R.Leroy

RENE LEROY - FRENCH CONTEMPORARY OIL PAINTING -PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN IN BLUE

2000 s

Artist/ School: Rene Leroy (French b. 1932) Title: Modernist portrait of a woman Medium: oil painting on canvas Size: painting: 11.5 x 10.5 inches Provenance: all the paintings w...

Abstract Portrait, Picasso Style, Blue Colour ,Original Oil Painting By French artist Beatrice Werlie, early 21st Century Oil painting on canvas, unframed Canvas size: 23.5 x 15.5 i...

Signed lower right, 'H. Lauer' for Hans Lauer, (Argentine-German, 1902-1989) and dated 1965. Hans Lauer emerges as a sympathetic chronicler of Patagonian light, a German-born landscapist who made Argentina his country and Bariloche his enduring motif. Born in Nuremberg in 1902, he emigrated to Argentina in 1920 and fixed his practice in the Nahuel Huapi region, painting the blue-white atmospheres of the lake basin and the sheltering stands of native forest with a direct, self-taught hand; he remained rooted there until his death in Bariloche in 1989. Contemporary reports place him working across northern Patagonia—San Martín de los Andes among his circuits—where he translated the temperate Andean palette into sober oils and watercolors keyed to weather and season rather than to metropolitan fashions. Autodidact by formation, he belongs to that émigré cohort who stitched European discipline to local terrain, and by the 1950s–60s his production reflects an assured, observational plein-air habit that privileges structure over effect. While Bariloche provided the studio and the subject, his name also circulates in Buenos Aires contexts through collectors and dealers who sought Patagonian views during the mid-century tourism boom, an afterlife that helped keep his vistas in the market even as he remained geographically anchored to the south. Within the regional history of Argentine painting...

Lionel Ellis 1903 - 1988 Portrait of a Woman in Blue Oil on canvas Image size: 16 x 13 3/4 (40.5 x 35 cm) Lionel Ellis ARCA (1903-1988) was an important ...