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Exceptional modernist abstract enameled metal plaque mounted on board and framed

Plaque measures 3 1/8" x 6 1/8"

Frame measures 6" x 9"

In very good vintage condition with no chips to enamel

Eve Peri - Abstract oil on canvas

Circa - 1950 to 1960

Image - 20" x 26 1/2"

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

Places of Residence: New York, NY, United States, Mexico

Influenced by Henri Matisse, Zeual Higley Gurnsey

Work Type/Media: Drawings and prints, painting, textiles and clothing

Artistic Roles: Collagist...

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

Tobias Musicant - Artist, American [NJ] 1921 - 2004

Exhibitions -

Pennsylvania Academy

The Philadelphia Print Club

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Solo shows -

Heffers Gallery - Cambridge, England

Contemporary Arts Gallery in New York

Sterling silver brooch with green stone

1 3/4" x 1 1/4"

Very good vintage condition

Maxwell Chayat modernist sterling and gray agate brooch

2 3/4" x 1"

Excellent vintage condition

Ramona Solberg - sterling silver, amber and shell "Fibula" brooch

5 1/2" x 2 1/2"

c. 1980

Excellent condition

Vintage Modernist Sterling Brooch Pendant

Oswaldo Guayasamin

Very good vintage condition

Sterling silver w/synthetic rubies

3 1/4" x 1 1/4"

Oswaldo Guayasamin, was born in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, on July 6, 1919. He graduated from the School of Fine Art in Quito as painter and sculptor. He carried out his first exhibit when he was 23, in 1942. He achieved in his youth all National Awards, and was credited, in 1952, at the...

Toyokoki modernist sterling silver brooch

Artisan crafted brooch - Japan

3" x 1 7/8"

Solid and well made

Marked Toyokoki, 950 silver

Just Andersen art deco pewter compote

Denmark

1920's

4" tall

In very good vintage condition

Gallucci studio bowl

Raymond Gallucci - 20th century, Pa. studio potter

Student of Mantz

Collections - The Smithsonian Museum, The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the James Michener Museum

Exhibition - Ceramic Masterworks - at Moderne Gallery in Philadelphia - 2002

Hand thrown vase

Measures 5 1/4" tall

Incised signature

Excellent condition

Ed Wiener modernist jewelry sterling silver brooch with stone

C. late 1940's - early 1950's

3 1/2" x 2 3/4"

Exceptional early work

Three dimensional

Minor surface scratches

Unpolished

Very good vintage condition

American Modernist Sterling Brooch w/Green Stone

Henry Steig

c.1960s

Excellent condition

3" x 2 1/4"

Owe Johansson modernist sterling silver bracelet

Finland

1972

Round shield - 3" in diameter

Interior circumference 7 1/2" - 8"

In very good vintage condition

See previous listing for matching necklace

Eleanor Reed, b. 1913

Watercolor

6 1/2" x 8 1/2"

Associations - American Artists Professional League

Exhibitions --- American Artists Professional League, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Washington (DC) Watercolor Club

Israeli modernist sterling silver necklace with druzy quartz geode

C. 1955

Pendant - 3" x 4 3/4"

Interior - 5 3/4" x 6 1/4"

Marked AARI-AV Israel 925

Adolf Dehn, American 1895 -1968

Schools -

Art Students League of New York

Minneapolis School of Fine Art/College Art Design

Exhibitions -

American Watercolor Society

Brooklyn Museum

Corcoran Gallery, Washington DC

Guggenheim Museum

Metropolitan Museum, New York

Museum of Modern Art, New York

Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Whitney Museum of American Art

Li...

Jean Hugo - 1894 - 1984

France - 20th century

Artist, set designer, illustrator

Great grandson of the writer Victor Hugo

Limited edition screen print

Sheet measures 17" x 20 1/2"

Framed

Very good vintage condition

Dorothy Van Loan art deco/modernist color lithograph

Titled - Clash.

C. 1939 - 40.

Artist's proof.

Image - 12" x 15"

With frame - 19" x 21".

Very good original condition not examined out of frame.

Dorothy Van Loan, American 20th century

Painter, lithographer

Studied - PM School IA; PAFA, 1927-28 (Cresson scholarship); Phila. Graphic Sketch Club

Exhibited - PAFA, 1927-28, 1932-33, 1935, 1940-45, 1956-57 ...