* 6-5-1886, Boedapest  - † (?)-9-1952, New York

Karfiol studeerde aan de  kunstacademie te New York. Van 1901-06 verbleef hij in Parijs waar hij Pablo Picasso en Henri Matisse leerde kennen. Het werk dat hij in de jaren twintig maakte  doet denken aan dat van Picasso uit diens blauwe en roze periode. Zijn latere werk vertoonde invloeden van P.Auguste Renoir en Paul Cézanne, zoals blijkt uit zijn schilderij Zittend naakt (1929).

De schilderijen die rond 1935 ontstonden doen nogal formeel en gekunsteld aan, wat vooral geldt voor de grotere doeken. 

He began his studies at fourteen years of age at the National Academy of Design in New York and then studied in Paris at the Academie Julian. He was one of the earliest and most creative exponents of the Modernist movement in America. He was among the first artists to become part of the permanent collections of the MOMA (l925) and the Whitney Museum (1931).

He successfully merged European Expressionism with the American tradition of straightforward realism. Karfiol is one of the best-known members of the Oquinquit Art Colony. The art critic Hamilton Easter Field noted "those familiar with Karfiol's work find in it a tenderness and intensity of feelings so rare in America that there seems to be no one with whom he can be compared." His works are in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan, Corcoran, and Phillips Memorial Museum amongst others.

Werken:

Maine Cove "

Oil on canvas 24" X 30"
Karfiol exhibited at the famous Armory Show in 1913.

He also exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery biennials,
1928 - 1957; PAFA Ann. 1931 - 1952.

After a Swim, Ogunquit Beach
Oil on canvas
39 x 25 in. (99.1 x 63.5 cm)

Reflections
Oil on canvas 30"/40"
By Bernard Karfiol
1940

Still Life Composition,

c.1925;

oil/canvas, 36" x 28",

signed, nicely framed.

Karfiol was born in Hungary to American parents, and grew up in New York City. He was a youthful prodigy. At the age of 14, he enrolled at the National Academy of Design and a year later went to Paris to study with Jean-Paul Laurens. He exhibited at the Paris Salon, and was highly influenced by the work of Cezanne, Renoir, and Derain. He returned to the U.S. in 1906, and exhibited at the Armory Show in NYC in 1913. He spent the summers in Maine. His work is in the collections of the Carnegie Institute, L.A. County Museum, Museum of Modern Art, and the Whitney Museum. 5000-7000