William Henry Knight

The Finishing Touches

1856

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 27.5 x 19.5 inches Framed size: 33.75 x 26 inches Signed upper left

Oil on panel Panel size: 21.5 x 17.25 inches Signed??

Oil on panel Panel size: 26.5 x 19.5 inches Framed size: 35 x 28 inches Signed and dated 1878 lower left

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 21.5 x 17.75 inches Framed size: 33.25 x 29.5 inches Signed lower right

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 24 x 30 inches Signed lower left

Oil on canvas Canvas size: 12 x 9 inches Framed size: 19 x 15.75 inches Signed upper left

Guy Pene du Bois' "Two Figures in Courtroom" is a WPA era American scene oil painting created in a realistic style. Modernism at its best The work is framed by Heydenryk. Pène du Bois descended from French immigrants who settled in Louisiana in 1738 and was raised in a Creole household. He was born in 1884 in Brooklyn, NY and first studied with William Merritt Chase at the New York School of Art and later continued his training with Robert Henri. Pène du Bois was greatly impressed with Henri's credo that "real life" was subject matter for art and throughout his life a realist philosophy informed his art as well as his parallel career, art criticism. In 1905, Pène du Bois made his first visit to Paris where he painted scenes of fashionable people in cafes rendered in the dark tonalities and impasto associated with the Ashcan School. By 1920, he had achieved his mature style, which was characterized by stylized, rounded, almost sculptural figures painted with invisible brushstrokes. The subjects of his paintings were often members of society whom he gently satirized. In 1924, Pène du Bois and his wife, Floy, left for France where they would remain until 1930. Returning to America showcases pictures the artist produced after this very productive period abroad. After five years of living in France, Pène du Bois was able to observe American life with fresh eyes. His work becomes more psychologically intense and less satirical. In Girl at Table a slender, blond is shown gazing at a small statue that she holds at arm's distance. The meaning is elusive, but a powerful sense of longing is evoked. Similarly, paintings such as Dramatic Moment and Jane are taut with unresolved dialogue. Both pictures depict mysterious interiors in which a lone woman anxiously awaits the denouement of a suspenseful scene. Other pictures, for example, Chess Tables, Washington Square and Bar, New Orleans, recall Pene du Bois's Ashcan origins in their depiction of urban entertainment. During this period, landscape becomes an important subject for Pène du Bois. Girl Sketching...

Pierre Coquet - "Les pots gris"/"Grey pitchers" Reference number F438 73 x 54 cm The painting is not framed but it could be with a natural oak floated (s...

Pierre Coquet - Still life with a yellow tablecloth Reference number F380 The painting is not framed but it could be with a natural oak floated or black ...

This oil painting is part of the artist's ongoing exploration of imagery that draws upon the private and collective memories of expatriates from Soviet Russia. Formally, the work att...

MALGORZATA ROZMARYNOWSKA (born in 1955) She studied in the Public High School of Plastic Arts at the Department of Painting and Graphic and graduated in 1981 in Professor Wladyslaw J...

A very characterful image of a farrier or blacksmith enjoying a drink in an interior. Alfred H Green (working 1844-1878) A farrier in an interior enjoying a drink Signed Oil on boar...