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Period: Early 20th Century
Toledo Spain Nicely Framed Impressionist Antique Cityscape Street Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Spanish impressionist cityscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a silver leaf wood molding. Excellent co...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Tropical Blue Water Lush Beach Scene Nicely Framed Seascape Summer Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist beach scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 27 by 31 inches overall and 20 by 24 painting alone. In excellent original condition...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,820 Sale Price
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Unusual Interesting EARLY 20TH CENTURY French ? ABSTRACT oil paintings - A PAIR
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Unsigned Early 20th Century Continental School
TITLE: "Abstract Compositions" (a pair)
SIZE: 32cm x 23cm incl frame
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
CONDITION: very good
NOTES: Thes...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Impressionist Landscape Nicely Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist landscape painting. Oil on board. Housed in a period impressionist giltwood frame. Excellent condition.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,980 Sale Price
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Antique American Summer Impressionist Gold Giltwood Framed Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Excellent ready to hang condition.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$620 Sale Price
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Antique American Female Impressionist Wild Flower Landscape Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist flower landscape painting by Lila Caroline McGillivray Knowles (1886 - 1979). Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Image size, 10 by 12 inches.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Seal Rocks California Coastal Seascape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted early American impressionist seacape painting by Elmer Ellsworth Garnsey (1862 - 1946). Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso. Image s...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Fall Hills Landscape Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted early American impressionist landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$620 Sale Price
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Rare Early Antique American School Fauvist Woman Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas, lain to board. Framed. Very finely painted and a rare fauvist palette. No signature found.
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,800 Sale Price
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Antique American Impressionist Fauvist New England Beach Cottages Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist fauvist beach scene painting. Oil on board. Nicely framed. Very nicely painted and great color.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$540 Sale Price
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Fishing Boat in Storm (double-sided)
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.
Tape residue marks on back. Glue marks at bottom left and ri...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
California Female Impressionist Zimapan Mexico Mountain Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted panoramic landscape by Nellie Augusta Knopf (1875 - 1962).
Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 12H x 16L. Signed verso.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Winter View Delaware River Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
American impressionist winter landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 15H by 18L.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Architectural Composition
Located in Austin, TX
By Fernand Léger
Medium: Mixed Media on Paper
Size: 28" x 21"
Framed Size: 39.25" x 32"
An glorious example of a Master Cubist, Fernand Léger, featuring bold primaries and stately s...
Category
Cubist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Gouache
Flying Gulls on the Surf
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982), ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin.
James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist st...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
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
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Panoramic Summer Seascape European Endless Sky Impressionist Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very nicely painted European impressionist landscape painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 20H by 20L. Nicely framed and in excellent condition. Ready to hang.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,180 Sale Price
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Waves - Tempera and China Ink Drawing on Paper - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Waves is an original tempera and Cina ink drawing on paper, realized by Marguerite Callet-Carcano
With pencil signature on lower right margin.
In very good condition, except for a little missing of paper on lower left margin.
Marguerite Callet-Carcano (Milan, 1878)
Marguerite Callet-Carcano was an Italian-Belgian graphic artist, illustrated books like Drame and Savonarole. Drame by Iwan Gilkin (1926), Les Chimères by Georges Rency (1928), René by François-René Chateaubriand and a reprint by Adolphe by Benjamin Constant. In addition to the xilograph technique, she also used the linoleum one. She engraved the portrait of Charles De Coster...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Ink, Tempera
Newfoundland Landscape (Canada)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful lanscape painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). Newfoundland, ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin.
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James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist style of land, sea and cityscapes, created paintings with an emphasis on color and form. His works possess a clear and simple style, easily understood by the masses.
Born in Perkasie Pennsylvania, 20 miles north of Philadelphia, Clymer was the
youngest of seven children. Losing his mother during childbirth, he was raised by his eldest sister. He attended Drexel University in Philadelphia, studying Art and Architecture and worked as an Architect in the years following World War I.
During this time, Clymer met the artist Gwenyth Waugh, daughter of the renowned marine painter, Frederick Judd Waugh. His thrust then changed from Architect to Artist. Together, the couple travelled to destinations such as Spain and Newfoundland, where they gave birth to their only daughter.
In the early 1920's, Clymer and family settled in Provincetown, MA and quickly became associated with notable artists such as Helen Sawyer...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Antique Japanese Dancer Figurative Painting On Silk 1920's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4084 A vintage Japanese male dancer
Painting on silk set in a red mat and displayed in a gilt wood frame under glass.
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Monogrammed 1925 Pointillist Landscape Modernist Framed Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist signed pointillist painting. Watercolor and gouache on paper. Signed. Framed. Rare early work!
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,980 Sale Price
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Hog Scalding, Canada
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982), ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 15 x 20.5 inches. Signed lower margin.
James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist ...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Antique American California Impressionist Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist California oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Image size, 12H by 9L.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$540 Sale Price
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Flying Gulls on the Surf
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
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Henri Matisse Crayon Drawing Direct from Matisse Estate
Located in Dallas, TX
Henri Matisse (French 1869-1954) Pencil Drawing Of A Working Horse Catalogued as Number Z 548 in the Artist Archives
Pencil on paper, c. 1900, signed with initials 'HM' lower right....
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Crayon
$52,000 Sale Price
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Antique American Impressionist Western Landscape Pike's Peak Colorado Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderfully painted antique American impressionist western landscape painting; Oil on canvas. Signed. Handsomely framed and ready to hang.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,180 Sale Price
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Provincetown (Cape Cod landscape)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful abstract painting by American artist, James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982). At the Weir Trap, ca. 1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 15 x 20 inches. Signed lower margi...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
$450 Sale Price
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Antique American Early Female Impressionist New York City Street Scene Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible and rare early American impressionist cityscape painting by Alice Y. Hirsh (1888 - 1935). Oil on canvas, lain to board. Framed. Signed. Image size, 8L x 10H.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Newfoundland Canadian Loggers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
James Floyd Clymer (1893-1982), ca.1930. Watercolor and pencil on paper measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed lower margin.
James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982 ) known for his Regionalist st...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Cubist Painting from 1918-19, Portrait of Dr Mens III
Located in Stockholm, SE
Dick Beer (b. London 1893 - d. Stockholm 1938)
Portrait of Dr Mens III, 1918-1919
oil on board
70 x 50 cm
stamp signed
painted c. 1918-1919
Provenance:
Within the family Beer until today
Dick Beer (1893-1938)
Dick Beer was born in London in 1893. His father, John Beer (1853-1906), was a Swedish painter from Stockholm who had a career mainly as a watercolour painter with motifs of horses from racetracks and fox hunts from the countryside.
Barely fifteen years old, Dick Beer became an orphan and came to Sweden in 1907. Already in 1908-1909, he started at Althin's painting school in Stockholm. And later, at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1910-1912. His teachers were, among others, Gustaf Cederström, Oscar Björk and Alfred Bergström...
Category
Cubist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique French Art Deco Blue Resting Dancers Figurative Oil by G.Pascal Rocca
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1-4086 A large scale vintage figurative painting, original oil on canvas in shades of blue .Unframed.
Signed on verso G.Pascal Rocca
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist New York City Street Scene Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed original oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1930. Signed illegibly. Image size 20L x 16H. Housed in a period giltwood frame.
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$796 Sale Price
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"Wolf Canyon Wyoming" Antique Impressionist Sunset Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Rare and finely painted early American impressionist oil painting by Joe (Joseph) Franklin De Yong (1894 - 1975). Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 13H by 15L.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cubist Painting By Swedish Artist Dick Beer, View From a Window, 1920
Located in Stockholm, SE
Dick Beer (b. London 1893 - d. Stockholm 1938)
Utsikt från fönster, View From a Window, 1920
oil on canvas
73 x 60.5 cm
stamp signed
painted 1920
Exhibi...
Category
Cubist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,588 Sale Price
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Stage Design for "Le Cog d'Or"
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant set design by Russian artist Natalia Gontcharova (1881-1962). Two angelic figures are the central focus of this piece, but the rest of the set is laden with details, includin...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Laid Paper, Pencil
$18,800 Sale Price
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Stunning 1930s French Oil Lady in Wedding Dress in Interior, very thick impasto
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: early 20th century (c. 1930's) French School
Title: Lady in an interior, painted with very thick impasto oil
Medium: oil on canv...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract 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.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$796 Sale Price
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Antique American Impressionist Tropical Coastal Seascape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive impressionist coastal scene. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
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Untitled (Brown and Blue Shapes)
By Rudolf Bauer
Located in Columbia, MO
Untitled (Brown and Blue Shapes)
Gouache and watercolor
18.25 x 11.62 inches
Framed: 32.5 x 26 inches
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Geometry Game - Original Tempera by Clement Nicolas Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Geometry Game is an original artwork realized by Clement Nicolas Kons in 1920s.
Original mixed colored tempera.
Good conditions except for yellowing of paper due to the time.
Th...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Antique American Impressionist Tropical Beach Scene Hawaiian Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist tropical landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 12H x 18L.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,500 Sale Price
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Composition in Black - Tempera by Clement Nicolas Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition in black is an artwork realized by Clement Nicolas Kons in 1920s.
Original mixed colored tempera.
Good conditions except for some so...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Antique French Modern Paris School Still Life Framed Surreal Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted modernist still life oil painting with a view of the Eiffel Tower and a rotary phone. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring 20 by 23 inches overall and 15.25 by 18.25 paint...
Category
Surrealist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Impressionist Flower Still Life Signed Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist flower still life signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 25.5L x 21.5H.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
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Composition 16 - Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 16 is an original painting realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is on tempera and in very good conditions. Image Dimensions: 32...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
$223 Sale Price
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Early Abstract 1926 - Scottish Abstract art modernist oil painting
Located in London, GB
Scottish artist William Johnstone OBE painted this stunning abstract oil painting. It is a superb important piece of Scottish Art History and early twentieth century abstraction. An early modernist work, dated 1926 so way ahead of its time and other abstract artists. At the forefront of the Scottish Renaissance and European modernism this painting pre dates the abstraction and Abstract Expressionism of the later mid twentieth century. Earlier than Arshille Gorkuy who was, in the thirties, a bridge between European Modernism and American Abstract Expressionism, Johnstone was inspired and influenced by ideas surrounding the surreal and the subconscious and this painting appears to have elements of this thought process within its key abstract passages.
Signed and dated 1926 verso.
Provenance. William Hardie...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
$50,347 Sale Price
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Fauvist Ocean Wave and Sunset, 1920's Seascape
By John Henry Ramm
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling fauvist seascape with boldly colorful ocean waves and glowing sunset by Northern California artist John Ramm (American, 1879-1948), 1929. Impasto brush strokes add depth and interest to high voltage color palette. Signed lower right corner and dated on stretcher "29" . Condition: Good; minor edge losses professionally restored/in-painted. Signature slightly augmented to enhance readability. Image size: 22"H x 28"W.
The son of German immigrants, John Henry Ramm was the son of German immigrants, and his father had been a Duke in his native land. Ramm moved to San Francisco in 1893 and worked as an apprentice to a photographer. He married Nettie Hoist in Sacramento and they lived in San Francisco. He was a close friend of painter Manuel Valencia...
Category
Fauvist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,600 Sale Price
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Study for Decoration - Original Tempera by A. Giraldon - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Study for Decoration is a graceful preparatory sketch for a decoration of the French artist, stylist, decorator and illustrator Adolphe Giraldon. This is a small painting in tempera ...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
1950s "Abstract #4" Ink and Gouache Painting Univ of Paris
By Donald Stacy
Located in Arp, TX
Donald Stacy
"Abstract #4"
c.1950s
Ink & Gouache on paper
10.5x19.5" brown, ripple, wood frame 11.5”x1”x20.75”
Signed in pencil lower right with label on reverse
Came from artist's e...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
$787 Sale Price
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Fishing Boat in Storm
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.
Tape residue marks on back.
James Floyd Clymer ( 1893-1982...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Rag Paper, Pencil
Composition 18 - Original Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 18 is an original painting realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is on tempera and in very good conditions. Image Dimensions: 36...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
$223 Sale Price
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Composition 14 - Painting by Clément Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Composition 14 is an original painting realized by Clément Kons (1879-1956).
The artwork is on tempera and in very good conditions. Image Dimensions: 47...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
$223 Sale Price
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Armony in Blue and Red - Tempera by Clement Nicolas Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Armony in blue and red is an original artwork realized by Clement Nicolas Kons in 1920s.
Original mixed colored tempera. The artwork is glued on ...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Blue Circle - Tempera by Clement Nicolas Kons - 1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Blue Circle is an artwork realized by Clement Nicolas Kons in 1920s.
Original mixed colored tempera.
Good conditions except for yellowing of p...
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Tempera
$223 Sale Price
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Karl Larsson, Swedish, New York, and New Mexico Artist, Abstract Watercolor
By Karl Larsson
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Karl Larsson (1893-1967) non-objective abstraction
Original watercolor, circa 1920s-1930s
In excellent condition. Archivally Matted - not framed.
Measures...
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper
Suprematist composition. 1919, paper/gouache 21, 5 x 28, 5 cm
By Gustav Klucis
Located in Riga, LV
Suprematist composition. 1919, paper/gouache 21,5 x 28,5 cm
Gustav Klucis (1895-1938) Latvian painter, sculptor, graphic artist, designer and teacher, ...
Category
Suprematist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Gouache
$11,451 Sale Price
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Fauve Still Life with Flowers - Early Female Artist
Located in Miami, FL
This colorful painting by Eleanor Parke Custis is in the spirit of Louis Valtat and the Fauves. The subject of flowers in the foreground is repeated in the backdrop. It straddles the line between abstraction and representation. Signed lower right - Work is framed.
Eleanor Parke Custis studied in Corcoran School of the Arts and Design under Edmund C. Tarbell and Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with Henry B. Snell. Initially, she began her art career as a painter, creating watercolors. Custis created illustrations for Scribner's Magazine, Harper's, Doubleday, Harcourt. She started to take photographs in her youth, using a Brownie camera...
Category
Fauvist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Winter Scene with a Creek
Located in Houston, TX
Winter Landscape scene of a creek with a bare tree dominating the painting. A fence line runs along behind the tree and there are distant shapes in the background.
Dimensions withou...
Category
Naturalistic Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modern Orange, Brown, Yellow, and Black Geometric Abstract Pattern Painting
By John Little
Located in Houston, TX
Modern orange, brown, yellow, and black geometric abstract composition by textile designer John Little. The work was created as a proposed design for a wallpaper and features the original color codes in the front lower left corner. Currently hung in a solid black frame with a large white margin.
Dimensions Without Frame: H 35.5 in. x W 33.5 in.
Artist Biography: A painter and textile designer, John Little is best known for gestural works filled with boldly explosive color that reflect the influences of his teacher Hans Hofmann and for his involvement in the Abstract Expressionist movement in East Hampton, where he moved in the late 1940s. In East Hampton Little congregated with Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, and the other artists who were the leading innovators in the New York School.
John Little was born in Sanford, Alabama. He left home at the age of fourteen to become an artist, and moved to Buffalo, New York, in 1923. After spending a year working as a stevedore on the docks to save money, he enrolled at the Buffalo Fine Arts Academy and developed an interest in singing. In 1927 he moved to New York City where he continued his vocal work and studied operatic literature. He also became involved in textile design, opening his own store in 1920, called John Little Studios: Fabric and Wallpaper Design. He ran the store until 1950.
In 1933 John Little resumed his painting studies at the Art Students League in New York under the guidance of George Grosz (1893-1959). The following year he made his first visit to East Hampton, Long Island, which he would eventually call home. Later in the decade, he traveled to Paris where he became familiar with European modernism. On his return to America, he taught textile design at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. He hired Josephine Watkins to work for him; she later became his wife. Little's textile store and teaching job gave him a financial security that was rare during the Depression, and he never found it necessary to find employment with the Works Progress Administration. At the end of the decade, John Little studied with Hans Hofmann (1880-1966) in New York and Provincetown. Little was greatly influenced by Hofmann, particularly by his views on color theory.
In 1942 John Little joined the Navy as an aerial photographer. In the late 1940s he purchased a rundown house on Three Mile Harbor...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Antique American School Signed Panoramic Sunset Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist lake landscape signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
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