Smirnov

Smirnov - Russian School 20th Century Oil, A Quiet Evening

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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...

This vibrant, abstract painting juxtaposes bold figures in blue and red against a colourful living room interior. The composition is anchored by a framed landscape on the move, creat...

A charming depiction of a rustic workshop looking out on a walled garden. Signed in the lower right. Presented in a painted wooden frame. On canvas.

Oil on canvas, inscribed verso. Presented in a painted wooden frame.

"PRSNT" Mixed Media Abstract Painting 40" x 30" inch by Ben Cope 2022 Photo on deconstructed paper with oils and paint pigments Mixed media oil on wood Ben Cope is a Georgia native...

"PST" Mixed Media Abstract Painting 36" x 24" inch by Ben Cope 2022 Photo on deconstructed paper with oils and paint pigments Mixed media oil on wood Ben...

Subject : Bouquet de Lilas (Title - FR) / In this unique work of oil painting, the artist, who is an adept of contemporary realism and fiction, enjoy painting Interiors spaces and st...

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...