Nichola Alice Leigh (South Africa, 1966 - 2017)

 Bushveld Sunset

Oil on board

Nichola Alice Leigh was a South African artist known for her landscape and botanical paintings. Working primarily in oil, she captured the quiet majesty of nature and rural scenery, exhibiting her work locally and building a dedicated following among collectors of southern African art.

Russian Constructivism: Alexandr Rodtsjenko

 

 Construction no. 18 (1916)

Alexander Rodchenko (1891–1956) was one of the founders of Constructivism and a versatile giant of 20th-century Russian art. Alongside figures like Kazimir Malevich and Vladimir Tatlin, he helped reshape the artistic landscape through painting, graphic design, sculpture, and revolutionary photography that favored striking, diagonal camera angles and photomontage.

Michele Cascella (Italian, 1892-1989)

 

 Brooms in Tuscany

Michele Cascella was born in Pescara, Abruzzo, but worked extensively across Italy and internationally (including Paris and Milan). He came from a large family of artists and established a long, prolific career spanning nearly eight decades. He was especially celebrated for his evocative landscapes, still lifes, and floral scenes, and his works are held in numerous major public and private galleries.

JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-1988)

Ancient Scientist (1984)

By 1984, Basquiat was at the absolute peak of his meteoric international career, having transitioned from his early days as the graffiti street artist "SAMO" to a dominant force in the global contemporary art scene. Works from this period heavily explored themes of history, identity, knowledge, and power structures—with titles like Ancient Scientist playing on the idea of ancient wisdom versus modern intellectualism.

Charles Courtney Curran (1861-1942, American)

 The Top of the World, 1919

Charles Courtney Curran (February 13, 1861 – November 9, 1942) was a prominent American Impressionist painter best known for his luminous outdoor and interior scenes featuring women, often embodying the independence, health, and vigor of the era's "new woman".

Imre Ferenc Orszagh (1901–1974, Hungarian)

 
Parisian model

Pablo Picasso - Femme assise dans un fauteuil

 
Femme assise dans un fauteuil (1932)

The painting portrays his companion and muse of that period, Marie-Thérèse Walter, featuring soft lines and curving contours that reflect the emotional intensity and passion of that phase in Picasso's life and artistic career. The figure is seated in a red armchair, with her face painted in a dual perspective (profile and frontal) typical of the Spanish master's style, enhanced by vibrant tones of blue, green, yellow, and gray.

Karen Mathison Schmidt (American, b.1957)

 
Country Garden, 2013

Oil on cradled Gessobord

Mystic Harmony, 2024