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Period: Mid-20th Century
1930's French Oil Painting Self Portrait of Artist Paris Rooftops Studio View
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Self Portrait of the Artist, Paris
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
signed lower front corner, inscribed verso with the artists Paris address
oil painting on canva...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Spaarne te Haarlem" Impressionistic Oil Painting on Canvas of Netherlands Canal
Located in New York, NY
A wonderfully rich beach scene done along the Spaarne Canal, in the city of Haarlem located outside of Amsterdam in the northwest Netherlands. Once a major North Sea trading port sur...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Scene de Rue”
By Pierre Anfosso
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of a bustling Paris street scene by the French artist Pierre Anfosso. Signed lower right. Signed, titled and dated ver...
Category
Post-Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1930's French Impressionist Male Figure Posed In Black Swimming Trunks On Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Posed Man on Beach
by Louise Alix, French 1950's Impressionist
gouache on board
painting: 6.5 x 9.75 inches
provenance: from a large private collection ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Georges Louis Claude (1879-1963) Still life with fruits, 1938, oil on paper
Located in Paris, FR
Georges Louis Claude (1879-1963)
Still life with fruits, 1938
oil on paper
32 x 40 cm
In good condition
In a vintage white frame, 41.5 x 49 cm, numerous lacks of white painting (see photographs please)
Georges Louis Claude was born in Paris in 1879.
The artist first studied at the Bernard Palissy School of Drawing in Paris. There he learned mythological and religious subjects, the art of portraiture, still life and of course, wall decoration, which became his favourite medium.
His career began as an architectural decorator for the Galland house in Paris. He then collaborated with the orientalist architect Alexandre Marcel. Noticed at the
at the 1900 Universal Exhibition, he decided to emancipate himself and presented his
his own projects. It was at this time that Georges-Louis laude was to seduce some of the most influential personalities of their time with his talent.
First of all King Leopold II of Belgium, followed immediately by Baron Empain became infatuated with the artist to decorate palaces and flats.
In Belgium, Georges-Louis Claude was chosen to decorate the Royal Palace of Laeken (Japanese Tower...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Redhead. 1967., cardboard, oil, 78x48.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Merija Bernere (1903-1984)
Redhead. 1967., cardboard, oil, 78x48.5 cm
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Oil Painting of a Reclining Woman, L'Europe by Skilling
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Oil painting on board of a reclining nude woman in a classical setting with a lyre, titled L'EUROPE and executed in a distinctive Victorian parlor painting...
Category
Victorian Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dream
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on canvas by Madé Gourdon, France, 1960s. "Dream". with frame: 70x61 cm - without frame: 55x46 cm. 10F format. Signed "Madé Gourdon" in the lower left. In its frame Montparnasse....
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Burlap, Oil, Canvas
Danish Mid-Century Colourfield Oil on Board of People and Houses by the Coast.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Danish oil on board painting of two women making their way home in a coastal landscape, by Poul Møller. The painting is signed PM and dated 76 to the bottom right corner. To the reve...
Category
Color-Field Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Impressionist Over sized Ballerina Figurative Oil Painting
By Carole Nelson
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3022 Ballerina a 1940's large scale oil on canvas Signed lower left by Carole Nelson,displayed in a gilt wood curved frame.
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
People Lawn Bowling in Central Park New York City 1950 oil/canvas NYC blue green
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Aaron Berkman (1900 - 1991)
“Bowling in Central Park” New York
Oil on canvas
10 x 14 inches
Signed and titled verso: Aaron Berkman 1950
Provenance:
Private collection, USA
Aaron Ber...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young Girl with Horse Illustrations Original Oil on Linen by John Turner 1941
Located in Soquel, CA
Young Girl with Horse Illustrations Original Oil on Linen by John Turner
Impressionist painting of a young horse enthusiast by John Turner (American, 19th,20th C).
Exceptional detai...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Swedish Figurative Oil Painting - Dance
Located in Bristol, GB
DANCE
Size: 42 x 49.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
An endearing mid-century figurative composition, executed in oil onto canvas.
In the painting, two couples engaged in a dan...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"La Madeleine" Impressionist 20th Century Parisian Street Scene Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
In this piece, the artist depicts "La Madeleine" in an abstract and impressionistic way, capturing the magic of Paris from the 20th Century with much life. The flower sellers and tre...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Israeli Oil Painting Ruth Schloss Child, Doll, Wagon, Kibbutz Social Realist Art
By Ruth Schloss
Located in Surfside, FL
Large magnificent colorful Ruth Schloss oil painting of a child with a wagon with a doll or a baby in a carriage stroller.. Signed in Hebrew
size measures 31x43 with frame , 23x35.25...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Donkey Rides - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil by Jules Rene Herve
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures and animals in cityscape oil on canvas circa 1940 by French impressionist painter Jules Rene Herve. This large piece depicts a view of Paris on a bright summer's day. Children enjoy donkey rides in the shade of the green trees and there is a view of the Champs-Elysees.
Signature:
Signed lower left & again verso
Dimensions:
Framed: 40"x48"
Unframed: 32"x40"
Provenance:
Private UK collection
Jules Rene Hervé began his formal art studies in an evening school in Langres, France. Hervé was trained at the Ecole nationale supérieure d’arts decoratifs of Paris, and studied with Fernand Cormon and Jules Adler...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
FINE OIL PAINTING by Michael Whitehand B1940 NAVY ADMIRALTY 20th CENTURY PIECE
Located in Ferndown, GB
FINE RARE MARTINE PAINTING ORIGINAL
20th Century OLD MASTER STYLE OIL PAINTING GOLD GILT FRAME
By Similar $3,000 Premier Collection
NEW COLLECTION Of RARE PIECES OF OLD HISTORY
G...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fine Oil Painting Portrait of 17th Century French Aristocratic Gentleman
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Gentleman dressed in a 17th century style.
French School, 20th century
oil on board, framed
board: 21 x 16 inches
framed: 26 x 21.5 inches
provenance: private collecti...
Category
Old Masters Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1930's French Impressionist Daises In Brown Vase On Yellow Table Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Daisies
signed by Y. Blanchon, French 1950's Impressionist
gouache on an old artist note pad, unframed
painting: 17 x 13 inches
provenance: from a large private collection of this a...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Paris - Post Impressionist Landscape Painting - Antoine Blanchard
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed post impressionist figures in cityscape oil on canvas circa 1960 by French painter Antoine Blanchard. The work depicts a bustling scene at Place de la Republique - a square in...
Category
Post-Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1962 Vintage Mid-Century Modern Nude Portrait Oil Painting - On the Red Chair
Located in Bristol, GB
ON THE RED CHAIR
Size: 71.5 x 50 cm (including frame)
Oil on Board
A large and very well-executed mid-century modernist oil composition, painted onto canvas and dated 1962.
In this...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Place de l'Opera - Impressionist Cityscape Oil Painting by Jules Rene Herve
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist figures in cityscape oil on canvas circa 1940 by French painter Jules Rene Herve. This bustling evening scene depicts a view of The Place de l'Opera square in Paris, France.
Signature:
Signed lower left & again verso
Dimensions:
Framed: 25"x29"
Unframed: 18"x22"
Provenance:
Private French collection
Jules Rene Hervé began his formal art studies in an evening school in Langres, France. Hervé was trained at the Ecole nationale supérieure d’arts decoratifs of Paris, and studied with Fernand Cormon and Jules Adler...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Over and Above: No. 6, Surreal Cat w/ Fish Bones, 20th Century Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904–2000)
Over and Above: No. 6, 1963
Oil, sand & fish bones on canvas
Signed and dated upper left
53 x 31 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achie...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Colorful oil on canvas painting Nude in the studio
Located in Jerusalem, IL
Colorful oil on canvas painting Nude in the studio by the famous French artist Jean Jules Louis Cavailles. very nice colors.
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1930's French Impressionist Lady in Red Dress Lounging In The Garden Shade
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Lady in Red
signed by Y. Blanchon, French 1950's Impressionist
oil on board, unframed
painting: 14 x 11 inches
provenance: from a large private collection of this artists work in N...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Countryside Barn at Dusk below Mt. Tamalpais - Original Oil Pastel On Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Countryside Barn at Dusk - Oil Pastel On Paper
Oil pastel drawing depicting a small wooden barn atop a country hillside by Oakland, California artist Grace Anna Pfister (American, 1...
Category
American Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel
'Sicily', Paris, Art Institute of Chicago, Smithsonian Institute, Sunny Italy
By Richard Ruh Epperly
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Epperly' for Richard Ruh Epperly (American, 1891-1973) and dated 1957. Artist label from original frame, verso, bearing title, 'Sunny Italy'.
American painter a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Sophus Vermehren, Her Favourite Story, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This mid-20th-century oil painting by Danish artist Sophus Vermehren (1866-1950) depicts a grandmother reading to her granddaughter, who is convalesci...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Quai des bouquinistes- Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil - Jules Rene Herve
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in cityscape oil on original canvas circa 1950 by French impressionist painter Jules Rene Herve. The piece depicts a view of a bookseller's stall beside the River Seine in Paris, France, with blossom trees overhead.
Signature:
Signed lower left & again verso
Dimensions:
Framed: 21"x24"
Unframed: 13"x16"
Provenance:
The Dominion Gallery - Montreal - Canada
Jules Rene Hervé began his formal art studies in an evening school in Langres, France. Hervé was trained at the Ecole nationale supérieure d’arts decoratifs of Paris, and studied with Fernand Cormon and Jules Adler...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1930's French Impressionist Oil Group Of Figures Gathered In Forest
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Oil Painting
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
oil painting on artist paper stuck on board, unframed
measures: 10 high...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nocturnal Variants, 1964 OpArt abstract geometric acrylic, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Julian Stanczak (American, 1928-2017)
Nocturnal Variants, 1964
Acrylic on canvas
Signed verso
48.25 x 32.5 inches
50 x 34.5 inches, framed
Julian Stanczak (American, b. November 5, ...
Category
Op Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Encaustic Figurative 1960's Gloria Dudfield
Located in Arp, TX
Gloria Dudfield (1922 – 2015)
Untitled
c.1960's
Encaustic and charcoal on paper
16"x18"
Unsigned
Came from a portfolio of her work in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Gloria had a Mast...
Category
Abstract Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Encaustic, Gouache, Charcoal
Over and Above Surprise (Serpent), 1960s snake painting, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Over and Above Surprise (Serpent), 1967
Casein on board
Signed lower right
7.75 x 5.5 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a lev...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Casein
Modernist Judaica Jewish Ink Drawing Painting "New Immigrant" Off the Boat WPA
Located in Surfside, FL
An ink drawing Judaic painting by modern artist Ben-Zion Weinman. It depicts a portrait of an old Jewish man. Coming over from Europe on a ship crossing. The work is signed "Ben-Zion".
Born in 1897, Ben-Zion Weinman celebrated his European Jewish heritage in his visual works as a sculptor, painter, and printmaker. Influenced by Spinoza, Knut Hamsun, and Wladyslaw Reymont, as well as Hebrew literature, Ben-Zion wrote poetry and essays that, like his visual work, attempt to reveal the deep “connection between man and the divine, and between man and earth.”
An emigrant from the Ukraine, he came to the US in 1920. He wrote fairy tales and poems in Hebrew under the name Benzion Weinman, but when he began painting he dropped his last name and hyphenated his first, saying an artist needed only one name. In 1920 he settled in America, where he found little interest in his writing. He began teaching Hebrew to support himself and then in the early 1930s returned to painting. He used his art to comment on the rise of fascism in Europe, events he felt could not be adequately explored with words. Largely self-taught, Ben-Zion visited the museums of New York City to learn his new trade. His first painting on a large scale, Friday Evening (1933, Jewish Museum, New York), depicts a Sabbath dinner table as recalled from his family home. Ben-Zion supported himself by working odd jobs until the establishment of the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project. Under the auspices of the wpa, Ben-Zion thrived and galleries began to show his work. In 1936, after his first one-man show at the Artists' Gallery in New York
Ben-Zion was a founding member of “The Ten: An Independent Group” The Ten” a 1930’s...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
The Garden Shed - Mid 20th Century Modern British Figurative Landscape Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 1950's Modern British oil on canvas depicting a figure in a garden with a ramshackle shed.
The work is very similar in style and execution to the paintings of Cedric Mo...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surreal Children Fantasy Oil Painting 1956
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3981 Children's fantasy figurative oil painting set in a hand painted oak frame
Image size 15.5x19.25"
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid 20th Century Oil Figure Sat On Green Hill Admiring The Blue Cloudy Sky
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Oil Painting
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below
provenance stamp to the back
oil painting on artist paper stuck on board, unframed
measures: 6 high ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Impressionist Paris Street Scene, Oil on Canvas
Located in Cotignac, FR
French mid-century Impressionist oil on canvas view of a busy Paris Street scene by Vorretto. The painting is signed bottom right and presented in a fine moulded and carved gilt fram...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Figurative Study of Pair
By Joseph Capozio
Located in Soquel, CA
Compelling figurative study in gouache and pencil by Joesph Capozio (American, 1928-2016). Estate stamp lower right corner with bio on verso. Presented in mahogany wood frame. Framed size: 19"H x 17"W.
Capozio was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1927. After serving in World War II, he attended art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He lived and worked in San Francisco, California; New Orleans, Louisiana; Siesta Key...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Pencil
Mill in the marsh, Original Oil on Canvas, Signed, French Expressionist
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame
Claude Grosperrin's artwork is a vivid exploration of texture and abstraction, capturing the essence of a rustic landscape with a palpable sense of ene...
Category
Expressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1940's French Signed Modernist Oil Painting Nude Figure in Room Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Nude in Interior
by Maurice Delavier (French mid 20th century)
signed and dated 1944
oil on board, unframed
board: 18.5 x 14.5 inches
inscribed verso
provenance: private collection, ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Waiting for the Bus in a Blizzard- WPA American Scene 1938 NYC Modernism Realism
By Maurice Kish
Located in New York, NY
Waiting for the Bus in a Blizzard- WPA American Scene 1938 NYC Modernism Realism. 16 x 16 inches, Oil on board, Signed and dated 1938 lower left.
...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Young Female Ballet dancer
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful WPA era ca. 1930s portrait of a ballet dancer signed F. Miller.
Oil on canvas measuring 18 x 24 inches; 24 x 30 inches in contemporary frame.
Signed on back.
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist Still Life with Apples, Mid 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Still Life with Apples, 1940
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated upper right
18 x 24 inches
Clarence Holbrook Carter achieved a level of na...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Modern French Impressionist Female Three Farm Girls Painting
By Ricci
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3895 Three farm girls acrylic on board in a gilt frame
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Dugout, Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by Artist Lower Left
The present work was published on the cover of the September 4th, 1948 edition of The Saturday Evening Post. An accompanying “Keeping Posted” article abo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Oil
Girl with Cat
Located in Washington, DC
Painting by Noche Crist (1909 - 2004). Work is untitled and signed. Measures 22" x 12".
Painting is casein paint and plaster on board.
Catalogue of an exhibition in 2008 at the...
Category
Outsider Art Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Expressionist Landscape Oil Painting - Sea Catch
Located in Bristol, GB
SEA CATCH
Size: 54.5 x 87 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
A brilliantly executed and lively mid-century modernist composition in oil, painted onto canvas.
In this scene, we see ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Bahamian Fishermen Bahamas
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful painting depicts Bahamian fishing boats by Phoebe Towbin (1911-1995). Bahamian Fishermen, 1952. Alkyd on masonite panel measuring 16.5 x 22.5 inches; 22.5 x 28.5 inches fra...
Category
Realist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Alkyd
The Harvest - Dutch Farm Scene, Original Oil Painting On Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
The Harvest - Dutch Farm Scene, Original Oil Painting On Canvas
Original oil painting depicting Dutch farm workers in a vibrant gold colored field by Dutch artist Von Hassler (Nethe...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Conjuring Spirits (Jungle Drums)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Dynamic jungle drummer scene by unknown NYC American artist. Oil on canvas measuring 20 x 26 inches. Signed "T 42" in ink on verso. Anco stretchers and Grumbacher NYC store stamp con...
Category
American Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Red Landscape with trees, Original Gouache on Paper, Impressionist style
Located in PARIS, FR
*Dimensions include the frame
This French artwork from around 1940 exhibits a vivid, expressive style, reminiscent of Vincent van Gogh's post-Impressionist works. The robust, swirli...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Laid Paper
1960's French Modernist Large Oil Painting Christ Preaching to Crowd
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Christ Preaching to the Crowd
French Modernist artist, circa 1960's period
oil on board, framed
framed: 27 x 31 inches
board: 20 x 24 inches
provenance: private collection, France
co...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Three Sisters in Blue Mountains, New South Wales Australia by Australian Artist
Located in Preston, GB
"The Three Sisters" in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia by Australian Artist, Alan Robert Colquhoun Grieve (1910-1970).
Art measures 21 x 17 inches
Frame measures 28 x 24 inches
(Original ornate period frame is commensurate with age) Vintage 1960's
Born in Sydney in 1910, Alan Robert Colquhoun Grieve studied at the Julian Ashton School and the East Sydney Technical College and with Australian artist Herbert Edward Badham. Alan Grieve has notably exhibited at Royal Arts Society in Sydney and was Vice President of the Australian Arts Society. His work is held in private collections the world over, including The Art Gallery of New South Wales, The Fred & Elinor Wrobel Collection in Sydney and the Howard Hilton Collection. He has won numerous art prizes during the 20th Century.
This painting was bought from Gordon Galleries in Double Bay, Sydney, New South Wales in circa 1962 by Major General Sir Douglas Kendrew KCMG, CB, CBE, DSO - Governor of Western Australia from 1963 to 1974.
The Three Sisters are an unusual rock formation in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia, on the north escarpment of the Jamison Valley. They are located close to the town of Katoomba and are one of the Blue Mountains' best known sites, towering above the Jamison Valley.
The Legend:
The Aboriginal dream-time legend has it that three sisters, 'Meehni', 'Wimlah' and 'Gunnedoo' lived in the Jamison Valley as members of the Katoomba tribe. These beautiful young ladies had fallen in love with three brothers from the Nepean tribe, yet tribal law...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
1930's French Impressionist Man Sat in Pink Stone House Door Frame
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Interior
signed by Y. Blanchon, French 1950's Impressionist
gouache on board, unframed
painting: 13 x 10.5 inches
provenance: from a large private collection of this artists ...
Category
Impressionist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
Vintage Mid-Century Swedish Modern Figurative Oil Painting - The Lonely Diner
Located in Bristol, GB
THE LONELY DINER
Size: 63 x 48 cm (including frame)
Oil on Canvas
An emotive mid-century figurative composition, executed in oil onto canvas and dated 1962.
The focal point of the ...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Montmartre, Place du Tertre', Paris, Woman Modernist, AIC, Smithsonian, Carmel
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Patricia Cunningham' for Patricia Stanley Cunningham (American, 1907-1984) and painted circa 1965.
The first woman to serve as president of the Carmel Art Assoc...
Category
Modern Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
A Young Girl Reading a Book, Pointillist Artist
Located in Stockholm, SE
"A Young Girl Reading a Book" is a captivating portrait by Swedish artist Gustaf Arnolds.
Arnolds was a prolific painter whose roots began in Vingåker and later in Ronneby from his teenage years.
His educational journey in art took him through prestigious institutions such as Althins målarskola and the Tallbergska grafikskolan in Stockholm,
followed by a significant period at the Konstakademien, Stockholm, between 1904 and 1909. His talent and dedication were recognized early on, earning him a scholarship to Paris, a city that would deeply influence his artistic direction.
This particular work, likely painted shortly after his return to Sweden, reveals a profound influence from his time in Paris. It portrays a young girl absorbed in reading a book, a simple yet profound subject that Arnolds imbues with a sense of tranquility and introspection. The background hints at a serene landscape, dotted with quaint houses, a nod to the everyday beauty surrounding us. What sets this piece apart is Arnolds’ technique, reminiscent of pointillism but distinguished by longer, more expressive brush strokes that add a vibrant texture and depth to the canvas. This method showcases Arnolds' unique adaptation of the techniques he encountered during his Parisian studies, particularly during his interactions with Nils Dardel...
Category
Pointillist Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil