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Style: Post-Impressionist
Color: Brown
San Francisco Victorian Row Houses in First Light and Billowing Clouds
Located in Miami, FL
San Francisco's famous Victorian Row Houses are soaked in the golden light of early morning. The dramatic clouds above take on the same color scheme of th...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
End of the Road, Golden Light Ladies Home Journal, Golden Age of Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This sunbathed painting will light up your room with warmth. Sundblom's painting technique has the freedom and quick energy in his paint application. His subjects are bathed in the ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Old New York Brooklyn Heights Promenade by Mitchell Funk
Located in Miami, FL
Old New York, Brooklyn Heights Promenade, 1972, Bathed in magical golden light. There is a sense of loneliness akin to Edward Hopper paintings where ...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Child in Prayer Cover of Good Housekeeping Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
Famed female illustrator Jessie Willcox Smith paints the " Ideal Child" in a spiritual moment for the Christmas cover of Good Housekeeping. The accompl...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Gouache, Mixed Media
Enfant dans un berceau
Located in Washington, DC
Signed with initials upper left
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
East River, New York Winter (From Brooklyn Bridge)
Located in Sheffield, MA
Frank Usher De Voll
American, 1873-1941
East River, New York Winter (From Brooklyn Bridge)
Oil on canvas
32 by 36 in. w/frame 41 by 45 in.
Signe...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
United Nations and Manhattan Skyline wrapped in Divine Light with Jet Ski
Located in Miami, FL
United Nations wrapped in Divine Light while a man on a Jet Ski passes glides in front on the East River
Bright golden light rushes down 42nd street and cloak...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper
Ambassadeurs Aristide Bruant in his cabaret by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in New York, NY
This lithographic poster illustrates Aristide Bruant who was a famous performer and cabaret owner in Paris at the turn of the 20th century. Lautrec, seizing on Bruant's trademark cos...
Category
Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"We, " Oil Paint on Plywood, 2014
Located in Chicago, IL
Entitled "We," this exquisite woodcut by Chinese artist Ren Hui celebrates joy and the beauty of humanity with a crowd of smiling faces. Using a style he calls “uncomplicated and hon...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pointillist Art
Materials
Oil, Plywood
'Monterey at Sunset', California Post-Impressionist Landscape
By John Maxon
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial trillium monotype landscape showing a view of the cultivated fields and coastal hills of Monterey County, California bathed in the glow of a radiant sunset.
Signed lower left, "Maxon" for John Maxon (American, 20th century) and created circa 1985.
Coming from a western tradition in Wyoming, John Maxon developed an expansive view of nature and the spiritual essence it imbued. Moving eventually to the San Francisco Bay area, John’s delight in the effects of light and color led him to the decision to become an artist at the young age of 15. His natural ability was encouraged and, at 16, he began figurative art classes with Howard Brodie.
Maxon spent his youthful days painting seriously in the fields behind Stanford University, and was fortunate to be exposed to and to study the works of Nathan Oliviera, Wayne Thiebaud and David Park during those years. He attended San Jose State University, and apprenticed for Sam Richardson...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Monotype
"Fools", Harlequin Jester Twins, Carved Paper Relief Painting in Primary Colors
By Martin Ingley
Located in Soquel, CA
Whimsical textured relief painting of two stylized twin jesters in primary colors, their long mask-like faces created with the technique of hand carving layers of laminated paper board and painting with acrylic, by contemporary English artist Martin Ingley...
Category
Late 20th Century Fauvist Art
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic, Illustration Board
Georges MANZANA-PISSARRO (1871-1961) Son of Camille
Located in Holywell, GB
A delightful pencil sketch on watermarked laid paper by Camille Pissarro’s son, George Manzana Pissarro. Signed by means of his studio stamp and with auct...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Pencil
1940's Provence France Painting Landscape - Post Impressionist artist
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provencal Landscape
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
Signed and dated 1947
From a batch of similar work where most were dated 1942-1947
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
mea...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Fauvist Mid Century Floral Impasto Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid-century painting of heavily textured Ranunculus flowers in a blue vase by Bonnie Yankauer (American, 20th Century), 1964. The palette and impasto brush strokes gives thi...
Category
1960s Fauvist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bunch of Flowers, Painting Post-impressionist Circa 1930
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
GOBILLARD Paule (1869 - 1946)
Bunch of Flowers
Oil on canvas signed low right
Framed with gold leaves
Dim canvas : 47 X 39 cm
Dim frame : 67 X 59 cm
GOBILLARD Paule (1869 - 1946)
...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
'Still Life of Flowers', Paris, Salon D'Automne, Danish Avant-Garde, 'The Four'
By Karl Larsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Karl Larsen" (Danish, 1897-1977) and painted circa 1955.
Beginning in 1917, Karl Larsen participated in numerous exhibitions in France and Denmark including the...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Artist Self Portrait in an Orange Sweater - Fauvist Portrait
By Don Klopfer
Located in Soquel, CA
Boldly colored portrait of a the artist sketching by California artist Richard "Don" Klopfer (1920-2009). The seated figure is juxtaposed to a fun and vibrant two-toned background of...
Category
Late 20th Century Fauvist Art
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Emilio Grau Sala - Original Handsigned Lithograph - Ecole de Paris
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Emilio Grau Sala
Original Handsigned Lithograph
Dimensions: 76 x 54 cm
Edition: HC XXI/XXX
HandSigned and Numbered
Ecole de Paris au seuil de la mutation des Arts
Sentiers Editions ...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Garden Near Cailhau By Achille Laugé
Located in New Orleans, LA
Achille Laugé
1861-1944 French
The Garden Near Cailhau
Signed "A. Laugé 96" (lower left)
Oil on canvas
“Laugé’s art is one of great sensitivity and controlled reason; he is a mas...
Category
19th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A. J. Bennett - Light and Shade - Post Impressionist Painting, South Africa 1919
Located in Meinisberg, CH
A. J. Bennett
(South African, fl. Early 20th century)
Light and Shade
• Oil on canvas artist board ca. 42.5 x 29.5 cm
• Later frame ca. 53.5 x 41 cm
Worldwide shipping is complime...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Mid Century Fauvist Swiss Lake Village Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Fauvist Swiss Lake Village Landscape
Colorful mid century fauvist Swiss Village and Lake landscape by Central California artist R. Step...
Category
1960s Fauvist Art
Materials
Illustration Board, Canvas, Oil
RWA(1915-93) STUBBLE BURNING SALPERTON Cotswolds LANDSCAPE original OIL PAINTING
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: John Gordon Bill RWA (1915-1993) British
TITLE: 'Stubble Burning Salperton Gloucestershire"
SIGNED: initialled lower right
MEDIUM: oil on panel
SIZE: 36cm x 29cm
CONDITION: excellent
DETAIL: Painter and teacher, born in London, married to the artist Coral Nerelle. After Radley College he studied art at Byam Shaw School with Bernard Dunstan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Spanish fishermen on the beach Spain oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gabriel Casarrubios Martín (1953) - Fishermen on the beach - Oil on panel
Oil size 19x33 cm.
Frameless.
Gabriel Casarrubios Martín (1953)
The Toledo artist trained in Fine Arts in ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Figures in the Forest - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Paul Gernez
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed post impressionist landscape oil on board circa 1914 by French painter Paul Elie Gernez. The work depicts figures walking in the shade of trees...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Board, Oil
Chez Maxim's - Post Impressionist Oil Figures in Interior by Pierre de Belay
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated figures in interior oil on canvas by French post impressionist painter Pierre De Belay. The work depicts a gentleman in a black morning suit ...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Still Life with Lilies
By Hayley Lever
Located in Milford, NH
A beautiful still life with lilies painted by Australian American artist Hayley Lever (1876-1958). Lever was born in Adelaide, Australia and studied first at...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
woman with guitar mixed media painting
By Jordi Curos
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman smoking
Mixed technique on canvas board.
Work measurements 55x46 cm.
Frameless.
Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Spanis...
Category
1980s Fauvist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
French School Mid Century Original Oil Painting STILL LIFE OF FLOWERS
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Indistinctly Signed (mid 20th Century) French / Continental School
TITLE: "Still Life Of Flowers In A White Bulbous Jug"
SIGNED: lower right
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
SIZE: 76...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Rare Hungarian Jewish Rabbi Judaica Oil Painting Portrait
By Lajos Polczer
Located in Surfside, FL
Rare Pre World War II (Pre Holocaust) Judaica Art. European Judaic art from this period is exceedingly rare.
Polczer was an Hungarian artist, his foundations of painting were taught by a painter Bertalan Karlovszky. His works were exhibited in the National Salon and the Art Hall from 1928. His works are held by the Hungarian National Gallery. In his later years he worked in the United States, he was working in New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 1960s. Known for his Jewish genre scenes, Chess scenes and other early 20th Century salon style nude paintings. In the tradition of Moritz Oppenheim...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Children's game in a garden by the sea, original oil on canvas, Pointillist
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
This original, oil on canvas of a women and her children on a quay in Venice is a beautiful picture of motherhood and femininity that was painted about 50 years ago by the French Artist Eugene Begarat...
Category
Late 20th Century Pointillist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mother & Child in a Landscape, framed in an important Carrig Rohane frame
By André Gisson
Located in Sheffield, MA
Andre Gisson
American, 1921-2003
Mother & Child in a Landscape
Oil on canvas
24 by 36 in. W/frame 32 by 44 in.
Signed lower left
Framed in an important Carrig Rohane frame...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Bunch of Iris
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Joseph Alexis KREYDER (1839-1912)
Bunch of Iris
Oil on canvas signed low left
Old frame gilded with leaves
Dim canvas : 82 X 61 cm - Dim frame : 104 X 82 cm
Joseph Alexis KREYDER (1...
Category
1880s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Belgian Impressionist painting of a sunlit village
Located in Harkstead, GB
Wonderful Post -Impressionist oil of a sunlit village painted with most attractive brushwork and palette.
Henri Vos (1883-1959)
A sunlit village
Signed
Oil on canvas laid down on pa...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel
Rehearsal - Mid-Late 20th Century Impressionist Oil of Ballet by Frank Hill
By Frank Hill
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Frank Hill is a professional artist living and working in North Norfolk. He studied art at Waltham Forest School of Art and later at St Martins School of Art.
Frank’s professional c...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Charcoal, Mixed Media, Oil, Board
Le Grand Hotel, Paris, 1954
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, B. 1900
Le Grand Hotel, Paris ,1954
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work i...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Place de la République, 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Edouard Léon Cortès
Located in Madrid, ES
EDOUARD LÉON CORTÈS
French, 1882 - 1969
PLACE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE
signed "EDOUARD CORTÈS." (lower right)
oil on canvas
25-3/4 x 36-1/4 inches (65 x 91.5 cm.)
framed: 33-1/2 x 44-1/4 inc...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Israeli KIbbutz Artist Toddler, Swim Tube Pointilist Oil Painting Bezalel School
By Arie Kaplun
Located in Surfside, FL
Belarusian born Israeli artist. lived in germany studied at the Bezalel School.
Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is Israel's national school of art. Established in 1906 by Jewish...
Category
20th Century Pointillist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American POINTILLISM Impressionist MAINE COASTAL Seascape Landscape
Located in New York, NY
We have this gorgeously toned, fauvist-inspired Pointillist Coastal landscape for sale. An extremely vibrant and sunny scene with trees and Maine coastal beaches in the back. Very c...
Category
Early 20th Century Pointillist Art
Materials
Oil
"Bathers" - Modern Fauvist Nude Figurative Landscape
By Don Klopfer
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant depiction of a group of bathers in a lush, colorful forest of fauvist invention by California artist Don Klopfer (1920-2009). The stylized nude fig...
Category
1970s Fauvist Art
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Ballet D'enfants
Located in Sheffield, MA
Suzanne Eisendieck
French, 1908-1998
Ballet D'enfants
Oil on canvas
36 by 29 ½ in. W/frame 44 by 37 ½ in.
Signed lower right
She was born in Danzig (now Gdansk, Poland) in 1908 ...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Reus market Spain oil on canvas painting spanish urbanscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Vicenç Ferrer Torradellas (1927) - Ibiza Market - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 46x55 cm.
Frameless.
Reus 1927. He studied at the School of Work. He dedicated himself to easel painting...
Category
1940s Fauvist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Looking Up To Highgate - Late 20th Century Landscape of Park in London by Quirke
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
Looking Up To Highgate
Michael Quirke was born in 1946 and studied at St Martin’s School of Art, London. After moving from London, Michael became a member of the art community in St...
Category
Early 2000s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"House In Champigny" Contemporary Impressionist Oil Painting of French Alps
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"House In Champigny Le Hout" is an beautiful oil painted on location in the French Alps by Maria Bertran. This Contemporary Impressionist painting captures a timeless scene in an Alp...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
El Balcon, Courting Couple Mexican Modernist Oil Painting
By Eliana Menasse
Located in Surfside, FL
El Balcon, the courting couple flirting over the balcony railing ala Romeo and Juliet.
Eliana Menassé is a Mexican painter and member of the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, an honor society for Mexican artists She was born in New York, but lived in Mexico since she was two years old and considers herself Mexican. As of 2015 she lived and worked at her Mexico City apartment overlooking Parque México.
She has been painting for over half a century and has held twenty five individual exhibitions since 1958. These include Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (2010), Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición (Hospital de Nutrición) (2008). Galería Alberto Misrachi (1995, 2001, 2006), a retrospective at the Galería Alba de la Canal, Universidad Veracruzana, Xalapa (2003), a retrospective at the Casa del Tiempo UAM (2001), a retrospective at the Museo de Arte de Aguascalientes (1997), Expo 4 Pintores, Sala Nacional INBA (1989), Galería “El Granero”, Torreón, Coahuila (1981), Galería Francisca Díaz (1980), Galería Merkup (1968, 1970 y 1972), Gallery of the Los Angeles Mart, Los Angeles, CA (1967), Steven Laurence Gallery, Detroit,MI (1967), Salón de la Plástica Mexicana (1963, 1966, 1975), Instituto Francés de América Latina (1962) and the Galería Tuso (1958).
She has participated in over 250 collective exhibitions in various parts of Mexico as well as in the United States, the Netherlands, Germany, Japan and other countries.
Her work can be found in the collections of the Ghetto Fighters' House in Israel, Bell Telephone Co. Museum in Chicago, Musée Beitar et Rami in Israel, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Morelia, Centro Cultural de Oaxaca, Museo del Estado de México, Toluca, Mexican Engraving Museum in Bulgaria, Colección Gráfica de la UNAM, México the General Motors Collection, The B. Lewin Collection of Mexican Art, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museo de Arte de Aguascalientes, Colección Pago en Especie SHCP, Colección Instituto Nacional de Nutrición and the Acervo Cultural El Agora, Xalapa. She was a Jewish Mexican...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Study of a Moor', Post-Impressionist Figural Oil, Othello, Moroccan, Tunisian
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
American school, Signed indistinctly lower right and dated 1988.
A bravura, psychologically-penetrating oil study of a man, shown wearing a turban and contrasted against a scumbled ...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Masonite
'Still Life, Fruit & Flowers', Paris, Copenhagen Royal Academy of Art
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed upper left, 'V. Isbrand' for Victor Isbrand (Danish, 1897-1989) and painted circa 1945.
A vibrant Post-Impressionist still-life showing a view of a farmhouse interior with a...
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Porte Saint-Denis
Located in Zürich, CH
ÉDOUARD-LÉON CORTÈS
1882, Lagny-sur-Marne - 1969
“I do nothing but paint. I stand in
front of my easel at around eight in the morning; from twelve to two I eat lunch and rest, and ...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Charles PICART LE DOUX, Model on Green Background, Oil on Isorel, 1949
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on isorel panel by Charles PICART LE DOUX (1881-1959), France, 1949. Model on green background. With frame: 97.5x76.5 cm - 38.4x30.1 inches ; without frame: 81x60cm - 31.9x23.6 i...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Wlodzimierz Zakrzewski (1916 1992) Polish Oil Painting Mid Century Portrait Lady
Located in Cirencester, GB
Original oil painting by Polish born painter Wlodzimierz Zakrzewski (1916-1992) and depicting Elvezia Ratti in her home in Milan Italy.
Włodzimierz Zakrzewski (Petersburg 1916 - War...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
'Surf and Rocks at Sunset', Oakland College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland Museum
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'C. Sideman' for Carol Joy Sideman (1925-2021) and painted circa 1975; titled, verso, on old artist's tape, 'Surf and Rocks'.
Carol Sideman received her Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of California at Berkeley and, subsequently, attended the Oaklands College of Arts and Crafts. Sideman specialized in architectural illustration...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic, Tissue Paper, Oil
Avenue de l'Opera
Located in Zürich, CH
ÉDOUARD-LÉON CORTÈS
1882, Lagny-sur-Marne - 1969
“I do nothing but paint. I stand in
front of my easel at around eight in the morning; from twelve to two I eat lunch and rest, and ...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
'Seated Nude', Paris, Louvre, Académies Chaumière et Etrangères, LACMA, SFAA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, with estate stamp for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and created circa 1950.
Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Modernist SUNDAY MORNING HARVEST Woman with Flowers Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Modern
Subject: Figures
Medium: Oil
Surface: Board
Country: United States
signed lower left
Donald Roy Purdy is an American painter whose work evolved through a range of styl...
Category
20th Century Fauvist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
"Pueblo de Normandia", 20th Century Acrylic on Paper by Artist Carlos Nadal
By Carlos Nadal
Located in Madrid, ES
CARLOS NADAL
Spanish, 1917 - 1988
PUEBLO DE NORMANDIA
signed & dated "Nadal / 5-2-79" (lower right)
with the atelier stamp (on the reverse)
acrylic on paper
9-1/2 x 11-1/2 inches (2...
Category
1970s Fauvist Art
Materials
Acrylic
'Sheila', Pacific Grove Art Association Exhibit, Woman Artist, LACMA, PAFA, SFMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
By Virginia Conroy Dedini (American, 1922-2006). Titled on exhibition label, 'Sheila' and created circa 1965.
Exhibited:
Pacific Grove Museum of Natu...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache, Graphite, Mica
Windsor Castle
By Ian Houston
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on board
Board size: 12 x 16 inches
Framed size: 17.25 x 21.5 inches
Signed lower left
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Red Sand Riverbed Painting By Swedish Post-Impressionist Painter Anders Ståhl
Located in Stockholm, SE
Anders Ståhl, Swedish painter, born 1966.
Since modernism, outdoor painting has largely been forgotten by professional painters, but the Swedish artist A...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
"October Inspiration" Landscape Painting with Aspens Fall Colors
Located in Austin, TX
A luminous landscape painting of an aspen forest with white tree trunks and vibrant fall foliage in orange and gold. The distant background features a purple, Rocky Mountain vista...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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