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George Weissbort (1928-2013) - Oil, Still Life with White Jug & Grapes
Located in Corsham, GB
Still life, oil on canvas. Unsigned. (Provenance: Studio Sale, George Weissbort).
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Counterparty Art, Self Portrait, Serj Tankian.
By Serj Tankian
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
This artwork, created by the multi-talented artist Serj Tankian, is a captivating self-portrait rendered in a vibrant and eclectic mix of media. Executed on paper with a blend of col...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Self-portrait oil on canvas painting
By Lluis Ribas
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
LLuis Ribas (1949) - Self-portrait - Oil canvas
Oil measurements 55x46 cm.
Frameless.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$712 Sale Price
50% Off
Notre-Dame de Paris with Bridge Over the Seine Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Notre-Dame de Paris with Bridge Over the Seine
by Jean Fourie (1927-2015)
French artist, painting in the Champagne region of France
oil painting on board , unframed
double sided
b...
Category
1970s French School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$506 Sale Price
30% Off
Antique American School Modernist Hamptons New York Sandy Path Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Image size, 18H x 24L.
Category
1940s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
Farm Yard Animals Horse & Dogs with Young Boy Large Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Farmyard Friends
Continental School, second half 20th century
oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas: 20 x 24 inches
Provenance: Private collection, Dorset, England
Condition: very good cond...
Category
20th Century English School Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
American Impressionist: Springtime, a sunny path in France 19thC oil painting
Located in Norwich, GB
This beautiful and light filled painting testifies of a new dawn: in the 1880s the landscape and animalier artist William Baird turns to Impressionism. Our Sunny Path, with looser brushwork and lighter colours, convey the fleeting nature of the present. Our lovely oil on canvas may well be homage to Claude Monet - according to Baird's inscription on the stretcher, it was painted in Mantes, which is only about 6 miles from Vétheuil, where Monet was living and working in the 1880s!
William Baptiste Baird was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1847, but as an adult moved to Paris to perfect his painting technique. In Paris, Baird studied under Adolphe Yvon...
Category
1880s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
abstract hills, desert
Located in Belgrade, MT
This painting by Lucien Durand is part of my private collection. It is signed by the artist.
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,400 Sale Price
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Biography of a Drive-By: wall sculpture by Black African-American artist
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a two-part wall mounted painting / sculpture this integrates found objects and photographs into an acrylic painting on the top, and a wooden shelf with bullet casings and coins below. This is a conceptual, abstract work of art that is a powerful homage to lives lost through calculated gun violence in American cites. signed by the artist.
PROVENANCE: Exhibited in "Portals + Revelations: Richard J. Watson," the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Oct 2021 - Mar 2022.
"Most of my works are supported by memories of the past and suggested realities. Issues of social politics, ancestral references, and astral projections are presented with fragmented elements...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Acrylic, Panel, Found Objects, Mixed Media
Nude. Abstract realism, Horizontal, Pastel colours, Beige, Cream, Ochre, Blue
Located in Oslo, NO
The subject of the painting is just awakened young woman, resting in a bad and enjoying first morning sunlight.
The relaxed posture and soft colors express a calm mood, the freshnes...
Category
2010s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Fruit in Basket - Vintage Oil in Ornate Frame by British Artist
By Roy Hodrien
Located in Preston, GB
Still Life with Fruit in Basket - Vintage Oil in Ornate Frame by British Artist
Art measures 12 x 10 inches
Frame measures 18.5 x 16.5 inches
Roy Hodrien, born in Lancashire in M...
Category
1980s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Paint, Oil, Board
$2,549 Sale Price
37% 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
Mother and Child
Located in San Francisco, CA
This modern mid-century composition of mother and child is by Fernando Oramas (1925-2016.) It is an interesting composition, with the mother in side profile and her child staring ahead at the viewer. The painting is composed of oil on canvas and measures 18” x 14” (24” x 20” framed). It is signed in the lower right. On the reverse is Oramas’ name and address in Mexico. Oramas lived in Mexico in the 1950s and 1960s and this painting appears to date from that time, based on the style and the frame. The painting is in very good condition. The distressed wood frame goes very well with the painting. It is in fair to good condition, with some light scuffs on the edges that allow the wood color to show through the grey stain of the frame as well as a very small bit of separation between the pieces of the frame. Please look at the signature photo for a good image of a section of the frame.
Oramas had a major exhibition of his work in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2016. Oramas studied at the School of Fine Arts of the National University, located in the old convent of Santa Clara, in the Center of Bogotá, where he met teachers, trained in renowned academies in Europe. Ignacio Gómez...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Provencal Landscape Poppy Fields Original Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Stunning mid 20th century French Expressionist oil painting on canvas. The work depicts this gloriously vibrant and colourful landscape in Provence - we are told by the former owner it represents the Luberon Valley region in Provence, in the fields around Cucuron.
We acquired the painting from a private collector in the heart of Provence who had owned the painting for many years. The work is unsigned but very, very close in every respect to the Corsican born artist PIERRE AMBROGIANI (1907-1985) and further research in this direction could be fruitful.
Condition and Size:
The painting is in good condition. The paint has begun to split in places as one would expect with such thickly applied oil paint.
The canvas, unframed is 38cm x 55cm.
Pierre Ambrogiani was born in Ajaccio, Corsica, although he was brought up in Marseille, where he continued to live and work for the rest of his life. He was an Expressionist painter of Provençal landscapes...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,446 Sale Price
30% Off
Fine British Mid 20th Century Oil Painting Portrait of a Society Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: British School, indistinctly signed lower right, circa 1950's
Title: Portrait of an Aristocratic Lady. The previous owner believed the sitter to be a member of the Q...
Category
Mid-20th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,834 Sale Price
30% Off
Dinton Church, original British watercolour painting
By Ronald Birch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Dinton Church
by Ronald Birch, British circa 1970's
watercolour on art paper, unframed
overall paper measures: 15 x 22.25 inches
titled and dated 'April 82'
*FREE SHIPPING ON THIS P...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$188 Sale Price
30% Off
Sunrise in Kauai, Original Painting
By Kira Yustak
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
On a trip to Kauai, Hawaii, artist Kira Yusak found inspiration watching the sunrise each morning during her beach strolls. She noticed the colors, clouds, an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Buffalo Harbor 1920's
By A.J. Firlik
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original early 20th Century impressionist view of Buffalo Harbor, by American artist A.J. Firlik.
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Collioure Harbour, French 1950's Modernist Colorful Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Collioure, France
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on artist paper, unframed
size: 13 x 19.5 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed.
provena...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$482 Sale Price
30% Off
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - 20th Century Oil, Couple in Costume
Located in Corsham, GB
This dynamic oil painting by George Wiessbort (1928-2013) depicts two figures in an interior, one dressed in a striking red military jacket and the other in a pale pink dress. The co...
Category
20th Century Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Window to My Soul
By Lynette Cook
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Window To My Soul' - depicts a San Francisco building with warm sunlight and shadows cascading across the facade of the white building with blue inset window and trim. A tree and bi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Silu Niu Animal Original Oil On Canvas "Parrot"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Parrot
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 20 x 20inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Age: 2000s
Condition: Painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This paint...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
$650 Sale Price
50% Off
Burgundy flower, Freesia
Located in Zofingen, AG
This delicate freesia, painted in acrylic, blooms gently against the natural texture of jute-covered canvas. The artist intentionally leaves the background untouched, allowing the ra...
Category
2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Loch Lomond, View of the Jetty, Antique Scottish Oil Painting Sunset, Signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Loch Lomond, View of the Jetty, Antique Scottish Oil Painting Sunset, Signed
by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950)
signed, lower corner left hand corner
oil painting on canvas, fram...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Young Man (Russian male portrait)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Friedrich Wigand (Russian, 1800-1853). Portrait of a Young Man, 1841. Oil on canvas, 12.5 x 16 inches. Framed measurement: 17 x 20.5 inches. Signed an...
Category
Mid-18th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,000 Sale Price
40% Off
#171, Abstract, Photography, Painting, Expressionism
Located in München, BY
Unique piece
More sizes and an Essay from Lyle Rexer about this series on request.
Joachim Schmeisser’s work rescues photography from the centuries-old straightjacket of realism to...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pigment
Mountain Vista
By Alexander Helwig Wyant
Located in New York, NY
Alexander Wyant, a key figure in nineteenth-century landscape painting, helped pioneer the Tonalist movement with a style influenced by George Inness. After establishing a studio in ...
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Winter Landscape Oil Painting by Michael Budden Winter Woodland Interior IV
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Winter Woodland Interior IV
oil/canvas panel
12 x 9 image unframed, 18.5 x 15.5 framed.
A beautiful little winter study of light and shadow falling across this scene of trees and sno...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mt. Evans Colorado Mountain Landscape – Painterly Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Experience the breathtaking beauty of Mt. Evans, Colorado, through this stunning original oil painting by renowned artist Ferdinand Kaufmann (1864–1942). Created circa 1920–1940, thi...
Category
1920s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Folk Art Mexican Girl with Watermelon Oil Painting on Burlap
Located in Surfside, FL
The sweetness that characterizes the work of Mexican painter Jose Maria de Servin (1917-83) is a melancholy and placid one. While he worked in the most modern of styles, he adapted i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Burlap, Oil
Sunny October Day, Abisko. (Group of Seven style)
Located in Stockholm, SE
Ivan Bergdahl, born in 1929 in Säbrå, is a celebrated Swedish artist renowned for his evocative landscape paintings that capture the stunning natural beauty of Sweden. His work, ofte...
Category
1960s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
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
1920s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Cape Maneuver bullfighter oil painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Cape Maneuver
Artist: José María Tuser Vázquez (Barcelona, 1919 – 1986)
Technique: Oil on canvas mounted on board
Dimensions: 19.7 x 23.6 in (50 x 60 cm)
Date: Circa 1980s
Signature: Signed "Tuser" in the lower left corner
Condition: Excellent; thick, vibrant brushwork and vivid colors well preserved.
📝 Description
This painting captures a dramatic moment in the bullfight — the classic verónica — as the matador gracefully halts the bull’s charge with a sweeping motion of the cape. The vivid contrast of magentas, blues, and golds intensifies the theatrical tension between man and beast. The composition is dynamic yet controlled, emphasizing the poise of the torero against the raw force of the bull.
The expressive brushstrokes and thick impasto enhance the sense of movement, while the abstracted background ensures focus remains on the central figures. The piece is a striking blend of figuration and emotional energy, characteristic of Tuser’s taurine works.
👤 About the Artist: José María Tuser Vázquez
José María Tuser Vázquez was a Spanish painter born in Barcelona in 1919. He studied at the Barcelona School of Arts and Crafts and began exhibiting in the 1940s. By 1947, he had fully devoted his career to bullfighting scenes, developing a distinctive figurative expressionist style with impressionist influences.
He collaborated with the magazine El Ruedo, creating numerous illustrations and covers, and designed collectible postcards for Editorial Artigas. His work became well-known in Spanish artistic circles and is now part of both private and institutional collections, including the Club Taurino of London.
His paintings have been auctioned internationally, reaching up to $3,000 depending on size and subject. His legacy is that of a painter who masterfully captured the emotion, tradition, and drama of the Spanish corrida.
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José María Tuser Vázquez’s work shares thematic and stylistic elements with:
Roberto Domingo – A pioneer of bullfighting art...
Category
1970s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
$1,187 Sale Price
33% Off
Venice San Giorgio Marina Canaletto 19th Century Paint Oil on canvas Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
View of Venice with the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore
Follower of Canaletto (Venice, 1697 – Venice, 1768)
Venice - 19th century
oil on canvas
29 x 39 cm. - Framed 40 x 50 cm.
Wel...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
$4,693 Sale Price
20% Off
Provence Gnarled Trees Mid 20th C.French Post Impressionist Signed Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provence
Jean La Forgue (French 1901-1975)
signed watercolour, ink on paper, mounted in a card frame
inscribed verso
card frame: 17 x 22 inches
painting: 12 x 17 inches
provenance: ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
$573 Sale Price
30% Off
#218, Abstract, Photography, Painting, Expressionism
Located in München, BY
Unique piece in this size
More sizes and an Essay from Lyle Rexer about this series on request.
Joachim Schmeisser’s work rescues photography from the centuries-old straightjacket ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Pigment
Scottish Scenes: A Pair
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Two good matched paintings for the price of one!
Charming pair of original oil paintings on canvas, the pair is from the 19th century, Victorian era in the Scottish style by Scott...
Category
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Heat - Handwoven Abstract Landscape, Contemporary Woven and Painted Artwork
Located in Salzburg, AT
‚The Heat’, handwoven landscape, linen yarn, organic cotton, acrylic textile paint, 60 x 50 cm, 2021.
This work are a symbiosis of two disciplines of art, Painting and Weaving. Handw...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Textile, Cotton, Linen, Yarn, Acrylic
"Near Bourron, France" Gilbert Munger, Barbizon School, Countryside Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Gilbert Munger
Near Bourron, France, circa 1886
Signed lower left
Oil on panel
13 x 18 inches
Gilbert Munger was born on April 14, 1837 in Madison, Connecticut. He showed interest ...
Category
1880s Barbizon School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
“A Parisian Beauty”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of a Parisian beauty in Paris, France by Gustave Cheri Manes. Signed lower right “Cheri” the artist’s middle name. Condition is very good. Circa 196...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$780 Sale Price
20% Off
Flower panel"landscape on canvas with oil of Volskya Lilya
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Flower panel"landscape on canvas with oil of Volskya Lilya.The original painting. Painted on a black canvas. The paints are handmade with metallized powders. Beautiful original hexa...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Lacquer, Acrylic
$1,140 Sale Price
20% Off
Large French 20thC Oil Painting Fishing Boats Mediterranean Harbor Port
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Old Harbor
by Georges Bordonave (French contemporary)
signed with initials
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 15 x 21.75 inches
condition: very good
provenance: from a larg...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$718 Sale Price
30% Off
Waves of Time
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This abstract acrylic painting on wood is inspired by the mid-century masters. This bold composition is created with pale blue, ecru and dark blue highlights.
Framed in a vintage g...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Contemporary still life composition of flowers in a vase acrylic on paper
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This vibrant artwork " Summer flowers bouquet by the window" features a dynamic still life composition of flowers in a vase. Bold brushstrokes bring energy and movement to the canvas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
"Sheepish" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Clyde Steadman's "Sheepish" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts an impasto painting of a sheep gathered on a green hillside.
Category
2010s American Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Trees 23 June 16:22, Modern Landscape Painting, Minimalistic, Abstract, Forest
Located in Salzburg, AT
Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...
Category
2010s Minimalist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Impressionistic Landscape Oil Painting Michael Budden Spring Hillside
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Springtime Hillside
Oil/Panel
11 x 14 image 18.75 x 21.75 framed
An oil painting on canvas panel that showcases the beautiful light shinning on a Springtime Hillside. Painted on loc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Study For Cole Porter Paintings (Oil Painting of City Skyline w/ Sailboat)
Located in Hudson, NY
Study For Cole Porter Paintings (Oil Painting of City Skyline w/ Sailboat) by Bill Sullivan
12 x 20 inches
oil on canvas, framed with thin blonde ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer ST Simeon
By Bruno Côté
Located in Greenville, DE
Beautiful example of Cote's later work. Executed with heavy impasto. 28.5" X 32.5" framed.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
From a Balcony, French Quarter, New Orleans
By Wayman Adams
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Wayman Elbridge Adams (1883-1959).
From a Balcony, New Orleans, French Quarter, ca.1930.
Oil on masonite panel, 12 x 16 inches; 17.5 x 21.5 inches framed.
Excellent condition. ...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$8,400 Sale Price
30% Off
Guoqiang Ning Landscape Original Oil Painting "Seaside Town"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Seaside Town
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 23 x 19 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This painti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$699 Sale Price
50% Off
Untitled (Modern Black Charcoal & Gray Abstract Still Life Drawing on Paper)
By Ralph Stout
Located in Hudson, NY
18 x 14 inch drawing on 20 x 16 inch Aquarelle Arches Paper
24 x 20 x .5 inches framed
Thin profile black metal frame, 8 ply white mat
Ralph Stout's works on paper reveal a drau...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Archival Paper, Charcoal
Rolling Hills near Banbury by Georgie Dowling, original painting, landscape art
Located in Deddington, GB
Rolling hills near Banbury by Georgie Dowling [2021]
original and hand signed by the artist
Oil paint on canvas
Image size: H:40 cm x W:50 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
English 1950's Sporting Art Oil Painting Portrait of Horse in Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Horse in a Landscape
English artist, mid 20th century
indistinctly signed oil on board,
framed: 14.5 x 18.5 inches
board: 12 x 16 inches
provenance: private collection...
Category
Mid-20th Century English School Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,177 Sale Price
30% Off
"Beaches 7, " Beach Scene with Umbrellas by Jim Beckner
By Jim Beckner
Located in Denver, CO
Jim Beckner's (US based) "Beaches 7" is an original, handmade oil painting depicting a beach scene with colorful striped umbrellas shading lounging beach goers.
About the Artist:
...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modernist Beach Scene Painting, Playing Ball in Surf, WPA Jewish Woman Artist
By Ruth Gikow
Located in Surfside, FL
Modernist beach scene; signed lower right; image size is 11.5 x 8.5 inches, framed it measures
Ruth Gikow (January 6, 1915 Ukraine - 1982 New York City) was an Important American Jewish woman visual artist known primarily for her work as a genre painter. Her paintings often depict human figures interacting with an urban environment.
Ruth Gikow was born in 1915 in the Ukraine. Her father, Boris, was a photographer and her mother was named Lena. In 1920 she emigrated to New York City due to civil war and pogroms against the Jewish community. The pilgrimage took around two years. Once in New York City, the Gikow family found themselves in poverty, rather than the middle-class comfort they enjoyed in Ukraine. Ruth Gikow's skill was prominent even in youth, as she excelled in drawing in elementary school and entered Washington Irving High School at age thirteen in which she furthered her art prowess.
Later, she studied at the Cooper Union Art School, where she studied under school director Austin Purvis, Jr. and regional artist John Steuart Curry. In her second year of Art School, she was awarded a scholarship which she used to work with fellow painter Raphael Soyer.
She joined the New York City WPA Federal Art Project in 1935, where she was allowed to dedicate herself to her artwork full-time. In 1939, inspired by the muralists Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco, she applied and later won a commission to paint murals for Bronx Hospital, Rockefeller Center and the New York World's Fair. After the events of Pearl Harbor and once the Federal Arts Project was abandoned, Gikow's murals were sought after by New York department stores wishing to commission wall paintings. Gikow became disillusioned with mural painting due to the commercial aspect of these commissions.
With other associates, she founded the American Serigraph Society (along with Anthony Velonis, Lena Gurr, Robert Gwathmey, Leonard Pytlak, Harry Shoulberg, Russell Twiggs...
Category
1960s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
Portrait of a Man
By Yvonne Guégan
Located in London, GB
'Portrait of a Man', oil on canvas, by Yvonne Guégan (circa 1970s). This is not a portrait of the reclusive billionaire, Howard Hughes. Regrettably, we d...
Category
1970s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
River Meadow with Cattle & Cottage in the English Countryside by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
River Meadow with Cattle & Cottage in the English Countryside by British Artist, Tony Mercier (Born 1945)
Art measures 16 x 12 inches
Frame measures 20 x 16 inches
Signed Vintag...
Category
1980s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Fine 18th Century Italian Old Master Oil Painting Berghers with Animals Sunset
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Close of Day
Italian School, early 18th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 17 x 22.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
18th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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The 50 Most Expensive Paintings Ever Sold
Curious about the most expensive paintings in the world? Discover the stories behind these masterpieces as well as the staggering prices they fetched.