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Paintings For Sale
Period: 20th Century
Period: 1920s
"Almost Home" Solebury Bucks County PA Twilight Snow Scene Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
Impressionist winter pastoral scene of a quaint snow covered home by Solebury, Bucks County PA. Willett has portrayed this charming scene in a most intimate, yet energetic way, and h...
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20th Century American Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Black & White Abstract Geometrical Oil Painting, Late 20th Century Ohio Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
James Massena March (American, 1953-2021) Untitled Oil on canvas 30 x 30 inches 31 x 31 inches, framed "My paintings are about space, form and energy. I generally start painting wit...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Modern French Patisserie Wedding Cake on Wood Panel Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5028 French Patisserie wood panel with a wedding cake Signed on verso
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1980s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Vintage American School Cubist Abstract Framed Signed Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school modernist abstract painting. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.
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1990s Cubist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French Impressionist Oil Painting of Riverside View of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Riverside View of Saint-Savin-sur-Gartempe By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 6.75 x 8.75 inches (height x width) Signed: Verso Oil paint...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Art Deco Portrait of a Woman
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Laura M. GREENWOOD (1897-1951). Portrait of Woman in Winter Coat Oil on canvas, 18 x 24.5 inches. Signed lower left. Excellent condition. Would beneifit from a cleaning. Origina...
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1930s Art Deco Paintings

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Oil

Vintage Large NYC Midcentury Figurative Oil Painting Cocktail Party 1960's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
100 NYC cocktail party oversized oil on canvas signed on verso
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1960s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Evening Stroll in Bustling City Parisian Boulevard Scene by Russian Artist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Parisian Evening Stroll by Alexander Osipov (Russian, 1946) signed oil on canvas, framed Framed: 16 x 29 inches Canvas : 12 x 24 inches Inscribed verso Provenance: private collection...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Bright Green Impressionist Landscape with Figure in Dunes Mid 20th Century
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Impressionist Landscape by Claude Marin (French 1914-2001) signed oil on canvas, framed Framed: 19 x 22 inches Canvas : 13.5 x 16.5 inches Inscribed Verso Provenance: private collect...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Duino Elegies
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Richard Mann (1940-1990). Duino Elegies, 1981. Mixed media on rag paper, consisting of 10 sheets, corresponding to the 10 elegies, each measuring 14.5 x 23 inches. Please request additional images depicting alternate formats or videos. Biography: Playwright, poet and visual artist, Rev. Richard Mann was born and educated in Melbourne Australia. At the height of America's counter-cultural revolution, Mann moved to New York City where he lived and worked in Harlem. He was influenced by surrealism, abstract expressionism, and calligraphy at the time of his arrival. Beginning in the mid-1970's, the extreme living conditions of Harlem and demands of his religious calling provided subject matter for his painting. Urban decay and ubiquitous public graffiti provide inspiration for compositions that include highly stylized writing. By the late 1970's many works incorporate writing exclusively, with areas of layered, obscured and illegible words, very much like repeatedly tagged walls. Education: Studied painting with Maurice Cantlon, Melbourne, Australia 1961-62. Liberal Arts Studies, Christ the King...
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1980s Neo-Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil

The Swan Dance
Located in Stockholm, SE
The Swan Dance by Einar Forseth, (1892-1988), oil on canvas. A very colorful and decorative painting by one of Swedens most influential artists of his time. Forseth had many talents ...
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1950s Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Nude in the Studio, in Front of the Mirror - Portrait in Oil on Artist's Board
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude in the Studio, in Front of the Mirror - Portrait in Oil on Artist's Board Elegant seated nude woman by Pau Milosevich (American, b. 1936). A woman is seated in a studio, in fro...
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board

Antique American School Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school abstract expressionist painting. Oil on board. Signed. In excellent original condition. Nicely framed in a period wood molding. Excellent condition, read...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Idyllic Provençal Landscape with Cypress Trees 1950's French Oil Female Artist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Idyllic Provençal Landscape by Marie-Antoinette Courtellier (French b. 1913) signed oil on board, framed Framed: 15 x 19 inches Board : 9.5 x 13 inches Provenance: private collection...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Vibrant French Gouache Painting of Navajo Jewelry Makers in Albuquerque
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Vibrant French Gouache Painting of Navajo Jewelry Makers in Albuquerque by Emile GALLOIS (1882-1965, French) Signed: Yes Medium: Original gouache painting on thick unframed p...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Misty Pond in San Antonio Texas Original Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Misty Pond in San Antonio Texas Original Oil on Canvas Flowers by a pond by Texas artist Aurora "Ora" V. Hererra (American, 1928-2008). The painting de...
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1980s American Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Stretcher Bars, Canvas

Antique American Modernist Framed Large Abstract Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract oil painting by Martin Rosenthal (1899 - 1974). Oil on board. Measuring 28 by 42 inches overall and 26 by 40 painting alone. Oil on board. Signed. In exc...
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1940s Abstract Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

“La Rambla, Barcelona, Spain”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original vibrant and colorful oil on canvas painting of La Rambla in Barcelona, Spain attributed to the hand of Jordi Freixas Cortes the Barcelona born artist. Signed lower right (F....
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1950s Post-Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintage Modernist White Tulips Flower Still Life by P.Russo
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3333 A white tulips still life ,oil on canvas applied on board, set in a vintage curved white painted wood frame .Signed lower left by P.Russo Neapolitan artist
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1990s Paintings

Materials

Oil

French Impressionist Oil Painting of Basilica of Sacré-Cœur and Street Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Basilica of Sacré-Cœur and Street Scene By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 13.75 x 10 inches (height x width) Signed: Yes Oil painting on...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Original painting on canvas cityscape, Paris street view, Signed, framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This painting portrays a charming Parisian street scene, rendered in an impressionistic style that captures the city's elegance and vitality. The composition features a broad, cobble...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Village
Located in Belgrade, MT
This oil painting is original and signed by the artist. I have owned this piece since the early 1970's. The oil depicts a village and is vibrant in color.
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Mural Study, Early 20th Century American Impressionist Painting
Located in Beachwood, OH
Abel Warshawsky (American, 1883-1962) Mural Study Oil on board Signed and inscribed verso 9.5 x 18 inches 15.75 x 24.25 inches, framed Impressionist painter A.G. Warshawsky was acti...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

"The Toreador" Pierre Ambrogiani (France, 1905-1985) Circa 1950s
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"The Toreador" Pierre Ambrogiani (France, 1905-1985) Oil on canvas Circa 1950's  28 1/4 x 20 3/4 (31 1/4 x 23 3/4 frame) inches If the artists Diego Velázquez (Spain, 1599-1660) and...
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1950s Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Mid 20th-Century French Oil Cubist Nude Woman Reading Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude Woman Reading by Therese Hummel (French, 1911-1999) oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 10.75 x 16 inches Provenance: private collection of this artists work, Paris Condition: soun...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings

Materials

Oil

'The Bather' by Louis Latapie (1924)
Located in London, GB
'The Bather', oil on fine art paper, by Louis Robert Arthur Latapie (1924). A captivating example from the long tradition of depicting the bather, this early work by celebrated Frenc...
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1920s Paintings

Materials

Oil, Paper

Cubist East River industial scene
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Kardonne (1911-1985). East River, 1966. 9.5 x 12.25 inches. Watercolor on paper, sheet measures inches. Signed, dated and titled lower right. Excellent condition. Born in N...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

La Masque Africain, Hommage to Picasso and the European Modernists.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Acrylic and oil on board in the modern form of a stylised African mask on a stand by French artist Créqule. Signed bottom right. The painting is presented in a plain wood frame, unde...
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Late 20th Century Cubist Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Board

Enormous Oil Painting after Seurat's Bathers at Asnieres
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Bathers at Asnieres by Peter Darnell, signed and dated 1991 to the reverse after the earlier original painting by Seurat (bears that signature to the lower front corner) oil on canva...
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1990s Pointillist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Odalisque with Tray oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title of the Artwork: Odalisque with Tray Artist: Rosendo González Carbonell Technique: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 24 x 20 inches Frame: Unframed Style: Figurative, focusing on the fe...
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1970s Academic Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Original French Painting Harbor Reflections Boats at Rest by the Lighthouse
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Harbor Reflections signed by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) size: 9 x 10.75 inches oil painting on board, unframed condition: the painting is in very good condition. It has previously b...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Antique English Portrait Oil Painting of an English Writer
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3423 English writer portrait, oil on board displayed in a gilt -wood frame, signed by Welsh.Image size 10 H x 8 W
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1940s Paintings

Materials

Oil

Birch Trees and Snow-Laden Spruces, 1927
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are pleased to offer an exquisite painting by Finnish artist Reino Partanen (1889–1972), titled Birch Trees and Snow-Laden Spruces. Created in 1927, this impressive work measures ...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French Impressionist Oil Painting of Tranquil Sailboats Along the Riverside
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Tranquil Sailboats Along the Riverside By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 8.75 x 10.75 inches (height x width) Signed: Yes Oil painting o...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

A Fabulous, Abstract 1960s Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Sleeping Female Nude
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fabulous, Abstract 1960s Mid-Century Modern Painting of a Sleeping Female Nude by Noted Chicago Artist, Rudolph Pen. A sensuous, intimate studio depiction of a sleeping nude femal...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French School Luminous Landscape Oil Barbizon Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
⭐Luminous beautiful landscape. ⭐ It's a landscape from Barbizon school. Probably inspired by Caspar David Friedrich, known for his landscapes seeking to tend towards the magnificen...
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Early 20th Century Barbizon School Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Floral Still Life with Shell
By Edgar Levy
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Edgar Levy (1912-1975). Floral Still Life with Shell, ca. 1955. Oil on canvas measuring 28 x 36 inches. Unframed. Signed with artist monogram lower left. Edgar Levy is remembered ...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil

Oil on canvas, Naked woman lying in front of her mirror
By Robert Louis Raymond Duflos
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Robert Louis Raymond DUFLOS (1898-1929), France, 1920s. Naked woman lying in front of her mirror. With frame: 95x61.5 cm - 37.4x24.2 inches - without frame: 73x40cm ...
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1920s Art Deco Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Classic English Marine Oil Painting Tall Sailing Ships on Choppy Seas off Coast
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sailing Ships at Sea English School, late 20th century oil on board, unframed board : 12 x 16 inches provenance: private collection, UK condition: very good and sound condition
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20th Century English School Paintings

Materials

Oil

Ladies in Poppy Meadow Picking Wild Flowers Signed Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Path Across the Fields" by Paul Morgan, British 20th century signed oil on board, framed Framed: 21 x 24.5 inches Board : 16 x 20 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: ve...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

Materials

Oil

Paysage D'Ete - Post Impressionist River Landscape Oil by Robert Pinchon
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed fauvist oil on canvas riverscape circa 1920 by French post impressionist painter Robert Antoine Pinchon. The work depicts a view a river winding amongst wild flowers fields in...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Three Sisters: large abstract expressionist figural painting & breast feeding
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Please contact me for best shipping rates and speediest delivery. Ellen Powell Tiberino, matriarch of the Tiberino artist dynasty that includes her artist-husband Joseph and three artist-children (Raphael, Gabriel, and Ellen), often looked to Black women and girls as subjects, in the contexts of motherhood, pregnancy, and childhood, as well as subjects drawn from her neighborhood communities. Her work is expressionistic and passionate with dramatic gestures and dark colorism in her figures, but it is also intimate and highly personal. At this point in her career, Tiberino had been struggling with cancer, and as a result, her palette became brighter and more colorful than her former dark palette. "Three Sisters" includes Ellen Powell Tiberino’s self-portrait in the front of the composition, nursing an infant. Tiberino’s two sisters, Joyce and Anne, sit behind her. Tiberino likely paints from memory or imagination here, since her four children were well beyond nursing age when she created this painting. "Three Sisters" is likely among the last large-scale canvases Tiberino completed, opting to work on a smaller scale and while seated as her illness progressed. Tiberino ultimately lost her battle in 1992. "Three Sisters" comes from a private Main Line, PA collection, acquired directly from the artist immediately upon its completion. Framed in original wood strip frame. It is in excellent condition. Tiberino graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1959, where she was awarded a prestigious Cresson scholarship to study in Europe. After returning to the US, she lived and worked in New York until she married fellow artist (Joseph) and returned to her hometown of Philadelphia where she continued to create oil paintings, oil pastels drawings, sculptures, murals, and mosaics. In Philadelphia, she was part of social and professional circles that included Moe Brooker, Barbara Bullock, Walter Edmonds, Charles Pridgen, Leroy Johnson, John Simpson, James Dupree...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French Abstract Expressionist Oil on Canvas, Les Alliance au Crepuscule
Located in Cotignac, FR
French late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist oil on canvas by Abstrus. The painting is signed bottom right and signed titled and dated to the rear stretcher. Presented in a fine b...
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Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Pink Blooming Roses in Blue Vase Still Life French Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pink Blooming Flowers Signed by Fanch Lel ( French School) Oil painting on board, unframed Board: 16 x 13 inches Dated verso 1939 Condition: The painting is in good condition, with...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Lady In Blue Art Deco Female Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4066 Art Deco Lady in blue pastel painting Set in a white frame
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1930s Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel

Portrait of a Handsome Beatnik
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Mary Kiisel Greenwood (b.1924) Studied: PAFA Exhibited: Gross McCLeaf Gallery, Philadelphia Portrait of a Beatnik, ca. 1955-60. Oil on canvas measuring 12 x 16 inches. Some w...
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Mid-20th Century Realist Paintings

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Oil

River port oil painting european art seascape urbanscape France
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Rafael Duran Benet (1931-2015) - River port - Oil on canvas on board Oil measurements 22x27 cm. Frame 24x29. Rafael Duran Benet (Terrassa, 1931 - Barcelona, 2015) is a Catalan paint...
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1960s Post-Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

French Impressionist Oil Painting of Village de Laroque, Aveyron, France
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Village de Laroque, Aveyron, France By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 8.75 x 10.75 inches (height x width) Signed: Yes Oil painting on b...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Chauncey Foster Ryder Landscape with Figures Oil Painting 1868-1949 Tonalist
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
CHAUNCEY FOSTER RYDER (American, 1868-1949), Pasture Lands oil/canvas signed LR 31.5 x 39.5 image, 40.5 x 48.5 framed A wonderfully subtle tonalist painting by Ryder incorporating a farmer/farmhand probably moving cows about the pastures mid right in the scene. Ryder uses a subtle S design from lower left that zig zags up to the figure and cows. The painting shows Ryder's masterful use of abstract design and technique utilizing textures in his application of paint giving the painting life and interest. Original frame, some craquelure in sky, old surface. Bears Newhouse Galleries, possibly NYC, label verso. The painting hangs in my collection currently and would benefit from a cleaning and new varnish. It is a large museum quality oil painting. SHIPPING-This will need In Home Delivery service as it is too large for me to pack. The handling time is listed as 10 days but is dependent on who 1stdibs hires and their schedule to pick up and deliver. 3 -7 weeks is listed in the shipping section for this service. Buyer can also arrange for their own pick up. Bio- Chauncey Foster Ryder (29 February 1868 – 18 May 1949)[1] was an early 20th century American Postimpressionist Tonalist landscape painter known for a green-gray palette termed 'Ryder green'. Education and personal life Ryder was born in 1868 in Danbury, Connecticut, but grew up mainly in New Haven.[2][3] He began studying painting as a boy. In his early twenties, he moved to Chicago to attend the Art Institute,[4] then Smith's Academy.[5] After only a year at the latter, he was hired as an instructor.[5] In 1891, he married Mary Dole Keith.[5] In 1901, they moved to Paris, France, where Ryder continued his art education, studying with Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian. Ryder stayed in France for several years, living in an art colony at Étaples and exhibiting his work at the Paris Salon (1903–1909).[3] He took on occasional students, including American painter William Posey Silva...
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20th Century Tonalist Paintings

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Oil

Circle of Duncan Grant, Bloomsbury set, Rye Windmill by the river
Located in Harkstead, GB
This idyllic scene with the reflections in the water is of Rye Windmill in East Sussex, an area which was frequented by Duncan Grant and his Bloomsbury friends and associates. Circl...
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Early 20th Century English School Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Abstract Composition – Original Oil on Canvas – 13 x 16.1 in
Located in Montfort l’Amaury, FR
"A vivid mosaic of interlocking forms and bold hues, offering a powerful glimpse into French mid-century abstraction." Pierre Coquet (1926–2021) Abstract Composition Oil on canvas, ...
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1970s French School Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Large French Modernist Oil Painting Ladies Drinking Cafe Bistro Bar
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cafe Chats by Max Toutain (1935-2006) oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas : 18 x 22 inches Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist have come from the artists estate ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Mid Century French Original Pastel Painting of a Coastal View with Olive Trees
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Original Pastel Painting of a Coastal View with Olive Trees Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Oil Pastel on artist paper Size: 19.75 (heig...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil Pastel

Young woman in folk costume
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 68 x 50 x 4 cm
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Mid-20th Century Paintings

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Oil

Towering Coral Cliffs Over Bright Blue Sea French Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Bright French Landscape signed by Georges Bordonave (French contemporary) dated 1998 oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 24 x 29 inches condition: very good provenance: from a l...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Paris France oil on canvas painting urbanscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 70x59 cm. Caroline Burnett, born in 1940, was a painter known for capturing the charm of urban scenes and landscapes with a vibrant and colorful style. Although little is...
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1980s Post-Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Matador Bullfighter - Original Oil On Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Matador Bullfighter - Original Oil On Canvas Original oil on canvas painting of a matador and bull by Baez. A bull is seen with his head down, while the matador is dressed in yellow...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French Impressionist Vibrant French Village Market Scene Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Village Market Scene Signed by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Inscribed verso Size: 15 x 18 inches Oil painting on board, unframed Condition: The painting is in good condition, with mino...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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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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