20th Century Portrait Paintings

Manuel Pardo (1952-2012). Portrait, 1986. Oil on canvas, 18 x 20 inches. Unframed. Signed, dated and dedicated on verso. Excellent condition. Manuel Pard...

A bright and expressive profile portrait depicting a woman in the driver's seat of a car. Painted in bursts of pink an purple. Signed and dated to the lower right. Presented in a woo...

Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil. The s...

Sadly only a few in the museum brain trust has recognized artists such as Bob Peak. Today museum curators seem to promote student-level artists while overlooking the brilliance of ...

Signed lower right. Little Mexican girl in orange dress with braids, barefoot, sitting in an wooden chair holding a guitar.

A charming oil on panel circa 1900 by French impressionist painter Armand Francois Henrion depicting a portrait of a Pierrot - a French clown - wearing white ruffles and a black hat smoking a wooden pipe. The portrait is set against a yellow-gold background. Signature: Signed lower right Dimensions: Framed: 9.5"x8" Unframed: 7"x5.5" Provenance: Private French collection Armand François Joseph Henrion...

Wonderful head portrait of a St.Bernard or Hound dog. Edward Aistrop was a painter of dog portraits who worked in the latter part of the 19th century. He was amongst a band of arti...

Dog Portrait of a Dalmatian Frances Mabel Hollams (England 1877-1963) Circa 1930s 8 1/8 x 5 1/8 (11 7/8 x 9 frame) inches Florence or Frances Mabel Hollams was a popular British painter of horses and dogs. She was active in the first three decades of the 20th century. She is noted for her unique technique of painting on wood panels, so the natural grain of the wood remains visible. Mabel studied under the artist Franck Calderon, and at a time when most schools didn’t accept female students, she studied at the Academie Julian in Paris, which showed surprising initiative for a woman of the Victorian Age. By the age of 18 she exhibited at the Royal Academy showing a landscape which at this early stage of her career was her major subject and many of those went to collectors in America. She continued showing at the Royal Academy until 1912. Early in her career she ceased painting compositions and turned her focus to portraying the simpler aspects of equestrian portraiture. Most of the influential sportsmen of the day became her patrons including the Duke of Norfolk, Earl Sefton, Earl Beatty, Lord Cornwallis, etc. After looking at a horse for only five minutes and making a few sketches on pieces of wood in her paint box, she would herself take the wheel of her large car putting the chauffeur in the back (his duties incidentally had been to remove samples of the horse’s mane and coat for reference). Payment for commissions would be placed on a silver tray held by the butler in the entry hall. Though never under any financial pressure, Hollams painted constantly and maintained a prodigious output. Many of her most attractive portraits were from the canine field. Her portraits of favorite dogs and horses filled many country houses were hung with pride. A portrait of Her Majesty the Queen’s Aureole hangs at the top of the visitor’s staircase at Sandringham Castle. Stella Walker comments in “British Sporting Art of the Twentieth Century” that Hollams 'had to compete with such outstanding exponents as Munnings and Lionel Edwards', but their respective styles were so different the comparison is hardly relevant. Hollams filled a need for lifelike reminders of treasured horses and dogs for customers who probably had little interest in art. The results have an almost iconic appeal and represent a way of life that changed forever after the first and second world wars, when the country piles, with stables full of horses, which she visited in her large car, started to decay and be sold off when their incumbents could no longer afford their upkeep. One of the best collections of work by Hollams can be seen at Calke Abbey in Derbyshire, the property of the National Trust. British National Trust...

Artist/ School: French School, late 20th/ early 21st century, signed lower corner. Title: Sunny Landscape with Elegant Figures and Parasols Medium: oil painting on canvas Size: ...

Deco Woman in Orange Dress Oil on canvas, 1935 Unsigned Provenance: Estate of the Artist Canvas size: 22 x 28 inches Frame size: 28 3/4 x 34 1/2 inches ...

'Woman with Tattoos', oil on board, by Peter Robert Keil (1985). A topless, blonde woman shows off her tattoos to the viewer, unbothered by the concept of propriety. She would feel r...

The Three Fates Thinking Mysterious Thoughts, vintage semi-abstract painting by Edward Marecak (1919-1993). Three heads in a somewhat cubist style are...