Location of 1934 Ivy Langton naive style painting identified.

My lovely wife & oldest daughter are in Paris at the moment & my wife asked me the name of the street in an Ivy Langton painting. There is a street name in the painting but it had always been hard to read. Today I got the light just right & that lead me to see if I could see what the view is like now.

Here is the view as it is now(ish) cropped from a Google Street View:

Here is the painting (naive style of course) done in circa 1934:

You can read more about Ivy Langton HERE.

Kurt Seligmann painting (probably new to you!).

I've just returned (yesterday) from a holiday with a few stop offs in various location in the North of Britain. This included some nice cultural stuff in Edinburgh and Glasgow. We saw quite a few surreal works here mostly by Picasso. Continuing along the surreal lines...

As you may know, Kurt Seligmann was a Swiss-American Surrealist painter and engraver.

What you may not know is that there is a connection with the English naive artist Ivy Langton. The connections continue but I will leave that aspect of things for another time & place, suffice it to say that it is along these lines that I can show you a Kurt Seligmann painting that has been in the dark for a while which I've been lucky enough to see.

If you like your surreal art and have any comments I would be delighted to hear them.

For now I will simply present this snap shot of the work leaning against some old paper and resting on a sheet (you might want to view it the other way up, you decide!):