Emil Bisstram

Stormy Coast Maine

1968

Signed and dated 2018 His father nearly sold 5-year- old Erik Johnsen in 1965 for $600. What followed was a chaotic journey into beatings, sexual abuse and groundlessness. Moving co...

Pages, Jules (American 1867 - 1946) “Pont Neuf, Paris” Oil on artist board, Pencil sketches and estate stamp verso Estate Stamp signed 13 ½ x 10 ¼ Inches, 23 ½ x 20 ½ Inches, Framed Provenance: Niece of the artist, Normandy, France About A prominent landscape and marine painter, Jules Eugène Pages...

Signed lower left. George Lafayette Clough was born September 18, 1824, in Auburn, New York, and was that city's leading landscapist and, known as a Hudson River School painter, became Auburn's most noted resident painter of the mid-century. His mother was widowed shortly after his birth, and he was raised without paternal influence. He had little formal education and was employed by the age of ten. By age fifteen he had taken up painting, and his first and informal art influence came from the portraitist, Randall Palmer. In 1844 Clough opened his own studio in Auburn. About that time Charles Loring...

Signed lower left Landscape and figure painter William Partridge Burpee was born in Rockland, Maine on April 13, 1846. As a young man, he was educated in Rockland schools and in the Kents Hill Academy in Readfield, Maine. He exhibited a great deal of interest as a youth in painting and drawing, In the late 1870s, he studied with marine painter, William Bradford (1823-1894). Burpee's early work of the 1880s reflects Bradford's influence as well as other painters such as Martin Johnson Heade, Fitz Hugh Lane, Frederic Edwin Church, A. T. Bricher and F. A. Silva. After briefly advertising himself as an artist in the Rockland City Directory in 1882, Burpee appeared that year in Boston. By September 1, 1885, he was painting figures on Lynn Beach...

Signed lower right. A prominent landscape and marine painter, Jules Eugène Pages spent most of his career in France where he was a well-known Impressionist painter, but he mainta...

Signed lower left and dated 1863. Known as a Hudson River School painter, especially of mountain landscapes, Arthur Parton was well established in the New York art world where he exhibited at the National Academy of Design for more than half a century. He was born in Hudson, New York to a religious family supported by a cabinetmaker father. He enrolled in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts as a student of William Trost Richards, who remained a strong influence, and in 1862, his first exhibitions were in Philadelphia. In 1864, he moved to New York City where he exhibited regularly with the National Academy of Design excepting 1869 when he spent a year in Europe and was influenced by the Barbizon style of painting. In 1874, he and his wife moved into the Tenth Street Building in New York City, and he kept his studio there until 1893. In 1876, he gained much national notoriety at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition for his paintings November, Loch Lomond and Solitude. He spent summers painting in the...

BALCONY VIEWS Size: 65 x 50.5 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A charming and inviting mid-century composition, executed in oil onto board. The paintin...

THE WORKING FARM Size: 48 x 56.5 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A brilliantly executed mid century modernist landscape composition of a farm, painted in oil onto board. Executed...

FAUVIST FIELD Size: 43 x 73 cm (including frame) Oil on board A bright and vividly coloured mid century landscape composition, executed in oil onto board and dated 1963. Characteri...

GOLDEN MEADOWS Size: 58 x 70 cm (including frame) Oil on board An large and alluring textured modernist coastal landscape composition, executed in oil onto board and dated 1950. Th...

RED HOUSES IN NATURE Size: 30.5 x 40.5 cm (including frame) Oil on Board A serene and uplifting mid-century landscape painting, executed in oil onto board. The composition presents a captivating stretch of red houses positioned centrally, creating a beautiful contrast against the lush greenery that surrounds it. The background unveils a serene blue lake, mirroring the vast blue sky above. Beyond the lake, a row of green hills unfolds, extending into the horizon. The artist’s expressive brushstrokes as well as the overlaying of rich colours contribute to the overall sense of movement and energy within the painting, creating an uplifting atmosphere. This oil on board is housed in a stunning wide-profiled distressed champagne wood...

ITALIAN VALLEY Size: 38 x 49 cm (including frame) Oil on board A beautifully textured and expressive modernist style landscape composition, painted in oil onto canvas and dated 1967...