Emma Ruff

Souk - Early 20th Century North African Town Landscape Antique French Painting

c.1920

A beautiful oil on panel depicting the Piazza of San Gimignano, a walled medieval town in the hills of Sienna province in Tuscany, by Bruno Guaitamacchi...

A superb Belgian naïf masterpiece depicting figures on a boat tour of the Caves of Han (Grottes de Han) in Southern Belgium. Visitors to the ancient caves used to exit by way of a short boat ride, which is what is depicted in this work, That exit route was replaced by a bridge in 2009. The work is signed "G. van Bael" lower right and dated 1985. As with many naïf artists we have not been able to find any information about G. van Bael, but their illustrations were once used on Neuhaus Belgian chocolate...

"Fence Jumper" is an oil painting with chalk and graphite on wood panel, and measures 16" high by 12" wide. It is finished with a clear resin across the surface, lending the artwork a particular warmth and liquidity that is rare and lovely to behold. Typical of the artist, the painting is a mystery despite its apparent simplicity – a boy, a young lad leaps over the fence, seen here mid-flight. It's clearly important to the boy. His focus and sense of achievement ring out. Drawn lines and painterly brushstrokes render the scene, but also note the toned wood coming through as color and texture. All of it held, as if in time, by the resin layer acting as a lens to both transmit this picture and admit light to the picture. A true artifact. From Will Hudson...

George Lambert (1863-1946) * Alternate title for painting is "Stonington Lighthouse". Signed lower right. Beautiful example of Lambert's best work. Painted very much in the style and...