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Period: 1920s
Farmhouse in Autumn, Early 20th Century Landscape by Florence Helena McGillivray
Located in Soquel, CA
Farmhouse in Autumn, Early 20th Century Landscape by Florence Helena McGillivray
A vibrant and colorful late 1920's landscape by Florence Helena McGillivray (Canadian, 1864-1938). This beautiful 1929 landscape depicts a quaint farmhouse in autumn, surrounded by a landscape full of fall foliage in goldenrod yellow, bright orange, and deep red, with soft purple hills receding into the distance.
Signed "F. McGillivray" lower left.
Displayed in a new Arts & Crafts style giltwood frame.
Board size: 16"H x 20"W.
Framed size: 19.25"H x 23.25"W x 1"D.
McGillivray (1864–1938) garnered admiration for her modern landscape paintings, as well as for her mentorship of young artists, including Tom Thomson. She has been credited in some instances as an influence for what would later be known as the Group of Seven.
A prolific sketcher and painter, Florence McGillivray...
Category
American Modern 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Illustration Board
Antique Italian Renaissance Figurative Oil Painting 1920's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3496 oil on board displayed in a gilt -wood frame, signed by Portidne lower right.
Image size 18 H x 14 W
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Southern Bell Female Portrait Oil Painting 1920
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4096 A 1920's oil painting on canvas of an elegant southern lady
.Artist unknown.
Unframed
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique French Art Deco Blue Resting Dancers Figurative Oil by G.Pascal Rocca
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1-4086 A large scale vintage figurative painting, original oil on canvas in shades of blue .Unframed.
Signed on verso G.Pascal Rocca
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Art Deco ca. 1920. Portrait Of Lady With Bob Cut, Purple Dress And Fur Collar
Located in Firenze, IT
Portrait Of A Young Lady From The 1920s With Bob Cut And Fur Collar
Oil on canvas.
Early 20th frame in wood.
This portrait reveals very stylish image of a young woman from the 1920s...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$935 Sale Price
39% Off
Lakeside Reflections, Värmland by Racken Group Artist Ture Ander
Located in Stockholm, SE
Ture Ander (1881-1959) Sweden
Lakeside Reflections, Värmland
oil on board
signed and dated Ture Ander 1945
unframed 33 x 48.5 cm (13.00 x 19.09 tum)
framed 49.5 x 64.5 cm (19.49 x 25.39 tum)
Provenance:
Architect Ludvig Mattsson (1888-1960), Arvika;
Thence by descent until we acquired it in 2024.
Essay:
This impressionistic landscape painting by Ture Ander, a distinguished member of the Rackstad group, captures the tranquil beauty of a serene lake. The still waters mirror the surrounding foliage and sky, creating a captivating interplay of light and reflections.
The Artist: Ture Ander (1881-1959)
Ture Ander, Also known as "Blomstermålaren" (The Flower Painter), was born on September 17, 1881, in Asker, Örebro County, and passed away on February 4, 1959, in Arvika, Värmland. Initially trained in the craft of painting, Ander pursued formal art education at the Technical School in Stockholm from 1898 to 1903. He further honed his skills at the Artist’s Association School between 1905 and 1908 and at the Académie Colarossi in Paris during 1911-1912. Here, he was significantly influenced by Paul Cézanne and other Impressionists.
Ture Ander’s early work often reflects a delicate, impressionistic approach, which can be seen in this lakeside painting...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of a painter in a costume - Oil on wood 65x53 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas with frame
The frame is new and the total size is 70x80 cm
Signed " V. Marendaz ", Unknonwn artist from the gallery
Dated 1920
Category
Realist 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
$720 Sale Price
20% Off
Young woman seated with pearl necklace
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
75.5 x 61.5 x 4 cm
Category
Modern 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
English Victorian Antique landscape, Figures gathering Primroses
By John Bates Noel
Located in Woodbury, CT
English Victorian Antique landscape, Figures gathering Primroses. Cowleigh Woods, North Malvern, UK
John Bates Noel was born John Noel Bates in Worcester in 1870. He was the son of ...
Category
Victorian 1920s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,960 Sale Price
20% Off
Still life with flowers and pottery
Located in Genève, GE
Work on cardboard
Golden wooden frame
75.5 x 65 x 3.5 cm
The Haberjahn family, of Norwegian origin – Habrian or Haberian – had settled in Germany at the beginning of the 19th centur...
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique French Modern Paris School Still Life Framed Surreal Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted modernist still life oil painting with a view of the Eiffel Tower and a rotary phone. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring 20 by 23 inches overall and 15.25 by 18.25 paint...
Category
Surrealist 1920s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century Painting of a Hungarian Winter Wonderland Forest River Snow Scene
Located in Preston, GB
Early 20th Century Painting of a Hungarian Winter Wonderland Forest River Snow Scene.
Art measures 23.5 x 19.5 inches
Frame measures 30 x 26 inches
Laszlo Neogrady was a Hungarian painter best known for his naturalistic depictions of rustic landscape scenes, often featuring peasants and snow-covered forests. Neogrady notably made extensive use of impasto paint and atmospheric colours, achieving a sense of pictorial depth and light in his work. Born in 1896 in Budapest, Hungary as the son of painter Antal Neogrady, he went on to study at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts under the celebrated portrait artist Ede Ballo. Today, Neogrady’s works are found in the collections of the Iowa State...
Category
Land 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Varnish, Cotton Canvas, Canvas
Le Port due Havre - Post Impressionist Landscape Watercolor by Jean Dufy
By Jean Dufy
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated post impressionist watercolor on paper seascape by French painter Jean Dufy. This colourful piece depicts sail boats at the port of Le Havre in France - a commercial...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Portrait Head and Shoulders of a Man - Jewish 20s art male portrait oil painting
By Jacob Kramer
Located in Hagley, England
Jacob Kramer is a Jewish artist who migrated with his family to Leeds to escape the Russian pogroms when Kramer was only eight. This portrait oil painting was painted when Kramer was thirty, in 1922, shortly after his return to Leeds from living in London. It is a head and shoulders portrait of a gentleman with dark hair, gazing to his right, his identity unknown. The light from the left hand side of the painting strongly illuminates the left side of the gentleman's face, making it stand out from the darker background and casts strong shadow on the right. The brushwork is bold and confident in its execution. This is an excellent example of Kramer's Post Impresionist work in the early 1920's when at his artistic peak.
Signed and dated 1922 lower right.
Provenance. Yorkshire estate.
Condition. Oil on canvas, 20 inches by 16 inches and in good condition.
Frame. Housed in an ebonised frame, 23 inches by 19 inches, in good condition.
Jacob Kramer (1892-1962) was born in the small town of Klintsy in 1892, then part of the Russian Empire, into an artistic middle class Jewish family. His father, Max, was a painter who had studied at the St Petersburg Fine Art Academy under Ilya Repin, and had become a court painter to Baron Ginsburg. Kramer's mother, Cecilia, was also artistic being a trained singer who was well known for touring a regional network of theatres established by her father, at which she performed traditional Slavic and Hebrew folk songs. Following the accession of Tsar Nicholas II in 1894 a new virulent anti-semitic policy was introduced to force Russian Jews...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
East Indian (Impressionist Figure)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Marian D. Harris (1904-1988). East Indian, 1925. Oil on artist's board, 9 x 12 inches; 12 x 15 inches in wood frame. Signed lower right. Annotated on verso by Harris. Signed, titled ...
Category
Impressionist 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Paris : Small Houses Near Bievre River - Original oil on panel - Signed
Located in Paris, IDF
Elisée MACLET (1881-1962)
Paris : Small Houses Near Bievre River, c. 1920
Original oil on panel
Signed bottom left
On board 55 x 46 cm (c. 22 x 18")
Presented in a golden frame, 7...
Category
Post-Impressionist 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Corsinge, Geneva" by Albert Charpentier - Oil on canvas
Located in Geneva, CH
Albert Charpentier was born on December 18, 1878 in Paris.
A pupil of Jean-Léon Gérôme, Fernand Cormon and Marcel Baschet, he is a genre and portrait painter, member of the Society ...
Category
Modern 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
$792 Sale Price
58% Off
Swiss chalets (1927) - Oil on canvas 35x46 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work signed Jeannet, artist unknown from the gallery. Dated 1927
Sold with frame, total size with frame is 44x56 cm
Category
Modern 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
$456 Sale Price
52% Off
Still life with bouquet, book, pipe and fruits on a pedestal table
Located in Genève, GE
Dimensions with frame : 91 x 64 x 4.5 cm
This captivating work presents a still life rich in detail, in a large rounded teapot housing bright yellow flowers, creating a striking cont...
Category
Italian School 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Spanish village landscape oil on cardboard painting Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Manuel Isidor Valle Micolau (1874-1959) - Spanish village landscape - Oil on cardboard
Oil on cardboard 11.5x19 cm.
Frame measures 22x28 cm.
Photographer and artist from Lleida trai...
Category
Impressionist 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Landscape of the Swiss Alps
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas mounted on cardboard
Silver wooden frame
45 x 50 x 4 cm
Wildhaus (Toggenburg) mit den Kurfirsten
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Mono Hot Springs Cabins, Fresno Co - Calif" Forest Landscape in Oil on Board
Located in Soquel, CA
"Mono Hot Springs Cabins, Fresno Co - Calif" Forest Landscape in Oil on Board
Serene depiction of two cabins in the Sierra Mountains by HW Dittmann (Dittman) (American, Born-1883 circa). A wooden...
Category
American Impressionist 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
Women to the pearl necklace - Oil on wood 64x53 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Signed " V. Marendaz " but this artist in unknown from the gallery.
Dated 1928
Oil on wood without frame
Category
Realist 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of a lady
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Burgundy wooden frame
75.5 x 65 x 4 cm
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Woman - Oil on Plywood by Domenico Cantatore - 1920 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
A beautiful and early portrait of woman by well known italian master of the 20th century.
Good conditions, it includes a contemporary gilded wooden frame.
Certificate of authenticit...
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Oil
Portrait of young woman, 20s hairstyle
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
"French Landscape" Impressionist Oil Painting by Jean D'Esparbes
By Jean d'Esparbès
Located in Pasadena, CA
This impressionist oil painting poetically interprets a garden, where aesthetics blend with a scene shaped by human thought and touch. It is a rare example of French painter Jean d'E...
Category
Impressionist 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Modernist Bold Flower Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted American modernist flower still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed lower right. Image size, 12H by 17L.
Category
Modern 1920s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$700 Sale Price
20% Off
Landscape by the lake
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Ashcan School New York City Street Scene Kids Playing Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school signed New York City street scene oil painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1920. Signed. Image size, 18L x 24H. Housed in a period modern frame.
Category
Modern 1920s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Carnival Cart School of Paris Surreal Figurative
By Francesco Christofanetti
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming surreal oil on board painting of carnival wagon by Francesco Christofanetti (Italian, 1901-1951), 1925. Signed lower left and on verso has inventory notion of 1939. Image size: 12"H x 16"W. Presented in rustic art nouveau giltwood...
Category
Aesthetic Movement 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
Marine - Tempera on Paper by Lucie Navier - 1927
By Lucie Navier
Located in Roma, IT
Marine is a painting realized by Lucie Navier in the 1927.
Tempera on paper.
Mint conditions.
Impressionistic work realized with a Realistic technique and representing a natural...
Category
Modern 1920s Paintings
Materials
Tempera
Landscape With Blue Mountains by Albert Liedbeck, Oil on Canvas, Free Shipping
By Albert Liedbeck
Located in Stockholm, SE
Albert Liedbeck (1881 - 1955) Sweden
Landscape With Blue Mountains
oil on canvas
canvas dimensions 22.04 x 30.70 inches (56 x 78 cm)
frame 24.40 x 31.67 inches (62 x 83 cm)
signed ...
Category
Realist 1920s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1920 Historical Church of Soquel, California Landscape
By Mary DeNeale Morgan
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful historically significant oil painting of the Congregational Church of Soquel by Mary DeNeale Morgan (American, 1868-1948). Signed "M. DeNeale Morgan" lower right corner. Exhibit label on verso. Canvas on Masonite. Displayed in giltwood frame. Image, 24"H x 20"W.
Born in San Francisco in 1868, she was taken to Oakland in 1872, where the painter and teacher William Keith was her first teacher. She was precocious. In 1886 she enrolled in the California School of Design in San Francisco and studied with Emil Carlsen and Amédée Joullin until 1890. She paid her first visit to Carmel in 1903. In 1910 she returned to buy the studio and home of the late Sydney Yard...
Category
American Modern 1920s Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$3,575 Sale Price
44% Off
Girl with glasses. Circa 1920. Double portrait. Spalmach Gino (Rome, 1900-1966)
Located in Firenze, IT
Girl with glasses. About 1920-30. Double portrait. Spalmach Gino
(Rome, 1900 - 1966). Painted on two sides: on one side the young woman with glasses is represented, in charcoal/penci...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Early 20th Century Mountains and the Desert Palm Springs Landscape
By Beatrice Gildersleeve
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene early 20th Century palm springs desert landscape with mountains in the background by Beatrice Gildersleeve (American, 1892 - 1933). Signed "GILDERSLEEVE" in the lower right co...
Category
American Impressionist 1920s Paintings
Materials
Fiberboard, Oil
Dorking, Southern Railway
Located in London, GB
Gouache
Image size: 5 x 4 inches (13 x 10 cm)
Acid free mount and oak frame
As well as being an accomplished artist and illustrator, Gerald Spink worked an aeronautical engineer for Hawker Engineering in Kingston-on-Thames. He designed artwork for a number of travel and advertising posters, for such clients as Southern Railways...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Paintings
Materials
Gouache
NUDE WITH RED HAIR
Located in Los Angeles, CA
LUCIEN BOULIER
"NUDE WITH RED HAIR"
OIL ON PANEL, SIGNED
FRANCE, C.1930
26 X 20 INCHES
Lucien Boulier
1882-1963
Lucian Boulier was born Verdun...
Category
Art Deco 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$1,950 Sale Price
29% Off
Ship on the waves
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
39.5 x 48 x 3 cm
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Venice
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Molded frame in wood and gilded plaster
68 x 59 x 7 cm
Category
American Modern 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Pont Royal and the Louvre by Pierre Charles Hébert - Oil on canvas 33x41 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Gilded wooden frame
42 x 49,5 x 5 cm
Category
Modern 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Illustration of Scrapper O'Doon, Saturday Evening Post Steel Mill
By Henry Soulen
Located in Marco Island, FL
Illustrated in the July 22, 1922 Saturday Evening Post, page 22, entitled "Scrapper O"Doon", about a steel mill, written by R.G. Kirk.
Henry James Soulen (1888-1965) was a distingui...
Category
American Realist 1920s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
River port and barges
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Golden wooden frame
43 x 53 x 5 cm
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Kazantip Bay, Crimea', Kazantipsky, Russia, Ukraine, Repin Institute, Leningrad
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, in Cyrillic, 'Аlexander Yurievich Tyutrin', (Russian, born 1951) dated 1982 and titled, 'Kazantipsky Bay'. Old attached label verso, from 'Art Salon-Shop', bearing a...
Category
Impressionist 1920s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ex Voto Retablo – Early 20th C. Holy Tribute for Healing & Return to Good Health
Located in Denver, CO
Ex Voto; Holy Tribute for the Return to Good Health. Oil on tin with ink, May 31, 1922 with a contemporary custom frame hand-carved by artisan Michael Blatnik. Ex-Voto is 7 ½ x 11 i...
Category
Folk Art 1920s Paintings
Materials
Metal
Interior - Oil Paint by Antonio Donghi- 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Interior is an artwork realized by Antonio Donghi in 1922 ca.
Oil on canvas, cm. 60x40.
Hand signed in the lower right part.
Good condition,
Antonio Donghi (Rome, March 16, 189...
Category
Modern 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
View of Isle Ste. Margeurite (20th Century European Impressionist Painting)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A splendid French Impressionist painting of Isle Ste. Margeurite (municipality of Cannes/Alpes Maritimes department/Provence - Alpes Côte d'Azur regi...
Category
Impressionist 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,120 Sale Price
20% Off
'Yellow & White Daisies', Danish Post-Impressionist, Paris Salon, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right "Vantore" for Mogens Erik Christien Vantore (Danish, 1895-1977) and painted circa 1925.
A fine early twentieth-century oil still-life of white and yellow daisies ...
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Flowers n°2
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood
Golden wooden frame
59 x 46 x 5 cm
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Courtyard by Pierre Eugène Vibert - oil on canvas
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Category
Modern 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,016 Sale Price
20% Off
Point of view by Alexandre de Spengler - Oil on canvas 51x61 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Work on canvas
Category
Land 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
$792 Sale Price
28% Off
Easter Baby, Study
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Study Easter Sunday Baby
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape dominated by the ruins of an ancient castle
Located in Genève, GE
Dimension with frame : 39.5 x 51 x 3 cm
This painting depicts a picturesque landscape dominated by the ruins of an ancient castle, standing majestically on a green hill. The stone wa...
Category
Impressionist 1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Still Life in Purple with Jug and Apples by Alvin R. Raffel 1928
Located in Soquel, CA
Jug and Still Life in Purple with Apples by Alvin R. Raffel 1928
Oil on Linen of An Urn with a bowl and apples in a Purple background by Alvin R. Raffel (American, 1905-1987.) Linen ...
Category
American Impressionist 1920s Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Carrefour de Rive on a rainy day, Geneva
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Gray wooden frame
70 x 81 x 5 cm
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Wildflowers"
Located in Warren, NJ
inscribed in pencil on top right verso, "B.C. Brown Wildflowers"
with Goldfield Galleries 8400 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, 90069, label to verso on bottom right, additional canvas label to verso on bottom left, "Trootex Canvas... Favor Ruhl & Co"
Born in Marion, Arkansas, Benjamin Brown was primarily known as an impressionist landscape artist. Working primarily in oils, Benjamin Chambers Brown was based in Pasadena, California. His most notable works are paintings of poppies...
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Beach Curve in the Evening Light by Swedish Artist Herman Österlund, 1920s
Located in Stockholm, SE
Herman Österlund was a Swedish artist best known for his beautiful depictions of the west coast of Sweden.
He moved to Stockholm in 1896 and passed the test for entering the Royal A...
Category
Realist 1920s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Signed Illustration Indian Royalty Elephant Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique illustration painting. Gouache and watercolor on board, circa 1920. Signed. Image size, 12L x 11H. Housed in a period frame.
Category
Modern 1920s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
$596 Sale Price
25% Off
Galaxy Painting, ca. 1925
Located in New York, NY
Small format watercolor and gouache painting by an unknown French artist, circa 1925.
Category
1920s Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Femme du Cirque
By Paul Charlemagne
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original oil by French artist Paul Charlemagne, “Femme du Cirque”, an original oil on canvas, signed, c.1930, with an image dimension of 30 x 24 inches.
Category
Art Deco 1920s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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