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Twist - Painting by Alfredo Pizzi - 2022
Located in Roma, IT
Twist is a contemporary Artwork realized by the artist Alfredo Pizzi. It is made on jute canvas, painted in acrylic in 2022.
The author has a multifacet...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
French School Mid 20th Century Oil - Cottage and Apple Blossom Trees
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming oil study depicting a rural cottage in the French countryside. Apple blossom tree stand in the foreground beneath clear skies, making for a delightful springtime compositi...
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$545 Sale Price
20% Off
Mountain Landscape (Pyrenees) 1928
Located in Stockholm, SE
Fritz Lindström (1874–1962)
Mountain Landscape (Pyrenees), 1928
oil on panel
unframed 15.5 × 24 cm (6.1 × 9.4 in)
framed: 26 × 34 cm (10.2 × 13.4 in)
signed on the reverse
Frame by...
Category
1920s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Two Worlds - British Edwardian figurative interior oil painting religious art
Located in Hagley, England
This intriguing British Edwardian figurative interior oil painting is by noted artist Arthur Croft Mitchell. It is entitled Two Worlds verso and dated as c1910. The composition of th...
Category
1910s Realist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jeune Fille en Blanc - 19th Century French Impressionist Oil Painting Portrait
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Jeune Fille en Blanc’ by Jacques-Émile Blanche (1861-1942).
The painting – which depicts one of the artist’s favourite models Wanda Zielinska – is signed and dated 1896. It is lis...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Peace - Original Sally K Figurative Artwork
By Sally K
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lebanese American artist Sally K.'s captivating floral portraits are both mesmerizing and empowering. Her pop-realistic paintings are inspired by strong, feminine women, celebrating...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
"Figs" (2023) By Quang Ho, Original Oil Painting
By Quang Ho
Located in Denver, CO
Quang Ho's (US based) "Figs" is an oil on panel depicting figs growing on a tree with lush green foliage.
About the artist:
Quang Ho was born on April 30, 1963, in Hue, Vietnam. He...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique English Oil Painting Traditional Thatched Cottages & Gardens Fine Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Thatched Cottages
by Eva Walbourn (active 1880-1930)
Eva was the wife of the late 19th/ early 20th century English artist, Ernest Walbourn.
oil on board, framed
framed: 14.5 x ...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 20th century English Antique portrait of a Polo Pony
By George Paice
Located in Woodbury, CT
This early 20th-century portrait of a Polo Pony by the esteemed English artist George Paice is an exquisite representation of equine artistry, showcasing Paice’s remarkable skill in ...
Category
1910s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1950's Mid Century French Modernism Abandoned Fiat Automobile Art Oil Painting
Located in Surfside, FL
Jean Porcher, French, 1927,
La vieille 'Fiat abandonnée',
Oil on canvas modernist painting
Provenance: verso gallery label "Galerie Drouant-David St Honore Paris"
Hand signed and dated verso and along top to upper left
19 3/4 x 29, framed 22 x 31 1/2
It depicts an antique abandoned Italian Fiat car...
Category
1950s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"MAMA LIKES SHADE" TEXAS HILL COUNTRY CATTLE WESTERN HEREFORDS
Located in San Antonio, TX
Chuck Mauldin
Born 1949
Fredericksburg Artist
Image Size: 8 x 10
Frame Size: 12 x 14
Medium: Oil
"Momma Likes Shade"
A native of Texas, Chuck Mauldin has been painting in oil since the age of twelve. His interest in watercolor and pencil drawing grew during his years spent in Louisiana. With his move back to Texas, he has renewed his focus on oil painting, using this medium in a realistic yet painterly style. Striving to quickly capture color and mood with a direct "alla prima" technique is one of his main objectives in painting outdoors on-location. Cows, cowboys and Native Americans often enrich the landscape in his studio work, while anything can inspire his plein air paintings.
Workshops with Charles...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early 20th Century Oil - Cart On The Woodland Path
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. Presented in a wooden frame with gilt inner window. On canvas.
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$215 Sale Price
20% Off
Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Landscape, c. 1930-40s, oil on panel, signed lower right, 16 x 20 inches
Jeanette Maxfield Lewis was a California-based landscape painter and etcher. Born in Oakland, she spent much...
Category
1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
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...
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,420 Sale Price
20% Off
Hunt Slonem, Under the sea rare unique 1980 oil on canvas painting signed Framed
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
Rare 1980 Hunt Slonem painting. The artist has painted - literally - thousands and thousands of bunnies (and almost as many birds and butterflies), but you won't easily find the li...
Category
1980s Naturalistic Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Magical Life Below - Ocean Landscape Fish Still Life Painting on Handmade Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Michaela Jean is an accomplished painter, devoted gardener, and mother from Southern California (USA). Her lifelong passion for art and nature began in childhood, inspired by her gra...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Color Pencil
Eglise Saint-Pierre - Mid 20th Century French Naif Naive Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful mid 20th century French naive oil on canvas depicting the Eglise Saint-Pierre at Boussy-Saint-Antoine, on the outskirts of Paris.
Superb example of mid 20th century Fren...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Two Old Men Sitting - Mid 20th Century Impressionist Oil Pastel by William Mason
Located in Watford, Hertfordshire
William Mason (1906-2002) was a painter born in Newport, Wales, who studied at Newport College of Art and the Royal College of Art. Aside from painting he also taught at Scarborough...
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
'Les Alyscamps Arles' by Yves Brayer, Large Watercolour Painting
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'Les Alyscamps Arles', watercolour on art paper, by Yves Brayer (1977). This term has its origins and is related to the Elysian Fields, also called Elysium, which is the final restin...
Category
1970s Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Henry Yeend King - Signed & Framed 19th Century Oil, Tudor Cottage
Located in Corsham, GB
A horse drinks from a river outside a thatched Tudor cottage on a serene summer eve.
Well presented in a substantial light wood frame.
Signed. On Board.
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Still Life (Study Of Leaves) - contemporary, still life, oil on canvas on panel
By Mel Davis
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary, still life, oil on canvas, on panel is by artist Mel Davis. In a style reminiscent of the French master Matisse, Montreal-born Mel Davis reinvents the traditional ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Panel, Graphite
Pig Hide Bait, Yellow Buoys, Blue Gloves, Orange Boat in Harbor, White Bird
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary painting in oil on board, a harbor landscape with a neon orange boat in seagreen water in the upper left corner is set alongside a still life arrangement of fish...
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Symphony Of Colour #2, original painting, landscape, contemporary
By Lucy Moore
Located in Deddington, GB
A Symphony Of Colour #2 This painting is a vibrant celebration of nature's spontaneity and beauty, depicted through energetic splashes of color and dynamic, abstract forms, capturing...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Lines And Dots
Located in Dallas, TX
ink & graphite on mulberry paper
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mulberry Paper, Graphite
Young Woman By The Sea Cost
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Young Woman By The Sea Cost
Artist signed lower right, canvas 35hx39w
Nicola Simbari was born in Italy and grow up in Rome. He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Roma, and in ...
Category
1970s Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
A pair of Classical landscapes
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
George Smith of Chichester (Chichester 1714-1776)
Landscape with figures resting by a river; River landscape with figures outside a thatched cottag...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$10,427 Sale Price
20% Off
"Evening Magic" - Colorful Fall Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Michelle Condrat's (US based) oil painting "Evening Magic" depicts some trees showing the fall colors of yellow and oranges. This painting is unframed, but ready to hang.
"The most...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Original Mid Century Western Pen and Ink "Cowboy and Bronco"
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Mid Century Pen and Ink on Paper "Cowboy and Bronco" Western Genre
Compelling pen and ink western picture of Cowboy wrangling the bro...
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
India Ink, Laid Paper
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Carnevale in Rio Colorful Figural Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
# 6064 A bold figurative painting , oil on canvas applied on board ,signed lower left by A.Flanigran ,displayed in a white wood frame.Image size 10.5 H x 13.5 W
Category
1970s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$250 Sale Price
61% Off
Forgotten Boundaries - Colourful Landscape Oil Painting, Ocean in Grey + Green
Located in Kingsclere, GB
Richard Ballinger b. 1957
Forgotten Boundries, 2024
oil on paper
24 x 36.5 cm
9 1/2 x 14 3/8 in
signed with monogram
Richard Ballinger is a British landscape and still-life painter....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hunt Slonem "Bayou Teche Sunset" Landscape
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Bayou Teche Sunset
Date: 2024
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Unframed Dimensions: 36" x 48"
Framed Dimensions: 38" x 50"
Signature: Signed verso
Edition: Un...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red Door at Venice Cathedral Italy Oil Painting Framed American Artist
Located in Houston, TX
Red Door is an American Impressionist painting by Stuart Fullerton. The artist is known for his landscape and cityscape paintings in the Impressionistic style. Red Door is painted ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Colourful French Harbour Scene with Moored Boats and Forest by Fanch Lel 1996
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Colourful French Harbour Scene with Moored Boats and Forest by Fanch Lel 1996
by Fanch Lel
Signed: Lower right corner
Size: 11 x 19 inches (height x width)
Oil painting on boa...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer Bouquet – Vibrant Floral Impressionist Painting on Canvas
Located in Zofingen, AG
“Summer Bouquet” – Vibrant Floral Impressionist Painting on Canvas
Bring the beauty of summer into your home with this stunning hand-painted floral artwork titled “Summer Bouquet.” ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Angus Bernard Rands (1922-1985) - Framed 20th Century Oil, Dales Sheep Grazing
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful Impressionist painting by Angus Bernard Rands (1922-1985) depicting spring lambs grazing in the Dales. The work is beautifully presented in a contemporary frame with flo...
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Rock 221: Sleeping Dogs
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas on board.
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"BRAHMAS" TEXAS CATTLE
Located in San Antonio, TX
Chuck Mauldin
Born 1949
Fredericksburg Artist
Size: 20 x 30
Frame: 27 x 37
Medium: Oil
"Brahmas"
A native of Texas, Chuck Mauldin has been painting in oi...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Collie Dog with Kittens Antique English Victorian Dog & Cat Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Collie Dog with Kittens
English artist, 19th century
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 22 x 30 inches
canvas: 16.5 x 23.5 inches
Provenance: private collection, England
Condition: The ...
Category
19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,536 Sale Price
43% Off
Purple Perkins Over St. Croix - Octopus on Nautical Map, Gyotaku Style Print
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
A small octopus is inked in the Japanese style of Gyo-Taku print making. Using sumi ink to "print" the octopus, the artist then embellishes it with colored pencil to convey an extraordinary dimensionality. By printing it on a nautical chart, the artist achieves a beautiful aesthetic. The artwork is unframed. Please contact the gallery for framing options.
Jeff Conroy
Purple Perkins over St. Croix
sumi ink and colored pencil on nautical chart
30h x 33.50w in
76.20h x 85.09w cm
JEC110
Gyotaku - A Japanese word translated from "gyo" meaning fish and "taku" meaning stone impression and is believed to get its inspiration from Chinese stone rubbings of calligraphy, which then gave rise to printing . This tradition dates back to the mid-1800s and was used by fishermen to record their catches, but has also become an art form of its own. Prints were made using Sumi ink and Washi paper. It is rumored that Samurai would settle fishing competitions using Gyotaku prints...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Sumi Ink, Color Pencil
Morning Fog, Large Landscape Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2024
Style: Impressionism,
Title: Morning Fog,
Size: 43.5" x 57" x ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century seascape oil painting of shipping by moonlight at Whitby
Located in Nr Broadway, Worcestershire
Hubert Thornley
British, (exh. 1858 -1898)
Moonlight Whitby Harbour, Low Tide
Oil on canvas, signed, indistinctly inscribed in pencil to the stretcher verso
Image size: 9.25 inches x 15.25 inches
Size including frame: 16.25 inches x 22.25 inches
An atmospheric moonlit painting...
Category
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Yellow Pitcher
Located in London, GB
'The Yellow Pitcher', oil on canvas, by Charles Kvapil (1939). A prolific painter of bouquets, the artist created dozens of tableaux with flowers as sub...
Category
1930s Expressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunrise Over A Fishing Port French Impressionist Art Nouveau period oil
Located in Norwich, GB
The 1903 painting by Henri Louis Ottmann (1877-1927) which is in the Musée d'Orsay depicts vast train station with all its dynamism. Our painting, created three years earlier, shows ...
Category
1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Morning on the lake"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
"The canvas conveys the soft, subdued lighting characteristic of early morning. The lake looks serene, its surface almost mirror-like, with light ripples. The fog rises slightly over...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
View of Capestrano - Paint by Sirio Pellegrini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on plywood realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1970.
Hand signed lower left. Signed and titled on rear.
Includes a wooden frame 21.5x32.5 cm.
Very good condition.
Sirio Pellegrin...
Category
1970s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Plywood
Modernist coffee Barcelona Spain oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Ignacio Gil Sala, was a painter, bohemian character, adventurous and intrepid traveler who knew how to capture his eyes to that world with his painting. A...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$3,035 Sale Price
57% Off
BLUE
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this vibrant canvas, I've melded the fluid grace of abstract art with the emotive brush strokes of impressionism and the bold visual appeal of pop art. I used acrylic and oil to w...
Category
2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Napoleon at the Head of His Grande Armée, His Generals and the Prussian Hussars
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pencil, chalk and watercolour depiction of Napoleon at the head of his generals by French artist Jean Ducel. The work is signed bottom right.
A bold and graphic depiction of Napoleo...
Category
Late 20th Century Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Crayon, Cardboard, Pencil, Watercolor
Twentieth Century Marine Oil Painting of The Cutty Sark Tall Ship at Greenwich
By Edward Seago
Located in ludlow, GB
Twentieth Century Marine Oil on Panel depicting the iconic Cutty Sark Tall Sailing Ship in dry dock at Greenwich by one of the undisputed masters of the Mid Twentieth Century. Belov...
Category
Mid-20th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Yvon Laurent - 20th Century Oil, Tulips in a Blue Vase
Located in Corsham, GB
This charming still life captures a vibrant bouquet of tulips arranged in a deep blue ceramic pitcher, an everyday object elevated by the artist’s attentive eye. The tulips, shown in...
Category
20th Century Still-life 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...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1940s Desert Red Rocks Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Stunning desert landscape of red rocks and desert shrubs by California artist Olive Von Bergen (American, 20th Century). Signed “Olive Von Bergen” in ...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$552 Sale Price
35% Off
Late 19th Century Original English Landscape of a Cottage in Cambria
Located in Soquel, CA
Late 19th Century Original English Landscape of a Cottage in Cambria
Wonderful original antique painting of a thatched cottage in Cambria by...
Category
1880s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Gouache
Sergey Kovalenko (b.1980) - 2020 Oil, Bottles and Fruit
Located in Corsham, GB
Ukrainian school. Signed to the lower right.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
$778 Sale Price
20% Off
"Farmhouses in Autumn, Giverny" Theodore Earl Butler, American Impressionism
Located in New York, NY
Theodore Earl Butler
Farmhouses in Autumn, Giverny
Signed "T.E. Butler" lower right
Oil on canvas
21 1/4 x 25 1/2 inches
Provenance
The artist.
Estate of the above.
By descent throu...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'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 Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,990 Sale Price
27% Off
New Looking Methods: Cobalt Blue & Gold Abstract Expressionist Painting, Framed
By Bruce Murphy
Located in Hudson, NY
Gestural abstract painting on paper with gold metallic powders and cobalt blue, pastel green, and rust colored enamel paint
"New Looking Methods", made in 2022 by Hudson Valley paint...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Love Conquers All - Omnia Vincit Amor Extra Large Abstract Investment Bold Color
By Karnish Art
Located in Cullinan, ZA
Title: Love Conquers All - Omnia Vincit Amor
Extra Large Abstract Investment Bold Color
Large rendition in the Unchained Expressions series. It attempts to map the road to freedom...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Nostalgia, Acrylic on canvas, Brown, Red by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
By Jiban Biswas
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Jiban Biswas - Nostalgia - 36 x 48 inches (unframed size)
Acrylic on Canvas
Style : According to him, “ The Mud colour are changing its shade, The sheds...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Winter Solitude" Buckingham PA, Bucks County Snow Scene Landscape Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
Impressionist winter pastoral scene of a quaint snow covered home by theBuckingham, Bucks County, PA. Willett has portrayed this charming scene in a most intimate, yet energetic way,...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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