Jacques Martin-Ferrières

Bouquet de Fleurs - Post Impressionist Oil, Flowers by Jacques Martin-Ferrieres

1946

"In the Pink" The lush, enfolding petals of the pink peony form a round ball that slowly unfurls into an expansive rose-like flowering. These beautiful flowers are so treasured becau...

Samuel Rothbort (1881-1972) Floral, oil on canvas mounted board 22 x 30 1/2 in (55.9 x 77.5 cm), Hand signed lower right. Provenance: From the estate of the artist by descent to the granddaughter. Samuel Rothbort (Russian American Jewish folk artist 1881-1972) was born in the small town, shtetl of Wolkovisk in the Russian Woodlands.During his youth he worked as a cantor and traveled to various towns and villages, gaining many impressions of life in that era. Poverty as well as the political unrest of the times led to his immigration to America in 1904. Upon arrival in America, Samuel Rothbort worked as a laborer and muralist eventually giving that up to become a watchman of newly built homes. While on duty he began molding figures in clay and upon the advice and encouragement of his employer and colleagues he began to take his artistic talents more seriously and pursued this endeavor. Rothbort therefore began doing free-hand painting, murals on walls and ceilings for private homes and commercial establishments. In 1909 he met and married Rose Kravitz, which marked the start of his career as an artist. Well known for his scenes of New York City life, executed in heavy impasto. Rothbort exhibited from the 1920s-60s, at the Salons of America, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Museum, and a gallery at Rockefeller Center; however, he refused to sell his work, and in 1948, opened the Rothbort Home Museum of Direct Art, in his studio-home. Samuel Rothbort was a self taught outsider artist painting every subject in his own folk art impressionistic style. His artistic range was broad and he never stopped creating. He was fascinated with nature and his works are filled with his delightful perceptions of his surroundings. Rothbort worked in oil, watercolor, and pen & ink. In the years of the depression there was little money, Rothbort could not afford paint or canvas. It was there that he began carving wood and stone using found materials like driftwood, rails, and old fence posts. While not associated with the WPA, he was an artist of that period and sensibility. Rothbort entered the art world and spent much of his life in pursuit of modernist painting and sculpture. He was a member the Society of Independent artists, the Salons of America, the People's Art Guild, and the Brooklyn Society of Artists. During the 1920's and early 1930's , Samuel Rothbort was regularly represented in exhibitions organized by The Brooklyn Museum of Art. Through the 1930's , Rothbort exhibited his watercolors and sculptures at Grant Studios in Brooklyn. In 1940, he began a 28 year relationship with the Barzansky Gallery on Madison Avenue in New York City exhibiting oils, watercolors, and sculpture in individual and group shows. From 1915 through the 1960's, he was represented by many commercial galleries. Hamilton Easter Field, artist, publisher and founder of the Brooklyn Society of Artists was an early supporter of Rothbort's art work and helped further his career. Rothbort received much recognition for his naive folk art paintings which he often displayed in unique primitive frames that he had hand-carved he is also known for his social realist street scene paintings. In 1952, Rothbort wrote a book on his sculpture, entitled "Out of Wood and Stone", which he dedicated to Hamilton Easter Field. A significant expression for Samuel Rothbort's career occurred in the late 1930's through the 1940's when he began painting "memory paintings " or recreation of his boyhood experiences of life in the ghettos and surrounding areas of the woodlands and marshes of Polesia - White Russia. A prized winning documentary, "Memories of The Shtetl" was produced by Harriet Semegram (previously titled " The Ghetto Pillow ") and shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival. It utilized 215 of Samuel Rothbort's watercolors and became the major visual resource material for Jerome Robbins movie and play, " Fiddler On The Roof ". Another award winning documentary on Jewish Folk Art " The Lost Wooden Synagogues of Eastern Europe " which was produced by Albert Barry and Florida Atlantic University, used many of Rothbort's paintings in the film to show life in pre-war Eastern Europe. The film was shown at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. and on Public Television. He was a member of The Brooklyn Soc. of Artists; Soc. of Indp. Artists; and Brooklyn WCC. He exhibited at the SIA, 1917-40; Pratt Inst., 1919-22; Salons of Am., 1922-34; Brooklyn Mus., 1922-33; Charles Barzansky Gal., NY, 1940-44; Jewish Mus., NYC, 1984-85. His works hang in the NMAA; Brooklyn Mus.; Heckscher Mus.; Mus. of Stony Brook; Montclair AM; Sardoni AG; and Rutgers Univ. AG. Samuel was best known for his scenes painted in and around NYC. He had a bold style marked by heavy impasto. Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2003 New York, NY; Luise Ross Gallery New York, NY; Hollis Taggart Galleries 1998 East Hampton, NY; Morgan Rank Gallery New York, NY; Benjamin Cardozo Gallery, Yeshiva University Museum 1997 New York, NY; Giampietro Gallery 1985 Brooklyn, NY; Chassidic Art Institute 1968, 64 New York, NY; Kaufman Art Center 1940-6, 54, 56, 61, 65 New York, NY; Charles Barzansky Galleries 1960 Chicago, IL; Welna Gallery 1940 Brooklyn, NY; Tilden Gallery 1938 Brooklyn, NY; Lincoln Gallery 1934 Brooklyn, NY; Grant Studios Selected Group Exhibitions: 1998 Huntington, NY; Heckscher Museum, Celebrating New York: A Centennial Exhibition 1984-86 New York, NY; The Jewish Museum, The Jewish Heritage in American Folk Art (Travelling exhibition) 1968 New York, NY; National Arts and Antiques Show 1940-68 New York, NY; Charles Barzansky Galleries 1964 Bethesda, MD; Chevy Chase Gallery 1963 Huntington, NY; Heckscher Museum 1944 Richmond, VA; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 1917-23, 25-31, 34, 38-40 New York, NY; Society of Independent Artists 1939 New York, NY; Academy of Allied Arts Gallery 1937-39 New York, NY; Vendome Gallery 1934, 39 New York, NY; Fifteen Gallery...

The person who follows the Sun will not stray from the path. No matter how difficult the moments life throws at you, when it seems like everything is becoming dull and gloomy. But you will overcome it, for there is a sun shining within you. And when you feel its benevolent influence on your life, you start to notice the manifestations of the sun more and more often - in the glints of light in your beloved's hair, in the sunbeams on the pavement, in the changes of light and shadow in the park. This original painting by the Ukrainian artist Ksenia Tsyganyuk...

Here is your chance to have your own private chapel with devotional objets and saint figures - in the form of this lovely painting by Joseph Bergès (1878-1956). Berges was born in the South East of France in the Pyrenees, not far from the Spanish border. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Toulouse, he was accepted at the Paris Academy. However, although his career took him to Paris, a remained very much attached to his homeland, a pious, rustic area with many chapel such as the one he portrayed here. Having studied with the Masters Eugène Cormon and Léon Bonnat , Bergès exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1907. He was obtained a second Grand Prix de Rome in 1908 for the painting The Death...

Still Life with with Bottle, Paintbrushes, and Book in Oil on Paper Bright still life by Louise L. Apthorp (American, 1878-1963). A wine bottle, vase full of brushes, pear, and large book sit on a table. The book is "Verve. The Ultimate Review of Art and Literature (1937-1960)". The tablecloth is bright, with a multicolor checker pattern, affixed to the wall to create a backdrop. The squares of color and folds in the cloth create the impression of cubism, even though the subject is not cubist. Signed "Apthorp" in the lower left corner. Shipped in a plastic frame for protection. Louise L. Apthorp (American, 1878-1963) was born in 1878 in New Jersey and lived in Massachusetts. In the mid-1940s, she moved to Monterey, CA. She was listed in “Who Was Who in American Art” (1985, 1999), “Dictionary of Woman Artists” (1985), and “Mallet’s Index of Artists” (1935). Memberships: Copley Society...

ARTIST: William Laidlaw Baillie RSA RSW (1923-2011) Scottish TITLE: "Irises Banners" SIGNED: lower left MEDIUM: oil on canvas SIZE: 88cm x 76cm inclusive of frame CONDITION: ve...

Wonderful post impressionistic still life of autumn yellow chrysanthemums with boughs of bronze maple leaves in a vase. Painted in style of Albert Andre (French, 1869 - 1954). Circa ...

Gabrielle MILLIOUD-MELAY (1875-1931) Peonies and Cherries Oil on canvas signed low right Old frame Dim canvas : 54 X 73 cm Dim frame : 76 X 95 cm French painter 19th century Lyon S...

Artist/ School: Suzanne Dinkés (French, 1895 - 1984) Medium: signed and dated 59' oil on board, unframed Size : 13 x 9.5 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: The ...

Artist/ School: Suzanne Dinkés (French, 1895 - 1984) Medium: oil on canvas, unframed Size : 11 x 9 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: The painting is in overall...