Leyla Kravtsova

The king of beasts, 100x80cm, oil on canvas

Shoulder to Shoulder, 110x90 cm, oil on canvas

Oil on canvas 60x60 cm

Anita Roy Chowdhury - Radha Krishna Oil on Canvas 30 x 36 inches (Rolled & Delivered) This painting beautifully captures the divine union of Radha and Krishna, rendered in a gentle,...

A fine portrait of a 5 year old Christina Patterson by American artist Aaron Abraham Shikler (1922-2015). Shikler was born in Brooklyn, New York, studied at the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, then studied in New York with the abstract painter Hans Hofmann, but he remained a committed realist throughout his life, under the sway of artists like Degas, Vuillard, Sickert and Sargent. To make a living, he painted clowns and ballerinas for a wholesale company, signing the work “Phil I. Steen” to register his disgust. When Leroy Davis, an Army friend, opened the Davis Gallery in Manhattan in 1953, he began showing Mr. Shikler’s work, which included figure studies, still lifes and landscapes. A turning point came in 1959 when Jane Engelhard...