Narcisse Virgile Diaz De La Peña (1807-1876), Forest on the Lakeshore (Forest of Fontainebleau?). Oil on board. Signed. 34X52 cm. Good condition. Minor blemishes to paint and blemishes to edges of board. Framed, 73X55 cm with frame. Narcisse Virgile Diaz De La Peña, French painter of Spanish extraction, belonging to the Barbizon school. The Forest of Fontainebleau was a source of inspiration for many of his works. Provenance: Private collection. Purchased at Galerie Fischer, Lucerne, Switzerland, November 11, 2002.

Charles Verlat (1824-1890), Bedouin Girl, [ca. 1875-1877]. Oil on Canvas. Signed: "Charles Verlat / Jerusalem". 70.5X100 cm. Framed, 91X122 cm with frame. Minor blemishes. Charles Michel Maria Verlat (1824-1890), born in Antwerp, studied at the Antwerp Royal Academy of Fine Arts (later becoming a professor of drawing and director of the academy). He left for Paris in 1850 and studied there at the Académie des Beaux-Arts. In 1875 he travelled to Egypt and Palestine, remaining in Palestine for two years. The people and landscapes of Palestine are the subjects of many of his paintings.

Georges (Jiří) Kars (1880-1945), A Steet in Saint-Tropez, France, 1928. Charcoal on Paper. Signed and dated. 20X27 cm. Good condition. Stains. Matted. Georges Kars (Jiří Karpeles; 1880-1945), was born in Kralupy, Bohemia, the Austrian Empire. He started his studies in Prague, then in Munich under the painter Franz von Stuck and others. In 1908, after short periods in Prague and Madrid, he settled in Montmartre, Paris, where he belonged to the circle of Montmartre artists and the Paris School of Art. Later, he lived and worked intermittently in Spain and France. In 1942, escaping the Nazis, he fled to Switzerland. Upon hearing the news about his family's murder, he committed suicide. Provenance: The Uzi Agassi Collection.

Portraits of musicians, 19 original sketches and a booklet by the artist and caricaturist B.F. Dolbin (Benedikt Fred Dolbin). • 19 sketched portraits of musicians (all except one in pencil). All captioned; 15 of them signed and five dated. 29.5X25 on average. One sketch the size of 59X47.5 cm. Good overall condition. Some stains, tears, pieces of tape and creases. Browning to some portraits. • Die Festwoche des Reichsverbandes Deutscher Tonkünstler und Musiklehrer anlässlich der Internationalen Ausstellung Musik im Leben der Völker in Frankfurt a./M. 16.-21. August 1927. Berlin: Verlagsanstalt Deutscher Tonkünstler [1927]. 34 plates featuring dozens of portraits of musicians by Dolbin. [1] printed cover, 34 plates, 28 cm. Missing back cover. Good condition. Minor creases. Benedikt Fred Dolbin (1883-1971) was born in Vienna. After working for some time as a civil engineer and a cabaret singer, he turned to illustration and sketching. Caricatures by him were published in journals, books, theater programmes and advertisements. Since 1926, he lived in Berlin. In 1935, escaping Nazi persecution, he settled in New York, where he continued to work as an illustrator and caricaturist.