Leopold François Kowalski

Art Nouveau Pastel on paper Dance Leopold François Kowalski

1900

Outstanding gouache painting by the British painter Clement Lambert (1855-1925). The work depicts a scene of leisure and recreation, very typical of the early 20th century. In this ...

One of a kind and spectacular work by the renowned artist Julián Grau Santos, “a master of color in 20th-century Spain.” This is an interesting print on tapestry entitled “Bullfight...

One of a kind pastel depicting a group of women dancing in a romantic, ethereal spring landscape. The delicate figures, soft, luminous tones, and warm, almost golden atmosphere that...

Walter Shirlaw (1838-1909) Study for decorative panel Pencil and watercolor on paper mounted on paperboard Measures: 62.5 x 74 x 5 cm (with frame) 50.5 x 62 (without the frame) Signed in the circle lower right Born near Glasgow in Scotland, Walter Shirlaw settled with his family in New York in 1841, when he was two or three years old. As a young boy, he took night classes at the National Academy of Design, and first exhibited his work there in 1861. The first years of his career were spent as an engraver at the American Bank-Note Company, while at the same time attempting to establish himself as a painter. He later moved to Chicago, where he continued to work as an banknote engraver and also taught art at the Chicago Academy of Design. In 1870, at the relatively late age of thirty-two, Shirlaw travelled to Europe to study. Prevented from settling in Paris by the Franco-Prussian War, he instead studied in Munich, where he joined the small group of American painters working in the city, including Frank Duveneck and William Merrit Chase...