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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 1990s
Period: 18th Century
18th Century, Antique Oil Painting, Old Master. Portrait of Mother with child.
Located in Berlin, DE
18th century, antique painting, oil on canvas, old master. Mother with child. Relined canvas. Stretcher frame also renewed. Artist unknown.
Category

18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Marie-Madeleine by Gilbert Pauli - Oil on canvas 113x77 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category

1990s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

18th C. Portrait of the 4th Earl of Sandwich a View of Constantinople Beyond
Located in London, GB
John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich (13 November 1718 – 30 April 1792) Attributed to George Knapton (1698-1778) Dressed in the Turkish manner, stand...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Portrait of a Gentleman Commoner at Oxford, 18th Century Oil on Canvas
By James Northcote b.1746
Located in London, GB
James Northcote Portrait of a Gentleman Commoner at Oxford Oil on canvas Image size: 30 x 25 inches (76 x 63.5 cm) Original gilt frame
Category

18th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Desolate yet undaunted -Daniel Erban, 20th Century, Outsider art, Figurative
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper Signed Unique work
Category

1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Paper

Girls portrait. Oil on canvas, 81x57 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Girls portrait. Oil on canvas, 81x57 cm
Category

1990s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Henry Pickering, Portrait of a Gentleman
Located in London, GB
Henry Pickering, Portrait of a Gentleman Oil on canvas; signed and dated 1759; held in a giltwood period frame Provenance: Lenygon & Morant Ltd. c.1900; Knoedler, October 1912 (Sto...
Category

Mid-18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Friendship
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category

1990s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Behind Stage", Zhiwei Tu, Impressionist, Figurative, 48x36 in, Oil on Canvas
By Zhiwei Tu
Located in Dallas, TX
"Behind Stage" by Zhiwei Tu is an Impressionistic Figurative original oil on canvas painting that measures 48x36 in. This painting has a class of beautiful b...
Category

1990s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

DOUBLE MARILYN - THE HOLLYWOOD STAR
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed by the artist on verso. Hand Painted Unique Silkscreen on Canvas. Artwork is in excellent condition. Canvas is not stretched. Certificate of authenticity included. All...
Category

1990s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Sagres II Ship Portrait 20th Century, signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sagres II, 1937 by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015) oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board framed Framed size: 18.25 x 13.75 inches Superb oil painting by the well listed French marine artist Louis Letouche (1924-2015). The painting portrays a Portugese Ship from the early 20th Century, titled: Sagres II. The three-masted ship was launched under the name Albert Leo Schlageter on 30 October 1937 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. The ship was named after Albert Leo Schlageter, who was executed in 1923 by French forces occupying the Ruhr area. Her first commander was Bernhard Rogge. Sagres is a sister ship of the Gorch Fock, the Horst Wessel, and the Romanian training vessel Mircea. Another sister, Herbert Norkus, was not completed, while Gorch Fock II was built in 1958 by the Germans to replace the ships lost after the war. Following a number of international training voyages, the ship was used as a stationary office ship after the outbreak of World War II and was only put into ocean-going service again in 1944 in the Baltic Sea. On 14 November 1944 she hit a Soviet mine off Sassnitz and had to be towed to port in Swinemünde. Eventually transferred to Flensburg, she was taken over there by the Allies when the war ended and finally confiscated by the United States. In 1948, the U.S. sold her to Brazil for a symbolic price of $5,000 USD.She was towed to Rio de Janeiro where she sailed as a school ship for the Brazilian Navy under the name Guanabara. In 1961, Ambassador Teotónio Pereira of Portugal, who was also a man of the sea...
Category

1990s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Gota Lejon, signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Göta Lejon, 1746. by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015) oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board framed Framed size: 15 x 21.75 inches Superb oil painting by the well lis...
Category

1990s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

MARILYN - BABY IT'S COLD OUTSIDE!
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed by the artist on verso. Hand Painted Unique Silkscreen on Canvas. Artwork is in excellent condition. Canvas is not stretched. Certificate of authenticity included. All...
Category

1990s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Sagres Ship Portrait signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sagres, 1937 by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015) oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board framed Framed size: 16 x 19 inches Superb oil painting by the well listed French marine artist Louis Letouche (1924-2015). The painting portrays the early 20th Century ship titled: Sagres, 1937. The three-masted ship was launched under the name Albert Leo Schlageter on 30 October 1937 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. The ship was named after Albert Leo Schlageter, who was executed in 1923 by French forces occupying the Ruhr area. Her first commander was Bernhard Rogge. Sagres is a sister ship of the Gorch Fock, the Horst Wessel, and the Romanian training vessel Mircea. Another sister, Herbert Norkus, was not completed, while Gorch Fock II was built in 1958 by the Germans to replace the ships lost after the war. Following a number of international training voyages, the ship was used as a stationary office ship after the outbreak of World War II and was only put into ocean-going service again in 1944 in the Baltic Sea. On 14 November 1944 she hit a Soviet mine off Sassnitz and had to be towed to port in Swinemünde. Eventually transferred to Flensburg, she was taken over there by the Allies when the war ended and finally confiscated by the United States. In 1948, the U.S. sold her to Brazil for a symbolic price of $5,000 USD. She was towed to Rio de Janeiro where she sailed as a school ship for the Brazilian Navy under the name Guanabara. In 1961, Ambassador Teotónio Pereira of Portugal, who was also a man of the sea...
Category

1990s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Waiting by Gilbert Pauli - Oil on canvas 81x100 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category

1990s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Cromdale Shipwreck, signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cromdale in 1913 by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015) oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board framed Framed size: 14 x 19.25 inches Superb oil painting by the well list...
Category

1990s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Jocelyn Wildenstein, Pop Art Portrait by Peter Mayer
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Mayer Title: Jocelyn Wildenstein (Purple/Blue) Year: 1998 Medium: Acrylic and Silkscreen on Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 11 i...
Category

1990s Street Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Screen, Acrylic

Girl with Fan, Oil Painting
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Di Li Feng, Chinese (1958 - ) Title: Girl with Fan Year: circa 1990 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 37.5 x 50 in. (95.25 x 127 cm) Frame...
Category

1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Jeweled Kiss, Art Deco Painting by Erik Freyman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Erik Freyman, Russian (1932 - ) Title: A Jeweled Kiss Year: 1992 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 60 x 36 in. (152.4 x 91.44 cm)
Category

1990s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sight. Vysotsky. 2009, oil on canvas, 80x80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Frown / Vysotsky /2009, oil on canvas, 80x80 cm
Category

1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Gentleman
Located in New York, NY
Circle of Jacques-Louis David (French, 18th Century) Provenance: Private Collection, Buenos Aires Exhibited: “Art of Collecting,” Flint Institute of Art, Flint, Michigan, 23 November 2018 – 6 January 2019. This vibrant portrait of young man was traditionally considered a work by Jacques-Louis David, whose style it recalls, but to whom it cannot be convincingly attributed. Rather, it would appear to be by a painter in his immediate following—an artist likely working in France in the first decade of the nineteenth century. Several names have been proposed as the portrait’s author: François Gérard, Louis Hersent, Anne-Louis Girodet (Fig. 1), Theodore Gericault, and Jean-Baptiste Wicar, among others. Some have thought the artist Italian, and have proposed Andrea Appiani, Gaspare Landi...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Young Man (Russian male portrait)
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Friedrich Wigand (Russian, 1800-1853). Portrait of a Young Man, 1841. Oil on canvas, 12.5 x 16 inches. Framed measurement: 17 x 20.5 inches. Signed an...
Category

Mid-18th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

THE GOLD EARRINGS 1886 Robert Edward Morrison Pre Raphaelite Portrait Watercolor
Located in Pollenca, Illes Baleares
Robert Edward Morrison (1852-1925) The gold earrings Robert Edward Morrison (1852-1925) The gold earrings signed 'R.E.Morrison/1886' (upper left...
Category

Mid-18th Century Victorian Portrait Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Late 18th Century English Family Portrait
Located in Houston, TX
English family portrait from the late 18th century. The canvas is aged accordingly with newsprint from October 1847. The painting is framed in a decorative gold frame with an open ba...
Category

Late 18th Century Naturalistic Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Entry of Jesus to Jerusalem
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category

1990s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Mme de Noirmont", Oil on Canvas Portrait, circa 18th Century
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY This painting titled "Mme de Noirmont" is an oil on canvas work from the studio of Nicolas de Largilliere, one of the most prolific and esteemed French portrait p...
Category

18th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Adhesive, Oil

BRIANNA
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed on front; signed, titled and dated on verso by the artist. Canvas is not stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Auth...
Category

1990s Pop Art Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Series of Four Portraits from a New York City Gay Underground Club
By Damien Smith
Located in London, GB
A series of four paintings - acrylic on stretched canvas - unframed, by Canadian artist Damien Smith (born 1969). This unique series depicts four characters in a New York City erotic gay bar...
Category

1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Self-Portrait - Royal Academy Founding Member, 18th Century
By Francis Hayman
Located in London, GB
Francis Hayman RA 1708–1776 Self-Portrait Oil on oak panel Image size: 8 x 6¼ inches Contemporary gilt frame This newly discovered work is the earliest known self portrait by Francis Hayman, dated to the mid to late 1720’s. The small scale of the portrait gives it a strong sense of intimacy. Whereas clients would often dress themselves in their best clothes for a sitting, Hayman has portrayed himself in informal attire, with his shirt unbuttoned and a wig cap. Born in 1708 to a respectable Devonshire family, his training began at the tender age of ten under the tutelage of the historical painter Robert Brown, who was probably an uncle. By the 1730’s he is known to have been engaged in painting scenery for the popular theatres on Goodman’s Fields and Drury Lane. He established a studio on St Martin’s Lane, and demonstrated his versatility as one of the most important painters of his time in portraits, illustration and history painting. Indeed, he was one of the first English painters deemed to have the skill and proficiency to rival that of the foreign masters, such as Holbein and Kneller, who were brought in by the court to make up for the perceived shortcomings of the native artists. Led by William Hogarth, Hayman and other artists began to create a new movement in the English art world. Thomas Gainsborough was one of his pupils, whom he is said to have introduced to the more lascivious and debauched underbelly of London life. After mostly making his living as an illustrator, in the 1740’s Hayman was commissioned by the proprietor of the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens, Jonathan Tyers, to produce a series of four large celebratory canvases depicting British victories from the Seven Years War. His association with Tyers continued, and over the next ten years he produced a number of large decorative paintings...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil Pastel, Oak

William Jennys oil pendant portraits of Nancy Stacy and David Kimball
By William Jennys
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present pair of portraits would make an exceptional addition to any collection of early American art not only because they were painted by the notable William Jennys, but also because the sitters are members of notable and influential New England families. In addition, these pendants have impeccable provenance: they have never left ownership of the decedents of the Kimball family and this is the first time they have been available for purchase. David Kimball (1766-1848) and Nancy Stacy Kimball (1774-1844) were members of historic Massachusetts families. David Kimball is a sixth-generation decedent of Richard Kimball (d. 1675) and Ursula Scott (d. 1659), who emigrated from Rattlasden, Suffolk County, England to Watertown MA around 1634. The family then relocated in 1637 to Ipswich, the city with which the family is now most strongly identified, when Richard was appointed to be a wheelwright.[1] Nancy likewise had early New England ancestry, descended from Simon Stacy and Elizabeth Clark, who were married in London in 1620.[2] Nancy Stacy was the second wife of David Kimball, and the two were married in 1799. Given this, the present pendant portraits were likely completed shortly after the marriage. David had two children by his first wife Mary Morse, who died in September of 1798. David and Nancy would have nine additional children between 1801 and 1815.[3] Most notably, the couple were parents of the Boston politician and showman Moses Kimball (1809-1895).[2][3] Moses would found the Boston Museum, an early for-profit museum and theater opened in 1841 that resembled European curiosity cabinets: the museum displayed paintings of Thomas Scully and Charles Peale alongside Chinese artwork, stuffed animals, dwarves and mermaids. Alongside these exhibits, visitors could attend the theater which held performances by gymnasts and contortionists, followed by performances of Shakespeare and Dickens.[4] This museum set the model for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, which when founded in 1870 held a similarly diverse collection and appealed to the interests of a diverse set of visitors.[5] Moreover, some Greek antiquities from Moses Kimball's museum were eventually given to the MFA and Moses donated approximately $5,000 to the MFA's endowment upon his death.[6][7] William Jennys (1774–1859), also known as J. William Jennys, is an important American primitive portrait...
Category

1790s Academic Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Harlequin
Located in Miami, FL
Her work with signs, symbols and esoteric spirituality reflects her passion for the ancient past and represents a symbolic return to the ground from which we emerged. Her work creates a commentary about “beginnings” and the transmission of signs and emotions through visual elements evoking a spiritual essence to our scientific notion of etymology. After studying under Rolf Dürig...
Category

1990s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Child in Chicken Yard Fauvist Abstract Expressionist Portrait
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic fauvist portrait painting titled "Chicken Yard" by California abstract expressionist artist Kristin Cohen (Ameican, b. 1963). Kristin Cohen studied at Humbolt State Universit...
Category

1990s Fauvist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

UNKNOWN TITLE
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed and thumb printed on front by the artist. Canvas size 45 x 33 inches. Custom framed as pictured. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certif...
Category

1990s Cubist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas, Acrylic

UNTITLED
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Hand signed and dated on verso by the artist. Canvas size 75 x 52 inches. Custom framed as pictured. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate o...
Category

1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Casting, figurative painting (beautiful women and colorful masks)
Located in Segovia, ES
"Casting", painted by the Spanish artist Goyo Domínguez in 1995, is a romantic, colorful picture that smoothly joins the figurative and abstract worlds. "Casting" was painted with a...
Category

1990s Romantic Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood Panel

Cupid Paint Oil on canvas France Neo classicism Art Quality Love 18th century
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Eighteenth-century French school Entourage de François Boucher (Paris 1703 - 1770) Cupid who shoots his arrow Oil on canvas, 48 ​​x 40 cm with frame 58 x 49 cm. The painting, of pl...
Category

18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Good Samaritan
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category

1990s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Dishevelled wandering stars -Daniel Erban, 20th Century, Outsider art painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper Signed Unique work
Category

1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

The artist
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category

1990s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Faccia Ubriaca" by Enzio Wenk, 1993-1997 - Mixed Media on Canvas, Portrait
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Drunken face". Mixed media on canvas.
Category

1990s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

L'Abbé Pierre by Gilbert Pauli - Oil on canvas 33x46 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category

1990s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Before dawn by Gilbert Pauli - Oil on canvas 38x50 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category

1990s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Emmaüs’s companions by Gilbert Pauli - Oil on canvas 38x46 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category

1990s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Tolerance
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category

1990s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Girl with the Gun 1990's Stylised Portrait Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Girl with the Gun, Stylised Portrait, Signed Oil Painting by Larissa Ickx, Belgian 20th century Signed on the lower right hand corner Oil painting on canvas, unframed Canvas size: 47...
Category

1990s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Pioneer Leader. Oil on cardboard, 25x24, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Pioneer Leader. Oil on cardboard, 25x24,5 cm Arnolds Pankoks (born 1914.21.IX - 2008.) Graduated Art Academy of Latvia (1937 – 43, 1945 – 47) with dip...
Category

1990s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

The flower market
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category

1990s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Despair's unhallowed bed -Daniel Erban, 20th Century, Outsider art painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper Signed Unique work
Category

1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Love by Gilbert Pauli - Oil on canvas 81x55 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category

1990s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

Métissage
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His fa...
Category

1990s Art Deco Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

18th century oil portrait of Margaret Peg Woffington by Jeremiah Davison
Located in London, GB
Margaret 'Peg' Woffington, was born in Dublin around 1714. Her charm and beauty as a child attracted much attention quickly resulting in her first stage role at the precocious age of 10. Her first important appearance was as Ophelia in 1737 in Dublin, followed by her greatest role, the male part of Sir Harry Windair in Farquhar's Constant Couple, which in 1740 led to her engagement by John Rich...
Category

Mid-18th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Photo Technician
Located in Miami, FL
We have three Chermayeffs collage portraits and they work as a group. Salander- O'Reilly Galleries, NY Art Planning Consultants New York We have 3 stunning collage portraits by Cher...
Category

1990s Assemblage Portrait Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Pencil

"I See a Robin" - Portrait of a Boy in Winter
By Veon Zentner
Located in Soquel, CA
"I See a Robin," a figurative oil painting of a boy in a window by Veon Zentner (American, 20th Century). Presented in a rustic wooden frame. Signed "Zentner" lower left. Titled "I S...
Category

1990s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Santa Maria - Christopher Columbus's ship, signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Santa Maria, 1490 by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015) oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board framed Framed size: 16 x 19 inches Superb oil painting by the well li...
Category

1990s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

The sorrows of your changing face -Daniel Erban, 20th Century, Outsider painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper Signed Unique work
Category

1990s Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Untitled
Located in San Francisco, CA
This expressive, figurative portrait is by Cliffton Peacock (1953-). The painting measures 40 x 34 inches (42 x 36 inches framed.) It is composed of oil on canvas. The painting is si...
Category

1990s Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"First words to two women" by Gilbert Pauli - Oil on canvas
Located in Geneva, CH
Born in 1944 in the canton of Fribourg, Gilbert Pauli currently lives in Geneva, where he devotes himself to painting and sculpture, a passion he developed from his childhood. His favorite theme is the dialogue between the human being and his creator. Gilbert Pauli's messages are universal, without any racial, religious or even cultural reference, with the sole purpose of love for man. From 1986, he worked relentlessly and in a self-taught way to discover the different painting and sculpture techniques: first gouache, followed by dry pastel. These lead him to watercolor, and oil, through charcoal and acrylic. He died in Geneva in 2020 and the Gijsel Gallery...
Category

1990s Symbolist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Danube, signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Danube, 1855-1878 by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015) oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board framed Framed size: 14 x 19 inches Superb oil painting by the well listed...
Category

1990s Realist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

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