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Lajos Markos"Evening Thunder" Oil Painting

Currency:USD Category:Antiques Start Price:4,000.00 USD Estimated At:8,000.00 - 15,000.00 USD
Lajos Markos Evening Thunder  Oil Painting
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Lajos Markos R.A. (1917-1993) "Evening Thunder" 34" x 36" oil on canvas, signed lower left. Lajos Markos painted the huge "Siege of the Alamo" which now hangs in the Capitol of Texas. Lajos Was commissioned to paint John Wayne, Robert Kennedy, Pablo Casals, Sam Houston for the Sam Houston Memorial Museum, Huntsville, Texas. Tim McCoy and Tom Mix for the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City, OK, "Heroes of the Alamo" for the old Texas Commerce Bank in Houston, Texas. "Royal Tanks Battle" that was commissioned by Field Marshall Montgomery in 1946, that hangs in the Bovington Dorset Museum in England, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, General George S. Patton among others. Unlike most painters like Russell and Remington who sketched the images in pencil, on canvas before painting the scene, Markos begins painting, creating each masterpiece. A great portrait and western artist of the 20th century.