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Floral Still Life Oil Painting, Realist Style, 20th Century, Framed
Located in Plano, TX
Oil painting measures 12 x 9; frame dimensions measure 19 3/8 x 16 3/8 x 3. Housed in an elegant gold-tone frame with decorative edges. Illegible signature, lower right. Support patc...
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20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Large Landscape Painting Called Sunburst, 1906 (Solbrytning)
Located in Stockholm, SE
Oscar Jansson, Arvika, Sweden Sunburst, 1906 (Swedish original title: Solbrytning) oil on canvas signed and dated OSCAR JANSON 1906 unframed: 99.5 x 120 cm (39 1/4 x 47 1/4 inches...
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Early 1900s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Portrait of a Young Man with Bagpipes, Follower of J.H. Tischbein the Elder
By Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder
Located in Stockholm, SE
Follower of Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder (1722–1789) Man with Bagpipes oil on oak panel no signature 25 × 19 cm (9.8 × 7.5 in) 31 x 26 cm (12.2 x 10.2 in) This refined 18th...
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18th Century Rococo Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oak, Oil, Wood Panel

French Impressionist Leaf Landscape
By Thiollier
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3305a French Impressionist Style Landscape, on board signed by Thiollier set in a light-blue wood frame.Image size 10.5 H x 13.50 w
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1950s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sloe Berries Pocket Painting (PaleBlue)2c, original painting, still-life
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Sloe Berries (Pale Blue) 2c (canvas size 7x7cm) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paint...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Winter Landscape Oil Painting by Michael Budden Winter Tree Study I
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Winter Tree Study I oil/canvas panel 6 x 8 image unframe, 9.50 x 11.50 Signed LR I enjoy playing with light in my paintings and creating a mood while trying to push the range of colo...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Rockport Landscape
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful 1931 painting by American artist, Giovanni Martino (1908-1997). Oil on canvas measures 25 x 30 inches. Measures 35 x 39 inches framed. The scene depicts what is definitively the Rockport, Mass. fishing pier. Excellent condition with a few very minor areas of paint flaking. The darker areas in the sky is a result of unpainted areas. The canvas is sized with glue but not primed white: observable areas of natural linen color results. Signed wet into wet and dated lower left. No restoration or overpaint. Giovanni Martino, National Academy of Design* member, was born on May 1, 1908 in Philadelphia PA where all seven brothers and one sister, Filomina, Frank, Antonio, Albert, Ernest, Giovanni, Edmond, and William became painters. They were under the tutelage of their eldest brother, Frank, who in the late 1920s, founded the first commercial art* studio, Martino Studios, at 27 South 18th Street. Besides studying with his two eldest brothers, Giovanni also studied with Albert Jean Adolph at La France Institute, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts*, The Graphic Sketch Club, and Spring Garden Institute in Philadelphia. In his mid teens he accompanied his two eldest brothers to New Hope searching for subjects to paint. In the 1930s, he also started to paint in Manayunk, a hilly mill town along the Schuylkill River...
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1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Francesco Zugno (Venetian Master) - 18th century figure painting - St. Joseph
Located in Varmo, IT
Francesco Zugno (Venice 1709 - Venice 1787) - Death of St. Joseph. 61 x 48 cm unframed, 76 x 63 cm with frame. Oil on canvas, in a carved and gilded wooden frame (not signed). We ...
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Mid-18th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Classical Still Life Ornate Flowers in Vase in the Traditional Old Master style
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Ornate Classical Flowers oil painting on canvas, framed signed and dated 1947 framed: 17.5 x 12.5 inches canvas: 16 x 10.5 inches provenance: private collection condition: very good ...
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Mid-20th Century Old Masters Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

19th Century English Yacht in full sail racing on the high sea
Located in Woodbury, CT
This evocative 19th-century marine scene by English painter Nicholas Matthew Condy captures the dynamic tension and atmospheric drama that typify his maritime works. Known for his ke...
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1840s Victorian Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Edwardian Riverbank Landscape - British Impressionist art oil painting Sussex
Located in Hagley, England
This charming British Impressionist landscape oil painting, painted circa 1910 is by noted artist Charles Burleigh. Burleigh spent most of his life in the Brighton and Hove area, exc...
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1910s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Venetian Vedutist - 19th century landscape painting - View of Venice Colleoni
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian painter (dated 1892) - Venice, view of Campo SS. Giovanni e Paolo with the statue of Colleoni. 40 x 22 cm without frame, 59.5 x 41.5 cm with frame. Oil on canvas, in an an...
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Late 19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

American Impressionist Equestrian Oil Painting At The Races Finish Line
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3794 Equestrian oil painting set in a custom wood frame Image size 23.5x19.25"
Category

1970s Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Traces Oil and collage Expressionism, Landscape, French, Abstract, Minimalism
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Traces unfolds in subtle horizontal layers of sky, horizon, and earth, through a palette of natural, earthy tones. The composition feels carved from memory, as if each painted stratu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Large Scale Winter Twilight Landscape Painting by Artist Mauritz Lindström
Located in Stockholm, SE
This stunning winter landscape by Mauritz Lindström captures the serene yet striking beauty of a snow-laden scene illuminated by the warm glow of twilight. The interplay between the soft, colorful hues of the evening sky and the intricate, frost-covered branches creates an almost three-dimensional effect, drawing the viewer into the composition. The detailed rendering of the snow and the trees evokes a profound sense of coldness, making the atmosphere almost palpable. Measuring an impressive 101 x 152 cm (39 3/4 x 59 7/8 in) with the frame, this large-scale work is a testament to Lindström's mastery of light and texture. Arvid Mauritz Lindström...
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Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting Sunset River Landscape with Mountains
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Allan Water, Stirling" by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed, lower corner oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 16 x 24 inches framed: 21.5 x 29 inches Fine quality antiqu...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vintagte English Miniature Painting Portrait of Spaniel Dog
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Head Portrait of a Spaniel English School, mid 20th century signed oil on board, framed framed: 3 x 3.5 inches board: 2 x 2.5 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: sound a...
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Mid-20th Century English School Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Traditional English Rural Landscape Horse & Cart with Figures & Dog Large Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Top Of The Hill John Ginnell ( 1900 - 1980 ) signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 28.5 x 41 inches canvas : 24 x 36 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: very good conditi...
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Mid-20th Century English School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Antique Italian Large Figurative Framed Oil Painting of a Reclining Nude Woman
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5154 Antique Italian oil painting of a reclining nude woman Framed Image size 24x36"
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1930s Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil

English 1970's OIL PAINTING Female Nude In An Interior by FRANK JOHNSON
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Frank Johnson (1917-1998) British TITLE: "Female Nude In A Living Room Interior' SIGNED: unsigned, from the artists studio sale at Bonhams Chest...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings

Materials

Oil

Beautiful 19th Century French Oil Painting on Panel Portrait Lady in Red
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady in a Red Dress French artist, late 19th century oil on wooden panel, framed in an ornate antique gilt frame. framed: 16.5 x 13 inches board: 13 x 9.5 inches prove...
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Late 19th Century French School Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Smoking Lady" (2024) By Nadezda, Original Oil Painting on Panel
Located in Denver, CO
Nadezda's beautiful new oil on panel painting "Smoking Lady" (2024) is an abstract portrait of a woman wearing a black dress smoking inside of her brightly colored house, she is stan...
Category

2010s Surrealist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Antique Oil Scottish Highlands Oil Painting The Pass at Killiecrankie Pitlochry
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Pass at Killiecrankie, Pitlochry by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 22 x 29.5 inches canvas: 16 x 24 inches provenance: private collection...
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Early 20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"St. Tropez" Parisian Marine Harbor Scene Impressionist Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
As a French Impressionist artist, most of the Delarue's works were produced in the Mid-20th Century. He was known for his charming compositions and with a passion to portray life by ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

“Portrait of a Seated Lady in Wicker Chair”
Located in San Francisco, CA
A picture of calm refined beauty, the sitter epitomizes elegant and casual repose propped up against pillow in her spacious wicker armchair. Captured by master American portraitist ...
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Early 20th Century American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Board

Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
Located in London, GB
'Parc des Buttes-Chaumont' in Paris, gouache on art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). A charming depiction of well turned out Parisians enjoying a day at the park. Boaters, strollers and swans all co-mingle around the peaceful lake. The reflection of the rocky bluff in the water is superbly treated by Génin. It's a cheerful and uplifting image of days-gone-by in 1930s Paris. The park takes its name from the 'bare hill' (chauve-mont) that once occupied the site. It became a place where gypsum was mined, and where the limestone was quarried to be used in buildings in Paris and the United States. Worse, though, it was a site that also became a dumping ground. Luckily, during the 19th-century renovation of Paris under Napoleon III, chauve-mont was chosen as a place for a large park, as part of the emperor's fascination with endowing Paris with green spaces. The artificial lake created at that time wraps around a hilly central island. The lake attracts waterfowl and other birds and is stocked with fish. The 19th-century planners cleaned up the site and added tons of soil to fill the pits left by a limestone mining operation. Then dynamite was used to "sculpt" the site into the craggy shapes seen today, including the 50-metre-high central hill with cliffs, an interior grotto, pinnacles, and arches. Up on top, overlooking the rest of the park - and depicted in this artwork - is a small, round belvedere, based on the Roman Temple of Vesta in Italy. From that spot you can see a lovely view of Montmartre and the white cupolas of the Sacre-Coeur. The painting is in very good condition. It has been newly framed and glazed with museum-quality glass (anti-reflective and UV protection) to preserve this significant artwork for decades to come. Dimensions with frame: H 62 cm / 24.4" W 76 cm / 29.9" Dimensions without frame: H 48.5 cm / 19.1" W 63 cm / 24.8" About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer, Marcel Leprin...
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1930s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Gouache

Humorous Figurative Queer Gesture Painting, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas. "Piriquí"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This small-format painting by Inés Silvalde, created in 2019, transforms a playful and rebellious hand gesture into a queer celebration of irreverence and self-expression. Titled Pir...
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2010s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Adoration Of The Christ Child Fine Renaissance Old Master Painting Large
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/School: After Filippo Lippi, Italian 1406-1469. The work is most likely by an English hand, late 19th century Title: The Adoration of the Christ ...
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19th Century Renaissance Figurative Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Collie Dog with Kittens Antique English Victorian Dog & Cat Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Collie Dog with Kittens English artist, 19th century oil on canvas, framed framed: 22 x 30 inches canvas: 16.5 x 23.5 inches Provenance: private collection, England Condition: The ...
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19th Century Victorian Animal Paintings

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Oil

Loch Katrine in the Scottish Highlands Realist Landscape Vintage Oil Painting
Located in Preston, GB
Loch Katrine in the Scottish Highlands Landscape Vintage Painting. A beautiful realist oil painting of the Scottish Highlands from a highly respected British Artist. Art measures 36...
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20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil

Blueberry Hill Wild
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Martha Mans lavender gray white blue green yellow peach brown framed in brown frame The painting process has been an evolving experience for me from the time I was very young and fi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1940s Signed German Impressionist Oil of Rio de Janeiro in Style of Max Slevogt
Located in Soquel, CA
German Impressionist Painting of Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay and Sugarloaf Mountain in style of Max Slevogt This vivid landscape painting offers a panoramic view of Rio de Janeir...
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1940s Blue Rider Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Reverberate" Abstracted Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This contemporary abstract landscape painting by Bri Custer, titled Reverberate, captures the shifting energy of land and light through expressive brushwork and layered color. Earthy...
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2010s Impressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ben Wilson - Byzantium, original signed Abstract Expressionist painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
Ben Wilson Byzantium, 1975 Oil on Masonite painting Hand signed reverse, Titled, "Byzantium", dated 1975 by the artist and also with estate stamp - in addition to Ben Wilson's hand s...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Huge 17th Century Italian Old Master painting The Return of the Ark of Covenant
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Late 17th Century Italian School. The Return of the Ark on the Covenant, Oil on Canvas, in a Fine 17th Century Italian Frame, canvas: 40.25" x 49.75" (102.3 x 126cm) Fine quality and rare 17th century Italian Old Master...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

20th Century Oil - Boy with a Songbird
Located in Corsham, GB
This charming 20th-century portrait depicts a young boy in elegant period attire, wearing a brown coat over a vibrant red waistcoat and matching red stockings, with a songbird in han...
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20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Last Light" - Oil on Canvas Winter Landscape with Sunset Mountains
Located in Denver, CO
Mark Harrison’s Last Light (2025) is an original, handmade oil painting on canvas that captures the fleeting beauty of twilight as it falls over a snow-covered plain and the rugged p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Fine Antique Scottish Oil Painting Mother & Child Walking Romantic Highland View
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Highland Walk Scottish artist, late 19th century oil on canvas, framed framed: 24.5 x 20.5 inches canvas: 18 x 14 inches provenance: private colle...
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Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Breton fisherman with pipe
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas Beige wooden frame 90 x 70 x 4.6 cm Breton fisherman with pipe This captivating portrait shows a fisherman with a bushy beard, deep in thought and smoking his pipe. T...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Large 1990's French Contemporary Signed Oil Painting Gordes Luberon Provence
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Gordes, The Luberon Valley, Provence French artist, signed and dated 95 oil on canvas, framed framed: 29 x 38 inches canvas: 24 x 32 inches Provenance: private collection, France Co...
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1990s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Man Walking the Dog at a River Side in the Lush Green English Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Man Walking the Dog at a River Side in the Lush Green English Countryside by 20th Century British Artist Art measures 20 x 16 inches Frame measures 25 x 21 inches John Haskins...
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20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Vintage American Abstract Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas laid down on board. Signed on verso. Measuring: 14 by 15 inches overall and 12 x 12 inches painting alone. Framed in a an antiq...
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20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A mountain lake summer holiday: boating on Lake Lucerne Swiss majestic miniature
Located in Norwich, GB
In German, there is a word called "Sommefrische" , meaning summer freshness, which describes this painting perfectly. Looking at this Swiss mountain and lake is like a perfect, restf...
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

1950s French Impressionist Oil Painting Beach Scene Vintage Sailing Boats Harbor
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Old Harbor French Impressionist artist, mid 20th century oil on canvas laid over board, framed painting: 9 x 9 inches framed: 9.5 x 9.5 inches condition: overall very good, a few...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

19th C French figures on a Summer beach, with Children building sand castles
Located in Woodbury, CT
Ernest Laynaud (French, fl. late 19th century) Figures on a Beach, circa 1890 Oil on panel Signed lower right Provenance: G. M. Lotinga, New Bond Street, London ⸻ A delightful lat...
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1890s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Jack Millar (1921-2006) - 20th Century Oil, Garden
By Jack Millar
Located in Corsham, GB
An energetic study of a verdant garden by the well-listed artist Jack Millar (1921–2006), featuring towering trees and vibrant splashes of colour, with the silhouetted London skyline...
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20th Century Landscape Paintings

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Oil

La Foret d'Ecouves - Automne - Nabis Landscape Oil Painting by Georges Lacombe
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Pointillist oil on canvas landscape circa 1906 by French Nabis painter Georges Lacombe. This beautiful piece depicts a forest with tree trunks covered in thick green moss and orange ...
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Early 1900s Fauvist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Bright Green Impressionist Landscape with Figure in Dunes Mid 20th Century
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Impressionist Landscape by Claude Marin (French 1914-2001) signed oil on canvas, framed Framed: 19 x 22 inches Canvas : 13.5 x 16.5 inches Inscribed Verso Provenance: private collect...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"Jeffrey" White Outline Bunny on Black Background Diamondust Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a gestural figure of a white bunny on a black background with thick white paint and then ...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Animal Paintings

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Wood Panel, Glass, Resin, Oil

Landscape 106 by Jean Krille - Oil on masonite 100x100cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Jean Krillé’s paintings are known for their expressive use of color and dynamic, abstract forms, blending realism with abstraction in his depictions of nature. His landscapes often f...
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Keith Haring original card. 8.5 x 13.5 cm
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Keith Haring. 1958-1990. The iconography of his drawings includes dancing animals and figures, dogs, crawling babies, pyramids, televisions, telephones, and flying saucers. The idea ...
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1980s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

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Mixed Media

"Dripping Dots - Calypso" Colorful Contemporary Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
Located in New York, NY
With layers of bright oils and whisking brush strokes, the paint is able to shine and shimmer in a very unique pattern. The artist uses thick textured oils to add a very contemporary...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel, Paris by David Arnold Burnand - Oil on wood 25x35
Located in Geneva, CH
David Arnold Burnand (Swiss artist 1888-1975) 107 auctions in Switzerland. Oil paint on cardboard with frame Total size with frame 40x50 cm One...
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1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Pear Blush Pocket Painting 10c, original painting, still-life
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Blush Pear 10c (canvas size 5x7cm) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Peas in a Pod Painting 3c, original painting, still-life
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Peas in Pod 3c (canvas size 7x5cm) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a ...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Snow in NYC" Impressionist Oil Painting in Style of Guy Wiggins Framed
Located in New York, NY
A charming depiction of Snow in New York City on Fifth Avenue with figures walking a dog. A cozy impressionistic street scene with colors of cobalts, light pink, whites, cadmium red ...
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2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Village
Located in Belgrade, MT
This oil painting is original and signed by the artist. I have owned this piece since the early 1970's. The oil depicts a village and is vibrant in color.
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20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Twilight in the Forest Meadow, Oil on Canvas, Signed, 1920s, Framed
Located in Stockholm, SE
An expansive twilight landscape unfolds before you: a dark spruce forest opens into a quiet forest meadow, the silence punctuated only by the fading light. In the distance, the Bavar...
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1920s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Still Life - Large Post Impressionist Belgian Guitar Interior Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful post-impressionist interior still life oil on canvas depicting a guitair and fruits on a chair, by modern Belgian artist and sculptor Roger Duterme. Ther work is signed ...
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1940s Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Interior, large, colorful figural abstract red, orange, blue acrylic of couple
Located in Beachwood, OH
Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Interior, 1976 acrylic on canvas signed lower right, signed and titled verso 50 x 59.5 inches Richard Andres was born in Buffalo, New York in 1927. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1950, he was immediately drafted and served for two years in the army as a mural painter. He received his Master of Arts from Kent State in 1961. A frequent exhibitor at galleries and museums and winner of multiple May Show prizes, Andres taught art in the Cleveland Public Schools for 28 years, as well as teaching the University of Buffalo, the Cleveland Institute of Art and the Western Reserve University. Very little in Richard Andres’ childhood would have predicted his love of classical music, mid-century-modern architecture and certainly not his lifelong passion for art and in particular abstract art. Richard’s father, Raymond, had no more than a third-grade education, and his mother, Clara, was one of thirteen children – only three of whom lived into adulthood and none of whom attended high school. They lived, when Richard was a boy, in a dingy area of Buffalo, NY in a walk-up apartment situated above a tavern. Raymond and Clara supplemented the income from their factory jobs in the bar downstairs with Raymond playing ragtime on the piano and Clara serving drinks. This often left Richard and his two older brothers at home alone to fend for themselves. The two older boys, Raymond and Russell, were - unlike Richard- rather rough and tumble and entertained themselves with stickball, boxing and the like. Richard, on the other hand, from a very young age liked to draw, or better yet even, to paint with the small set of watercolors he received for Christmas one year. Paper, however, at the height of the depression, was hard to come by. Luckily, Clara used paper doilies as decoration for the apartment and Richard would contentedly paint and then cut up doilies, gluing the pieces together to create collages. At eight-years-old, he discovered the Albright-Knox Museum (then known as the Albright Art Gallery) and spent several hours a week there studying the paintings. He was particularly fond of Charles Burchfield‘s landscapes, enamored with their ‘messiness’ and thinking that they somehow captured more ‘feeling’ than works he was previously familiar with. For his tenth Christmas, he asked for and received a ‘how-to’ paint book by Elliot O’Hare. Through this self-teaching, he assembled the portfolio needed for acceptance to Buffalo Technical High School where he studied Advertising Arts. In his Junior year, he was encouraged to enter a watercolor painting, “Two Barns,” in the national 1944-45 Ingersoll Art Award Contest and was one of twelve grand prize winners – each one winning one hundred dollars. More importantly the painting was exhibited at the Carnegie Institute Galleries, which resulted in his winning a national scholarship to the Cleveland School of Art (The Cleveland Art Institute). He flourished at the art school under the tutelage of faculty members such as Carl Gaertner, as well as that of visiting artists such as William Sommer and Henry George Keller. He would say in later years that Gaertner, in particular, influenced his attitude toward life as well as art. “Gaertner,” Andres said, “believed that there was no need to be a ‘tortured artist’, that an artist should rather enjoy beauty, family, and life in general.” Free to spend his days as he chose, he wandered the Cleveland Art Museum for most of the hours he was not attending classes or painting; the remaining time was spent drinking coffee at a local hangout with art school friends – which is where he met fellow Henry Keller scholarship winner, Avis Johnson. Richard was immediately smitten with Avis, but being rather shy, it took him the entire summer of 1948 to build up his courage to ask her out. Over that summer he ‘thought about Avis’ and worked in a diner to save money. He also used the hundred-dollar prize money won in High School to visit the first Max Beckmann retrospective in the United States at the City Art Museum in St. Louis. Over a half century later he spoke of that exhibit with a reverence usually reserved for spiritual matters, “I walked in and it was like nothing I had ever seen before... the color...It just glowed.” Returning to campus in the Fall, the first thing he did was go to the coffee shop in hopes of finding Avis. He did, and she, upon seeing him, realized that she was also smitten with him. They quickly became known as ‘the couple’ on campus, and a year later, with Richard being drafted for the Korean war, they were quickly married by a Justice of the Peace, celebrating after with family at Avis’s Cleveland home. As a gift, faculty member John Paul Miller...
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1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

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