Catalog: Fine Art: Paintings (126)

Charles Ernest Butler, British, 1864-1918,Oil on Board. signed LR, Provenance:Private Collection, Leslie Hindman Auction, Private Collection, Milwaukee Born in St Leonards on Sea in 1864- 1918. He was a painter of portraits, mythological and other figure subjects, genre and landscapes. He studied at St John's Wood School of Art and at the RA Schools. He exhibited at the Royal Academy, 1889 right up until his death in 1918.

Provenance: Private Midwest Collection Leslie Hindman Auction,Private Chicago Collection Serge Petrovitch Ivanoff, born Moscow in 1893 -1983. Ivanoff studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture from 1917. In 1922 he went to Paris, escaping the Bolsheviks. From 1960 to circa 1970, he undertook several trips to the United States and eventually returned to France. He painted mostly portraits, among them some well-known names such as Paul Valéry, Eleanor Roosevelt and Pope Pius XI. .

John Ulbricht, Cuba, Illinois, lived in Majorca, Spain for many years, 1913-2007 Provenance: Private Midwest Collection, Timothy Kuehn Gallery, Estate of Robert Von Neuman, Direct Acquisition from John Ulbricht, his son-in-law. He is known for Figurative, Modernist and Abstract Compositions, Paintings and Drawings. These dynamic drawings represent his early original drawings from 1946-50 when he was living in the USA: Chicago and Denver, before moving to Majorca, Spain. His early work can be considered a period of peak artistic energy and exploration. this is from the estate of his Father in Law Robert Von Neumann, an important Midwestern WPA artist. Ulbricht has a long and productive artistic career and is listed in Who was Who in American Art. He has a extensive gallery and exhibition record and his works are in many museums including The National Portrait Gallery.

Emanuel Glicenstein Romano, 1897(Rome,Italy) - 1984(New York). Portrait of Lady, Oil on Canvas, 25.5" by 33.5", signed, in Silver Leaf Frame, circa 1960-1980. Known for: portrait, figure, still life, murals. Emanuel Romano became a painter, illustrator, muralist and teacher in New York City where from 1944 to 1945 he taught at the City College of New York. One of his murals is in the Klondike Building, Welfare Island, New York. He studied in Switzerland and exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in 1940 at the Art Institute of Chicago.Listed in: Peter Falk, "Who Was Who in American Art". Works in Museum: He exhibited at: The Whitney Museum; The Society of Independent Artists; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts; The Art Institute of Chicago. Collections: Boston Museum of Fine Art; Detroit Museum; New London Museum; Fogg Museum of Art; Musees Natioaux De France. Exhibitions: 1909- Munich- Drawings;1920- Rome- Bragalia paintings;1930- New York- Murai Gallery- paintings;1931- Boston- Goodman-Walker Galleries- paintings; 1932- New York- S.P.R. Galleries- paintings;1940- New York- Marie Sterner Galleries- paintings;1942- New York- Lilienfeld Galleries- paintings;1932- New York- Feigl Gallery- paintings;1932- New York- Chinese Gallery- paintings; 1947- New York- Cambridge Galleries- paintings;1951- New York- Pasaeddoit Gallery- Paintings;1955- Paris- Katia Granoff Gallery- paintings;1961- New York- Rothschild Gallery- paintings;1965- New York- City College- drawings & watercolors;1968- New York- Gotham Book Gallery- portraits;1969- Vestart Gallery- paintings;1976- Tel Aviv- Lim Galleries- paintings.

Jules Rene Herve, France, 1887-1981, Known for: genre, city scenes, and landscape painting. 9.5"H by 14"W in original frame 14 3/4" by 19" Gallery Label and other label verso, Signed LR, J Herve Mathe, verso Le Bord Du Epnnal 1933, Excellent Condition. This size and quality painting usually sells for $1200.and up. An impressionist French artist whose subjects ranged from rural genre to Parisien city scenes and whose reputation was for shimmering colors, Jules Rene Herve was born in Langres in eastern France. He first studied art in evening classes in his hometown, knowing as a child he wanted to be an artist. Then he enrolled in the School of Decorative Arts in Paris, and in 1910, first exhibited a painting in the Salon of French Artists. In 1914, he received the Medaille d'Argent (silver medal) from the French Artists association, and from that time was a regular exhibitor at the Paris Salons. However, his painting career was interrupted because of serving in the Army for the duration of World War I. He had earned a teaching certificate, and from 1911 to 1943, with the exception of his war service, was an art instructor for many students.As a painter, he preferred solitude, and was not focused on publicity or being a part of any 'group' of like-minded painters. His paintings are in collections in Pads, Langares, Saint-Etienne, Annecy and Tourcoing France; and in Chicago at the Art Institute, and the Dahesh Museum in New York City.

Emmanuel Gondouin, French 1883-1934, Wood Cutters in French Woods. oil on canvas, signed LR & signed & dated 1930 verso, 24" by 35.5" in older frame 27" by 39". Gondouin was known for: Figures, Still life, Nature morte painting, Figurative and Cubist subjects. Emmanuel Gondouin lived in poverty in the districts of Montmartre and Montparnasse in Paris. He befriended Modigliani and Zadkine. Provenance: Purchased from the artist by Rosenberg Gallery, Direct descent through family to present owner. His paintings sell for up to $50,000.

George F. Wetherbee, 1851-1920, Cincinnati, Ohio. This painting measures 31 1/4" by 50 1/2" and is in a 4" frame. This oil on canvas was painted in 1900 and is signed lower right. Provenance: Private MidWestern Collection, Stair Gallery, NY, Private NY Collection.

John Willenbecher, Macungie, PA, 1936-, active/lives in New York. John Willenbecher is known for sculptor, geometric mod painter. Study For Guerre-Lieder is Acrylic on Masonite: Signed and Dated 1979 ,15.00" x 13.00, (38.10cm x 33.02cm). Studied: Brown Univ. (B.A., 1958); New York Univ. Inst. Fine Arts, 1958-61. Exhibited: Mixed Media & Pop Art, Albright-Knox Art Gal., Buffalo, 1963; Paintings & Constructions of the 60s, RISD, Providence, 1964; WMAA, 1964-66; Kunst-Lucht-Kunst, Stedelijk Mus., Eindhoven, Holland, 1966; Painting & Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Mus. Art, 1970. Collections: Whitney Museum of Modern Art, NY, Brooklyn Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, WMAA; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; James A. Michener Found. Coll., Univ. Texas, Austin; Aldrich Mus. Contemp. Art, Ridgefield, CT; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Chicago Art Institute. Sources: WW73; David Bourdon (author), Out There with Willenbecher," Art Int., 9/20/1968. Teaching: lectures on painting, Philadelphia . College Art, 1972-73." His paintings sell for up to $5600.

Suzanne-Marguerite Bertillon, French, 20th C. This fascinating oil on canvas, Portrait of a Woman is 18" by 24" in a wonderful Art Deco frame, signed LR.

John Willenbecher, Macungie, PA, B.1936,active in New York City, Labyrinth 17.BII.72. Acrylic on masonite. Titled LL, signed LR. Bearing Sachs Gallery label en verso. Dated 1972. Arched top 48" x 36". His paintings sell for up to $5250. Studied: Brown Univ. (B.A., 1958); New York Univ. Inst. Fine Arts, 1958-61. Exhibited: Mixed Media & Pop Art, Albright-Knox Art Gal., Buffalo, 1963; Paintings & Constructions of the 60s, RISD, Providence, 1964; WMAA, 1964-66; Kunst-Lucht-Kunst, Stedelijk Mus., Eindhoven, Holland, 1966; Painting & Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Mus. Art, 1970. Collections: Whitney Museum of Modern Art, NY, Brooklyn Museum, Smithsonian American Art Museum, WMAA; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY; James A. Michener Found. Coll., Univ. Texas, Austin; Aldrich Mus. Contemp. Art, Ridgefield, CT; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Chicago Art Institute. Sources: WW73; David Bourdon (author), Out There with Willenbecher," Art Int., 9/20/1968. Teaching: lectures on painting, Philadelphia . College Art, 1972-73."

Eliot Candee Clark, American, 1883-1980. This stunning pastel is 5.5"H by 11.5"W, pencil signed LL. Frame 13" by 19. Excellent condition.

Gontier, French. This beautiful Cezannesque landscape of a French hillside village is oil on board. It is in excellent condition, signed lower right, Palada, Gontier, 1926. It is 13 3/8"H by 9 3/4" W , 34 CM H by 25 CM W in a 2 1/4" Frame.

Godfried Schalcken or Gottfried Schalken (1643 – November 16, 1706), was a Dutch genre and portrait painter.

Domenico Ghirlandaio, Italian, 1449-1494, Florence. Oil on panel in sepia tones. He lived when the Italian Renaissance was gathering speed and producing an astonishing succession of painters of genius. "Now that I have begun to get into the spirit of this art, I wish they would give me the walls of Florence to paint the whole circuit with stories." This is said to be Ghirlandaio's reaction to painting.popes, princes and members of the newly flourishing class of merchants. Banks gave him plenty of walls in Rome and Florence to cover with scenes from scripture and from the lives of saints. Through most of the scenes he scattered recognizable portraits of people of the day. Ghirlandaio seems to have been a born portrait artist. His full name was Domenico di Tommaso Curradi de Daffo Bigardi. Like many Renaissance painters, he began as a goldsmith, learning his trade from his father. His name is a nickname, meaning "garland maker", coming from the gold and silver garlands made in his father's shop and fashionable among Florentine ladies. The boy learned drawing by designing jewelry, and became so facile that, sitting in the shop doorway, he could catch the likenesses of passers-by. He entered the studio of Baldovenetti and became one of the most distinguished mosaicists and painters of his time. His designs were more correct and graceful than had ever been known before. He established a flourishing workshop in Florence with his two younger brothers. He had little inclination for the avant-garde of the day or for the movements we associate with Botticelli (with whom he worked at the Sistine Chapel). It is probable that Michelangelo owed more to the sound craftsmanship of Ghirlandaio, to whom he was apprenticed, than he cared to acknowledge.

Enrico Colombotto Rosso, Italian, 1925-2013. Untitled (Sleeping Figure) Oil on canvas,signed Colombotto Rosso (lower right); signed and inscribed (verso)Height 35.2 in.; Width 59.2 in. / Height 89.5 cm.; Width 150.5 cm. Misc Signed, Inscribed verso. His paintings sell at auction up to $9000.

MArsh Avery, 1932-, American, Maine. Potrait of Woman in Green, Oil on canvasboard, 17" by 13", signed Marsh Avery LL. Verso Bearing an Esther Stuttman Gallery, 13 E 75th St , NY, 21 Inventory number #1549F Dated 1954.

Robert Delaunay was born in Paris in 1885, a few years after Braque and Picasso to 1941 Montpelier. This stunning watercolor on paper is of the Eiffel Tower, 37cm by 25.8cm (14.6" by 10.2") signed LL. He was a big blond bright-eyed man, the son of a well-off engineer and so he was not afflicted by the poverty that befell most of his fellow artists. After training as a decorative commercial painter he took up an artistic career in 1904. About 1906 he became interested in Neo-Impressionism and the color theories of Eugene Cheuvrel and embarked upon the research into the aesthetic applications of color which remained the central motive throughout his artistic life. He gave all of his time to painting. Delaunay was lucky in his marriage, too. He met Russian-born Sonia Terk in 1909 and they were married in 1910. She was also a gifted artist and they worked out an unusually harmonious balance between their talents. They started talking art as soon as they woke up. In his worse moments, Delaunay was a crashing bore, capable of empying a room with his theoretical diatribes. It was said that he was, to the last, an only child. Delaunay belonged to no movement. His rainbow-hued paintings shared very little with cubism. He painted the Eiffel Tower over and over again. He made a series of compositions based on brightly banded circles, one of which ""The First Disc"" painted in 1912, is almost certainly the first abstract picture painted in France by a Frenchman. He associated with members of the cubist movement and exhibited with them at the Salon des Independants; also the Blaue Reiter group in Germany. Franz Marc, August Macke and Paul Klee in particular were influenced by his color. The 1914 war caught the Delaunays unaware; they were in Portugal and they stayed there and in Spain until 1920. In so doing, he missed the horrors of the front. Portugese police who saw him painting enormous disks on vast expanses of canvas at his seaside villa near Lisbon suspected him of drawing signals for German submarines. They found that Delaunay's circles were meaningless. For some reason his painting, after he got back to Paris, was never quite to regain the life-affirming energy of his prewar work. From then on his wife became the stronger half of the creative partnership. He died of cancer in 1941 in exile in Montpelier.

Gino Severini was born in Cortona, Italy on 7 April 1883 - Paris February 26, 1966. This gouache on paper is 26cm by 35.4cm ( 10.2" by 13.9" ), signed LR G. Severini. In 1899 the Italian painter, graphic artist and sculptor went to Rome in 1899 to attend evening classes at the Villa Medici. After a decisive encounter with Giacomo Balla and Umberto Boccioni he began working as an artist in 1901. Balla introduced him to the divisionistic colour technique of the Neo-Impressionists*. Gino Severini moved to Paris in 1906 where he studied the Impressionists*, was fascinated with Seurat's paintings and met Signac. Beside Modigliani, Picasso, Braque and Gris he further encountered various well-known poets and thinkers of his time. Marinetti and Boccioni invited him to join the Futurist* movement. On 11 February 1910 Severini signed the 'Manifesto of Futurist Painting' and thus became a co-founder of this style. In contrast to his artist colleagues, Severini was barely interested in the dynamic of machines, but in the depiction of human bodies in motion. His cabaret scenes and depictions of dancers were made during his period. Works such as Blue Dancer (1912) show the typical Futurist principles of faceting and simultaneous effects. Severini exhibited works in 1912 at the Futurist exhibitions in Paris, London and Berlin and developed relationships between Italy and France. The artist's work became Cubist* after 1915. From now on the artist increasingly focused on the harmony of geometric constructions such as the golden section. His favourite subjects were the still lifes with musical instruments and scenes from the Commedia dell' Arte. Between 1924 and 1935 Severini was commissioned with numerous murals and mosaics. He led an exciting life between Rome and Paris and published theoretical texts and books on art. Severini was awarded the Grand Prize of the Venice Biennale* in 1950. The divisionist concept of the picture, together with a Cubist-Futurist style, which was adopted by Balla, is typical of Severini's entire oeuvre*. He analyzed light, movement and events, which happened after one another but are linked by memory. Gino Severini died in Paris on 26 February 1966. Important works by the artist are today exhibited in Milan (Collection Gianni Mattioli) and Rotterdam (Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen).