Edna Hibel was born in 1917 in Boston, Mass. She started painting at the age of 9 when, according to her son, the teacher gave her paper and colors to distract her from math as she was better than the other children and it frustrated them.
She spent many summers in the shore in Massachusetts and Maine studying watercolor painting and eventually graduating from the Boston Museum School of Fine Arts in 1939. In 1942 she received the Sturtevant Traveling Fellowship to study in Mexico.
BEST: The extensive descriptions often include information on previous owners. That handsome 1930s settee somehow looks even more attractive once you know that it belonged to George Gershwin.
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Siniaver was born in Odessa, Russia, b.1899, moved to Belgium in 1923. Ossip Siniaver 1899 (Odessa) - 1975 (Brussels). Painter. Graduated from the Odessa Art School. Around 1917 came to Belgium to continue art education. While studying at the Academy of Fine Arts Ghent received engineering education, which influenced his work, the essence of which the artist saw in the "synthesis of art and science." Composition, color palette and light ratio in the film - all built on his "scientific method of" artist.
French, known for Art-Deco dancing figure painting, caricatures, illustration, camouflage.
Born in Tours, France, Charles-Felix Gir was a noted painter, watercolorist, sculptor and illustrator. He was married to Jeanne Fusier-Gir, a well-known actress, and they attended the Paris Opera every night for 17 years where she performed.
He made many sketches of dancers and caricatures, and at the end of the performances, he would deliver the caricatures to newspapers who had commissioned him.
Jean Théodore Dupas was a French painter, artist, designer, poster artist, and decorator whose work is considered the utmost example of Art Nouveau and Art Deco visual arts.
Henry Lawrence Faulkner: artist, poet, rebel, bohemian. Faulkner’s life story begins in 1924 Appalachia—he claimed to be born in Egypt, Kentucky, although records place his birth several counties away—where he was orphaned along with ten brothers and sisters upon his mother’s death in 1926—his declaration as a poor cousin to the famous Faulkner of Mississippi has always gone unsubstantiated. His early childhood was spent in a Louisville, Kentucky children’s home and a series of foster homes.
A heightened interest in art deco design is taking hold these days, say a number of dealers. “As today’s collectors see art deco as the precursor of modern design, that element of historical importance makes for enormous appeal,” explains Fabien Mathivet, whose eponymous gallery is located on the Left Bank in Paris. Susan Weber, founder and director of the Bard Graduate Center in New York, says the style resonates on multiple levels.
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