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Chinese Pith Painting of Fish

1830

Lofty mixed media painting on brown paper of a parrot executed in classic Art Deco style with a bold stroke using watercolor and gouache. Signed by not...

Bold watercolor painting on paper of a toucan or bird on paper with evocative tropicals colors and an amusing presence. Signed Timothy Bailey 86 on the lower right.

Follower of Zacharias Wagener (1614-1688) Tamanuâguasû (Giant Anteater) On Italian 17th or 18th-century paper, H. 28 x W. 43.5 cm ​The present painting is a copy after Wagener’s painting of the anteater, Tamanduá-bandeira, which is illustrated in his “Thier Buch”, with 109 drawings of Brazilian fish, birds and mammals, published in Amsterdam c. 1641, in German. ​ Zacharias Wagener, or Wagenaer in Dutch, (Dresden 1614 – Amsterdam 1668) was a real adventurer who became Opperhoofd on Deshima and Governor of the Cape of Good Hope in the service of the VOC. During the Thirty-Year War in Germany Wagener tried his luck in Amsterdam where he worked for the map-maker Willem Blaeu. In 1634 he joined the WIC and left for Dutch Brazil where he worked as writer and painter, together with Frans Post...

QUIRIJN VAN TIEL Rotterdam 1900-1967 Rhoon ​​​​ HORSES 1947 Gouache on paper 31 X 40 cm. Signed and dated: lower left ‘Quirijn van Tiel 47’. Provena...