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Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Still Life Oil Painting - Plant Pot Apples

1960s

FRUIT & VASE ON A TABLE Size: 44.5 x 52.5 cm (including frame) Oil on board An energetic mid-century still life painting that presents a lively arrangement of everyday objects, infu...

POT & ONIONS Size: 67 x 72 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas A large and very well executed mid century modernist still life composition, painted in oil onto canvas. In this comp...

Green Apples & Golden Pears Size: 35.5 x 40 cm (including frame) Oil on board An mid-century modernist still life captures a crisp arrangement of three green apples and two golden p...

PEAR & PITCHER Size: 39.5 x 47.5 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas An elegant mid-century still life composition that presents a pared-back arrangement of a single green pear along...

This still life painting captures a rustic arrangement of everyday objects, featuring a potted plant with broad leaves, a glass bottle, and several apricots. The artist employs a mut...

A decorative oil painting on canvas by swedish artist Gideon Borje who travelled extensively in europe over his career and was known for both his modernist style and classic traditio...

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...

Presented in a simple wood frame with gilt detail. Signed. On canvas board.