George Errol Fleming

Factory workers homebound in the rain.

mid 20th Century

Frederick Gore C.B.E. R.A. 1913-2009, was an English painter born into a family where his father was a successful and famous painter, Spencer Gore 1878-1914. Frederick Gore was stud...

This picture is sold as ' circle of ' Xul Solar. This captivating, whimsical work presents a densely clustered hillside town executed in the artist’s signature avant-garde, neo-pri...

Christopher Pemberton 1923 -2010, was an English painter, draughtsman and teacher at the Camberwell School of Art. He was a student at the school and later became a teacher of art, h...

Jacques Maret 1900-1980 Jacques Maret was born on 27th September 1900 in Nantua, France. He was a French painter, illustrator, engraver and poet. This painting is signed , lower right. Maret studied under the French painter, sculptor and engraver Victor Prouvé and attended the Académie Julian, Paris, in the early 1920's when it was located in Montmartre. Maret was mobilized during both WW1 and WW2 - and was taken prisoner during WW2. Maret's illustrations were published in the surrealist and poetic magazine 'Feuillets Inutiles' between 1928 and 1977. The other contributors included the photographer Georges Pillement, the avant-garde poet and dramatist Pierre Albert-Birot, the journalist and poet Pierre Andreu, the cubist painter and teacher André Lhote and the Belgian sculptor Michel Seuphor. The French poet Max Jacob described Maret as 'a very great painter' in 1933. The poet André Salmon has been quoted as saying (of Maret) 'Il a beaucoup inventé, on il a beaucoup pillé avant la célébrité' (He invented a lot, and was frequently plundered before he became famous). The Bénézit Dictionary of Artists describes Maret as 'one of the greatest scholarly engravers of his time' Maret exhibited at various galleries in France including Galerie Zak - a Parisian art gallery (1928-60) that specialised in modern European and South American art; Galerie de Paris and the 'Salon des Tuileries' was an annual art exhibition of painting and sculpture, organized in opposition to the Academy's official Salon system, that ran from 1923 until the early 1950s. Maret had a solo exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago...

A crowd of people that stretches into infinity, all tinged blue, huddle under umbrellas during a storm and face the viewer. Given the title, it is implied that the viewer stands in t...

Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School of Art, Saratov Art School, graduated from the Depar...

This charming continental scene depicts people travelling down a country road on a rainy day. The artist captures the light reflecting from the wet road surface with an expert hand i...

Under the rain is a contemporary artwork realized by Eliano Fantuzzi. Mixed colored oil painting. Hand signed on the lower margin and on the back. Includes frame.