Eugene von Blaas

Portrait of a Boy Peeling Fruit

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...

A beautiful full portrait of two girls, possibly the artist's daughters, with spring flowers by British American artist Hamilton Hamilton (1847-1928). Hamilton was born in Oxford, En...

John George Brown (1831–1913) was a prominent British-born American painter, renowned for his genre paintings that vividly depict the everyday life of chi...

Jean Marais Very rare tapestry Signed 1965 Ateliers de Cogolin 100% wool Perfect condition 190 x 140 cm 2,900 euros