Early 20th Century Paintings

A vibrant post-impressionist scene of a winery and vineyard in the rolling hills of Sesimbra, Portugal. Pictured high above rows of trained vines, a windmill stands prominent against...

This beautiful early 20th-century fan design by American-English artist Cyrus Cuneo ROI (1879-1916) depicts a couple with cherubs in an ornamental garden. Cuneo was an accomplished p...

Anna Richards Brewster is the daughter of the great marine painter William Trost Richards. Her father's reputation always precedes her own; however, Anna was an accomplished artist i...

A soft and characterful portrait of a gently smiling priest with kindly eyes. The artist has signed to the lower left edge and the painting has been presented in a reeded gilt frame ...

Antique American impressionist oil painting of a fall landscape. Oil on canvas, circa 1900. Apparently unsigned. Displayed in a period giltwood frame. Image size, 50"L x 30"H, ov...

Frank Waller (American, 1842-1923) House and Garden, Morristown, 1908 Oil on canvas, 18 1/2 x 12 inches FRAMED: 24 1/2 x 18 inches (approx.) Dated and in...

Study for Satruday Evening Post Cover, Fabruary 16, 1929

Pages, Jules (American 1867 - 1946) “Pont Neuf, Paris” Oil on artist board, Pencil sketches and estate stamp verso Estate Stamp signed 13 ½ x 10 ¼ Inches, 23 ½ x 20 ½ Inches, Framed Provenance: Niece of the artist, Normandy, France About A prominent landscape and marine painter, Jules Eugène Pages...

Karl Stohner (1894 Mannheim - 1957 Paris), Ballerina in the dressing room, 1924. Pastel on painting cardboard, 65 x 45 cm, 77,5 x 59,5 (frame), signed lower left "Stohner" and dated "[19]24". Behind glass in gold stucco frame of the time. - Painting cardboard slightly warped, in the lower area minimally stained, frame with age patina and traces of abrasion. - The Naturalness of Artificiality - We see a ballerina putting on her right ballet shoe while the left one is still lying on the floor in front of her. It is precisely the casualness of the scene that gives it its intimacy: the blonde young woman is completely absorbed in the activity of getting ready for the dance, oblivious to us, while we are positioned right in front of her in the dressing room, inaccessible to the audience, watching her dress. Even though she does not yet perform a dance step, there is a graceful elegance in the action shown that seems quite natural in contrast to the rehearsed art form of dance. The young woman is not presenting herself to an audience in a perfectly formed movement, but is performing an everyday action, unaware that she is being watched. Concentrated, almost devotional, she pulls the ballet slipper over the verses, not noticing that one of the straps of the tutu has slipped off her shoulder, reinforcing the erotic moment of the scene. Inspired by Edgar Degas, Karl Stohner has painted the scene in strong pastel tones. The dominant blues and turquoises give the scene a magical, mysterious quality and, like the pink of the stockings and ballet slippers, are borrowed from Degas's dancers. Degas's colors, however, are cooler tempered, which is particularly evident in the light impasto applied incarnate. This is where the vividness of Auguste Renoir comes into play, making the dancer seem entirely flesh and blood. Karl Stohner, who has studied the pastels of Degas and Renoir intensively, combines the two artists here to create his own pictorial language. He has laid out the background in broad layers of strokes, ranging in color from white to turquoise to dark blue. The result is a dynamic, pattern-like structure that contrasts with the woman's calm, inward-looking posture. The fund anticipates the dynamics of the choreography of the dance for which the ballerina is preparing. At the same time, the broad pastel line in the background is an adequate means of painting to depict the soft, flowing elegance of the dancer. About the artist Against the wishes of his wealthy parents, Karl Stohner decided to become a painter. His talent was discovered by the director of the Mannheim Art Gallery, Fritz Wichert, who supported him from then on, including financing study trips to Paris. There he discovered the art of Degas, Cézanne and Renoir, which inspired his work. GERMAN VERSION Karl Stohner (1894 Mannheim - 1957 Paris), Ballerina im Ankleideraum, 1924. Pastell auf Malkarton, 65 x 45 cm, 77,5 x 59,5 (Rahmen), unten links mit „Stohner“ signiert und auf „[19]24“ datiert. Hinter Glas im Goldstuckrahmen der Zeit. - Malkarton leicht verzogen, im unteren Bereich minimal fleckig, Rahmen mit Alterspatina und Abriebspuren - Die Natürlichkeit der Kunstform - Wir sehen eine Ballerina, die sich den rechten Ballettschuh anzieht, während der linke noch vor ihr auf dem Boden liegt. Gerade aus der Beiläufigkeit der Szenerie speist sich ihre Intimität: Die blonde...

Odilon Roche was born in Chateauneuf-sur-Loire in 1868. He was a professional wine taster who traveled around Europe attending wine fairs. In 1902 he opened a shop selling artists'...

To see our other Modern British Art, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this Seller" - or send us a message if you cannot find the artist you want. Blair Hughes-Stanton (1902-1981) Reclining Nude, c. 1936 Tempera on canvas 76.5 x 102 cm Signed lower right 'Blair H S'. Provenance: The estate of the artist. A magnificent abstract nude rendered in a dynamic colour palette. This is probably Hughes-Stanton's most important work, and belongs to the nation's great, if brief, period of British Surrealism. The three major elements are distinct: the pastel tones of the window view and wall, the sensual curvatures of the pale nude, and the bold foreground featuring a fantastically accomplished still life of a fruit bowl (which could be a painting in and of itself) and the impressively phallic chair back. This is a brilliant example of erotic modernist abstraction. Blair Hughes-Stanton, son of the artist Sir Herbert Hughes-Stanton, was a noted British artist of the interwar period. At the age of 13 he joined the Royal Navy training ship HMS Coway, but at 19 - advised by his father - he abandoned the sea for his paintbox. He studied art at Byam Shaw School (1919-1922) where he was influenced by Leon Underwood (who was a major influence throughout his studying), Royal Academy Schools (1922-23), and Leon Underwood's School (1923-25). He was celebrated mostly for his skills as an engraver, and was a founding member of the English Wood Engraving Society when it was established in 1925. His first wife was the printmaker Gertrude Hermes...

Harold C. Dunbar (1882 - 1953) Meadow Landscape in Summer, 1929 Oil on canvas 17 1/2 x 21 inches Signed and dated lower left Harold C. Dunbar — painter, teacher, writer, and illustrator — was born in Brockton, MA on December 8, 1882. He resided in Chatham, MA and died in 1953. His work includes portraits, landscapes, street scenes, still lifes, harbors and coastal scenes. Dunbar studied with Ernest Lee Major (1864-1950) and Joseph De Camp...

Fabulous little gem oil painting. Looks to be a Rabbi or Jewish scholar. It is signed, could be March? not sure. The professional frame measures 14 inches high by 12 1/4 wide and has silk matting...

A beautiful example of the Japanese art form known as shunga, this sensual work depicts woman exploring her sexuality. Hand-painted on paper with splashes of vivid gouache color, the...

There is no one alive that can paint and draw like Dean Cornwell. How can that be? They do not train artist the way they did. He was Normal Rockwell's ...

Dawson Dawson-Watson "On the Hopi Reservation" Has two different old gallery labels on the verso from Santa Fe Galleries. (1864-1939) San Antonio Artis...

Signed on the bottom right is "J. Braze", Osip Emmanuilovich Braz (1873 - 1936), renowned as a Russian-Jewish realist painter. As the scene unfolds on the canvas, we witness the gran...

Original oil painting on canvas. Unsigned. Canvas size 23.875 x 16.75 inches. Custom framed as pictured. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included....

Tranquil Lochside with Highland Peaks by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed with the artists pseudonym oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 20 x 30 inches provenance: private colle...

Signed oil on canvas landscape by American impressionist painter William Samuel Horton. The piece depicts a nighttime view of Pontarlier, a commune in eastern France near the Swiss b...

A charming oil study of a vase of vibrant flowers. Unsigned. On board.

Suprematist composition. 1919, paper/gouache 21,5 x 28,5 cm Gustav Klucis (1895-1938) Latvian painter, sculptor, graphic artist, designer and teacher, ...

Bohemian woman Budapest, Hungary 1925 by Bertha De Hellebranth. Fabulous period painting brings to life the bohemian intelligentsia of Europe in the 1920's. I believe the painting is of the artists sister Elena Maria De Hellebranth. Both sisters were accomplished artist and worked and exhibited together. See the photo of the sisters Elena on the left and Bertha on the right. Oil on canvas. In a period frame. Signed lower right. Inscribed on reverse. Provenance: label from Newman Galleries Philadelphia. BIOGRAPHY ; Bertha de Hellebranth and her sister Elena were born into a cultured upper-class family in Budapest, Bertha in 1899, Elena in 1897. Their father was a lawyer and their mother a student of Franz Liszt's last living pupil. Both sisters showed artistic potential early, beginning to paint at four or five years of age. Their parents encouraged them, and had the means to send them to the best art schools of the time. They studied at the Academy of Fine Art in Budapest, at the Académie Julian and the Académie de la Grande Chaumière in Paris, and painted portraits of European nobility. As Patricia Fazekas points out, "Growing up in a family of privilege, they seemed to have unusual access to many illustrious people." So we should not be surprised to find among their subjects members of high society, such as Count Andrássy Gyula, the Russian-born Princess Baby Galitzine, and Admiral Horthy Miklós, the Regent. Later on, their subjects included American heiress Gladys Vanderbilt (Countess László Széchenyi), President Theodore Roosevelt's granddaughter Paulina Longworth and former President Dwight D. Eisenhower.Often, the sisters would paint the same subject at the same time, offering the sitter a choice of portraits. Most often, the sitter wanted both renditions.While Elena concentrated on working in oil and watercolor, Bertha used gouache and oil to achieve her effects. Elena gave lectures and workshops, was a writer and also wrote popular and ecclesiastical music, while Bertha also went in for sculpture and handicrafts.From the mid-thirties until World War II, Bertha and Elena divided their time between their home in Budapest and a home on the ocean at Ventnor, NJ. In 1925, they showed their work at the Nemzeti Szalon in Budapest, and in 1926, they had a joint exhibition of their portraits in the US. Both exhibited their work at the Art Institute of Chicago, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and most major museums and galleries in the US. Bertha also had exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Both Bertha and Elena were Fellows of the Royal Society of Art (London), and garnered numerous prizes. Bertha was awarded First Prize by the National Academy of the American Water Color Society one year, and the Grand Prize of the Audubon Society. She was one of the founders of the now defunct World League of Hungarian Artists Abroad (Külföldi Magyar Képz?m?vészek Világszövetsége), and received a Gold Medal from the Cleveland Árpád Akadémia in 1963. (Elena also received the Akadémia's gold medal in 1965.) Their work is found in museums and galleries too numerous to mention.The de Hellebranth sisters were devout Catholics, and this is evident in their many portraits of clerics...

"Horses Feeding" is an Equestrian painting by American Impressionist painter Joseph Thurman Pearson, Jr. The 40.5" x 56.25" oil on masonite ...

A Ballynakill Woman. c. 1926. Oil on canvas. 30 x 25. Housed in an elegant gold leaf frame. Signed 'Brockhurst' in green paint, in the blanket, lower right. Provenance: Provenance...

Antique American school modernist circus scene by Ann Taube Goodman (Born 1905). Oil on canvas, circa 1925. Signed. Displayed in a modernist fra...

Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: n/a Soldier's Pride was created as a component of Kuppenheimer's six-piece easel-backed World War I advertisement placards for in-store display. These pieces were expertly printed on a coated cardboard substrate so the black background would dramatically display the clothing item. Kuppenheimer & Hart Schaffner Marx...

Georges VILLAIN (1854, Paris – 1930) Washerwomen on the beach at Étretat Oil on canvas H. 51 cm; L. 65 cm Signed lower right Around 1900 Son of Eugène Marie François (1821-1897), wh...

A striking Dutch landscape from the early 20th Century in thinned oil on paper. The scene shows a traditional Dutch church and village under a dispersing storm cloud. The painting ha...

George Henry Leonard, Jr. (1869 - 1928) La Marre de Soire Oil on canvas 15 x 21 3/4 inches Signed lower right A landscape painter--primarily using a late impressionist loose stroke as his main mode of expression--Leonard drew not only upon French influences, but also the American school of impressionism characterized by Frank Boggs...

Né en 1883 à Fumel (Lot-et-Garonne), Guillaume Dulac étudie à l’école des beaux-arts de Bordeaux avant de rejoindre l’atelier de Léon Bonnat à l’École des beaux-arts de Paris. Il par...

C. Late 19th Century - Early 20th Century This is a Portrait of a Jester Playing an Instrument ( Oil on Canvas ) Done by Thelma Gooch 63"

Oil Painting by C. Erhardt "A Scandinavian Landscape" 1900 -1914 Good quality landscape from the beginning of the 20th century. Oil on canvas. Signed Dimensions unframed: height 21"...

A delightful oil study of a country home's garden that has been covered in a blanket of snow. The artist has used various brushstroke to depict the change in the landscape from the d...

Great Wall Street piece by John R. Grabach (March 2, 1886 – March 17, 1981) with expressive colors and figures. Grabach was a renowned American painter, best known for his evocative...

Initialed and dated lower right

Terauchi, Fukutaro. Fishing on a river in autumn. ...

A wonderfully rustic and impressive early 20th Century oil scene showing a quaint fishing village on the shore of an estuary in Ross, Northern Scotland, with a church at the top of t...

"Beautiful And Large Oil On Canvas Impressionist Nude Signed V Regnart" Victor Regnart is a Belgian painter and engraver born January 26, 1886 in Élouge...

Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to offer this piece by John Fulton Folinsbee (1892 - 1972). One of the finest painters to embark upon the New Hope Art Colony, John F...

Ludovic Vallee (French 1864 – 1939) Soiree a la guinguette Signed ‘L Valle’ (lower right) Oil on board 27 x 22 cm. It has an inscription on the reverse...

Frederick Waugh was a prolific seascape artist who generated 2,500 paintings of the sea and shore. Although it was never published, he penned a ten chapter book on marine painting. S...

Winter Landscape scene of a creek with a bare tree dominating the painting. A fence line runs along behind the tree and there are distant shapes in the background. Dimensions withou...

Johann Berthelsen and one of New York city’s best known artists along with Guy Wiggins, depicting the streets, parks and skyline of New York. When he first arrived in New York he ga...

Sir Alfred James Munnings, P.R.A., R.W.S. (1878-1959) 'The hunt' Signed and dated 'A.J. Munnings. 1913.' (lower right) pencil, watercolour and bodycolour on a prepared sheet of paper...

Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed on Reverse 1 of a 4 part Illustration, Used as Promotional Poster Exhibited: Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania, Brandywine River Museum, Maxfield Pa...

A fine large impressionist winter landscape by American artist Charles Herbert Woodbury (1864-1940). Woodbury was born in Lynn, MA, and sold his first painting when he was fifteen ye...

A charming oil still life study of various items on a table. In the foreground we can see a teacup, wine glass and cheese followed by the darker items like the jug and flowers behind...

Le Jardin French School, typical of the Ecole de Paris movement circa 1930's period signed oil painting on board, unframed painting: 15 x 12 inches condition: very good provenance: p...

A beautiful early 20th Century garden scene in oil showing a garden the height of Spring. The artist has signed and dated to the lower right and the painting has been presented in a ...

Alice Maud Fanner was born in Surrey in 1865 and for many years lived in the Chiswick area of London. She studied at the Richmond School of Art and also taught there. She attended Slade School of Art in London. She was a pupil of Albert Julius Olsson. Like Olsson, Fanner often painted the sea and the coast, as well as yachts and sailing scenes. One of her paintings, "Riverside Landscape," was included in the book "Women Painters...

The Village Lane by Elie Anatole Pavil (Ukraine 1873-1944) signed oil on canvas, unframed 13 x 18 inches private collection, France the painting is in overall very good and sound con...

Two Cats, early 20th Century by Lionel Ellis ARCA (1903-1988) Early 20th Century study of a pair of cats heads, oil on board by Lionel Ellis. Good quality...

Will good ultimately triumph over evil? Or is it a perpetual tug of war? WPA Artist Leonard Lopez paints a complex figural work addressing the theme of "the fight between good and evil. It's reminiscent of the medieval paintings by Hieronymus Bosch, where demons evoke fear and confusion to portray the evil of man. In this painting, a closeup of a young female’s erotic buttock fills the horizontal space. Engulfing the sexy nude body is a dense array of Lilliputian-like figures. The top third of the composition is crammed with floating, sexy, nude female bodies. The bottom part of the painting features a cross-section of people engaged in their diverse jobs. Mounted on the nude cheek, Artist Leo Lopez paints a victorious Red Devil with a trident. He’s holding a wealthy man in a tuxedo upside down. The supernatural powers of the Devil's red forked tail extend beyond its normal length and, like a tentacle from a sea monster, entangles many of the characters that represent society. To the extreme center right Lopez paints a Winged Venus dressed...

Francisque POULBOT (Saint-Denis, 1879 - Paris, 1946) Poster project for the Bal de la Mode - February 25, 1922 Charcoal and oil on canvas H. 99 cm; W. 91 cm Signed lower right In th...

Gammell Trust #W126. Signed and dated in pencil lower right: "R.H. Ives Gammell, Paris, 1917". This is a very early work and despite the fact that it is squared off for enlargement,...

This painting by Howard Russell Butler captures the serene, almost mystical presence of a Yellowstone geyser in a moment of stillness. Known for his ability to portray the grandeur o...

Edith (Glackens) Dimock (1876 - 1955) Untitled (Female Nude), circa 1915 Oil on canvas 34 1/2 x 28 1/4 inches Signed lower left Provenance: Private Colle...