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Abstract Paper 002
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Mi obra, creada con acrílicos, refleja una exploración abstracta y vibrante del espíritu humano. La elección de colores vivos y las formas entrelazadas capturan la complejidad emocio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Abstract Paper 001
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Mi obra, creada con acrílicos, refleja una exploración abstracta y vibrante del espíritu humano. La elección de colores vivos y las formas entrelazadas capturan la complejidad emocio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Interior Paintings

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Acrylic, Handmade Paper

The Morning News Early 19th-century Realism: Antique Oil Painting on Wood Panel
By William Wallace Gilchrist
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Provenance: Exhibited at Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, 1911 #229 Description: William Wallace Gilchrist (1879-1926) was an American painter known for his captivating depictions of everyday life scenes and his ability to capture the ambiance and aesthetic of the late 19th century. Born in Philadelphia, Gilchrist showed an early passion for art and pursued his artistic education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Gilchrist’s artwork often revolved around intimate domestic settings, where he skillfully portrayed the beauty and tranquility of ordinary moments. His painting “The Morning News...
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Early 19th Century Academic Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

A Musician oil painting by Frederick E. Wright
Located in Hudson, NY
This work of a young musician by Frederick E. Wright is set in an exceptional original Doll & Richards, Boston, frame. The framed dimensions are 16' x 13 1/3" x 1". A hand-written la...
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Late 19th Century Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

French Impressionist Oil Painting of a Lone Figure in a Rolling Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of a Lone Figure in a Rolling Landscape by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933) Unsigned Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Painting size: ...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Spiritual paintings, oriental idols painting by Hovsep Pushman.
Located in La Canada Flintridge, CA
Title: Little God (La Petite Dieu). This painting was displayed March 27th - April 7th , 1928 artist exhibition at Grand Central Art Gallery, New York. Also published exhibition ca...
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1920s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

French Impressionist Oil Painting of a Nighttime Crowd Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of a Nighttime Crowd Scene by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933) Unsigned Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Painting size: 2.25 inches (...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Night sky - black, white geometric abstraction, dripping
Located in Vienna, AT
The intense red surface, which challenges the viewer to deal with this intense black color, is captivating here. Due to the intense play of colors and the three-dimensionality, the v...
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2010s Abstract Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Peek-a-Boo
By Seymour Joseph Guy
Located in New York, NY
In the latter half of the nineteenth century and into the first decade of the twentieth, New York City art aficionados could count on finding recent work of Seymour Joseph Guy hanging on the walls of the city’s major galleries. Primarily a genre artist, but also a portraitist, between 1859 and 1908 Guy showed more than seventy works at the National Academy of Design. From 1871 to 1903 he contributed over seventy times to exhibitions at the Century Club. From 1864 to 1887, he sent about forty pictures to the Brooklyn Art Association. A good number of these works were already privately owned; they served as advertisements for other pictures that were available for sale. Some pictures were shown multiple times in the same or different venues. Guy was as easy to find as his canvases were omnipresent. Though he lived at first in Brooklyn with his family and then in New Jersey, from 1863 to his death in 1910 he maintained a studio at the Artist’s Studio Building at 55 West 10th Street, a location that was, for much of that period, the center of the New York City art world. Guy’s path to a successful career as an artist was by no means smooth or even likely. Born in Greenwich, England, he was orphaned at the age of nine. His early interest in art was discouraged by his legal guardian, who wanted a more settled trade for the young man. Only after the guardian also died was Guy free to pursue his intention of becoming an artist. The details of Guy’s early training in art are unclear. His first teacher is believed to have been Thomas Buttersworth...
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19th Century American Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Music in the Palace" 19th Century Orientalist Oil Painting on Copper, Signed
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Description: Antonio Maria Fabres (1854-1936) was a Spanish painter known for his exquisite artworks depicting historical and Orientalist themes. Born in Barcelona, Fabres displayed ...
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19th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Copper

Ugo de Cesare (b.1950) - 20th Century Oil, Lighting the Advent Calendar
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine oil by Italian artist Ugo de Cesare (b.1950) depicting a lady and a young boy lighting a traditional Italian advent calendar table. Signed to the lower right. On canvas on str...
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20th Century Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Marguerite, Painting, White Flowers, Yellow, Mothers Day, Vase, Oil painting
Located in Riverdale, NY
Marguerite by Betty Ball is part of her Flower series. It is Oil on Linen, 12x12. It is framed to 13.5 x 13.5 It is $875. It is a beautiful group of flowers in a vase with water....
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Triangle & Cross" (FRAMED) Lithograph 10" x 12" inch (1972) by Zaccaria Zeini
Located in Culver City, CA
"Triangle & Cross" (FRAMED) Lithograph 10" x 12" inch (1972) by Zaccaria Zeini Signed and dated Comes in old original frame Zaccaria El Zeini (1932 - 1993) was raised in the popu...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Lithograph

18th Century French Oil Painting Tavern Scene Interior Figures & Violin Player
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Violin Player in Tavern 18th century French School oil on canvas canvas: 8 x 11 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: good and sound condition
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18th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Woman 008
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Mi obra, creada con acrílicos, refleja una exploración abstracta y vibrante del espíritu humano. La elección de colores vivos y las formas entrelazadas capturan la complejidad emocio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Woman 007
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Mi obra, creada con acrílicos, refleja una exploración abstracta y vibrante del espíritu humano. La elección de colores vivos y las formas entrelazadas capturan la complejidad emocio...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Woman 006
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Mi obra, creada con acrílicos, refleja una exploración abstracta y vibrante del espíritu humano. La elección de colores vivos y las formas entrelazadas capturan la complejidad emocio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Woman 005
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Mi obra, creada con acrílicos, refleja una exploración abstracta y vibrante del espíritu humano. La elección de colores vivos y las formas entrelazadas capturan la complejidad emocio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Woman 004
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Mi obra, creada con acrílicos, refleja una exploración abstracta y vibrante del espíritu humano. La elección de colores vivos y las formas entrelazadas capturan la complejidad emocio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Woman 003
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Mi obra, creada con acrílicos, refleja una exploración abstracta y vibrante del espíritu humano. La elección de colores vivos y las formas entrelazadas capturan la complejidad emocio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Woman 002
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Mi obra, creada con acrílicos, refleja una exploración abstracta y vibrante del espíritu humano. La elección de colores vivos y las formas entrelazadas capturan la complejidad emocio...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Gray fluffy
Located in Zofingen, AG
In the creation of this artwork, I poured my soul into capturing the essence of serenity and mystery. As an artist, I sought to blend the realms of figurative grace and impressionist...
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2010s Expressionist Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard, Giclée

Lime - original realism still life fruit - contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Dani Humberstone's Lime radiates with vibrant intensity, its ri...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Clementine - original realism still life fruit - contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. In Clementine, Dani Humberstone invites the viewer to linger in...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Burgundy, Teal & Pink Study
Located in Fairfield, CT
The artist has traveled around the world, painting on location. He is fascinated with subtle light effects and expressive painterly surfaces, focusing on interiors or cityscapes. His...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Interior Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil, Panel

French Impressionist Oil Painting of an Arched Interior with Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of an Arched Interior with Figures by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933) Unsigned Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Painting size: 4.5 i...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Autumn Dissolution, Modern British Landscape Painting, Autumnal Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Autumn Dissolution by Rosie Phipps [2022] Autumn Dissolution is an original watercolour and gouache painting by artist Rosie Phipps, sold mounted. Featuring her gestural and expressi...
Category

2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Level
Located in Phoenix, AZ
oil on panel b. 1985, Phoenix, AZ Jake Fischer, born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, graduated with a Master of Fine Art from Arizona State University in Drawing and Painting. Whil...
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2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Impromptu with a morning rose
Located in Zofingen, AG
In crafting this piece, I poured my soul into every brushstroke, aiming to evoke the delicate interplay of light and shadow. The gentle blossoms whisper of early morning tranquility,...
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2010s Expressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Spring flowers, oil painting, interior, flowers, bright colours, bouquet
Located in Oslo, NO
Spring Flowers is a vibrant celebration of color and life, painted from a fresh spring bouquet in the expressive alla prima technique. Bold red ranunculus bloom beside soft whites an...
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2010s Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Ofreciendo una copa", 19th Century Oil on Canvas by Ángel María Cortellini
Located in Madrid, ES
ÁNGEL MARÍA CORTELLINI Spanish, 1819 - 1887 OFRECIENDO UNA COPA oil on canvas 13-1/4 x 11 inches (33.5 x 28 cm.) framed: 17-1/4 x 15 (44 x 38 cm.) Ángel María Cortellini. Sanlúcar de Barrameda (Cádiz), 27.09.1819 – Madrid, 1887. Painter. Ángel María Cortellini was born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda on September 27, 1819, to an Italian father and a Spanish and Sanlúcar mother. Contrary to family opinion, he decided to dedicate himself to painting and already, at the age of nine, he was enrolled in a drawing academy in his hometown. They soon sent him to Seville, where he was a disciple of Joaquín Domínguez Bécquer...
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19th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Venezia II" Lithograph 10" x 12" inch Edition 3/10 (1965) by Zaccaria Zeini
Located in Culver City, CA
"Venezia II" Lithograph 10" x 12" inch Edition 3/10 (1965) by Zaccaria Zeini Signed and dated Comes in old original frame Zaccaria El Zeini (1932 - 1993) was raised in the popula...
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

Materials

Lithograph

Sunny water lilies
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this painting, I captured the serene beauty of water lilies bathed in the soft glow of dawn’s light. Using oil paints, I embraced a blend of impressionism and realism to reflect t...
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2010s Expressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

King Louis
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Panel Signature: Signed "H. Pyle" Lower Right and Inscribed Indistinctly On the Reverse "At the same time he extended toward King Louis the ...
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1890s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Mid Century French Modernist Oil Painting Still Life Fruit on a Bowl
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life of Fruit French School, mid 20th century oil on canvas 10.5 x 16 inches provenance: private collection, France The painting is in sound condition but very much showing the...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Room with a View, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Sunlight illuminates the garden while weathered interior walls bask over the passage of time. It tells the story of a home once alive with the sound of children...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

A Gentle Rain (Rovinj, Croatia), Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Step onto the marbled streets of Rovinj, Croatia, and hear the soothing sound of the rain. The painting captures a tranquil spring afternoon, with shoppers le...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Modernist French Oil Painting Atmospheric Portrait Reclining Woman in Blue Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Modern French Oil Painting Reclining Woman in a Blue Dress by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933) Unsigned Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Painting size: 7 inches (height) x 10...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Vanishing Point, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Deep blue tones envelop a blurred San Francisco cityscape, evoking a dreamlike memory of a fleeting moment. The triangular panel enhances the composition’s un...

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Lady in a Interior" Addison Thomas Millar, 19th Century American Genre Painting
Located in New York, NY
Addison Thomas Millar Lady in a Interior Oil on canvas board 14 x 10 inches Millar's father emigrated to the United States from Scotland in 1845. He grew up in Warren, Ohio. During his primary education, he took some painting lessons from John Bell, a local landscape painter. In his late teens, he won three consecutive awards from The Youth's Companion, in their annual art contests. This prompted his parents to allow him to go to Cincinnati to take formal lessons from the genre painter, De Scott...
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19th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

Winter Dreams/6
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Winter Dream/6" captures the serene and fleeting moments just before the sun dips below the horizon. The painting's warm and cold color palette reflects the duality of winter days—c...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Art Deco, L'ombre d'une jeune fille en fleur, Elegant French Woman with Monkey
Located in Miami, FL
Perhaps a study or a preliminary work for for "L'ombre d'une jeune fille en fleur", Lot 46 - Christie's, New York (February 14, 2007) Private Collection, Miami Gouache and pencil...
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1920s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

" The simple attractiveness of run-down apartments." by Lilya Volskaya
Located in Zofingen, AG
The paintings are drawn with oil on the canvas. The simple attractiveness of run-down apartments. The scene in the winter is radiant with light. An ancient tree in front of the resid...
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2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Lacquer, Oil

Venetian Dusk, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
The impressionist painting captures the serene beauty of Venice at dusk. A tranquil canal reflects the soft glow of twilight, while flower-filled balconies an...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Museum Piece #2 Art Lover in Museum Exhibition
Located in Miami, FL
Arnold Friedman studied with Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller at the Art Students League in 1905 . Yet as he developed his style he abandoned the academic influence of his teacher. He started experimenting with materials and techniques. Friedmans intimate style recalls a variety of post-impressionist artists such as Pointillism of Pisarro, Vuillard and Nabis, and perhaps even Seurat. His thick application of paint has definitive textual impasto that was influenced by his trip to Paris in 1909. In "Museum Piece...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

What about stereotypes? 1 in the triptych. Female silhouette
Located in Zofingen, AG
The first work of the triptych “What about stereotypes? ” Female silhouette combined with flowers - a decorative subject - but with a deep concept, a series of paintings were presen...
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2010s Fauvist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Watching, Original Contemporary Surrealist Gouache Painting on Wood Panel
Located in Boston, MA
Watching, Original Contemporary Surrealist Painting, 2014 11.25" x 18" x 1.625" (HxWxD) Gouache on Wood Panel This surreal gouache painting features a woman laying on top of her bed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings

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Gouache, Wood Panel

Breathe Slowly/5
Located in Zofingen, AG
Helen Mount's «Breathe Slowly/5» embodies the essence of tranquility and majesty of nature, encouraging us to deeply realize the moment. The painting depicts tranquil fields under a ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Important Contemporary Modernist Abstract Flower Still Life Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive contemporary still life oil painting by Stephen Heigh. Oil on canvas. Signed.
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Early 2000s Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Peach Refrigerator - Kitchen Interior Painting Yellow Cabinets Tiled Floor, 2021
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary painting in acrylic on canvas, a refrigerator with assorted magnets stands next to a microwave, toaster oven and blender, surrounded by wooden cabinets in a kitc...
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2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Mountain flowers
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this vibrant oil painting, I aimed to capture the serene vitality of a mountain landscape juxtaposed with the delicate beauty of blooming flowers at its base. Expressive brushstro...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Blooming Cherry Blossom Tree Casts Its Petals Over a Sun-Kissed Green Meadow
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Springtime Cherry Tree by Helen Greenfield (British 20th century) gouache painting on artist paper, unframed artist paper: 13 x 18 inches condition: overall very good provenance: al...
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20th Century Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Gouache

20th Century French Expressionist Bright Still Life Fruit Bowl Grapes and Pears
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Fruit Bowl Still Life by Akos Biro (Hungarian 1911-2002) pastel painting on artist gallery paper, unframed painting: 6.5 x 6.5 inches provenance: the artists estate, Fran...
Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Pastel

Interior of a Japanese House
Located in New York, NY
Harry Humphrey Moore led a cosmopolitan lifestyle, dividing his time between Europe, New York City, and California. This globe-trotting painter was also active in Morocco, and most importantly, he was among the first generation of American artists to live and work in Japan, where he depicted temples, tombs, gardens, merchants, children, and Geisha girls. Praised by fellow painters such as Thomas Eakins, John Singer Sargent, and Jean-Léon Gérôme, Moore’s fame was attributed to his exotic subject matter, as well as to the “brilliant coloring, delicate brush work [sic] and the always present depth of feeling” that characterized his work (Eugene A. Hajdel, Harry H. Moore, American 19th Century: Collection of Information on Harry Humphrey Moore, 19th Century Artist, Based on His Scrap Book and Other Data [Jersey City, New Jersey: privately published, 1950], p. 8). Born in New York City, Moore was the son of Captain George Humphrey, an affluent shipbuilder, and a descendant of the English painter, Ozias Humphrey (1742–1810). He became deaf at age three, and later went to special schools where he learned lip-reading and sign language. After developing an interest in art as a young boy, Moore studied painting with the portraitist Samuel Waugh in Philadelphia, where he met and became friendly with Eakins. He also received instruction from the painter Louis Bail in New Haven, Connecticut. In 1864, Moore attended classes at the Mark Hopkins Institute in San Francisco, and until 1907, he would visit the “City by the Bay” regularly. In 1865, Moore went to Europe, spending time in Munich before traveling to Paris, where, in October 1866, he resumed his formal training in Gérôme’s atelier, drawing inspiration from his teacher’s emphasis on authentic detail and his taste for picturesque genre subjects. There, Moore worked alongside Eakins, who had mastered sign language in order to communicate with his friend. In March 1867, Moore enrolled at the prestigious École des Beaux-Arts, honing his drawing skills under the tutelage of Adolphe Yvon, among other leading French painters. In December 1869, Moore traveled around Spain with Eakins and the Philadelphia engraver, William Sartain. In 1870, he went to Madrid, where he met the Spanish painters Mariano Fortuny and Martin Rico y Ortega. When Eakins and Sartain returned to Paris, Moore remained in Spain, painting depictions of Moorish life in cities such as Segovia and Granada and fraternizing with upper-crust society. In 1872, he married Isabella de Cistue, the well-connected daughter of Colonel Cistue of Saragossa, who was related to the Queen of Spain. For the next two-and-a-half years, the couple lived in Morocco, where Moore painted portraits, interiors, and streetscapes, often accompanied by an armed guard (courtesy of the Grand Sharif) when painting outdoors. (For this aspect of Moore’s oeuvre, see Gerald M. Ackerman, American Orientalists [Courbevoie, France: ACR Édition, 1994], pp. 135–39.) In 1873, he went to Rome, spending two years studying with Fortuny, whose lively technique, bright palette, and penchant for small-format genre scenes made a lasting impression on him. By this point in his career, Moore had emerged as a “rapid workman” who could “finish a picture of given size and containing a given subject quicker than most painters whose style is more simple and less exacting” (New York Times, as quoted in Hajdel, p. 23). In 1874, Moore settled in New York City, maintaining a studio on East 14th Street, where he would remain until 1880. During these years, he participated intermittently in the annuals of the National Academy of Design in New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia, exhibiting Moorish subjects and views of Spain. A well-known figure in Bay Area art circles, Moore had a one-man show at the Snow & May Gallery in San Francisco in 1877, and a solo exhibition at the Bohemian Club, also in San Francisco, in 1880. Indeed, Moore fraternized with many members of the city’s cultural elite, including Katherine Birdsall Johnson (1834–1893), a philanthropist and art collector who owned The Captive (current location unknown), one of his Orientalist subjects. (Johnson’s ownership of The Captive was reported in L. K., “A Popular Paris Artist,” New York Times, July 23, 1893.) According to one contemporary account, Johnson invited Moore and his wife to accompany her on a trip to Japan in 1880 and they readily accepted. (For Johnson’s connection to Moore’s visit to Japan, see Emma Willard and Her Pupils; or, Fifty Years of Troy Female Seminary [New York: Mrs. Russell Sage, 1898]. Johnson’s bond with the Moores was obviously strong, evidenced by the fact that she left them $25,000.00 in her will, which was published in the San Francisco Call on December 10, 1893.) That Moore would be receptive to making the arduous voyage across the Pacific is understandable in view of his penchant for foreign motifs. Having opened its doors to trade with the West in 1854, and in the wake of Japan’s presence at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876, American artists were becoming increasingly fascinated by what one commentator referred to as that “ideal dreamland of the poet” (L. K., “A Popular Paris Artist”). Moore, who was in Japan during 1880–81, became one of the first American artists to travel to the “land of the rising sun,” preceded only by the illustrator, William Heime, who went there in 1851 in conjunction with the Japanese expedition of Commodore Matthew C. Perry; Edward Kern, a topographical artist and explorer who mapped the Japanese coast in 1855; and the Boston landscapist, Winckleworth Allan Gay, a resident of Japan from 1877 to 1880. More specifically, as William H. Gerdts has pointed out, Moore was the “first American painter to seriously address the appearance and mores of the Japanese people” (William H. Gerdts, American Artists in Japan, 1859–1925, exhib. cat. [New York: Hollis Taggart Galleries, 1996], p. 5). During his sojourn in Nippon (which means, “The Land of the Rising Sun”), Moore spent time in locales such as Tokyo, Yokohama, Kyoto, Nikko, and Osaka, carefully observing the local citizenry, their manners and mode of dress, and the country’s distinctive architecture. Working on easily portable panels, he created about sixty scenes of daily life, among them this depiction of an interior of a dwelling. The location of the view is unknown, but the presence of a rustic rail fence demarcating a yard bordering a distant house flanked by tall trees, shrubs and some blossoming fruit trees, suggests that the work likely portrays a building in a city suburb or a small village. In his book, Japanese Homes and Their Surroundings, Edward S. Morse (an American zoologist, orientalist, and “japanophile” who taught at Tokyo Imperial University from 1877 to 1879, and visited Japan again in 1891 and 1882) noted the “openness and accessibility of the Japanese house...
Category

Late 19th Century Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Autumn Flowers - impressionist still life artwork oil painting modern flowers
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. This small scale still life study by John D Martin imparts a s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Beautful sea
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this painting, I captured the vibrant essence of the ocean's spirit. Using oil paints, I melded expressionism with realism to convey the raw, untamed beauty of the sea. The stroke...
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2010s Expressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Linen

The Yellow Rose
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted by Nelson H. White, in his studio. A single yellow rose stands as the focal point in a small 6 x 4 inch panel. Poking out of a glass bottle, against a dark background, shades...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

Modern French Oil Painting Two Reclining Nudes in a Red and Blue Abstract Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Modern French Oil Painting Two Reclining Nudes in a Red and Blue Abstract Scene by Bernadette Kelly (French b. 1933) Unsigned Medium: oil painting on board, unframed Painting ...
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Late 20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

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