Martial Westburg, Portrait of The Peary Proxy #1, Oil on Canvas Painting, 1981

An acrylic painting on board by Italian artist Mauro Fornari. This layered abstract features ivory, ecru, and charcoal hues with ochre, rust, and green accents. Signed ‘Mauro Fornari...

An acrylic painting on board by Italian artist Mauro Fornari. This layered abstract features warm ivory, pale ochre, and soft sand hues with charcoal accents. Signed ‘Mauro Fornari M...

An Italian abstract acrylic painting on wood panel by Alessandro Bonato, dated 1971. The composition is defined by a geometric, relief-like form, rendered in layered tones of rose-pi...

An Italian abstract acrylic painting on wood panel by Alessandro Bonato, circa 1970s. The composition is defined by a geometric, relief-like form, rendered in layered tones of satura...

Abstract oil on canvas by artist Ruth Armer (1896-1977). Entitled "Painting No. 4", produced in 1966. Unsigned with labels on verso from San Francisco Museum of Art Rental Gallery ...

Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also an artistically talented woman, took her son and struggled her way to West Berlin where they settled. This is where Peter Robert Keil grew up in the working-class neighborhood of Berlin-Wedding and where he discovered his interest in painting – particularly in expressionistic artists and in Pablo Picasso's work. From 1954 on, the East Berlin-based painter Otto Nagel...

Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also a...

Pierre Legendre (1932-2009) Accord II oil on canvas circa 1980 Measures: 116 x 81 cm. Pierre Legendre, born in 1932 in Haute-Marne, moved to Paris at the age of 22. After classes at the Estienne school in Paris as well as those of the Beaux-Arts, he worked for several big houses and was the originator of logos for big brands like Hermès or Nina Ricci. He entered the academy of the painter Henri GOETZ, which allowed him to familiarize himself with abstract, geometric art. He exhibited from the 1970s, as in 1979 at UNESCO in Paris. A discreet painter, he nevertheless participated in the 80s and 90s in many artists' salons (Comparaison, Grand et Jeunes d'Aujourd'hui, Réalités Nouvelles). Pierre Legendre is of deep integrity, of great moral rigor, his geometric and abstract art also reflects a quest for spirituality and philosophical reflection. Although denying itself to belong to Concrete Art, Legendre by its taste for purism and the immateriality of the straight line is not so far removed from, among others, the art of Jean Gorin...