This unique and rare painting on canvas is a masterpiece created by the famous Jewish artist Louis Gothelf. The painting depicts a striking family portrait from their private collection with incredible detail and a perfect blend of expressionism and realism styles. It is signed by the artist and is an original piece created in 1968.


Measuring 24x20 inches, this one-of-a-kind (OOAK) painting features figure and a portrait theme that is perfect for any art collector or enthusiast. It is unframed and made using oil painting production technique. The painting has its origin in Michigan, USA, and the culture of the region can be seen in the beautiful strokes and intricate details. Grab this masterpiece and add to your art collection today!


Mr. Gothelf's daughter, Sue Marx, joined Pamela Conn in directing the film "Young at Heart," which focused on Mrs. Shwayder's career and remarriage late in life and how she coped with the losses of her first husband and sons Warren, who died in a scuba accident, and Richard, who died of cancer soon after. The film was shown at the New York Film Festival and won the Academy Award in the short subject category in 1988.


Reva Shwayder Gothelf, 91, an artist whose marriage as an octogenarian was chronicled in an Academy Award-winning documentary. Her marriage to another artist, Louis Gothelf in 1986, when she was 84 and he was 85, became the subject of “Young at Heart.” The popular documentary, which focused on her career and how she coped with the death of her first husband after a 62-year marriage as well as with her remarriage, won an Oscar for short subjects in 1983. A native of Chicago educated at the University of Chicago, she taught herself to paint in middle age and exhibited in such venues as the Detroit Institute of Arts and Pennsylvania Academy of Arts. She sold hundreds of her works to private collectors and such corporate clients as Ford, Chrysler, IBM and Kreske. On Thursday in Franklin, Mich., after a stroke.