The painting is an oil on canvas, framed, signed and dated by the artist along the lower left edge: "Lebenstein 56".

Jan Lebenstein was born in 1930 in Brzesc Litewski, Poland, studied at the faculty of Fine Arts at the ASP in Warsaw, under the supervision of Prof. A. Nacht û Samborski. Since 1959 he lived in Paris. He created, among others, cycle Axial Figures that consisted of drawn and painted compositions with a centrally placed vertical figure. The artist died in 1999 in Cracow.

For additional information on this painting, or any of our other Fine and Decorative Artworks featured on our website, www.bloomantiques.com, please contact:

Fine Art Department: Mary Battaglia at 718 438 6444 or mary.battaglia@bloomantiques.com.

Decorative Art Department: Patrick Cambell at 718 438 2793 or patrick.cambell@bloomantiques.com

Our featured item this week is an Asian watercolor painting by Ran In-Ting, also known as Lan Yinding: Item Number 130134183849. The painting features the artist's signature and seal followed by the date and location in ink "5.1969 Taiwan".

Watercolors from this Taiwanese artist have recently sold at auction through Christie's and Sotheby's Hong Kong with the hammer prices ranging between $30,844  - $61,344.

Stop by our online store to see this work as well as many other Asian fine and decorative artworks for sale on eBay:  http://bloomantiques.com/

NEW WORKS FROM LOCAL BROOKLYN ARTIST

We have recently acquired a large collection of oil paintings, along with numerous gouache and chalk figure studies, from the estate of Carol Hamann Howard. An artist best known for her paintings of the Brooklyn Bridge, Hamann Howard was a resident of Brooklyn Heights from 1959 until she moved to California in June 2006.

Howard was a longtime member and former president of the Atlantic Gallery, a SoHo gallery that originally opened on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. She had many solo shows at Atlantic Gallery, including a retrospective in 1999. Born in Cleveland, Howard attended the Laurel School. She entered Skidmore College with the class of 1950 but, after two years, transferred to Pratt Institute, where she received a BFA in 1956. In the 1950s, Ms. Howard was a cover artist for The Reporter magazine and exhibited in the Roko Gallery in Manhattan. Howard was a member of Mrs. Field’s Literary Club and of The Painting Group, a group of artists, including her friends David Levine, Richard Lincoln, Aaron Shikler and Thomas Beuchner, who have met regularly for more than 30 years to paint.

Several of the artist's works have already been posted for sale on eBay, with more to come in the following weeks. These new works nicely compliment the numerous already listed paintings that we currently have for sale by fellow New York City female artists Agnes M. Richmond and Charlotte Livingston.

Previously undervalued and overlooked, American women artists such as Agnes Richmond and Charlotte Livingston are receiving renewed interest in the art market. Richmond is particularly noteworthy because of her impressionist style oil portraits of American women and children; while Livingston worked mostly in watercolors depicting landscapes in and around the New York City area.

Agnes Richmond, Woman with Floral Blouse, Oil, 20th C. Item Number: 130128176454

Charlotte Livingston, Kennebunk Port, ME, WC, 1968. Item Number: 130134048820

Check out these and numerous similar works for sale by all three artists at our store website: http://bloomantiques.com/

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