Figurative Paintings

Signed figure in interior oil on canvas circa 1920 by French post impressionist painter Achille-Emile Othon Friesz. The piece depicts a woman standing at...

Emmanuel Cocard. Fairy Tale Scene Of A Knight With A Young Woman On Horseback. Fairy tale scene of a knight abducting a young woman on horseback. Behind them, we see dark silhouett...

Signed lower right, 'Find' for Ludvig Find (Danish, 1869-1945) and painted circa 1900. Ludvig Find first attended Copenhagen's School of Fine Arts and Kroyer's school (1888) before studying with Zahrtmann (1900). In Florence and Venice, (1893-4), Find made a close study of the works of the Renaissance masters, particularly those of Piero della Francesca. In the 1890s, while visiting Brittany, Find was first introduced into the circle of Paul Gauguin and Paul Serusier and became influenced by the modernist ideas of the Nabis and the Pont Aven . His extended trips to Paris (1902, 1904), deepened his exposure to Modernism and the influence of artists such as Vuillard, Bonnard and Renoir becomes noticeable. Back in Denmark, this exposure to the ferment of new ideas had a renewing effect and his solo exhibition of 1906 drew critical appreciation. He was thus one of the Danish artists who, at the earliest point in the new century, forged a connection with contemporary French art...

Scene of a knight atop a ship with sword raised. Emmanuel Cocard, Lyon, 1929. Painted in gouache on thick cardboard, currently protected by a wooden panel. The author of the paintin...

A wonderful oil on canvas circa 1920 by French post impressionist painter Paul Elie Gernez depicting nude figures in the garden of eden. Signature: S...

Fata Morgana by HEDWIG PILLITZ (BRITISH - HUNGARIAN 1896-1987) *see notes below signed, titled verso oil on canvas, framed in wooden frame framed: 24.5 x 20.5 inches canvas: 20 x 16 inches provenance: private collection, London condition: very good and sound condition We know frustratingly little of the talented Hedwig Pillitz who excelled as a portraitist, particularly portraits of those in the performing arts, notably leading actors and musicians. Born in Hampstead, Hedwig was the eldest daughter of Arpad Armin Pillitz (1867-1948), and Josephine Fischer (1876) who had emigrated to England from Hungary. Both she and her younger sister Doris attended South Hampstead High School for girls. There Hedwig excelled at art and Doris in music and drama. The sisters’ considerable accomplishments are mentioned in the 1926 South Hampstead High School Magazine Jubilee Number where they are listed as members of the school’s Past and Present Club. Doris was praised for her musical contribution at the Old Girls’ Dinner...

This spirited early 20th-century oil painting by Swedish artist Justus Lundegård (1860-1924) depicts a buoyant summertime view with a farm, field hand...

Study of Kuppenheimer Men's Clothing Advertisement

Paul Cornoyer (American, 1864-1923) "Afternoon, Madison Square" (New York City) 1908 Oil on Canvas Signed/Titled Verso on Stretcher Bar Unframed: 22 x 27 inches Framed: 32.5 x 38 inches Exhibition Label Verso (Presumably Newhouse Galleries, St. Louis...

Oscar Lycke was a Swedish artist from Sundsvall. He is best known for his impressive colourful landscape paintings in a national romantic and realism style...

George Leon Little was an English landscape and portrait painter during the latter part of the Victorian to the Edwardian time in the UK. His earl...

Stunning signed impressionist oil on original canvas dated 1920 by French painter Marie Duhem. The piece depicts a woman in a pale pink dress and a gre...

Signed Lower Right Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, March 30, 1929

After François Girardon sculpture Apollo served by the nymphs at the Chateau de Versailles garden Josef Wagner-Hohenberg was a German painter who was born in 1870. Josef Wagner-Hoh...

A wonderful oil on board circa 1920 by sought after French post impressionist painter Victor Charreton, who was known as the painter of colours. The piece depicts a figure walking th...

Well painted late 19th-century Austro-Hungarian oil on canvas of two figures in a buggy, out for a ride. Both people are well dressed which makes me think they are of the upper classes and the artist was known to paint scenes of people of wealth in various compositions. Whilst little is known about the painter the style and composition of this piece are typical of some Central European painters who painted such subjects, always with great skill and detail. This is a particularly large example of one of these subjects. The artist has achieved the effect of motion very well. The painting is framed in a Vintage French frame.

Signed oil on canvas dated 1924 by French impressionist painter Jules Leon Flandrin. This stunning piece depicts the scenery of the bridge Pont Saint Michel over the River Seine in P...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right

Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) A Village Signed and dated 27, lower left Oil on canvas In good condition 50 x 61 cm In its original frame : 65 x 77 cm Maurice Asselin is a painter an...

“Public Aid” is an oil painting by Lionel Walker, a 20th century African-American artist known for his oil paintings. Three figures dressed for the outdo...

Medium: Oil on Paper Laid on Panel Signature: Signed Lower Right Initialed lower right: M.P. Signed on the reverse: Maxfield Parish Initialed and numbered by the artist's son on the reverse: M.P. Jr. / No. 68. When Maxfield Parrish painted the comical A Dark Futurist in 1923 for Life magazine, he had already established himself as America's leading book and magazine illustrator. His early artwork for children's classics like L. Frank Baum's Mother Goose in Prose (1897), Kenneth Grahame's Dream Days (1900), and Eugene Field's Poems of Childhood (1904) popularized his signature atmospheric settings, cobalt blue-and-gold palette, and dreamy figures inhabiting magical worlds. Likewise, his covers for Century, Collier's, Harper's Bazaar, Ladies' Home Journal, Life, and Scribner's Magazine were highly desirous and instantly recognizable, often more stylized than his book imagery; no other journal illustrator could match Parrish's winning combination of precise draftsmanship, strong graphic design, and amusing characters. According to David Apatoff, Art Critic, The Saturday Evening Post, "Parrish abandoned his customary heavy details and rainbow colors to present a bolder, more high-contrast design silhouetted against a stark white background - a treatment more suitable for a modern magazine cover vying for attention on a crowded newsstand. A Dark Futurist is silhouetted against a white field with no background or details to prop it up. The composition is carefully centered with only differences in the hands and the artist's necktie to break the symmetry. These are crucial to the success of the design. Just as important as Parrish's clean, high-contrast style in these pictures is the refreshing humor and sophistication in content, which is usually absent from Parrish's fairytale paintings. A Dark Futurist shows us a different kind of modernism. Parrish steps out of his timeless fairy tales to tweak one of the most incendiary artistic movements of his day. Futurism, with its militant manifesto and its outspoken artists, was all the rage in Europe. Parrish pokes them, showing a "dark" and anxious futurist with pursed lips and thick glasses, poised to paint but not exactly sure of, or optimistic about, what the 'future' will hold. This suggests that Parrish was alert to, and had opinions about, current events of the day - something one might never guess from his usual subject matter." In his early Collier's illustrations, Parrish also developed memorable themes that he would return to in his 1920s magazine work. One of his most popular characters was the "seer," or man with keen visual powers, most often depicted as an artist, but also appearing as a tourist, scientist, and philosopher. Parrish's seer was recognizable by particular physical attributes: round glasses, indicating his visual and analytical acuity, and an overcoat and/or hat signifying his role as observer of the outside world. A Man of Letters, sold last year at Heritage Auctions, was one of the first Life covers Parrish rolled out for Gibson, and he repeated the character of the artist-seer, emphasizing the comic spin, for two later editions: A Dark Futurist (Life, March 1, 1923) captures a Parrish-like artist in foggy round glasses and a long green coat...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Sight Size 20.13" x 16.38", Framed 26.00" x 23.00" Maxfield Parrish’s popularity as an illustrator began with his early work for magazine publishers. An Easter 1895 cover for Harper’s Bazaar, one of the leading publications of the day, was followed by a successful foray into book illustration beginning in 1897 when Parrish completed illustrations for Frank Baum’s Mother Goose in Prose. His unique style and vivid imagination were well suited to illustrating children’s literature and resulted in numerous commissions. The List of Characters is one of 26 paintings, which appeared as an illustration in Louise Saunders' book, The Knave of Hearts. Lawrence S. Cutler and Judy Goffman Cutler write, “The last book Parrish illustrated, The Knave of Hearts (1924), was his masterpiece. When Parrish discovered this children’s play, he proposed an illustrated edition to Scribner’s, to which the publisher enthusiastically agreed …It was written by Louise Saunders, who was the wife of Maxwell Evarts Perkins of Scribner’s, an important editor in the 20th century and discoverer of authors Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and others. The couple were summer residents at Cornish and close friends of the Parrishes” (Maxfield Parrish and the American Imagists, Edison, New Jersey, 2004, p. 172). According to Coy Ludwig, “The artist’s enthusiasm was shared by the publisher, who requested sketches or more precise information upon which to base a cost analysis, as final approval could not be given until the costs were estimated. Parrish prepared an elaborate dummy or mock-up of the proposed publication, complete with watercolor sketches of the illustrations, and sent it to the publisher early in 1921 …The twenty-six paintings for The Knave of Heartswere executed within three years, and the book, a sumptuous production, was published on October 2, 1925… The volume, selling for ten dollars, was packaged in a telescoping box...

Provenance: This is an early painting by Huldah Mae Cherry (also known as Huldah Cherry Jeffe), done in her "Impressionist years" and painted after a painting by another American I...

Medium: Oil on Paper Laid to Board Signature: Signed with the Artists Initials M.P Lower Center Coy Ludwig, Maxfield Parrish, New York, 1973, plate 35, p. 133, illustrated in color

EDOUARD LÉON CORTÈS French 1882 - 1969 PLACE DE LA RÉPUBLIQUE signed "EDOUARD CORTÈS." (lower right) oil on canvas 19-3/4 x 25-1/2 inches (50 x 64.5 cm.) framed: 27-3/4 x 33-3/8 inches (70 x 84.5 cm.) PROVENANCE Private Collector, Madrid An elegant night view of the Parisian Republic Square, with amazing light effects that catch us. This work executed based on brushstrokes of long and safe strokes that make the forms vibrate with vivid color. Parisian nightlife is trapped in this corner of Paris. The monumental sculpture that symbolizes freedom and that presides over the square serves as a reference behind the tram between a light chiaroscuro. Meanwhile, the effervecent and lively life of the cafes that surround it vibrate strongly with its bright lights. Èdouard León Cortés (1882–1969) was a French post-impressionist artist of French and Spanish ancestry. He is known as "Le Poète Parisien de la Peinture" or "the Parisian Poet of Painting" because of his diverse Paris cityscapes in a variety of weather and night settings. Cortes was born on August 6, 1882, in Lagny-sur-Marne, about twenty miles east of Paris. His father, Antonio Cortés, had been a painter for the Spanish Royal...

Original Oil on Canvas Illustration for Hearst/Cosmopolitan Aug. 1925 "Land Where Men Forget the Past, The Coconut Pearl" Caption: " 'Anyone who's knocked ...

Important work by one of the leading artists of the italian naturalism, influenced by Giovanni Fattori as well as the the Barbizon School in France. Provenience: Collection of the Qu...

Jean Dufy (1888-1964) "Les Cavaliers Dans La Parc" c. 1929/30 Oil on Canvas Signed Lower Left Provenance: Arthur Lenars & Co., Paris *This work has been authenticated by Jacques Ba...

Edmund Adler (Rode) "Blowing Bubbles" Oil on Canvas 22 x 27 inches 32 x 37 inches framed Signed Lower Right Edmund Adler (Austrian) 1876-1965 Kno...

John George Brown "Lookey There!" 1905 Oil on Canvas Signed and Dated Lower Right Site: approx 24 x 17 inches Framed: approx 30 x 24 inches Born into a poor family in Durh...

Modernist winter landscape with figures by Abel Bertram (1871 - 1954). Watercolor and gouache on paper, circa 1920. Signed lower left,...

Micao Kono was born in Japan, but moved to work in Paris in the 1920's. His style, a mixture of Japanese watercolor and figurative Art Deco. He often mixed egg tempera into his oils ...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 28.00" x 24.00", Framed 30.00" x 27.00" Cover of Saturday Evening Post Magazine, October 31, 1908. Exhibitions: It's a Man's World, Illustration Art by and for Men: November 14-17 2012, Illustration House NYC The National Arts Club NYC Jan 6- 19 2013 Christie's New York, Illustrating America: Norman Rockwell and His Contemporaries, November 30, 2013- January, 2014 Joseph Christian Leyendecker was one of the most famous and prolific illustrators of his time and painted one less cover for The Saturday Evening Post than Norman Rockwell. He was the creator of the cherubic New Year’s Baby and the handsome Arrow Shirt Man who set the style for men’s fashion for decades. In addition to his beautiful men, women and children, Leyendecker’s covers and advertisements depicted subjects ranging from sports to war to politics. This 1908 Post cover shows a young newsboy holding pictures of William Howard Taft...

A captivating oil on canvas by popular and notable French artist Maximilien Luce depicting a beautifully painted landscape. Signed lower left. Maximilien Luce was a French Neo-Impre...

Belgian Symbolist artist Jan Frans DeBoever (1872 - 1948), created symbolist/allegorical paintings throughout his lifetime. He centralized on allegorical and literary subjects, gener...

An early, rare oil on canvas by American artist Ron Blumberg. Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he b...

An original oil on canvas by prolific French artist Helene Perdriat. Perdriat specialized in figurative, genre subjects of the 1920's and 1930's French...

Presenting an original mixed media watercolor by Hungarian artist Bela Kadar. Bela Kadar was a historically important artist, is work was included as part of the degenerate art movement of Nazi Germany. His works appeared illustrated in the famous German arts magazine Der Sturm...

Presenting a lovely self portrait by Swiss artist Juliette Calame’. “Auto-Portrait” is an original vintage oil on panel, signed, c.1925, with an image dimension of 29 x 19.5 inches.

An original oil on canvas by French artist Jean Jannel, known for his figurative, genre portraits. Le Miroir, is an original oil on canvas, signed, c.1930...

Micao Kono was born in Japan, moving to work in Paris in the 1920's. His style, a mixture of Japanese watercolor and figurative Art Deco. He often mixed egg tempera into his oils to ...

Presenting an exceptional Art Deco oil painting by Austrian artist Richard Geiger. Geiger specialized in Art Deco imagery, in particular, he enjoyed using figures from the Italian Theater...

Presenting an exceptional and rare mixed media watercolor by Belgian artist Edmond Vandercammen. Vandercammen was classically trained and well ...

Presenting a rare oil on panel by German artist Otto Tugel. Otto Tugel worked in Germany before settling in New York. This is an early oil on panel, signed in monogram, dated 1925.

An original mixed media watercolor/gouache by Russian artist Vladimer Ullianoff. Ullianoff was credited for his large paintings and mural work in venues such as Graumans Chinese Thea...

An original mixed media gouache by French artist Jean Jannel, known for his figurative, genre portraits. Mademoiselle Jannel, is an original mixed media gouache, c.1930. We acquir...