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Hey friends. I found this today: an oil painting of a winter snowscape, dated " '69".

I'd appreciate help with the signature.

And I'd really appreciate your comments about the piece itself. A decent artist? The brushstrokes seem confident to me, but perhaps not always successful. Does the darker tree, right, look weird to you? What's the blue swath low center, water?

Image 18" x 25"; frame apprx 21" x 28"

Thank you. (And sorry for the way my 'image re-sizer app' sometimes pixilates pics.)

 

M Rahm/Tahm 14 aug 69?
Found a Margit Rahm, but her sig is different.

 

Certainly someone who knew what s/he wanted to do and did it. The technique is called impasto. May be a local artist. Does the landscape look similar to the area where you found the work? You can always open the back up and see if any information lies beneath.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impasto

Debora

 

I think the whole scene is of water iced over, with breaks here & there.

 

Thanks. It does not look like any landscape around here. I'm one of those 'geo-guessers' and it's not the west coast. Perhaps an eastern US landscape? Maybe the plains?

 

To me, the room light seems to darken the image. I hope I did not over do it with this adjustment. I like it better now.

 

I retract my opinion. That row of trees couldn't be there if water.

 

A bit of fantasy? I agree with Bronwen - those don't look like evergreens and they wouldn't have full leaves if it was winter. It otherwise looks like winter with a flat plain going down to the water (dark blue on the left) from a treed hill with far off land in the distance. See how the dark blue in the far center has a straight horizon but then it looks hilly on the left.

 

I rather like this. Reminds me a bit of the Canadian Group of 7 artists' work.

 

Is the signature in Cyrillic?

 

Interesting idea.

Also, if it is a '69' date, I have no idea what that little mark after the numerals is...

 

Hadn't noticed that yet, but that is г for года (year)

 

Thanks @Lithographer and @Marote.

So, a Cyrillic date, and therefore possibly it's an Eastern European / Russian painting?

 

Hum... That's interesting. So a steppe perhaps?

Debora

 

Thanks for the help everybody.

Here's a pic in more mellow light, as per @Roaring20s comment.

 

I love it. The painting style is also seen a lot in my part of the world, Dutch Brabant. So even though this isn't Brabant, it feels like home.

@Aznathalie could you take a look at the signature please? Is it Cyrillic?

 

Thanks, AJ!

 

Гантман Моисей. Moisej Fajbovic Gantman.
https://art-nostalgie.com.ua/gantman.html

 

Ukrainian. And an early and very nice example of his work. Wonder how it ended up so far from home.

Debora

 

And it does look like the Ukraine, doesn't it?

Debora