Marcelo Bonevardi – 1958 Marcelo Bonevardi abstract gouache on mounted paper. Marcelo Bonevardi was an Argentina born architect that turned his attention to painting and moved to New York City where he spent the majority of his career creating abstract paintings and shaped canvas works. Bonevardi exhibited his works in exhibitions around the world. His…
Hanani Meller – Self Portrait – 1941 Surrealist self-portrait painting by Hanani Meller, dated 1941. This small painting is an oil on stretched canvas, framed in an artist made stip frame by surrealist Hanani Meller. Hanani Meller, aka Hanany Meller, D’Hanany, D’Hanani, was born in Israel and later moved to the United States settling in…
Javier Vilato – 1948 Cubist-inspired still life, coffee pot with a grinder painted in 1948. Javier Vilato, (1921-2000), was a Catalan painter and printmaker, and nephew and close companion and confidant of Pablo Picasso, described as “Barcelonan by birth, an Andalusian by sensibility, and a Parisian by adoption”. In 1939, at the end of the…
Arthur Bowen Davies – circa 1920 A quintessential oil on canvas by American modernist Arthur Bowen Davies. Titled ‘Fjording Song’ depicting a gathering of figures on the bluffs of a fjord, where masted sailing ships are moored. Early 20th century. Measures 17.5 inches by 29.5 inches sight size, and 23.25 inches by 35.25 inches by…
Louis Schanker – 1933 American modernist figurative abstract from 1933. Louis Schanker, (1903-1981), lived in worked in New York and Connecticut, creating paintings, sculptures and prints. During his life, Schanker was known as a radical among radicals. He was an important early American modernist, was a founder of the American Abstract Artists and was a…
John Franklin Koenig – 1953 John Franklin Koenig mixed media collage and pigment on paper mounted on cardboard. John Franklin Koenig, (Washington/France 1924-2008), was born in Seattle, Washington, and lived there until moving to Paris in 1948. Koenig began exhibiting abstract expressionist works in 1952 and continued to focus on abstract expressionism throughout his lifelong…
Werner Drewes 1935 Oil painting on canvas by American modernist Werner Drewes. Werner Drewes, (1899-1985), was one of the founding fathers of American abstract painting and one of the first to introduce the ideas of the German Bauhaus to the US. Drewes’ works are held in public and private collections around the world including the…
Thomas Akawie – 1963 Large abstract oil on canvas by San Francisco artist Thomas Akawie. This work was recently acquired from the artist’s estate and was taken to our conservator where it was cleaned and placed on a new stretcher. Thomas Akawie was a California painter who exhibited his work at shows around the United…
Lorenzo Tornabuoni Lorenzo Tornabuoni, 1934-2000, was an Italian painter and printmaker known for his abstract works, often with figures yet sometimes non-representational. This works is oil on canvas and was previously in the collection of a long-time gallery assistant at William Sawyer Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Measures 19.75 inches by 21.75 inches sight size, and…
Seymour Franks – 1947 1940s abstract painting by New York artist Seymour Franks. Seymour Franks, 1916-1981, was born in New York City in 1916. At the age of 16, Franks was stricken with polio. He went on to work for the WPA and later studied at the National Academy of Design in 1937. Early in…
