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Title: Landscape Medium: Oil on board Style: Impressionist Size: 16" x 20" Frame Size: 21 1/2" x 25 1/2 Age: 1950s Condition: Good, loooks a bit dirty because of age good condition for its age. Artist: Arbit Blatas (1908 - 1999) Arbit Blatas was active/lived in New York / France, Lithuania. Arbit Blatas is known for portrait, landscape and still life painting, sculpture. Recreated by the artist after disappearing in a warehouse theft seven years ago, a series of paintings of scenes from Kurt Weill's Threepenny Opera have surfaced at a Manhattan gallery. The 19 works by the painter and sculptor Arbit Blatas, who died in 1999 at the age of 90, are on view with a film by Mr. Blatas's widow, Regina Resnik, the mezzo-soprano and stage director, through Jan. 27 at the Leubsdorf Art Gallery at 68th Street and Lexington Avenue. Mr. Blatas, a Lithuanian-born member of the School of Paris, attended the opera's premiere in Berlin in 1928 and based his paintings on a 1950's revival at the Theater de Lys in Greenwich Village. The production starred Weill's widow, Lotte Lenya, and included Ed Asner, Jerry Orbach, Jerry Stiller and Jo Sullivan Loesser. Many of the actors are recognizable in the paintings. The originals were to go to a Weill museum in Dessau, Germany, before they were stolen from a Manhattan storage facility in 1994. Mr. Blatas recreated them from photographs.ed colors related to the Impressionists. Known for his flamboyant manner, Chase greatly influenced American taste and the American art world of his day. Provenance: Collection from Estate of Iris in New Jersey