Willy Monnier

Venice by Willy Monnier - oil on canvas 65x96 cm

1982

Anthony Morris. English ( b.1938 ). Llangynidr Bridge Over The River Usk In Winter. Wales. Oil On Artist's Board. Signed Lower Right. Image size 6.7 inches x 8.7 inches ( 17cm x 22...

Oil painting on panel by artist P. Fragiacomo, dating from the 1910s. The work, titled "Sail," depicts a small sailboat in the middle of the sea with a figure on board seen from behi...

View of a Port "59" French Modernist School Oil on canvas Illegibly signed. l.r., dated "59" 28 3/4 x 23 3/4 (30 x 25 frame) inches A positively brilliant, Modernist view of a French port...

Contemporary figurative mixed media on cardboard painting by Polish artist Dominika Stawarz-Burska. Artwork has characteristical glossy finish to it which resembles surface of cerami...

Elm trees in autumn at the edge of Salt Creek, Illinois, by Mary H. Brubaker (American, b. 1891). Signed and dated "Mary H. Brubaker 35" in the lower left cor...

Wonderful autumnal landscape of figure on overlook hill by Pascua (American, 20th Century), circa 2000. Signed lower right. Unframed. Image size: 22"H x 20"W.

Gorgeous plein air landscape of California East Bay Hills titled "Waning Light" by Francis Woodcock (1906 - 1983), circa 1960s. Signed lower right and on vers...

A vibrant, Mid-Century Modern painting, "Vermont Landscape, Spruce Tree and Shoreline" by notable Chicago artist Harold Haydon. Painted near the artist's longtime summer studio loca...

Hollywood, 1941, oil on board, 18 x 24 inches, signed and dated lower right, illegible writing verso About the Painting From a distance, Beckwith deftly captures the spectacle of a Hollywood premiere. But we have not been invited to the party. Our view is from the shadows of a less glamorous neighborhood with a shaggy, unkept palm tree and rundown buildings in the shadows. We look down through the darkness past a packed parking lot to the bright lights of two iconic Hollywood landmarks, the Pantages Theater and the Broadway Building. Completed in 1930, the Pantages was built as an exuberant Art Deco movie palace, while the Broadway Building housed an upscale department store which catered to entertainment industry elites who were less impacted by the Great Depression than the common man, since movies had become the mainstay of popular culture entertainment during the 1930s with large numbers of Americans looking to immerse themselves in Hollywood escapism. Here, in a rare Los Angeles urban image, Beckwith combines that Hollywood fantasy with the more sobering foreground images which could have been pulled from the L.A. Noire fiction of Raymond Chandler...

Snow in the Valley - Winter Landscape in Oil on Canvas Serene winter landscape by A. V. Gagliardi (20th Century). A valley is covered with snow, with a small house and river in thew...