Pauline Plummer

Pauline Plummer (b.1933) - 2000 Oil, Still Life with Wine and Apples

2000

This still life painting features a carefully arranged composition of objects including glass bottles, a ceramic jar, and a bowl of apples displayed on a red surface against a muted ...

An original oil painting by Pauline Plummer (b.1933) depicting a still life of apples and decorative vessels arranged on a bold floral tablecloth. The work is signed to the lower lef...

Boris Buchet (French, 1917 – 1999) A carafe of wine, root vegetables and apples Oil on canvas Signed and dated ‘B.Buchet 72’ (upper left) 21.3/4 x 26. 5/8 in. (55.3 x 67.5 cm.)

A strong modernist oil painting depicted in the mid Century by Russian painter Michael Baxte. Mostly known for his abstracted figures on canvas or street scenes, this piece is a wonderful representation of his bold still life paintings, with expressive use of color, shape, and form. Later in his career, Baxte explores Expressionism, infusing both European and North American stylistic trends. This piece is from later in his career, but we can feel this underlying style throughout. Art measures 15 x 11 inches Frame measures 22 x 19 inches Michael Posner Baxte was born in 1890 in the small town of Staroselje Belarus, Russia. For the first half of the 19th century, it was a center of the Chabad movement of Hasidic Jews, but this group was gone by the middle of the 19th century. By the time the Baxte family immigrated to the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, the Jewish population numbered only on the hundreds. The native language of the Baxte family was Yiddish. It is likely that the death of Michael Baxte’s father triggered the family’s immigration. Three older brothers arrived in New York between 1903 and 1905. Michael and his mother, Rebecca, arrived in 1907. By 1910 Michael, his mother, and brother, Joseph, were living in New Orleans and may have spent some time on a Louisiana plantation. Around 1912, Michael Baxte returned to Europe to study the violin. In 1914 he, his mother, and Joseph moved to New York City. Meanwhile, in Algeria, a talented young woman painter, Violette Mege...