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Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 1990s
Traditional English Cornish Village Scene Children Playing in Stream by Cottage
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Playing in the Stream by Les Parsons (British b. 1945) * see below signed oil on canvas, framed in swept gilt frame. framed: 22.27 x 27 inches canvas: 16 x...
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20th Century Victorian Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage French Cubist Nude Oil Painting Figure in Interior Setting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century Title: Nude Figure in Interior Medium: oil painting on board, unframed . Size: : 13.5 x 10.5 inches Provenance: private collection...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel

“Portrait of a Lady in Pink”
Located in Warren, NJ
Property from the Collection of Solomon and Hannah Shahmoon Measurements image size: 10 1/4 by 13 1/4 inches; overall: 13 3/4 by 17 inches Weight approx. 2 lbs. Condition good con...
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20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

Modernist Oversized Under Water Coral Seascape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5076 Underwater coral view Rapped canvas no frame required
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1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Brooklyn Bridge NYC American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA
Located in New York, NY
Brooklyn Bridge NYC American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern WPA Cecil C. Bell (American, 1906-1970) Brookyn Bridge amid the NYC Waterfront 35 ½ x 23 ½ inches Oil on Bo...
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1930s American Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Vintage Still Life -- Yellow & Blue Floral
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid late 1970's floral still-life featuring a colorful bouquet by Doro (American, 20th Century), 1979. Signed and dated "Doro 1979" lower left. Unframed. Image size, 24"H x 18"L.
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1970s American Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century New York City
Located in New York, NY
"6th Avenue El" American Scene Social Realism Mid-20th Century New York City Ernest Fiene (1894-1965) "6th Avenue El" 12 1/4 x 14 1/4 Oil on canvas board, c. 1940s Signed lower righ...
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1940s American Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Children on the Beach Marine Landscape French Antique Oil Painting
Located in Norwich, GB
The setting is the French coast, on a tranquil summer's evening. Clouds are drawing in, the sky is turning dusky pink and purple, but there is still time left for play, for the children on the beach...
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Early 20th Century Academic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abstract Expressionist Collage in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Expressionist Collage in Acrylic on Paper Bright, saturated abstract painting with collage by California-based artist Ricardo de Silva (American/Brazil, 20th C). Bold red,...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Signed unique Acrylic and Charcoal Painting on Canvas, renowned British sculptor
Located in New York, NY
Nigel Hall Untitled Acrylic and Charcoal Painting on Canvas, 1997 Acrylic and charcoal painting on canvas Signed and titled by the artist on the front. Dated on the back. 36 × 30 inc...
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1990s Abstract Geometric Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

Unknown
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Flowers painted beautifully in watercolor by Susan Palmer would look nice in so many homes! This painting is an original and signed by the artist with the...
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20th Century American Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

"La chapelle doree" (etude)
Located in Edinburgh, GB
This remarkable painting by Ohannes Alkhazyan, a distinguished Russian-Armenian-French artist and a devoted student of Konstantin Korovin, showcases the spiritual magnificence of a r...
Category

20th Century Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil

Judaica Modernist "The Sage" Rabbi Portrait
Located in Surfside, FL
Genre: Judaica Subject: Portrait Medium: Oil Surface: Board Country: United States Dimensions: 16 x 11 3/4 Dimensions w/Frame: 23 x 19 William Will Coombs (1946-2007) Originally from New Hampshire, a full-time, professional artist known for his work in oils, watercolors, drawings and printmaking, he began his formal training at the University of Washington concurrently with a scholarship to the Charles and Emma Frye Museum School in Seattle. He continued his advanced studies in New York City at the School of Visual Arts, the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. In the past 50 years his paintings have been exhibited nationally and internationally and have been awarded over a hundred prizes, among them the Gold Medal, Irish Feis, NYC; First prize Knickerbocker 15th Annual National Arts Club, NYC; Best of Show, North Wildwood, NJ; First Prize, Mystic, CT; First Prize, Moorestown Mall, NJ; First Prize, Ocean City, NJ; Purchase Award, Atlantic City, NJ; First Prize, Ocean City, NJ; Purchase Award, Caldwell, NJ; First Prize, Oyster Bay, NY; Best of Show, Allendale, NJ; First Prize, Shore Mall, Atlantic City, NJ; First Prize, Stone Harbor, NJ. Will Coombs is a Fellow of the American Artist Professional League, a member of the Salmagundi Club, a Life member of the Art Students League of NY, a member of the Ocean County Artists Guild, and the Westfield Art Association. Over the past 25 years the artwork of Will Coombs has been devoted to and deeply involved with his love of Hot Air Ballooning. His paintings and lithographs of Hot Air Balloons gently soaring over the New Jersey landscape...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Sitges oil on canvas painting Spain mediterranean village european art
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Paseo de Sitges Artist: Jordi Curós Ventura (1930–2017) Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 23.6 x 28.7 in Signature: Signed in the lower right corner Estimated date: 1980s or 1...
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1980s Fauvist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Blue, Yellow, and Brown Abstract Figurative Horse Chase Western Landscape
Located in Houston, TX
Blue, yellow, brown, and red abstract figurative landscape painting by an outsider artist. The painting depicts a horse chase with two cowboys in the middle of a Western desert. Unsi...
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20th Century Outsider Art Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

AKOS BIRO (HUNGARIAN 1911-2002) EXPRESSIONIST SIGNED OIL - MALE PORTRAIT
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Portrait of a Man" by Akos Biro (Hungarian 1911-2002) signed verso, oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 18 x 15 inches provenance: the artists estate...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bluebonnets Field
Located in Houston, TX
US artist from San Antonio, TX. Very well represented in the multiple galleries and private collections. “Bluebonnets Field” , late 20th century Oil on canvas, signed lower left ...
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1990s Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Oil

1900's French Impressionist Oil on Canvas Pretty Flowers Still Life Natural
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life of Flowers French Impressionist, circa 1900's oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 20 x 25.5 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris Condition: very good condition For m...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Cubist still life of a table top with a vase, pears and bread
Located in Woodbury, CT
This striking American Cubist still life by Genara Del, circa 1970, is a masterful exploration of form, color, and abstraction, capturing the essence of modern art with both simplici...
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1970s Cubist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Paul Pletka Acrylic Painting, 1972 - “Omaha Dancer”
Located in Phoenix, AZ
California/New Mexico artist Paul Pletka (b. 1946) Acrylic on Canvas, 1972. Native American subject in Decorative Hair Plates. Signed lower right. Titled in pencil on the verso by th...
Category

Late 20th Century Paintings

Materials

Paint

Street After Rain (Santiago de Chile) Dominican Artist
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Alberto Ulloa Burgos (1 January 1950 – 1 October 2011). Street After Rain (Santiago de Chile), 1970. Oil on masonite panel measuring 20 x 24 inches; 26 x 30 inches framed. Signed and dated lower right. Original frame with export label stamp. Alberto Ulloa Burgos was a painter, sculptor, and poet from Altamira, Dominican Republic. He was a student of the distinguished Latin American painter Jaime Colson...
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1970s Abstract Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Landscape 106 by Jean Krille - Oil on masonite 100x100cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Jean Krillé’s paintings are known for their expressive use of color and dynamic, abstract forms, blending realism with abstraction in his depictions of nature. His landscapes often f...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mid-Century Floral Still Life with Yellow and White Irises Carmel California
By Alvira Powell
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid-Century Floral Still Life with Yellow and White Irises Gorgeous mid-century floral still life of a bouquet of Irises painted in 1959, by Pacific Grove and Santa Cruz, Californi...
Category

1950s American Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Abstract Landscape Oil Painting - Layered Horizon
Located in Bristol, GB
LAYERED HORIZON Size: 50 x 70 cm (including frame) Oil on canvas An engaging and striking mid-century abstract landscape painting that captures a dynamic and expressive interpretat...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Eve and the apple" by Vivaldo Martini - Oil on canvas 65x50 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
His first name sounds like a concerto. Vivacious, its name is reminiscent of an aperitif or a cyclist. The addition of the two evokes the Italianate. Indomitable and unavoidable. Mor...
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Mid-20th Century Symbolist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Place Dauphine, Paris
Located in Surfside, FL
Oil on Canvas or a Parisian Street Scene with charming shops and a park. signed lower right and verso. Ange Mozziconacci was born on June 22, 1939 in Ajaccio, capital city of the French island...
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1970s Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Prospector at Dusk, Early 20th Century Cowboy w Donkey Figurative Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
A rare figurative for this well-listed California artist of a Nevada mining town landscape with prospector and burro by George Sanders Bickerstaff (American, 1893 - 1954), circa 1920. Signed lower right corner. Presented in patinated gilt-toned wood frame. Image size: 24"H x 30.5"W. Frame size: 32.5"H x 38"W. Bickerstaff was active/lived in California, Arkansas. George Bickerstaff is known for Landscape, coastal views, still life, western painting. Landscape painter. Born in Marianna, Arkansas on April 12, 1893. Bickerstaff was a self-taught artist except for a brief period at the Art Institute of Chicago. He led a peripatetic existence before moving to California in 1922. His early years were spent in San Diego, Los Angeles, and Van Nuys. He exhibited often in the latter with Paul Lauritz. A prolific oil painter of mountain and desert scenes, his landscapes often include eucalypti as well as rolling hills of California wildflowers...
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1920s American Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Large 1960's Modernist Signed Oil Painting Venice Grand Canal Atmospheric Work
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Grand Canal, Venice Alvarez ( Mid 20th Century) signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 25 x 33 inches canvas: 20 x 28 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very ...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Antique American School Surreal Monkey Portrait Rare Framed Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist interior scene with two monkeys. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 39H x 26L.
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1930s Surrealist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Champ - modern, contemporary, minimalist, abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This colorful abstract acrylic painting is by Canadian artist Milly Ristvedt. Inspired by modernist mentors, in the 1970s Milly Ristvedt used simple formats on raw canvas to displa...
Category

1970s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

French Impressionist Oil Painting Purple Sunset over Santorini's Winding Pathway
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Santorini Sunset signed by Georges Bordonave (French contemporary) dated 1999 oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 24 x 16 inches condition: very good provenance: from a large pr...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Frederick Charles Winby (1875-1959) - Early 20th Century Oil, The Meet
Located in Corsham, GB
A charismatic scene depicting riders gathering before the start of a hunt. Unsigned. On canvas board.
Category

Early 20th Century Paintings

Materials

Oil

1960's French Modernist Signed Oil Man Driving 1900's Vintage Car
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Jean-Pierre Rousseau (French, b. 1939), signed and dated 1963. Title: The Vintage Car Driver Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, framed and inscribed verso. f...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

20th Century French Post Impressionist still life with apples by Aujame
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Jean Claude Aujame (French, 1905 – 1965) Nature Morte aux pommes Signed and dated ‘Aujame 62’ (lower right) Oil on canvas 23.1/2 x 32 in. (60 x 81.3 cm.)
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Intermission (Ballerina) /// Impressionism Degas French Ballet Renoir Figurative
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
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. Herbert Arnot Gallery's dealer reference number, "D1942E", and artist's copyright stamp in center 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...
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1940s Art Deco Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Oil

"Untitled I" Original Oil on Canvas (Part of Set) Signed and Dated by Artist
Located in Clinton Township, MI
"Untitled Abstract I" is an Original Oil on Canvas by G. CURTIS. The piece is part of a set. It measures 37.5 x 49.5 x 1 inches with frame. It is signed and dated by the artist. The ...
Category

1980s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Antique Impressionist European Harbor Signed Original Framed Coast Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique European impressionist harbor oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1920. Signed. Framed. Image size, 15"L x 18"H.
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1920s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vase Of Roses Still Life - Original Impressionist on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Vase Of Roses Still Life - Original Impressionist on Board Original oil still life painting of a vase of colorful roses by Leon Franks (Canadian, 1914-1970). The green vase sits hol...
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20th Century Post-Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

20thC French Modernist Oil Painting of Elegant Figures in a Park
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Elegant Figures in a Park by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933) Unsigned Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Painting size: 4.75 inches...
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Late 20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Country House Portrait Faringdon House Oxfordshire Grade 1 Listed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Faringdon House, Oxfordshire English School, mid 20th century inscribed to label verso oil on board, framed framed: 19 x 23 inches provenance: private collection, England condition:...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Antique Scottish Highlands Cottage in Mountain Glen at Sunset, signed oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: F. E. Jamieson British 1895-1950, signed lower front Title: The Highland Cottage Medium: Oil on canvas, framed Size: framed: 20 x 28 inches canvas : 16 x 24 inches...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Paintings

Materials

Oil

Untitled (Highrise)
By Karl Benjamin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Untitled (Highrise), 1954, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 20 x 20 inches, presented in its original frame Karl Benjamin was a California-based artist who is best known...
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1950s Hard-Edge Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1950's Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Figures In The Forest Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour on artist paper, unframed size: 11.75 x 8.25 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed. p...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Horse Painting: "Horse at Stable with Hay" -Julius Paul Junghanns (1876-1958)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Horse Painting "Horse at Stable with Hay" Julius Paul Junghanns (German, 1876-1958) Oil on canvas on board (marouflé ) 20 1/4 x 14 (25 ...
Category

Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Vintage 1991 Oil painting on boards, seascape, Bugalet, Signed, Dated, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an original signed oil painting on board depicting a vessel in the stormy ocean. Beautifully done, great bright blue and green colors. Nicely framed. Framed measures 31" x...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bernard Corey New England Landscape Painting
Located in Rockport, MA
Painting size without frame: 9"x14" Painting size with frame: 15"x20" This peaceful New England landscape by Bernard Corey shows a quiet farm as winter begins to turn into spring. W...
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20th Century American Impressionist Paintings

Materials

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...
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Mid-20th Century Victorian Paintings

Materials

Oil

Large Signed Exhibited Abstract Expressionist Original Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American signed abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 41.5L x 31.5H.
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1950s Abstract Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Huge Portrait Veiled Female in Dreamlike Fusion of Spirituality and Nature
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Enigmatic Portrait of a Veiled Figure French/ Japanese? Inscribed verso circa 1970's oil on canvas over mixed media surface, framed Framed: 52 x 26 inches Canvas: 51 x 35 inches Prov...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Mixed Media

Vintage American Modernist Adirondack Mountain Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring 35 by 47 inches overall and 27 by 39 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Hands...
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1980s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Landscape with Nudes and Waterfall - Oil Paint - 17th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape with nudes and waterfall is an old master artwork realized in the Mid 17th century by Artist belonging to the Roman School. Oil painting on canvas Includes a beautiful an...
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Mid-20th Century Old Masters Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of a Gentleman - British Edwardian art male portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely British Edwardian Impressionist portrait oil painting is by noted artist Percy William Gibbs. Pained circa 1910 it is a head and shoulders portrait of a gentleman in a da...
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1910s Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Scottish Highlands scene with golden light and tranquil mountain lake view
Located in Preston, GB
Scottish Highlands scene with golden light and tranquil mountain lake view by British Artist, Andrew Grant Kurtis M.A.(Lon) B.Des.(Hons) L.S.I.A.D. Art measures 30 x 20 inches Frame...
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20th Century Realist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Framed Abstract Encaustic Painting by Juhachiro Takada
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Juhachiro Takada Title: Untitled II Medium: Encaustic, Sand on Canvas, Signed in pencl Paper Size: 10.5 x 12.5 inches Frame Size: 19.5 x 20.5 inches
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1980s Abstract Paintings

Materials

Encaustic

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...
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Early 1900s Byzantine Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Spring Garden Flowers Still-Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid floral still-life of colorful flowers bursting from a blooming spring garden by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Unsigned. Displayed in a rustic wood frame. Image si...
Category

1980s American Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lying Nude Study Oil Painting by Robert Roujas
Located in Atlanta, GA
This charming oil painting on marouflé canvas was designed by Robert Roujas (1908-2000). This romantic composition presents a study of a reclining nude seen from behind in a weary po...
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Mid-20th Century Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board, Canvas

American Vivid Abstract Expressionist Art Oil Painting Norman Carton, WPA Artist
Located in Surfside, FL
Norman Carton (1908 – 1980) was an American artist and educator known for abstract expressionist art. He was born in the Ukraine region of Imperial Russia and moved to the United States in 1922 where he spent most of his adult life. A classically trained portrait and landscape artist, Carton also worked as a drafter, newspaper illustrator, muralist, theater set designer, photographer, and fabric designer and spent most of his mature life as an art educator. Carton showed in and continues to be shown in many solo and group exhibitions. His work is included in numerous museums and private collections throughout the world. Norman Carton was born in the Dnieper Ukraine territory of the Russian Empire in 1908. Escaping the turbulence of civil war massacres, he settled in Philadelphia in 1922 after years of constant flight. While attending the Pennsylvania Museum School of Industrial Art, Carton worked as a newspaper artist for the Philadelphia Record from 1928 to 1930 in the company of other illustrator/artists who had founded the Ashcan School, the beginnings of modern American art. From 1930 to 1935, he studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts under Henry McCarter, who was a pupil of Toulouse-Lautrec, Puvis de Chavanne, and Thomas Eakins. Arthur Carles, especially with his sense of color, and the architect John Harbison also provided tutelage and inspiration. Following his time at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Carton studied at the Barnes Foundation from 1935 to 1936 where he was influenced by an intellectual climate led by visiting lecturers John Dewey and Bertrand Russell as well as daily access to Albert C. Barnes and his art collection. Carton was awarded the Cresson Traveling Scholarship in 1934 which allowed him to travel through Europe and study in Paris. There he expanded his artistic horizons with influences stemming from Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Chaim Soutine, and Wassily Kandinsky. While at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Carton was also awarded the Toppan Prize for figure painting as well as the Thouron Composition Prize. He received numerous commissions as a portrait artist, social realist, sculptor, and theatrical stage designer as well as academic scholarships. During this time, Carton worked as a scenery designer at Sparks Scenic Studios, a drafter at the Philadelphia Enameling Works, and a fine art lithographer. From 1939 to 1942, the Works Progress Administration (WPA) Federal Art Project employed Carton as a muralist and easel artist. He collaborated with architect George Howe. The WPA commissioned Carton to paint major murals at the Helen Fleischer Vocational School for Girls in Philadelphia, the Officers’ Club at Camp Meade Army Base in Maryland, and in the city of Hidalgo, Mexico. Throughout the 1940s, Carton exhibited and won prizes for his semi-abstract Expressionist and Surrealist paintings. He socialized with and was inspired by Émile Gauguin and Fernand Leger. During World War II, Carton was a naval structural designer and draftsman at the Cramps Shipbuilding Corporation in Camden, New Jersey. Here, he created non-objective sculpture with metal. After the war, Carton co-founded a fabric design plant in Philadelphia. He produced hand-printed fabrics for interiors and fashion that were featured in Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue and Women’s Wear Daily. Original fabric designs were commissioned by notable clients including Lord & Taylor, Gimbels, and Nina Ricci. Some of these designs are at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Carton traded his partnership in the fabric design company in 1949 to focus full-time on painting. Carton had his first solo exhibition in 1949 at the Philadelphia Art Alliance. This show was followed closely by solo exhibitions at the Laurel Gallery (New York City) and Dubin Gallery (Philadelphia). At this time, his exhibited work was Abstract impressionism. In addition to painting, he taught classes at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and was the Founder and first President of the Philadelphia chapter of Artist’s Equity Association. The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the organization of the National Museums of France commissioned Carton to travel to Europe, mainly France, in 1950 for a color photography study of continental masterpieces. He was granted access to study the restoration of the Mona Lisa and was one of the very few to be given permission to remove the painting from its frame. During his three year stay in Paris, he had solo exhibits at La Sorbonne and Gallery Rene Breteau and was in 15 group shows in Paris salons including Les Sur Independants, Salon d’Automne, and Realities Nouvelles. He also exhibited at the Musee d’Art Juif where he won the Prix d’Art. The Cercle Paul Valery twice sponsored Carton to present lectures at the Sorbonne. He conducted seminars at the Louvre for the Cercle Esthetique Internationale and taught classes in and directed stage and costume design for the Theatre de Recherche at the Paris Opera. Among his Paris artist colleagues were Chana Orloff, Earl Kerkam, Sam Francis, Claire Falkenstein, Lawrence...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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No matter your preference, whether you favor Post-Impressionist paintings, animal paintings, Surrealism, Pop art or another movement or specific period, arranging art on a blank wall allows you to evoke emotions in a room while also showing off your tastes and interests. A symmetrical wall arrangement may comprise a grid of four to six pieces or, for an odd number of works, a horizontal row. Asymmetrical arrangements, which may be small clusters of art or large, salon-style gallery walls, have a more collected and eclectic feel.

Download the 1stDibs app, which includes a handy “View on Wall” feature that allows you to see how a particular artwork will look on a particular wall, and read about how to arrange wall art. And if you’re searching for the perfect palette for your interior design project, what better place to turn than to the art world’s masters of color

On 1stDibs, you’ll find an expansive collection of paintings and other fine art for your home or office. Browse abstract paintings, portrait paintings, paintings by emerging artists and more today.

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