American Contemporary Acrylic on Canvas Collage of Faces

American contemporary abstract collage painting featuring a black background with yellow, grey, white and brown collage in a black painted wooden frame

American Post-War Design abstract art, oil painting with shades of purple on white in a silver frame.

A fabulous vintage Boho original oil painting on canvas. Beautiful brush strokes and a strong use of color dominate this composition. Acquired from a Palm Beach estate.

This haunting image by Eugene Berman was painted on a sheet of paper cut in the shape of a heart, mounted to a paint-speckled ground, encircled with metal shavings, and placed in a frame of the artist’s own devising. Berman wrote the title, Radiograph of a Heart, on the back. It refers to the medical X-rays that doctors had recently come to rely on. Yet Berman’s point seems to be that while a heart can be monitored scientifically, the emotions associated with it lie beyond the power of medical science. Russian by birth, Berman fled St. Petersburg during the Revolution and settled in Paris. Later, as a Jew, he fled the Nazi advance and took refuge in New York and Hollywood. His peace of mind, however, was shattered by the suicide of his wife, actress Una Munson (who played Belle Watling in Gone With the Wind). That distressing event — “Don’t follow me” she admonished in her suicide note...