Paintings

This charming British still life floral oil painting is by Herbert Davis Richter. Painted circa 1930 it is a vibrant and interesting arrangement of fuchsia and geraniums in a vase ne...

One Thousand and One Nights - It is often known in English as the Arabian Nights. What is notable about this work is how magnificently composed, designed, and rendered it is. Its l...

Autumn gives us a lot of bright colors and shades, as well as unusual forms of gifts of nature. There is no more romantic season than autumn... The first month of autumn is my favori...

Roses from my garden Original watercolor painted on professional watercolor paper When I start a new watercolor, I go to my garden and try to find a new topic. Every day something u...

An abstracted vision of the Seguaro cactus, prevalent in the American south-west. Floral motifs have always worked well as a vehicle for abstraction. Just ask Georgia O'Keefe. :: Pai...

A beautiful art deco portrait by well listed American Ashcan School artist Alexander Oscar Levy. This piece was featured in the American Art Review article about the Levy retrospect...

French Art Deco still life of a vase of tulips in an interior by Auguste Mallard. The painting is signed bottom right and presented in a period patinated wood frame. A colourful and strong painting of an interior view, a table with books and as the centre piece a beautiful blue ceramic vase with twisted handles holding a magnificent bouquet of brightly coloured tulips. Mallard has captured the abandon of the blooms in the vase, the way tulips twist and furl raising and lowering their beautiful colourful petals. The colours of the flowers really stand out against the more muted tones of the background, curtain and table. A very elegant and stylish painting. This painting has the feel of some of the still life works from the same period by Tamara de Lempicka who was a contemporary of Mallard painting...

A frieze of figures who resemble warriors appears in a pool of red., a color which symbolizes the fierce nature of this encounter, which may have possibly occurred during a volcanic ...

Female torso and portrait of the 1920s. Double sketch on canvas. The very rough canvas, similar to jute, is painted both on the front and on the back. The painting is in good conditi...

Original watercolor painted on professional watercolor paper When I start a new watercolor, I go to my garden and try to find a new topic. Every day something unusual happens there,...

Female nude by George John Illian (1894-1932), American exhibited at the Salmagundi Club Annual Exhibition. George John Illian born in 1894 and was largely inspired by the 1900s and ...

This stunning charcoal drawing lithograph print on paper depicting a fanciful lion kidnapping a young woman was designed by Adolf Uzarski (1885-1970), a German artist. This drawing i...

Still life "Paradise life or paradise lost?" is painted with acrylic and oil paints on canvas. The work is dedicated to independent Ukraine. The main colors of the work are yellow a...

The bouquet depicted in this picture symbolizes the natural world, a whole ecosystem. Every animal, insect, plant lives in a close relationship. In this work, artist wanted to show t...

FRANCOIS CHABRIER “”AU CAFE" OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED FRANCE, C.1960 32.5 X 39.5 INCHES Framed 41 x 48 inches. François Chabrier Born 1916 François Chabrier was born in 1916 in Bel...

Unique, one of a kind original gouache on paper from Harper's Bazar series. Hand signed lower front by Erte; titled top front with studio catalog number on verso. Sheet size 10.7...

Bouquet with sunflowers painted from life with watercolors on paper 300 mg density, 100% cotton

The column is the most important meaningful symbol that links the past, present and future. This is a symbol of strength, stability, support, constancy, ascent, aspiration, victory, strength, earthly and cosmic energy. In mythology, the column often appears in the meaning of the World Tree or the supreme deity. This is how I present the image of the column in my work. For me, this is the synthesis and triumph of human thought and the beauty and power of the natural world and the diversity of its forms. And it is in the columns of the Corinthian order...

Forest- original watercolor on paper 47x87 cm. The work is designed to decorate the interior. The watercolor will be carefully packed and sent in a tube. A certificate of authenti...

The painting "The Birth of story" tells us about the amazing process of the birth of a literary work. The writer begins work and from under his pen appear unexpected mysterious chara...

I really love chestnuts. Their glossy surface glistens and glows in the sun. The dark brown skin is warm and inviting. Outside, they are covered with a bright green peel with thorns,...

Physalis fruit painted with oil paints on a round canvas

Second One This oil painting ‘Neo Deco – 04-07-23’ is the second one in the series under the same name. The first one was a first attempt to put my ever growing series into ...

Original oil painting on canvas 50x70 cm. Still life Good Evening was painted from nature in the evening with contrasting lighting. The work should serve as the visual center of the...

I have a wonderful garden where every autumn a lot of apples ripen and beautiful flowers bloom. They inspired me to create this work

The art of David Sharir draws upon many elements. He has found inspiration from such forms of art as the calligraphy of Torah scribes, medieval Hebrew manuscripts...

The decorative panel Maritime history is dedicated to the well-known story of the little mermaid, written by the Danish writer Hans Christian Andersen. This work will immerse you in ...

Gouache on paper Image size: 12 x 15 ¼ inches (30.5 x 39 cm) Art Deco frame This rare original artwork was used as the book cover for Hugh E. Page's 'Rambles in the Wye Valley' (1951). The Wye Valley is an area of outstanding natural beauty straddling the border between England and Wales. The internationally important protected landscape covers parts of the counties of Gloucestershire, Herefordshire and Monmouthshire and is particularly recognised for its limestone gorge scenery and dense native woodlands.

November- original watercolor on paper 47x87 cm. The work is designed to decorate the interior. The watercolor will be carefully packed and sent in a tube. A certificate of authen...

Original acrylic painting "In Interior" is made in decorative contemporary original stile. It is good for home decoration or gift. Painting is not framed. I made an example of decora...

Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Showgirls Cartoon for Life Magazine, 1934. Ink, watercolor and gouache on heavy illustration paper, matting window measures 16.5 x 13 inches; sheet measures 19 x 15 inches; Matting panel measures 20 x 23 inches. Signed lower right. Very good condition with discoloration and toning in margins. Unframed. Provenance: Ethel Maud Mott Herman, artist (1883-1984), West Orange NJ. For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony. In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques. He found that talent in Barbara Shermund. For about two decades, until the 1940s, Shermund helped Ross and his first art editor, Rea Irvin, realize their vision by contributing almost 600 cartoons and sassy captions with a fresh, feminist voice. Her cartoons commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony, using female characters who critiqued the patriarchy and celebrated speakeasies, cafes, spunky women and leisure. They spoke directly to flapper women of the era who defied convention with a new sense of political, social and economic independence. “Shermund’s women spoke their minds about sex, marriage and society; smoked cigarettes and drank; and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so,” Caitlin A. McGurk wrote in 2020 for the Art Students League. In one Shermund cartoon, published in The New Yorker in 1928, two forlorn women sit and chat on couches. “Yeah,” one says, “I guess the best thing to do is to just get married and forget about love.” “While for many, the idea of a New Yorker cartoon conjures a highbrow, dry non sequitur — often more alienating than familiar — Shermund’s cartoons are the antithesis,” wrote McGurk, who is an associate curator and assistant professor at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. “They are about human nature, relationships, youth and age.” (McGurk is writing a book about Shermund. And yet by the 1940s and ’50s, as America’s postwar focus shifted to domestic life, Shermund’s feminist voice and cool critique of society fell out of vogue. Her last cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1944, and much of her life and career after that remains unclear. No major newspaper wrote about her death in 1978 — The New York Times was on strike then, along with The Daily News and The New York Post — and her ashes sat in a New Jersey funeral home...

A French art deco pastel portrait by Louis-Jean Beaupuy. The work is signed and dated bottom right. Presented in carved and gilded wood frame. Beaupuy has captured all the charm and...

"Portret of girl" is an interior painting. Original acrylic painting on linen 50x70 cm

Flower labyrinth Original floral painting on canvas 70x70 cm

The work "Farewell to winter. Hello spring!" tells us about the cherry blossom season. This time is the triumph of the sun and warmth after a long, lingering winter. Ahead of everyon...

French oil on canvas portrait of a young beauty by Charles Alexandre René Picart Le Doux. Signed and dated bottom right. There is an exhibition label with number and title 'Ginette' ...

Tuareg Rider in the Desert, 1908 Paul Jouve (1878-1973) Oil on panel, signed lower right. 27 ½ × 24 inches (21 ¾ × 17 1/2 frame) inches Paul Jouve’s work has been celebrated and col...

Original watercolor painted on professional watercolor paper When I start a new watercolor, I go to my garden and try to find a new topic. Every day something unusual happens there,...

Original watercolor LILIES IN SUMMER GARDEN painted on professional watercolor paper When I start a new watercolor, I go to my garden and try to find a new topic. Every day somethin...

I dedicate this picture to my garden, lost among winter snowdrifts. It is winter now, and somewhere under a pile of snow my flowers are sleeping, the insects that pollinate them are ...

The work "Treasure" is painted with oil paints on canvas. This work is a symbol of the fullness of life in all its manifestations. Pomegranate is an ancient eastern emblem of the sun...

Still Life Quiet Life reflects the mood of the evening of a summer day. Flowers bloomed in the garden near the house. The lights were turned on. Butterflies flew to the light. The da...

This painting sends a message to the world to maintain peace for the welfare of mankind. There is the figure of a woman who is standing alone with her eyes staring at the future, on ...

In the Goldfish still life, I had the following tasks: to create a decorative flat space saturated with bright contrasting colors (in this case, red, orange, green, blue). The work l...

Bold Abstracted portrait of a koala painted on stretched 20x20x2" canvas :: Painting :: Art Deco/Art Nouveau :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed b...

"Antique cars look solid even though they are a little worn or damaged with age and time. And in the distance, there is the magnificent structure of the dark-coloured Borobudur templ...

A black horse wanders through the wilderness, from one place to another. The horse is looking for an experience to achieve his dreams. Humans and horses are two different creatures b...

Humans have the power of a horse that has desires, love, and lust. A man has nothing if he does not have the power of a horse. So, the power possessed by a horse is actually a symbol...

The weary figure of the fisherman's wife has her eyes closed as she waits for the return of her husband. Something is troubling her. She hopes that her husband will bring home an abu...

Artist: Pál Fried (Hungarian, 1893-1976) Title: "Intermission (Ballerina)" *Signed by Fried lower left Circa: 1940 Medium: Original Oil Painting on Canvas Framing: Recently framed in a gold Louis XV style frame Framed size: 39" x 33" Canvas size: 30" x 24" Condition: In excellent condition Notes: Provenance: private collection - Port Orange, FL; acquired from Herbert Arnot Gallery, New York, NY in the early 1970's. Titled by Fried on verso. The artist's copyright stamp and various reference number on verso. Biography: Pál Fried was born in Budapest in 1893. He received his art education at the Académie hongroise des arts (Hungarian Academy of Arts) where he was a pupil of Hugo Pohl who became one of his major influences. While under Pohl's direction, he executed many portraits of female nudes and Orientalist works. Later he studied in Paris at the Académie Julian, where he was the pupil of Claude Monet and Lucien Simone. In Paris, he was greatly influenced by the French Impressionists, especially Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas. This inspired him to prepare many paintings of ballerinas...

René-Paris Castaing, winner of the Grand Prix de Rome in 1924, left a large body of work, both sacred and secular. Many churches in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques, in South-West France still bear witness to the diversity of his talent. In 1942, he began a major decoration project for the Château de Diusse, in the north-east of the county, including an allegory of the four seasons. The vigorous pastel we are presenting here is a study for Spring, depicted as Flore undressing. This commission was a veritable swan song for the artist, who died a year later at the age of 47. 1. René-Marie Castaing, the great inter-war painter in Pau René-Marie Castaing was born in Pau on December 16th 1896. His father, Joseph Castaing, was also a painter: he was the official portraitist of Pau's high society, which was particularly cosmopolitan at the end of the century, when many rich foreigners spent the winter in Pau, taking advantage of the mild weather to enjoy an outdoor lifestyle punctuated by hunting, horse ridings and golf. René-Marie Castaing was admitted to the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris in April 1920 and entered the studio of Paul-Albert Laurens (1870-1934). In 1924, he was awarded the First Grand Prix de Rome for Painting, which earned him a stay at the Villa Médicis for more than three years. He then returned to Pau in 1928, where he lived until his death. Castaing's work is marked by the academic tradition, in which drawing plays as important a role as painting. Although his drawings are often sketches that help to set up large painted compositions, they stand as independent artworks in which the artist fully expresses the vivacity of his talent. Castaing was a fervent Christian and religious painting played an essential part in his work, as shown by the decorations he created for the churches of Bizanos, Borce, Bidache and Salies-de-Béarn. The painter also created several secular decorations, such as that for the dining room of the Villa Saint-Basil's in Pau in 1935, and the Hunting at the Albret’s time commissioned in 1940 by the Prefecture of Pau. The décor created in 1942-1943 for the Château de Diusse, a mansion located north-east of Pau, was his last large-scale décor, as the painter died shortly after its completion on December 8th 1943. 2. Description of the drawing Our pastel depicts an eminently secular theme: Spring is embodied by Flore, crouching on the ground with one knee touching the ground. She reveals her ample bosom by removing her shirt, her arms raised above her shoulders to undress. Given Castaing's classical training at the Beaux-Arts and the influence of ancient statuary...

A traditional view of water lilies in a pond, with a contemporary "dots" decoration. Other features: MEDIUM AND MATERIALS: oil on thick paper (cardboard) - FINISHING: protective varn...

Arthur Moody Flourished 1920 - 1940 Leda and the Swan Oil on board Signed lower left and dated 1925 Image size: 15 × 8 inches (33.5 x 54 cm) Gilt frame

Here is a sparkling bright violet acrylic painting of a loving couple. ..a couple of 'what exactly' is anybody's guess but they are delightful. :: Painting :: Art Deco/Art Nouveau...

French artist Georges Lucien Guyot (1885 - 1972) signed this charming woman nude study. This painting features a lovely design of a woman getting out of the bath and wiping with a towel. Only a few lines in charcoal and red chalk or sanguine mark the silhouette and posture and capture the model's expression. The red color emphasizes the color of the skin and imbues the lascivious movement. The sketches of the bath towel are only suggested, but it gives the whole thing a lot of softness and an incredible illusion of movement. Signed on the bottom left corner: Georges Lucien Guyot. The artist used a technique named "sanguine," or red chalk or crayon. The drawing has a blood-red, reddish, or flesh coloration. It has been popular for centuries for drawing employed by 15th and 16th Century artists such as the great masters like Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, and Raphael. The drawing is ornate with a contemporary wood frame with a red and yellow deep-textured pattern and an off-white matte with acrylic glass protection. Measurements: With Frame: 20.87 in. wide (53 cm) x 28.35 in. high (72 cm) x 1 in. deep (2.5 cm). View alone: 11.44 in. wide (29 cm) x 18.94 in. high (48 cm). About: Georges Lucien Guyot (born December 10, 1885, in Paris, where he died December 31, 1972) is a French artist, sculptor, and painter. From an early age, Georges Guyot showed artistic abilities, but the modest conditions of his parents did not allow him to study art. So he did his apprenticeship with a wood sculptor. Guyot excelled in copying works from the 15th, 16th, and 17th Centuries but rapidly showed an attraction for nature. This attraction led him to the Jardin des Plantes in Paris, where he could study wild animals and translate his observations into sculptures and paintings. A familiar figure of Montmartre, Georges Guyot was the guest of the Bateau-Lavoir from the time of Cubism. In 1931, he joined the group of Twelve, created by François Pompon and Jane Poupelet...

This is a highly stylized circus acrobat scene. Done “en grissille” or shades of grey, it portrays an acrobat on a trapeze high above the crowd, abstractly shown lower right. The stark composition, enhanced by the theatrical lighting...

Unique, one of a kind original gouache on paper from Harper's Bazar series. Hand signed lower front by Erte; titled top front with studio catalog number on verso. Sheet size 10.7...

Rarely do you come across a work of art that is vastly different than just about anything you see. This work is undeniably brilliant and a sheer pleasure to behold. Alexander Leydenfrost...