Raphael Lillywhite

The Summit

circa 1940

Amaizing 19' century Roman landscape depicting a part of Villa Borghese with Trinità dei Monti. With a finely carved gilt wood coeval frame. Measurements with frame cm 65 x78 wit...

Circle of Teniers, Peasants in a Landscape passing by a river and an Inn.

Eiler Carl SORENSEN (Benløse 1869 - 1953) Interior with Staircase Oil on canvas H. 61 cm; W. 55 cm Signed lower right Circa 1930 Exhibition: 1969, Bordeaux, Exposition des Amis des ...

A former student of the Ecole nationale des Beaux-Arts in Paris, Didier Lapène completed this renowned training by benefiting from an important stay at the Casa Velázquez in Madrid. ...

Ricardo FLORÈS (Alençon, 1878 – Rennes, 1918) Notre-Dame. Grey weather Oil on canvas Signed lower right 46 x 55 cm without frame 65 x 74 with frame 1907 Exhibition: Fourth exhibit...

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...

Circle of Jean Victor Bertin (1767-1842) Neoclassical Landscape Oil on canvas Not signed 32.5 x 40.5 cm without frame 56 x 64 cm with frame This rural scene depicts an idealized a...

A gorgeous oil painting of surfers paddling out in the warm pink, late afternoon light waiting for the last waves of the day. It's a social piece about friends, the good things in li...

Hubert AICARDI (1922-1991) Landscape, tree trunks, 1964 Oil on canvas Signed and dated "64" lower right 46 x 55 cm ubert Aicardi is a painter of the Provençal school born in Marseil...

Painting with a traveler on a white horse and accompanied by a dog looking up at a road sign in the form of a cross. On the roadsign is ” Arnhem”. (a town at the Rhine river in the E...