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"Village on a River Bend"

by

ABRAHAM MANIEVICH

b. 1881,

Mstislavi,Mogilev, Russia.

d.1942, Bronx, NY

oil on board, 30 x 26 inches

Signed, lower right

SOLD

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This important painter has a half page listing in WWW in American Art. For his exhibition record, which includes solos at some of the most prestigious galleries in the world, such as the Durand-Ruel Gal. in Paris, 1913, and the list of museums worldwide that include his work as part of their permanent collection, please ask to see WWW.

Manievich was known as a Post-Impressionist landscape painter. His subjects were Ukrainian and Lithuanian village and country scenes, and street scenes of Moscow, Kiev, and Petrograd.

He painted in a bold Fauvist style, and exhibited with the important French Fauvists. He received critical acclaim for his first solo exhibition at the famed Durand-Ruel Gallery in Paris,1913.

He was born 1881 in Russia, and died 1942 in the Bronx, NY. He emigrated to the US in 1922, settling in the Bronx. He painted regional scenes in Pittsburgh, villages along the Hudson River and in Connecticut, and winter scenes in Canada. His exhibitions were praised for their lyrical yet vigorous brushwork and expressive use of color.

He exhibited at the Brooklyn Mus., 1923; Babcock Gal. NYC, 1924 (solo); Peabody Inst, Baltimore, 1924 (solo); BAC (Copley Soc.), 1925 (solo); AIC, 1925; Carnegie Inst., 1925; and many more until the the 1960's. His works hang at: Jewish, Mus., NYC; Broklyn Mus.; Miami MoMA; Russian Mus., Leningrad; Jewish Nat'l Mus., Jerusalem; and the Harod Mus., Isreal. He traveled through the Northeast painting regional scenes in Pittsburg, PA.; villages along the Hudson River ,and in Connecticut,
 and winter scenes in Canada. 

 


 
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