Jean Jansem

Dancers in the artists studio

1969

Le Cirque is a rare and most sought after image by the artist of the circus by collectors of Bombois. This painting shows the circus ring where the performers would perform, the audience of spectators, the ring master & the clown holding a bomb behind his back. It is a painting of GREAT detail. Bombois was a self taught artist and a strongman with the circus. Painting is in a 23 K. hand carved frame, linen mat & 23 K. gold leaf bevel & hand painted 23K. name plate. The painting & frame are in pristine condition. Photo certificate of Perls Gallery...

Follow up photo we be replace the enclosed as all the detail is washed out from the flash. Additional photos if requested . A photo certificate accompanies this painting. It is frame...

During the artists carrier he only painted 2 Picador's of this size for the exhibition at Galerie Maurice Garnier, in Paris France, who was his dealer at the time. Shortly after the ...

This is one of the famous theater's in Montmartre where all the paintings and artists gathered in the famous square. Gen Paul (1895-1955 Fr.) lived in Montmartre, Paris France. He is...

This is an original monochrome painting with a teal colour scheme by the artist Walter Rovira (b.1923). This work is an impressionist oil on board painting of a pair of Ballet dancer...

Mid-Century Modern Dancers Figurative Abstract, Bay Area Figurative School 1960s A gorgeous and colorful mid-century modern figurative abstract of dancers in motion by an unknown Ba...

10" x 8" Unframed Mixed Media on Paper Hand Signed by Rachel Isadora

Alfred Aberdam Abstract Expressionist OIl on board Hand signed lower right Provenance: bears label from Molton Gallery, London verso. The Molton Gallery, active in London during the early 1960s was notably managed by Annely Juda before she founded her own eponymous gallery. It was known for showcasing modern, international, and abstract artists. Key artists who had exhibitions at the Molton Gallery included Avinash Chandra, Denis Bowen, Emilio Pettoruti and Walter Nessler: Associated with the period and featured in contemporary London, 1940s-1980s. The gallery played a significant role in promoting artists within the London art scene of that era. Alfred Aberdam (1894–1963) painter and graphic artist was a painter of School of Paris, born in Lvov, capital of Galicia, Austro-Hungarian Empire. Born in Lviv, Krystonopol, East Galicia (now Chervonograd, Ukraine) and received a traditional Jewish education in a Heder while studying Hebrew with private teachers. In 1905–12 he lived in Lvov, where he finished high school. He decided to become an artist at the age of 14. At this time he came into contact with young Yiddish Judaic writers (Melech Ravitch, Abraham Moshe Fuks, and others) and with Zionist youth groups in Lvov. He attended their meetings and their lectures on Jewish Judaica artists. After graduating high school, he organized several conferences in his hometown on Italian and Flemish masters and on the first Jewish painters, including Josef Israels (1824-1911). In 1911 he started to study art at the Munich Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Akademie der Bildenden Künste München. Lemberg/Lwów (today Lviv), studies under Gabriel von Hackl (1843-1926). During World War I he was imprisoned by the Russians and stayed in the camp for prisoners of war in Siberia where he became acquainted with David Burliuk and other Russian futurists. In 1917, Aberdam was appointed People’s Commissar of the Department of Fine Arts by the local soviet, which assigned him the task of reorganizing artistic teaching. A year later, in Moscow, he befriended the poet Vladimir Mayakovski. In 1921 in Poland, he began his studies at Kraków's Academy of Fine Arts under Professor Teodora Axentowicz, then lived in Paris. There he participated in numerous exhibitions, and in a Poland exhibition in the Gallery of Modern Art Editions in 1929. In the latter he organized the exhibition in 1931. In 1932 he exhibited in Warsaw and Lviv. From 1933 he belonged to a group of visual artists known as "Nowocześni". In 1923, while he was staying in Berlin, he met Menkes and Weingart in sculptor Alexander Archipenko’s studio. In 1924, he settled in Paris in the Montparnasse area. In the end of 1925, Jan Sliwinski held an exhibition in his gallery Au Sacre du Printemps, at 5 rue du Cherche-Midi, Paris. His work was exhibited alongside paintings by his Galician friends Leon Weissberg, Sigmund Menkes and Joachim Weingart. The Group of Four was born. In 1935 he took part in the exhibition of Polish artists in the Paris Galerie des Beaux-Arts. He maintained connections with Poland, showed his works in Polish exhibitions, and was a member of the Plastycy Nowocześni ("Contemporary Plastic Artists") group. In 1944, he participated in the creation of the Jewish Artists Society in Paris, whose president was sculptor Léon...