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Art Subject: People
Very Large British Oil depicting famous Naval battle
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: British School, second half 20th century, signed lower left 'Champion'
Title: a copy after de Loutherbourg's 1795 painting of Lord Howe's action of 1 June 1794 in th...
Category
20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,468 Sale Price
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Figures In The Rain in Charming Village Original French Painting
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Village Life
by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930)
size: 9 x 10.75 inches
gouache painting on board, unframed
condition: the painting is in very good condition. It has previously been stored...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$367 Sale Price
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Never Back Down - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women, Africa
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
It ain't easy in the rase of success
Sometimes I feel tired
Sometimes I feel depressed
Sometimes I feel like giving it up
But I know If I quit, I will never win. So no matter how I f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Old Master Painting, Flemish School from 1600s, Saint Nicholas of Tolentino
Located in Stockholm, SE
This small Flemish painting, measuring only 24.5 x 18.5 cm and executed on a copper plate, depicts Saint Nicholas of Tolentino. Created in the 17th century, the artist remains unknow...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Copper
$4,031 Sale Price
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Very Large Antique French Classical Romantic Oil Painting Ancient Ruin Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 19th century
Title: Classical Landscape with figures amongst ancient ruins.
Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed.
canvas: 24.5 x 36 inches
P...
Category
19th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,154 Sale Price
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Andean market Peru oil on canvas painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 76x92 cm.
Ignacio Gil Sala, was a painter, bohemian character, adventurous and intrepid traveler who knew how to capture his eyes to that world with his painting. After s...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$4,303 Sale Price
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Large 19th Century Scottish Oil Painting Sea Loch Mountains Castle Ruins Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Admiring the View
Scottish School, circa 1850
oil painting on canvas laid over board
framed size: 25.5 x 36 inches
condition: very good and presentable, minor retouches showing to th...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Ancestor Clone #12 - Unique Oval Framed Acrylic Painting. Surreal Naïve Portrait
Located in FISTERRA, ES
"Ancestor Clone #12" is a one-of-a-kind artwork from Natasha Lelenco's series URthe1. This piece features a striking portrait of a red-faced figure with bold features, framed by a vi...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Plywood
The model in the studio
Located in Paris, IDF
School of Jacques-Louis DAVID
The model in the studio
Oil on canvas
81 x 59 cm without frame
96 x 73 with frame
Around 1820
This seated female nude in an academic pose is painted ...
Category
Early 19th Century French School Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Summer 9 - Contemporary Expressive, Figurative Oil Painting, Male Nude Series
Located in Salzburg, AT
Bartosz Kolata was born in Torun, Poland in 1979. In 2006 he graduated in Art Conservation and Restoration from Nicolas Copernicus University UMK, secur...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Parisian Cafe Street Scene" 20th Century Post-Impressionist Oil Paint Canvas
Located in New York, NY
In this piece, the artist depicts his subject in an abstract and impressionistic way, capturing the Cafés busy street scene with the moulin rouge portrayed in the distance. The arti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Dark Horse' Dutch Contemporary Fresco Painting with a Horse
Located in Utrecht, NL
The pronounced technique is the first thing that strikes you when viewing the works of Jan Grotenbreg (1946). It is innovative and unique. The result of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Two male Nudes. Painting.Pastel, carbon pencil, ink on archival paper mounted
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Two Nudes, 2016 by Celso Castro-Daza
One of a kind
Pastel, carbon pencil, ink on archival paper mounted on board
Image size: 40.5 H in. x 55.5 in. W
Mounted on acid-free board: 41 H x 56 in. W
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents.
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Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo foray into the underbelly of Colombia’s drug world. Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride their erect penises...
Category
2010s Contemporary Nude Paintings
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil, Oil Pastel
"Evening at the Grand Army Plaza" Impressionist 5th Ave NYC Oil Painting Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A stunning jewel and pertinent example of Berthelsen's charming New York City scenes. Here we find a nocturne scene with The Pulitzer Fountain at Grand Army Plaza on Fifth Avenue loo...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Bathers - Nude Figures in Landscape Oil by Paul Gustav Fischer
By Paul Gustave Fischer
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on canvas nudes in seascape by Danish realist painter Paul Gustav Fischer. The work depicts two young women bathing on a rocky shoreline looking our towards the ...
Category
1920s Realist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
European School 20th Century Oil - Selling Today's Catch
Located in Corsham, GB
This vibrant oil painting captures the bustling activity of a seaside fish market, with figures engaged in various tasks amidst boats and sails in the background. The composition is ...
Category
20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Untitled (Reclining Male Nude)
By Mark Beard
Located in New York, NY
n.d.
Signed in red, u.r.
Double-sided oil painting on panel
12 x 16.5 inches
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
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19th Century German School, Gentleman with Top Hat, 1839
Located in Beachwood, OH
19th Century German School
Br: Venus aus Chemnitz 50 Jahre alt 58 24/5 39, 1839
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
25.5 x 20 inches
30.5 x 24.75 inches, framed
The gentleman is Johann ...
Category
1830s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1930's FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST SIGNED OIL - THE OLD TOWN NICE - BEAUTIFUL COLOURS
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Alfred Quertant, French circa 1930's, signed lower right
Title: The Old Town, Nice
Medium: oil on panel, unframed
Size: painting: 46...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Water Garden. Large Contemporary Triptych Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Francesca Owen is one of the foremost Expressionist artists in the UK. Her works are heavily influenced by the sights, sounds and colours of India where she travels extensively and w...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Lament of Icarus Large Signed Oil Painting on Canvas Mythological Nudes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
'The Lament of Icarus'
Continental School, late 20th century, signed
after the original painting by Herbert James Draper
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 36 x 24 inches
provenance: ...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,370 Sale Price
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L'entree du village - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil by Maximillien Luce
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated figures in landscape oil on canvas by French impressionist painter Maximilien Luce. The piece depicts a view of the road leading into the village of Mereville in Ess...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dutch Bridge & Canal Amsterdam Back Streets Framed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Dutch Canal
Dutch artist, inscribed to label
oil on board, framed
Framed: 16 x 13.75 inches
Board: 9.5 x 7.5 inches
Provenance: Private collection, Scotland
This charming painting b...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$988 Sale Price
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Fine Victorian Oil Painting Cavalry Men Resting Village Tavern Roadside Inn
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Pausing for Refreshments
by John Sanderson Wells (British 1872-1955) *see notes below
signed
oil on board, framed
Framed: 13.5 x 18 inches
Canvas : 10...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,850 Sale Price
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Ancestor Clone #11. Small Format Naïve Funny Portrait with Blue Oval Frame
Located in FISTERRA, ES
"Ancestor Clone #11" is a unique artwork from Natasha Lelenco's series You Are The One. This Small Format Oval Framed Painting piece portrays a gr...
Category
2010s Pop Art Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Plywood, Spray Paint
Barcelona and Its People oil on canvas painting Spain spanish urbanscape
By Juan Roig y Soler
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Title: Barcelona and Its People
Artist: Joan Roig Soler (Barcelona, 1852 – 1909)
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 19.7 x 13.8 in (50 x 35 cm)
Support: Relined canvas
Framing: U...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Flowing Through Memories"
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Flowing Through Memories" is a large mixed-media painting (oil and acryl paint) measuring 90 x 90 cm, part of my landscape series "The Geometry of Letting Go".
This series is about...
Category
2010s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Oil
Napoleon at the Head of His Grande Armée, His Generals and the Prussian Hussars
Located in Cotignac, FR
Pencil, chalk and watercolour depiction of Napoleon at the head of his generals by French artist Jean Ducel. The work is signed bottom right.
A bold and graphic depiction of Napoleo...
Category
Late 20th Century Outsider Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Crayon, Cardboard, Pencil, Watercolor
French Impressionist Oil Painting of Two Figures Seated on an Outdoor Terrace
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Two Figures Seated on an Outdoor Terrace
By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930)
Size: 7.25 x 9.25 inches (height x width)
Signed: Yes
Oil painting ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Au Verger - Post Impressionist Landscape Oil By Hugues Claude Pissarro
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and titled oil on canvas circa 1990 by French painter Hugues Claude Pissarro. The piece depicts a woman in a red dress collecting apples in an orchard.
Signature:
Signed lowe...
Category
1990s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
James Longueville, British Impressionism, Morston, North Norfolk oil painting
Located in Harkstead, GB
Beautiful light in this view of Morston the North Norfolk coast
James Longueville (born 1943)
Setting sail, Morston
Signed, inscribed with title to the reverse
Oil on board
16 x 24 ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Figure on a Path. An English landscape signed O T Clark. Oil on canvas
Located in St. Albans, GB
Octavius Thomas CLARK
Oil on canvas
Picture Size: 24 x 42" (60 x 105cm)
Outside Frame Size: 32 x 50" (80 x 125cm)
Signed bottom left
An impressive example of O. T. Clark's work. Su...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Watcher" (2024) Original Oil Portrait Painting by Michael Carson
Located in Denver, CO
Michael Carson's (US based) "Watcher" (2024) is an original, handmade oil painting.
This beautiful, handcrafted oil painting rests at 30 x 22", and is framed in a black float frame ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Portrait of a Man – A Dramatic Study in Light and Expression
Located in Stockholm, SE
This compelling portrait, recently studied by Stéphane Pinta of the esteemed Cabinet Turquin in Paris, has been confidently attributed to the Austrian painter Matthäus (Matthias) Lod...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a lady in blue dress ”Countess of Peterborough”
Located in Stockholm, SE
This exquisite portrait, with its new attribution to Theodore Russel, is believed to depict Lady Penelope O'Brien, daughter of Barnabas O'Brien, the sixth Earl of Thomond, and wife of the Earl of Peterborough, whom she married in 1644. The painting thus belongs to a historically significant period, capturing the refined elegance of the time.
The portrait has a prestigious provenance from Elleholms Hofgård, a historic estate in Mörrums socken, Blekinge, Sweden. Elleholms Hofgård, whose two-story, timber-framed main building was constructed in 1730 and expanded in 1804, has changed ownership several times since the 17th century. The ancestors of the present owners acquired the estate in 1915, and from the 20th century until 2023, this painting was prominently displayed in the estate’s main building, making it an integral part of the estate’s history.
Theodore Russel, an English portrait artist born in 1614, studied under the renowned Sir Anthony van Dyck, whose influence can be seen in Russel’s meticulous style. Russel often painted on cabinet-sized panels, such as this one, which measures approximately 39 x 31 cm. This preference for panels is a notable characteristic that sets him apart from contemporary artists like Sir Peter Lely, who exclusively used canvas. The size of the panel is a key reason for the reattribution to Russel from Peter lely, as Lely never used panels for his works. This distinctive format, along with Russel’s characteristic style, strongly supports the new attribution.
Russel, the son of Nicasius Rousseel, a goldsmith and jeweler to James I and Charles I, refined his skills under the mentorship of his uncle, the famous portrait painter Cornelis Janssen. He also worked as an assistant and copyist for van Dyck, further honing his artistic style. This captivating portrait exemplifies Russel’s craftsmanship, reflecting the elegance of the period’s fashion and the artist's refined techniques.
oil on wood panel
with indistinct inscription Countess of Peter[...] upper left.
with inscription on the reverse: ”Countess of Peterborough. P. Lely 1670. S Beatty Picture Restorer [...] Warwick”.
unframed 39 x 31 cm = 15.35 x 12.2 inches
framed 52 x 41.5 cm = 20.47 x 16.34 inches
Condition:
The portrait has just been restored by a professional art conservator in Stockholm and is now in a very good condition. The colors are vivid, and the skin tones appear more natural than before. It is a very fine painting. The frame is newly made and included.
Provenance:
Elleholms Hofgård, Mörrums socken, Blekinge, Sweden **;
Stockholms Auktionsverk, Fine Art & Antiques Autumn...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Painter's Studio original painting by Paula Craioveanu oil on canvas Framed
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"The Painter's Studio", oil on canvas, 39x27.5in / 100x70cm
The artist's studio and art objects part of artist' life and work. A sculpture, an antique head and a painting that remin...
Category
2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Birchina- 21st Century painting of a nude woman laying.
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Daniela Astone
Birchina
50 x 60 cm
Oil on canvas
The painting is framed ( frame included in price )
Daniela Astone works and lives in Florence.
For years she was a teacher on the f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1930's Portrait Dapper Young English Gentleman in University Sports Club Blazer
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The University Sports Club Blazer
by Kathleen Emily Temple-Bird (British 1879 - 1962)
signed and dated 1939
oil painting on canvas laid over board, framed
framed: 35 x 30
board: 29.5...
Category
1930s English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
La Californie - Colorful Original Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
English artist Jonjo Elliot's large scale still life works are a collision of expressionistic fauvism and his collections encourage a youthful candor. Plants thrive in environments t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Attrib. Franz Schams (1823-1883) - Framed 19th Century Oil, The Rehearsal
Located in Corsham, GB
Attributed to Austrian genre painter Franz Schams (1823-1883). This intimate oil painting depicts a lively gathering of musicians engaged in a much-needed rehearsal. An apparently di...
Category
19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Impressionist Oil Painting of Pink and Yellow Roses in a Vase
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Pink and Yellow Roses in a Vase
By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930)
Size: 9.75 x 7.75 inches (height x width)
Signed: Yes
Oil painting on board,...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Radiant 1950s Mid-Century Modern Studio Portrait of a Seated Female Nude Model
Located in Chicago, IL
A Radiant, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Studio Portrait of a Seated Female Nude Model. Painted in a sensuous color palette of wonderful, expressive reds an cool creams, the painting exem...
Category
Mid-20th Century Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Boats on a Pond
Located in London, GB
'Boats on a Pond', oil on canvas, by Charles Kvapil (circa 1930s). This tranquil artwork depicts people fishing from their small boats. The motionless pond is surrounded by lush foliage with some homes as backdrop. The painting is spattered with light. With hardly any air moving in the scene, the still water plays...
Category
1930s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,308 Sale Price
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French Surrealist Oil Winged Cherubs Flying through Clouds
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Winged Cherubs
French School, contemporary
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 8 x 8 inches
provenance: private collection, Paris
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$342 Sale Price
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By the sea Hélène Duclos Contemporary art painting blue landscape sky
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
The red necklace of the naked Queens
“My artistic research has expanded over the years, crossing paths already traveled a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine British Mid 20th Century Oil Painting Portrait of a Society Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: British School, indistinctly signed lower right, circa 1950's
Title: Portrait of an Aristocratic Lady. The previous owner believed the sitter to be a member of the Q...
Category
Mid-20th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,888 Sale Price
30% Off
"Remember When" (2024) By Matt Talbert, Original Oil Painting, Portrait
By Matt Talbert
Located in Denver, CO
Matt Talbert's "Remember When" (2024) is an original, handmade oil painting on panel that depicts a portrait of a seated brunette in deep contemplation.
Artist bio/statement:
Matt ...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Madonna and Child
Located in Genève, GE
Monogrammed work
Oil on copper
Wooden carved frame
57 x 47.5 x 5 cm
Category
Early 19th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,377
The Town Hall of Les Baux-de-Provence
By Yves Brayer
Located in London, GB
'The Town Hall of Les Baux-de-Provence', oil on canvas, by Yves Brayer (1946). Having spent several months a year in Provence, the artist created dozens of wo...
Category
1940s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,615 Sale Price
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1920's French Portrait of Man with Moustache Signed & Dated Oil on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Man
French School
signed and dated 1923
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 16 x 13 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: good and sound conditi...
Category
1920s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$538 Sale Price
30% Off
Huge Spanish Modernist Oil Painting Fisherfolk Drying Nets on the Shore signed
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Drying Nets
Spanish School, late 20th century
signed lower corner and inscribed verso
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 29.75 x 41 inches
canvas: 28.5 x 29.5 inches
provenance: private c...
Category
20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,300 Sale Price
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Classic English Fox Hunting Horses Riders & Hounds in Landscape, British Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Michael Constable (20th Century British School)
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 28.5 x 34 inches
canvas: 24 x 30 inches
provenance: private collection,...
Category
Late 20th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
17th Century French Old Master Oil Painting Classical Robed Semi Nude Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
17th century French School
circle of Nicolas Poussin (French 1594-1665)
"Figures in Arcadia"
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 16 x 20 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: very good and sound condition
Nicolas Poussin was a renowned French painter of the 17th century. He is considered one of the greatest figures of classical French Baroque art...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$5,385 Sale Price
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Interior of Church - Oil Paint by Jules Victor Génisson - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on Board realized by Jules Victor Génisson (1805-1860) in the mid-19th Century.
Hand signed lower left.
Good condition.
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
20th century French Impressionist scene, A Busy Street in Paris
Located in Woodbury, CT
This vibrant 20th-century French Impressionist painting by Charles Ducant captures the timeless allure of a bustling Parisian street scene, immersing the viewer in the charm and ener...
Category
1990s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Very Large 1840s English Portrait of a Country Gentleman Holding Times Newspaper
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Corn Bill"
English Artist, circa 1840's
oil on canvas, framed in antique gilt scrolled and swept frame
framed: 45 x 37 inches
canvas: 36 x 28 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very good and sound condition; please note the frame is very vulnerable and fragile and as such we are happy to include it free of charge with the painting but cannot warranty its condition on arrival.
Historically significant portrait of this early Victorian...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Fancy Department Store Satirical Cartoon
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Barbara Shermund (1899-1978). Fancy Department Store Satirical Cartoon, ca. 1930's. Ink, watercolor and gouache on heavy illustration paper, panel measures 19 x 15 inches. Signed lower right. Very good condition. Unframed.
Provenance: Ethel Maud Mott Herman, artist (1883-1984), West Orange NJ.
For two decades, she drew almost 600 cartoons for The New Yorker with female characters that commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony.
In the mid-1920s, Harold Ross, the founder of a new magazine called The New Yorker, was looking for cartoonists who could create sardonic, highbrow illustrations accompanied by witty captions that would function as social critiques.
He found that talent in Barbara Shermund.
For about two decades, until the 1940s, Shermund helped Ross and his first art editor, Rea Irvin, realize their vision by contributing almost 600 cartoons and sassy captions with a fresh, feminist voice.
Her cartoons commented on life with wit, intelligence and irony, using female characters who critiqued the patriarchy and celebrated speakeasies, cafes, spunky women and leisure. They spoke directly to flapper women of the era who defied convention with a new sense of political, social and economic independence.
“Shermund’s women spoke their minds about sex, marriage and society; smoked cigarettes and drank; and poked fun at everything in an era when it was not common to see young women doing so,” Caitlin A. McGurk wrote in 2020 for the Art Students League.
In one Shermund cartoon, published in The New Yorker in 1928, two forlorn women sit and chat on couches. “Yeah,” one says, “I guess the best thing to do is to just get married and forget about love.”
“While for many, the idea of a New Yorker cartoon conjures a highbrow, dry non sequitur — often more alienating than familiar — Shermund’s cartoons are the antithesis,” wrote McGurk, who is an associate curator and assistant professor at Ohio State University’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum. “They are about human nature, relationships, youth and age.” (McGurk is writing a book about Shermund.
And yet by the 1940s and ’50s, as America’s postwar focus shifted to domestic life, Shermund’s feminist voice and cool critique of society fell out of vogue. Her last cartoon appeared in The New Yorker in 1944, and much of her life and career after that remains unclear. No major newspaper wrote about her death in 1978 — The New York Times was on strike then, along with The Daily News and The New York Post — and her ashes sat in a New Jersey funeral home...
Category
1930s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Ink
$1,875 Sale Price
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Mid-Century Impressionist French view of Montmartre, Paris, France
Located in Woodbury, CT
Y. Gonez (French, mid-20th century)
Market Scene, Montmartre with Sacré-Cœur, ca. 1950s
Oil on canvas, in a Montparnasse-style frame
In this lively street scene, Y. Gonez captures t...
Category
1950s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's Big Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Figures Gathered
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original gouache on paper mounted on card
size: 18.75 x 24 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
provenance...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$734 Sale Price
30% Off
18th Century French Portrait of Mysterious Man Oil on Canvas for restoration
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Gentleman
French School, 18th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 25 x 20 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: the painting is in sound conditi...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
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