William C. Grauer

Malaga Beach Setting (Fishing village boats, Spain) WILLIAM C GRAUER colorful

Circa 1950

This 1950s watercolor by William C. Grauer, about 10 by 13 inches, shows a Caribbean fishing village on an ordinary working day. Nothing dramatic is happening, yet the scene feels fu...

Georges Dayez , born on July 29 , 1907 In Paris where he died in 1991 , is a French painter , engraver and lithographer of the new Ecole de Paris whose works have been regularly exhibited with those of non-figurative painters. Georges Dayez is the eldest son of the editor Jules Dayez, a native of the North and a son of a peasant, who in 1905 had taken over a small-size engraving studio in Paris rue des Marais, printing in particular gravure reproductions of eighteenth- century images E century. His mother, Marie Brard, was born in Neuilly in a Norman family of Bayeux . After the birth of a second son, the family settled in Vaires-sur-Marne in 1909 where Georges Dayez attended the communal school from 1913 , took refuge for two months in Bayeux in 1914 , in Tinténiac ( Brittany ) In 1918 . In 1919 Georges Dayez obtained his certificate of studies and spent his holidays in Vicq , in the mining country of the north of Valenciennes , with his grandfather, the spectacle of the destruction caused by the war impressively him, then returns to the college of Meaux . In 1924 , after spending the first part of the baccalaureate, he stopped studying to start painting, and studied phototypy and intaglio and lithography in his father's studio. He attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière at Montparnasse and the Julian Academy in Saint - Germain - des - Prés , as well as the evening drawing courses of the City of Paris, which Adam also followed. In 1926 he was accepted as a "free pupil" in the studio of Lucien Simon at the Ecole des Beaux Arts . From 1927, he made his military service, assigned to Nanterre then to the Aeronautics Directorate of Paris, and painted in 1928 , on a permission, Le Pont du Pouliguen and Le Croisic...

William C. Grauer’s 1970s acrylic on panel Oriental Hints stands as a striking late career exploration of abstraction and surface. Unlike his earlier representational watercolors, th...

William C. Grauer’s watercolor A Fishing Village Along the Gaspé Coast (c. 1930s) presents a quiet yet enduring image of maritime life on the Gaspé Peninsula, a rugged stretch of coa...

Unframed Josep Serrasanta was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1916 - 1998 Valdoreix (Barcelona), to Catalan parents of Spanish nationality. His f...

Xavier Aluja (1950) - Port of Tarragona - Oil on cardboard Oil measures 26x48 cm. Frame measures 34x56 cm.

A very dear and special work by Francis Luis Mora done while he was in Spain. An important trip early in his career, this is a gem of American Impressionism in technique and history...

Oil on canvas realized by Immacolata Surace in the 2000s. Hand signed. Excellent condition.