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20th century

Auguste Herbin 1882-1960 French Vases aux chrysanthèmes Signed 'Herbin' (lower right) Oil on canvas This bold and vivid still life was composed by French painter Auguste Herbin, ...

Paul Gauguin 1848-1903 French Fleurs dans un vase avec partition musicale (Flowers in vase with musical score) Signed “P. Gauguin 74/76” (lower right) Oil on canvas Early works b...

Ramon Dilley 1933 - Spanish La Petite Swan Signed “Dilley 91” (lower right) Signed and titled “Ramon Dilley / La Petite Swan” (en verso) Oil on board laid on canvas This captivat...

Ramon Dilley 1933 - Spanish Élégantes à Deauville Signed “Dilley 91” (lower right) Signed and titled “Ramon Dilley / Elegantes a Deauville” (en verso) Oil on board laid on canvas ...

Jean-Pierre Cassigneul b.1935 French La terrasse devant la mer (The Terrace by the Sea) Signed “Cassigneul” (lower left) Oil on canvas laid on panel This monumental, three-panele...

René Magritte 1898-1967 Belgian Le carnaval du sage (The Sage’s Carnival) Signed “Magritte” (lower right); titled and dated "Le carnaval du sage 1947" (en verso) Oil on canvas The enigmatic paintings of René Magritte have become some of the most familiar and celebrated of the Surrealist movement. Among the most influential of the Surrealist painters of the 20th century, Magritte is an artist of international renown, as beloved for his popular appeal as he is for the psychological intensity of his works. The present oil on canvas, entitled Le carnaval du sage, was executed in 1947 at the height of his career, and it is a tour-de-force example of the haunting, mysterious scenes that comprise his oeuvre. Painted in the years following the Second World War, Le carnaval du sage showcases several recurring themes from Magritte’s oeuvre. Chiefly, a juxtaposition between the visible and the hidden is keenly felt. Throughout his career, Magritte explores the psychological obsession with revealing what is hidden, particularly with regard to the human face. In his Le fils de l’homme, he obscures the face of a man in a bowler hat with an apple, while his Les amants (Metropolitan Museum of Art) conceals the faces of two lovers with white sheets. In Le carnaval du sage, Magritte juxtaposes the blatant nudity of his central figure by masking her face, simultaneously revealing and concealing her from the viewer. The work also incorporates two of Magritte’s most common tropes – the glass of water and the baguette. Lending the scene a strange sense of domesticity, they appear infinitely familiar and distinctly out of place, and thus heighten the uncanny effect of Magritte’s composition. In the background hovers a ghost obscured by a sheet, a figure which was of particular fascination to Magritte beginning in 1946. He once wrote to his fellow Surrealist Paul Nougé: "I saw in a dream an answer to the problem of the ghost: the traditional ghost draped...

A beautiful oil painting by French artist Louis Valtat. Featuring a colorful display of a flower bouquet of dahlias.

Painting on canvas, not mounted on stretchers MAGDALENA SPASOWICZ Studied painting under prof. Jan Cybis and graphic arts with prof. Tadeusz Kulisiewicz at the Academy of Fine Arts ...

Oil on canvas dating from 1946 by Jean-René Chatelain. Beautiful canvas of a neo-realism soothed. Measurements : with frame: 81x72x7.5 cm - 31.9x28.3x3 inches, without frame: 68x58 c...

A North Carolina native, Sharon Hockfield has always viewed life through a painter’s lens. She took art lessons at the Mint Museum as a young child, won numerous high school art awards and dabbled in art courses in college. Though her career in public education took her away from painting, it did not stop her interest. Travel always included art museums, galleries and botanical gardens. She describes her lifelong interest in gardening as “painting with plants.” In 2007, Sharon worked with artist Anne Cowie painting paper for her daughter’s wedding invitations. Feeling right at home with a paintbrush in hand, she began studying with Andy Braitman. She has studied with Tony Griffin, Wayne McDowell and Cynthia Packard...

An exuberant impressionist floral still life by Marie Lucie Nessi-Valtat (1910-1992). Marie Lucie studied with André Lhote, at the Ecole des Beaux art and at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière from the age of 18. She was part of the circle of Montparnasse artists Léonard Foujita, Jean Hélion, Moïse Kisling. In 1932 Marie Lucie Nessi married Jean Valtat, the son of Post Impressionist master Louis Valtat, whose work influenced on his daughter-in-law's art. After acclaimed one man shows in renowned European galleries galleries such as the Parisian Galerie Bernheim-Jeune, Marie Lucie Nessi-Valtat signed a contract of exclusivity with Wally Findlay Galleries...

Bright, colorful Fauvist figurative painting of a woman with vase of flowers in a vibrant interior space, by an unknown Bay Area artist (American, 20th...