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Art For Sale
Period: 18th Century and Earlier
Period: 1920s
The Windmill by François Vivares, after Rembrandt
Located in Middletown, NY
Engraving on cream laid paper, 8 x 5 7/8 inches (202 x 149 mm), trimmed at the platemark. Adhered at each corner to a small sheet of archival laid paper. Horizontal edge loss at the ...
Category

Mid-18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching

Antique American Impressionist Fall Hills Landscape Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted early American impressionist landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed.
Category

1920s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Noli Me Tangere Christ Magdalene Cignani Paint 17th Century Oil on canvas Italy
By Carlo Cignani (Bologna 1628 - Forlì 1719)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Late 17th-century Bolognese painter Circle of Carlo Cignani (Bologna 1628 - Forlì 1719) Noli me tangere ‘’Apparition of Christ to Mary Magdalene‘’ oil on canvas 120 x 92 cm framed ...
Category

17th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

Abraham and the Sacrifice of His Son Isaac by Adriaen Van Stalbemt, C. 1605-1610
Located in Stockholm, SE
Artist: Adriaen van Stalbemt (Stalbempt) 1580-1662 Title: Abraham and the Sacrifice of His Son Isaac “Das Opfer des Abraham” According to the Old...
Category

Early 1600s Old Masters Art

Materials

Copper

Surgical Instruments - Etching by Lorenz Heister - 1750
Located in Roma, IT
Surgical Instruments is part of the suite realized by Lorenz Heister in the series of Institutiones Chirurgicae, Amsterdam, Janssonius-Waesberg, 1750. Etching on paper. The work be...
Category

1750s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

A view of Paesteum with Grand Tourists in the foreground
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Pietro Antoniani (Milan circa 1740-1805) A view of Paesteum with Grand Tourists in the foreground Oil on canvas Painting Size 13 x 19 1/2 in Framed Size 17 x 24 in Provenance Sale,...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

Classical Landscape - French 17th century art Old Master oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb 17th century French Old Master oil painting is attributed to Jean Francois Millet. Painted circa 1670 it is a classical landscape with figures by a bend in a river in the...
Category

17th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

Portrait of a woman with a book
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Italian school circa 1560, circle of Bernardino Campi Portrait of a woman with a book Oil on panel H. 78 cm ; L. 57cm
Category

16th Century Italian School Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Painted Landscape with Knights and Ruins 18th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. North Italian school of the late 1700s-early 1800s. In the 'wide landscape, which lets the eye sweep over a vast plain with shaded hills looming on the horizon, an arc...
Category

18th Century and Earlier Other Art Style Art

Materials

Oil

Goats in a Landscape at Sunset - Antique Dutch Old Master Oil on Panel Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 18th century Dutch Old Master oil on panel depicting mountain goats in a landscape at sunset. Excellent quality work in very good original condition. The reverse of the ...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

'Derby Spectator' Limited Edition Oversize Silver Gelatin Print
Located in London, GB
Derby Spectator A spectator looking through binoculars at the Derby horse races, Epsom, Surrey, June 1923. (Photo by Hulton / Getty Archive) Silver gelatin fibre print 20 x 24" p...
Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Fox Terrier (2) - Drawing by Sirio Tofanari - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
A sculptor of animals, Sirio Tofanari (Florence 1886 – Milan 1969) is not inclined to the school discipline, he decides to learn and train as self-taught by travelling around Europe ...
Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Charcoal

Boats on the Thames - Original Drawing by Robert Louis Antral - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Boats is an original drawing in charcoal and pencil realized by Robert Louis Antral (1895-1939). This Artwork is depicted through strong and confident strokes in a well-balanced com...
Category

1920s Art

Materials

Charcoal, Pencil

Notre Dame de Paris
Located in Middletown, NY
A superb, dark impression of a well known scene by Arms. Etching with aquatint on watermarked handmade F.J. Head & Co. laid paper, 12 3/8 x 13 15/16 inches (315 x 354 mm), full marg...
Category

1920s American Modern Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Antique American Impressionist Mountain Lake Sailboat Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
American impressionist lake landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas board. Signed. Image size, 10H by 14L.
Category

1920s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Christ and the Woman of Samaria Among Ruins by James Bretherton after Rembrandt
Located in Middletown, NY
Bretherton, James (After Rembrandt van Rijn). Christ and the Woman of Samaria Among Ruins. London: c 1775. Etching on light cream laid paper, 4 3/4...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Handmade Paper, Etching, Laid Paper

They Thunder forth from Their Clouds-Lithograph by George Grosz - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
They Thunder forth from Their Clouds is an original lithograph, realized by George Grosz in 1922, from Die Raüber, edition Malik Verlag in 100 prints, plate n°8 da Die Raüber, hand-signed in pencil. "They thunder forth from their clouds about gentleness and forbearance, while they sacrifice human victims to the God of love." (Da donnern sie Sanftmut und Duldung aus ihren Wolken und bringen dem Gott der Liebe Menschenopfer.)" Sheet dimension: 61,5 x 42 cm. In very good conditions. Here representing a man in front of cross miserably praying, below of his feet laid down many dead bodies and ruined part of the city. here is one of his artwork affected by consequences drama of war. George Grosz (1893 -1959) was a German artist known especially for his caricatural drawings and paintings of Berlin life in the 1920s. He was a prominent member of the Berlin Dada and New Objectivity group during the Weimar Republic. He studied drawing at the Dresden Academy 1909-11 and at the School of Arts and Crafts in Berlin 1912-14, He was in the army 1914-15 and again for a short time in 1917, but spent the rest of the war in Berlin where he made violently anti-war drawings...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph, Paper

"Garland of Flowers with the Virgin, the Christ Child and Saint John"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Floral Garland with Sacred Imagery Period: Likely 17th–18th century Medium: Oil on canvas Style: Flemish or Dutch Baroque Frame: Antique wooden frame This exquisite oil painting is a...
Category

17th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of Madam van Robais - French Old Master oil painting 18th century art
Located in London, GB
This fine French Old Master portrait oil painting on canvas dates to circa 1770 and is attributed to the circle of Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun. The sitter is Madam van Robais. The van R...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

Rio de San Barnaba, Venice 1927 - Impressionist Riverscape Oil by Emma Ciardi
By Emma Ciardi
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on panel landscape by Italian impressionist painter Emma Ciardi. The work depicts a view of the Rio de San Barnaba which runs through Venice, It...
Category

1920s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Early 16th century. The Agony in the Garden. Southern German school.
Located in Firenze, IT
The Agony in the Garden. (Christ on the Mount of Olives). Technique: Oil on Panel, 4 wooden boards, not parqueted. Dim. with frame: 78cm x 67cm Dim. without frame: 52 x 62 cm Germa...
Category

18th Century and Earlier Northern Renaissance Art

Materials

Wood, Oil, Board

Classic English Style Horses and Hounds late 18th/19th century in landscape
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Classic oil painting perfect for the holidays! Horses and hounds with riders in traditional red jackets with green fields, trees and a turquoise blue sky. The painting appears to be...
Category

18th Century English School Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Early 20th Century Palo Alto Foothills Landscape Oil Painting
By Bruce Nelson
Located in Soquel, CA
Robert Azensky Fine Art is proud to present Early 20th Century Oil Painting Palo Alto, California Foothills Landscape Painting circle of Bruce ...
Category

1920s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil, Canvas

Antique American Impressionist Gilt Framed Landscape Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. Signed.
Category

1920s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Table Top Still Life with Birds, Fruit and Walnuts - Old Master art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This simply stunning German 18th century Old Master oil painting is by noted artist C.L. Braun, signed lower right on the table edge. It was painted circa 1780 and has the look of a...
Category

1780s Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

XXXIII Fig. I Avanzo del Tempio di Castore e Polluce
Located in Fairlawn, OH
XXXIII Fig. I Avanzo del Tempio di Castore e Polluce .View of the Remains of the Peristyle of the House of Nero, Etching, 1756 Signed in the plate (see photo) From: Le Antichità Roma...
Category

1750s Old Masters Art

Materials

Etching

17th Century Oil on Canvas Flemish Religious Painting Ecce Homo, 1640
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Splendid Flemish painting from the first half of the 17th century. Oil on canvas artwork depicting a moment of the Passion of Christ, an Ecce Homo of remarkable pictorial quality. Ec...
Category

1640s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A pair of portraits in profile (2 works) – English School, 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Red crayon on cream laid paper, 3 3/4 x 4 inches (95 x 102 mm) ; 3 3/4 x 3 1/8 inches (95 x 80 mm). Each with scattered early repairs done with non-archival tape on the verso; the sm...
Category

Late 18th Century English School Art

Materials

Crayon, Laid Paper

Religious Italian painter - 18th century figure painting - Saint Monica
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th century) - Saint Monica in prayer. 56 x 32 cm. Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame. Condition report: Good state of conservation of the pictorial s...
Category

Mid-18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Beethovens Residence at Mödling Colored Etching by Henry Goering
Located in Soquel, CA
Beethovens Residence at Mödling - Vintage Colored Etching by Henry Goering WWII Hand colored etching of the Christof House (the Yard of Christ) by Henry...
Category

1920s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Etching

GEFALLEN (Killed in Action)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
KATHE KOLLWITZ (1867-1945) GEFALLEN (Killed in Action) 1920 (Klipstein 153 (1st state, a of c of 2 states) Lithograph on laid paper. Image 16 ¼ x 15 ¼ inches, Large Full Sheet, 25 ½...
Category

1920s Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

'Cape Ann Harbor', Woman Artist, Massachusetts, Rockport, Gloucester, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Nell Walker Warner' (American, 1891-1970) and painted circa 1925. Born in Nebraska, Nell Walker Warner graduated from Lexington, Missouri, Women's College in 191...
Category

1920s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Virgin Madonna Sassoferrato 17/18th Century Paint Oil on canvas Old master Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Roman School 17th - 18th century Circle of Giovanni Battista Salvi, known as Sassoferrato (Sassoferrato 1609 - Rome 1685) Virgin at Prayer Oil on canvas 48 x 40 cm. Splendid frame ...
Category

17th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

A bay horse in a wooded landscape
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
John Nost Sartorius (London 1759-1828) A bay horse in a wooded landscape Signed 'J.N.Sartorius' lower right Oil on canvas Canvas Size - 12 x 14 in Framed Size - 19 x 21 in John Nost...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

Mid 17th Century British Old Master Oil Painting Portrait of Man in Flemish City
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of Thomas Collard (rector of Withycombe, Somerset 1670-1691) the city depicted in the distance is thought to be Antwerp. the portrait historically has been thought to be fr...
Category

Mid-17th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Antique Chinese Figural Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5179 Antique figural garden scene
Category

1920s Art

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

Salomé - Rare Illustrated Book by Alastair - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Salomé is an original modern rare book, a versione of Oscar Wilde's Salomé illustrated by Alastair (1887 – 1969) in 1922. Published by Crès Editeur, Paris. Original edition. Format: in 8°. 89 pages with 9 full page engravings in two colors. Mint conditions. Alastair (1887 – 1969). Hans Henning Otto Harry Baron von Voigt (1887 – 1969), best known by his nickname Alastair, was a German artist, composer, dancer, mime, poet, singer and translator. He is best known as an illustrator, under the nom de plume "Alastair". His career as an artist was launched in 1914, when John Lane...
Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Paper

Italian Landscape with Travellers - Dutch Golden Age 17thC art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This superb Dutch Golden Age Old Master landscape oil painting is attributed to Jacob van der Croos. Painted circa 1670 it is an Italianate landscape with figures and their animals i...
Category

17th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

Que se la Llevaron! - Etching by Francisco Goya - 1799
Located in Roma, IT
Que se la Llevaron! is an original etching realized by Francisco Goya in 1799, from Los Caprichos series. The artwork is the plate 8 (as printed on plate on the higher right margin) from the series Los Caprichos, first edition. Good conditions. Los Caprichos. Put on sale the 6 February 1799, at the end of the last carnival of the century, Los Caprichos, first Goya’s printed...
Category

1790s Old Masters Art

Materials

Etching

A Scandinavian Landscape View by Swedish Artist Oscar Lycke, Large Size Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
Oscar Lycke was a Swedish artist from Sundsvall. He is best known for his impressive colourful landscape paintings in a national romantic and realism styl...
Category

1920s Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique American Impressionist Winter View Delaware River Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
American impressionist winter landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 15H by 18L.
Category

1920s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Le Tir Forain' (Fairground Shooting) — 1920s French Cubism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Le Tir Forain, engraving, edition 108, 1920-21, Sylvain Laboureur 191. Signed and numbered '19/85 ép' in pencil. Initialed 'L' and dated 1920 in the matrix,...
Category

1920s Cubist Art

Materials

Engraving

Vogue - Original Ink and Tempera by Fortunato Depero - 1929 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed lower left: “Depero”. Certificate of authenticity by the Archive of Fortunato Depero. In 1929, Fortunato Depero realized some proposals for internal illustrations of t...
Category

1920s Futurist Art

Materials

Ink, Tempera

King's College Cambridge River Cam 1920s Art Deco Jazz Age watercolour art
Located in London, GB
Anonymous King's College Cambridge with the River Cam and Bridge to foreground 51x63.5cm Watercolour c. 1920s A fine, and large, view of King's College. The...
Category

1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

Watercolor

Ballerinas putting on their Shoes - French Impressionist art oil painting ballet
Located in London, GB
This lovely Belgian Impressionist figurative oil painting is by noted artist Henri Moreau. Although Belgian by birth, Moreau spent many years in France, moving to Paris in 1920 and o...
Category

1920s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

18th Century French Old Master Oil Painting Ancient Port Harbor Shipping Marine
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Harbor Scene Circle of Claude Joseph Vernet (French, 1714-1789) oil painting on canvas, framed in antique gilt frame framed: 20.5 x 25.5 canvas: 19 x 23.5 inches condition: very good...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Virgin Madonna Mater Dolorosa Reni 17th Centutr Paint Oil on canvas Old master
By Guido Reni (Bologna, 1575 - 1642)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
The workshop of Guido Reni (Bologna, 1575 - Bologna, 1642) The Virgin at Prayer (or Mater dolorosa) Oil on canvas 77 x 64 cm, framed 97 x 83 cm. The Madonna of our canvas is depict...
Category

17th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

Fine 17th Century Italian Old Master Oil Pastoral Scene with Shepherds at Dusk
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Close of Day Italian School, 17th century circle of Salvator Rosa (1615 - 1873) (ascribed to this artist on a frame plaque) oil on canvas, framed Framed: 20.5 x 25.5 inches Canva...
Category

17th Century Baroque Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Nicolas Lancret follower (French) - 18th century figure painting - Gallant scene
Located in Varmo, IT
Follower of Nicolas Lancret (Paris 1690 - Paris 1743) - Gallant scene in a landscape. 63.5 x 76 cm without frame, 91 x 102.5 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in carve...
Category

Mid-18th Century Rococo Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

SCARCE EARLY OROZCO - CABEZA DE MUJER -
Located in Santa Monica, CA
JOSE CLEMENTE OROZCO (1883 – 1949) CABEZA DE MUJER, ( Woman's Head: Mexican Woman) 1929 (Orozco 9) Lithograph, signed and numbered 23/50. in pencil. Pri...
Category

1920s Realist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Antique American Summer Impressionist Gold Giltwood Framed Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Excellent ready to hang condition.
Category

1920s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Landscape With Hunters By A Lake. 18th Century.
Located in Firenze, IT
Landscape with hunters by a lake. 18th century. Oil painting on canvas, from the French or Northern Italian school, Louis XV period. Probably part of the door decoration in an interi...
Category

18th Century Baroque Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Woman in a Fur Wrap
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Woman in a Fur Wrap Pen and ink heightened with white, c. 1920 Signed in ink lower right (see photo) Estate stamp verso (see photo) Provenance: estate of the artist ...
Category

1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

Ink

To the Calvary with Madaleine - Oil on Canvas by Ippolito Borghese - Early 1600
By Ippolito Borghese
Located in Roma, IT
To the Calvary with Maddalena is a superb and impressive original oil painting on canvas, realized by the Italian artist Ippolito Borghese (Sigillo, 1568 - after 1627) Original Title: Andata al Calvario con l'incontro con la Maddalena...
Category

Early 17th Century Baroque Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Art deco handcolored woodcut on paper - Walking black panther by Gaston Suisse
Located in Les Acacias GE, GE
Gaston Suisse (1896-1988) Panthère noire dans les bambous, 1927 Gravure sur bois, sur papier Velin de Van Gelder. Rehaussé aux lavis d’encre de Chine par l’artiste Signé en bas à gauche et daté 1927 en bas à droite Black panther in a forest of bamboos, 1927 A handcolored woodcut on Velin de Van Gelder paper Signed and dated 1927 Bibliographie /Literature Gaston Suisse, splendeur du laque art déco. Emmanuel Bréon. Somogy Éditions d'art, Paris 2013, reproduite page 105 (un autre exemplaire reproduit) The artist made a wood engraving of which he made about twenty prints himself. These proofs were not marketed as is, Gaston Suisse reworked each of the proofs using Indian ink washes in order to obtain different effects for each proof, which are thus unique original works. Born in 1896 in a family of artists, his father Georges was a close friend of Siegfried Bing and a great lover of Japanese art and a bibliophile. He passed his taste for art to his son whom he often took to draw at the Botanic Garden . Around 1910, Gaston Suisse, who hasn't entered yet the artistic school, met Paul Jouve, then 18 years his elder, who was already famous. In 1911, at the age of 17, he entered the National School of Decorative Art where he followed the teachings of Paul Renouard. Thanks to his knowledge and taste for the Japanese art, he chose lacquer painting as his specialty. His practice of this noble and demanding subject were so much appreciated that he was awarded with two gold medals in 1913 and 1914. Mobilized during the war , he joined the army and go in Salonika where he found his friend Jouve. In 1918, he finished his studies at the School of Applied Arts in order to perfect his training. He learned in particular the techniques of gilding and oxidation of metals. The first productions of Gaston Suisse, furniture and objects in lacquer with geometrical patterns, were an instant success and Suisse was appointed as member of Salon d'Automne in 1924, the very year of his first exhibition. Considered as an artist-decorator, his sincere and deep friendship with Jouve linked him in parallel with the groups of the animaliers of the Jardin des Plantes and became a close friend of Edouard-Marcel Sandoz. When travelling to Maghreb and Middle-East between 1923 and 1925, he produced numerous drawings representing antelopes, apes and fennec foxes...
Category

1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

India Ink, Woodcut

MON DOUX OU-ETES-VOUS? / MY SWEET COUNTRY, WERE ARE YOU?
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GEORGES ROUAULT (1871-1958) MON DOUX OU-ETES-VOUS? / MY SWEET COUNTRY, WERE ARE YOU? 1927 ( Chapon/Rouault 97; Wofsy 151) Miserere XLIV Aquatint, 1927, on laid Arches. watermark...
Category

1920s Modern Art

Materials

Aquatint

Huge 16th Century Fontainebleau School Old Master Oil on Panel Baby Moses
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Finding of Baby Moses Fontainebleau School, circa 1580's period oil painting on thick wood (walnut wood) panel, framed framed: 32.5 x 27 inches wood: 25 x 30 inches provenance: p...
Category

16th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

Canal with a large Boat and Bridge – after Rembrandt van Rijn
Located in Middletown, NY
Heliogravure on cream laid paper, 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches (80 x118 mm), thread margins. In good condition with a soft vertical crease and minor uniform toning. Printed early 19th centur...
Category

17th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Laid Paper, Photogravure

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