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Portrait Paintings For Sale
Period: 1930s
Period: 1910s
Laundry Day. Child hanging cloths in Breeze. Cover. The Household Guest
Located in Miami, FL
The Artist captures a "caught moment" of cloths blowing in the wind. It's being witnessed by an inquisitive bird, while be ducklings and a cute kitty cat accompany her.
Signed lower...
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Ink, Gouache, Graphite
Parc des Buttes-Chaumont, Paris
By Lucien Génin
Located in London, GB
'Parc des Buttes-Chaumont' in Paris, gouache on art paper, by Lucien Génin (circa 1930s). A charming depiction of well turned out Parisians enjoying a day at the park. Boaters, strollers and swans all co-mingle around the peaceful lake. The reflection of the rocky bluff in the water is superbly treated by Génin. It's a cheerful and uplifting image of days-gone-by in 1930s Paris.
The park takes its name from the 'bare hill' (chauve-mont) that once occupied the site. It became a place where gypsum was mined, and where the limestone was quarried to be used in buildings in Paris and the United States. Worse, though, it was a site that also became a dumping ground. Luckily, during the 19th-century renovation of Paris under Napoleon III, chauve-mont was chosen as a place for a large park, as part of the emperor's fascination with endowing Paris with green spaces.
The artificial lake created at that time wraps around a hilly central island. The lake attracts waterfowl and other birds and is stocked with fish. The 19th-century planners cleaned up the site and added tons of soil to fill the pits left by a limestone mining operation. Then dynamite was used to "sculpt" the site into the craggy shapes seen today, including the 50-metre-high central hill with cliffs, an interior grotto, pinnacles, and arches. Up on top, overlooking the rest of the park - and depicted in this artwork - is a small, round belvedere, based on the Roman Temple of Vesta in Italy. From that spot you can see a lovely view of Montmartre and the white cupolas of the Sacre-Coeur. The painting is in very good condition. It has been newly framed and glazed with museum-quality glass (anti-reflective and UV protection) to preserve this significant artwork for decades to come.
Dimensions with frame:
H 62 cm / 24.4"
W 76 cm / 29.9"
Dimensions without frame:
H 48.5 cm / 19.1"
W 63 cm / 24.8"
About the Artist: After the devastation of the First World War, Lucien Génin (1894 - 1953) left his provincial home in the autumn of 1919 to find his fortune among the lively Parisians in the heart of Montmartre. Génin befriended the painters Frank Will, Gen Paul, Émile Boyer, Marcel Leprin...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Portrait of a Girl - Original Oil Paint by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of a girl is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s.
Original oil on plywood.
Beautiful and representative work of a female fi...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Plywood, Oil
Woman in Pink - Oil Painting by Antonio Feltrinelli - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Woman in pink is an original artwork realized by the Italian artist Antonio Feltrinelli in the 1930s.
Original oil on plywood.
Beautiful and representative work of a female figure...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Unknown
By Lucie Decsényi
Located in Paris, FR
Beautiful portrait of the 30s expressionist style realized on canvas by the Hungarian artist of the Parisian school Lucie Decsényi born in Budapest and mainly active in France.
the p...
Category
1930s Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'The White Bonnet', Paris, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen Art Museum
By Henrik Schouboe
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower left, 'H.S.' for Henrik Schouboe (Danish, 1876-1949) and painted circa 1915.
Henrik Schouboe first studied at the Copenhagen's Royal Academy of Fine Arts from 1894-1901 and, from 1903-1910, in Italy and Paris. He was awarded numerous stipends and scholarships including the Larssen (1902-3) and the Akademie Scholarship in 1908. In 1906, he had exhibited for the first time at the Charlottenborg where his submitted entry was purchased by the leading Danish painter of the time, Kristian Zahrtmann, for his personal collection.
Schouboe continued to exhibit both domestically and internationally for over thirty years and was the recipient of a variety of prizes, medals and juried awards including the purchase of his 1908 Charlottenborg entry, 'Young Couple in a Landscape', by the State Museum of Art for inclusion in the Danish national collection. Schouboe's work is held in the permanent collections of numerous museums including Copenhagen, Aabenraa, Maribo and the Aalborg Art Museums. We are pleased to offer a delicate and psychologically penetrating portrait of this beautiful and determined girl on the cusp of womanhood.
Reference:
Thieme-Becker Allgemeines Lexikon der Bildenden Künstler von der Antike bis zu Gengenwart, Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag 1992, Vol. 30, p. 269; E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse, 1999 Nouvelle Édition, Gründ 1911, Vol. 12, p. 520; Weilbach, Dansk Kunstnerleksikon, the Castle and Cultural Agency, Copenhagen; Dansk Kunst (Charlottenborg), 1927: Taf. 27, 1928: Taf. 38, 1929: Taf. 46; S. Michaëlis i: Art VII, 1905-06; Vilh. Wanscher i: Kunstbl. 1909-10, 71f; Harald Giersing...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Saturday Evening Post Cover, Evening Gown May 21st, 1938
By Neysa McMein
Located in Miami, FL
Pastel on board - Saturday Evening Post Cover, Evening Gown May 21st, 1938 - Reproduced version looks better because the Saturday Evening Post Art Director retouched the plates before printing and strengthened the colors to give it more newsstand appeal - From Wiki : as an American illustrator and portrait painter who studied at The School of The Art Institute of Chicago and Art Students League of New York. She began her career as an illustrator and during World War I, she traveled across France entertaining military troops with Anita P...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Art Nouveau, Fleurs
By Karel VonBelle
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Presenting an original oil on canvas by Belgian artist Karel VonBelle.
"Fleurs", is an original oil on canvas, signed, dated 1935, beautifully framed.
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 11, 1913
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Saturday Evening Post Cover, October 11, 1913
Category
1910s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
George Washington, Study for Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Saturday Evening Post Cover, February 25, 1939
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of a Seated Woman
Located in Miami, FL
Charming portait with Modernest colors.
Provenance: Christie's
Mercedes Matter, daughter of the artist, Salander-O'Reilly Galleries, New York. Private Collection. Sale: Skinner, Inc...
Category
1910s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tennis Champion, Don Budge
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvasboard
Signature: Unsigned
Caricature by George Wachsteter (1911-2004) of Tennis Champion Don Budge, Number One ranked player in the world, 1937-42, injury from ...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Board
Seated Girl on Chair
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1918
Medium: Oil on Canvas Board
Dimensions: 27.00" x 20.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
American Art Works Calendar Image
Category
1910s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Woman
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Image of a woman wearing a robe and talking on the telephone.
Signed lower left.
Howard Chandler Christy had a long, colorful and varied career. He made his early rep...
Category
1910s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Gouache
Bright Painting of a Clown, Bessie Howard painted about 1935
Located in Hallowell, ME
Bessie J. Howard, American, (1890-1962)
This is a bright and colorful oil painting of a clown on artist board and measures 12 inches tall by 9 inc...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of a Child
By Will Barnet
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original modern abstract portrait of a child by American artist Will Barnet. The work has a letter of provenance from the artist's wife. The i...
Category
1930s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Female Fencer, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Alfred J. Cammarata
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Sight Size 40.00" x 30.00", Framed 47.00" x 37.00"
Cover of the Saturday Evening Post, April 1, 1933.
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Study of a Young Woman', California Woman artist, Art Institute of Chicago
By Sarah Hobson
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Sarah H. Hobson' and dated, '1936'.
A delicately modeled, gouache and watercolor study of a young woman with copper hair.
Sarah Villarette Hoover Hobson studied...
Category
1930s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Study of John Singleton Copley's painting of John Hancock
By John B. Monaco
Located in Soquel, CA
John B. Monaco 1916 painting and study of the John Singleton Copley portrait of John Hancock. San Francisco artist and San Francisco city documen...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"In The Shadow Of The Cross"
By Hugo Pohl
Located in San Antonio, TX
Hugo Pohl (1878 - 1960) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 13.75 x 18.25 Frame Size: 19 x 23.5 Medium: Oil 1930s "In The Shadow Of The Cross"
Biography
Hugo Pohl (1878 - 1960)
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Hugo David Pohl became a painter of native people and landscape in New Mexico, Arizona, California and then Texas where he settled and became known for his paintings of missions. Between 1926 and 1927, he completed 29 Texas mission paintings...
Category
1930s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Lady - Oil on Canvas by Carlo Socrate - 1930
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Lady is an original oil on canvas artwork realized by Carlo Socrate (1889-1967) in 1930.
A beautiful portrait of a woman by one of the major exponents of the association of painters that came to be known as Scuola Romana (Roman School).
Very good conditions.
Collect a masterpiece of the XX century.
Carlo Socrate (Mezzana Bigli -Pavia 1889 – Rome 1967)
He is the son of actors and lives in Argentina until the age of nine years.
Once returned to Italy, he begins attending the Free School of the Nude and in 1914, he goes to Rome, where a year later he would study at Villa Strohl-Fern.
In 1917, he worked for the company, Ballets Russes by Diaghilev; he also collaborated with the scenography for Las Meninas and prepared the scenes for Les femmes de bonne humeur (The Good Humored Ladies) by Léon Bakst. During this period, he meets Picasso, whom he follows to Paris, collaborating with him on scenes from Parade. During his stay in Paris, he meets Derain and other exponents of the cultural environment.
With Picasso, he visited Barcelona and then Madrid where, together, they visited The Prado Museum.
In 1918, at the Casina Valadier on the Pincian Hill (Rome), he exhibits his Still Life with a Dish of Apples and Onions, which arouses perplexity in the Roman environment for his personal rare “neoclassicism” but at the same time, attentive to European situation in those years.
After Portatrice di Frutta (Fruit Carrier) (1924), which is one of his masterpieces, he exhibits i Cacciatori (The Hunters), a very challenging painting, at the “Novecento Italiano...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Self-Portrait', Paris Salon, Royal Danish Academy, Impressionist oil, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower left, 'J.P' for Julius Paulsen (Danish, 1860-1940) and painted circa 1910.
A dramatic, early twentieth-century work by this notable Post-Impressionist painter and th...
Category
1910s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"L' Espagnole", Portrait Oil Painting by Dietz Edzard, 1935
By Dietz Edzard
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil on Canvas, 1935 by Dietz Edzard ( German/French 1893-1963 ) Height: 17.99 in ( 45,7 cm ), Width: 12.99 in ( 33 cm )
With the artist's signature stamp at lower left. Framed.
Prope...
Category
1930s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Homage to Picasso
Located in Sheffield, MA
Morris Solotaroff
Russian, 1891-1970
Homage to Picasso
Oil on canvas
34 ¾ by 28 ½ in. W/frame 41¾ by 35 ½ in.
Born in Russia on Oct. 1, 1891. Sol...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Winning Personality
By Enoch Bolles
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right
Film Fun magazine cover, July 1934
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Hopi Girl with Kachina Doll', California Woman artist, Pasadena Art Association
By Katharine Buzzell Benepe
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right 'K. Buzzell Benepe' and dated 1936.
A psychologically penetrating character study by this early California woman artist. Benepe captures the essential sensitivity of her subject as she gently cradles her doll while gazing at the viewer with both candor and charm.
Katherine Buzzell Benepe first studied at the University of California in Los Angeles and, later, with Nicolai Fechin...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Young Bretonne', Paris, Salon d’Automne, Section d'Or, Post-Impressionist Oil
By Jais Nielsen
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A vibrant, early 20th century oil study of a young Breton girl shown regarding the viewer with a stern and penetrating gaze.
Signed lower right 'Jais' for Jais Nielsen (Danish, 1885...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Kuppenheimer Man
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Used for signage and marketing purposes.
Thanhardt-Burger carved gilt frame. Painting is fully conserved. Client / Usage: K...
Category
1910s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Sculptor
By Ron Blumberg
Located in West Hollywood, CA
An early, 1940, oil on canvas by American artist Ron Blumberg.
Blumberg was classically trained at La Grande Academie Chaumiere in Paris, 1932, before moving to New York where he bec...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Marelen Dietrich
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Jean Dominique Van Caulert, (1897-1979), although most often associated with his celebrity portraits and works for the theater, he was also a true symbolist in the tradition of the B...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Bright Eyes, " an Oil on a Canvas Board signed by Pauline Palmer
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Bright Eyes" is an original oil paint on canvas mounted on board by Pauline Palmer. It depicts a young child in blue with wide eyes smiling in front of a ...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
The Complete Detective Cover, Pulp Magazine
By Harry Lemon Parkhurst
Located in Miami, FL
Harry Lemon Parkhurst
American, 1876–1962 was a pulp illustrator for crime and detective stories.
The works depicts an art thief caught at a pe...
Category
1930s American Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Study of a Young Woman', Karlsruhe, Berlin, Danish Post-Impressionist, Benezit
By Alfred Hermann Helberger
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Initialed lower right 'A.H.'; signed verso, "Alfred Helberger", inscribed "Gertrúd" and dated 1914.
Bearing the original 1962 exhibition label from the Senator fur Folksbildung, Ber...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Portrait of Theresa Rogers
By Leon Kroll
Located in Miami, FL
Portrait of Theresa Rogers
Housed in a period hand carved wood frame. Some scatter minor paint loss and stretcher marks otherwise presents very well
Signature: Signed lower right
T...
Category
1930s Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
This Week Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right
This Week Herald Tribune, February 5, 1939
EXHIBITED:
The Dana Room, Steinman College center, Franklin and Marshall College, ...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Glamorous Performer in Art Deco Black Evening Dress, Golden Age of Hollywood
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
work is matted but not framed.
Golden Age of Hollywood no illustrator chronicled the great stars, pin-ups and good girls better than Jaro Fabr...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Crayon, Gouache
The Castle, Signed Watercolour painting by Norman Lindsey
By Norman Lindsay
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Castle
By Norman Lindsay (1879-1969),
Watercolour painting on canvas mounted on board and framed
signed to lower right
painting measures: 30.5cm x 23.5cm
framed: 77.5cm x 70.5cm
...
Category
1930s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
"The Christian" Possibly a Martyr?
By Hugo Pohl
Located in San Antonio, TX
Hugo Pohl (1878 - 1960) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 9 x 5.5 Frame Size: 14 x 10 Medium: Oil Circa 1930s "The Christian"
Biography
Hugo Pohl (1878 - 1960)
Born in Detroit, Michigan, Hugo David Pohl became a painter of native people and landscape in New Mexico, Arizona, California and then Texas where he settled and became known for his paintings of missions. Between 1926 and 1927, he completed 29 Texas mission paintings...
Category
1930s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
'The Valley of the Moon' Cosmopolitan Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Illustration of a couple.
"The farmer crossed the plowed strip to Saxon, and joined her on the rail." Ink, watercolor, and gouache on board. 991x749 mm; 39x29 1/2 inches. Signed in full, lower left. Illustration for the first appearance of Jack London's novel "The Valley of the Moon," Cosmopolitan Magazine...
Category
1910s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board, Watercolor
Blond Hair Boy - Original signed oil on canvas - 1934
Located in Paris, FR
Gustave Poetzsch (1870-1950)
Blond Hair Boy
Original Oil on Canvas
Signed Bottom right
37 x 25 cm (c. 15 x 12 in) at view
Presented in his original golden wood frame (defects to th...
Category
1930s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Good Housekeeping Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Cover of Good Housekeeping magazine, January 1915. Image of woman in rocking chair with yarn.
One of the first master illustrators. Created the de...
Category
1910s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Good Housekeeping cover. Christmas: Child Praying
Located in Miami, FL
Famed female illustrator, Jessie Willcox Smith paints the " Ideal Child" in a spiritual moment for the Christmas cover of Good Housekeeping. The acc...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Liberty Magazine Cover, October 1, 1932
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Portrait of a young girl with short blonde hair wearing a collared shirt and a red tie.
Liberty Magazine Cover Illustration, October 1, 1932
Signed Lower Right
Charle...
Category
1930s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hoot Mon, LIFE Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor and Gouache on Paper
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Sight Size 31.00" x 12.00", Framed 36.00" x 18.00"
Hoot Mon, Life Magazine Cover...
Category
1910s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Watercolor
Self Portrait - Oil on Masonite by Paulo Ghiglia - 1937
By Paulo Ghiglia
Located in Roma, IT
Signed on top left side P. Ghiglia 937.
Good conditions.
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Woman's Home Companion Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1912
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Sight Size 18.50" x 12.50", Framed 27.50" x 21.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
July 1912 Woman's Home Companion Magazine Cover
Category
1910s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Oil on Cardboard La Femme au Tir II by Dietz Edzard, 1938
By Dietz Edzard
Located in Berlin, DE
Dietz Edzard (German/French 1893-1963)
Oil on cardboard, 1938, stamped at lower right with the initials D.E. Framed. Property of the Estate of Dr. Max Stern sold for the benefit of ...
Category
1930s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
"Tommy"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Ben...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Woman with a butterfly in her hat. Colliers Magazine Cover
By Jaro Fabry
Located in Miami, FL
A wonderful and charming cover concept as an attractive young women stares at a beautiful butterfly caught in the netting of her hat. Fabry executes the work with his stylised loos...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
"Lee J. Cobb #3"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899 - 1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon ...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Portrait of the Musician Mazzi
By Alfred Reth
Located in London, GB
ALFRED RETH 1884-1966
Budapest 1884-1966 Paris (Hungarian/French)
Title: Portrait of the Musician Mazzi, 1912
Technique: Original Signed Oil pain...
Category
1910s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
'Study of a Young Woman', California Woman artist, Art Institute of Chicago
By Sarah Hobson
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A sensitively drawn pastel study of a young woman with red hair shown wearing a blue dress and gazing to the viewers right.
Signed lower left, 'Sarah H. Hobson' and painted circa 19...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Sasha"
Located in Southampton, NY
Portrait of the artist's daughter Sasha at 8 years old by the Russian/American artist, Nahum Tschacbasov. Oil on masonite on a wooden stretcher backing. Signed lower right and dated 1938. Sasha later was to become the second wife of the the writer, Saul Bellow. Condition is good with some wear to top left of painting. In original, unrestored condition. Unframed.
Nahum Tschacbasov lived in New York City for most of his adult life, arriving in the United States as a young boy in 1907. His numerous one man shows included ACA gallery, Perls Gallery and John Heller...
Category
1930s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Boys, My Sister From the East, American Magazine Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1918
Medium: Gouache on Board
Dimensions: 30.00" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Right
Boys, My Sister From the East, American Magazine illustration, April 1918
Category
1910s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Valentines Day, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Sight Size 29.00" x 21.00", Framed 34.00" x 27.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Valentines Day, Saturday Evening Post cover, February 16, 1935
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Edgar Allan Poe
By Henry Kurt Stoessel
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1933
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Dimensions: 18.50" x 25.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Shows Poe seated at a desk in the offices of The Evening Mirror (early publishe...
Category
1930s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Mixed Media
"Frances in Braids"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork.
Pastel portrait of artist's granddaughter.
Complemented by original signed Harer frame.
Illustra...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Pastel
Portrait of a Gentleman, 1913, by Danish Artist Heinrich Dohm
By Heinrich Dohm
Located in Stockholm, SE
"Portrait of a Gentleman, 1913" by Heinrich Dohm is a striking example of the Danish artist's mastery in capturing the essence and character of his subje...
Category
1910s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
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Queen Elizabeth 2 Portrait
Tiffany Background Images
Abe Lincoln
Gentleman In Armor
Hollis Dunlap
Rubens Circle
Charles Edward Stuart
Shannon Wood Paintings
Pilgrim Portraits
Dali Travel Poster
Crime And Punishment
18th C French Lady Paintings