Victor Di Gesu

'Woman Wearing Mantilla', Paris, Louvre, Académie Chaumière, Carmel, California

circa 1958

An atmospheric figural oil of a young woman, shown seated at a dressing table and gazing into a hand-mirror. Signed lower left, "H. Helme" for Helge Helme (Danish, 1894-1987) and pai...

'Piano And Violin Recital' by Carl Alfred Broge, 1918. Paris Salon, Royal Academy, Still Life of Tulips ------ Signed lower left, 'Alf. Broge' for Carl Harald Alfred Broge (Danish, ...

Signed lower right, 'Justin Murray' (American, 1912-1987), titled, verso, 'The Doctor's Office' and painted circa 1945. Framed dimensions: 9¼ x 1½ x 21 inches. Born in Minneapolis, ...

Signed lower right, 'Andre Regagnon' (French, 1902-1976) and painted circa 1935; additionally signed on label verso. A substantial and lyrical 'Intimiste' work showing an interior s...

Louis Charles Moeller A Toast Signed lower right Oil on canvas 12 x 16 inches Louis Charles Moeller was a master of American genre painting. His meticulously detailed, highly finish...

Harry Leslie Hoffman (1871 - 1964) The Artist's Wife (Beatrice Pope) at the Loom, circa 1915 Oil on canvas 30 x 32 inches Housed in a period Newcomb-Macklin frame Provenance: Estate of the artist Private Collection, Massachusetts This painting depicts the artist's wife at the loom, producing textile versions of Hoffman's underwater paintings. The screen shown behind Bea is an underwater scene also painted by Hoffman. The study of this painting is held in the collection of the Wolfsonian Museum in Florida. Harry Leslie Hoffman was born in Cressona, a small community in Pennsylvania's Schuylkill Valley. His mother was an amateur artist who encouraged her son to pursue a career in the arts. In 1893, Hoffman entered the School of Art at Yale University and studied with John Ferguson Weir, the son of Robert Walter Weir. After graduation in 1897, Hoffman moved to New York to continue his studies at the Art Students League. He also traveled to Paris and took classes at the Académie Julien. In the summer of 1902, Hoffman attended the Lyme Summer School of Art, in the town of Old Lyme on the Connecticut coast. The school was headed by Frank Vincent Dumond and was located in a boarding house owned by Florence Griswold. The school eventually grew into an artists' colony and a center for American Impressionism. When Hoffman first arrived as a student, he was not permitted to stay in the house which was designated for the professional artists only. However, his outgoing personality soon won him many friends at the colony. In 1905, Hoffman settled in Old Lyme and worked as a full member of the artist colony. He was particularly influenced by Willard Leroy Metcalf, an Impressionist also working in Old Lyme. Fellow artists later fondly recalled Hoffman's antics at the Griswold house, which included playing the flute and banjo, tap-dancing, singing humorous songs, and performing magic tricks. In 1910 Hoffman...

Ferdinand Fagerlin (Swedish/German, 1825-1907) Attributed, Interior Scene with Fabric Sellers, Oil on Canvas, 19th century, apparently unsigned, gil...

Antonio Bellucci (Venice 1654 - Soligo 1726) - Diana and Endymion. 122 x 152 cm without frame, 142 x 172 cm with frame. Oil on canvas, in a carved a...