About R. S. Johnson Fine Art
R. S. Johnson Fine Art is celebrating nearly seventy-five years as a Chicago-based gallery specializing in museum quality works. Our collection ranges from Old Masters to Impressionism and Modernism and featured artists include Dürer, Rembrandt, Piranesi, Goya, Barnabè, Czobel, Gromaire, and Picasso. Over the decades, R. S. Johnson’s expert staff has produced more than 160 scholarly catalogs and books, ranging from Old Master prints and drawings to the art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. These publications are respected internationally for their research and ...Read More
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Featured Pieces
Nu, mains dans ses cheveux (Nude, Hands in Her Hair)
By Marcel Gromaire
Located in Chicago, IL
Signed and dated, upper right
Provenance:
Atelier of the artist
Category
1950s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Paper
Autoportrait avec chèvre (Self Portrait with Goat)
By Marc Chagall
Located in Chicago, IL
Signed Chagall/Marc in blue watercolor (lower right); inscribed in pencil (right margin); inscribed by another hand épreuve rehaussée (left margin)
The authenticity of this work has...
Category
Early 20th Century Portrait Prints
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph
St. Sebastian
By Duilio Barnabe
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting is Barnabe's Modernist re-imagining of the dramatic Renaissance and Baroque paintings he would have known in his native Italy of St. Sebastian, an early Christian saint...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rue dans la banlieu de Paris (Street scene on the outskirts of Paris)
By Roger Lersy
Located in Chicago, IL
This exuberantly-painted Parisian street scene is typical of Lersy's colorful and energetic style. His work combines mid-century Modern abstraction with subjects beloved by the Impre...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Arlecchino in blu e grigio (Harlequin in Blue and Gray)
By Duilio Barnabe
Located in Chicago, IL
This work is signed by Barnabè in the lower right. Harlequins were one of Barnabè's favorite subjects, reminders of the costumed revellers at the famous Carnival of Venice celebrated...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Gouache
Figura seduta (Seated figure)
By Duilio Barnabe
Located in Chicago, IL
The painting is signed at the lower right by Barnabè.
In 1959, French art critic Michel Concil-Lacoste, in the newspaper Le Monde, expressed his views on Barnabè: "Barnabè is a pain...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Great Draughtsman Sitting (Self-Portrait)
By Jacques Villon
Located in Chicago, IL
This etching is signed and numbered by the artist and was printed in an edition of 50. The references for this work are: Auberty & Perussaux 266 and Ginestet & Pouillon E. 385 II/II...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Still Life with Pitcher (Nature morte au pichet)
By Duilio Barnabe
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting is signed and dated by Barnabè in the lower right. Barnabè's still-lives of simple everyday objects such as water pitchers, coffee cups, vases and bowls are painted in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vedute di Roma (3rd state) (Frontispiece of series, with Statue of Minerva)
By Giovanni Battista Piranesi
Located in Chicago, IL
Views of Rome (Vedute di Roma): Frontispiece for the whole series, with Statue of Minerva.
A fine impression of the rare 3rd state (of seven) of this m...
Category
Mid-17th Century Old Masters Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Young Girl in Pink
By Béla Czóbel
Located in Chicago, IL
Béla Czóbel, Paintings, Watercolors, Drawings, R. S. Johnson Fine Art, Chicago, 1996: no. 60 and reproduced on page 95 of catalogue.
Category
1960s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Young Girl
By Béla Czóbel
Located in Chicago, IL
A wonderful example of Czobel’s most expressive drawing.
Signed, lower right
Category
1930s Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Paper
Maisons dans l'Allier
By Louis Neillot
Located in Chicago, IL
Signed lower right and dedicated: "a Madame Bertram amicalement"
Madame Bertram is the wife of Abel Bertram (1871-1954), a post-impressionist artist who with his wife were close frie...
Category
20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
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