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Paintings For Sale
Period: 1970s
Period: 1920s
Les Baigneuses by Paulémile Pissarro - Nude scene, riverscene painting
Located in London, GB
Les Baigneuses by Paulémile Pissarro (1884-1972) Oil on canvas 89 x 118 cm (35 x 46 ¹/₂ inches) Signed and dated lower right, Paulémile - Pissarro. 1928. This work is accompanied by...
Category

1920s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1977 REALIST African American SHOE SHINER Portrait Painting BLM ARTIST
Located in New York, NY
Arnold J. Hurley is an African American artist born 1944 Images on paper and canvas have been part of Arnold J. Hurley’s life since childhood. He fondly remembers the influences of his mother and an uncle, who both were creative and were sources of encouragement to him. As his interest in art grew, his mother provided creative inspiration, his father provided art supplies and his high school teacher steered him along a path toward developing painting and drawing skills. His budding artistic skills led Mr. Hurley to enroll at Tufts University where he earned both a Bachelor’s Degree in Education and a Master’s Degree in Fine Arts, with a major in painting. His skills helped him land a Ford Foundation grant in 1964 to attend the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. A native of Boston, Mr. Hurley taught painting for 12 years at several area colleges and museums including Emerson College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Fitchburg Art Museum, Lowell University, Milton Academy, Boston Public Schools and Wesleyan University in Connecticut. He currently teaches art at Crossland High School in Prince George’s County, Maryland. Mr. Hurley’s approach to painting involves a realistic or representational style and his works vary from still life drawings to portraiture. He paints every day and follows this precept: “Never forget the basics—they will serve as the foundation throughout your creative life. Challenge yourself, and remember your art will change and grow. And always draw, draw and draw some more.” Mr. Hurley has earned more than 40 awards for his oil, watercolor and pastel paintings and his pencil drawings. These include the 1998 Robert Dodge...
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1970s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Crying Clown Portrait in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Crying Clown Portrait in Oil on Canvas Portrait of a sad clown by San Francisco artist John Peers (American, 1922-2009). This portrait is closely fra...
Category

1970s American Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Large 20th French Impressionist Pastel Painting Provence Valley Village View
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provence Landscape signed by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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1970s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Pastel, Wax Crayon

Large Antique American Impressionist Winter Horse Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist winter landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 30L x 24H.
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1920s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Fun Dining Surrealist Painting
By Smith Blanchard
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Fun Dining Oil on canvas artist signed. Smith Blanchard was born on August 19, 1952 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Smith Blanchard was the son of the late Haitian artist Sisson Blanchard...
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1970s Surrealist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Woman with fan mixed media painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jordi Curós Ventura (1930-2007) - Woman Mixed technique on canvas board. Work measurements 35x27 cm. Frame size 40x32 cm. Jordi Curós Ventura (Olot, Girona, March 4, 1930) is a Span...
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1970s Fauvist Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

American School Modernist Framed Original Southern Iron Gate Nola Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist architectural iron gate oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category

1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

L'hymne du Roi David (King David's Dream)
Located in Boca Raton, FL
L'hymne du Roi David (King David's Dream) Oil on wood by Marc Chagall c late 70's Comes with Numbered and Verified Certificate of Authenticity from Comite C...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood

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Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
George Dannatt (1915-2009) Icon 1970 Oil on paper 12.7 x 17.7 cm Vertical orientation George Dannatt’s long career as a painter and sculptor ended with the artist’s death in 200...
Category

1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil

Antique American Impressionist Framed Winter Signed Snowy Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Circa 1930 American school winter impressionist landscape painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso. Image size, 16 by 20 inches.
Category

1920s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Reclining Nude
Located in London, GB
'Reclining Nude', oil on canvas, by Guillaume Dulac (circa 1920s). A sensuous portrayal by the artist of a young woman reclining on a divan draped with cloth. Inspired perhaps from Ingres' (1780-1867) classic, La Grande Odalisque...
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1920s Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Gloucester Harbour - American Impressionist Landscape Oil by Abram Molarsky
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas laid on board landscape by American Impressionist painter Abram Molarsky. The work, painted in mostly pastel shades of green, blue and purple depicts a view of b...
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1920s American Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Antique Impressionist Figurative Landscape French Castle 1928
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3792 Oil on canvas set in a hand painted frame of a French castle with workers in the field
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1920s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Blue on Brown Overlap, Geometric Abstract Painting by Peter Stroud
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Stroud, British (1921 - 2012) Title: Blue on Brown Overlap Year: 1971 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed, dated and titled verso Size: 48 x 48 inches
Category

1970s Abstract Geometric Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Minimalist Abstract Painting
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful abstract Minimalist painting by unknown artist. Dated 1977. Oil on canvas measures 36 x 60 inches. Signed and dated lower right.
Category

1970s Minimalist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French School Red Converse shoes Oil READY TO HANG Chut les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
🟢☀️Still Life Red Converse shoes☀️🟢 Converse Chuck Taylor All Stars as an iconic imagery from Pop Culture. ⭐Technique⭐: oils, acrylics and ink on old book pages, mounted on a woo...
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1920s Tonalist Paintings

Materials

Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Glue, Mixed Media, Stretcher Bars

Large 1970's British Portrait of a Lawyer/ Barrister in Wig Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Legal Gentleman portrait of a lawyer/ barrister by Victor Hume Moody (British 1896-1990) *see notes below signed and dated 1974 oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 36 x 28 inches pro...
Category

1970s English School Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Blue and Green Abstract
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Blue and Green Abstract" by Claudia Sisemore, acylic on canvas, 43.5 x 46 inches, $4,800. "I have a vague idea of what I am going to paint. I...
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1970s Color-Field Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Figures on a frozen lake with castle, fishing boats, skaters, horses and a storm
Located in Woodbury, CT
Dutch Style scene of people on a frozen lake. Oils on canvas which has been laid down onto aboard. Framed in a Vintage American gold frame. Possibly an Italian painter working ...
Category

1970s Victorian Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

'The Marble Bridge, Copenhagen', Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts, SFAA, California
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Fred Korburg', dated 1971; additionally titled on old label verso 'Street Scene: Marble Bridge and St. Nicolai Church, Copenhagen, Denmark'. Provenance: Los Robles Galleries, Palo Alto, California. Born in Denmark, Frederick Korburg first studied at the Graphic Art Center in Copenhagen and, later, at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Arts under Max Lieberman...
Category

1970s Post-Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Seated Boy, Surrealist Oil Painting on Canvas by Lucio Ranucci
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Lucio Ranucci, Italian (1925 - ) Title: Seated Boy Year: 1973 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated Size: 28 x 30 in. (71.12 x 76.2 cm) Frame Size: 35 x 37.5 inches
Category

1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

'Banks of Solitude' French School (1926)
Located in London, GB
Immerse yourself in the tranquil beauty of "Banks of Solitude," a charming oil painting on board from 1926. Though the artist is unknown, this exquisite piece captures the essence of...
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1920s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Cataract Creek, Alberta - Canadian Mountain River Valley Landscape
By Lloyd C. Laverick
Located in Soquel, CA
Cataract Creek, Alberta - Canadian Mountain River Valley Landscape Majestic landscape of a sweeping mountain valley vista at Cataract Creek in Alberta by Canadian artist Lloyd C. La...
Category

1970s Post-War Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board

Fauvist Watercolour and Gouache on Paper, 'Through the Forest Glade'.
Located in Cotignac, FR
1970s fauvist watercolour of a forest glade by Belgian artist André Pierard. Not signed but acquired from his estate along with others of his works. A be...
Category

1970s Fauvist Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache

Daugava near Lielvarde. 1972, oil on cardboard, 68x93 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Edgars Vinters (1919-2014) Edgars Vinters is working in oil, watercolor and monotype techniques. He paints landscapes in different seasons and flowers. In 1970 the significant place...
Category

1970s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

“Paris”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of a Parisian street scene done in post impressionist style by the Portuguese artist, Hilario Roberto. Street scene complete with iconic Parisian flo...
Category

1970s Post-Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Untitled" Lawrence Philp, Abstracted Surrealist Forms by Afro-American Artist
Located in New York, NY
Lawrence Philp Untitled Oil and acrylic on canvas 75 1/2 x 79 inches Lawrence Philp, the son of Jamaican immigrants, studied at the Rhode Island School of Design and was included i...
Category

1970s Post-Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Mediterranean Village oil painting spanish landscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Mediterranean Village Artist: Rafael Duran Benet (1931–2015) Medium: Oil on canvas board Dimensions: 33 x 41 cm Support: Canvas board from Ceila (Vallirana, Barcelona) Si...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Vintage Signed American School Abstract Pop Art Large Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category

1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique Neapolitan Female Portrait Oil Painting 1920
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3933 Antique oil on canvas in an ornate period frame Image size 16.5x11"
Category

1920s Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Port of San Tropez
By Alexander L. Warshawsky
Located in Fairlawn, OH
The Port of San Tropez Oil on canvas, c. 1920 Signed lower right corner (see photo) Condition: Excellent, professionally cleaned Image/Canvas size: 25 3/4 x 32 inches Frame size: 30...
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1920s American Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Red parrot oil on cardboard painting impressionism Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Joaquin Terruella Matilla (1891-1957) - Parrot - Oil cardboard Oil measures 14x10 cm. Frame measures 25x20 cm. Joaquim Terruella Matilla (1891 - 1957) Joaquim Terruella Matilla, ne...
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1920s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Antique American Southern School Black Woman Walking Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 14L x 11H.
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1920s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Men Talking at a table, Folk Art Oil on Canvas Painting by Jalal Gharbi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Jalal Gharbi, Tunisian/American (1920 - 2005) - Men Talking at a table, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower right, Size: 36 x 48 in. (91.44 x 121.92 cm), Descrip...
Category

1970s Folk Art Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sunset on the Seine (Coucher de Soleil sur la Seine) Raymond Thibesart.
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Sunset on the Seine (Coucher de Soleil sur la Seine) Raymond Thibesart (France, 1874-1968) Pastel on paper, circa 1920s 9 1/2 x 12 ( 14 x 17 1/2 framed) inches This painting, among ...
Category

1920s Post-Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Paper, Pastel

Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting in Brown and Black and White
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3574 Oil on board set in a gilt wood frame
Category

1970s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Léon Zack - Lyrical Abstract Composition - Signed Oil on Canvas
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Léon Zack 1978 Lyrical Abstract Composition Signed Oil on Canvas 82 x 117 cm. Provenance -Galerie Visconti, París Léon Zack (1892-1980) Léon Zack ...
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Projet de Tissus - Fauvist Still Life Study Gouache by Raoul Dufy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Botanical gouache on paper circa 1920 by French fauvist painter Raoul Dufy. The work depicts a study of apples and pears. This work was executed by Dufy as a fabric design. Dimensio...
Category

1920s Fauvist Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Vintage French Female Posing Nude Circa 1970
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3125 Female Nude, vintage acrylic on paper applied on board displayed in a new black wood frame Unsigned Image size 12 H x 10 W
Category

1970s Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

LOVE STAR OF DAVID
Located in Aventura, FL
Original gouache painting on paper. Hand signed lower front by Yaacov Agam. Image size 20.25 x 18.5 inches. Sheet size 29 x 22.2 inches. Frame size approx 33 x 31 inches. Cert...
Category

1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Paisaje de la Rioja Argentinian Modernist Concretist Cubist Oil Painting
By Julio Barragan
Located in Surfside, FL
Julio Barragán (1928–2011) was an Argentine painter of the Concretist and Cubist schools. Life and work Barragán was born in Buenos Aires. He beg...
Category

1970s Cubist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait John Gilbert - Australian 20's exhibited art male portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
A stunning portrait of Mr John Gilbert. This original oil on canvas was painted by James Peter Quinn in 1929 and was exhibited at The Paris Salon of that year. A fine portrait, it is in excellent condition and framed in the original period frame. This is a fine painting by a noted Australian listed artist. Signed right. Provenance. Exhibited at the Paris salon 1929. Condition. Oil on canvas in very good condition, image size 40 inches by 30 inches. Housed in its original gallery frame, 47 by 37 inches framed. Excellent condition. James Peter Quinn (1869-1951) was born on 4 December 1869 at 60 Bourke Street, Melbourne. He was the third son of John Quinn, restaurant-keeper born in Antigua, West Indies, and his English wife Ann, née Long. Little is known of Quinn's childhood and early education; both parents died when he was young. His guardians apprenticed him to an engraver, but he undertook part-time studies at the school of design, National Gallery of Victoria, under Frederick McCubbin in 1887-89, and at the school of painting under George Folingsby and Bernard Hall in 1890-93. Awarded several student prizes, he won the gallery's travelling scholarship in 1893. Quinn went to London in 1894 but quickly left for Paris where he studied at the Académie Julian, at the Académie des Beaux-Arts under Jean Paul Laurens, and with Colarossi and Delécluse. He returned to London about 1902 and married fellow art-student Blanche Louise Guernier there on 29 September. By 1904 he had exhibited with the Royal Academy of Arts and went on to establish a reputation as a highly successful portrait painter. His finest and most sensitive work was produced before 1910. His family were the subjects of many paintings, including 'Mère et Fils', awarded an honourable mention at the Old Salon, Paris, in 1912. He also painted many self-portraits. His many commissioned works included portraits of Joseph Chamberlain, the Duchess of York and, later, the Duke of Windsor. In 1918-19 he was an official war artist with the Australian Imperial Force in France, and exhibited war paintings at the Grafton Galleries, London. In 1919, with George Coates he was an official artist to the Canadian War Records. He was a council-member of the London Portrait Society, and a member of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the Royal Institute of Oil Painters, exhibiting regularly with them and the Royal Academy, and in Paris with the Old and New salons. Quinn's sudden return to Australia in December 1935, alone, followed the death of his gifted artist-son René. He held exhibitions at the Fine Art Society's Gallery, Melbourne, in 1936 and the Royal South Australian Society of Arts Gallery next year. Quinn ostensibly returned as an acclaimed artist, was invited to rejoin the Victorian Artists' Society he had joined first in 1888, and was its president (but for one year) in 1937-50. Yet a coolness existed. Though he had little in common with the modernist painters of the period, his commitment to a tolerant brotherhood of artists found no allies among the aggressively conservative old guard. In 1937 he clashed publicly with (Sir) Robert Menzies who in opening a V.A.S. exhibition denigrated modern art. In spite of the affection felt for him by many artists and students, Quinn was somewhat isolated. He continued to exhibit, winning the Crouch prize, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, in 1941. In the mid-1940s he taught briefly at the National Gallery school. A lover of good food, wine and conversation, Quinn delighted in mixing with all classes. Frequenting the haunts of journalists, writers and the more Bohemian fringe, he was easily recognizable with his bow tie, grey curly hair and cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth. Survived by one son, he died of cancer on 18 February 1951 at Prahran and was buried in St Kilda cemetery. His war portraits are held by the Australian War...
Category

1920s Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Modern Mid Century Expressionist Floral Oil Painting Framed Blue White Lily
Located in Buffalo, NY
A beautiful modern expressionist painting depicting a white lily flower. This work though unsigned is clearly by the hand of a very talented artist. The work comes in an artist mad...
Category

1970s Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sunny alley cardboard/oil, 87x65.5 cm, 1971
Located in Riga, LV
Sunny alley cardboard/oil, 87x65.5 cm, 1971
Category

1970s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Sunny forest cardboard/oil, 90x70cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sunny forest cardboard/oil, 90x70cm
Category

1970s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Don't Hurt Me
Located in Dallas, TX
In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...
Category

1970s Surrealist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

FRENCH SCHOOL Garlic & Chili pepper Starwars Impressionist - Chut les Barbizons!
Located in Zofingen, AG
⭐ Garlic and Chili Peppers starwars ⭐ The still life focuses on two main elements: bright red chili peppers and garlics. The composition is dynamic, with the peppers clustered in t...
Category

1920s Tonalist Paintings

Materials

Glue, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Antique American Impressionist Upstate New York Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist oil painting of a fall landscape by George A. Renouard (American, 1884-1954). Oil on board. Signed. Framed.
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1920s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Beach Patterns Abstract
Located in Greenwich, CT
Della-Volpe early abstractions are rare and good. Even at this early time he abstracted off "beach" elements such as shapes and colors. With minimal shapes here he creates a compos...
Category

1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Spring In The Canyon"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Spring In The Canyon” oil on linen canvas, signed and dated 1970 lower right corner. Hans Burkhardt (1904-1994) Canvas: 32”H x 42”W. Artist f...
Category

1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Winter in Provence
Located in London, GB
'Winter in Provence', gouache on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1970s). There is both beauty and melancholy in this delightfully charming artwork. The artist's naive style is at odds with the refinement, poise and sophistication of the painting. Perhaps the artist was making a statement as well with the broken wall...
Category

1970s Modern Paintings

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Antique American Framed Original Vintage Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract expressionist painting. OIl on canvas. Framed. Finely painted with wonderful color palette.
Category

1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Parco (Park)
By Antonio Gravina
Located in Storrs, CT
A large Impressionist-style colorful painting of a park with fountain. Oil on canvas measures 36 x 24; frame dimensions measure 44 1/2 x 32 1/2 x 1 1/2. Artist's signature, lower lef...
Category

1970s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Young Gypsy Woman oil on canvas painting european art
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Artist: Isidro Riera Modolell (Barcelona, 1876 – 1951) Title: Young Gypsy Woman Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 20.5 × 15.7 in (unframed) 27.6 × 22.8 in (framed) Signature: Signed...
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1920s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1970 Abstract large Mixed Media “FORMA” by Robertino Fatica - Black & Brown
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Robertino Fatica was born in 1948 in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1970 he completed a three-year program at the Cooper School of Art in Cleveland. Following that, Fatica served in the U.S. Ar...
Category

1970s Abstract Geometric Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Mixed Media, Tape

1970's French Impressionist Pastel Garden Bench In The Summer Tree Garden
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape signed by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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1970s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Pastel, Wax Crayon

'Sunny Afternoon, Hyères, Côte d’Azur', French Riviera, Royal Academy of Art Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "C. Stilling" for Carl Conrad Stilling (Danish, 1874-1938) and inscribed 'Hyères'; dated lower left, '1928' and titled in Danish, verso...
Category

1920s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel

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