Exotic Vintage Painting by Alan Healey 1970s Framed Art Deco African Monkey

This vintage arabesque painting, signed by Alan Healey and painted in the early 1980s, depicts two North African men pulling their boat in from the sea for fishing. On the backdrop is a large building, possibly a hotel, with striped umbrellas...

A beautiful oil-on-canvas exotic painting representing two parrots in a jungle. Vibrant colours baldly brushed and framed in a heavy gilded wooden a...

Alluring acrylic on canvas painting of an abstract ship in the night, with deep blue and black hues. The acrylic paint is embossed in places, giving it a depth of texture. Signed "Ri...

A bold brushed portrait painting of Monet by Robert Falcucci, painted in the 1920s. Homage to an artist. Titled and signed on the back of the canvas. Robert Falcucci is mainly fam...

A beautiful painting representing an exotic half-nude woman, dressed in a colourful (possibly straw) skirt, with a similar headpiece and choker. The canvas and the back side are full...

An explosive painting called 'The Chandelier', depicting a group of people seated around a chandelier. Light but strong brushstrokes fire up this painting. TiBor Cervenak was a forme...

Tamar Markova Folk Art painting, 1970s.

Beautiful painting by Fred Rubik, hand-signed on the back. Oil on canvas with museum frame.

American intra-war artist and illustrator Porter Woodruff (1894-1959). Arabian Horse scene, oil and gold leaf on board with chalky gouache. Signed Woodruff on lower right of painting. Signature somewhat obscured by frame. His Art Deco-influenced paintings are highly decorative and appealing, the compositions complex and well-thought out. The gold leaf background is decorative and elegant. His are rare Modernist paintings by an artist who found himself at the very heart of design, fashion and celebrity life in the early part of the century. Label at back for Pitt & Scott Ltd London - well known for its expertise in handling antiques, works of art and fragile artefacts. Dimensions: 11.5"h x 15.5"w (sight) 12.5"h x 17.5"w (frame) Porter Woodruff, was an illustrator artist and contributor to Vogue Magazine and Home & Garden (including covers for both). He was one of five artists stationed in Paris in 1923 for Vogue. Woodruff spent considerable time in Tunisia, North Africa, residing with his romantic partner, Romanian socialite George Sebastian. Sebastian owned a lavish, coastal property in then-trendy Hammamet, near Tunis on the Mediterranean. Sebastian fell in love with the simple beauty of the quiet fishing port of Hammamet and was the first of the international set of the times to build his villa there. He started a trend that has never ceased. Frank Lloyd Wright is said to have claimed Dar Sebastian to be ”the most beautiful house I have ever seen”. American and European intelligentsia and upper-crust were attracted to the area between the wars. The artists Cocteau, Elsa Schiaparelli, Paul Klee, Andre Gide, the Sitwells, and Cecil Beaton enjoyed visiting, partying, and undertaking what someone once described as indulging the opportunity to do 'some rather elaborate sinning'. Other visitors included Art Deco designer Jean-Michel Frank, Wallis Simpson, Somerset Maugham, and Greta Garbo, among others. The onset of war disrupted this scene and it never truly regained its former glory. Dar Sebastian was requisitioned by the 'Desert Fox', German General, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel...

This sensual and erotic like one of a kind original vintage work of art by Leo Engels is of the Art Deco period. It is a combination of gouache and water color. It is Belgium. There ...

Pair of tiger and lion Art Deco framed paintings. Oil on panel. Beautiful carved wood frames.

Pair of tiger and lion Art Deco framed paintings. Oil on panel. Beautiful carved wood frames.