Modernist Jewelry and Modern Art by Auerbach and Maffia
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #401322 (stock #286 *)
Auerbach and Maffia
$2,400.00

James House - born Benton Harbor, MI. 1902.

Studied - PAFA, Exhibited - PAFA 1939 - 1946

Dallas Mus. Fine Art, WMAA, MOMA, MMA, author of "Fifty Drawings" - 1930.

This exuberant oil on canvas depicts an abstract figure of a bicyclist after a race [see photo of reverse]

In good vintage condition

Measures app. 28" by 42"

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1970 item #1007092 (stock #2391)
Auerbach and Maffia
$1,800.00

Laszlo Matulay - 1912 - 1999

Austrian/American

Gouache on heavy paper

Expressionist portrait entitled "Mozart"

20" x 30"

In very good unframed condition

Minor small tear in lower right

Studied - Vienna Academy of Applied Arts

Associated with Bauhaus artist group

Emigrated to the United States in 1935

Painter, magazine and book illustrator

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1950 item #613401 (stock #817)
Auerbach and Maffia
$1,800.00
Abstract watercolor, by Joseph Meierhans, Bucks County, Pa. modernist, circa 1940's. In very good original condition this work measures appx. 10 1/2" x 14". Estate stamped on verso. Meierhans, b. 1890 in Switzerland, came to the United States in 1917, eventually settling in Bucks County. He studied under A.N. Lindenmuth and J. Sloan. He was a member of the S.Indp.Artists, ASL, Provincetown A.A. and the American Abstract Artists.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1950 item #830119 (stock #2168)
Auerbach and Maffia
$1,800.00

Louis Wolchonok - (1898 - 1973)

Studied - Academie Julian, Brooklyn Museum Art School, Cooper Union Art School, National Academy of Design

Exhibited - Art Institute of Chicago, National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art

Watercolor gouache

Image - 17" x 23"

Very good condition

In original frame

Frame has some damage

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #517346 (stock #531 *)
Auerbach and Maffia
$1,800.00
Watercolor on paper board by Lloyd Ray Ney. Ney - 1893 - 1964, b. Pa., lived in New Hope, Pa. 1925 - 1964. Studied - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, winner of the Cresson Prize, WPA commissions, his non-objective paintings were included in 15 years of exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum [ 1947 - 1955]. This work is in very good original condition, frame is original, and measures app. 19" X 25", signed Ney,'61.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1970 item #1090006 (stock #2538)
Auerbach and Maffia
$1,800.00

Ron Dembosky - Pair of powerful mythic figures

Oil on canvas

Mid 20th century

Dembosky - American, PA. 20th century

13" x 33"

Very good original and unrestored condition

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : Canadian : Pre 1950 item #429911 (stock #317 *)
Auerbach and Maffia
$1,600.00
Item - Oil on Canvas, cityscape, by Joseph Giunta. Measures app. 23" x 29". Condition - very good and original. Artist - Giunta born in Montreal Canada in 1911, studied at the Montreal School of Fine Arts. His career spanned over 70 years. In his early period from 1930 to 1960 he created portraits, still lifes and landscapes. His later works were more abstract in nature...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #634491 (stock #864)
Auerbach and Maffia
$1,500.00

Lucille Ireland modernist abstraction - oil on board, circa 1950.

Ireland lived on the Philadelphia Main Line and exhibited at the Stabler gallery during the 1950's in NYC. She is listed in "Women Artists in America".

Image measures 22 1/2" x 33 1/4", frame is 2 1/2" wide.

Condition - very good and original, very minor paint ripple in a small center area.

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 2000 item #930343 (stock #2294)
Auerbach and Maffia
$1,500.00

Julia Sorrell mixed media painting.

British - 20th century.

Work dated 1996.

Image - 21 1/2" x 29".

Frame - 3" wide.

Excellent original condition.

Elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour (RI)

Elected to the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA)

Sampling of exhbitions -

Norfolk & Norwich Festival Open Studios 1995 - 05.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Philip Rieff Collection...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #691826 (stock #1024)
Auerbach and Maffia
$1,350.00

Victor David Hecht, b. Paris, lived in NYC, 1873 - 1931.

Studied - Académie Julian-Student, Art Students League of New York.

Exhibited - Pa. Academy, Art Institute of Chicago, Society of Independent Artists, National Academy of Design, Corcoran Gallery etc.

This early modernist watercolor is pencil signed and dated 1926.

Image measures - 10 1/2" x 15".

Condition - very good

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1970 item #797534 (stock #2134)
Auerbach and Maffia
$1,250.00

Eve Peri - Abstract gouache on paper

Circa - 1960

Image - 16 1/2" x 20 1/2"

Eve Peri:September 25, 1897 - March 4, 1966 Place of Birth: Bangor, Maine, United States Place of Death: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Place(s) of Residence: New York, New York, United States Mexico

Related People: wife of Alfonso Umaña Mendez

Work Type/Media: Drawings and prints, Painting, Textiles and clothing

Artistic Roles: Co...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1475246 (stock #4214)
Auerbach and Maffia
$1,200.00

Franz Bergmann - 1898 - 1977, Vienna, Austria to San Francisco, CA

Watercolor

1950

Dimensions - Image - 14" x 19", Frame - 22" x 27" Excellent condition

Studied - The National Academy of Art in Vienna

Short History - In 1926 Bergmann traveled to the United States eventually settling in San Francisco...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #585870 (stock #731)
Auerbach and Maffia
$1,100.00

E.P. Rimmel Grebe, American Modernist - b. 1909, Royersford, Pa. Listed.

Oil on canvas circa 1950.

Measurements - appx. 30" x 36".

Condition - very good and original.

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1960 item #548023 (stock #627 *)
Auerbach and Maffia
$1,100.00

Modernist abstract by Rolph Scarlett

Measurements - app. 9 1/2" x 12", unframed.

Condition - very good original.

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #635714 (stock #869)
Auerbach and Maffia
$950.00

Frederick Gill - American 1906 -1974.

Studied at The Pennsylvania Museum School of Art, The University of Pennsylvania and The Tyler School of Art.

Exhibitions - Metropolitan Museum of Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Butler Art Institute and the Philadelphia Art Alliance.

This watercolor [image] measures 17" x 21".

Condition - excellent.

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1018702 (stock #2419 *)
Auerbach and Maffia
$895.00

Jack Coggins - 1911 - 2006

Artist, Illustrator

Born -London England

Worked New York/PA

Studied - ASL

Grand Central School of Art

Associations -

American Society of Marine Artists

Pastel Society of America

Entitled "Ingots"

Watercolor/Gouache

Image - 19" x 26"

With original frame - 31" x 36"

Excellent original condition

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #1436421 (stock #3735)
Auerbach and Maffia
$895.00

Abstract figurative oil on canvas by Ruth E...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1022440 (stock #2429 *)
Auerbach and Maffia
$750.00

Svetozar "Toza" Radakovich best known for modernist jewelry and sculpture in collaboration with his wife Ruth in California

Both artisans were classically trained in drawing and painting

This work dates from a short period in the early 1950's when Toza was living in France

Image measures - 9" x 12"

With frame - 19 1/2" x 22 1/2"

In very good vintage condition

Original frame