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Period: Early 20th Century
Reverie - Neo-Impressionist Nude Figurative Oil Painting by Georges Lemmen
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and titled oil on board nude circa 1905 by Belgian neo-impressionist painter Georges Lemmen. The work titled 'Reverie' depicts a red-haired lady who is kneeling down and resting her head on her arm.
Signature:
Signed lower right and titled on original artist's label verso
Dimensions:
Framed: 16"x19"
Unframed: 10"x13"
Provenance:
Original artists label verso for Georges Lemmen at 96 Avenue Coghen , Brussels
Private collection - Brussels
Georges Lemmen was the son of an architect and studied under Amédée Bourson at the academy in St Joost-ten-Node. He was invited in 1889 to join the Group of Twenty ( Cercle des XX) which had been launched in 1884 by Oscar Maus and had in the interim emerged as an influential force in Belgian artistic circles, not least by bringing to public and critical attention the work of such artists as Georges Seurat and Paul Signac. The Cercle des XX would be reborn in 1894 as La Libre Esthétique.
In the early days of the Cercle des XX, Lemmen espoused a pointilliste technique. His earlier painting was clearly influenced by the Neo-Impressionists; over time, however, his style became more subtle and nuanced - recalling, perhaps, that of his compatriot Van Rysselberghe, another Cercle des XX member. With the group's rebirth as the Libre Esthétique, Lemmen's work became more intimiste in character, most notably in his portraits, nudes and still-lifes, where the influence of Bonnard and Vuillard is unmistakable, as is that of Renoir, particularly after Lemmen's travels in the Midi in 1911. From this point onwards, he would go on to make a major contribution to the renewal of the graphic and decorative arts in terms of his input to the new 'free' aesthetic and to Art Nouveau. Although his draughtsmanship retained its essential purity and elegance of line, his painting became more fleshy, imprecise and sensual, his compositions governed less by technical considerations than by the urgent need to express his emotions.
Between 1889 and 1893, Lemmen exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants in Paris, aligning himself with the Neo-Impressionists. In 1893, Henry van de Velde invited him to participate in the Pour l'Art association that had been created in Antwerp. He travelled to the south of France in 1911. By this juncture, he had already exhibited solo on two occasions (in 1906 and 1908) at the Galerie Druet in Paris. A further solo exhibition in 1913, his first in Brussels, cemented Lemmen's reputation.
Museum and Gallery Holdings:
Bremen (Kunsthalle): Standing Nude Combing her Hair
Brussels (Mus. royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique): Children's Room (watercolour); Reading; Couture; Young Girl by the Sea...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Finsevand Norwegian Glaciers, Early 20th Century Winter Landscape, Cleveland Art
By William Eastman
Located in Beachwood, OH
William Eastman (American, 1881-1950)
Finsevand Norwegian Glaciers, 1922
Oil on canvas
21 x 18 inches
Exhibited: 1923 Cleveland Museum of Art May Show
Born in Cleveland in 1881, Wil...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Two Women in a Cafe - British 1930's art oil portrait painting Spain jugs pink
By Darsie Japp
Located in Hagley, England
An original oil on canvas by the British listed artist Darsie Japp. It was painted circa 1930 and depicts two woman at a table having a drink. A very evocative inter war oil painting.
Provenance. James Bourlet Framers. Sotheby 12.11.86.
Condition. Oil on canvas, 28 inches by 22 inches unframed and in excellent condition.
Housed in a gallery frame, 36 inches by 30 inches framed in good condition.
Darsie Japp (1888-1973) was born in Liverpool and attended St John's College of the University of Oxford. After he graduated he worked in the offices of his father's shipping company in the City of London between 1904 and 1907. Whilst working in the City Japp studied at the night school of the Lambeth School of Art under Philip Connard. Japp studied at the Slade School of Art between 1908 and 1909, where he became friends with his fellow student Stanley Spencer and would often visit him in his home at Cookham in Berkshire. Japp specialised in landscape and figure paintings and exhibited with the New English Art Club of which he became a member in 1919. At the start of the First World War Japp joined the British Army and, eventually, became a Major in the Royal Field Artillery commanding an artillery battery in Macedonia, for which he was awarded the Military Cross...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Party Time by Swedish Artist Eric Hallström, Pastel on Paper
Located in Stockholm, SE
Eric Hallström (1893-1946) Swedish
Party Time
pastel on paper
signed Eric Hallström
image dimensions approx 19.29 x 23.22 inches (49 x 59 cm)
frame 26.37 x 30.70 inches (67 x 78 cm...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$2,713 Sale Price
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Naturalistic British painter - 19th century landscape painting - Mountains view
Located in Varmo, IT
European Painter (dated 1925) - Mountain landscape.
62 x 41 cm.
Old oil painting on canvas, without frame.
- Work signed indistinctly lower left.
- Autograph inscriptions and dat...
Category
Naturalistic Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$954 Sale Price
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Lady in Woods with Logging Team Gatherin Firewood Fine English Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Logging Team
English School, late 19th/ early 20th century
oil on canvas , framed
framed: 20 x 24.5 inches
canvas : 12 x 16 inches
Provenance: private collection, England
Conditi...
Category
English School Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Pigeon Hill, Rockport" Winthrop Duthie Turney, North Eastern American Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Winthrop Duthie Turney
Pigeon Hill, Rockport
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Exhibited
New York, National Academy of Design, Artists of America, Sixth Annual Exhibition, 1949.
Winthrop Duthie Turney was born in New York City and received his education at the Art Students League. He was affiliated with the Fifteen Gallery...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lumier et neige fondante - Impressionist Landscape Oil by William Samuel Horton
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas landscape by American impressionist painter William Samuel Horton. The piece depicts a nighttime view of Pontarlier, a commune in eastern France near the Swiss b...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Spring Scattering Stars, Nude allegory scattering stars from a crescent moon
Located in Miami, FL
Spring Scattering Stars is a 1927 Neoclassical painting by American artist Edwin Blashfield. It depicts a nude female allegory of spring on a w...
Category
Surrealist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Summer Day at Nice" French Beach Scene Impressionistic Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A stunning oil painting scene depicting figures by the beach in a sunny day at Nice, France done in the 20th Century. The vibrant colors and impressionistic brushwork is done with bo...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Peasant Woman With A Jug, Eastern School? Signature To Identify
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Peasant woman with a jug.
Oil on canvas, early 20th century.
Eastern School?
Signature to be identified.
Small cracks, to be cleaned.
33 x 4...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Oil on Board Italian Signed Giovanni Bartolena Landscape Painting
Located in Vicoforte, IT
Italian painting from the first half of the 20th century. Oil on board artwork depicting a bright view of a port with a ship of excellent pictorial quality. Small-sized painting ador...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Family Hearth" - Turn of the Century Cozy Interior Figurative Scene
By Charles Everett Johnson
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming turn-of-20th Century interior painting that takes the viewer back to simpler times with grandmother, grandfather, mother sewing and a young girl playing with her greyhound a...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Petite maison au bord de l'eau by Auguste Herbin - Landscape, Oil painting
Located in London, GB
*PLEASE NOTE UK BUYERS WILL ONLY PAY 5% VAT ON THIS PURCHASE. once an order is placed we will arrange the VAT of 20% to be reduced to 5%
Petite maison au bord de l'eau by Auguste H...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"Venetian scene", 19th Century oil on canvas laid on cardboard by Antonio Reyna
Located in Madrid, ES
ANTONIO REYNA MANESCAU
Spanish, 1859 - 1937
VENETIAN SCENE
signed & located "A. Reyna, Venezia" (lower right)
oil on canvas laid on cardboard
8 ...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Baigneuses, St-Jean-de-Monts
Located in Dallas, TX
signed "A. Lepère" at lower left
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Tangiers Lemon Market - British 1920's Oriental Figural art oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This superb vibrant Oriental Post Impressionist oil painting is by noted British artist Gerald Spencer Pryse. It was painted circa 1925 when Pryse first visited Morocco. He was so en...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Study for Saturday Evening Post Cover 'Boy with Lantern'
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This is a study for the 1926 Christmas issue of The Saturday Evening Post. December 25, 1926
Joseph Christian Leyendecker’s illustrations and advertisements fueled a collective visu...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine Antique Scottish Oil Painting Angler in Highland River Landscape, signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: F. E. Jamieson, British 1895-1950, signed with the artists pseudonym 'A. Pienne'
Title: Salmon Fishing in the Highlands
Medium: oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 23 x ...
Category
Victorian Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,124 Sale Price
30% Off
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
Dutch School Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Wide-Open Throttle Illustration for Saturday Evening Post. Grisaille Painting.
By Grattan Condon
Located in Marco Island, FL
Illustration by Grattan Condon for the February 8, 1930 Saturday Evening Post story entitled "Wide-Open Throttle" by A.W. Somerville, which appeared on page 56. The tension between ...
Category
American Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Nude Boy Discovered in Barn - Gay Interest
Located in Miami, FL
Norman Mills Price depicts a handsome, nude blond boy with classical good looks. He is lying on his stomach in straw in the loft of a barn with his buttocks exposed. The artist captu...
Category
Academic Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Pencil
Woman in Red
Located in Buffalo, NY
Alexander O. Levy was a painter, illustrator,
printmaker and designer who was born in 1881 in Bonn, Germany. He
died in 1946 in Buffalo, New York. At age three, he was brought to
...
Category
Ashcan School Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait de Madame Luce - Post Impressionist Portrait Oil by Maximilien Luce
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on canvas portrait by post impressionist painter Maximilien Luce. The painting is of the artist's wife, Ambroisine "Simone" Bouin, seated in a chair with a vase ...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Elegant Young Society Lady In Green Round Neck Exquisite Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of an Elegant Lady
original pencil drawing on paper
by Marjorie Schiele (1913-2008) *see notes below
signed
piece of paper is 9 x 6 inches
In...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Crayon, Pencil
LOUIS BUISSERET 1928 Surrealist Fantasy Nude Women Landscape Horse Belgian LARGE
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Louis Buisseret (Belgian)
Exhibited at the Pittsburgh International (Carnegie Institute) show of 1928 "Composition"
This surrealist painting depicts nude women having a picnic in a S...
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Surrealist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"At the Annual Fair", an early 20th Century oil on canvas by Alberto Plá Rubio
Located in Madrid, ES
ALBERTO PLA Y RUBIO
Spanish, 1867 - 1937
AT THE ANNUAL FAIR
signed & dated "Pla Rubio, 909" (lower right)
oil on canvas
14 X 25-5/8 inches (35.5 X 65 cm.)
...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique German Orientalist Painting of a Cairo Street by Macco
Located in London, GB
Antique German Orientalist painting of a Cairo street by Macco
German, Early 20th Century
Canvas: Height 77cm, width 116cm
Frame: Height 108cm, width 147cm, depth 10cm
This vibrant ...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$49,667 Sale Price
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French North African early 20th century Impressionist, Fishermen coming ashore
Located in Woodbury, CT
French North African early 20th-century Impressionist, Fishermen coming ashore with their daily catch.
André Humbert was born in Paris on the 27th of November. He was a student of t...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1930's French Post Impressionist Busy French Market Scene Many Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The French Market
Simone Forge, 1930's French Impressionist
oil on board unframed
signed verso "Sim"
board: 13 x 16 inches
Provenance: private collection, Paris
Condition: good and ...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Art Deco Spanish Woman Fashion Illustration
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Elegant and glamorous fashion illustration from the 1920's,
Original signed gouache painting on paper.
Monogrammed V.S. lower right.
Site: 10...
Category
Art Deco Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Henriette Chabot with Peonies
Located in Mc Lean, VA
This painting was owned by Comte Robert de Montesquiou (1855–1921), Paris
Literature:
Jane Roberts, Jacques-Émile Blanche (2012), pg. 47 (color illus.), p. 191.
Included as no. R...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Under the Parasol", 20th Century Oil on Canvas Attributed to Laureano Barrau
Located in Madrid, ES
ATTRIBUTED TO LAUREANO BARRAU
Spanish, 1863 - 1957
UNDER THE PARASOL
unsigned
oil on canvas
35-1/2 x 26 inches (90 x 66 cm.)
framed: 44-1/4 x 35-1/2 in...
Category
Naturalistic Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Bal de Moulin Rouge - Modernist Figurative Oil by Marcel Francois Leprin
By Marcel François Leprin
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed, titled and dated 1921 figures in interior oil on canvas by Modernist painter Marcel Francois Leprin. This wonderful piece depicts a ball at the Moulin Rouge, a cabaret in Par...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Entre Acte - Ballerinas at the Opera, " Jules Herve, French Impressionism
Located in New York, NY
Jules Herve (French, 1887 - 1981)
Entre Acte - Ballerinas at the Opera
Oil on canvasboard
10 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches
Signed lower left
Provenance:
Private Collection, Palm Beach, Florida...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$9,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Il cestino di nastri
Located in Roma, RM
Armando Spadini (Florence 1883 – Rome 1925), The Basket of ribbons (1911 – 1912)
Oil painting on canvas of 76 x 96 cm, on the back there is the label of the I Quadriennale Romana o...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th century English Fox Hounds, Huntsmen &, horse and cart in landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Early 20th-century English oil painting with the subject taken from one of Robert Bloomfield's poems, The Farmers Boy.
"E'en Sober Dobbin lifts his clumsy heel, and kicks, disdainful of the dirty wheel
Edward Algernon Stuart Douglas...
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Victorian Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still Life with Glass and Porcelain - Oil Painting by Paul Walter Erhardt - 1920
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with Glass and Porcelain is an artwork realized by Paul Walter Erhardt (1872-1959).
Oil on canvas, signed upper right.
60 x 75 cm, f...
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Contemporary Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Galant scene with a man playing the piano
Located in New York, NY
Signed bottom-left.
All of our works are covered by our own guarantee of authenticity which covers the work for its lifetime of ownership with the purchaser. We carry out stringent ...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,626 Sale Price
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Early 20th Century French Landscape -- Home On The Coast Brittany
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful Brittany, France coastal landscape depicting a cottage and a lone farmer by A. Henry (French, 20th Century),circa 1920. Signed "A. Henry" lower right. Unframed. Image, 16"H...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine French 1930's Signed Oil, Interior Scene Elegant Figures Reading in Study
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Berthe Noufflard, French 1886-1971, signed and dated 1937.
Berthe Noufflard was the favourite pupil of Jaques Emile Blanche
Title: 'Edga...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Impressionist Landscape Painting Old Lyme School Early 20th Century
Located in Rochester, NY
Early American impressionist landscape painting. Old Lyme school. Oil on board. Early 20th century. Unsigned. Please, contact Joseph Dasta Antiques for shipping options.
...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Danse Macabre
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Belgian Symbolist artist Jan Frans DeBoever (1872 - 1948), created symbolist/allegorical paintings throughout his lifetime. He centralized on allegorical and literary subjects, generally depicting the constant struggle of good vs. evil. This is consistently reflected by images of beautiful women interacting with skeletons, gargoyles and demons.
La Danse Macabre...
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Symbolist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Early 20th Century St. Mark's Basilica Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful early 20th century impressionist painting of St. Mark's Basilica, by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century), 19...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$956 Sale Price
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Industrial Mid-20th Century WPA Modern Men Working American Scene Social Realism
Located in New York, NY
Industrial Mid-20th Century WPA Modern Men Working American Scene Social Realism
George Pearse Ennis (American, 1884-1936)
"Forging a Gun Tube #1...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
On The Fence
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist oil painting of a woman sitting near a fence by American artist John Rutherford Boyd (1884-1951). Boyd was born in Philadelphia, PA, and attended the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, where he studied under American painter Thomas Anshutz...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vedutist Venetian painter - early 20th landscape painting - View of Venice
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian painter (early 20th century) - View of Venice with canal and gondolas.
70 x 50 cm unframed, 81 x 61 cm with frame.
Oil on canvas, in a gilded wooden frame (minor marks and...
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Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,192 Sale Price
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Large Antique Orientalist Oil Painting by Heywood Hardy
Located in London, GB
Large antique Orientalist oil painting by Heywood Hardy
British, c. 1900
Canvas: Height 79cm, width 104cm
Frame: Height 105cm, width 129cm, depth 7cm
This remarkable oil painting by...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$49,667 Sale Price
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Pieretto Bianco (Italian painter) - Early 20th century figure painting - Satyr
Located in Varmo, IT
Pietro Bianco Bortoluzzi, known as Pieretto Bianco (Trieste 1875 - Bologna 1937) - Satyr and Nymph.
50.5 x 50.5 cm without frame, 57.5 x 57.5 cm with frame.
Oil on cardboard, in a ...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Turn of the Century Hague Netherlands Canal Cityscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive turn-of-the-century cityscape of the canals of the Hague, Netherlands by Richard Paul "Max" Fleischer (German, 1861-1930), circa 1900. Signed "Max Fleischer" in the lower ...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$1,225 Sale Price
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Venetian Canal, Early 20th Century Landscape Scene, Cleveland School Artist
By Frank Wilcox
Located in Beachwood, OH
Venetian Canal, c. 1910-11
Tempera on board
Signed lower right
24 x 30 inches
30 x 36 inches, framed
Frank Nelson Wilcox (October 3, 1887 – April 17, ...
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American Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Tempera
La Cote de Marseille - Post Impressionist Sea Landscape Oil by Louis Gaussen
By Adolphe Louis Gaussen
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed seascape oil on panel circa 1910 by French painter post impressionist painter Adolphe Louis Gaussen. The work depicts a view of the bright blue sea from a rocky shoreline on t...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Portrait of a Lady (by leader of "Southern Art Renaissance") - 20th Century
Located in New Orleans, LA
Many of you clicking on this watercolor are probably doing so because you know of Ellsworth Woodward, who with his brother William Woodward around the turn of the 20th century sparke...
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Romantic Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Sunrise on Nantucket Island Fisherman Gazing at the Sky 1929
Located in Soquel, CA
Sunrise on Nantucket Island Fisherman Gazing at the Sky 1929
Nantucket Sunrise, a Fisherman is gazing at the sky by James Francis Barker (American, 1872 – 1950). In the style of Albert Pinkham Ryder (1847 - 1917) was active/lived in New York, Massachusetts. Albert Ryder is known for Romanticism-pastoral landscape painting. Barker has a heavy impasto and extensive brushwork throughout and captures American Post Impressionism with this early sunrise on Nantucket Island scene.
Image, 10.25"H x 14.25"W
Signed "J. F. Barker" dated "3/29" on Stretcher bar verso
Signed James F. Barker on Linen verso
James F. Barker’s lineage traces back to eleven of the original Nantucket settlers. He was born in 1872 in Keokuk, Iowa, the son of a railroad ticketing agent and a New Orleanian of Spanish and French extraction. His ancestors on his father's side included 11 of the 15 families who settled Nantucket in 1659. He graduated from Cornell University in 1893 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and spent another year studying Architecture at the graduate level. He briefly worked at D. H. Burnham & Company and Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. before switching to education,
With a degree in mechanical engineering and graduate degree in architecture, his career was centered among institutes of higher learning. Barker was also a skilled painter and a talented photographer. Barker specialized in waterfront, wharf, and beach scenes. The artist exhibited his work during the summer months at the Eagle’s Wing Studio on Union Street, having named the studio after a steamer, which had been captained by his grandfather. James Francis Barker (1872 – 10 December 1950) was the second president of the Rochester Athenæum and Mechanics Institute, succeeding Carleton B. Gibson, from 1916–1919. He also pursued painting, pottery, metal working, and cabinet making.
Gravestone in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Nantucket
He was born in 1872 in Keokuk, Iowa, the son of a railroad ticketing agent and a New Orleanian of Spanish and French extraction. His ancestors on his father's side included 11 of the 15 families who settled Nantucket in 1659. He graduated from Cornell University in 1893 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering and spent another year studying Architecture at the graduate level. He briefly worked at D. H. Burnham & Company and Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Co. before switching to education, becoming Superintendent of the Manual Training Department at East Division High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1897. He left in 1904 to pursue similar positions at Grand Rapids High School and the Hackley School in Muskegon, Michigan. In 1906, he participated in the formation of East Technical High School in Cleveland, Ohio and served as its first principal.
He married the former Kate Spooner in 1897 and raised one daughter. After being widowed in the late 1930s, he married Josephine M...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
'Place De La Concorde, Paris' Antique oil painting on canvas
By Louis Icart
Located in St. Albans, GB
Louis Icart
(1880-1950)
Canvas Size: 18 x 22" (46 x 55cm)
Outside Frame Size: 26 x 30" (65 x 76cm)
Signed and titled on the reverse.
When Louis Icart returned to Paris after his s...
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Art Deco Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Early Evening - Brittany - Impressionist Interior Oil Painting by Edouard Cortes
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in interior oil on canvas circa 1925 by sought after French impressionist painter Edouard Leon Cortes. This charming and nostalgic work depicts a family in a typical Breton kitchen scene. A lady is seated at the table while another slices a loaf of bread for a young girl. The view from the large window shows cottages in the distance and the last light of the day on the horizon as night falls. The light of an overhead oil burner illuminates the room.
Signature:
Signed lower left
Dimensions:
Framed: 30"x25"
Unframed: 26"x21"
Provenance:
This work has been examined and authenticated by Mme. Nicole Verdier and will appear in Tome IV of the catalogue raisonne. An accompanying certificate from Mme. Verdier is available upon request at a charge of 960 EUR.
Private French collection
Edouard Leon Cortes, the son of the painter Antonio Cortès, was sent to the front during World War I to sketch enemy positions. In civilian life, his base was in Lagny in the former studio of Cavallo-Peduzzi. Although he travelled extensively in France. Notably in Normandy, Brittany, the Champagne region and Savoy...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bonneted Lady in Church, Easter Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board
Signature: Signed Middle Left
Cover of Saturday Evening Post magazine (Easter edition), April 1905.
This is one of Leyendecker's first Easter covers for the Sa...
Category
Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Winter Landscape" Wilson Irvine, Atmospheric Impressionist Snowy Hills
Located in New York, NY
Wilson Irvine
Winter Landscape
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
24 x 27 inches
A prolific Impressionist with a penchant for atmospheric scenes, Illinois native Wilson Irvine began h...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Arab Soldier with Dog - Oil on Board Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Young Arab Soldier with Dog is an original modern artwork realized by a French painter in the first years of the XX Century.
Original Oil painti...
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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