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Paintings For Sale
Period: 1920s
Period: Early 1900s
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Carrefour de Rive on a rainy day, Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Gray wooden frame
70 x 81 x 5 cm
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Melting Snow: 1930s Oil Painting of Colorado Landscape with Creek & Mountains
Located in Denver, CO
"Melting Snow," a vintage original oil painting from the 1920s-1930s, beautifully captures a serene Colorado winter landscape. The scene features a snow-covered creek winding through...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Interior Portrait of a Lady Taking Tea - Scottish Edwardian art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely Scottish Edwardian interior portrait oil painting is by noted Scottish artist Arthur Percy Dixon. Painted in 1906 it is a seated portrait of a lady in the corner of a roo...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rare California or Western Mining Town Oil Painting by Listed Artist M Treadwell
Located in Baltimore, MD
This rare and unusual landscape painting shows a broad view of a mining town and its setting in the Western United States, most likely California or Arizona. It is signed by listed ...
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Paintings
Materials
Oil
William Logsdail New College Oxford Cloisters oil painting
Located in London, GB
To see our other views of Oxford and Cambridge, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the ...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still life with sailor's beret, beer mug, long pipe and books
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
Early 1900s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tree and House Under the Snow (Arbre et Maison Sous la Neige) Raymond Thibesart.
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Tree and House Under the Snow (Arbre et Maison Sous la Neige)
Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968)
Pastel on canvas, circa 1920s
9 1/2 x 12 ( 14 x 17 1/2 framed) inches
This is a ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Canvas
Still Life with Vase of Flowers
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Still Life with Vase of Flowers
Oil on board with incised scraffito, c. 1929-1930
Unsigned by the artist
Signed and inscribed verso: "Painting by my father, Aileen B. Cramer" verso, ...
Category
1920s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Farmhouse in Autumn, Early 20th Century Landscape by Florence Helena McGillivray
Located in Soquel, CA
Farmhouse in Autumn, Early 20th Century Landscape by Florence Helena McGillivray
A vibrant and colorful late 1920's landscape by Florence Helena McGillivray (Canadian, 1864-1938). This beautiful 1929 landscape depicts a quaint farmhouse in autumn, surrounded by a landscape full of fall foliage in goldenrod yellow, bright orange, and deep red, with soft purple hills receding into the distance.
Signed "F. McGillivray" lower left.
Displayed in a new Arts & Crafts style giltwood frame.
Board size: 16"H x 20"W.
Framed size: 19.25"H x 23.25"W x 1"D.
McGillivray (1864–1938) garnered admiration for her modern landscape paintings, as well as for her mentorship of young artists, including Tom Thomson. She has been credited in some instances as an influence for what would later be known as the Group of Seven.
A prolific sketcher and painter, Florence McGillivray...
Category
1920s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Illustration Board
Edwardian Ecclesiastical Gouache Design for Tripytch Above Altar c1920 Art Deco
Located in London, GB
Anonymous
Design for Triptych Above Altar
British, c. 1920s
Gouache
38×28.5cm
Christ Pantocrator stands in the middle of the design, surrounded by the four evangelists (Saints Matthew...
Category
1920s Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Landscape with House (Villa Borghese) - Oil on Panel by Giorgio de Vincenzi
By Giorgio de Vincenzi
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on panel. Contemporary frame.
Measures with frame: 82.7 x 102.5 cm.
Very good conditions.
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
1920s San Francisco Oil Paint Still Life
By Almira Austin Judson
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous 1920's still life with Asian elements by San Francisco artist Almira Austin Judson (American, 1868-1945). Signed on verso. Unframed. Condition: one paint scratch upper cente...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of George Hopkinson - British 20's male oil painting Russian Jewish art
By Jacob Kramer
Located in London, GB
This superb portrait oil painting is by noted Russian Jewish artist Jacob Kramer. The sitter is a friend of the artist, George Hopkinson, proud Yorkshireman and textile businessman w...
Category
1920s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Barcelona
Located in Genève, GE
Work monogrammed A.G.
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
40 x 49.5 x 5.5 cm
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lombard Landscape - Oil Paint by Gigi Comolli - 1928
Located in Roma, IT
Lombard Landscape is a modern artork realized by Gigi Comolli in 1928.
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
Includes frame: 110 x 127.5 cm
Hand signed and date...
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Signed Illustration Indian Royalty Elephant Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique illustration painting. Gouache and watercolor on board, circa 1920. Signed. Image size, 12L x 11H. Housed in a period frame.
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
NUDE WITH RED HAIR
Located in Los Angeles, CA
LUCIEN BOULIER
"NUDE WITH RED HAIR"
OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED
FRANCE, C.1930
26 X 20 INCHES
Lucien Boulier
1882-1963
Lucian Boulier was born Verdun...
Category
1920s Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Roman Countryside - Mixed Media by E. Gioja - 1908
Located in Roma, IT
Roman Countryside is an original modern artwork realized in 1908 by Edoardo Gioja.
Mixed media. Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin.
Includes frame.
Edoardo Gioia (Rome, 1862 - Rome, 1937), an Italian painter and artist. He treated the decoration and portrait with Pre-Raphaelite taste. Influenced by Nino Costa, he repudiated genre painting by reproducing marines, countries, plants, animals and painted and drew with simplicity and with very effective results. He decorated several rooms in London and prepared cartoons for stained glass...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Tempera
Original Oil on Canvas. William P. Canton Woodville, "A Cottage Nosegay"
Located in Mere, GB
William P. Canton Woodville born 1884.
Studied Herkomers. Lived in Hertfordshire.
Signed with monogram and dated 1927.
Original oil on canvas
14 x 10 inches.
Frame size 18 x 14 in...
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Eyes of Love: Bachelor Party, Pictorial Review, October 1921
By Edmund Ward
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Sight Size 34.50" x 28.00;" Framed 39.50" x 32.50"
Eyes of Love: Bachelor Party, Pictorial Review, October 1921
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large Landscape by Chicago Artist Tellander, 1921
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A. Frederick Tellander
(American, 1878-1977)
Landscape, 1921
Oil on canvas, 32 x 38 inches
Framed: 36 x 42 inches (approx.)
Signed and dated at lower right: "Frederic Tellander...
Category
1920s Tonalist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Still Life on a Table', Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Pompidou Center, Nice
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left "Vigny" for Sylvain Vigny (French, 1903-1970) and painted, circa 1935, on artists board prepared by Maison Franco, 19 Rue Pastorelli, Nice.
Born in Vienna, Sylvain...
Category
1920s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Art Deco Women's Bathroom Painting
Located in New York, NY
French painting entitled "La Salle de Bains de Madame." Stamped "J. Vermont" on verso. Custom framed in a hand-made, cherry stained, oak wood frame. Imag...
Category
1920s Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Illustration Board
View of the Forum Romanum - Painting by Luigi Tarra - 1929
Located in Roma, IT
View of the Roman Forum is an original modern artwork realized in 1929 by Luigi Tarra (1832 - 1936).
Mixed colored oil on panel.
Hand signed and dated on the lower right margin.
I...
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Turkeys in the Trees, Early 20th Century Farm Landscape Watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Turkey in the Trees, c. 1922
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
22 x 29 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, 1964) was a modernist American artist and a mast...
Category
1920s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Composition 15 - Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 15 is an original painting realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is on tempera and in very good conditions. Image Dimensions: 48...
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Tempera
"Les Trois Arbres (The 3 Trees)" pastel by Raymond Thibesart (1874-1968)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Les Trois Arbres (The 3 Trees)"
Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968)
Circa 1920s
Pastel on paper, signed lower left
12.5 x 9.75 (16 3/4 x 13 3/4 frame) inches
Raymond Thibesart ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Early 20th C French Watercolor, botanical flowers from an University collection
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful watercolor depicting a plant/flower. These were used at a Belgium University to teach the students about botany. Dating from the early 20th century...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Large Scale Maritime Painting -- Three Masted Braque in Rough Seas
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning large scale painting of an early 20th century Braque sailing ship named "Medusa" by Charles Miller (American, 19th/20th Century), 1926. Signed and dated lower left corner. C...
Category
1920s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
'Young Woman Seated', Hungarian Figural oil, Academie Julian, Academie de Geneve
By Jozsef Biro
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
An early-20th-century figural study showing a finely dressed young woman seated in the countryside and admiring her necklace in a hand-mirror.
Signed lower right "Biro J." for Jozs...
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century French Academic Study of a Hand
Located in SANTA FE, NM
French Academic Study of a Hand
Circa 1900
Oil on Cardboard
13 3/8 x 8 3/8 (19 1/8 x 14 1/8 frame) inches
Signed lower left "M. Granet"
A very finely...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
A view from the Pont Neuf - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Charles Guilloux
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on canvas riverscape by French impressionist painter Charles-Victor Guilloux. This beautifully painter piece shows a view from the Pont Neuf looking towards the ...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pekingese Portrait - British Art Deco oil painting dog interior animal artist
By George Denholm Armour
Located in London, GB
A beautiful British portrait of a Pekingese dog by George Denholm Armour. Dated to circa 1920, it is a superb Art Deco animal portrait with bold brush strokes and vibrant colour. The dog's name is, I believe, written in Japanese top right.
Signed lower left.
Provenance. Christie’s.
Condition. Oil on canvas, image size is 27 inches by 24 inches and in good gallery condition.
Housed in a gilded 1930s Art Deco frame, 35 by 32 inches framed. In excellent condition.
George Denholm Armour (1864-1949) was a British painter. He was born in Waterside, Lanarkshire, Scotland on 30 January 1864. He grew up in Liverpool and went to school in Fife. He graduated from the University of St Andrews and the Edinburgh College of Art. He moved to Tangiers, Morocco to paint and buy horses. When his money ran out, he moved to London and shared a studio with Phil May. He met Joseph Crawhall...
Category
1920s Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Riverbank" Charles Sprague Pearce, American Impressionist Boat Sketch
Located in New York, NY
Charles Sprague Pearce
The Riverbank, circa 1900
Signed lower left, inscribed verso
Oil on canvas
7 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches
Charles Sprague Pearce made a successful career painting high...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Interior - Oil Paint by Antonio Donghi- 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Interior is an artwork realized by Antonio Donghi in 1922 ca.
Oil on canvas, cm. 60x40.
Hand signed in the lower right part.
Good condition,
Antonio Donghi (Rome, March 16, 189...
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mystery European Artist, signed garden painting
Located in New York, NY
Mystery European Artist
Untitled, Late 19th-20th Century
Oil on board
13 x 16 1/4 in.
Framed: 16 3/4 x 19 1/2 in.
Signed lower right
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Sheepshead, Brooklyn, Long Island" Oscar Bluemner, Modernist Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Oscar Bluemner
Sheepshead, Long Island, 1907
Signed with the artist's conjoined initials "OB" and dated "4-30 - 5 - 30" / "Aug 3, 07"
Watercolor on paper
6 x 10 inches
Provenance:
J...
Category
Early 1900s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Austrian Landscape and Carved Wood Frame Oil on Linen 1905 Goetheanum Designer
Located in Soquel, CA
Austria Landscape and wood Carved Frame Oil on Linen 1905
Historically significant wood work and wonderful landscape celebrating the Austrian landscape and forests in a hand carved ...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Wood, Oil
Early 20th century Red Chalk drawing of Art Deco nude women with Bob hair style
Located in Woodbury, CT
Davis Kemp
Early 20th century Red Chalk drawing of Art Deco nude women with Bob hair style.
Very well drawn nude study of two women from 1928 in t...
Category
1920s Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Paper, Chalk
“Seaside Picnic”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of a bucolic seaside picnic with a mother and her young children. Signed by the artist, F. G. Grust lower left. Condition is very good. The painting is housed in a period style gold leaf frame in fine condition. Overall framed measurements are 31.5 by 41.75 inches. Provenance: A California estate.
F. G. Grust was a Dutch painter born in 1889 who was best known for his domestic interior and exterior scenes of a mother with her young children. He is the son of artist Theordor Grust (1859 - 1909), who also painted Dutch genre...
Category
1920s Academic Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Oil on Board. WILLIAM KAY BLACKLOCK A.R.C.A., "Autumn on the Almond"
Located in Mere, GB
WILLIAM KAY BLACKLOCK A.R.C.A., 1872 - 1922
Popular Scottish artist who lived in Hemmingford and Walberswick. A regular exhibitor.
Original oil on board,
8.5 x 11 inches.
Frame si...
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Woman - Oil on Plywood by Domenico Cantatore - 1920 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
A beautiful and early portrait of woman by well known italian master of the 20th century.
Good conditions, it includes a contemporary gilded wooden frame.
Certificate of authenticit...
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Oil
The Return from Fishing - Oil Paint by Giovan Battista Filosa - 1908
Located in Roma, IT
The Return from Fishing (Original Title: Il Ritorno dalla Pesca), is an original oil painting realized by Giovan Battista Filosa in 1908.
Some fishermen seen from behind, in the blue light of the sky, with the vesuvius in the background, are the protagonists of the painting in "Il ritorno dalla pesca" by Giovan Battista Filosa (Castellamare di Stabia 1850 - Naples 1935) student of the famous Neapolitan painter...
Category
Early 1900s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summery terrace scene by the German paintres Gabrielle Daube from Hamburg
Located in DEVENTER, NL
Charming summery terrace scene dominated by an elegant lady with a white hat and green gloves, next to her a suitor drinking wine and smoking a cigarette. At the table another elegant lady with red hair. A waiter and a man on a neighboring table look on how the romance will unfold. A blue- turquoise and white sun screen...
Category
1920s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Girl in Red - Scottish 1900 Glasgow Girl art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely Scottish Victorian portrait oil painting is by noted Scottish female artist Annie Rosie Laing. Laing grew up and studied art in Glasgow around the time of the Glasgow Girls...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Paintings
Materials
Adhesive, Oil
"Concarneau, Brittany, France" Hayley Lever, American Impressionism
By Hayley Lever
Located in New York, NY
Hayley Lever (1876 - 1958)
Concarneau, Brittany, France, 1905
Oil on panel
6 3/4 x 9 1/2 inches
Signed by the artist lower left
Inscribed by another hand on the reverse
Provenance:
Clayton-Liberatore Galleries, Bridgehampton, New York
Hayley Lever’s (1875-1958) versatility has worked against his posthumous reputation. He was never associated with a single artistic movement, instead producing impressionist, post-impressionist, and expressionist works. While best known as a painter of post-impressionist marine scenes, his subject matter included landscapes, urban scenes, and still lifes across his 60-year career. This lack of a singular style or subject has given him an amorphous place in U.S. art history despite his obvious accomplishments.
[Richard] Hayley Lever was born in Bowden, South Australia in 1875. He excelled in painting classes at Prince Alfred College (1883-91) and Norwood Art School (1891-93) in Adelaide. In the 1890s, Lever moved to England, studying art in London and painting at St. Ives, a fishing port and popular artistic colony on the Cornish coast. In St. Ives, Lever shared a studio with Frederick Waugh, and studied painting with Albert Julius Olsson and Algernon Talmage.
Lever was a plein air painter particularly interested in the effect of sunlight on the sea. He painted in a distinctive style, strongly influenced by the works of Vincent van Gogh, that might now be called post-impressionism. He used a limited palette to paint the St. Ives harbor, particularly at dusk or in the moonlight. His strong contrasting colors and thick use of paint created a crisp and physical surface that earned him acclaim in Europe. Lever’s many St. Ives seascapes are among his most popular works. In 2017, his painting entitled “The Old Lighthouse and Fleets of St. Ives” sold at auction for $162,500.
In 1912, Lever moved to New York to test the art market in the United States. In Manhattan, Lever met prominent U.S. painters such as Ernest Lawson, Robert Henri, William Glackens, John Sloan, and George Bellows. Lever exhibited with this group regularly in New York City, painting parks, streets, bridges and the Manhattan waterfront. However, he soon discovered the scenic potential of Gloucester, Rockport, and Marblehead in the Cape Ann area of Massachusetts...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
INSIDE SCENE - Carlo Passarelli Italian figurative oil on carboard painting
Located in Napoli, IT
INSIDE SCENE - Italian figurative oil on carboard painting, cm.17x29, Carlo Passarelli, 1900s
Category
Early 1900s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Sepulchre - Gouache by Alfred Pichon - 1904
Located in Roma, IT
Sepulchre is an Original Gouache on Paper realized by Alfred Pichon (1877-1918) in 1904.
The artwork is in good condition.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower right corner.
Category
Early 1900s Modern Paintings
Materials
Gouache
1923 Cottage Painting by Hungarian Artist Koronthály Jenő
Located in New York, NY
Koronthály Jenő (Hungarian, 1883-1973)
Untitled, 1923
Oil on wood panel
11 3/8 x 14 1/2 in.
Framed: 14 1/8 x 17 1/4 x 1 in.
Signed and dated lower left
A Hungarian artist, Koronthál...
Category
1920s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
A Geological Landscape - British art 1920's landscape oil painting female artist
Located in London, GB
This gorgeous and vibrant early twentieth century British landscape oil painting is by Margaret Maitland Howard. Painted circa 1920 the landscape is of a rocky out crop or escarpment...
Category
1920s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The bath", Yasushi Tanaka (1886-1941)
Located in Paris, FR
Yasushi Tanaka (1886-1941) was a Japanese painter, best known for his female portraits. Born in Saitama, he emigrated to Seattle and began his artistic career in 1904. He then moved ...
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Path Along The River - Oil On Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Path Along The River - Oil On Canvas
Oil painting depicting a pathway along a river bank. A walkway is seen to the right of the calm river, greenery surrounding, with pink and purpl...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Winter Snowy Cabin Oil Painting Signed Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful snowy landscape with footprints leading to cabin in valley circa 1940. Signed lower left "Gruber." Image has painted "mat" effect. Inside image is 12.50"H x 18.38"W. Unfram...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Home Guard
Located in London, GB
Caspar von Reth (1858-1913)
The Home Guard
signed and dated ‘C. v. Reth/ 1905’ (lower right)
oil on canvas, laid on board
13 ¾ x 19 ½ in. (34.9 x 49.5 cm.)
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of Brian de Lolme Bullock - British Edwardian art oil painting
Located in London, GB
This absolutely charming Edwardian portrait oil painting is by noted artist Edward Francis Wells. Painted in 1908, the sitter is Brian de Lolme Bullock as a six year old boy. (See hi...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Modernist Landscape Signed Western Oil on Paper
Located in Buffalo, NY
Signed illegibly lower left. Oil on paper. 10 x 8.
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Turn of the Century Hague Netherlands Canal Cityscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive turn-of-the-century cityscape of the canals of the Hague, Netherlands by Richard Paul "Max" Fleischer (German, 1861-1930), circa 1900. Signed "Max Fleischer" in the lower ...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Zoological Garden
Located in Boston, MA
Signed and dated lower left: "Molly Luce 27". In fine condition. A similar painting, The Zoo (1926), is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Exhibited: The Soci...
Category
1920s American Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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