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Period: Mid-20th Century
Saturday Evening Post Illustration. “ The Devil’s Stronghold” Original Magazine
Located in Miami, FL
The work is mostly black and white to indicate that this is a night scene. On closer inspection, you will see areas of magenta and ivory throughout The publisher's label on verso ide...
Category

American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

India Ink, Gouache, Pencil

Portrait of Woman - Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli- 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of woman is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting. Not signed. Good conditions Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1887...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paint, Oil

Eavesdropping on Grownups, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Left Original cover illustration for The Saturday Evening Post, December 2, 1950 The Post described, “One night Art Editor Stuart was having a party. His three boys came downstairs four times and were conducted back up by their mother. The next time they came down, Papa Stuart waxed excited, firmly conveyed them aloft himself, and they did not show up again. Stuart was warmly congratulated on his success as a father. When the party broke up, the youngest lad was found asleep on the stairs. Stuart claims that the older ones never did come down again, but this was probably because they merely went to sleep in their beds from natural causes. George Hugehes has painted some other people’s offspring, to get over the idea that children all over America are eager to improve their minds by listening to sophisticated conversation.” (The Saturday Evening Post, December 2, 1950, p. 3) Exhibited: Norman Rockwell Museum...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Mid Century Expressionist Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulously colorful combination of abstract expressionist and outsider art. Most likely done in the 1950s or 60s signed lower right it appears to be a mixed medium on board. Very si...
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Outsider Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Salvekvick Bandages Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Salvekvick Bandages Advertisement. Little boy dressed in a Native American headdress and facepaint holding a tomahawk as his mother applies a bandage to his shoulder Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Board

Woman in a Red Dress
Located in Chicago, IL
In an article published in Le Figaro (Paris, March 19, 1964), Raymond Cogniat comments on Czóbel’s unique artistic style. He writes: “...Czóbel, who arrived Paris in the first years...
Category

Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Remembrance
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Painting of a pensive woman seated in a chair Hans Amis, born in Canton, China, in 1957, is a graduate of the Fine Art College i...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lifeguard, Original Magazine Cover Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover design for an unidentified magazine. A handsome painting of a boy's daydreams as a lifeguard and whose composition is reminiscent of J. C. Leyendecker's Saturday Evening Post...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Old World
By Russell Cowles
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Old World, by 1943, oil on canvas, signed lower right, 43 ½ x 30 ½ inches, artist’s name and title inscribed verso; exhibited 1) Romantic Painting in America, Museum of Modern Art, N...
Category

Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Day at the Beach
Located in New Orleans, LA
A Day at the Beach by unkown American School painter, circa 1940-1950, oil on canvas. Framed: 31 x 29 inches
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled, Figurative, Charcoal on Paper by Modern Indian Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Anita Roy Chowdhury - Untitled Charcoal on Paper 10 x 16 inches, 1960 (Framed & Delivered) In this tender charcoal sketch, Anita Roy Chowdhury captures the gentle innocence of a you...
Category

Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Cherry Dancer
Located in Miami, FL
Cherry Dancer Marcel Vertes French, 1895-1961 Beautiful girl juggling cherries Work is round but is shown in a square frame and some of the artworks edge is exposed Description: ...
Category

Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Framed Oil Painting - The Children
Located in Bristol, GB
THE CHILDREN Size: 36.5 x 66 cm (including frame) Oil on board A richly textured and endearing mid century modernist style figurative portrait, painted in oil onto board. Rendered ...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Groovy Lucille Ball, original painting for TV Guide cover
Located in Miami, FL
Bob Peak's Lucille Ball, TV guide cover is a seminal work. With its stylized design and use of punchy color, this work constitutes a powerfully innovative pai...
Category

American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Gouache

Huge 1950's French Oil Sleepy Med Fishing Boats Harbour Coastal Sunny Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century, signed lower corner Title: The Sleepy Fishing Town, south of France Medium: oil on canvas, framed (orig...
Category

Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Head with Plant
Located in New York, NY
Lester Johnson "Head with Plant" 1959 oil on paper. Early figurative expressionist painting on paper. Nicely framed.
Category

Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil

Black Wolves Attack Two People Tied Up, Children's Books Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
Alice and Martin Provensen were an American couple who illustrated more than 40 children's books together. In 1984, the won the Caldecott for The Glorious Flight, the story of aviator Louis Blériot...
Category

Outsider Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Mid Century Cubist Oil Painting of Woman with Flowers in Style of Jacques Villon
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid century cubist figurative of older woman with flowers and basket in style of Jacques Villon (French, 1875 - 1963). Signature (Possibly "Louyot") and dated "1964" lower right corner. Presented in original, gilt-toned painted frame (included as-is). Image size: 36"H x 25"W An early 1900s modern art movement, Cubism focused on exploring relationships between images, perspectives and materials, and opened the door to Abstraction. Cubism began in Paris with Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. The term 'Cubist' was a derisive description by a critic of a geometric landscape painting done by Braque in 1908. Juan Gris, the originator of Collage, joined Picasso and Braque in 1910. Originating influences on Cubism included geometric-shaped paintings of Paul Cezanne, Post-Impressionisms’ emphasis on flat picture surfaces, and Picasso's fascination with the abstraction he perceived in African tribal masks. Aspects of Cubism were Analytical Cubism and Synthetic Cubism (see Glossary). By 1914, the Cubist movement as an organizing force officially terminated with the beginning of World War I. But its effects remain today. "Almost all later art, figurative and abstract, two and three-dimensional, random or hieratic, was conditioned in some way by these new dimensions of reality." (Phaidon) Other French artists associated with Cubism concepts were Fernand Leger, Marcel Duchamp and Nicholas Delauney. In America, leading Cubist painters...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Juliet
By Mary Rosamond Coolidge
Located in Milford, NH
A beautiful portrait oil painting of Juliet by American artist Mary Rosamond Coolidge (1884-1978). Coolidge was a well-known portrait painter and a graduate of Massachusetts Normal A...
Category

Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hats, 1930s art deco poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987) Hats Airbrush and pen 50 x 32 cm c.1930 Stamped signature Provenance: Family of the artist A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist, illustrator...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ballpoint Pen

Voodoo Devils Take the Sick - The Fight of Good vs Evil - Vodou
Located in Miami, FL
Devils depicted. Artist Wilson Bigaud paints a graphic narrative of mid-century life in Haiti without modern medicine. A man is dying yet there is no doctor present. In the struggle...
Category

Outsider Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Street View in France, Oil on Canvas Painting by Renzo Gori
Located in Atlanta, GA
Italian artist Renzo Gori (1911 - 1998) designed this oil on canvas painting which features an animated urban street scene in France. The artist's signature is in the bottom right co...
Category

Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Villa
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Original frame 63 x 55 x 5 cm The city - View of Geneva This work of art depicts an urban landscape at the edge of a natural area. Dominated by shades of green and gra...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

While the Grass Grows - Magazine Cover Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This piece was illustrated on the cover of the June 21, 1960 issue of the Familie Journal and on the cover of the July 30, 1960 issue of HÖRZU. A little boy lays on the grass holding comics and looking up at his father, whose hand is on a manual lawn mower Much like Norman Rockwell, Kurt Ard...
Category

Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Board

Xmas Gifts, 1930s vintage poster design by A. E. Halliwell
Located in London, GB
A. E. Halliwell (1905-1987) Xmas Gifts Airbrush and pen 50 x 32 cm c.1930 Stamped signature Provenance: Family of the artist A.E. Halliwell (1905–1986) was a British artist, illu...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ballpoint Pen

"The Faces We Wore" WPA Family American Scene Figurative Abstract Woman Artist
Located in New York, NY
"The Faces We Wore" WPA Family American Scene Figurative Abstract Woman Artist Juanita Guccione (1904 - 1999) The Faces We Wore 20 x 16 inches Oil on...
Category

American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Shooting Gallery, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache on Board Signature: Signed Lower Left The Saturday Evening Post cover, September 12, 1953
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Mid-Century Impressionist French view of La Madeleine Paris, France
Located in Woodbury, CT
Y. Gonez (French, mid-20th century) Flower Market at La Madeleine, Paris, ca. 1950s Oil on canvas, in a Montparnasse-style frame With bold strokes and a flourish of color, Y. Gonez ...
Category

Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

In Bad Spirits, 1969
Located in Washington, DC
Acrylic on canvas painting by Washington DC artist Joe Shannon (b.1933). The painting is titled "In Bad Spirits" and dated 1969. The painting was exhibit...
Category

Contemporary Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Huge 20th Century French Signed Oil Classical Music Orchestra Concert Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Orchestra signed by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on canvas, unframed painting : 32 x 40 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound condition
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French Mid-Century "The Polytechnique Students" Painting by Bernard Cornille
Located in Pasadena, CA
The 14th of July is the National Day in France. That night every high school in Paris have an orchestra playing in the streets. This painting is depicting musicians students expres...
Category

Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Judy and Rita on Porch at Afton
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Judy and Rita on Porch at Afton, c. 1936, oil on canvas, 24 x 36 inches, title inscribed on tacking margin; “Judy” and “Rita” inscribed verso, NB: purchased together with The New Roa...
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American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"He bent down and kissed her" Magazine WWII Era Story illustration for the Post
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Magazine story illustration for “Hero Come Home” by Ruth Burr Sanborn for The Saturday Evening Post, published September 12, 1942, page 24. This sentimental illustration, accompany...
Category

Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

World War II Naval Engagement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed & Dated
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Nude on Chair
Located in Miami, FL
Heavy impasto pained in alla prima ( Wet-on-wet ) technique. Layer of damar varnish. Frame burn, On Masonite. Unframed Signature: Signed Max Weber upper left.
Category

Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

“Cafe Pepinier, Paris
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of the Cafe Pepinier in Paris by Andre Picot. Condition is very good. Signed lower left by the artist. Titled “Cafe Pepini...
Category

Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Goin' South' Saturday Evening Post Cover Study
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Unsigned 'Goin' South' Saturday Evening Post Cover Study
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rochs on the sea at Ploumanac'h in Côtes d'Armor Brittany - France
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Léon Pierre FÉLIX (Périgueux 1869 - 1940) The coast at Ploumanac'h - Bretagne Oil on canvas H. 46 cm; L. 55 cm Signed lower left, dated 1901 Provenance: Private collection, Burgundy...
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French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Giselle Shaha Colorful Mid-Century Figurative Abstract 1969
Located in San Francisco, CA
Giselle Shaha Colorful Mid-Century Figurative Abstract 1969 California artist oil on canvas 30 x 40 unframed, 31 x 41 framed
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Au Cafe
By Elizabeth Ronget
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Frame size 42 x 52.5 inches ELISABETH RONGET "AU CAFE” OIL ON CANVAS, SIGNED FRANCE, C.1940 Elisabeth Ronget 1886-1962 Elisabeth Boehm Ronget was born in 1896 in Conitz, Polan...
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Cubist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Edna Hibel Mother and Child Original Oil Painting on Silk
Located in San Francisco, CA
Edna Hibel: 1917-2015. Well listed important American artist. Mostly associated with Florida and Massachusetts. There is a Hibel Museum in Florida. Some called her the latter 20th ce...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) Original 1951 French Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969) French artist, indistinctly signed signed and dated 1951 oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 26 x 21.5 inches Provenance: private collection...
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Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Blue, Red, and Brown Abstract Impressionist Painting of a Cowboy on a Horse
Located in Houston, TX
Blue, red, and brown abstract impressionist painting by Texas artist Fred Darge. The painting depicts a cowboy wearing a blue shirt and a red hat as he sits on a brown riding horse. Signed by the artist at the bottom right corner. Unstretched and unframed but framing options are available. Artist Biography: Friedrich Ernst (Fred) Darge was born in Rendsburg, Germany March 1, 1900, and died in Dallas, Texas April 10, 1978. He entered the U.S. at Port Arthur, Texas in 1923. By 1924 he was in Chicago...
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Abstract Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1950's French Post Impressionist Oil Painting Busy Paris River Scene & Bridge
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 18 x 26 inches Colors: Green colors, grey, blue, brown and yellow Very good condition, th...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1950's French Modernist Mexican Scene Man in Cowboy Hat City Square
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'Mexicain' Georges Lambert, French mid 20th century signed oil on canvas, unframed Canvas : 36 x 24 inches Inscribed verso Provenance: private collection, France Condition: very good...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

1940s Philippino Masterpiece
Located in San Francisco, CA
I believe this powerful painting is by the very talented Philippines artist Virgilio Daclan. He was born in 1920 in Cebu city. He studied art in 1951 a...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Restoration Day on December 31, Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood Golden wooden frame 46 x 38 x 3 cm
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Reflections, American 20th Century Oil Painting
By Philip Campbell Curtis
Located in London, GB
Philip Campbell Curtis American 1907 - 2000 Reflections Oil on board, signed and dated 1960 Image size: 12 ½ x 5 ½ inches Original frame
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Surrealist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Large mid century modern abstracted cityscape painting southern landscape
Located in Norwich, GB
A major, mid century modern work by French artist Claude Dechezelle (1928-2003). Having studied with the art deco painter and designer Jean Dupas at ...
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French School Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Bruyères en fleurs” 1949, 20th Century oil on canvas by William Didier-Pouget
Located in Madrid, ES
WILLIAM DIDIER - POUGET French, 1864 - 1959 BRUYÈRES EN FLEURS signed and dated “Didier-Pouget / 1949” (lower right) inscribed, located and signed ““Le Malin dans la vallée du Lot.”...
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Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mid Century French Pencil Posed Portrait of a Forlorn Female Face Pencil Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Pencil on artists paper, double sided Size: 10 height) x 6.5 (width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good Provenan...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Water Hunters ( Cowboys in the Old West
Located in Miami, FL
Meticulously rendered account of three prospectors trying to rustle up some water before they can dig up some gold. Magazine Illustration of the Old West, American West, Cowboys Casein on board, Western / Frontier Art...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Casein

Tribesmen with Headdresses - Photo Realism
Located in Miami, FL
Tempera mixed with gum arabic and alcohol on Renaissance Panel "Robert Riggs was awarded the Gold Medal for Excellence by the New York Art Directors Club for ten consecutive years and received many additional awards." He was elected to the Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. His work is in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Philadelphia Museum of Fine Arts and the U.S. Library of Congress. Riggs's compositons are "monumental" Walt Reed Riggs was a Gay Artist...
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American Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Tempera

On the Balcony, Two Women Seated at Table, Woman Cleveland Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Thelma Frazier Winter (American, 1905-1977) On the Balcony Pastel on paper Signed lower right 20 x 16 inches Thelma Frazier Winter was an American enamelist, ceramic sculptor, and p...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Pastel

Untitled oil painting of children playing by Eugenie Schein
Located in Hudson, NY
Eugenie Schein was both a dancer and an artist. Her artwork subjects revolved primarily around dancers and dancing, though she also captured everyday scenes in New York. Both Midto...
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Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French Pencil Study of a Graceful Woman in Vintage Attire with Red Features
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mid Century French Portrait Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper, double sided Size: 9.75 (height) x 9 (width) Stamped Verso Condition: Good P...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Pencil

Large 1940's French Signed Oil Painting Woman in Apron Knitting in Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Woman in Apron, Knitting French artist, signed & dated oil on canvas, unframed dated 1943 canvas: 32 x 25.5 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: sound and good c...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Painting Early 20th Century Landscape Garden and Characters
By Jeanne Lourier-Dreyfus
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
LOURIER-DREYFUS Jeanne (1873-1955) Gardeners at Saint Cloud's Park Oil on canvas signed low right Frame by Gault : (Paris Fbg St Honoré) Dim canvas : 81 X 100 cm Dim frame : 109 x 129 cm LOURIER-DREYFUS Jeanne (1873-1955) French School 20th century Post-impressionist Disciple of Pierre Eugène Montézin, Jeanne Lourier was a pupil of workshop who assimilated the features and environment of the Master. Her artistic education also passed by the workshop of Jules Adler...
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Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

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