David Smernoff Gallery

03/10/2026

🌿 A quiet summer moment from the 1920s…
Sunlight breaks through the trees and reflects in a calm woodland stream — a beautiful example of early Czech landscape painting.

“Reflections of Summer”
🎨 Alois Kalvoda (1875–1934)
🇨🇿 Czech / Czechoslovakian School
🖼 Oil on canvas
📏 28 × 22 inches
📅 Circa 1920s

Kalvoda studied at the Prague Academy under the celebrated landscape master Julius Marák, whose circle helped shape modern Czech landscape painting.
This serene composition captures the peaceful beauty of the European countryside — timeless, luminous, and quietly atmospheric.
Would you hang this in a living room or study?
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03/08/2026

03/08/2026

The Cancan
Circa 1930
Alberto Rossi (1879-1965)
Oil /board 22 x 26 (56 x 66 cm)

Alberto María Rossi (1879–1965) was an Italian-born Argentine painter associated with the early development of modern art in Argentina. Raised in Buenos Aires, he studied at the Sociedad Estímulo de Bellas Artes under Eduardo Sívori and Ernesto de la Cárcova before continuing his training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bologna.

Rossi exhibited widely after returning to Argentina and became a founding member of the influential Grupo Nexus, which sought to promote a distinctly national artistic identity in the early 20th century. He also taught drawing and painting at leading institutions, including the National Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Buenos Aires.

His work ranges from urban scenes and port views of Buenos Aires to genre subjects such as circus and social life, rendered in a style rooted in academic realism with post-Impressionist tonal qualities. Rossi’s paintings are represented in Argentine museum collections and remain part of the country’s established early-modern painting tradition.

02/14/2026

Cerro del Rey”
1918
Ismael Eduardo Astarloa
1891-1954
Argentine
Oil on board 75 x 85 cm
$1200
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Ismael entered the National Academy of Fine Arts in 1908.He was a student of Bermúdez, Cesáreo B. de Quirós, Pío Collivadino, and Victorica. He belonged to the group of the country’s first Impressionist visual artists.

Together with Ítalo Botti, Martín, and Luis Perlotti — they formed the National Society of Plastic Artists. He graduated in 1916 as a Professor of Drawing and Painting.

He exhibited his various works at the National Salon from 1913 to 1922.
• 1916: Córdoba and Rosario Salon
• 1917: Witcomb Gallery
• 1918: National Society of Plastic Artists
• 1933: Municipal Salon of San Fernando
• 1950–53: National Salon
• 1951: Müller Gallery
• 1953: Müller
His paintings can be found in the provincial museums of San Juan, Santiago del Estero, Rosario, and La Plata. In the Province of Buenos Aires, his works are in the municipalities of San Isidro, Maipú, San Miguel del Monte, Tandil, and in the Municipal Library of Mar del Plata.

He was a drawing professor at the General San Martín Military High School, worked for the National Council of Education, and was the first scientific illustrator at the Bernardino Rivadavia Museum of Natural Sciences from 1931 to 1953. He is included in the Argentine Dictionary of Plastic Artists.

10/21/2025

Afternoon in the Countryside
Circa 1940’s
Aleksei Vladimirovich Isupov
1889-1957
Oil on board 9 x 14 inches
Russian

Aleksey was a distinguished Russian realist painter and a prominent representative of salon painting, whose life and work were closely intertwined with Russia, Central Asia, and Italy. His works, imbued with a profound sense of color and light, are housed in major museums worldwide, including the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Uffizi Gallery.

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10/21/2025

Afternoon in the Countryside
Circa 1940’s
Aleksei Vladimirovich Isupov
1889-1957
Oil on board 9 x 14 inches
Russian

Aleksey was a distinguished Russian realist painter and a prominent representative of salon painting, whose life and work were closely intertwined with Russia, Central Asia, and Italy. His works, imbued with a profound sense of color and light, are housed in major museums worldwide, including the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Uffizi Gallery.

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10/21/2025

Afternoon in the Countryside
Circa 1940’s
Aleksei Vladimirovich Isupov
1889-1957
Oil on board 9 x 14 inches
Russian

Aleksey was a distinguished Russian realist painter and a prominent representative of salon painting, whose life and work were closely intertwined with Russia, Central Asia, and Italy. His works, imbued with a profound sense of color and light, are housed in major museums worldwide, including the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Uffizi Gallery.
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03/16/2025

JACOB MOSES SEMIATIN (American, 1915-2003)
Abstract expressionist
circa 1950’s
Oil on Canvas 36 x 24 inches


Jacob Semiatin was born 1915 to Hungarian Jewish Parents in Dublin, Ireland. Semiatin emigrated with his parents and siblings to America in 1920
  He was an active member of the Brooklyn Society of artists
And was totally immersed in The New York School of abstract expressionism
Semiatin had his first one-man show at Contemporary Arts Gallery in New York, which is known for introducing artist Mark Rothko. Other prominent exhibitions include the Brooklyn Museum, Leo Castelli Gallery and Galerie Internationale.
Semiatin was notorious for his lack of interest in exhibiting or selling his work. Even though he had lasting relationships and strong connections with major figures in the art world, he refused to let himself get embroiled in the art politics of the New York gallery scene. Semiatin would argue about his lack of ambition with his friend Leo Castelli, the renowned owner of one of New York’s premier galleries which regularly showcased the works by the abstract expressionist painters. At the ascension of his career as a fine art painter and without explanation, he withdrew from the gallery world. As a result, the majority of his works were seldom shown and rarely sold. His legacy as a painter continues to be written.
Semiatin died in Manhattan in 2003.
Biography from K. Nathan Gallery
Source:  J Kenneth Fine Art
Submitted by:  K Nathan Gallery

01/17/2025

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