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Art For Sale
Style: Impressionist
Style: Old Masters
Antique Italian Impressionist Framed St Marks Square Early Detailed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive early Italian impressionist framed view of St. Mark's in Venice. Oil on board. Framed. No signature found.
Category
1920s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1930's French Impressionist Oil Purple Mountains Green Coastal Path
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Painting
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
oil painting on board, unframed
measures: 5 high by 8.5 inches wide
conditi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
1950s French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Windswept Beach & Seascape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Windswept Beach
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Contemporary French Impressionist Oil Windswept Coastal Scene Fluffy Clouds
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Little Fluffy Clouds
by Georges Bordonave (French contemporary)
dated 1997
signed oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 13 x 16 inches
condition: very good
provenance: from a lar...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Antique Historical Painting - First Thanksgiving, Plymouth - Jennie Brownscombe
Located in Baltimore, MD
Jennie Augusta Brownscombe was born in a log cabin in Honesdale, Pa in 1850. She went past her modest roots to attend Cooper Union and the National Academy in New York. By 1890, ...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Vintage 1930's French Impressionist Still Life Pink and Red Roses Bunch In Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Roses
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
oil painting on artist paper, unframed
measures: 14.5 high by 12 inches wide
condition: overal...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
1960’s French Oil Painting Exotic Summers Day Cagnes Sur Mer Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cagnes Ser mer
dated 1961
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Fine 1700's Italian Old Master Oil Painting Figures by Shipping Harbour Port
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Trading Port
Italian artist, circa 1720's period
circle of Michele Marieschi (Italian 1696-1744)
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 21 x 30 inches
provenance: private collection, UK...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Flemish 18th Century Oil Painting Swans Frightened by Dog in Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Swans Startled by Dog
Flemish Old Master, 18th century
oil on bevelled wood panel, framed
framed: 14.5 x 17 inches
panel: 10 x 13 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition:...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Vintage 1930's French Impressionist Still Life Roses in Glass in Garden
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Roses
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
gouache painting on artist paper, unframed
measures: 13 high by 16.5 inches wide
condition: ov...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Gouache
"The sound of cicadas in Provence"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
Dear art lover,
I enjoy working on floral and nature compositions. This one was inspired by my trip to St Remy de Provence ( south of France) , the village where Vincent Van Gogh li...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Mary Magdalene - Faith transforms inner into outer beauty and conquers death -
Located in Berlin, DE
Balthasar Denner (1685 Hamburg - 1749 Rostock). Mary Magdalene. Oil on copper, 37 × 32 cm (visible size), 45 x 40 cm (frame), signed and indistinctly dated "Denner 17(...)" at centre...
Category
1720s Old Masters Art
Materials
Copper
Impressionist Nude, Atmospheric Colour, Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Impressionist Nude, Atmospheric Colour, Oil Painting
By French artist Garnvault, 20th Century
Signed by the artist verso
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
Canvas size: 15 x 21.5 inche...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
"Medieval Abby of Mont- St. Michel" Architectural Landscape Edition 4 of 5
By Paul Sprohge
Located in Houston, TX
Green and blue tonal architectural landscape of a cathedral. The work is signed, titled, and dated by the artist. It is framed in a gold frame with a white matte. Paul Sprohge is a H...
Category
1970s Impressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Ray Simonini, "Plucked from the Ocean" 12x16 Oyster Shell Oil Painting on Canvas
By Ray Simonini
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This painting by artist Ray Simonini titled "Plucked from the Ocean" is a 12x16 nautical oil painting on canvas featuring a close-up of an oyster shell against a deep green and gray ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Figurative -- The Paper Boy and His Comics
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful 1940s figurative of paper boy reading the comics by Louise Miller Clark (American, 20th Century). Signed "Louise Miller" lower right. Unframed. Im...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Cardboard, Canvas, Oil
1930's French Impressionist Painting Young Girl by Boat Coastal Estuary Harbour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Coastal Harbor
by Y. Blanchon, French 1930's Impressionist
oil painting on board, unframed
painting: 15 x 17.5 inches
provenance: from a large private collection of this artists...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
20th Century French Forest Landscape Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
Landscape of Fontainebleau
Georges Bousquet Moret (1904-1976) was, first, an engineer passionate about arts. This passion led him to devote his f...
Category
1940s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
20th Century French Oil Painting Coastal Rocks
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A Rocky Coastline
French School, mid-late 20th century
unsigned
oil painting on canvas textured paper (reverse side is smooth, the painted side looks and feels as canvas), unframed
o...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Early 20th Century Carmel Point Lobos and Monastery Beach Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous, vibrant early 20th century seascape painting of Point Lobos looking toward Monastery Beach, Carmel by Rinaldo Cuneo (American, 1877-1939). Signed "Cuneo" lower right. Presented in a giltwood frame. Image, 11"H x 12"W.
Dubbed “The Painter of San Francisco." Well received at the Panama Pacific International Exhibition in 1915. Born in San Francisco, California and raised in the North Beach area, Rinaldo Cuneo was a painter of landscape, still lifes, city views and muralist who, commissioned by the Federal Art Project adminstrators, painted murals in Coit Tower in San Francisco in 1934. His studio and cottage in San Francisco, later in his career, had a panoramic view of the bay from Telegraph Hill.
His family were painters including two of his brothers, Cyrus and Egisto Cuneo, and several family members were founders of the Tivoli Opera Company in San Francisco.
He served in the Spanish-American War and then studied at the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art with Arthur Mathews and Gottardo...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Board, Oil
King Solomon Rubens Paint Oil on copper 17th Century Old master Flemish Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Circle of Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640)
The Judgement of King Solomon
Oil on copper (41 x 49 cm. - with ebonised and gilded wooden frame 58 x 66 cm.)
The proposed painting, executed in oil on copper, depicts the biblical episode known as the 'Judgement of King Solomon' and is taken from the Book of Kings, in the Old Testament (I Kings, 3, 16-28).
The work is derived from the painting in the Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen depicting the 'Judgement of Solomon', which was largely created by Rubens' workshop with some intervention by the master.
The iconography of the painting was certainly made popular by the print made by the Dutch engraver Boetius Adams Bolswert (Bolsward, c. 1585 - Antwerp, 1633) now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum.
The extraordinary critical and illustrative success of the work is certain, of which several replicas and copies exist, preserved in museums and private collections: Delft, Rouen and Coutrai, Liechtenstein in Vaduz and in Seville Cathedral.
The prototype for the original Copenhagen painting...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Antique American 1918 Stratford Connecticut Framed Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Early American impressionist landscape painting. Framed. Possibly signed verso. Oil on board.
Category
1910s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Facing the world"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This painting called " Facing the world" makes part of my series dedicated to women.
In all my creations where I paint a woman, I want to show her like a strong person who faces and...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Antique American Impressionist Summer Beach Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive mid 20th century impressionist beach scene. Oil on board. Framed. No signature found.
Category
1950s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Promenade in red
Located in THOMERY, FR
Step into the captivating world of "Promenade in Red," an artwork that invites you on a mesmerizing journey through landscapes teeming with vibrancy and movement. Framed on gouache p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Gouache
Original Oil Painting of Cheerful Yellow Roses by Nell Walker Warner
Located in Soquel, CA
1940's Original Oil Painting of Cheerful Yellow Roses by Nell Walker Warner
Antony Anderson, art critic of the Los Angeles Times, stated Nell Walker Shostrum Warner (American, 1891-...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board
Antique American Impressionist Panoramic Cloudscape Framed Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century impressionist landscape with billowing clouds. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1960s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Hamptons Summer Flower Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive impressionist oil painting on canvas by June Ciancio. Framed. Signed.
Category
1960s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The Seine in Winter', School of Paris, Tonalist, Snowy French Landscape, Mood
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Charles Harris', for Charles Gordon Harris (American, 1891-1963) and additionally signed verso.
A substantial and atmospheric landscape showing a view of the S...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
California Farmhouse Landscape in Watercolor on Paper (Two Sided)
Located in Soquel, CA
California Farmhouse Landscape in Watercolor on Paper
Original watercolor painting of a farmhouse at the top of a hill by Bertram Spencer (American, 1918-1992). A small farmhouse si...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Antique American Impressionist Coastal Lighthouse View Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted impressionist coastal view with a lighthouse. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category
1940s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Among the Trees by Geri Eubanks, Framed Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting
By Geri Eubanks
Located in Atlanta, GA
In Geri's own words: "My love for art began in my early teens when I signed up for art class in high school and soon discovered that I had a passion for drawing and oil. Growing up i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Impressionist Opera Scene Signed Elegant Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted American impressionist oil painting by Richard W. Baldwin (1920 - 2012). Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
1930s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Big Sur Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Original Big Sur Seascape Oil Painting
Gorgeous mid century Big Sur seascape oil painting by California artist Hartzell Harrison Ray (American, 1896-1991). Blue and aqua...
Category
1960s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Foggy Morning by Geri Eubanks, Framed Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting
By Geri Eubanks
Located in Atlanta, GA
In Geri's own words: "My love for art began in my early teens when I signed up for art class in high school and soon discovered that I had a passion for drawing and oil. Growing up i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Blue and Pink Ballerina by Geri Eubanks, Impressionist Figurative Oil Painting
By Geri Eubanks
Located in Atlanta, GA
In Geri's own words: "My love for art began in my early teens when I signed up for art class in high school and soon discovered that I had a passion for drawing and oil. Growing up i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Old White Barn II by Geri Eubanks, Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting
By Geri Eubanks
Located in Atlanta, GA
In Geri's own words: "My love for art began in my early teens when I signed up for art class in high school and soon discovered that I had a passion for drawing and oil. Growing up i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Serenity II by Geri Eubanks, Large Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting
By Geri Eubanks
Located in Atlanta, GA
In Geri's own words: "My love for art began in my early teens when I signed up for art class in high school and soon discovered that I had a passion for drawing and oil. Growing up i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Canal With Large Boat And Bridge By Rembrandt Van Rijn
Located in New Orleans, LA
Rembrandt van Rijn
1606-1669 Dutch
Canal with a Large Boat and a Bridge
Etching on paper
New Hollstein Dutch 252: second state of two
Signed and dated lower left: Rembrandt. f. 16...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
Sleeping Nude-original impressionism female figurative painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
"Sleeping Nude" by Michael Alford is a compelling original figurative nude painting that delicately captures the grace and serenity of a reclining figure. Executed with meticulous br...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Antique landscape sunset and cows, Les Vaches by Adolphe Potter
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Les Vaches by Adolphe Potter (1835-1911)
Antique countryside sunset oil painting with cows on wood, signed in the bottom right Adople Potte (1835-1911). This distinctive oil painti...
Category
1860s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Frances Lady Whitmore nee Brooke, Exquisite Carved Frame, Old Master
Located in London, GB
Portrait of Frances, Lady Whitmore nee Brooke (c.1638-1690)
Circle of Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680)
Titan Fine Art presents this exquisite portrait that depicts Frances Brooke, Lady Wh...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Sand Dunes at Annisquam, Cape Ann', Massachusetts, Gloucester, New England, NAD
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Chas. H. Grant' for Charles Henry Grant (American, 1866-1939); titled on lower stretcher bar, 'Sand Dunes at Annisquam, Cape Ann, Mass' and dated 1894.
Born in ...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Surf Spray" American Impressionist New England Coastal Sunset Seascape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted impressionist beach scene by Dennis Sheehan (b.1950). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lovely American Impressionist Summer Landscape Oil on Canvas ca 1920’s, Unsigned
Located in Baltimore, MD
Although unsigned, this painting is clearly the work of a talented trained artist from the first decades of the twentieth century. The impressionist style and soft color palette depi...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Pierre Montezin large French Impressionist painting harvesting scene and poplars
By PIERRE EUGÈNE MONTEZIN, 1874 - 1946
Located in Harkstead, GB
Montezins's dazzling display of brushwork captures the effects of the sunlight on the water and the glittering leaves of the poplar trees. A masterwork by the artist presented in the...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Portrait of a Bewigged Gentleman
By Enoch Seeman
Located in St. Albans, GB
Enoch Seeman
Canvas Size: 30 x 25" (76 x 62cm)
Outside Frame Size: 37 x 32" (92 x 80cm)
1694-1744
He was born in Danzig, now Gdansk, Poland, around 1694. His father, also Enoch...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Impressionist Oil on Canvas, The Salmon Pool, Canonbie, Scotland
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century oil on canvas view of a salmon river by Miss D L Murray. The painting is signed bottom left and there is an artist's label with title to th...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mountain View Landscape Watercolor 1960
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Mountain View With Flowers
watercolor 1960's
18.5x23.5 framed 25x30x1
Judith Sobel was born in Lwow Poland in 1924. After World War II, she attended the Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz...
Category
1960s Impressionist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
Huge late 17th early 18th century Italian floral oil - Peacock doves and a duck
Located in Antwerp, BE
Huge late 17th, early 18th century Italian Old master - A peacock doves and a duck holding flowers in a park landscape at sunset, attr. Angelo Maria Crivelli
In a peaceful park land...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Manayunk, Regional American Winter Cityscape by Pennsylvania Impressionist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Manayunk" is a 8 x 12 inches, oil on canvas, regional, winter cityscape by Pennsylvania Impressionist painter Giovanni Martino. Manayunk is a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The painting is signed "Giovanni Martino" in the lower right.
The following is from Babette Martino, daughter of the artist:
Giovanni Martino, National Academy of Design* member, was born on May 1, 1908 in Philadelphia PA where all seven brothers and one sister, Filomina, Frank, Antonio, Albert, Ernest, Giovanni, Edmond, and William became painters. They were under the tutelage of their eldest brother, Frank, who in the late 1920s, founded the first commercial art studio, Martino Studios, at 27 South 18th Street.
Besides studying with his two eldest brothers, Giovanni also studied with Albert Jean Adolph at La France Institute, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Graphic Sketch Club, and Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia. In his mid teens he accompanied his two eldest brothers to New Hope searching for subjects to paint. In the 1930s, he also started to paint in Manayunk, a hilly mill town along the Schuylkill River. At this time he signed his paintings M. Giovanni.
These colorful impressionistic works proceeded more thinly painted dramatically poetic street scenes of the mill town. These images developed into impasto laden oils in the 1960's with some of the paintings worked with a palette knife.
In Manayunk, he was a common sight on the streets and sidewalks, painting on-the-spot with his wife, Eva Marinelli...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Woman in Aqua', De Young, Oakland Museum, LACMA, CWS, AWS, San Francisco
By Jade Fon Woo
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Jade Fon' for Jade Fon Woo (American, 1911-1983) and painted circa 1955.
A charming and character-filled study of a young woman, shown brimming with life and h...
Category
1950s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Walk in the Woods - Verdant Green" Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This large traditional statement landscape painting by Molly Doe Wensberg features a cool palette and a loose, impressionistic style, capturing a scene withi...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Manayunk Houses, Regional American Cityscape by Pennsylvania Impressionist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Manayunk Houses" is a 25 x 50 inches, oil on canvas, regional, American cityscape by Pennsylvania Impressionist painter Giovanni Martino. Manayunk is a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The painting is signed "Giovanni Martino" in the lower right and titled on the stretcher.
The following is from Babette Martino, daughter of the artist:
Giovanni Martino, National Academy of Design* member, was born on May 1, 1908 in Philadelphia PA where all seven brothers and one sister, Filomina, Frank, Antonio, Albert, Ernest, Giovanni, Edmond, and William became painters. They were under the tutelage of their eldest brother, Frank, who in the late 1920s, founded the first commercial art studio, Martino Studios, at 27 South 18th Street.
Besides studying with his two eldest brothers, Giovanni also studied with Albert Jean Adolph at La France Institute, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Graphic Sketch Club, and Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia. In his mid teens he accompanied his two eldest brothers to New Hope searching for subjects to paint. In the 1930s, he also started to paint in Manayunk, a hilly mill town along the Schuylkill River. At this time he signed his paintings M. Giovanni.
These colorful impressionistic works proceeded more thinly painted dramatically poetic street scenes of the mill town. These images developed into impasto laden oils in the 1960's with some of the paintings worked with a palette knife.
In Manayunk, he was a common sight on the streets and sidewalks, painting on-the-spot with his wife, Eva Marinelli...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Figurative landscape watercolor drawing with 19th century view of Florence
Located in Florence, IT
This watercolor on paper is signed and titled at lower right Gab. Carelli / Florence.
It depicts a view of Florence taken from the Piazzale Michelangelo-animated by various figures i...
Category
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Winter in Manayunk, Regional American Cityscape by Pennsylvania Impressionist
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Manayunk Houses" is a 28 x 40 inches, oil on canvas, regional, American cityscape by Pennsylvania Impressionist painter Giovanni Martino. Manayunk is a suburb of Philadelphia, Penns...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
‘Lady in a Pink Cape’ by Fernand Toussaint (1873 - 1956), Belgian Painter
Located in Bruges, BE
Fernand Toussaint
1873 – Brussels – 1956
Belgian Painter
‘Lady in a Pink Cape’
Signature: signed lower left ‘Toussaint’
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: image size 46 x 38 cm, f...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“A Lady playing with a Cat” by Paul De Frick (1864 - Paris - 1935), dated 1896
Located in Bruges, BE
Paul De Frick
1864 - Paris - 1935
“A Lady playing with a Cat”
Signature: signed lower left and dated ‘P. de Frick. 96’
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: image size 46 x 55 cm, fram...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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