CONTEMPORARY

Inscribed, signed with initials, and dated on verso “WG, 29”  Intended as Illustration for French Production of Claude Debussy’s “Afternoon of  a Faun”, Paris, 1929. 22 3/4″ x 17″ in Contemporary Frame. $650

Oil on canvas. Signed and titled on verso “Heart of the Forest,Philip Hugh Padwick” 1876-1958. A member of the Royal British Academy, Padwick’s paintings are currently being exhibited in 33 venues across the United Kingdom. His impressionistic style is the last bastion of European impressionism, before abstraction firmly took hold and notions of impressionism floated to the more visually conservative […]

Oil on artist’s board. Signed L/R “Elle Mintz” (New York mid-20th century) circa 1945-1950. Recalling the vivid colors and expressionistic swaths of color that typified the norther Expressionists, especially Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Oscar Kokoschka. The image of the clown, seen here calmly seated, perhaps before or after a show, is a common high modernist trope. Most famously interrogated by […]

Oil on Artist Board. Signed and dated L/R “Jose, ’59” (Luis). Mid-century Cuban-American painter. This painting was sold through the John Wannamaker department store in Philadelphia with that stamp on verso. Macy’s, one of Wannamaker’s leading competitors at the time, mounted a massive Latin American Fair in New York City the previous decade, sparking interest in Latin American art and cultural […]