Leonid Balaklav

Scribe and Scholar, Judaic Oil on Canvas

2001

Dimensions w/Frame: 16" x 8" x 1 1/2" Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.” An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s avant-garde group, Painted on anything handy. Ben-Zion often used cabinet doors (panels) in his work. Other members of group included Ilya Bolotowsky, Lee Gatch, Adolf Gottlieb...

without frame it is 31.5 X 15.75 inches. It is quite rare to find good Judaic Paintings by School of Paris listed artists. This is a particularly good piece of French Jewish art.

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Oil on linen Galina Navodnitchaia-Malfoy alias Galka is a French artist born in 1971 who lives and works in Callians near Cannes in France. At the School of Fine Arts in Brest, Bel...

Oil on linen Galina Navodnitchaia-Malfoy alias Galka is a French artist born in 1971 who lives and works in Callians near Cannes in France. At the School of Fine Arts in Brest, Bela...

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Expressive narrative figurative abstract by Carol Swain (Australian, 20th Century), Signed "C. Swain" lower left. Presented in a metal frame. Image size, 22"H x 28"W. Carol Swain i...

This painting depicts a whimsical portrait of a young girl. The bright colors and quick brushstrokes are what make this painting so attractive and desirable. The piece is done in a h...