20th Century Paintings

Gouache painted on cardstock, intended for a greeting card design, painted circa 1970. Unsigned. Displayed in a red archival mat. Cellophane tape on board.

Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. This is a miniature watercolor and gouache vibrant, colorful bouquet of flowers in a vase. Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes. Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi. Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...

Original gouache, probably Belgian for matchbox covers. Mid-20th Century.

A painting by Alexander Calder. "Vive" is a Post-War abstract painting, gouache and ink on paper in bold colors of reds, blacks, and blues by artist Alexander Calder. The artwork is signed lower right, "Calder 72...

Floral Composition is an Oil painting realized by Giuseppe Ingegno in 1990. Hand-signed and dated on the lower. with the label on the rear "Fondazione di Paolo" Good conditions. This beautiful colored oil paiting...

"Faces I" Oil on Carton Abstract Painting 28" x 22" inch by Youssef Sida Signed and dated 1990 Youssef Sida 1922-1994 Born in 1922 in Damietta, and in 1...

Brilliantly colorful mid century expressive abstracted landscape of Lake Anza in Berkeley by Bay Area artist Howard Margolis (American, 1927-2015). Signed “Margolis” in lower right c...

Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021), Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to P...

Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower left; titled verso. 47.25 x 47.25 inches 48.5 x 48.5 inches (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple floater finished in a polyurethane clear c...

Oil on canvas. Signed lower right; titled verso. 36.25 x 28.75 in. 44.75 x 37.5 in. (framed) Custom framed in an ornate, gilded frame by Glenn Gobel Custom Frames, Pacific Grove, C...

Acrylic and graphite on canvas. Signed and titled verso. 59 x 58.5 in. 61 x 60.25 in. (framed) Custom framed in a maple floater with a polyurethane clear coat finish. Provenance B...

Still life with ribbons is a modern artwork realized by Gianni Cacciarini. Mixed colored oil on board.  Hand signed on the lower margin. Includes an elegant frame (with some loss).

Catriona Millar (Scottish, b. 1956) Beautiful Betsy Oil on canvas Signed with initials (lower left) 19.5/8 x 15.5/8 in. (50 x 39.7 cm.) Catriona Millar (born 1956) is a Scottish fig...

Oil on canvas. Signed and dated verso. 49.5 x 34.5 in. 51 x 36.25 in. (framed) Custom framed in a maple floater with a polyurethane clear coat finish. Provenance Howard Wise Galle...

Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right; signed, dated, and titled verso. 38.25 x 51.25 in. 39.75 x 52.5 in. (framed) Custom framed in a solid maple floater with a matte white ...

William Atherton Cathcart (20th Century) Sunshine and shadow at Falmouth Oil on board Signed ‘W Atherton Cathcart’ (lower left) 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm.)

Blair Hughes Stanton (British, 1902-1981) Girl with a Guitar, 1929 oil on canvas 16.3/8 x 25.3/4 in. (41.4 x 65.5 cm.) Provenance: the Estate of the Artist Note: Blair Hughes Stanto...

'The Harlequin', oil on board, by Richard Mandin (1952). Harlequin's traditional diamond patterned costume, bicorn hat, and the wooden sword that denoted his buffoonery have appealed...

Antique American modernist abstract painting. Oil and encaustic on canvas, circa 1980. Signed on verso. Displayed in a period frame. Imag...

My Only Working Tool, 1949, oil on panel, signed and dated lower right, 16 x 12 inches, remnant of exhibition label verso, exhibited at the Art News Second Annual National Amateur Co...

Untitled (Modernist Three-Panel Screen), 1948, mixed media on paperboard mounted into a three-section screen, 58 x 45 inches, signed and dated on each panel upper right This work i...

Unique etching in red chalk performed in 1930 in glass framed oak in mint condition Börje Harald Holm, born May 17, 1892 in Uppsala, died October 3, 1973, was a Swedish painter and...

English mid century oil painting Portrait of a Miniature Poodle Kate Gray was a British animal portrait painter during the last half of the 20th century. She also painted flower subj...

Long Dog I Painting by Keith Purser B. 1944, 1997 Additional information: Medium: Watercolour and pencil Dimensions: 36 x 48 cm 14 1/8 x 18 7/8 in Signed Keith Purser lives and wor...

Receding Tide (Deal, Kent), Oil Pastel Painting by Pamela Burns B. 1938, 1998 Additional information: Medium: Oil pastel with pencil Dimensions: 25 x 31 cm 9 7/8 x 12 1/4 in Signed,...

A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, En...

Gaston Sebire (1920-2001) Vue de Rouen Oil on canvas Size : 65 x 81 cm Signed lower right Provenance : Private Collection, France Very good condition. Original canvas. Frame included...

George McClancy (1930-2014) abstract pattern triptych painting. Acrylic on canvas 75W" x 48H" George McClancy received a MA in painting from Catholic University in Washington DC, ...

Vinicio Berti Archived Year 1974

Watercolour on paper circa 1920 by Henri Duhem depicting The Gilles at the Carnival of Binche, Belgium. Signed and titled lower left. This painting is not currently framed but a suit...

Artist: Florent Chade (French, 1896-1985) Title: Chamonix, le Mont Blanc Year: Circa 1950 Medium: Oil on canvas board board size: 15 x 18.25 inches Signature: Signed lower ...

Oil on canvas. Signed verso. Some scratched out, illegible writing in paint and graphite verso, which may have indicated the artist's original pricing, as well as a possible title. ...

Watercolour on paper circa 1920 by French Impressionist painter Henri Duhem depicting white, red, pink and yellow flowers. Signed lower right. This painting is not currently framed b...

Title: "Venezia" Media: Oil on canvas size: 50 x 70 cm Sergio Scatizzi Lucca 1918 – Florence 2009 Art and nature are the themes of Scatizzi’s work of a journey through contemporan...

This unframed hand painted White Tara Thangka can be framed according to your choice and give it a place at your home to promote long life, peace, ...

Compelling figurative study in gouache and pencil by Joesph Capozio (American, 1928-2016). Estate stamp lower right corner with bio on verso. Presented in mahogany wood frame. Framed size: 19"H x 17"W. Capozio was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1927. After serving in World War II, he attended art school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He lived and worked in San Francisco, California; New Orleans, Louisiana; Siesta Key...

Harry George Burgess (American, 1867 - 1912) Signed: H Burgess (Lower, Right) " Educating Jack ", 1912 (Page 10) (Titled Lower, Left, and on verso) "As he could not leave the till...

Giorgio Sansoni Title: La memoria del nonno Media : oil on canvas Size: 100x100 cm

Yvonne Lammerich has used a dynamic pattern, bold colours and geometric form to create this visually stunning contemporary piece. The ‘building block ...

This intriguing colourful contemporary painting so impressively large in scale and architectural in form is by Canada’s Yvonne Lammerich. Recognized both nationally and international...

Signed gouache on board impressionist landscape by French painter Luigi Loir. This work depicts the famous flood of Paris in 1910 when the Seine broke its banks in the largest flooding the city had seen in a 100 years. Loir likely painted this work "en plein air" as he encountered this rare natural occurrence. Signature: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 13"x19" Unframed: 5"x11" Provenance: Private French collection He first exhibited at the Paris Salon in 1865 with a Landscape at Villiers-sur-Seine which brought him a certain amount of recognition. He was a regular exhibitor at the Salon des Artistes Français. Obtaining a third-place medal in 1879, and a second-place medal and a gold medal in 1889 at the Exposition Universelle in Paris. He was decorated with the Légion d'Honneur in 1898. Born in Austria to French parents who served the exiled French Bourbon royal family, Luigi Aloys-François-Joseph Loir moved with his family and the Bourbons to the Duchy of Parma in 1847. In 1860 his family returned to Paris following the expulsion of the Bourbons from Parma. But Luigi remained in the city, having enrolled, at the young age of eight, at the Accademia de Belle Arti. He eventually rejoined his family in Paris in 1863. There he studied with the decorative painter and set designer Jean Pastelot, making his Salon debut in 1865. Loir painted mainly views of Paris, in all seasons and at different times of the day or night. Loir was the Paris painter...

Walt Kuhn (1877-1949)was associated with the art group known as "The Eight" and with Arthur B. Davies, was a the key figure in forming the American Association of painters and Sculp...

Early 20th Century Landscape with Figures attributed to Continental School framed: 53.7h x 42.5w inches

Unique etching in red chalk perfomed in 19030 glass framed oak mint condition. Börje Harald Holm, born May 17, 1892 in Uppsala, died October 3, 1973, was a Swedish painter and graph...

Watercolour on paper circa 1925 by Henri Duhem depicting a view of the sea from the promenade at Juan les Pins on the French Riviera. A flower box of pur...

Ewart Johns (British, Hard and soft-edged Acrylic on board Signed, inscribed with title and dated, 1973 – 1974 (on reverse) 32 x 48 in. (81.3 x 122cm.) Ewart was born in Barry...

Mid Century Fields of Wheat Landscape by Genevieve Rogers Idyllic landscape of a path winding through a field of wheat, punctuated by wildflowers an...

Watercolour on paper circa 1925 depicting a young girl running through a farmyard as the sun sets red in the distance. Signed lower right. This painting is not currently framed but a...

with frame is cm. 70 x 60 no frame cm. 45 x 35

Original vintage watercolor painting by twentieth century San Francisco woman artist, Hildegarde Haas (1926-2002). "Bach - English Suite No.2 in A Minor...

Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021), Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...

Charming and light large-scale modern contemporary interior scene by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). A large dining room table in a room of cream and light neutral tones ...

Unique etching performed in red chalk in mint condition glass framed in oak in 1930. Börje Harald Holm, born May 17, 1892 in Uppsala, died October 3, 1973, was a Swedish painter and...

Unique etching in red chalk performed in 1930 glass framed oak in mint condition. Börje Harald Holm, born May 17, 1892 in Uppsala, died October 3, 1973, was a Swedish painter and g...

The eye is a contemporary artwork realized by Genny Puccini in 1977. Mixed colored collage on paper. Hand signed and dated on lower right margin.

This painting is bright and cheery and the jewel-tone colors are superb. "Jour d'Orage, La Garde (Var) (Stormy Day) 1921" Louis Pastour (France, 1876-1...

A captivating oil on canvas painting, titled 'Street of Jerusalem". The artist M. Schneider skillfully captures the essence of this revered city. The palette of pale green hues brea...

Donald McIntyre. English ( b.1923 - d.2009 ). Girl and Chapel, North Wales. Oil on card. Signed with monogram twice lower left. Image size 12 inches x 15.6 inches ( 30.5cm x 39.5cm ...