Hans Voigt Steffen: Abstract Oil on Canvas

Sven Lukin: Silkscreen #2 Released by Pace Gallery in NY 1969 Limited Edition

Sven Lukin: Silkscreen #1 Released by Pace Gallery in NY 1969 Limited Edition

AP16 Armchair by Hans Wegner. Beech frame with an olive leather cushion. Manufactured by AP Stolen, Copenhagen.

The highland wingback chair is a sculptural, wide-scale chair with a minimal metal base and down-wrapped seat cushion.  The Lawson-Fenning collection is designed and handmade in Los...

Midcentury oil on canvas by B. Keville.

We cannot find a signature but there may be one under frame. Painting has depth and interest.

Excellent example of a large oil on canvas abstraction by Fred Hocks from 1957. This painting was included in the 1976 retrospective at the Fine Arts Gallery in San Diego which later became the San Diego Museum of Art. No painter embodies San Diego’s early avant-garde more than Fred (Ferdinand) Hocks, a German-born painter who began visiting San Diego in the late 1920s after studies at the California School of Fine Art in San Francisco and the Art Students League in New York. Fellow painter Dan Dickey credited Hocks in 1947 with “opening up pathways for future, more enlightened generations (of artists),” and predicted that Fred Hocks would be “esteemed a master.” During the post-war years Hocks was assistant director of the San Diego School of Arts and Crafts, a private art school in La Jolla, and was instrumental in keeping affordable artist’s studios in Spanish Village. Along with modern architect Lloyd Ruocco, Fred Hocks co-founded the dynamic Allied Artists Council with Belle Baranceanu, Everett Gee Jackson, Dan Dickey and John Olsen. The well-travelled Hocks exhibited in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, Paris, Mallorca and Guadalajara, had several one-person shows at the Art Center La Jolla/La Jolla Museum of Art and at the Fine Arts Gallery (SDMA). The San Diego Museum of Art held a major retrospective of his painting in 1976, just a few years before his death. He brought a continental element to the local art scene and is described in Bruce Kamerling’s 100 Years of Art in San Diego as “one of the most adventurous local artists…an intelligent and articulate defender of modern tendencies in art.” Local arts and architecture writer James Britton called Fred Hocks “the dean of the San Diego moderns...

1967 signed Gabriel Godard oil on canvas in a gilt wood frame. Titled "Femme a la toilette."