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Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 1930s
1980's French Expressionist Painting Rolling Hills and Valleys Verdant Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Gilbert Pelissier (French born 1924)
signed oil painting on canvas, unframed
inscribed verso
dated 85'
canvas size: 35 x 46 inches
condition: ov...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Italian Modernist Abstract Flower Still Life Pop Art Signed Oil Painting
By Giorgio Celiberti
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Italian modernist flower still life oil painting by Giorgio Celiberti (1929 - 1960). Oil on canvas, circa 1960. Signed on verso. Displayed ...
Category
1960s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sailboat Race, Cubist Abstraction Oil Painting by Female Artist Miriam Bromberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
Sailboat Race
Miriam Bromberg
Date: circa 1960
Oil on Canvas, signed lower right
Size: 24 x 50 in. (60.96 x 127 cm)
Category
1970s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Perkins Cove in Ogunquit
Located in Milford, NH
A fine Maine coastal landscape by American artist Edward Meriam Stetson (1872-1953). Stetson was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, educated at Friends University and also attended ...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Impressionist Oil Painting "Besides the Still Water"
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6014 Impressionist figurative seascape a woman sitting by the sea seeing her reflection
Image size 9.5x11.5"
Signed
Framed
Category
1960s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Virginia Hills American Female Modernist Abstract Signed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract signed oil painting by Anne Sharp. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Category
1970s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Pointillist Forest Landscape Signed Framed Early Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare and wonderfully painted pointillist landscape by Carmelo Vegas. Thick impasto and a fine composition. Housed in a period giltwood frame. Ready to hang. Oil on board. Signed.
Category
1920s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid Century Modern Surrealist Portrait Oil Painting - Inner Dialogue
Located in Bristol, GB
INNER DIALOGUE
Size: 49.5 x 63 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A mid-century artwork that features a surreal and minimalist composition that plays with the concept of introspectio...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Erma Zago (Venetian vedutist painter) - 20th century landscape painting - Genoa
By Erma Zago
Located in Varmo, IT
Erma Zago (Bovolone 1880 - Milan 1942) - The port of Genoa.
24.5 x 35.5 cm without frame, 50 x 61 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on wood...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
'Pittenweem Evening' Scotland
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Impressionist oil painting of Scotland's Pittenweem harbor at twilight, title 'Pittenweem Evening' East Neuk of Fife, by Scottish artist John McGhie. Signe...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
surreal scene oil on canvas painting surrealism
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Francesc Gironés (1904-1997) - Surrealist scene - Oil canvas
Oil measures 38x46 cm.
Frame measures 47x55 cm.
Francesc Gironés was a painter from Poblenou about whom little is known,...
Category
1980s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Bridge over Seine, Paris”
By Jonas Gerard
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting by the well known artist Jonas Gerard. Signed by the artist lower right “Gerard”. Condition is excellent. Strong, vibrant colors. Circa 1965. Bridg...
Category
1960s Post-Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Bosco artico (Lofoten)” (Arctic Grove)
Located in Stockholm, SE
This exquisite painting, Bosco artico (Lofoten), exemplifies Anna Boberg’s profound connection to the striking landscapes of northern Norway. Painted during her extensive visits to t...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Watercolor of Place Clemenceau in Menton with Carousel and Market Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of Place Clemenceau in Menton with Carousel and Market Scene
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper,...
Category
Late 20th Century French School Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
"Parisian Cafe Scene" Romantic Impressionist Oil Painting with Figures & Flowers
Located in New York, NY
A whimsical oil painting depicting a Parisian Cafe scene in Paris, France by Luigi Cagliani. As an Italian Impressionist artist Cagliani most of his works were produced in the first ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Village Abstract Expressionist Signed Oil Warm Colours
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Sky Composition
by Gerard Guegueniat (French 1970's)
signed oil painting on board, framed
framed: 21.5 x 27 inches
board: 18 x 12 inches
provenance: private co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Man with Flower and Bird, Signed Oil on Board by Jovan Obican
By Jovan Obican
Located in Long Island City, NY
Man with Flower and Bird
Jovan Obican
French/Yugoslavian (1918–1986)
Date: circa 1980
Oil on board
Size: 28 x 22 in. (71.12 x 55.88 cm)
Frame Size: 30 x 24 inches
Category
1980s Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cecile Hertz-Eyrolles (1875-1974) - Framed Oil, Paysage alpestre en été
Located in Corsham, GB
Cecile Hertz-Eyrolles (1875-1974), Oil on board. Alpine landscape in summer (Combloux). Signed lower right. Presented in an elegant gilt frame with floral and acanthus ornamentation at the corners...
Category
Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Salmon Fishermen Nova Scotia Canada
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982), ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 15 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin.
James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist st...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
"Hill Country Pond" Texas Hill Country
Located in San Antonio, TX
R.D. Enright "Hill Country Pond"
(1921 - 1983)
Texas
Image Size: 24 x 30
Frame Size: 31 x 37
Medium: Oil
Biography
R.D. Enright (1921 - 1983)
Roland...
Category
1960s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hans Pilz (1896-1973) - Mid 20th Century Oil, German Meadows
Located in Corsham, GB
A beautiful impressionistic German landscape with the red roofs of a provincial town in the distance. The artist has signed to the lower left. On canvas.
Category
Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Scottish Highland Loch Scene at Sunset, signed antique oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950), signed
Title: 'Kenmore, Loch Tay', beautifully warm Scottish highlands loch as the sun sets.
Medium: signed oil painting on can...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Antique American Bahamian Young Woman Portrait Signed Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really rare and well painted portrait by Christine Walters Martin (1895-1982). Oil on canvas. Framed in a nice modernist molding. Signed.
Artist Bio:
Christine Walters Martin (1895-1982)
Born and raised in Brooklyn, Christine Martin majored in art at Columbia University/Teachers College. She spent summers painting at the Woodstock Art Colony under the tutelage of artists there and continued her art studies at the Art Student's League in New York City. Over the years, her teachers included John Sloan, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Alexander Brook and John McFee. She also studied with Eugene Speicher, who recommended her for Portraits Inc, through which some of his own commissions came. Much later in life, in her 80s, Christine studied watercolor with Zoltan Szabo.
Before marrying attorney George Martin in 1923, she taught art in the New York public schools for several years. During summers in the late 1920s, after having two daughters (Cynthia, 1924-2008, and Joan, 1927-2000), she went to Woodstock with her girls in tow, staying at the Hasbrook farm. In 1930, she and her husband purchased a stone house on Ohayo Mountain Road and lived there seasonally for 25 years. Among her closest artist friends in Woodstock were Emil Ganso, Florence Hardiman, Albert Heckman, Peggy Dodds, Joe Rollo, Henry Mattson, Mary Ellen Early, and Maud and Miska Petersham, along with Juliana Force (Whitney Museum). During many summers in Woodstock, Christine's daughters Cynthia and Joan kept up their serious piano studies under the tutelage of Vladimir Padwa and Inez Carroll.
Known for portraits and landscapes, she was a member of the National Association of Women Artists and the National Arts Club, Gramercy Park, NY. Her work showed at the National Arts Club, Weyhe and Preston Galleries and the National Academy of Design in New York; the Pennsylvania Academy in Philadelphia; the Woodstock Art Association and Rudolf Galleries in Woodstock, Vermont's Dawson Grist Mill Gallery, and South Hampton College, among others. Her portraits, landscapes and still lives hang in hundreds of homes around the world.
Information provided by Bunny McBride...
Category
1920s Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Tree by the lake" by Hans Hotz - Oil on cardboard 35x39 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on cardboard sold with frame
Total size with frame 55x59 cm
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Below South Ferry
By Franz Kline
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): KLINE
EXHIBITED: Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, November 1–30, 1960, The November Show, as “Moonlight in Lower Manhattan” // Pratt Institute, Brooklyn...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
French Impressionist, Figures on the beach, South of France, French Riviera
Located in Harkstead, GB
One of several paintings that we are offering by Henri-André Martin's. A wonderfully evocative image of an expansive beach with figures relaxing on a beach in the South of France, pa...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Teulada Alicante spanish landscape oil on canvas painting
By Jose Cozar
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Oil measures 60x73 cm.
Frameless.
Cleaning and removing old varnish is recommended.
A painter born in Baeza but living in Valencia, José Cózar joins his a...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine Scottish Highlands Oil Painting, Majestic Highland Loch Scene, signed oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: signed by Douglas Falconer (British, 1913-2004)
Title: North Scotland
Medium: oil on board, framed and inscribed verso
Framed: 14 x 20 inches
Board: 12 x 18 inches...
Category
Mid-20th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Road, Mid-century Provençal, Fauvist Landscape. Oil on Board.
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Mid 20th Century oil on board Fauvist view of a road in a landscape, probably near Nice in the South of France and the surrounding countryside, by Hyppolite Roger...
Category
Mid-20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Bastille Paris" Oil on Canvas Parisian Street Scene & Figures Framed Painting
Located in New York, NY
A vibrant and colorful Parisian city scene by Australian Mollie Flaxman. Captured in a very impressionist manner 'The Bastille' which was a fortress in Paris, known formally as the B...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
Fine Antique British Botanical Watercolour Painting Yellow Primrose Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Blushing Roses in a Golden Vase Still Life Large Scale Classical Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Blushing Roses in a Golden Vase
Continental School, late 20th century
most likely a pastiche work after an earlier composition
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 36 x 24 inches
provena...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Geometric Landscape Oil Painting -Cityscape in Motion
Located in Bristol, GB
CITYSCAPE IN MOTION
Size: 43 x 84 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A striking mid century cityscape that wonderfully captures the dynamic energy and structured beauty of a city, p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Market Scene - French Impressionist art 1914 watercolour painting indis signed
Located in London, GB
This charming French Impressionist watercolour painting was painted in 1914 and is indistinctly signed. The composition is a market scene with various stalls under trees. The colouring is lovely and it is housed in a superb, gilded oak frame...
Category
1910s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
'Women Gathering Garlands', Paris, Cooper Union, Metropolitan Museum, NAD, NG
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Fred. Ballard Williams' for Frederick Ballard Williams (American, 1871-1956) and dated 1906.
An early twentieth-century oil showing two young women in classical robes, one standing holding a polished silver mirror while her companion braids her hair with flowers, all beneath a canopy of foliage with a distant view beyond towards a body of blue water.
Frederick Ballard Williams first artistic training took place artistic training took place at the Cooper Union in New York and he subsequently worked for a time in the drafting room of John Williams. He later studied at the New York Institute of Artists with John Ward Stimson, before enrolling in the life class of the National Academy of Art where he studied under Charles Yardley Turner and Edgar Melville Ward.
Williams made two trips to Europe, first in 1904 and again in 1908. During his first trip, he visited France, staying with Henry Golden Dearth...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1974 California Bay Area Abstract Expressionist Bold Oil Painting Don Clausen
By Don Clausen
Located in Surfside, FL
Don Clausen American (b. 1930)
Untitled (1974)
Oil on board
Hand signed lower left and verso
Framed 11.25 X 13.5 sight 9 x 11.25 inches
Don Clausen is an American Postwar & Contem...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Cecile Hertz-Eyrolles (1875-1974) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Armchair Pose
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. On board.
Category
20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Le Grand Basin des Tuileries. Oil on canvas, 74x93 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Le Grand Basin des Tuileries. Oil on canvas, 74x93 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"AFTER GLOW" NATIVE AMERICAN GIRL W/DOLL (1926-2019) Arizona / California
Located in San Antonio, TX
Don Crowley
(1926-2019)
Arizona / California Western Artist
Image Size: 11 x 13
Frame Size: 18 x 20
Medium: Gouache Study
"After Glow" Indian Girl with her...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Paintings
Materials
Gouache
L'avenue des Champs-Elysees - Impressionist Figurative Oil by Edouard Cortes
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in cityscape oil on canvas circa 1950 by sought after French impressionist painter Edouard Cortes. This stunning and wonderfully coloured work depicts a view of The Av...
Category
1950s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Fred Kenknight "Midday Sun" Abstract Oil Painting c.1963
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fred Kenknight Vintage 1960s "Midday Sun" Abstract Oil Painting
Fantastic vintage oil painting signed by Fred Kenknight.
Though untitled, we are call...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Landscape Painting by Arvid Nyholm, Impressionist, Swedish American, Chicago
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Arvid Frederick Nyholm (Swedish-American, 1866-1937)
Signed: A Nyholm (Lower, Right and Lower, Left)
" Mother and Child in a Landscape ", circa 1910-1920
Oil on Canvas
25" x 30"...
Category
1910s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Kashmir Valley Almond Blossom Dina Nath Walli Mountain Landscape India Art
Located in Norfolk, GB
Dina Nath Walli (1908–2006)
Almond Blossom, Kashmir
Watercolour on Board
c 1960
Framed size: 42.8cm x 52.8cm
Image size: 27.5cm x 38cm
Signed and dated 1970 on the verso, gifted fro...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Board, Watercolor
River Landscape with Rain Clouds in Ireland by 20th Century Modern Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage Oil Painting of a River Landscape with Rain Clouds in Ireland by 20th Century Modern Irish Artist, John S Haggan (1946-2021)
Art measures 20 x ...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Snow Covered Cathedral In a Tranquil Winter French Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Snow covered Village
signed by Georges Bordonave (French contemporary)
dated 1986
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 24 x 29 inches
condition: very good
provenance: from a larg...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century San Francisco Bay Seascape Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid century San Francisco Bay seascape oil painting by California artist Hartzell Harrison Ray (American, 1896-1991). Signed "H. Ray" lower right and on verso. Texture added...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
1987 American Artist Mase Lucas Painting on Canvas Portrait of a Nostalgic Woman
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an original vintage acrylic mixed-media painting on canvas painting Titled " Nostalgic Woman on a Divan" By American Artist Mase Lucas.
Mase Lucas has been a studio artist ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
1930's French Post Impressionist Large Oil Painting Portrait Young Girl Pensive
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Lady
by André Félix ROBERTY (1877-1963)
oil on canvas, framed
Stamped signature with the artists atelier mark
framed: 35 x 31 inches
canvas: 26 x 21 inches
Proven...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Oranges and Geranium in an Interior: 1934 elegant still life Berlin Woman artist
Located in Norwich, GB
This simple and elegant still life depicts a potted Geranium and a bowl of Oranges on a table decorated with a vase and a tablecloth. Clearly, the artist chose objets close to her he...
Category
1930s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fruit at the window
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Beige wooden frame
62 x 71 x 4.3 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lucia Ponga (Venice) - Pair of 19th century landscape paintings - Venice view
Located in Varmo, IT
Lucia Ponga degli Ancillo (Venice 1887 - 1966) - Venice, imaginative views.
25 x 35 cm without frames, 44.5 x 55 cm with frames.
Pair of antique oil paintings...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Southwest Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American modernist abstract painting. Framed. Oil on board.
Image size, 16H by 20L.
Category
1960s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
California Poppies Watercolor
Located in New York, NY
Watercolor illustration for a series of commercial seed packets. Printed by Stecher-Traung Lithograph Corporation, Rochester, NY, circa 1935. Some staining...
Category
1930s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Board
Sir Alfred Munnings, December Morning, Cornwall
Located in London, GB
Signed lower left.
Image dimensions: 51cm x 61cm / 20 inches x 22 inches
Framed dimensions: 64cm x 74cm / 25 inches x 29 inches
Painted whilst Munnings was living in Cornwall, 'Dece...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Travellers, Horse Drawn Carriage, Impressionist Oil Painting, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Travellers, Horse Drawn Carriage, Impressionist Oil Painting, Signed
By French artist J.Dubois, Mid 20th Century
Signed and dated '1958' by the ar...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Place Du Tertre " Impressionist Oil Painting with Figures in Parisian Village
Located in New York, NY
This painting is a tremendously vivid and alive street scene from Paris in the 20th Century, depicting The Place du Tertre. This square is in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France. Only a few streets away from Montmartre's Basilica of the Sacré Cœur and the Lapin Agile...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
ZAMY STEYNOVITZ "TRILOGY-FUTURE" OIL ON CANVAS 1976
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Zamy Steynovitz (Polish/Israeli, 1951 - 2000).
Title: "Triology Future"
Year: 1976
Ref: Book # 1, 1980.
Oil on Canvas, Original.
Signed and dated 1976 lower right.
Image: 40x30 inches
Framed: 54 1/2" x 44"
Condition: Excellent
provenance: The estate of Zamy Steynovitz, Fine Art Wholesaler, private collector
Zamy Steynovitz was born in Liegnitz, Poland in 1951and at a very early age he aspired to be a painter. He won first prize in an art competition for children before immigrating to Israel in 1957.
Formally educated at the Art School in Tel-Aviv and the Royal Academy in London, he completed his studies and began artistic pursuits in earnest. Zamy established his place in the art world after displaying his work in one-man exhibitions and art fairs around the world.
Zamy’s art displays chromatic and thematic richness and his choice of subjects has been strongly influenced by Jewish tradition and folklore. Additionally, his work presents general themes such as Paris cafes, still lives, flowers, circuses and landscapes.
In the early stages of his work, he used rich pastels and light brush strokes. When he visited South America in the early 1980’s, his work reflected his new surroundings and were further enhanced by local brightness and colorfulness. His art gained chromatic power; the palette became richer in tones, the textures thicker, and the background darker and more colorful. Together with these changes, the thematic persistence in his creation was maintained, allowing him to develop into a sensitive and mature artist.
Zamy’s paintings are a reflection of his Eastern-European Jewish heritage...
Category
1990s Contemporary 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
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Cave walls were the canvases for what were arguably the world’s first landscape paintings, which depict natural scenery through art. Portrait paintings and drawings, which, along with sculpture, were how someone’s appearance was recorded prior to the advent of photography, are at least as old as Ancient Egypt. In the Netherlands, landscapes were a major theme for painters as early as the 1500s. Later, artists in Greece, Rome and elsewhere created vast wall paintings to decorate stately homes, churches and tombs.
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