French Modernist

Signed 20th Century French Modernist Oil Painting Naked Woman on Beach

'Place Privee' by Danie Gruau ( 20th Century French School) signed oil on canvas, unframed dated 76' canvas: 15 x 24 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: very goo...

Artist/ School: Francisco Picon (1934-2016), signed Title: 'Sur la Plage' Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed Size: frame: 20.25 x 26.25 inches painting: 19.7...

Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet...

This contemporary painting "In the moment " featuring a woman lying on the beach makes part of my series dedicated to "Women". This art piece is all about a committed life of engag...