Paul Emile Lecomte

Paul Emile Lecomte (1877-1950) Melun, rue de France, signed Oil on panel

circa 1930

Léon Frédéric (1856-1940) Vallée de Nafraiture signed with the estate stamp at the lower left Oil on canvas transfered on panel 29.5 x 44.55 cm Certific...

Maurice Asselin (1882-1947) The House of the painter, Neuilly signed lower left oil on canvas 55 x 46 cm Framed : 63 x 54 cm The subject of this painting is fairly easy to identi...

Jean Robert Ithier (1904-1977) Ars en Ré, view of the church oil on canvas signed lower left 80.5 x 60 cm No frame The church of Ars en Ré, a pittoresque village on the atlantic i...

French school end of 19th century Seaside with two characters, oil on paper 27 x 49 cm In good condition In a modern frame : 35 x 57 cm

This painting was owned by Comte Robert de Montesquiou (1855–1921), Paris Literature: Jane Roberts, Jacques-Émile Blanche (2012), pg. 47 (color illus.), p. 191. Included as no. R...

Signed and dated oil on original canvas by French post impressionist painter Paul Madeline. This beautiful work depicts a mill on the bank of a river - water cascading over the rocks...

A beautiful woman sits at an open window, gazing down at a small bird who has landed nearby in this serene portrait by Charles Levier. Warm orange tones are played off their complements in shades of blue, the artist utilizing several different layers of oils to create a subtle and relaxed view of a spring day near the sea. Beyond the window a small chapel sits on a peninsula, surrounded tranquil blue waters. This work, like many of Levier's, belongs to the French figurative movement of the Glorious Thirty (Les Trente Glorieuses) - the golden period of thirty years after WWII which were a time of great hope and prosperity in France. Inspired by Hollywood cinema, Charles Levier sought harmony in composition and purity of color and form. His said that his creations represented "a light and delicate world, of dark and subtle shades and colors." Levier worked in a somewhat abstracted, cubist style. Additionally he often employed the French technique of "cloisonnism" (after the French for "partition"), a style of post-Impressionist painting with bold and flat forms separated by dark contours, also seen in this work. The term was coined by critic Edouard Dujardin on the occasion of the Salon des Indépendants, in March 1888 and was commonly used by artists like Émile Bernard, Louis Anquetin, Paul...

Presenting qn exceptional oil on panel by American artist Ron Blumberg(1908-2002) Ocean Park bench, is an original oil on panel, signed, c.1957, painted ...