 (A) Camille Liausu (1894-1975) -- Benezit listed -- painted this sensuous oil which measures 38 1/2 wide by 32 tall; the exquisite silver-leafed frame adds another 8 inches in both directions. It's entitled in a rather delicate, understated way, "Les Deux Amies." Rick beckoned these ladies to his pad in Hagerstown and (obediently) off they went! SOLD!!
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(B) Here's a work, oil on canvas, by Maurice Sievan, an American painter listed in Benezit. From the Borghi website: In 1940 painter Maurice Sievan and his wife, Lee Culik Sievan (1907 -1990), an emerging photographer, moved from a Manhattan apartment into a new single-family home located in Flushing, Queens. The transition introduced Sievan to a pictorial theme that would preoccupy him for more than a decade: the uncelebrated landscapes of this outlying residential borough of New York City, typified by tree-lined streets, low-rise housing, nondescript shopping areas, and ubiquitous automobile traffic. These moody and curiously depopulated pictures were the outcome of sketches and occasional photographs recorded by the couple from a battered Chevrolet that Sievan had improvised as a mobile studio. Suburbia #5, an unspecified Flushing streetscape dating from the mid-1940s, bears out the reputation -albeit unsought -that Sievan would acquire as the "poet laureate of suburbia." Sievan's Expressionist landscapes represented only one chapter in a long career marked by diverse stylistic adventures.Arriving in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, from the Ukraine in 1906, Sievan became a U.S. citizen in 1913, the same year he left school for an apprentice job with a local lithographer. He subsequently took courses at the National Academy of Design, studying under the realist painter Leon Kroll. Following a brief tour with the merchant marines during World War I, he resumed evening studies at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design while working by day as a commercial illustrator. During his tenure as a "self-supervised" easel painter with the WPA's Federal Art Project, Sievan began to produce deft painterly sketches of downtown Manhattan and other vistas familiar from his successive apartment rentals in Greenwich Village and Brooklyn. During the war years Sievan began teaching in order to supplement his earnings from painting. Although the Greater New York area continued as the wellspring of his quietly inventive cityscapes, Sievan also captured views of Provincetown, the Massachusetts artists' colony he frequented during the summer. By 1956 he had shifted to wholly imaginary landscapes inspired by his first observations of earth from an airplane. Paralleling this output was a series of darker allegorical paintings, interpreted by some as Sievan's existentialist meditations about the horror of the Holocaust and the onset of the Atomic Age. Semi-abstract figural studies, effusing a rough and haunting vitality, preoccupied his later years. This painting measures about 28 wide by 22 high. (e-mail Jack for a price)
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(C) Signed G. Bailly, possibly Georgette Bailly as listed in Benezit. A substantial painting of a village street scene in rural Provence, in its original ornate gilt frame, it measures 48 wide by 40 tall including the frame. (e-mail Jack for a price)
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 (D) Signed B. Cowez (the nom de plume of a French artist) -- this Mediterranean scene eloquently captures the radiating, pulsing heat of Southern France. The entire painting has been accomplished with a pallet knife, and likewise radiates the energy of the painter. In its original frame, on board, and measuring 27 inches high, 23 wide (the frame, which has a width of two inches, included). (e-mail Jack for a price)
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 (E) A pencil drawing on paper by Tonia Cariffa, student of Fernand Leger (born 1924, Benezit-listed). Signed TC and dated '48, it measures 16 1/4 by 20 3/4 plus the very substantial solid hardwood antique frame which adds another 3 inches on all sides. (e-mail Jack for a price)
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(F) Robert Pernin, a Lyonnaise painter, created this poignant, probably 1940's image of a (presumably) mother and child, the child having been injured (by the figure skulking off in the upper left?); the mother appears about to refresh the boy with the contents of the gourd in her left hand. Measurements: 23 1/2 x 28 1/2, oil on canvas, no frame. (e-mail Jack for a price)
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 (G) A large oil painting on canvas by the Lyonnaise painter Duperay, somewhat recent but so much in the style of the 30's; it measures 23 wide by 28 1/4 high. The silver-leafed frame adds 2 3/4 on all sides. (e-mail Jack for a price)
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 (H) According to Benezit, Pierre Castan was born in Toulouse in 1819 and lived until about 1890. This painting on canvas of "trois barques" at Marseille has a slightly impressionistic flavor. Restored and framed newly in an antiqued 22K wood frame, it measures 18 1/2 by 13 (including the frame, which is about 1 1/4 wide). (e-mail Jack for a price)
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 (I) Measuring 13 1/2 by 17 1/2 plus the frame, this oil on board is by Pierre Dupont. (e-mail Jack for a price)
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(J) A fetching work -- and damsel, to be sure -- by the famed artist Leon Comerre. It's approximately 15 by 18 inches, not including the frame, which is new. And you thought such beguiling beauty wouldn't be gobbled up? SOLD!! |
