Bert Gallery

Winter Chores

Watercolor 20″ x 24″

Reduced from $500 to $400.

Framed and currently on view in “Allure of the Art Students League” exhibit at Bert Gallery.

Bert Gallery estate artist, Louise Marianetti (1916 – 2009) has captured the attention of the auction market. Recently, a painting sold in the 1980′s re- surfaced in a Massachusetts auction house (Kaminiski) estimated to go between $300 – $500.

After fierce bidding the final gavel price $2,800.!

Edna Lawrence was a very loved teacher and friend to many RISD and Providence Art Club artists. In 1985 Bert Gallery was asked to work with her estate and now 27 years later we are near the end of her inventory.

Lawrence is in the current Bert Gallery exhibit – “The Allure of the New York Art Students League”. After graduating from RISD she went on for a year to study at the League. There she perfected her drawing technique and returned to spend 57 years teaching at RISD. She was also a life long member of the Providence Art Club and ran the Saturday morning portrait class. We would like to share the remaining works from our inventory with any artists and collectors who celebrate great technique and determination in an artist. Most of the works are unframed, some matted and a few framed. Please contact us if you would like to purchase some of her work and we need to add shipping charges if you are out of state.

Edna Lawrence 1898 – 1987
Pastel 10″ x 14″
House with Stone Wall
Matted, not framed – $25

Edna Lawrence (1898 – 1987)
Pastel 11″ x 15″
The Student
Unframed but Mat $25

E. Lawrence (1898 – 1986)
A collection of four Edna Lawrence original artworks all unframed. If you don’t like one – then pass it on as a gift to celebrate original art!

E. Lawrence (1898 – 1986)
Molly – Signed Lower Right
Pastel Portrait 15” x 11”
Unframed but with Mat – $25.

E. Lawrence (1898 – 1986)
A collection of four Edna Lawrence original artworks all unframed. If you don’t like one – then pass it on as a gift to celebrate original art!

E. Lawrence (1898 – 1986)
Mary B – Signed Lower Left
Pastel Portrait 15” x 11”
Unframed but Matted – $25.

E. Lawrence (1898 – 1986)
A collection of four Edna Lawrence original artworks all unframed. If you don’t like one – then pass it on as a gift to celebrate original art!

Ray Prosser (Contemporary) – Watercolors 11″ x 14″
1. Country House – $150.
2. Boats on Shore – $150.

3. Single Boat – $150.

Watercolors 14″ x 18″
4. Boats – $200.
5. Large Ferry – $200.

6. Steamer – $200.

Jafir – Early 20th Century
New York City
Framed Etching 10″ x 7″
$300. Now $150.

Jafir – Early 20th Century
New York City Street Scene
Framed Etching 10″ x 7″
$300. Now $150.

Original $400. – Now $325.
Etching 10” x 5”
M. Le Troudadec – L. Jouvet, 1926

JEAN AUSCHER (French / 1898 – c. 1950): Jean Auscher was born in Nancy (Meurthe-et-Moselle) in 1898. He studied at the École des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, where he won a premier grand prix. Jean Auscher exhibited at the Salon d’Automne and the Salon des Tuileries from 1923-1933, and these were his years of promise and success. From that point his career seems to have faltered, partly because there was no longer a market for the kind of limited edition print portfolios and livres d’artiste Auscher had relied on to make a living, and partly perhaps because his art began to seem rather backward-looking. Although his vigorous hand-coloured etchings of dancehalls, cabarets, gamblers, and stars of the music hall and theatre in the 1920s (such as our portrait of the actor/director Sacha Guitry) owe something to the Expressionism of Dix and Grosz, much of Jean Auscher’s work has a flavour of Symbolism about it. Among his most notable works are the self-published print portfolios (all circa 1925) La Faune des Dancings, Le Baccara, and Têtes d’affiches. Like many of the Parisian artists of his day, Auscher also created some erotica and semi-erotica, notably watercolours illustrating Apollinaire’s Les Onze Milles Verges, and colour lithographs illustrating his friend Alfred Machard’s dubious Printemps Sexuels. Jean Auscher dips from view in the 1930s, to reappear after WWII as a court illustrator, publishing a visual record of the post-war trials of Pétain, Maurras, and Laval. Auscher also illustrated with original etchings a 1948 edition of David Golder by Irène Nemirovsky, for the Cercle lyonnais du livre. Jean Auscher is believed to have died around 1950. See: Raymond Hesse, “Jean Auscher”, Byblis 19, 1926. Idburyprints.com

 
New York, Architectural Scenes on Sale
American architectural art gained its finest era during the first three decades of the twentieth century. Nowhere had the world witnessed such an explosion of building and construction than in the modern American city, most particularly, New York. Buildings and bridges rapidly rose to astounding heights and cityscapes appeared to grow on an almost daily basis. This was a new landscape and a new world and American artists embraced.

Edna Lawrence (1898–1986)
New York in the 1940’s
Framed Watercolor 13” x15”
Was $850. -  Now $425.

 
Jafir – There are a series of early 1900’s etchings of New York City, all signed by Jafir from the Passionate Collector show.  So far, we have not been able to identify this competent artist but you get to enjoy a great survey of skyscrapers in the Big Apple.

Jafir (Early 20th Century)
Busy Waterfront
$300.
Framed Etching 10” x 7”
$100 Off – Now $200

 
As part of our summer chores, we are sorting through inventory and building new painting racks.  The result is that we are having a Summer Sale! For the month of August, look for various paintings that will go on sale as we get our inventory organized. Feel free to call or e-mail with questions. – Cathy Bert

Harley Bartlett
Contemporary Artist
Oil on Canvas 25″ x 30″
Schooner on Narragansett Bay
Original Price $5,000.
Now Available for $4,000.