Featured Fine Artist - Jose Guerrero (Spanish/American, 1914-1991)

Watercolor and pencil on paper, circa 1950, unframed (matted). Inscribed and signed by the artist in ink lower edge: "Calle de las Arcas Zacatecas / J. Guerrero - Zac"..

Bloom Fine Art's Featured eBay Aution Listing this week is an original mid 20th Century signed watercolor by the listed Spanish/American artist Jose Guerrero (1914-1991)

A painter of abstraction, Jose Guerrero was born in Granada, Spain but spent most of his career in New York City where he was an active easel painter and from 1962 to 1965 was a teacher at the New School of Social Research. From 1940 to 1944, he studied at the Escuela Superior Bellas Artes San Fernando in Madrid, Spain and then spent two years enrolled in Paris at the Ecole des Beaux Arts. Among his exhibition venues were the Whitney Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Guggenheim Museum, and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

The artist's strong auction presence and high hammer prices can be viewed at www.askart.com.

Alexander Rutsch: Picasso's Stamp of Approval!

Mixed media, oil (possibly gouache) on newspaper, circa 1980, framed (with glass). Signed lower left corner: "Rutsch".

Bloom Fine Art's Featured Listing this week is a mixed media expressionist self portrait of listed artist Alexander Rutsch (1916-1997)

The artist's estate website tells of a defining moment in the artist's career:

Painter, sculptor and poet, Rutsch's oeuvre over the past four decades is tremendous. Celebrated and collected especially in Vienna, Paris, Brussels and New York, he studied with renowned teachers like Boeckl and Dorowsky and collaborated with such geniuses as Salvador Dali. Having left Vienna in the fifties, Rutsch moved to Paris and took the city's art scene by storm. There, Picasso was so enthralled with a portrait Rutsch has done of him that, in a state of great excitement, he countersigned it.

A similar self-portrait painting can be seen on the front page of the artist's website www.alexanderrutsch.com.