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Figurative Paintings For Sale
Period: 18th Century
Period: 1920s
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
"Moonlit River Scene", Early 20th Century Oil on Canvas by Luis Graner y Arrufi
By Luis Graner Y Arrufi
Located in Madrid, ES
LUIS GRANER Y ARRUFI
Spanish, 1863 - 1929
MOONLIT RIVER SCENE
signed and dated "L. Graner, 1925" (lower right)
Oil on canvas
20-1/8 X 30 inches (51X 76 cm.)
framed: 25-3/4 X 35-3/4 inches (65 X 90.5 cm.)
PROVENANCE
NEAL AUCTION COMPANY, New Orleans, LA, USA
Private Collection, Barcelona
Graner paints this work, Moonlit on the river, during his stay in the United States in the last stage of his artistic life, from 1910 to 1928, in full stage of maturity.
This artwork reflects the constant search of the artist for the effects of light in his work. This persistent concern for light remains throughout his artistic life, which he learned in his Parisian stage under the influence of the painter Frances Platour.
The silver light of the moon and the small lights at distance, which are tiny foci of artificial light, reflecting the river water, forming a chromatic range of greens, ocher and pearly that give a certain mystery to the composition, creating a modern approach to the landscape, by placing the two large trees at the edge of the river in the foreground
Luís Graner y Arrufí, Spanish (1863–1929) was a Catalan painter in the Realistic style.
He was born in Barcelona, and studied at the Escola de la Llotja from 1883, with Antoni Caba (color/composition) and Benet Mercadé (drawing).
During his final year at school, he received a grant to study in Madrid, where he copied and learned from the Old Masters at the Museo del Prado. After that, supported by a fellowship, he moved to Paris and became a member of the Academie des Beaux-Arts. Later, he returned to Barcelona, but continued to travel to cities throughout Europe, including Berlin, Munich and Düsseldorf.
Influenced by Richard Wagner's concept of "Gesamtkunstwerk" (Total Work of Art), he was motivated to create his own total art experience and organized the "Sala Mercè" (Mercy Hall) in Barcelona's Rambla District. The project involved contributors from every artistic discipline, including the new field of cinematography. The room was decorated by Antoni Gaudí. Other participants included Adrià Gual, Santiago Rusiñol, Ramon Casas...
Category
1920s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, 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
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
Mary & Jesus, 18th Century French Old Master oil painting on canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 18th century
Title: Mary and Jesus
Medium: oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 17 x 14.5 inches
Canvas: 16 x 12.75 inches
Provenance: private collection...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Les Collines du Dauphine - Post Impressionist Oil, Landscape by Victor Charreton
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Beautiful signed oil on board landscape circa 1920 by sought after post impressionist painter Victor Charreton. The piece depicts a figure walking through green rolling fields with h...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Concert" Early 20th Century WPA Modernism American City Landscape Scene Ashcan
By Michael Loew
Located in New York, NY
"Concert" Early 20th Century WPA Modernism American City Landscape Scene Ashcan
The size of the canvas 28 3/4 x 43 1/4 inches. The painting comes directly from the artist's estate. It is signed lower right as well as signed, titled and dated verso.
We have available more than two dozen paintings and works on paper from the 1930s - 80s that come directly from the Loew estate.
BIO
Michael Loew (1907 – 1985) was the son of a New York City baker. After high school, he was an apprentice to a stained-glass maker, and from 1926-1929, he studied at the Art Students League. In 1929, he traveled to Paris, North Africa, Germany, and Italy with a group of artists. When he returned to New York City in 1931, the Great Depression hit Loew unexpectedly, and for the next two years he paid his apartment rent with his paintings. In 1935, he found work with the WPA where he painted murals and partnered up with longtime friend Willem de Kooning in 1939 on a mural for the Hall of Pharmacy at the New York World’s Fair. Their friendship lasted for the rest of their lives. In the mid-30’s he painted in Mexico and the Yucatán documenting the construction of a U.S. Naval airbase on Tinian Island. It was from this airbase that the Enola...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peter Paul Rubens, copy from, Oil on Canvas , "L'arc en ciel" XVIII Century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil painting on canvas. The large pastoral scene presents a broad landscape that pushes the gaze to the distant sea coast; on it the sky is gradually opening up, revealing flashes of blue on the left, while on the right, among the darker clouds left over from the storm, a large rainbow is revealed. In the foreground, a group of shepherds and shepherdesses enjoy amorous games, discrete and festive, in the midst of their herds, which rest and drink from the nearby stream. The whole scene is animated by a dimension of joyful relaxation and refreshment, as if the rainbow had restored serenity to the environment, bringing light and with it serenity to the world. it is a copy after a famous painting by Sir Peter Paul Rubens...
Category
18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Three Rosy Cheek Children - Children Book Illustration. Female Illustrator
Located in Miami, FL
Legendary female illustrator creates a graphic and tightly designed triple portrait of her signature subjects. Kids!
Signed lower right. Unframed on heavy illustration board. Grace Drayton had a recognizable style which is a hallmark of all great artists. Instantly recognizable, a Grace Drayton subject is a stylized child with a cherubic style, often with round faces, plump bodies, rosy cheeks, and a happy disposition. Three Rosy Cheek Children is an excellent example of her best work.
Grace Drayton
Born: Grace Gebbie
October 14, 1878
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Died: January 31, 1936 (aged 58)
Cartoonist, Illustrator
Grace G. Wiederseim
Notable works
Campbell Soup Kids
Dolly Dimples
Dolly Dingle...
Category
1920s Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Portrait of young woman, 20s hairstyle
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Derain Small Head in Pencil. original drawing painting
By André Derain
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Small head in pencil. original drawing painting
André Derain (Chatou, June 10, 1880-Garches, September 8, 1954) was a French painter, illustrator and set designer, representative of Fauvism.
Derain was eighteen years old when he entered the Carriere Academy, where he met Henri Matisse and Maurice de Vlaminck. In 1905 these painters exhibited in the Autumn Salon together with their colleagues Georges Rouault and Henri Manguin...
Category
1920s Fauvist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Pencil
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
Oil, Canvas
Set of four very large 18th century Italian Rococo paintings of the Four Seasons
Located in London, GB
Set of four large 18th century Italian Rococo paintings of the Four Seasons
Italian, 18th Century
Frames: height 98cm, width 201.5cm, depth 5cm...
Category
18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Gondolas - Oil Paint by a follower of Bernardo Bellotto - Late 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Gondolas on the Canale Grande, Venice is an old master artwork realized by a follower of Bernardo Bellotto in the Late 18th Century.
Mixed colored o...
Category
Late 18th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Huge Antique English Aristocratic Portrait of Baronet, Fine Ancestral Portrait
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English School, 18th/ 19th century
Portrait of Sir Wolstan Dixie, 4th Baronet *see notes below on sitter
oil painting on canvas, unframed
50 x 40 inches
condition: the painting is in very satisfactory condition without any damage, tears or punctures to the canvas. It is very original and would benefit from a clean ideally, slight scuffing to the edges of canvas.
provenance: private collection, Leicestershire, England
* The sitter is Sir Wolstan Dixie (4th Baronet, born 1700). Although the family came from a yeoman family of Huntingdonshire, his ancestor, also Sir Wolstan, made a fortune in the City as a merchant, and served as Lord Mayor of London in 1585-6, Sir Wolstan (the 1st Baronet) acquired the manor of Market Bosworth in west Leicestershire and in 1592, having no children...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Young woman seated with pearl necklace
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
75.5 x 61.5 x 4 cm
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Art Nouveau Illustration Women and Children in the Woods
Located in Miami, FL
Complex Art Nouveau patterns intertwined with gracefull figures define this work by American Artist and illustrator, teacher and lecturer Mildred Bailey Carpenter. Signed in cartouc...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Paper, Gouache
"Portrait of a Woman with Red Hat, Paris, " Isabella Howland
Located in New York, NY
Isabella Howland
Portrait of a Woman, Paris, 1925
Oil on canvas laid on board
19 1/2 x 16 1/2 inches
Provenance:
Hammer Galleries, New York
Private C...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
William Zorach Oil on Canvas Painting Titled "Kiddie Kar", Dated 1920
Located in New York, NY
Kiddie Kar exemplifies the integration of the primitive aesthetic and the depiction of family in William’s work. The primitive aspect of this particular painting is apparent in its d...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mythology Monochrome Frieze Tuscan Neoclassic Art Pietro Benvenuti 18th century
Located in Florence, IT
This interesting grisaille […] of a high standard of quality and in an excellent state of conservation, represents an interesting derivation with slight variations from an engraving,...
Category
Late 18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Guy Péne du Bois Oil on Canvas Painting of the French Gardener, Dated 1929
Located in New York, NY
Guy Pène du Bois, 1884 - 1958
French Gardener, 1929
Oil on canvas
Signed and inscribed:
Pere Martin/Guy Pène du Bois/1929
Provenance:
The Estate of Guy Pène du Bois
Below is an excerpt from Guy Péne du Bois diary titled 'Artists Say the Silliest Things':
“Our landlord and gardener, Pere Martin, who owned a considerable amount of land thereabouts, had been a butcher in the Batignolles section of Paris during the war. [WWI]. He was called hard and miserly in the neighborhood, a too shrewd bargainer, but he accepted two francs and hour, then eight cents in our money, to work the garden. He could be shrewd. When Kellogg was signing the peace pact in Paris, a sham battle of aeroplanes clouded the sky above us. Old Pere Martin rested on his hoe and pointed up, shrugging his shoulders with clownish
exaggeration, ‘Monsieur Kellogg.’ It typified the talk on war of the countryside. During the last one he had delivered a magnificent pot au feu...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Virgin and Child, a paiting by David Teniers the Younger after Palma Vecchio
Located in PARIS, FR
Provenance:
Dukes of Marlborough Collection, Blenheim Palace until its sale at Christie's London on 26 July 1886 (lot 172)
English private collection until its sale at Christie's London on 11 December 1992 (lot 363)
Erna Weidinger Collection (1923 - 2021) - Austria
Literature :
Georg Scharf - A list of the pictures in Blenheim Palace - Catalogue raisonné Part 2 - London 1862 (page 166 - number 199 "after Palma Giovane")
Charles Davies...
Category
1750s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oak, Oil
French Old Master The Garden of Gethsemane Unusual Shape Panel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 18th century
Title: The Garden of Gethsemane
Medium: oil painting on wooden panel, unframed.
painting: measurem...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Costume of an envoy of Venice, a drawing by Francesco Galimberti (1755 - 1803)
Located in PARIS, FR
We thank Mrs. Bożena Anna Kowalczyk who suggested the attribution to Francesco Galimberti based on a photograph of the artwork.
This engaging drawing, finely executed in black and red chalks, depicts a Venetian diplomat in his 'new clothes...
Category
1780s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Portrait of a man in armor
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Attributed to Jacques DUMONT aka DUMONT LE ROMAIN
(Paris 1701 - 1781)
Presumed portrait of Louis-Joseph de Formanoir (?-1732)
Oil on canvas
H. 91.5 cm; ...
Category
1750s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Late 18th century Antique English Moonlight over a lake and church landscape
By Henry Pether
Located in Woodbury, CT
Henry Pether, late 18th-century Moonlight lake Landscape.
Born into a family of artists, Henry was the son of Abraham Pether (1756-1812), a talented la...
Category
1790s Old Masters 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
Nu sur un divan
Located in Washington, DC
Literature:
Bazetoux, Henri Lebasque Catalogue Raisonne (Neuilly, 2008), vol. 1, p. 223 (no. 820) (illus)
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Girl, Rockport, Massachusetts
Located in Washington, DC
American Impressionist
Category
1920s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge 18th Century Italian Old Master Oil Painting Ancient Castle & Drawbridge
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
A Castle and Drawbridge by a lake with mountains beyond
Italian School, 18th century
oil painting on canvas: 25 x 29.75 inches
condition: relined, restored to a high standard, very ...
Category
18th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Figures in a Landscape - Impressionist Oil, Figures in Riverscape by Henri Duhem
By Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on panel landscape by French impressionist painter Henri Duhem. The work depicts two women walking on a green grassy bank by a stream in a summer landscape.
Signature:
Signed lower left and dated 1926 verso
Dimensions:
Unframed: 9.5"x7.5"
This piece is not framed but a suitable frame can be sourced if required
Provenance:
The artist's estate
Descendant of an old Flemish family, Henri Duhem was born in Douai on April 7, 1860. He worked as a lawyer at the Bar of the Court of Douai from 1883, he practiced at the same time his passion for drawing and watercolor. In 1887, he enrolled in Henri Harpignies’ drawing course in Paris and, at the same time, befriended the painter Émile...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
French School, Portrait of a Lady, Actress, Young Woman, French , Rococo, Oval
Located in Greven, DE
French Art
Rococo
Portrait of a Woman, Young Lady, perhaps an actress
Category
18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Antique Spanish Old Master Oil on Wood Panel, Head Portrait of Christ
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: 18/19th Century Spanish School
Title :Head study of Christ
Medium: oil painting on wood panel, period gilt framed
panel : 6 x 5 inches
Provenance: private collect...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Johann Theodor Bavaria, Son of Prince Elector, by Joseph Vivien, Rococo
By Joseph Vivien
Located in Greven, DE
Portrait of Johann Theodor of Bavaria (1703-1763)
by Joseph Vivien
Johann Theodor of Bavaria (* September 3, 1703 in Munich; † January 27, 1763 in Lièg...
Category
18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Waking Up for the Hunt, Elks Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Elks Magazine Cover, November 1927
Provenance: From the Estate of Charles Martignette
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Beach Curve in the Evening Light by Swedish Artist Herman Österlund, 1920s
Located in Stockholm, SE
Herman Österlund was a Swedish artist best known for his beautiful depictions of the west coast of Sweden.
He moved to Stockholm in 1896 and passed the test for entering the Royal A...
Category
1920s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Collier de Perles by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro - Portrait painting
Located in London, GB
Le Collier de Perles by Ludovic-Rodo Pissarro (1878-1952)
Oil on canvas
61 x 50 cm (24 x 19 ⅝ inches)
Signed and dated lower right, Ludovic Rodo 1927...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
At the Beach - Post Impressionist Oil, Figures in Landscape by Pierre de Belay
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
A beautiful oil on panel by French post impressionist painter Pierre de Belay. The work depicts families relaxing on the beach at Villerville under a clear bl...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
After Simone Cantarini, Rest on the Flight into Egypt, early 17th, ceramic
Located in Florence, IT
This painting is inspired by the "Rest on the Flight into Egypt" by Simone Cantarini called Il Pesarese, who was an Italian painter and etcher. He is ...
Category
Early 18th Century Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ceramic
Columbus Avenue NYC c. 1920s/30s American Scene Ashcan WPA Modern 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Columbus Avenue NYC c. 1920s/30s American Scene Ashcan WPA Modern 20th Century
"Late Afternoon, Columbus Avenue, New York", impasto oil on canvas, signed lower left, signed verso (under relining, shown in photo), and titled verso on stretcher, in maple mitered cove frame, 23 1/4" x 27 1/4", SS: 19 1/4" x 23 1/4", Relined.
BIO
Russian-born Gussow trained at the Art Students League and the National Academy of Design. He also studied under Bonnat at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His first claim to fame was exhibiting two works at the Armory Show in 1913. Gussow exhibited at the Society of Independent Artists between 1917 and 1934 and at Salons of America in the 1930s.
The Whitney Museum of American Art, for example, has his Subway Stairs. The Barnes Foundation...
Category
1920s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three studies executed in the Pitti Palace in 1761 by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Located in PARIS, FR
This brilliant study sheet, of which we present here a counterproof, is a souvenir of Fragonard's return journey from Italy. Between April and September 1761, he accompanied the abbot of Saint-Non on his way back to France. Three studies after the masters taken from the Pitti Palace’s gallery in Florence are gathered on this sheet. Although The Ecstasy of Saint Margaret...
Category
1760s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Carbon Pencil
Fin de jour, Automne - Impressionist Oil, Figures in Landscape by Henri Duhem
By Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and titled impressionist landscape oil on canvas circa 1910 by French painter Henri Duhem. The work depicts a view of Place Sainte-Ame, Douai in the north of France. It is aut...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Two military studies, a preparatory red chalk drawing by Jean-Baptiste Pater
By Jean-Baptiste Pater
Located in PARIS, FR
As Florence Ingersoll-Smouse wrote in 1921 in her book devoted to Jean-Baptiste Pater, "a painter of the Fête galante, Pater is interesting both by his intimacy with Watteau, to whom many of his works are still attributed, and by his own value as an artist.” This sanguine, full of life and spontaneity, is typical of the preparatory studies made by the painter to be used later in the composition of his paintings.
1. Jean-Baptiste Pater, pupil and disciple of Antoine Watteau
Antoine Pater, Jean-Baptiste's father, belonged to the petty bourgeoisie of Valenciennes where he worked as a merchant-sculptor. His brother Jacques was a local painter who was probably involved in his nephew's training. Born on December 29, 1695, Jean-Baptiste Pater was first trained with Jean-Baptiste Guider, a local painter whose death in 1711 was probably the reason for Jean-Baptiste’s departure alongside Watteau, who was visiting Valenciennes. Watteau's difficult character led to their separation in 1713.
Back in Valenciennes, Jean-Baptiste Pater encountered difficulties with the powerful Corporation of Saint-Luke (to which he refused to belong) which forced him to return to Paris in 1718. He reconciled with Watteau shortly before his death (on July 18th 1721), inherited the commissions that Watteau had been unable to fulfil and completed some of his paintings.
Pater was accepted by the Académie Royale in 1725 but did not produce his reception painting The soldier’s revels until three years later. Throughout his brief career (he died at the age of forty on July 25th 1736), he mainly had a clientele of amateurs and received only one royal commission, shortly before his death.
2. Description of the drawing and related artworks
Pater had adopted his master Watteau's method of composition. His study drawings were carefully glued in a notebook and were used to animate his compositions.
His paintings sometimes suffer from a somewhat artificial composition, since the figures seem to be pasted one next to the other. This point has also been made about Watteau’s.
The theme of military scenes (which was at the time included in the genre of Fêtes galantes!) was one of Pater’s favourite subjects. Together with the Bathing Women...
Category
1720s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Chalk
Confederate Soldiers' Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio Watercolor
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Confederate Soldiers' Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, 1929
Watercolor on paper
Signed and dated lowe...
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
18th Century Praying Madonna Giuseppe Bison Volto di Madonna Oil on Glass Blue
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting oil on glass, depicting a praying Madonna measuring 55 x 45 without frame and 62 x 52 cm with frame by the painter Giuseppe Bernardino Bison (Palmanova 1762 - Milan 1844).
...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glass
Female Portrait - Oil on Canvas by E. Bertolé - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Female Portrait is an original modern artwork realized in 1922 by Emilia Bertolé.
Original oil painting on canvas.
Hand-signed and dated by the artist...
Category
1920s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Flight into Egypt, Cusco School XVII Century. Carved wood panel.
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Flight into Egypt, Cusco School XVII Century. Oil on convex panel. The panel is carved on the frame, making everything one single piece of wood.
Category
Early 18th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Haystack with Resting Figures
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Scottish artist John Maclauchlan Milne, RSA, (1885-1957) is a contemporary of Scottish Colourists Peploe, Fergusson, Cadell and Hunter. Like the...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Witch of Endor - Oil Paint - End of 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Witch of Endor conjures up the specter of Samuel in front of King Saul is an old master artwork realized by a follower of Georg Andreas Wolfgang I between 18th and 19th century.
...
Category
Late 18th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Artist and model in the studio
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Beige wooden frame
87 x 72 x 4.5 cm
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
'The Park' by M. Phidias (circa 1920s)
Located in London, GB
'The Park', oil on canvas, by M. Phidias (circa 1920s). Painted using this artist's trademark impasto, the effect is to add depth and texture to the exuberant display of hues and ref...
Category
1920s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Subdivision, Liberty Magazine Cover, June 18, 1927
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Laid on Board
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 14.50" x 13.00;" Framed 23.75" x 21.75"
The Subdivision, Liberty Magazine Cover, June 18...
Category
1920s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Douai - Crepescule - Impressionist Oil, Figures in Landscape by Marie Duhem
By Marie Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist landscape oil on original canvas circa 1920 by French painter Marie Duhem. The work depicts a view of a red-bricked church at the end of a tree-lined driveway. To the left of the painting a woman in a pink dress is seated under a tree talking to two priests dressed in cassocks who are standing beside her. The church was wall is glowing in the fading sun and the trees are casting dark shadows. A beautifully painted piece.
Signature:
Signed lower right and titled verso
Dimensions:
Unframed: 32"x26"
This painting is not currently framed but a suitable frame can be sourced if required
Provenance:
Private collection of the works of Henri & Marie Duhem - descended through the family of Nelly Sergent Duhem
Marie Duhem, was born in Guemps on March 18, 1871 and died in Douai on July 9, 1918.
Marie Duhem's parents ran a lace factory. From her childhood, she became familiar with the work of model designers. She becomes the student of the painter Adrien Demont...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Flight Into Egypt Oil On Canvas 18th Century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on canvas. Italian School. The scene, full of figures, depicts the Holy Family walking towards Egypt, guided by an Angel and assisted by other angels above. The figures are inserted in a typical Italian landscape, they are depicted in a very earthly dimension: the Child, even with a halo, sleeps peacefully in His Mother's hands; Mary, who is wearing an unusual pilgrim's hat, met her husband's Joseph gaze, who is reassuring her with a sweet gesture...
Category
18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hungarian Harvest Courtship 1920s
Located in Soquel, CA
Hungarian Harvest Courtship 1920s
Well executed impressionist painting of a Hungarian countryside courtship vignette by a 19th-20th century Hungarian artist Pal Szlavik. some minor s...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Oil
Paris, Cafe de la Paix. Oil on canvas, 60x73 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Paris, Cafe de la Paix. Period 1920-1940s. Oil on canvas, 60x73 cm
Lucien Adrion (1889-1953)
was a French painter known for his depictions of the countryside and bustling street sce...
Category
1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Heinrich Adam Elias Borny (1742 - 1778) Soldier - 18thC Ink Drawing - Germany
Located in Meinisberg, CH
Heinrich Adam Elias Borny
(German, 1742-1778)
• Late baroque Ink and pen drawing on laid paper (no watermark)
• Sheet, ca. 29.4 x 22.7 cm
• Imag...
Category
1760s Baroque Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Laid Paper
18th/19th Century French Old Master Oil Christ entering Jerusalem
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
18th/19th Century School
'A scene of Christ entering Jerusalem'
Medium: oil on canvas, framed
Size of painting: 21.5" x 18.25" inches
condition: overa...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Figurative Paintings for Sale
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