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Art For Sale
Period: 19th Century
Period: 1990s
Francis Sydney Muschamp RBA, A Game Of Chess
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 19th-century oil painting by British artist Francis Sydney Muschamp RBA (1851-1929) depicts a mediaeval couple playing chess within a historic interior, perhaps a castle. M...
Category

1890s English School Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Antoine-Louis Barye Petit Fou De Rome Bronze
Located in Dallas, TX
Antoine-Louis Barye (French, Paris 1795–1875 Paris) Roman Jester (Petit fou de Rome) modeled probably circa 1874, executed after 1875 Measure: Height 6.25 inches Condition: Very go...
Category

1870s Art

Materials

Bronze

Nude Female Holding a Seashell, 19th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
"Femme Nue Avec Coquillage" , 19th Century School of Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796-1875) Large 19th Century French portrait of a nude female holding a shell, oil on canvas scho...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Napoleonic Wars Cuirassier Horse, 19th Century
By Sir Edwin Landseer
Located in Blackwater, GB
War Horse, 19th Century after Sir Edwin Henry Landseer (1802-1872) Large 19th century Napoleonic Cuirassier War Horse scene, oil on canvas. Excellent quality and condition depicti...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

A late 19th century bronze animalier figure of a seated hound
By Prince Paul Troubetzkoy
Located in Bath, Somerset
A late 19th century bronze of a hound, seated on a naturalistic base, after Prince Paul Troubetzkoy. Incised to base 'Paolo Troubetzkoy 1893', with a dark brown patina. Born in 1866...
Category

Late 19th Century Naturalistic Art

Materials

Bronze

Fine Large 19th Century Rural Traditional Landscape Signed Oil Painting Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Country lane by Frans Hopfner (1840-1893) German signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 23.5 x 41.5 inches canvas: 18 x 36 inches provenance: private collection, UK condition: very...
Category

19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

19th Century genre oil painting of a donkey with a cockerel & hens
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Herbert ‘William’ Weekes British, (1841-1914) Farmyard Friends Oil on panel, signed Image size: 11.75 inches x 7.5 inches Size including frame: 18 inches x 14.5 inches A humorous animal painting of...
Category

19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Huge 19th century Hunting scene - Setter dogs with their prey - Hunt
Located in Antwerp, BE
Huge 19th century Hunting scene oil painting "Two setters with their trophy in a landscape" by the well-known Belgian animal painter Henry Schouten Henry Schouten was born in Indone...
Category

19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Longhorn Cattle on Highland Pass - 19th Century Scottish Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Longhorn Cattle on a Highland Pass’ by Henry Garland (1834-1913). The painting – which depicts a herd of longhorn cattle on a high mountain pass in the Scottish Highlands – is signed and dated 1876, in which year it was exhibited at the Royal Society of British Artists in London. Henry Garland entered the Royal Academy Schools in 1853, winning medals for 'Best Drawing from the Life' in both 1854 and 1857. From 1854 he exhibited at the most prominent London venues having 30 paintings shown at the Royal Academy, 67 at the Royal Society of British Artists, and 12 at the British Institution. Today one of Henry Garland’s paintings hangs in the famous Long Room at Lords Cricket...
Category

1860s Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

Sunny woodland path - A brightly lit forest path as a space for imagination -
Located in Berlin, DE
Wilhelm Schütze (1840 Kaufbeuren - 1898 Munich). Forest path. Oil on painting board, 30 x 24 cm (visible size), 31 x 26 cm (frame), signed lower left "Wilhelm Schütze". About the a...
Category

1880s Naturalistic Art

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Kintai Bridge at Iwakuni in Suo Province (Suo iwakuni kintai-bashi), 1859
By Hiroshige II
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Utagawa Hiroshige II (1829-1869), 'Kintai Bridge at Iwakuni in Suo Province' (Suo iwakuni kintai-bashi), from the series 'One Hundred Views of Famous Pla...
Category

1850s Edo Art

Materials

Woodcut

Femme à la lune
Located in Malmo, SE
Published by edition GKM. Unframed. Edition: 200 ex Paper: 300gr. Goya. Signed by the artist. Free shipment worldwide. Corneille, one of the founders of the COBRA group, has passe...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Screen

Francesco Guardi follower (Venetian school) - Late 19th century painting Venice
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian painter (19th century) - Venice, view of the Punta della Dogana. 29 x 23 cm without frame, 46 x 31 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved and gilded wo...
Category

Late 19th Century Naturalistic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Faux Couple
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing. If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Portrait of an African
By Middleton Jameson
Located in London, GB
signed with initials ‘M.J.’ (lower right) oil on canvas 14 x 12 in. (35.6 x 30.5 cm.) with frame 20 x 18 in. (50.8 x 45.7 cm.) In the artist's original Watts-style frame. Born in E...
Category

Late 19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

On the Mountain Side
Located in New York, NY
Signed lower right: Chauncey F Ryder
Category

19th Century Tonalist Art

Materials

Oil

Majestic Antique English Mt Fuji Winter Mountain Seascape Signed Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible 19th century painting by Thomas Hodgson Liddell (1860 - 1925). Oil on canvas of Mt Fuji from the sea. Handsomely framed and ready to hang. Signed lower right.
Category

1880s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

El Nene/ ComoComiendo Mamon. Fom the Vendedores series Photocollage Mixed media
Located in Miami Beach, FL
El Nene. Como Comiendo Mamon, 1993 Fom the Vendedores series Photocollage Image size: 10 in. H x 7.5 in. W Sheet size: 28 in. H x 20 in. W Unframed Unique The root of these unique p...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Color

Huge 19th century painting - Musical picnic - Elegant Group in a landscape
By Rudolf Alfred Hoger
Located in Antwerp, BE
Romantic painting depicting a peaceful get-together in a park by Rudolf Alfred Höger The elegantly dressed people are indulging in a delicious "al fresco" picnic on green hill on a ...
Category

19th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Fish Blood" Art Nouveau Lithograph by Gustav Klimt for VerSacrum
Located in Chicago, IL
Ver Sacrum (meaning "Sacred Spring" in Latin) was conceived by Gustav Klimt, Max Kurzweil and Ludwig Hevesi. During its six years of activity, 471 original drawings were made specifi...
Category

1890s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Lithograph

Miniature 19th Century Austrian Pastoral Oil on Wood
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Miniature 19th Century Austrian Pastoral Figurative Oil Painting on Wood Painted in the manner of late Romanticism, this charming miniature pastoral landscape by Edmund Fri...
Category

1870s Romantic Art

Materials

Gesso, Oil, Board

SWEETGRASS CARRIERS Signed Lithograph, South Carolina Lowcountry, Gullah Culture
Located in Union City, NJ
SWEETGRASS CARRIERS is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph(not a photo reproduction or digital print) by the renowned American artist JONATHAN...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

'Portofino', Genoa, Italian Riviera, Naples Academy of Fine Art, Amalfi Coast
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Sanzone' for Mario Sanzone (Italian, born 1946) and titled, 'Portofino'. A substantial oil on canvas showing an atmospheric view of this jewel of the Italian R...
Category

1990s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The White Scarf (Self Portrait of the Artist)
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The White Scarf (Self Portrait of the Artist) Oil on board, 1894 Signed and dated lower left: E M Heller '94 (see image) Framed in a metal leaf Whistler style frame, Frame: 23 x 18-...
Category

1890s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Woman taking off her shirt
Located in PARIS, FR
Woman taking off her shirt by James PRADIER (1790-1852) Bronze with a nuanced brown patina cast by SOYER and INGE France circa 1850 height 28,5 cm Biography : Jean-Jacques Pradier...
Category

1850s French School Art

Materials

Bronze

Robert Walker Macbeth RA ROI RWS, Far From The Madding Crowd
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This spellbinding late 19th-century oil painting by Scottish artist Robert Walker Macbeth RA ROI RWS (1848-1910) depicts a young woman wearing...
Category

1880s Victorian Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'3 Terriers and a Gillie' and '3 Spaniels and a Gillie', a pair of oil paintings
By Paul Jones b.1856
Located in St. Albans, GB
Paul JONES Oil on canvas These paintings are signed Paul Jones on the bottom left. Canvas size: 20 x 25cm (8 x 10") Outside frame size: 36 x 41cm (14 x 16") Flourished 1855 – 1888 ...
Category

1850s Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

The Flower Shop
Located in Cambridge, GB
The Flower Shop Girl by JEAN ROSE B. 1933 Oil on board, signed, 24 x 27 cm Jean Rose was one of the first women students at Corsham, Bath and worked under some of the postwa...
Category

1990s Post-Modern Art

Materials

Oil

'What Lovely Lamplight'
Located in Cambridge, GB
‘What Lovely Lamplight’ by JEAN ROSE B. 1933 Oil on board, signed, 24 x 27 cm Jean Rose was one of the first women students at Corsham, Bath and worked under some of the pos...
Category

1990s Naturalistic Art

Materials

Oil

"Salon des Cent" Original 1897 Art Nouveau Color Lithograph by Alphonse Mucha
Located in Chicago, IL
From Les Maitres de L'Affiche, plate 94. Printed by Imprimerie Chaix, Paris. Maîtres de l'Affiche (Masters of the Poster) refers to 256 color lithographic plates used to create an a...
Category

1890s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Lithograph

Figures in a Street - Normandy - Impressionist Figurative Oil - Stanislas Lepine
By Stanislas Victor Édouard Lépine
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in landscape oil on canvas circa 1860 by French impressionist painter Stanislas Lepine. The piece depicts a daytime view of a bustling street in Normandy on a cloudy d...
Category

1860s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rare Original Raymond Pettibon record art, Sonic Youth Goo, 1st Pressing
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Raymond Pettibon Sonic Youth Record Cover Art: Sonic Youth Goo; original European 1st Pressing, 1990 The most iconic of all Pettibon music-related images,...
Category

1990s Pop Art Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

The Blue Bowl
Located in Cambridge, GB
'Blue Bowl' by JACQUELINE RIZVI born 1944 NEAC, R.W.S., R.B.A. Pencil, watercolour, bodycolour on paper, 4.75 x 6 ins, titled and artist noted verso. Provenance: Ex Collection ...
Category

1990s Naturalistic Art

Materials

Watercolor

On The Seine - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Albert Charles Lebourg
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in riverscape oil on original canvas circa 1895 by French post impressionist painter Albert Charles Lebourg. The work depicts a v...
Category

1890s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Burst of Light
Located in Westmount, QC
Armand Tatossian, Canadian, 1948-2012 Burst of Light Oil on canvas 16 x 12 in (image) Signed on the lower right: A. Tatossian Signed, titled verso framed
Category

1990s Art

Materials

Oil

Exhibition Print from “Vibrazioni” by Miller Null - Vintage Photograph - 1990
Located in Roma, IT
Exibition print from “ Vibrazioni”  is a vintage photographic print on color paper applied on cardboard realized by Harold Miller Null in 1992 Hand signed and dated on the lower rig...
Category

1990s Abstract Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Russian Traveler Genre Portrait 19th Century Oil Painting Signed Framed
Located in Stockholm, SE
The short signature lower left a monogram of joined Cyrillic letters "V" and "P" with date 77, leads to the Russian painter Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (1844 - 1927). Here we have pl...
Category

Late 19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Wood, Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Le repos des le moissonneurs - Barbizon Figurative Pastel by Leon Lhermitte
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in landscape pastel on canvas circa 1885 by French Barbizon painter Leon Augustin Lhermitte. The piece depicts two children resting beside a large haystack in farmland...
Category

1880s Barbizon School Art

Materials

Canvas, Pastel

John George Indermaur, Group Of Children, Watercolour
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming mid-19th-century watercolour by British artist John George Indermaur (1818-1862) depicts four children, a chaise lounge, and footstool. It was shown at the Royal Societ...
Category

1840s Victorian Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Pietro Torrini (Florence, 1851 -1914). The Pope's Chef.
Located in Firenze, IT
Pietro Torrini (Florence, 1851 -1914). The Pope's Chef. Oil on canvas. Size with frame: cm 55 x 51. Size without frame cm 31 x 26.5 Carved and gilded wooden frame. Label present (Ge...
Category

19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Charing Cross Station
Located in Cambridge, GB
“Charing Cross’ by HANS SCHWARZ RWS, RBA, CPS, NEAC, RP. 1922-12003 Watercolour and gouache, signed. Painter, born in Vienna who studied at the Vienna Kunstgewerbeschule 1937-...
Category

1990s Art

Materials

Watercolor

KENNY SCHARF, Felix on a Pedestal, 1998
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Kenny Scharf Title: Felix on a Pedestal Year: 1998 Medium: Screenprint Edition: XXX /150 Image Size: 36 x 40 inches PaperSize: 39.5 x 43 in. (100.33 x 109.22 cm) Publisher: B...
Category

1990s Pop Art Art

Materials

Screen

Latin American Cuban Painting by Julio Antonio Devoroción (Devotion), 1992
Located in Washington, DC
Major painting by Cuban/American artist Julio Antonio (b. 1950). Painting is acrylic on canvas and titled "Devoroción". Painting is signed and dated 1992. Measures: 70" W x 78" H. ...
Category

1990s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Black on My Back
Located in Metairie, LA
An absolutely incredible mixed media original on canvas board by George Rodrigue from the prime of his career. This piece features a hand pulled silkscreen of the Blue Dog by the han...
Category

1990s Pop Art Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic

Large Arch by Yann Guillon - Semi-abstract bronze sculpture, smooth forms, dark
Located in Paris, FR
Large Arch is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Yann Guillon, dimensions are 40 × 25 × 15 cm (15.7 × 9.8 × 5.9 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of a limi...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Bronze

Calla by JJK, Photography, Limited Edition, Flower
Located in Munich, DE
Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist This picture of a flower "Calla" was shot on a polaroid film. JJK is a pseudonym for one of the world's most successful photo artist...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Country Cottage
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Late 19th/early 20th century oil on canvas painting in the manner of Abraham Hulk the Younger (1851-1922), this painting was acquired by Saltire Gallerie with a larger painting signed by Hulk the Younger, (just SOLD). Presented in a period decorative gilt frame, the painting is of a cottage in a woodland with cattle by a pond, a little black dog and man and a woman standing by. In the distance is a glimpse of a river and grasses, framed by trees and an overcast sky. Hulk is renowned for his treatment of the changing season from summer to autumn, and the golden leaves and fading greens in this painting suggest this changing time of year. Hulk is the son of a well known Dutch maritime...
Category

Late 19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique French Impressionist Oil Painting of Cows in a Coastal Meadow
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Cows in a coastal meadow by Henri LeRoy (1851 - ?) Atmospheric old oil painting on canvas from the 1800's by French artist, Henri LeRoy. This gorgeous old dark and moody French oil...
Category

1890s French School Art

Materials

Oil

[Mount Washington Winter Scene]
Located in Boston, MA
Signed and dated lower left: "SW Griggs 73". In fine condition.
Category

1870s Hudson River School Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Two Brothers by Valérie de Sarrieu - Oil on canvas painting, landscape, pastel
Located in Paris, FR
Two Brothers is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Valérie de Sarrieu, dimensions are 83 cm × 116 cm (32.7 × 45.7 in). The artwork is signed, sold unframed and c...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Farewell, " Sunset Landscape Woodcut by Carol Summers
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Farewell" is an original color woodcut by Carol Summers. The artist signed the piece. This woodcut depicts a river flowing through green hills beneath a blood-red sky. The edition number is 20/50. 24 1/4" x 37" art 32" x 45" frame Carol Summers has worked as an artist throughout the second half of the 20th century and into the first years of the next, outliving most of his mid-century modernist peers. Initially trained as a painter, Summers was drawn to color woodcuts around 1950 and it became his specialty thereafter. Over the years he has developed a process and style that is both innovative and readily recognizable. His art is known for it’s large scale, saturated fields of bold color, semi-abstract treatment of landscapes from around the world and a luminescent quality achieved through a printmaking process he invented. In a career that has extended over half a century, Summers has hand-pulled approximately 245 woodcuts in editions that have typically run from 25 to 100 in number. His talent was both inherited and learned. Born in 1925 in Kingston, a small town in upstate New York, Summers was raised in nearby Woodstock with his older sister, Mary. His parents were both artists who had met in art school in St. Louis. During the Great Depression, when Carol was growing up, his father supported the family as a medical illustrator until he could return to painting. His mother was a watercolorist and also quite knowledgeable about the different kinds of papers used for various kinds of painting. Many years later, Summers would paint or print on thinly textured paper originally collected by his mother. From 1948 to 1951, Carol Summers trained in the classical fine and studio arts at Bard College and at the Art Students League of New York. He studied painting with Steven Hirsh and printmaking with Louis Schanker. He admired the shapes and colors favored by early modernists Paul Klee (Sw: 1879-1940) and Matt Phillips (Am: b.1927- ). After graduating, Summers quit working as a part-time carpenter and cabinetmaker (which had supported his schooling and living expenses) to focus fulltime on art. That same year, an early abstract, Bridge No. 1 was selected for a Purchase Prize in a competition sponsored by the Brooklyn Museum. In 1952, his work (Cathedral, Construction and Icarus) was shown the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City in an exhibition of American woodcuts. In 1954, Summers received a grant from the Italian government to study for a year in Italy. Woodcuts completed soon after his arrival there were almost all editions of only 8 to 25 prints, small in size, architectural in content and black and white in color. The most well-known are Siennese Landscape and Little Landscape, which depicted the area near where he resided. Summers extended this trip three more years, a decision which would have significant impact on choices of subject matter and color in the coming decade. After returning from Europe, Summers’ images continued to feature historical landmarks and events from Italy as well as from France, Spain and Greece. However, as evidenced in Aetna’s Dream, Worldwind and Arch of...
Category

1990s Art

Materials

Woodcut

French romantic school Drawing black chalk and goiache HORTIN steam boat 19th
Located in PARIS, FR
Charles HORTIN (Attributed to) (XIX) Black chalk and white gouache Signed lower right 12 x 16 cm
Category

Mid-19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Paper, Chalk

Trompe l’oeil French painter - 19th century Still life painting - Assignat money
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (18th-19th century) - Trompe l'oeil. 61 x 48 cm without frame, 69.5 x 56.5 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on panel, in wooden frame. Condition report: Good sta...
Category

Early 19th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

19th century English landscape with Oak trees, a stream and sheep on a pathway
Located in Woodbury, CT
19th century English landscape with Oak trees, a stream and sheep on a pathway. A wonderful classic English landscape dating from the middle of the 19th century. This style of paint...
Category

1860s Victorian Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

19th century English landscape with trees, a Harvest Field during Summertime
Located in Woodbury, CT
19th century English landscape with trees, a Harvest Field during Summertime. A wonderful classic English landscape dating from the middle of the 19th century. This style of paintin...
Category

1860s Victorian Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Set of Four Orientalist Landscape Paintings by van Wijk
Located in London, GB
Set of four Orientalist landscape paintings by van Wijk Dutch, 1879 Canvas: Height 35cm, width 65cm Largest frame: Height 41cm, width 71cm, depth 4cm Smallest frame: Height 39.5cm,...
Category

Late 19th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Oil

Janus Heads by Martine Demal - Contemporary bronze sculpture, abstract, grey
Located in Paris, FR
Janus Heads is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Martine Demal, dimensions are 54 × 26 × 17 cm (21.3 × 10.2 × 6.7 in). The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is par...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Bronze

Claude Lorraine Ferneley 19th century Horse in stable, oil painting
Located in York, GB
A fine 19th century oil painting of a chestnut hunter "Light heart" in a stable by Claude Lorraine Ferneley Oil on canvas size of painting is 63.5 x 48.5cm ...
Category

1870s Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

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