Afghan Boy, Oil Painting by Danish Artist P. Rüd, 1990s

A hole lot is going on in this vintage Danish abstract painting. Both oil and acrylic paint were used to create texture, dept and drama. A mentionable feature is the double framing c...

A strikingly brutal piece that raises more questions than answers. It was painted during the early 1940s by the German relatively unknown artist Franz Kofron. The fragment has been cut out of a larger subject/motif. Either due to censor or the obvious blasphemy of the subject mattter. A simple act of vandalism without any motiv does not make any sense. The technique used is referred to as Grisaille where a variety of shades/nuances within one color, typically gray, is used to create dept, mystic and atmosphere. The subject matter is a female with powerfull physic and rather masculine facial features/traits carrying a decapitated mans head attached to a stick by his long hair. One can argue that it articulates a reference to Judiths beheading...

Spanish, 20th century. A vintage oil painting depicting a young boy. The artist used a wonderful array of colors to accent the boy's profile. Signed to lower right.

Attributed to Jozsef Breznay, Hungarian, 1916 to 2012, mixed media painting on canvas depicting a portrait of an African American boy, 1956. Signed, dated and inscribed, lower right....