Selected Works by Joseph Oppenheimer

VINCENT PRAGER, 6 YRS OLD

Painting by Joseph Oppenheimer “19” added by future lawyer Vincent for precision!
By Joseph Oppenheimer.

GREGOR PIATIGORSKY

Famous Russian cellist
Piatigorsky was world famous. In 1937 he married Jacqueline de Rothschild, of the famous Rothschild family. His later life was lived in California after fleeing France when the Nazis occupied the country.
Oil by Joseph Oppenheimer.

MR. AND MRS. HSIUNG

Chinese author.

GLADIOLAE

On board S.S Homeric on the Atlantic Sept 26th 1958
The Oppenheimers usually summered in London and wintered in Montreal, mainly because of a lack of proper central heating in post-war England; so this was most probably a trip on this beautiful Italian passenger liner from Southampton to Montreal.
Watercolour by Joseph Oppenheimer

ONE OF THE VANDERBILT’S

Rockport, Mass.
She had come to visit Rockport but lived in Hawaii. JO was commissioned to paint her, which he did, but kept this extra oil sketch for himself.
By Joseph Oppenheimer

RENNEE ASHERSON AKAN

Famous British Actress
London, 1945
Oil by Joseph Oppenheimer

ONE OF JOSEPH OPPENHEIMER’S BEAUTIFUL WOMEN MODELS

Oil by Joseph Oppenheimer

VIEW FROM 91 COMMERCIAL RD. [the Santos’], 1953 PROVINCETOWN

Watercolour by Joseph Oppenheimer
The Oppenheimers and Pragers spent several summers in Provincetown in the mid-1950’s rather than in Rockport, where they summered in the years both before and after.
By Joseph Oppenheimer

BBC HEADQUARTERS, PORTLAND PLACE, UPPER REGENT STREET, LONDON,1948

By Joseph Oppenheimer.

THE PIER, HIDDENSEE, NORTH GERMANY

1926, When the Oppenheimer family did not summer in Heringsdorf, they visited Hiddensee, another German North Sea resort in Germany.
Oil on wood by Joseph Oppenheimer

LESLIE ROBINSON ON A HORSE, ROCKPORT, MASS., 1957

The Robinsons were from Boston and became good Rockport friends of the Oppenheimers and Pragers. Eva Prager also did an imaginary painting of Leslie, in a different costume.
Oil by Joseph Oppenheimer

EVA PRAGER

Painted in Rockport, Mass., 1957, by Joseph Oppenheimer, with one of JO’s beloved tiger lilies in a vase. The Oppenheimers and Pragers rented an apartment in Rockport each summer for three months, often at The Sail Loft, a black clapboard building surrounded by tiger lilies. JO did numerous sketches, drawings, watercolours and even oils of tiger lilies.
Oil by Joseph Oppenheimer

EVA PRAGER

Painted around 1951, with dedication to “Puppi” – a family name for Eva, Vincent and Richi.
Oil by Joseph Oppenheimer

BRITISH GENERAL

Lieut.-General “Straffer” Gott and his wife were good friends of the Oppenheimer’s. Gott was killed during World War II, August 7th 1942, while flying to North Africa to take command of the British Eighth Army from Claude Auchinleck, because the Germans mistakenly believed Churchill was on the flight and shot it down. After Gott’s death the posting was then given to Field-Marshall Montgomery. The two families remained friends after the war, and beyond, and the Oppenheimers and Pragers used to spend holiday time at the Gott`s country home `Beniguet`, in Trebetherick, North Cornwall when the Gotrts were not using it.
Oil by Joseph Oppenheimer

LARGE NUDE

This painting has been exhibited many times on both sides of the Atlantic.
Oil by Joseph Oppenheimer