Paul-Élie Gernez Landscape Paintings

Hollywood, 1941, oil on board, 18 x 24 inches, signed and dated lower right, illegible writing verso About the Painting From a distance, Beckwith deftly captures the spectacle of a Hollywood premiere. But we have not been invited to the party. Our view is from the shadows of a less glamorous neighborhood with a shaggy, unkept palm tree and rundown buildings in the shadows. We look down through the darkness past a packed parking lot to the bright lights of two iconic Hollywood landmarks, the Pantages Theater and the Broadway Building. Completed in 1930, the Pantages was built as an exuberant Art Deco movie palace, while the Broadway Building housed an upscale department store which catered to entertainment industry elites who were less impacted by the Great Depression than the common man, since movies had become the mainstay of popular culture entertainment during the 1930s with large numbers of Americans looking to immerse themselves in Hollywood escapism. Here, in a rare Los Angeles urban image, Beckwith combines that Hollywood fantasy with the more sobering foreground images which could have been pulled from the L.A. Noire fiction of Raymond Chandler...

Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021), Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to P...

View of a Port "59" French Modernist School Oil on canvas Illegibly signed. l.r., dated "59" 28 3/4 x 23 3/4 (30 x 25 frame) inches A positively brilliant, Modernist view of a French port...

Glücksburg Castle near Flensburg is an original modern artwork realized in the first half of 20th Century Oil on hardboard. Hand signed "H. Th. Nöbbe" on the lower margin. Include...

Harmonious Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original oil on artist paper size: 23 x 20 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed Description: This impr...

Verdant Hills by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original oil on artist paper size: 19 x 26 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed Description: This expressive ...

Vivid mid century modern maritime seascape by P. Mantos (20th Century), 1968. Expressive brushstrokes in a bold palette of blue and turquoise is acce...

Bold figurative work by Richard Cronin (American, b. 1952). Two figures stand on a patio, turned away from each other. The figures and scene are rendere...

Riverside Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original oil on artist paper size: 18.5 x 15 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed Description: This pai...

"Drama Teacher" 1938 WPA Mid 20th Century American Theatre Surrealism Modernism. 30 x 24 inches. Oil on Canvas. Signed land dated ’38 lower left. The photograph in the listing depicts the artist's friend who taught drama and about whom the painting is based Painter, printmaker and sculptor, Leon Bibel was born in San Francisco in 1913. He trained at the California School of Fine Arts and received a scholarship to study under the German Impressionist Maria Riedelstein. He worked in collaboration with Bernard Zackheim, a student of Diego Rivera, to create frescoes for the San Francisco Jewish Community Center and the University of California Medical School. In 1936 Bibel moved from California to join the Federal Art Project at Harlem Art...

Impressive early American modernist central park, new york city oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvasboard . Image size, 18H by 24L.

Mid Century Modern Abstract Landscape - San Francisco Hills in the Fog Beautiful mid-century modern abstract landscape evoking ...