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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 1920s
Period: Early 1900s
Signed Modernist European Rainbow Cityscape Painting Original Frame 19th
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modernist landscape featuring a pair of figures and a rainbow.
Signed but without a determination of the maker this charming painting is utterly unique.
Original period frame.
Category
Early 1900s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Landscape from the North of Sweden by Swedish Artist Otto Lindberg, 1926
Located in Stockholm, SE
Otto Lindberg was a Swedish artist born in Söderhamn in 1880. Lindberg was known for his landscapes and marine paintings. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm an...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare Antique American School Bustling New York Beach Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape beach scene oil painting. Oil on board. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 12L x 9H.
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tobiolo and the Angel
Located in Roma, RM
Artist: Carlo Socrate
Medium: oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right 'C. Socrates 1924'.
On the back cartouche of Galleria Pesaro
Exhibitions: Exhibition of Twenty Italian Artist...
Category
1920s Italian School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Young hungarian woman with makeup
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Molded frame in beige wood
80 x 69 x 6.5 cm
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jeune femme à l'ombre d'un arbre
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Georges MANZANA-PISSARRO (1871-1961)
Jeune femme à l'ombre d'un arbre
Circa : 1903
Oil on canvas mounted on cardboard
Format of the work: 27 x 36 cm
Stamp of the artist on the back...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Circus Dog, The Saturday Evening Post cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by artist lower right
The Saturday Evening Post cover, July 29, 1922
This commission for The Saturday Evening Post is a brill...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Autumn Landscape in Sunlight - Indian Summer -
Located in Berlin, DE
Frederick Vezin (1859 Torresdale Philadelphia - 1933 Düsseldorf), Autumn Landscape in the Sunlight, oil on canvas, mounted on cardboard, 32 x 41 cm (inside measurement), 44 x 51 cm (...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Karl Feiertag, Lacemakers At Burano, Venice, Antique Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by Austrian artist Karl Feiertag (1874-1944) depicts two young women making lace in Burano, Venice.
Sat within a qu...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Orchestra - Fauvist Figurative Nude Oil Painting by Louis Valtat
By Louis Valtat
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed fauvist figurative oil on panel by French painter Louis Valtat. This stunning piece depicts a nude orchestra with the conductor in the foreground. The musicians are playing ce...
Category
1920s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Ernst LINCK (1874 - 1935) Farmhouse with Clothesline School of Berne Switzerland
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Ernst Link
(Swiss, ∗ 14th of October, 1874 in Windisch, † 29th of June, 1935 in Bern)
Stöckli with Clothesline
• Oil painting on canvas approx. 25.5 x 26.5 cm
• Pine frame approx. 34.5 x 35.5 cm (obvious signs of age)
• Signed lower right
A most pleasant depiction of a typical ‘Stöckli’ in bright sunshine with the a few shirts on the washing line, somewhere in the Canton of Berne in Switzerland. Such small cottages would sit next to the large farmhouses and upon retirement the old couple would move into it, to make room for the next generation to take up residence in the main building and run the farm.
The Painting is in pleasingly good and clean condition, with no damage or restoration
Ernst Linck was an important representative of the "Berner Schule" (Bernese school) led by the famous Ferdinand Hodler, which also included Traugott Senn, Emil Cardinaux, Eduard Boss...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"The Harvesters" Raphaël Dubois aka Chanterou (Belgium, 1888-1960)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"The Harvesters"
Raphaël Dubois aka Chanterou (Belgium, 1888-1960)
Signed bottom left under the pseudonym "Chanterou"
Oil on canvas
23 1/2 x 19 1/4 (27 3/4 x 23 3/4 frame) inches
B...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Royal Academy Series-6, Pencil on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-6
Pencil on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size)
1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition)
Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta.
Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque.
Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Conté, Pencil
Royal Academy Series-3, Pen & Ink on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-3
Pen & Ink on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size)
1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition)
Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta.
Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque.
Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Royal Academy Series-4, Conte on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-4
Conte on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size)
1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition)
Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta.
Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque.
Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Conté
Interior - Oil Paint by Antonio Donghi- 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Interior is an artwork realized by Antonio Donghi in 1922 ca.
Oil on canvas, cm. 60x40.
Hand signed in the lower right part.
Good condition,
Antonio Donghi (Rome, March 16, 189...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Royal Academy Series-7, Conte on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-6
Pencil on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size)
1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition)
Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta.
Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque.
Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Conté, Ink, Pen, Pencil
Blond and Blue Eyed Ballerina in Tutu against Chinese Screen
Located in Miami, FL
Prolific Saturday Evening Post Cover Illustrator Pearl L. Hill Worthington paints a stunning portrait of a Ballerina in a tutu with underlighting. She sits on a decorative Chinese ...
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine 1900's French Belle Epoque Period Portrait of a Lady, signed & dated oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Belle Epoque Lady
French School, signed and dated 1907
oil painting on canvas: 24 x 19.5 inches
antique original gilt frame: 29 x 24 inches
condition:...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
On the Back Porch, Brecksville, Ohio, Early 20th Century Cleveland School
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Frank Nelson Wilcox (American, 1887-1964)
On the Back Porch, Brecksville, Ohio, c. 1922
Watercolor on paper
Monogram lower right
21.5 x 27. 5 inc...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Royal Academy Series-4, Conte on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-4
Conte on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size)
1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition)
Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta.
Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque.
Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen, Conté
Woman with Two Children in Red - Dutch Style Interior Scene in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Woman with Two Children in Red - Interior Scene in Oil on Canvas
Lovely interior scene by notable artist Joseph Tomanek (Cech-American, 1889-1974). A woman sits near a window, holding a small child dressed in bright red in her lap. Another child, somewhat older, stands next to her, looking at the young child. Soft lights spills though the window, illuminating the scene in a warm glow. A plant with red flowers sits on the windowsill, and foliage can be seen outside.
Signed "Tomanek" in the lower right corner (note that the shape above the signature is a toy train)
Presented in a carved wood frame with a linen liner.
Frame size: 30.75"H x 26.75"W
Canvas size: 24"H x 20"W
Tomanek, the son of a carpenter, was born in Moravia. His family discouraged his art talent and wanted him to be a shoemaker. He studied in his homeland of Czechoslovakia at the School of Design in Prague. He emigrated to America around the turn of the century and arrived in Chicago in 1910 and worked as an interior decorator. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago and studied with Antonin Sterba. He also studied with Albert Krehbiel and K.A. Buehr.
He was a member of the Bohemian Artist Club, Association of Chicago Painters, and Sculptors, and the Chicago Gallery Association. His work is included in the collection of the Vanderpoel Art Association (Chicago). He exhibited from the 1910s-40s, including exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago and the Georgia Museum of Art.
Of the difficulty of posing nudes in Chicago, he said, "In Paris you can rent little gardens studios and pose your models there in privacy. Here, if I work out of doors, I have to pose the girls in bathing suits...
Category
1920s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Impressionist River landscape, English Fisherman on river at Sunrise and Cottage
Located in Woodbury, CT
Impressionist River landscape, English Fisherman on river at Sunrise with a Cottage.
Owen Morgan was a classic British Impressionist.
While Impressionism is often associated with F...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lonely Mother and Child in Embrace - Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
In this interior illustration for "When the Heart Beats Young" by J.W. Riley, pioneering female illustrator Ethel Franklin Betts creates an intimate statement of mother and child in an embrace. The composition is abstract with patterns that suggest the influence of Asian art—initialed lower right. Work is framed under glass - Oil on board
Ethel Franklin Betts Bains (September 6, 1877 – October 9, 1959) was an American illustrator primarily of children's books during the golden age of American illustration in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Betts first gained work illustrating magazines, including St. Nicholas Magazine, McClure's, and Collier's. Beginning in 1904, she was commissioned to illustrate several books, including James Whitcomb Riley's The Raggedy Man, While the Heart Beats Young, and Frances Hodgson Burnett's A Little Princess...
Category
Early 1900s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Royal Academy Series-3, Pen & Ink on Paper, Modern Artist Atul Bose "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Atul Bose - Royal Academy Series-3
Pen & Ink on Paper, 15 x 11.2 inches (Unframed Size)
1924-26 (Delivered Unframed in as is condition)
Atul Bose was a master artist whose creative journey spanned several decades and left an indelible mark on the Indian art scene. He was born in 1898 in a small village in Bengal and showed an early aptitude for art. Despite facing financial difficulties, he pursued his passion and enrolled in the Government School of Art in Calcutta.
Bose's early works were influenced by the Bengal School of Art, which was a movement that sought to revive traditional Indian art forms. However, over time, Bose developed his own unique style that blended elements of Indian art with European modernism. He was particularly influenced by the works of artists like Paul Cezanne and Georges Braque.
Bose spent two years, 1924-6, at the Royal Academy. He was heavily influenced there by the post-impressionist Walter Sickert. He refused an invitation to help decorate the pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition in 1924 with Mukul Dey...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Pen
Chivalry Sketch, Study for SEP Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Study for Satruday Evening Post Cover, Fabruary 16, 1929
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Andrew Thomas Schwartz Neoclassical Style Painting
Located in Larchmont, NY
Andrew Thomas Schwartz (American, 1867-1942)
The Fates, c. 1900
Oil on canvas
30 x 30 in.
Framed: 39 1/4 x 39 in.
Andrew T. Schwartz was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His early education was in the public schools of his hometown, where he showed great promise as an artist. In 1890, he began intense art study with the famed Frank Duveneck at the Cincinnati ArtAcademy. He later studied with H. Siddons Mowbray at the Art Students League in New York, where he was awarded the Lazarus Scholarship for mural painting to study abroad, which resulted in three years of study in Italy, France, Germany and England. He was, at the time, only the second person to win that award. His work from the Lazarus trip was the subject of an individual show at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
He returned to the United States to assist his teacher Mowbray in decorating the University Club and J. P. Morgan's private library in New York. He later worked independently and developed a following as a mural painter. His reputation was certainly enhanced by the mural Christ, the Good Shepherd for the Baptist Church in South Londonderry, Vermont, which was considered at the time one of the best examples of mural painting. Other murals were painted for the Courthouse of New York, the New York YMCA, the Atkins Museum of Fine Art in Kansas City and the Kansas City Life Insurance Company Building.
Schwartz also painted a number of other paintings in addition to his murals, including both figurative and landscapes. Many of his landscapes are views of New England. He exhibited extensively at the National Academy of Design, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, and other major cities.
He was a member of the National Society of Mural Painters, the Salmagundi Club, the Architectural League of New York, Allied Artists of America, American Watercolor Society, the Circolo Artistico of Rome, Italy, and the Union International Des Beaux Arts et Des Lettres of Paris, France.
A memorial show of Schwartz's work was held at the Lotus Club of New York City in 1944 through the efforts of the sculptor, Charles Keck. The dean of art critics of the time, Royal Cortissoz, viewed Schwartz's work before the exhibition in Keck's studio and wrote, "Schwartz could saturate an Italian scene in the handsome 'Roman Twilight' but when he came to paint the countryside of his native land he was moved solely by its racy sentiment. He had charm as well as craftsmanship."
Perhaps the best tribute one artist can give another was given Schwartz by the famed American artist, Elihu Vedder...
Category
Early 1900s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Mother and her Children
Located in St. Albans, GB
'The New Arrival'
A Mother with her Children
A first class example of Pothast's work. The faces are beautifully done with fantastic light cascading into the room. The mother is shar...
Category
1920s Dutch School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Café scene
Located in London, GB
Provenance:
Private collection, Orlando, Florida
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fireman Textile Fabric Design 1920s American Scene Modern Working Men Art Deco
Located in New York, NY
Fireman Textile Fabric Design 1920s American Scene Modern Working Men Art Deco
Antonio Petruccelli (1907 - 1994)
Firemen
Textile design, c. 1929
19 1/4 ...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Kuppenheimer Famous Fifties Featuring John Barrymore
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Inscribed on back #174
House of Kuppeneheimer 1927 fashion advertisement, catalog cover.
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cattle Series Study, Early 20th Century Bovine Painting, Cleveland School artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Henry George Keller (American, 1868-1949)
Cattle Series Study, 1901
Oil on canvas
Signed verso
22 x 26 inches
28.5 x 33 inches, framed
Keller, a leading painter in Cleveland, was born at sea, off Nova Scotia on April 3, 1869. His earliest training was in Karlsruhe, Germany under Hermann Baisch (1846-1894), then at the Cleveland School of Art...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Karl Priebe Antique American Modernist Black Woman Portrait Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very nice modernist portrait by Karl Priebe (1914 - 1976). Oil and gouache on board. Nicely framed. Image size, 7.5L x 8.5H
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait de Sylvie Lacombe
Located in Palm Desert, CA
"Portrait de Sylvie Lacombe" is a Post-Impressionist painting by Théo van Rysselberghe. The portrait is signed with monogram and dedication, upper right, "pour ma petite amie Sylvie ...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Men Drinking Coffee
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by Artist Lower Right
Maxwell House Coffee
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Peter Tom-Petersen, View From Brahetrolleborg, Oil Painting
By Peter Tom-Petersen
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This early 20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Peter Tom-Petersen (1861-1926) depicts a view on the Brahetrolleborg estate.
Beyond a fence with climbing rose bushes, three me...
Category
Early 1900s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Signed Illustration Indian Royalty Elephant Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique illustration painting. Gouache and watercolor on board, circa 1920. Signed. Image size, 12L x 11H. Housed in a period frame.
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Antique British Signed & Dated Oil Painting Mother & Child by Cottage Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Landscape with figures in a cottage
signed by W.Greaves
oil on canvas, framed
dated 1909
framed: 10 x 19 inches
canvas: 9 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: ve...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Easter Baby, Study
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Study Easter Sunday Baby
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lilac flowers at the door, 1901 uplifting floral still life large oil on canvas
Located in Norwich, GB
Here is a painting that will lift you - one feels happy every time one looks at it.
It is such a lovely, unusual twist to the theme of the floral still life: here we have flowers, not in a vase, but attached to a wooden front door. I wonder if the artist did this with actual flowers, perhaps for a sweetheart, and then decided to paint the scene?
At any rate: who wouldn't want to come home to find a large bunch of glorious lilac as they come home?
The artist is Emile Baudoux (1850 -1929), who studied with Humbert and Cabanel. Paris-born, he liked to work in Normandy, where he had his studio. He exhibited his work at the "Salon des Artistes Français" until 1927, where he obtained a gold medal in 1910.
The important oil on canvas presented here, dating from 1901, may have been shown at the Salon, as it bears an exhibition number "30" at the upper right of the canvas.
Measuring 81 x 60 cm, the overall size including its original large oak frame...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rudolf Johann Weiss ( 1846 – 1933 ) Twannbach Cave Oil Painting Switzerland 1926
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Rudolf Johann Weiss
(Swiss, * 3.9.1846 Basel, † 17.4.1933 Biel)
Die Twannbachgrotte/Twannbachschlucht bei Twann, Biel, Schweiz
(= The Twannbach Cave/Twannbach Canyon by Douanne, Bie...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The Adventurers, Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by Artist in Lower Right
The Saturday Evening Post, April 14, 1928, cover illustration
Literature:
Arthur Leighton Guptill, Norman Rockwell, Illustrator, New York, 1970, p....
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Large Art Deco Signed Nocturnal Cityscape Street Scene Trolley Car Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Large Antique modernist street scene painting. Oil and gouache on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 21L x 19H.
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lombard Landscape - Oil Paint by Gigi Comolli - 1928
Located in Roma, IT
Lombard Landscape is a modern artork realized by Gigi Comolli in 1928.
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
Includes frame: 110 x 127.5 cm
Hand signed and date...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
French school 1920s Brittany Brittons Village fair Pont-Aven Cornouaille
Located in PARIS, FR
J. BREYNAT (XXth century)
Oil on cardboard
20 x 30 cm (28 x 38 cm with the frame)
Signed and dated lower left "J. Breynat / 1921"
Beautiful carved wooden frame from the 19th century
...
Category
1920s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Seaside Picnic”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of a bucolic seaside picnic with a mother and her young children. Signed by the artist, F. G. Grust lower left. Condition is very good. The painting is housed in a period style gold leaf frame in fine condition. Overall framed measurements are 31.5 by 41.75 inches. Provenance: A California estate.
F. G. Grust was a Dutch painter born in 1889 who was best known for his domestic interior and exterior scenes of a mother with her young children. He is the son of artist Theordor Grust (1859 - 1909), who also painted Dutch genre...
Category
1920s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Canefora
By Ettore Tito
Located in Roma, RM
Artist: Ettore Tito
Medium: oil on panel
Signature: Signed lower left “E. Tito”
Exhibitions: Venice Biennale of 1932, p.96; Exhibition of Italian Art, Budapest of 1936, n. 420; Ital...
Category
1920s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Evening Sunset - Douai - Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Henri Duhem
By Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated landscape oil on panel by impressionist painter Henri Duhem. The work depicts a snow-covered barge making its way down the canal in Douai at evening.
Signature:
Si...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
'Batterie de Cote Engagee' - A Naval Battle with Admiral Nelson. Oil on canvas
Located in St. Albans, GB
Francois Tattegrain
Canvas Size: 185 x 295cm
Outside Size: 220 x 330cm
This painting is named and listed in Benezit
This fantastic painting is one of Francois Tattegrain's most out...
Category
Early 1900s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dieppe-Le Pont Tournant - Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Paul Madeline
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on canvas landscape by French post impressionist painter Paul Madeline. This beautiful work depicts the Tournant bridge over the River Arques at the seaport in D...
Category
Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Half-length portrait of an elderly bearded man - Melancholy of a prophet -
Located in Berlin, DE
Friedrich August Seitz (1902 Staffort - 1944 Belgrade). Half-length portrait of an elderly man with a beard. Oil on canvas, 42 x 34 cm (visible seize), 58 x 50 cm (frame), signed and...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Portrait of a Young Woman', Gold Earring, Silk Scarf
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Scandinavian School, early twentieth century. Inscribed, verso, on stretcher bar, 'Anna Ancher' with indistinct inscription and painted circa 1910.
A psychologically-penetrating portrait of a young woman shown in profile, wearing a gold earring and a polychrome silk headscarf...
Category
Early 1900s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
Fishing in Vejle Fjord - Realist Oil, River Landscape by Peder Monk Monsted
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A charming riverscape oil on canvas by Danish Realist painter Peder Mork Monsted. The painting depicts a beautiful spring landscape on a bright day. A man stands fishing on the bank of a river outside a pink cottage. Flowers are bursting into life on the riverbank and int he cottage garden.
Signature:
Signed, titled and dated 1920 lower left
Original artist's label verso
Dimensions:
Framed: 20"x26"
Unframed: 14"x20"
Provenance:
Private collection - Denmark
Mønsted was born at Grenå, Denmark. He was the son of Otto Christian Mønsted and Thora Johanne Petrea Jorgensen. His father was a prosperous ship-builder. At an early age, he began to receive painting lessons at the art school in Aarhus. From 1875 to 1879, studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts with Niels Simonsen and Julius Exner. In 1878, Mønsted studied under the artist Peder Severin Krøyer. In 1882, he spent some time in Rome and Capri then, the following year, visited Paris, where he worked in the studios of William Adolphe Bouguereau.
In 1889, he went to Algeria. Three years later, he travelled to Greece, where he was a guest of King George I who had been born a Danish prince. While there, he also did portraits of the Greek royal...
Category
1920s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Lawrence, NY
Gouache on paper
Estate s tamped
Provenance: Estate of Sam Esses
Never afraid of trying new styles, curious and opinionated, constantly engaged with the world around him, Rolph Scarlett more than once proved to be at the artistic zeitgeist in a career that stretched for more than 75 years.
Born in 1889, Scarlett had his first retrospective by 1928. He subscribed fully to the modernist credo. Interviewed at the time, he said: "If a futuristic painting...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Sepulchre - Gouache by Alfred Pichon - 1904
Located in Roma, IT
Sepulchre is an Original Gouache on Paper realized by Alfred Pichon (1877-1918) in 1904.
The artwork is in good condition.
Hand-signed and dated on the lower right corner.
Category
Early 1900s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Large Antique German Oil Canvas Hermann Frobenius Pre-Raphaelite Painting 1900
Located in Portland, OR
A Large and impressive antique oil on canvas Pre-Raphaelite painting by the German artist, Hermann Frobenius (1871-1954), signed and dated 1900.
Frobenius had classical training and ...
Category
Early 1900s Pre-Raphaelite Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge 1900's European Fine Oil Painting Elegant Figures Dining Lakeside Terrace
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Elegant figures drinking a toast
by Hans August Lassen (1857-1938) Danish
oil on canvas, framed and signed
dated 1909
canvas: 21.75" x 39.75", (55 x 101cm)
plus the frame
condition...
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sailors at Cafe du Globe
By Charles Rocher
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Charles Rocher (1890-1962. Sailors, ca. 1920s. Gouache on paper. Sheet measures 19 x 25 inches. Considerable damage and loss as depicted. Signed lower left.
Category
1920s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Figurative Paintings for Sale
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