Tempera Paintings

An important 16th-century Italian painting. A tempera-on-panel artwork of remarkable pictorial quality, featuring monumental original carved and gilded woodwork. The altarpiece depic...

Early 18th-Century Italian Venetian Portrait Painting on Glass This wonderful early 18th-century portrait of a lady holding a small dog is a classic example of reverse glass painting...

An important and extremely rare pair of Italian landscapes from the Neoclassical period, painted using the refined technique of tempera. They depict views of the Tyrrhenian coast ne...

The Road is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Valérie de Sarrieu, dimensions are 160 × 160 cm (63 × 63 in). The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes with a...

Museum-quality gold ground painting from the Renaissance period by Smeraldo di Giovanni. It depicts the “Virgin of the Roses” seated on a throne h...

This work is about hope, clouds as a symbol of lightness and aspiration. Dreams that come true.

This stunning British 1920's tempera oil on board painting is by noted artist John Young Hunter. It was painted circa 1927 and the composition is a f...

At the beach is an artwork realized by Aldo Riso. Mixed colored tempera and watercolor painting. Titled on lower left. Frame included: 70.5 x 91.5 cm This beautiful mixed media...

This original artwork by Mark Tobey is a Monotype with tempera, heightened with tempera on paper. Signed Tobey lower right Signed Mark Tobey with the remark GOOD! on the back. Prove...

Bellissima opera siglata E.K. Cornice decò Figura di donna ,Soubrette o Circense con pantera e sullo sfondo un leone dietro le tende Classico soggetto anni 20 Deco Forse per illust...

Mural Study for "History of Water" American Scene Modernism Social Realism WPA Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975) "Water Story" (Study for The History of Water) Tempera and o...

The work is dedicated to memories, that aspect of life without which it is difficult to live.

Inscribed indistinctly verso, 'Painted by H. Herneisen' (?) and dated 1916. Displayed in a period, polished walnut, swept frame. Framed dimensions: 26 H x 2 D x 39.75 W inches Paint...

"Conductor" WPA American Scene. Social Realism. Mid 20th Century. Modern. Music. Mervin M Jules (1912-1994 "Conductor" 8 1/2 x 11 1/4 inches Casein on paper, c. 1940s Signed lower r...

Bright figurative abstract with rich layers of texture and color by Chaz Cole (American, 20th Century). Irregular perimeter. Signed and dated "Chaz Cole" lower right. Signed and date...

An interesting, American School Mid-century tempera painting showing a view of a seated clown rehearsing his dogs for a dance routine while a bareback rider in costume observes in th...

Monogrammist V. R. French School, Second Half of the 19th Century Still life with basket of fruit and birds Tempera on canvas Monogrammed lower right under a Viscount's Crown 74 x...

WPA Mural Study American Scene Social Realism Mid 20th Century Modern Workers Seymour Fogel (1911-1984) Mural Study, untitled 11 x 49 1/4 inches (sight) Tempera on board Provenance:...

Night , 60x60 cm, tempera , Canvas

An important 18th century Italian Old Master tempera on copper panel Baroque painting, "The Road to Emmaus", circa 1700. The painting represents the early resurrection biblical story...

Michael Coleman (b 1946), is known for his landscapes of rich colors in a combination of realism and atmospheric styles, often with animals depicted and the suggestion of natural har...

«lovi II», 100x140 cm, acrylic / canvas

listening to your story, 60x70 cm, tempera , Canvas

"Crested Ibis", 110x135 cm, acrylic / canvas

Victor Mikhail Arnautoff (1896 - 1979) Motion (Mile Rocks Lighthouse), San Francisco, 1939 Oil and tempera on board 60 x 40 inches Signed lower left Provenance: The artist California School of Fine Arts (CFSA) John & Lynne Bolen Fine Arts, Huntington Beach, California Exhibited: New York, World's Fair, Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, 1939. San Francisco Museum of Art, 1962. Literature: American Art from the New York World's Fair 1939, Poughkeepsie, 1987, no. 11, p. 41, illustrated. Robert W. Cherny, Victor Arnautoff and the Politics of Art, Urbana, Illinois, 2017. The lighthouse in the distance is the Mile Rocks Lighthouse in San Francisco Bay, built in 1906 after many shipwrecks made the lighthouse necessary. In 1962 the lighthouse was reduced in size to make room for a helipad. Arnautoff was the son of a Russian Orthodox priest. He showed a talent for art from an early age and hoped to study art after graduating from the gymnasium in Mariupol. With the outbreak of World War I, he enrolled in the Yelizavetgrad Cavalry School. He went on to hold military leadership positions in the army of Nicholas II and the White Siberian army. With the defeat of the Whites in Siberia, he crossed into northeastern China and surrendered his weapons. Arnautoff remained in China for five years. He again tried to pursue art, but was impoverished and took a position training the cavalry of the warlord Zhang Zuolin. He met and married Lydia Blonsky and they had two sons, Michael and Vasily. In November 1925 Arnautoff went to San Francisco on a student visa to study at the California School of Fine Arts. There he studied sculpture with Edgar Walter and painting with several instructors. His wife and children joined him, and they all continued to Mexico in 1929, where, on Ralph Stackpole...

Composition. 1973, canvas, synthetic tempera, cold encaustic, 87x64 cm Cubistic composition in red, yellow, green, blue colors

Autumn Landscape, by 1958, tempera on Masonite, 24 x 36 inches, signed lower left, exhibited: 1) 133rd Annual Exhibition of the National Academy of Design, New York, NY, February 20 – March 16, 1958 (Henry Ward Ranger Purchase Prize); and 2) Henry Ward Ranger Centennial Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY, September 25 - October 12, 1958, #133 (see Levin, Meyer, Illustrative Paintings Gathered for Ranger Show at National Academy, St. Petersburg Times, October 13, 1958 (“There’s a warm, low-keyed picture of golden fields, with distant structures, called “Autumn Landscape,” by Robert Vickrey, whose magic realism is felt in so “regular” a subject.”), literature: 1) Watson, Ernest William, Composition in Landscape and Still Life, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1959, pp. 24, 155 and 157 (illustrated); and 2) Vickrey, Robert and Cochrane, Diane, New Techniques in Egg Tempera, Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, 1973, p. 111 (illustrated); ex collection National Academy of Design Reflecting on his art, Robert Vickery...

About the artist: Susan Cohen’s paintings are exhibited with New York City galleries: George Billis, Garvey Simon, First Street,The Painting Center; and the Cynthia Winings Gallery...

Oil and tempera on cardboard realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Hand signed. Includes a beautiful wooden frame cm. 66x54.5.

“Barnaby Fitzgerald’s outrageously gorgeous paintings are a guilty pleasure - yet the guilt is unnecessary, for they do not cloy or fatten us. They are as intellectually challenging ...

Berto Lardera (1911-1989). Collage, 1958. Paper, cardboard, paint. 29 x 40.5 inches; 31.5 x 42 inches framed. Signed and dated lower right. Bears origina...

German Abstract Expressionist Works on Paper by Anja Decker, Art Informel, c. 1950–1965 Anja Decker (Berlin, 1908 – Munich, 1995) was part of the generation of German artists who he...

German painter (18th–19th century) - Trompe l'oeil with documents, engravings and still life. 38 x 53 cm (without frame) - 41.5 x 56.5 cm (with frame). Tempera on paper, in a gilt ...

A leading figure of American Modern Regionalism and also a musician, Thomas Hart Benton conceived sound as a vital expressive force, embedding auditory resonance into the visual rhyt...

A very beautiful 1930's impressionist tempera painting on board by Lelia Caetani depicting the River Ninfa, in the Garden of Ninfa, which has been called the most Romantic Garden in ...

Sigmund Shawkey (American, 1914-2000) Reflections, c. 1960 Tempera on paper Signed lower right 18.5 x 24.75 inches 25.75 x 29.25 inches, framed Exhibited: The 42nd Annual May Show,...

Portrait of a gentleman, miniature on ivory signed " Menghini ft." for Benedetto Menghini, Roman miniaturist active between 1810 and 1830. An artist considered very skilled for good...

"Mountain Quest" is not just a landscape image, but an emotional invitation to reflect on the power and beauty of the surrounding world, on the desire to achieve a goal and learn so...

Oil and tempera on cardboard realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960. Hand signed lower right. Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist cm. 80x60. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rom...

Skull with Sacred Writings and Tablets of the Law is a superb and colorful tempera on cardboard, realized in 1766 by an anonymous artist of ...

This Italian tempera painted on gilt wood gold ground panel is a Tuscan religious artwork in the style of late Renaissance - early Gothic period. The sc...

Paul Riba (American 1912-1977) Dutch Farmyard, Pennsylvania Tempera on board Signed lower right 9.75 x 14 inches 12.75 x 16.75 inches, framed Provenance: The Estate of Mary Clark Roc...

Blue Lines is an original artwork realized by Giorgio Lo Fermo (b. 1947) in 2020. Mixed media in tempera and watercolor on paper Hand-signed and dated by the artist on the lower ri...

This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Refreshment and Intermission, tempera on board, 11 x 19 inches, c. 1930/40s, signed lower middle, exhibited at Groom's one person show at Closson’s Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, March, 1943 (see The Cincinnati Enquirer, March 7, 1943, section 3, p. 4); provenance includes a private Ohio collection; presented in a period gold painted frame About the Painting Refreshment and Intermission is part of a series of paintings of Amish subjects Grooms started in 1938 based on his travels in Pennsylvania. These tempera works reflect the Regionalist impulse to paint local scenes far away from big cities. Focusing on both people and landscape, Grooms' compositions tell the stories of the uniquely American experience of the Amish. “Grooms paints the Amish people with as much understanding of type and appreciation of the plastic quality as any artist who has approached this challenging subject," noted the art critic for The Cincinnati Inquirer when reviewing Grooms' solo exhibition at Closson' Gallery, "In his current show, ‘Refreshment and Intermission,’ is a case in point. Here the absorbed concentration of people eating is described without an ounce of sentimentality. He has made the most of the interest between groups and of the conversations, both humorous and serious. The work has the quaint simplicity of a Lord’s Supper...

Self-Portrait, c. 1940, oil and tempera on Masonite, artist’s name inscribed verso, 30 x 25 inches William Ashby McCloy was an American artist, educator, and clinical psychologist. ...

Subha Basu - Alone in the Roof Tempera & Charcoal on Acid Free Paper, 9.5 x 10.5 inches, 2019 Born - 1982 at Kolkata. B.V.A from The Indian College of Art ...

Diego Rivera 1886-1957 Mexican Mother and Child Signed and dated "Diego Rivera 1934" (lower right) Tempera on plaster In this intimate masterwork, Mother and Child, the great Die...

A commanding late-period work by American modernist Doel Reed, Spring Storm (1980) exemplifies the artist’s mature exploration of tonal landscape and atmospheric drama. Painted just ...

An original realist egg tempera painting by American artist Catherine Koenig created during her travels to Mexico. This work will be featured in the gallery's upcoming exhibition "Dr...

The Room of Metamorphosis is an original contemporary artwork realized in 1998 by the italian artist Leo Guida (1992-2017). Original mixed colored tempera. Study of colors for the ...

Signed lower right 'Dante' for Giglio Raphael Dante (American, born 1916), titled verso and painted circa 1940. Raphael Dante first studied at the Academy of Rome prior to moving to...

Panagia Paramythia (Mother of Consolation) Artist: Oliver Samsinger. Technique: Egg tempera on gesso and wood, with 24‑karat gold leaf. Dimensions: 37 × 31 × 2.5 cm. Description of...

John Hanlen (1922-2003). Flower Market, Lima Peru, ca. 1950. Tempera on paper, sheet measures 14.25 x 22.5 inches. Measurement with matting: 18.5 x 26.5 inches. The piece is unfra...

China Cup with Pitcher Egg Tempera Realism Strawberries Marbles Framed by realist painter Mark Thompson is 10.5" x 9.75" Notice the figure of the art...

La Piscine de mon Rêve Swimming Pool of my Dream Landscape Tempera Painting on Linen Canvas In Stock Paul Delmée (Brussels, 1944) received his education at the Academie des Beaux Art...

Provenance: with “Mr. Scheer,” Vienna, by July 1918; where acquired by: Jindřich Waldes, Prague, 1918–1941; thence by descent to: Private Collection, New York Literature: Rudolf Kuchynka, “České obrazy tabulové ve Waldesově obrazárně,” Památky archeologické, vol. 31 (1919), pp. 62-64, fig. 5. Jaroslav Pešina, “K datování deskových obrazů ve Waldesově obrazárně,” Ročenka Kruhu pro Pěstování Dějin Umění: za rok (1934), pp. 131-137. Jaroslav Pešina, Pozdně gotické deskové malířství v Čechách, Prague, 1940, pp. 150-151, 220. Patrik Šimon, Jindřich Waldes: sběratel umění, Prague, 2001, pp. 166, 168, footnote 190. Ivo Hlobil, “Tři gotické obrazy ze sbírky Jindřicha Waldese,” Umění, vol. 52, no. 4 (2004), p. 369. Executed sometime in the 1380s or 1390s by a close associate of the Master of the Třeboň Altarpiece, this impressive panel is a rare work created at the royal court in Prague and a significant re-discovery for the corpus of early Bohemian painting. It has emerged from an American collection, descendants of the celebrated Czech industrialist and collector Jindřich Waldes, who died in Havana fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. The distinctive visual tradition of the Bohemian school first began to take shape in the middle of the fourteenth century after Charles IV—King of Bohemia and later Holy Roman Emperor—established Prague as a major artistic center. The influx of foreign artists and the importation of significant works of art from across Europe had a profound influence on the development of a local pictorial style. Early Italian paintings, especially those by Sienese painters and Tommaso da Modena (who worked at Charles IV’s court), had a considerable impact on the first generation of Bohemian painters. Although this influence is still felt in the brilliant gold ground and the delicate tooling of the present work, the author of this painting appears to be responding more to the paintings of his predecessors in Prague than to foreign influences. This Resurrection of Christ employs a compositional format that was popular throughout the late medieval period but was particularly pervasive in Bohemian painting. Christ is shown sitting atop a pink marble sarcophagus, stepping down onto the ground with one bare foot. He blesses the viewer with his right hand, while in his left he holds a triumphal cross with a fluttering banner, symbolizing his victory over death. Several Roman soldiers doze at the base of the tomb, except for one grotesque figure, who, beginning to wake, shields his eyes from the light and looks on with a face of bewilderment as Christ emerges from his tomb. Christ is wrapped in a striking red robe with a blue interior lining, the colors of which vary subtly in the changing light. He stands out prominently against the gold backdrop, which is interrupted only by the abstractly rendered landscape and trees on either side of him. The soldiers’ armor is rendered in exacting detail, the cool gray of the metal contrasting with the earth tones of the outer garments. The sleeping soldier set within a jumble of armor with neither face nor hands exposed, is covered with what appears to be a shield emblazoned with two flies on a white field, somewhat resembling a cartouche (Fig. 1). This may be a heraldic device of the altarpiece’s patron or it may signify evil, referencing either the Roman soldiers or death, over both of which Christ triumphs. This painting formed part of the collection assembled by the Czech industrialist and founder of the Waldes Koh-i-noor Company, Jindřich Waldes, in the early twentieth century. As a collector he is best remembered for establishing the Waldes Museum in Prague to house his collection of buttons (totaling nearly 70,000 items), as well as for being the primary patron of the modernist painter František Kupka. Waldes was also an avid collector of older art, and he approached his collecting activity with the goal of creating an encyclopedic collection of Czech art from the medieval period through to the then-present day. At the conclusion of two decades of collecting, his inventory counted 2331 paintings and drawings, 4764 prints, and 162 sculptures. This collection, which constituted the Waldesova Obrazárna (Waldes Picture Gallery), was first displayed in Waldes’ home in Prague at 44 Americká Street and later at his newly built Villa Marie at 12 Koperníkova Street. This Resurrection of Christ retains its frame from the Waldes Picture Gallery, including its original plaque “173 / Česky malíř z konce 14 stol.” (“Czech painter from the end of the 14th century”) and Waldes’ collection label on the reverse. The Resurrection of Christ was one of the most significant late medieval panel...

Marzio Tamer occupies a unique position in contemporary painting. Few artists working today have developed a visual language in which extraordinary technical mastery and a profound k...

Mid-century abstract in oil and tempera by French artist Hervet in cool tones of blues and purples, signed lower right. Original artwork on paper dis...

Serge Hollerbach (1923-2021). Nude Figure, 1968. Casein on illustration board, image measures 8.5 x 11 inches; 14.5 x 17 inches in a custom Kulicke welded steel frame. Signed and dated lower margin. Painter, Instructor Born in Pushkin, Russia November 1, 1923. Education : Academy of Fine Arts in Munich; Art Students League with Ernest Fiene; American Art Scholarship with Gordon Samstag. Holdings : St. Paul Gallery...

Icon of Our Lady of Jerusalem. Egg tempera on gesso and over a wooden board. Dimensions in centimeters: 42 x 34 x 2 cm / In inches: 16.54 x 13-39 x 0-79 " Author: Oliver Samsinger...