Hallway 2012 
Oil on Panel 5 x 4”

Co Breman

Co Breman (Netherlands 1865-1938)

Dutch Palmzondag, Laren (1914)

Alma Thomas

Alma Thomas (USA 1891-1978)

The Stormy Sea (1958)

Alma Woodsey Thomas (September 22, 1891 – February 24, 1978) was an African-American Expressionist painter and art educator. She lived and worked primarily in Washington, D.C. and the Washington Post described her as a force in the Washington Color School.

Saturday, March 21, 2015

Tadeusz Dominik

Tadeusz Dominik (1928–2014)

Landscape I, 1984

Ron Donoughe


Winter Dusk, 2014

Maria Ender

Maria Ender (Russia 1897-1942)

Flowers in a Vase (c. 1930s) 
watercolour on paper 36 x 27 cm

Ksenia Ender

Ksenia Ender (Russia 1895-1955)

 Les troncs d’arbre rouges Red tree trunks 
Aquarelle sur papier 19 x 26 cm Fin des années 1920


Landscape, Odessa (1923) 
pencil and watercolour on paper 24 x 32.5 cm

Konrad Krzyzanowski

Konrad Krzyzanowski (1872–1922)

Sunset over water (1920)

Jan Ciaglinski

Jan Ciaglinski (1858–1913)

Street in the port on the Gulf. On the journey to Constantinople, 1893


Kruz Porto Maurizio, morning. On the trip to Italy, 1894

Isaac Lazarus Israëls (Dutch, 1865–1934)

Two bathers on the beach, Viareggio


On the Beach with Parasols and Catamaran, Lido (1927)
Oil on canvas, 54 x 37 cm


Viarreggio, Italy, N/D
Oil on canvas, 50.4 x 40.2 cm

Isaac Lazarus Israëls (3 February 1865 – 7 October 1934) was a Dutch painter associated with the Amsterdam Impressionism movement.

Hubert Malfait

Hubert Malfait (Belgian, 1898-1971)

Horse riding in the dunes (Promenade à cheval dans les dunes), 1958

Monday, March 9, 2015

Philip Naviasky

Philip Naviasky (UK 1894-1983)

French Harbour Scene (n.d.) oil on canvas 36.9 x 45.9


Head of a Girl (1927) oil on canvas 51 x 41 cm Leeds Art Gallery. UK

Philip Naviasky (1894[1]-1983) was a Leeds-based artist. Born to Polish-Jewish immigrant parents in 1894, he won a scholarship to the Leeds School of Fine Arts in 1907. 
In 1912, he was the youngest ever student accepted into the Royal Academy school. He went on to win a Royal Exhibition award and to study at the Royal College of Art, after which he spent his career in Leeds as an artist and art teacher at Leeds College of Art.

a Scottish painter: Peter Doig

Peter Doig (Scotland b. 1959)

 Untitled, 1991
oil on board 20 x 30.8 cm


The Painter’s Lake (1999)
oil on canvas 24 x 30.2 cm

Milky Way

Peter Doig (born 17 April 1959 is a Scottish painter. One of the most renowned living figurative painters, he has settled in Trinidad since 2002. In 2007, his painting White Canoe sold at Sotheby's for $11.3 million, then an auction record for a living European artist. In February 2013, his painting, The Architect's Home in the Ravine, sold for $12 million at a London auction.

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin

Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (Russian, 1878-1939)

Neighborhoods Khvalynsk (c. 1909), oil on canvas


Bathing Boys, 1921
Oil on canvas, 42 x 49.5 cm

Kuzma Sergeevich Petrov-Vodkin, Russian: Кузьма Сергеевич Петров-Водкин (1878 – February 15, 1939) was an important Russian and Soviet painter and writer.
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Saturday, March 7, 2015

Guy Maestri


Ball’s pyramid no.7, 2013, oil on Linen

Guy Maestri (born in Mudgee, New South Wales in 1974) is an Australian contemporary artist who won the 2009 Archibald Prize for a portrait of Australian singer and musician Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu.
He completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts in the National Art School in Darlinghurst in 2003 and was a finalist in the 2007 and 2008 Dobell Drawing Prize.
He is currently patronised by the Tim Olsen Gallery in Sydney, which lists the key themes in his work as "ecology, human folly and the violated landscape."

a Belgian neo-impressionist painter: Georges Lemmen


Heyst No.9 The Beach, 1891


La Chemise enlevée

Georges Lemmenv was a Belgian neo-impressionist painter. 
He was a member of Les XX from 1888.