NAOMI LIBRESCU paintings/watercolors

“Naomi L.B. having journeyed through colorful lands and cities of the world during her many years with her distinguished husband, Konrad Bercovici, and while the author told the tales of those people across the pages of many of our leading magazines and between covers of a score of widely read books, his wife’s eyes were absorbing their kaleidoscopic color and pageantry, and her deft hand was setting them in vibrant tones and flowing line on many a canvas.

The Balkans and Mittel Europe, the Gypsy tribes of Romania and France have yielded the material for a multitude of studies for the ambitious painter.

California, however appears to have provided a new field. In its lush vegetation, its multitude of graceful forms, its tropical atmosphere and riotous color, she has found an overpowering challenge to a brilliant palette and a poetic imagination. It is readily apparent that Naomi L.B. interprets herself in an unreal reality through fantasy and mood.”
-Earl L. Stendahl, 1938

1ST PRIZE, CALIFORNIA WATERCOLOR SOCIETY, 1937

“Naomi L.B. has been admired by painters as one of the great colorists of our time. Without subordinating drawing to color she has found the perfect harmony between the two elements. She thinks and sings
with her brush. Her paintings are original, they are unique and
it is an experience to see them.
Her watercolors have the solidity
of oil paintings. Her oils, often have the translucency of watercolors.
The sculpture of Naomi L.B. is also of great power and originality, especially busts she has done of her husband, Konrad Bercovici and of family friends actor Melvyn Douglas and T.E. Lawrence, Lawrence of Arabia. This is a show of great power and originality.”
-Review: Stanley Rose Gallery, Hollywood, CA