Expressionist Antiques
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 BERLIN (AP) – Three bathers jumping through the green waves of the Baltic Sea with a fourth watching from the beach. Two Berlin prostitutes with feathered hats lingering under the gaze of lurking men. A nude model lounging on a red bed in an artist’s studio. The three iconic paintings by German expressionist artist […]
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) – A major family collection of rare German Expressionist art has found a permanent home at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. The gift-purchase of the Ludwig and Rosy Fischer Collection brings to the museum more than 200 pieces of art from the most creative years of German Expressionism. Museum Director Alex […]
ST. PAUL, Minn.– This large abstract expressionist painting titled Dublin, by Grace Hartigan (1922-2008) was created between 1958 and 1959 as part of the artist’s European Place painting series, which followed her travels to eight European cities. The pictures were not literal views of where she visited, but rather ‘evocations of place.’ Hartigan had become […]
World War II-era Poster, in Hebrew, Recruiting Jewish Women to Join the British Army, $7,800 TEL AVIV – Second World War posters recruiting British and American women to the war effort are a familiar sight at auction. Less well known, and much harder to find, are the posters that encouraged thousands of Jewish women to […]