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Paintings For Sale
Period: 1920s
Period: Early 1900s
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British Bulldog Original 1900's English Dog Painting Portrait of Bulldog signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Bulldog In A Landscape
J White (British 19th/20th Century)
oil on canvas, framed
signed and dated 1908
framed: 32 x 25 inches
canvas: 27 x 20 inches
provenance: private collection, S...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
St Lunaire, Brittany - Early 20th Century British landscape by Ernest Normand
By Ernest Normand
Located in London, GB
ERNEST NORMAND
(1857-1923)
St Lunaire, Brittany
Signed, inscribed and dated l.l.: Ernest Normand/St Lunaire 1902
Oil on canvas
Framed
26 by 49 cm., 10 ¼ by 19 ¼ in.
(frame size 38 by 61 cm., 15 by 24 in.)
Ernest Normand was born in London and studied at the Royal Academy Schools. He is best known as a painter of history and orientalist paintings and portrait commission. In 1884 he married the painter and writer Henrietta Rae. They lived in Holland Park and were part of that area’s artistic group which included Leighton, Millais, Prinsep and Watts. In the 1890s they travelled of Paris to study at the Academie Julian with Jules Joseph Lefebvre and Jean-Joseph Benjamin-Constant. He exhibited at the Royal Academy and works by him are in the collections of Glasgow Museum...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self Portrait with Cat - Scottish 1920's Art Deco Oil Painting female artist
By Helen Margaret MacKenzie
Located in London, GB
This stunning Scottish 1920's self portrait oil painting is by noted Scottish female artist Helen Mackenzie. Painted circa 1929 the composition is the head and shoulders of the artis...
Category
1920s Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cliffs and Cypresses at Pt. Lobos, California - Seascape Charles F. Cummins 1929
Located in Soquel, CA
Cliffs and Cypresses at Pt. Lobos, California - Seascape Charles F. Cummins 1929 (American, 1850-1941). One of the beautiful coves from the cliffs near the ocean at Point Lobos State Park, the viewer looks out past several cypress trees towards a rocky point...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
David Bates, Behind The Village, Capel Curig
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by British artist David Bates (1840-1921) depicts a rural view in Capel Curig, North Wales. Bates was an accomplished landscape painter who often...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
French North African early 20th century Impressionist, Fishermen coming ashore
Located in Woodbury, CT
French North African early 20th-century Impressionist, Fishermen coming ashore with their daily catch.
André Humbert was born in Paris on the 27th of November. He was a student of t...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nocturne, Fenetre Eclairee - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil - Henri Le Sidaner
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed divisionist landscape oil on panel circa 1920 by French painter Henri le Sidaner. This stunning piece depicts a white house framed by trees at nighttime. Light glows from the...
Category
1920s Pointillist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Kees Van Dongen Circus Performers 1900s Vintage Vibrant Figure Fauvist Signed
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Les Artistes du Cirque" is an original painting in ink, watercolor, and gouache on paper by leading Fauvist artist Kees Van Dongen, signed in the lower right. In the piece, two circus performers stand against against a wall. On the left, a pale woman in a blue leotard with red flowers on the shoulder stands with her arms crossed, looking out at the viewer. The painter fills in her tights with delicate white brushstrokes, lending them an almost iridescent appearance. Her strawberry blond hair is piled on top of her hair according to the fashion of the period. On the right, an African man stands in a vivid orange toga, looking somewhere off to the left. His feet are clad in bright white shoes...
Category
Early 1900s Fauvist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Virgin of Kataphyge and St. John, after a Byzantine Bulgarian Icon 14th Century
Located in Segovia, ES
The Virgin of Kataphyge with Saint John the Evangelist, after a Bulgarian Byzantine icon of the 14th Century.
Egg tempera and gold leaf on gesso and wood.
Author: Oliver Samsinger...
Category
Early 1900s Byzantine Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
William Albert Clark, clumber spaniel, dog, oil painting.
By William Albert Clark
Located in York, GB
study of a seated clumber spaniel, oil on canvas, signed and dated 1929 lower
left. Housed in a new gilt frame.
Paintings of these beautiful dogs are...
Category
1920s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cliffs at Paramé, France, 20th century seascape & landscape watercolor
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
Cliffs at Paramé, France, c. 1926
Watercolor on paper
Signed lower right
14 x 17.5 inches
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17...
Category
1920s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Large Maritime Oil Painting Called Breakers at Utö, 1928
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are delighted to offer for sale this exquisite painting by the Swedish artist Otto Lindberg, titled "Bränningar vid Utö" (Breakers at Utö). Completed in 1928, this stunning piece ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Canadian Winter Sunset Snow Landscape Panoramic Rare Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Canadian impressionist winter landscape oil painting by Joseph Archibald Browne (1862 - 1948). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 15 by 19 inches overall and 10 by 14 pa...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Cherry Trees in Bloom on the Seine" Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Cherry Trees in Bloom on the Seine (Cerisiers en Fleurs sur la Seine)"
Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968)
Pastel on paper, circa 1920s
Signed l.l.
Circa 15 1/2 x 12 1/2 ( 20 1/2 ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Antique American Impressionist Fall Landscape Thick Impasto Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist fall landscape oil painting by Leonard Rodowicz (1898 - 1981). Oil on board. Signed verso. Framed. Measuring 16 by 19 i...
Category
1920s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Western Oil on Canvas Painting Native American "The Captive" 1901
By Frank Paul Sauerwein
Located in Portland, OR
A large American Western, Native American oil on canvas landscape, by Frank Paul Sauerwein (1871-1910), "The Captive", 1901.
This large oil on canvas depicts a Native American brave captively tied to a tree stump and being viewed by a rival tribe, who are evidently deciding his fate. Behind the collected tribe of elders, braves and children are a pair of conical tipi dwellings, to the background are grazing horses and another group of native people in a tree lined setting. The painting is indistinctly signed lower left, condition is good, the painting is housed in the original frame with a giltwood rabbet, the painting at sight is 40" x 26".
Provenance; From a lifelong collection of 19th & early 20th Century Western Art, Portland, Oregon.
Frank Sauerwein was a respected painter of western landscapes, Indian portraits, Indian genre scenes, and California missions. His promising career was cut short by his death of tuberculosis at age thirty-nine.
The son of European-trained artist, Charles D. Sauerwein, Frank took his first art lessons from his father before studying at the Philadelphia School of Industrial Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, the Art Institute of Chicago and, finally, the Philadephia Museum School of Art. In 1891 he moved to Denver in hope of improving his health.
In 1893, Sauerwein accompanied the artist Charles Craig on a trip to the Ute reservation in southwestern Colorado. This began Sauerwein's unyielding fascination with the Southwest and its Native inhabitants. After a trip to Europe, he returned to the American West, visiting Taos in 1899 and Santa Fe in 1900. That same year, Sauerwein visited the Navajo reservation, becoming good friends with trading post entrepreneur, Lorenzo Hubbell. He also spent time at Keam's Canyon on the Hopi reservation where he sketched local inhabitants.
Sauerwein moved to Los Angeles in 1901, and then to Pasadena in 1902, but he maintained his contacts in the Southwest with Summer trips to the Grand Canyon, New Mexico Indian Pueblos, Taos, Santa Fe and Albuquerque. He especially loved the Grand Canyon which is the subject of a large number of his paintings.
Rendered in a tight, academic style, Sauerwein's paintings clearly show the influence of German...
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Pointe-Rouge - Post Impressionist Sea Landscape Oil by Louis Gaussen
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on panel seascape circa 1920 by French post impressionist painter Adolphe Louis Gaussen. The work depicts a view of waves cascading against a rocky shore. A sail boat is s...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
'Rivière de Mon Paix', Pair of Fine French Impressionist Oils, Musée d'Orsay
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Rivière de Mon Paix', Pair of Fine French Impressionist Oils, Musée d'Orsay, Luxembourg Museum.
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Raoul André Ulmann (French, 1867-1941)
Each signed, 'R.A. Ulmann' and offered a...
Category
1920s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Nicely Framed Detailed American School Antique Beach Scene Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted early 1900s American impressionist beach scene. Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso. Great colors and very well painted. Excellent ready to hang condition.
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Children Playing Original Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist painting of kids in a park. Oil on canvas, circa 1920. Unsigned. Displayed in a giltwood frame....
Category
1920s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Un jardin d'ete - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Octave Guillonnet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on panel landscape by post-impressionist painter Emile Octave Denis Victor Guillonnet. This colourful piece depicts a view of a garden in bloom in summer.
Dimensions:
Fr...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Antique French Realist Art Deco Terrier Dog Portrait Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Exquisite antique painting of terrier dogs by Jacques Cartier (1907 - 2001. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 15H x 18L.
Category
1920s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
German School, Figure Study
Located in London, GB
German School, Figure Study, c.1890, Oil on canvas, 64cm x 39cm, (74cm x 50cm framed). The painting has been recently cleaned and is in a new period style frame.
This wonderfully t...
Category
Early 1900s Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Scottish early 20th century River landscape, the Moriston River Scotland
Located in Woodbury, CT
The image shows a captivating early 20th-century Scottish river landscape painting by Joseph Henderson, a renowned Scottish artist celebrated for his evocative depictions of nature, ...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Art Deco Portrait of a Redhead Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Laura Greenwood (1897-1951)
Portrait of a Young Woman, ca. 1925
Oil on canvas, measuring 16 x 20 inches
Signed lower right.
Condition: the piece will require some minor conserva...
Category
1920s Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Oil
Characterful Portrait French Man with Hat & Pipe Signed & Dated 1903 Oil Paint
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Man with a Hat holding a Pipe
French School, signed and dated 1903
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 21.75 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: s...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
1900's Horses at the Trough
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid century oil painting of two horses at watering trough by William M. Lemos, Santa Cruz and San Francisco artist (American, 1861-1942), circa 1900. Writing on verso is in ...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
'Batterie de Cote Engagee' - A Naval Battle with Admiral Nelson. Oil on canvas
Located in St. Albans, GB
Francois Tattegrain
This painting is named and listed in Benezit
It was painted for the Paris Salon in 1911 and then sold in auction in 1919 (ref Benezit). For many years it hung i...
Category
Early 1900s French School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Impressionist Western Landscape Pike's Peak Colorado Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderfully painted antique American impressionist western landscape painting; Oil on canvas. Signed. Handsomely framed and ready to hang.
Category
1920s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jules Gouillet, Architectural and Floral Composition, Oil on Canvas, 1907
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Jules Gouillet (1826-1907), France, 1907. Architectural and Floral Composition. This exceptional oil on canvas by Jules Gouillet, a renowned French artist born in Ve...
Category
Early 1900s Baroque Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Superb Antique American Framed Fruit Table Still Life Nuts & Wine Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible early American realist still life by John F. Francis (1808 - 1886). Oil on canvas. Incredible detail and masterfully painted. Museum provenance. Unsigned. Measuring 2...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare Early Antique American School Fauvist Woman Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas, lain to board. Framed. Very finely painted and a rare fauvist palette. No signature found.
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mother & Children - Impressionist Figurative Oil by Jean-Francois Raffaelli
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas figures in landscape by French impressionist painter Jean-Francois Raffaelli. The work depicts two young girls with their mother in a landscape overlooking boats...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sankt Matteus Church in Stockholm, 1907
Located in Stockholm, SE
The painting we have for sale, executed by Swedish artist Erik Tryggelin on May 3rd, 1907, presents an atmospheric and dynamic view of Sankt Matteus Church in Stockholm. This piece i...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sunset Over Stockholm with Steamboat
Located in Stockholm, SE
A magnificent view of Stockholm, featuring a steamboat gliding slowly passing by Skeppsbron, (the bridge) with Södermalm and Katarina Church illuminated in the soft light of dusk. Th...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Arles - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Elisee Maclet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas landscape circa 1920 by French post impressionist painter Elisee Maclet. The work depicts a view of the coastal city of Arles in the South of France from the wat...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Montmartre Place Emile Goudeau- Post Impressionist Landscape Oil - Elisee Maclet
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed landscape oil on canvas by French post impressionist painter Elisee Maclet. The work depicts a view of the buildings in the Place Emile Goudeau in the Monmartre district of Pa...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vue de Paris - 1906 - Impressionist Riverscape Oil Painting by Camille Roche
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated impressionist oil on panel landscape by French painter Camille Roche. This beautifully coloured piece depicts a view of the River Seine in Paris, France on a bright ...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Antique American Impressionist Signed Flower Still Life Oil Painting Great Frame
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist flower still life oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1920. Signed. Image size 20L x 16H. Housed in a period giltwood frame.
Category
1920s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Sunset Over El Capitan', American Impressionism, Yosemite, California Landscape
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower left, 'C.B.' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1925.
Framed dimensions: 14 H x 11.75 W x 1 D inches
N.B. The artist initials show more distinctly under (365n...
Category
1920s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Eugène Galiany aka Eugène GALIEN-LALOUE (1854-1941) Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Holywell, GB
Eugène Galiany aka Eugène GALIEN-LALOUE (1854-1941)
A delightful pastoral Normandy landscape by the master of this genre Galien-Laloue. Signed E Galiany and presented in a walnut ...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer Evening in Montreux, Lake Geneva, 1902
Located in Stockholm, SE
This exquisite watercolor by the Swedish artist Olle Hjortzberg (1872–1959) captures a serene view of Montreux, Switzerland, in July 1902. Known for his masterful use of color and li...
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Woman with a Cigarette", Hugo Scheiber (1873-1950)
Located in Paris, FR
Hugo Scheiber (1873-1950) was a Hungarian painter of Jewish origins. He started as a self-taught artist. He was initially inspired by Impressionism before evolving towards Expression...
Category
1920s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Cardboard
Hidden Valley, San Anselmo, Marin County, California
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jack Wisby– American (1869 - 1940)
Title: Hidden Valley, San Anselmo, Marin, California
Year: 1909
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 20 x 28 inches.
Fram...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Bit of New England
Located in Fairlawn, OH
A Bit of New England
Oil on canvas,, 1908
Signed lower left corner: L. O. Griffith
Condition: Excellent
Canvas size: 26 x 38 inches
Frame size: 33 3/8 x 45 1/4 inches Note: origi...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Working in the Hayfields
Located in St. Albans, GB
Harry Pennell
Picture Size: 24 x 40" (61 x 102cm)
Outside Frame Size 31 x 47" (79 x 120cm)
Exhibition Period 1900 – 1930
Harry Pennell (1879-1934) was a British artist and illustr...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
Young Spaniard with mantilla and fan
By Henry Meylan
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Elizabeth Allison - British Slade Sch Art Deco portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This enigmatic portrait oil painting is by noted Slade School artist John Cecil Stephenson. In 1929, when Portrait of Elizabeth Allison was completed...
Category
1920s Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Oil
Edgar Bundy ARA RI RBA, A Country Cousin
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This witty early 20th-century oil painting by British artist Edgar Bundy ARA RI RBA (1862-1922) depicts a young country woman visiting the home of her wealthy relatives, to much dism...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
A Mother and her Children
Located in St. Albans, GB
'The New Arrival'
A Mother with her Children
A first class example of Pothast's work. The faces are beautifully done with fantastic light cascading into the room. The mother is shar...
Category
1920s Dutch School Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lola, Paris, 1929
By Joseph Waidinger
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Born in Hungary in 1899 Joseph Waidinger was educated in fine art before moving to Paris to work in 1924.
"Lola" is original oil on canvas, signed, and dated 1929. A true genre painting, as an elegant art deco woman sits in a cafe, perhaps waiting for someone...
Category
1920s Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sunset - Venice 1902 - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Joseph Clavel
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed, dated and inscribed oil on canvas landscape by French pre-impressionist painter Marie Joseph Leon Clavel Iwill. The work depicts a sil...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a 1920's Lady - American Art Deco female portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
American artist Henry R Rittenberg painted this lovely 1920's Art Deco portrait oil painting. The painting is a standing half length portrait of a lady in a black coat with a white fur collar over a red dress and long beads. She has an elegant 1920's short bob hair style and a confident expression. The strong brushwork and range of tones within one colour are superb. A really striking Art Deco portrait oil painting.
Signed upper left.
Provenance. Dorset estate.
Condition. Oil on canvas, 30 inches by 25 inches and in good condition.
Frame. Housed in a fine James Bourlet panel silvered frame, 40 inches by 35 inches and in good condition.
Henry R Rittenberg (1879-1969) was born in Libau, Latvia and later immigrated to the United States. He studied art at the Bavarian Academy in Germany, and by 1906, was in Philadelphia, where he attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art. Rittenberg painted landscapes and still lifes, yet his forte was portraiture. The artist was commissioned to paint a number of portraits of American dignitaries including Attorney General Homer Stille Cummings and a group portrait of President Harry S...
Category
1920s Art Deco Paintings
Materials
Oil
Evening Glow Antique American Impressionist California Landscape Oil Painting
By Alexis Matthew Podchernikoff
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive American impressionist landscape by Alexis Matthew Podchernikoff (1886 - 1933) . Great colors and nicely painted. Housed in a period giltwood frame. Oil on canvas....
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Early Impressionist Family Portrait Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderful American school impressionist family portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas. Image size, 38H by 30L.
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Monogrammed 1925 Pointillist Landscape Modernist Framed Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist signed pointillist painting. Watercolor and gouache on paper. Signed. Framed. Rare early work!
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Les Grands Boulevards La Nuit - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil by Elie Pavil
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in cityscape oil on board circa 1920 by Russian-born post impressionist painter Elie Anatole Pavil. The work depicts citygoers in the Grand Boulevard in Paris, France ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
“View of Villefranche-sur-Mer” Raymond Thibesart Raymond Thibesart (1874-1968)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
“View of Villefranche-sur-Mer”
Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968)
Oil on canvas, circa 1920s
24 x 32 1/2 (29 x 38 1/2 framed) inches
Bathed in the soft and steamy light of the S...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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