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Period: Early 20th Century
Rochers sur la cote - Nabis School (1890-1896) Seascape Oil
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Indistinctly monogrammed Nabis school oil on canvas circa 1915. The work depicts a rocky shoreline with the blue ocean beyond and a clear sky overhead.
Signature:
Indistinctly monog...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Female Impressionist Wild Flower Landscape Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist flower landscape painting by Lila Caroline McGillivray Knowles (1886 - 1979). Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Image size, 10 by 12 inches.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Scottish Highland Loch Cattle at Sunset Atmospheric Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Highland Cattle at Sunset
by Alfred Fontville de Breanski (British 1877-1945)
signed lower front corner
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 23 x 31.5 inches
canvas: 16 x 24 inches
Provenan...
Category
Victorian Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Antique American Impressionist Summer Lake Landscape Giltwood Frame Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist seascape oil painting by Margaret Munro Stratton McLennan (1911 - 1995) . Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 12H by 16L.
Category
Abstract Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Sunset Over El Capitan', American Impressionism, Yosemite, California Landscape
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower left, 'C.B.' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1925.
Framed dimensions: 14 H x 11.75 W x 1 D inches
N.B. The artist initials show more distinctly under (365n...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Through The Spring Fields, Early 20th Century Landscape w Wildflowers in Bloom
Located in Soquel, CA
A gorgeous early 20th century landscape oil painting of fields of yellow and blue wildflowers in bloom by Northern Californi...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Fields, Michigan Artist, American Impressionism, Landscape
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Mathias Alten (German/American 1871-1938)
Signed: M. Alten (Lower, Left)
" Summer Fields ", circa 1914
Oil on Canvas Laid on Board
10" x 14"
Housed in a 2" Carved Newcomb Mackl...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,400 Sale Price
20% Off
1930's Paris School Oil Painting Portrait of Belle Epoque Fashionable Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Fashionable Lady
French School, early 20th century
oil on canvas
framed: 28 x 24 inches
canvas: 22 x 19.5 inches
Provenance: private collection, Paris
Condition: very g...
Category
French School Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,461 Sale Price
30% Off
Antique American Impressionist Alaskan Fall Landscape Framed Oil Painting
By Paul Lauritz
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted American impressionist fall landscape of Mt Denali in Alaska by Paul Lauritz (1889 - 1975). Oil on canvas. Excellent color and composition. Housed in a period...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$5,400 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Scale Persian Hunt Landscape Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-01 Large Scale Persian Hunt, circa 1920's oil painting on canvas depicting hunting scene, displayed in a wood-gesso frame.Image size 39 H X 59.5 W
Artist unknown.
Age wear on the ...
Category
Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Frank Brangwyn Painting Mural Study Christ's Hospital West Horsham England 1912
Located in Portland, OR
FRANK BRANGWYN ( U.S./U.K./Belgium, 1867-1956) watercolor, gouache, and charcoal on paper, "The Scourging of St. Alban," study for the mural painted for Christ's Hospital, West Horsh...
Category
Art Nouveau Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
"Trees in a Landscape" Eanger Irving Couse, American Southwestern Landscape
By Eanger Irving Couse
Located in New York, NY
Eanger Irving Couse
Trees in a Landscape, circa 1900
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
9 1/8 x 14 5/8 inches
Provenance
Fenn Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Private Collection, Arizona
...
Category
French School Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century Oil of French Stone Building entitled Interieur et Exteriuer
Located in Preston, GB
Early 20th Century Oil of French Stone Building entitled 'Interieur et Exteriuer' by the Award-Winning French Artist, Charles Perron (1893 – 1958).
Presented in a beautiful ornate period gold frame...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Turn of 20th Century Mt. Shasta Landscape with Deer
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous turn of the 20th Century Mount Shasta landscape by Anna Carver Bingham (American, 1849 - 1924), 1901. Several deer gather around calm waters that...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
The Rivers Edge
Located in North Clarendon, VT
The River's Edge a beautiful American Impressionist oil on canvas attributed to William Baxter Closson. Housed in a period Foster Brothers frame.
Born October 13, 1848, in Thetford,...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,200
French Impressionist Landscape, Toulon, Mont Faron and Route le Pont le Lerde
Located in Cotignac, FR
French Impressionist oil on card landscape by Giraud. The painting is signed bottom right and titled to the back of the card.
A charming view of the landscape around Toulon in the s...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Impressionist Expressive Young Woman Oil Painting Portrait
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted late 19th or early 20th century portrait painting. Oil on canvas. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent conditio...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,980 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Autumnal Still Life -- Persimmons & Jug
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous early 20th Century still life with classic autumnal fruit persimmons and a brown jug by A. Thompson (American 19th/20th Century), circa 1900. Signe...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Antique American School 19th Century Signed Young Girl Portrait Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American portrait of a young girl by Edward S Annison. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring 11.5H x 8.25L.
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French school Windmill scene Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Windmills scene from Grandin⬅️
Probably Louis Grandin born à Chevresis - Monceau ( Aisne ) France. Mentioned in the book "Society of French Artist " in le Salon 1936
This painti...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Oil, Wood Panel, Stretcher Bars
$286 Sale Price
82% Off
Original Study of Rembrandt’s Portrait of an Old Woman
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th Century Study of Rembrandt’s Portrait of Old Woman Russian for Niello Engraving
A wonderful study of Rembrandt’s portrait of an Old Woman used for Niello engraving by Ru...
Category
Old Masters Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$1,040 Sale Price
20% Off
Les Semailles - Neo Impressionist Figurative Oil Painting by Achille Lauge
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figurative oil on canvas circa 1915 by French neo-impressionist painter Achille Lauge. The piece depicts a view of a farmer sowing seeds in field on a bright spring day.
Sign...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Point Lobos, Monterey County, California, Cypress Tree
By Lockwood de Forest
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Lockwood De Forest (American, 1850 - 1932)
Signed: L d F May 13 / 07 (Lower, Right)
Oil on Paperboard
9 5/8" x 14 1/8"
" Point Lobos ", 1907 (Titled, Lower Right)
Housed i...
Category
Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$5,700 Sale Price
40% Off
Boulevard de la Madeleine
Located in Greenville, DE
Excellent example of Cortès Paris scene.
Provenance: Galerie Haussmann, Paris.Herbert Arnot, Inc., New York, New York (May 29, 1964).Country Store Gallery, Austin, Texas (February 2...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Impressionist Autumn Landscape with Lake / - Diffuse Concretion -
Located in Berlin, DE
Wilhelm Feldmann (1859 Lüneburg - 1932 Lübeck), Impressionist autumn landscape with lake, around 1905. Pastel on cardboard, 46 cm x 31 cm (inside dimension), 52 cm x 37 cm (frame), s...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Gouache
M. Wolstenholme - 1925 Oil, Standing Male Nude
Located in Corsham, GB
This painting depicts a figure study of a male nude, standing in a classical contrapposto pose with one hand resting on a wooden table or stand. The artist has skilfully rendered the...
Category
Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique English Fox hunting scene with huntsman jumping with hounds in a field
Located in Woodbury, CT
Tom Ivester Lloyd 1871-1942 was a fine artist who worked mainly in water colour but was also very accomplished in oils.
He served in the first war and produced pictorial records which are now in the army museum. He was a keen hunting man and was Master of the Sherrington Foot Beagles.
He was a great hound man and wrote and illustrated a book on hounds.
Acquiring an early 20th-century English fox hunting...
Category
Victorian Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
A Summer's Day, impressionist, early 20th century, oil on canvas
Located in Hillsborough, NC
A Summer’s Day by William Miller Frazer (1864-1961) depicts a tranquil countryside scene of sheep grazing and resting. Frazer’s sheep find numerous ways to enjoy the pleasantries of ...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American 1918 Stratford Connecticut Framed Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Early American impressionist landscape painting. Framed. Possibly signed verso. Oil on board.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$380 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage English Dog Watercolor Painting Naive Folk Art Portrait Pekingese Dog
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Pekingese Dog
English Folk Art painting, circa 1930's
watercolour painting on artist paper, framed
Glass covering
framed: 9 x 11.5 inches...
Category
Folk Art Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Seascape of Capri, Amalfi Coast
Located in Soquel, CA
Luminous early 20th Century seascape of Capri on Amalfi Coast by Albert Wenk (German, 1863-1934), 1913. Signed and dated lower left corner. Cond...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$2,968 Sale Price
40% Off
Antique American Impressionist Flower Garden Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist flower garden landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. No signature found.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,400 Sale Price
20% Off
A Scotsman in Paris, 1902 Pink Sky over the Seine Impressionist painting
Located in Norwich, GB
“He dipped his brush in light and air” – wrote the artist Sir John Lavery RA about Alexander Jamieson's art. See the evidence of this in this wonderful view of the Paris with dapple...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th century English River landscape of Bisham Abbey on the Thames, Fisherman
Located in Woodbury, CT
Alfred Augustus Glendening Senior (English, 1840–1921)
View along the Thames at Bisham Abbey, oil on canvas, circa 1910
Signed Bottom right
This beautifully observed riverscape by A...
Category
Victorian Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ohlone Mother and Child Walking Through the Santa Cruz Redwoods - Landscape 1930
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene depiction of an Ohlone Mother and Child walking a forest path by Anton Dahl (Swedish-American). Ohlone Mother and child are walking through the North...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Linen
Point Lobos, California
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Point Lobos, California
Oil on artist's board, c. 1925
Signed lower right: Wm J Edmundson (see photo)
Condition: Very good condition
Frame: Period McBeth Gallery style frame (see pho...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Pittenweem Evening' Scotland
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Impressionist oil painting of Scotland's Pittenweem harbor at twilight, title 'Pittenweem Evening' East Neuk of Fife, by Scottish artist John McGhie. Signe...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Signed American School Handsome Male Portrait Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist oil painting portrait. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique British Oil Painting Borrowdale Lake District River Valley Cottages
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Borrowdale" * see notes below
British School, early 20th century
oil on board, unframed
board: 7 x 10 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: minor rubbing to outer edges a...
Category
Victorian Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Living Room Interior - Early 20th Century English Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 1930's English impressionist oil on metal board depicting a living room interior with leather club chair, bureau, cigarettes in an ash tray and paintings on the wall.
Ex...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mountain Landscape with Lake
Located in Stockholm, SE
Swedish Mountain Landscape with Lake
oil on canvas laid on masonite
18 x 27 cm (7 1/8 x 10 5/8 in)
28 x 37 cm (11 x 14 5/8 in)
Provenance:
Acquired...
Category
Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Antique Masterful Frame American Winter Impressionist Snowy Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted winter impressionist landscape by Allen Dean Cochran (1888 - 1971). Oil on canvas. Housed in a spectacular, period, gold giltwood frame. Signed.
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Apples, c. 1910
Located in Stockholm, SE
Still Life with Apples is an exquisite still-life painting that captures a quiet moment of abundance and peace. On a humble wooden table lies a cluster of ripe apples, their rosy and...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th Century English Floral Still Life -- Pink and Red Hybrid Tea Roses
Located in Soquel, CA
Elegant Early 20th Century Floral Still Life of Soft Pink and Red Hybrid Tea Roses
Realistic early 20th Century floral still life by L. Griffin (English, 19th/20th century), 1904, f...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Linen, Cardboard
Barbizon Fontainebleau region Impressionist French summer landscape with figure
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful view of the heartbreakingly beautiful Fontainebleau/Barbizon region, which was home to some of the greatest painters of the 19th and early 20th Century. The particular spot presented here is the river Loing at Montigny-sur-Loing, where Cezanne and Sisley loved to paint. The village is just a short walk away from Grez-sur-Loing, where John Singer Sargent, Francis Brooks Chadwick, Robert Vonnoh, Edward Simmons...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rare Early Antique American School Fauvist Woman Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist portrait oil painting. Oil on canvas, lain to board. Framed. Very finely painted and a rare fauvist palette. No signature found.
Category
Modern Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,800 Sale Price
20% Off
'Winter', ASL, Paris, Société des Artistes Français, South Bend, Indiana, AIC
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'G. Ames Aldrich' for George Ames Aldrich (American, 1872-1941) and painted circa 1915.
One of the best known Indiana landscape painters of the 20th century, Geor...
Category
Other Art Style Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1900s French Atelier Academic Drawing Portrait of Classical Male Nude Sculpture
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Life study drawing
original atelier drawing
by the French artist, Jeanne Nachat (1898-1984)
Nachat attended the prestigious Académie des Beaux-Arts in Pa...
Category
Academic Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Pencil
Portrait of an Edwardian Lady - British American art portrait oil painting
Located in London, GB
This lovely British Edwardian portrait oil painting is attributed to circle of John Singer Sargent. Sargent was born in America then trained in Paris before coming to London. Painted...
Category
Realist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$7,608 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Poppies Flower Bouquet Still Life Oil Painting 1920
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3750c Oil on board set in a vintage gilt wood frame
Image size 15x23"
Category
Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Border Collie Dog Resting in Harvest Wheat Sheaves Antique English Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Farmers Dog
English School, early 20th century
signed oil on board, framed
framed: 23 x 29 inches
board : 18 x 24 inches
Provenance: private collection, UK
Condition: very good c...
Category
English School Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,463 Sale Price
30% Off
'Cape Ann Harbor', Woman Artist, Massachusetts, Rockport, Gloucester, LACMA
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Nell Walker Warner' (American, 1891-1970) and painted circa 1925.
Born in Nebraska, Nell Walker Warner graduated from Lexington, Missouri, Women's College in 191...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Grand Basin, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris" Impressionist Oil Painting on Board
Located in New York, NY
An exceptional impressionistic depiction of an afternoon along the Jardin des Tuileries, Paris by Jules René Hervé on a summer day with the busy activities of people walking and of f...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Romantic Landscape at Sunset - Oil Painting by E. Serra y Auque
Located in Roma, IT
Romantic Landscape at Sunset is a wonderful oil on canvas realized by Enrique Serra y Auque (1859-1918).
There is an inscription, the signature on the lower margin at the center: "Enrique Serra Roma".
This marvelous Roman lake landscape delimited by the detail of an elegant statue, is painted with acute pictorial sensibility and a very fine technical ability.
In very good condition, with a gilded wooden frame included.
Enrique Serra y Auque (Barcelona, 1859 - Rome, 1918)
Enrique Serra y Auque today famous for his landscapes, showed his artistic talent early. He attended the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Barcelona and was a pupil of Ramon Marti Alsina, now considered the founder of the Catalan landscape school, and the sculptor Domingo Talarn.
At the age of twenty, in 1879, he received a scholarship on merit and moved to Rome, where he remained there for the rest of his life. Here he attended the Chigi Academy, became a friend of Mariano Fortuny, one of the greatest Spanish painters of the 19th century after Goya...
Category
Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Naturalistic Italian painter - 19/20th still life painting - Flowers
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (dated 1919) - Still life with vase of roses.
117 x 90 cm.
Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame.
- Work signed and dated bottom right: “P. Daudenarde 1919”...
Category
Naturalistic Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,389 Sale Price
42% Off
Famous German Artist Fedor Encke (1851-1936) Huge Antique oil painting on canvas
By Fedor Encke
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is an original antique oil painting on canvas by Famous German - American Artist Fedor Encke, depicting a portrait of a Gentlemen dressed in a dark suit, white shirt, and...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
Turn of Century American Figurative Maine Lobster Fisherman - Grandfather's Joy
Located in Soquel, CA
Turn of Century American Figurative Maine Lobster Fisherman - Grandfather's Joy
A Old Lobster Fisherman ponders the future and the joy of grandchildren. Wonderful turn of century Ame...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Vintage Roses Signed French Oil Painting Still Life Flowers in Glass Bowl
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Still Life of Roses
French School, circa 1930's period
signed oil on board, unframed
board: 10 x 15 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good and sound condi...
Category
Victorian Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$485 Sale Price
30% Off
Early 20th century Modern British Impressionist portrait of a mother and child
Located in Woodbury, CT
This exquisite early 20th-century oil on panel by Dorothea Sharp captures the timeless and universal bond between mother and child in a tender Impressionist style. Painted circa 1900...
Category
Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
At the Claremont (View of the Hudson River and Palisades), Ida Sedgwick Proper
Located in New York, NY
Ida Sedgwick Proper
At the Claremont (View of the Hudson River and Palisades)
circa 1912
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
45 1/4 x 57 1/2 inches
Exhibited
New York, Heterodoxy, Malv...
Category
American Impressionist Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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