Sir William Orpen

Dover Street Arts Club 1925 - The Card Game

c.1925

Signed watercolour on paper landscape circa 1865 by French impressionist painter Eugene Boudin. This work depicts an artist painting a portrait of an elegant couple on the beach at D...

Watercolour on paper circa 1910 by Henri Duhem depicting figures on boats on the river, their reflections visible in the water below and a crescent moon in the sky. Signed lower righ...

Watercolour on paper circa 1910 by Henri Duhem depicting a man fishing in a boat on the river accompanied by his dog. Signed lower left. This painting is not currently framed but a s...

Watercolour on paper circa 1920 by Henri Duhem depicting Les Gilles - men dressed in traditional costume at the Carnival of Binche, Belgium. Signed and titled lower left. This painti...

A full length portrait of Marie Duhem by her husband Henri. Watercolour on paper circa 1910. Signed lower right. This painting is not currently framed but a suitable frame can be sou...

Watercolour on paper circa 1905 by Henri Duhem depicting an elegant couple enjoying an evening stroll by the canal. Signed lower left. This painting is not currently framed but a sui...

Classic Interior design and Family Dinner by Architectural Digest illustrator David Mode Payne (American, 1907-1985). The scene depicted is an interio...

Signed lower left

Monotype on paper Dramatic disrupted realism imagery from Tom Bennett’s series of monochromatic monotypes, blending surrealistic mindscapes with stark realism About Tom Bennett: With quick brushstrokes, Tom Bennett creates representational images of human figures and animals, emphasizing movement in a manner reminiscent of Lucien Freud, Edgar Degas and the photographer Eadweard Muybridge. Elongated and blurry, the horse racing up a hill (Canter Fritz, 2002) and the sinister cat landing a leap (Chien Blanc, 1998) elicit a sense of foreboding enhanced by Bennett’s somber palette; his female figures too reflect a grim sense of humor with their distorted nude bodies. The face of Untitled Figure (1997), for example, is obscured by layers of dark paint. Classically trained as a painter, he initially worked in oil on canvas but discovered that monotype printing enabled him to “literally push the image around,” creating an essential element of motion. To overcome the limited scale of monotypes, however, he switched to painting on slick-surfaced plastic. Tom Bennett’s practice is rooted in the classical tradition where painting and drawing from life is highly regarded. Bennett’s work is heavily influenced by Francis Bacon, Frank Auberbauch and foremost his father, Harry Bennett, who was also an artist. Tom’s time living abroad in Spain and traveling through Eastern Europe and Africa provided the artistic freedom to explore many of the techniques and subject matter that continue to define his practice. Bennett was born and raised in Connecticut. His mediums include monotypes, oil on paper, canvas or styrene board. In a technique that Tom started over 4 years ago, several of his monotypes have been painted over with oil paint using a palette knife, brush, or his fingers to re-purpose the underlying image. These works are a testament to Bennett’s ability to quickly and concisely compose an image with expressive brush strokes, foreshortened figures and expertly rendered light. Tom’s work has been featured in group and solo exhibitions worldwide. Bennett lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He is currently represented by Tabla Rasa...

Artist: Jose Canes (aka Dore), Spanish (1931 - ) Title: Woman in Pink with Red Flowers Year: circa 1975 Medium: Acrylic and Pastel on Paper, signed l.r. 'Dore' Size: 25.5 x 19.5 in. ...

Graphite and grayish ink wash on bluish wove paper, 7 x 10 1/2 inches (177 x 265 mm) (matrix). Scattered surface soiling, adhesive residue, dog-eared corners, and scattered edge tears along left margin, outside of image area. Paper is braced on the verso with two pages from a mid 19th century book with illustrations by C.Perrin. One image depicts a scene of a group of soldiers representing the Holy Roman Empire...

Watercolour on paper Paper size: 17 x 13 inches Framed size: 25.5 x 21.75 inches Signed lower right