Ivan Messenger

'Making Empanadas', California Watercolor Society, San Diego Museum of Art

Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1950. A loose study of a woman seated in a dress, resting her chin on her hand and recli...

Signed lower right 'Di Gesu' for Victor di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1958. A substantial oil a young woman, (possibly Victor's wife, the artist, Janet Ament), sho...

Signed lower right, 'Ludvig Jacobsen' (Danish, 1890-1957) and painted circa 1915. Previously with: Arnbaks Kunsthandel, Bredgade 24, Copenhagen, from label verso. Framed dimensions: ...

Signed lower right, 'Ludvig Jacobsen' (Danish, 1890-1957) and dated 1926. An exceptional early twentieth-century figural work by this notable Danish modernist and follower of Wattea...

Di Gesu estate stamp verso and painted circa 1955. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and the Chouinard Art School before movi...

Signed lower right, 'Dambourgez' for Edouard-Jean Dambourgez (French, 1844-1931), titled, 'Paris' and painted circa 1880. Titled with inscription, verso, on old backing, ''Taverne Pausset', grands boulevards a Paris". A fine and detailed, cabinet-size oil painting showing an elegant Parisian cafe and bar, the interior lit by luminous, floor-to-ceiling stained-glass windows and filled with fashionably-dressed patrons drinking and socializing beneath a haze of pipe and cigar smoke. A minor, period masterpiece, providing an animated view of the city's fin-de-siècle nightlife, and characterised by finely observed and fully-realized figures showing an unusual degree of both social commentary and psychological penetration. Edouard-Jean Dambourgez first studied with Jules Lefebvre and, subsequently, as an engraver and chromo-lithographer under Gustave Boulanger. In 1880, Dambourgez commenced exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français, and, in 1883, was elected a member of the Society. Throughout the 1880's, he exhibited frequently and with success at the major Paris salons including the Salon d'Automne, the Salon des Independants and the Salon des Champs-de-Mars. In 1884, he was commissioned by the Louvre to engrave all illustrations for the catalog to the Thiers Collection, recently bequeathed to the Museum. The recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards, Dambourgez was awarded an honorable distinction by the Salon in 1888, and an honorable mention in 1891. In 1888, the critic Albert Wolff recommended his painting, 'A Cheese Shop', for inclusion at the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1891, the city of Paris bought his large canvas, 'The Cream and Cheese Market...

Post impressionist signed and dated oil on paper laid on panel by French painter Paul Elie Gernez. The work depicts a woman wearing a black dress with...

A fine mid 20th century post impressionist oil of a young woman sewing by lamplight circa 1960's oil on canvas 46cmx 70cm good gallery frame 63cmx 88cm Very atmospheric light effect painted in expressive colourfield palette creating a soft diffused atmosphere under the old lamp...

Antique post impressionist Art Deco figurative oil painting by French artist Bernard Py. This large size animated interior painting of two wom...

Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - Woman from behind - Oil on canvas cardnoard Oil measurements 55x46 cm. Frameless. Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan...

EMILIO GRAU SALA Spanish, 1911 - 1975 INTERIEUR EN ESPAGNE signed "Grau Sala" (lower right) signed, titled and dated "GRAU SALA / Interieur en Espagne / 1964" (on the reverse) oil on...

CELSO LAGAR Spanish, 1891 - 1966 LES MUSICIENS signed "Lagar" (lower right) signed again, located & dated "Lagar / Paris 1928" (on the reverse) oil on canvas 23-3/4 x 28-3/4 inches ...