Octave-Denis-Victor Guillonnet

Fountain in a Park

circa 1930s

'French Riviera View', oil on wood, French School (circa 1950s). Discovered in the South of France, this charming oil painting depicts one of the small coastal village towns of the R...

'Port of Saint-Malo', oil on canvas affixed to board, French Modern School (1984). Although the artist dated this painting '84, it depicts a nostalgic view of the port of Saint-Malo in Western France's, Brittany in 1884 judging by the clothing worn by the characters depicted. The crowd on the shoreline is watching a sailboat regatta starting just inside the port's breakwater. A rather rare sunny day in Brittany brought out the parasols of the sitting ladies on the edge of the old ramparts. The walled city...

'The Mill', oil on paper mounted on canvas, by Louis Latapie (circa 1930s). A colourful wintery scene, the bare trees are like wireless telephone poles along ...

'The Town Hall of Les Baux-de-Provence', oil on canvas, by Yves Brayer (1946). Having spent several months a year in Provence, the artist created dozens of wo...

'Cabins in the Camargue' by Yves Brayer (circa 1950s). The Camargue is a vast, swampy delta near Arles, very exotic, with tall marsh grasses where pink flamingos, black bulls and white horses roam freely. This image depicts one of the gardians in a small gathering of cabanes, hat hanging cowboy-style around the back of the neck, as he approaches his horse grazing outside its modest stable. Although there are many horses that still run free in the Camargue, there are cowboys like this one — called gardians — who ride the white horses on the beaches...

'Landscape', oil on canvas, by Charles Kvapil (1928). The artist, Kvapil, has scores of tremendous artworks which depict scenes in nature such as this one. Here, a bit of Mediterrane...

Ljuba Petrović (Serbian, 1928) Busy Winter Landscape • Oil on artist board / thick card • Alluminium frame ca. 35 x 77 cm • Visible image ca. 20.5 x 62.5 cm • Signed and dated lower right (19)73 • Good, untouched original condition Ljuba Petrović is a Serbian painter born in 1928 in Nis, ex Yugoslavia / now Serbia. Originally an agricultural worker, he later worked as a painter decorator and served as a town hall official in his native Nis. He went on to create frescos, wall paintings and small paintings, which after joining local exhibitions, he exhibited in 1973 in Geneva, Switzerland and in the eighties successfully in Paris, at the Salon International d'Art Naïf. Petrović is a typical representative of the Yugoslave naïve school of painting...

Rudolf Johann Weiss (Swiss, * 3.9.1846 Basel, † 17.4.1933 Biel) Die Twannbachgrotte/Twannbachschlucht bei Twann, Biel, Schweiz (= The Twannbach Cave/Twannbach Canyon by Douanne, Bie...

Ralph Reuben/Ruben Stubbs (English, 1824-1879) Low Tide at Sunset • 19thC Oil on artist board (card) ca. 21 x 36.5 cm • Signed bottom right and verso Biografie: Stubbs Ralph Reu...

Reference number F296 Framed with a natural oak floated frame 51 x 66 cm frame included (46 x 61 cm without frame) This work is painted with oil on a paper that is mounted on a canva...

Attributed by Wilhelm von Gegerfelt (1844—1920). The disheveled crowns of the trees indicate to us the raging wind, and the evening sky in the background...

Signed "Martha Cahoon" lower right. Provenance: private collection, Palm Beach Florida About this artist: Born of Swedish immigrant parents in 1905, in Rosindale, Massachusetts, Martha Farham Cahoon had a highly successful business partnership with her husband Ralph Cahoon...