20th Century Interior Paintings

Signed "HP" at lower right, and inscribed "Eric Horsbrugh-Porter / Phyllida one week old" on verso. The overall dimensions, including the frame, are 17 x 21 5/8 inches.

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...

A Room With a View Stig Wernheden (1921-1997) signed oil painting on canvas, in a wooden frame framed: 28 x 24 inches canvas: 27.5 x 23.5 inches provena...

’Untitled’ By Richard Bawden Medium - Watercolour Signed - Yes Size - 540mm x 500 Date - Unknown Condition - Fair 8 out of 10 Painter and printmaker, ...

signed Sinai French Post-Impressionist School, late 20th century oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 10.75 x 14 inches provenance: private collection condition: very good and so...

Pink Flowers, Still Life by Max Toutain (1935-2006) oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas : 21.5 x 26 inches Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist have come from the...

Bouquet de Roses by Leon Garraud (French 1877-1967) signed oil on board, framed framed: 19 x 16 inches board: 15.5 x 12 inches inscribed verso to label provenance: private collection...

The Seated Gentleman by Georges JOUBIN (1888-1983) signed and inscribed/ dated verso signed oil on canvas, unframed Canvas : 36 x 29 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris Con...

Title: Mid Century French Study Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) Medium: Pencil/ charcoal on artists paper Size: 25.5 (height) x 19.5 (width) Stamped: Verso Condition: ...

Les Blanches Roses by Louise Derival, French early 20th century signed oil on canvas, framed in a beautiful period frame. framed: 31 x 31 inches canvas: 26 x 26 inches provenance: p...

Roger Bonafe (French b. 1932) signed and dated 81 oil pastel on thick art paper, inscribed verso Size 22.5 x 30 inches Bonafe was born in the town of ...

Late 20th century oil on board painting of a still-life signed bottom left 'Magotti'. The painting is titled 'pepe, sale e stecchii' (pepper, salt and toothpicks) to the reverse and ...

Very finely painted American modernist flower still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed lower right. Image size, 12H by 17L.

Pink Flowers Still Life French impressionist artist, mid 20th century signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 18 x 21.5 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: a few ...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Sight Size 25.75" x 23.50," Framed 33.00" x 30.50"

Abstract Composition by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed stamped verso painting : 24 x 20 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good a...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Left Probable proposed fuel advertisement or calendar illustration for Koppers Coke.

An original painting by Harry McCormick from circa 1980. In an excellent gold frame. Artist: Harry McCormick, American (1942 - ) Title: Woman in Yellow Dress...

Interior Scene by Helen Greenfield (British 20th century) oil painting on thin board, unframed board: 18 x 25 inches condition: overall very good provenance: all the paintings we hav...

Wildflower Still Life signed by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) dated 1971 original watercolor on artist paper size: 20 x 17 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoy...

Nature Morte French School, late 20th century signed verso oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 13 x 16 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sou...

A stunning British RA exhibited still life oil painting by artist Mary Kent Harrison who exhibited throughout her career. This stunning oil is a bold, adventurous and confident still...

Julian Stanczak (American, 1928-2017) Double Focus II, 1963 acrylic on canvas signed and dated verso 33 x 40 inches Julian Stanczak (American, b. November 5, 1928) was an American ...

Champagne by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 26 x 19.5 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound condition

This artwork "Au Cafe (Three Women Sitting)" is an oil painting on canvas by noted Israeli artist Isaac Maimon, b.1955. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas size is 19.75 x 23.75 inches, framed size is 37.75 x 33.75 inches. It is custom framed in a gold frame, with double liner. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Painting in bold colors society scenes, Isaac Maimon was born in Israel in 1951 to French-speaking parents, and in his artwork, he shows much influence of the "boulevard culture" of French society and the Paris school of art...

Dynamic Primary Geometric Abstract in Oil on Canvas Colorful and dynamic oil abstracted geometric composition by Ross H. Pollette (American, b. 1948). Bright colors are arranges in ...

Flower Sketches by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed pastel/watercolor on paper, unframed painting: 13 x 19 inches good condition provenance: from...

Attributed to Jean Sardi, French (b. 1947) Painting, Oil on Board "Seated Woman". Apparently not signed. Dimensions: Sight- 30.5" x 24.5", Frame- 31.25" x 25.25". Jean Sardi is a French Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1947. His meeting in 1980 with the Toulon painter Jacques Bartoli...

Contemporary Impressionist Still Life by Helen Greenfield (British 20th century) signed initials oil painting on board, framed framed: 25 x 31 inches board: 24 x 30 inches condition:...

Orange Chair by Helen Greenfield (British 20th century) gouache painting on artist paper, unframed artist paper: 25 x 18 inches condition: overall very good provenance: all the pai...

Vegetable Abstract by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 19.5 x 24 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound condi...

Artist/ School: British School, late 20th century, signed Title: Extravagant Still Life of Fruit Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed. Size: painting is 18 x 24 inches, frame: 2...

This artwork "TheLetter" c.1970 is an oil painting on canvas by Spanish artist Miguel Montaner, 1917-2006. It is signed at the lower right corner by t...

Plant Still Life by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 18 x 24 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound condition

Abstract Oil Painting, Monochrome, French By French artist, Pierre-Gerard Langlois (French 1940-1994) Signed by the artist on the lower right hand corner Oil painting on canvas, unfr...

French Bread Still Life by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 20 x 25.5 inches provenance: artists estate, France...

Still Life by Christian Duriaud (French b. 1943) signed and dated, oil on canvas inscribed verso canvas: 20 x 24 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good ...

Artist/ School: Sophie Rubinstain (French, 20th century), stamped verso Title: Portrait of a Young Lady Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed Size: painting: 21.5 x 18 inche...

Original illustration for an article entitled "While the Mother Works: A Look at the Day Nurseries of New York" by Lillie Hamilton French, published in The Century Magazine...

Peace Lily Still Life in Terra Cotta - Acrylic on Paper A simple still life of a peace lily with a fruit bowl in the background by acclaimed bluegrass musician Katherine "Kathy" Kallick (American, b. 1952). This composition has a cubist feel, with somewhat exaggerated angles and lines. Unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of the artist's work. Paper size: 15.25"H x 14.25"W Katherine Kallick...

Richard Andres (American, 1927-2013) Blue Wall, c. 1959 oil on canvas signed and titled verso 42 x 60 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 designed and made the simple gold wedding ring Avis wore for their 65 years of marriage. During those 65 years neither wavered in their mutual love, nor in the respect they shared for one another’s art. The couple lived in a converted chicken coop in Missouri while Richard was in boot camp. At the camp, he would volunteer for any job offered and one of those jobs ended up being painting road signs. His commander noticed how quickly and neatly he worked and gave him more painting work to do - eventually recommending him for a position painting murals for Army offices in Panama. Until her dying day, Avis remained angry that “The army got to keep those fabulous murals and they probably didn’t even know how wonderful they were.” In Panama, their first son, Mark, was born. After Richard’s discharge in 1953, they moved back to the Cleveland area and used the GI bill to attend Kent State gaining his BA in education. The small family then moved briefly to Buffalo, where Richard taught at the Albright Art School and the University of Buffalo – and their second son, Peter, was born. Richard had exhibited work in the Cleveland May Show and the Butler Art Museum during his art school years, and during the years in Buffalo, his work was exhibited at the gallery he had so loved as a child, the Albright Art Gallery. In 1956, the family moved back to the Cleveland area and Richard began teaching art at Lincoln West High School during the day while working toward his MA in art at Kent State in the evenings. Avis and Richard, with the help of an architect, designed their first home - a saltbox style house in Hudson, Ohio, and in 1958, their third son, Max (after Max Beckmann) was born. Richard enjoyed the consistency of teaching high school as well as the time it gave him to paint on the weekends and during the summer months. In 1961, he received his MA and his daughter, Claire, was born. With a fourth child, the house was much too small, and Avis and Richard began designing their second home. An admirer of MCM architecture, Richard’s favorite example of the style was the Farnsworth house – he often spoke of how the concepts behind this architectural style, particularly that of Mies van der Rohe, influenced his painting. Andres described himself as a 1950’s...

Flowers in Vase by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) signed (dated 1976 verso) original gouache painting on thick paper/ card unframed condition: very good and sound; the edges hav...

Artist/ School: Robert Sales, French School second half 20th century, signed Title: Still life with lemons. Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed Size: painting: 23.75 x 28.75...

Artist/ School: Christof Gracieuse, signed and dated 1979 Title: 'Modernist Still life with teapot' Medium: oil on canvas, framed Framed: 23 x 38 inches Painting: 16 x 31 inches ...

Ornate Flowers in Vase Pair of original French paintings, circa 1950's period signed with monograme 2 x oil paintings on unframed board, with added collage/ mixed media each of the b...

Bell Ringing Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) gouache on artist paper, unframed painting : 16 x 20 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound condition

Roses and vase by Bonnie Beach Ryan (American, 1901-1940). In 1933, Bonnie Beach Ryan held her first solo show of flower and still life paintings at the Dana Bartlett...

Geometric Composition by René GUINAND (French, 1892-1983), signed oil on canvas, in a wooden frame - left side missing Framed: 26 x 32 inches Canvas : 25.5 x 31.5 inches Inscribed ve...

Wine Bottles by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 25.5 x 19.5 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound condition

Still Life Watercolor signed by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolor on thin board size: 11.5 x 10 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed provena...

Valley House Gallery is honored to present a selection of paintings from the estate of American artist, John Hartell (1902-1995). John Hartell taught two disciplines at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York: freshman architecture and graduate painting. He was a much-loved professor there from 1930 until his retirement in 1967; one of his most illustrious students is the architect Richard Meier. As an artist, Hartell's first solo exhibition was in 1937 at Kleeman Gallery in New York. He exhibited at Kraushaar Galleries in New York for four decades, beginning in 1943. The Hartell Gallery at Cornell University, under the Sibley Dome, is named for him. In describing John Hartell, the artist Michael Boyd...

Wacky Interior Scene by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour/ gouache painting on paper board, unframed size: 10 x 8.75 inches condition: very good and ready ...

Flowers in Interior French School, circa 1950's indistinctly signed upper corner oil on board, framed framed: 23 x 20 inches board: 18 x 15 inches provenance: private collection, Fra...

Wonderful mid century still life composition with Brass vessel, apples, turnip and pepper by Charles Kingham (American, 1895-1984), c. 1940's. The artist uses a bold color palette an...

Orange Pansies Interior oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 20 x 24 inches provenance: private collection condition: very good and sound condition

"Madam Suburbia #2" (Woman and Child, Sue & Casey) in Oil on Canvas An auburn-haired woman sits in a chair with her young child, by American painter, Patricia Gren Hayes (b. 1932). ...

Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century, signed lower left Title: Pink & White Flowers in a Blue Vase Medium: oil on board, framed framed: 15 x 12 inches board: 10 x 7 in...

Still Life of Flowers by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 13.5 x 10.5 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound ...

Interior Scene by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 14 high by 18 inches wide condition: overal...

Ornate Flowers in Glass Vase Pair of original French paintings, circa 1950's period 2 x oil paintings on unframed board, with added collage/ mixed media each of the boards measures: ...