Virginia Sevier Rogers

'Still Life with Daffodils', Carmel, California Woman Artist, PAFA, SWA

Circa 1965

Signed lower left, 'Vera' and painted circa 1975. A bold and vivid Post-Impressionist still-life painted with a bright palette and bravura brushwork. Vera Indenbaum painted and exh...

Signed lower right, 'Taylor' for Jonathan Taylor (American, born 1968) and painted circa 2000. This listed California artist first studied art at the College of the Atlantic in Bal ...

Signed lower left, 'J. Bedwell' for Jeanette Bedwell (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1975; additionally signed, verso, on canvas. A vibrant, mid-century oil still-life b...

Signed upper right, "Joffrin" for Guily-Jeanne Joffrin (French, 1909-2007) and painted circa 1965. Photo of the artist in her studio, 1995. Courtesy of Wikipedia. Born in Paris, Joffrin first attended the École Supérieure Sophie-Germain before, in 1928, studying at the École des Beaux-Arts, initially in the studio of Lucien Simon. She continued her studies there for several years in the studios of Jacques Despierre and Lucien Fontanarosa. After receiving her diploma, Joffrin was appointed Professor of Drawing and taught in Paris until 1945, when she began to devote herself exclusively to her career as a fine artist. Over the course of a long career, she exhibited internationally with success including at more than forty exhibitions in France (Paris, Aurillac, Rennes, Strasbourg, Reims, Rodez, Toulouse, Barbizon, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, Cannes) as well as in Geneva, Vevey, San Francisco and Tokyo among other cities. The human face was of particular interest to Joffrin and she created many portraits of academic notables including Paul Guth...

Signed lower left, 'Karl Goldschmidt' (Anglo-German, 1912-1995) and painted circa 1930. Photo of Karl Goldschmidt (Kenneth Gay) with Robert Graves courte...

Signed lower right with initials 'H.L.' for Harald Leth (Danish, 1899-1986) and painted circa 1935. Leth commenced his art studies with Johannes Larsen (1921) before attending Harald Giersing...

Oil on paper Paper size: 9 x 6 inches Framed Size: 24.75 x 21.5 inches Monogrammed lower left

Diptych of abstracted floral paintings in an earthy blue and brown palette "Hollyhock & Zin" (Pair of Contemporary Miniature Botanical Paintings on Wood Panel) Monotype on Paper and Oil, Mounted on Panel "Hollyhock" measures 10 x 8 x 2 inches "Zin" measures 10 x 7.8 x 2 inches Roughly 10 x 18 inches overall as a diptych Signed, verso Panels could also stand upright on a shelf or mantelpiece. Wired on reverse for simple hanging, sides of panel are cleanly painted white, framing not necessary. About the work: Contemporary landscape painter David Konigsberg is well known for his conceptual landscapes that come alive in the space where earth and sky meet. Dramatic backdrops of tumultuous clouds above gestural painted fields, informed by years of living in the upper Hudson Valley, provide a stage for factual and whimsical subject matter like flying space pods...

Coquillage et réveil en rouge by Henri Hayden (1883-1970) Oil on paper laid down on isorel 33.5 x 46 cm (13 ¹/₄ x 18 ¹/₈ inches) Signed and dated lower le...

"Sliced Bread" is an oil painting, and mixed media collage on canvas. It is a still life on a table top of a piece of bread with a knife in it sitting on a napkin, an old metal pitcher with a spoon resting on it and a spoon on the table between the pitcher and the bread. Behind these objects in the foreground is a mysterious object. It is complied of many colorful rectangles, and the top of it is a dark neutral grey. It could be a piece of cake that has just been cut, bursting with flavor, or it could be a tiled or woven box with a peaked lid, possibly a bread box? Behind the table against an off white wall are 20 rectangles. Some of these are solid blocks of color, others are drawings on paper of landscapes and people that bring to mind postcards pinned up on a wall. Overlapping some the these is a larger charcoal drawing...

Mid century modern art with inscription in french verso. It was traded with another artist.

Fun and vivid fashion painting of a bright purple and green handbag with abstract geometric and linear accents by Michael William Eggleston (American, 20th Century). Signed on verso....