"Maternity Nicolas Sternberg (1901-1960)"
Large oil on hardboard, depicting in a very graphic style a woman breast-feeding a newborn with the statue of a virgin in the background, Allegory of the Virgin, by the Hungarian artist Nicolas Sternberg (1901-1960) Signed lower right dated 1949 Framed Born in Hungary in 1901, active in Munich then very quickly in Paris, Influenced by the expressionist movement, illustrator, painter and prolific and brilliant designer, he exhibited at the Galerie Georges Petit in 1929.