John Atkinson Grimshaw

Autumn Garden Walk

1879-1880

Louis Comfort Tiffany 1848-1933 American White Mountains of New Hampshire Signed "Louis C. Tiffany" (lower right) Watercolor Louis Comfort Tiffany, best known for his revolutiona...

Charles-Joseph-Frédéric Soulacroix 1825-1879 French Afternoon Tea Oil on canvas Signed "F. Soulacroix" (lower right) A charming trio sits down for afternoon tea in this enchantin...

Jean Béraud 1849-1935 French Les Grands Boulevards (Café Américain) Signed "Jean Béraud" (lower left) Oil on panel Jean Béraud’s Les Grands Boulevards (Café Américain) exquisitel...

Childe Hassam 1859-1935 American The Bather Signed and dated “Childe Hassam” (lower right) Oil on canvas Considered by many to be America’s foremost Impressionist painter, Childe Hassam composed his tranquil and intimate oil on canvas The Bather in the early years of the 20th century. The creation of the artwork aligns with a period of Hassam’s career where the artist’s palette was transforming, matching ever closer with the pale and pastel hues of French Impressionists like Claude Monet. Even the subject — a nude woman — represents a greater alignment with the Impressionist project, as artists of the movement and their non-mythological and non-biblical nudes still generated cries of indecency. With Hassam’s signature brushwork and attention to color, The Bather serves as a dream-like vision, serene and sensuous, of a young woman bathing in a lush forest. While the artist's skill for landscape painting is on display, it is Hassam's command of form, light and color that brings this canvas to life. He creates a captivating composition, placing the nude subject in the bottom left of the canvas. The soft, undulating curves of the woman's body in contrapposto and the glow of her fair skin are balanced by the strong verticals and deep earth tones of the tall trees to her right. Hassam delicately frames the nude in the vivid blues of the distant water, building luminous color that further draws the viewer’s eye and results in a somewhat voyeuristic appeal — endowing his nude with both a natural innocence and an intentional sensuality. Born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, Childe Hassam began his artistic career as a freelance illustrator, working for national publications such as Harper’s Weekly, Scribner’s Monthly, and The Century. His first solo exhibition of watercolors took place in Boston in 1883, and he quickly catapulted onto the international scene, winning a bronze medal at the Exposition Universelle in Paris in 1889. The year before the present work was created, he received the Webb Prize from the Society of American Artists for another landscape painted at Gloucester. Hassam would receive numerous other awards throughout his career, most notably the Gold Medal for Distinguished Services to Fine Art from the American Dealers Association. A true master, Hassam depicted a way of life characteristic of both American and French society, and his work elucidates a critical chapter in American art history. Today, his work resides in the Oval Office of the White House and in numerous important museums, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, among others. This painting will be included in Stuart P. Feld's and Kathleen M. Burnside's forthcoming catalogue raisonné of the artist's work. Circa 1905 Canvas: 24 1/2“ high x 20 18” wide Frame: 35 7/8“ high x 31 1/4” wide x 3 1/4“ deep Provenance: Private Collection of William Young...

John Atkinson Grimshaw 1836 - 1893 Looking across Buttermere Oil on canvas, signed & dated '1868' lower right Image size: 13 ½ x 20 ½ inches (34.2 x 50.5 cm) Hand made gilt frame This work is dated 1868 making it one of his early works, painted during the same period as Grimshaw's other Lake District paintings...

Near Midhurst (Surrey, England) by David Mead (1906-1986) signed, dated verso to label 1976. titled verso oil on canvas, framed canvas: 23 x 36 inches framed: 29 x 41 inches the pai...

Artist/ School: English School, late 19th/ early 20th century. The painting came from a large collection of works by one artist. A very few of them are signed what looks to be 'F. Wa...

Signed lower left: Blakelock