20th Century Still-life Paintings

"Squares and Things" painted by the eminent artist, Charles McGee, literally breaths his African American heritage and his extraordinary vibrant use of colors. Provenance is The Arwin Galleries on Grand River in Detroit, Michigan - label on verso. This early painting of McGee's shows his mastery in creating a painting in the style of the French Impressionist Edouard Manet, "Still Life with Melon and Peaches" located in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and in the style of Fauvist/Expressionist painter Henry Matisse, "Still Life with Blue Tablecloth", located in the Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia. McGee makes the well-known genre of still life his own creating an exciting marvelous work incorporating the homely quilt - the powerful symbol of the African American road to safety from slavery - as his main focus. Quilts symbolize warmth, comfort, and as shown by the collection of quilts gathered by the artists in Gee's Bend the designs on the quilts hung outdoors at locations along the Underground Railroad showed fugitives the road north and to safety. "Squares and Things" was first shown at The Arwin Galleries, Inc., Detroit, Michigan, one of the stops along the Underground Railroad. This piece is signed by the artist, Charles McGee, and is an extraordinary example of his early work before he moved into Abstract Expressionism and his many sculptural works now located throughout Michigan. Several of these works are: "Noah's Ark: Genesis, 1984," on display at the Detroit Institute of Arts, his brilliant 2005 "Progression" a 45-foot wide aluminum sculpture at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, and his stunning 2016 "United We Stand" sculpture at the Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History . His genius can be seen in sculpture installments throughout the city of Detroit. . He was born into a family of sharecroppers. While helping his grandfather tend the land, "he observed firsthand the order and harmony that exists within nature." He had no formal schooling until moving to Detroit at age 10, where he found that "everything was on the move and it hasn’t slowed down yet." in 2017 he observed, "I learned something not being in school — because life is school . . .I learn something every time I move. Every time I go around a corner, something new is revealed to me.” McGee took advantage of the GI Bill to attend classes at the Society of Arts and Crafts, now the College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI. Other College for Creative Studies (formerly Center for Creative Studies) faculty and graduates include Richard Jerzy, Harry Bertoia, Doug Chaing (currently director of Lucas Film), Stephen Dinehart (game maker, writer, designer connected with The David Lynch Foundation), Tyree Guyton (international artist), Herb Babcock, Jerome Feretti, Kevin Siembieda (writer, designer and publisher of role-playing games), Renee Radell, and Philip Pearlstein. After retiring from the Corps of Engineers, McGee spent 1968 studying art in Barcelona. Despite not knowing the language at the outset, he immersed himself in the culture and opened himself to a whole new range of experience that would play out in his artwork. "If you free yourself, you have this kind of opportunity to have those experiences, horizons, and new vistas." (per interview with Nick Sousanis author of a book on Charles McGee.) He returned to Detroit and curated "Seven Black Artists" at the Detroit Artists Market in 1969, which along with McGee himself, included Lester Johnson, Henri Umbaji King, Robert Murray, James Lee, Allie McGhee...

Artist: Yvette Bossiere (French, b.1926) signed lower corner and verso Title: Still Life Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed Size: painting: 36...

Work on paper Golden wooden frame with glass pane 93 x 66.6 x 1.5 cm

Still-life painting of a bouquet of flowers in a green vase with a yellow background.

Landscape by Geza Somerset-Paddon (British 20th century) gouache painting on canvas , unframed canvas: 10 x 12 inches inscribed verso condition: overall very good provenance: all th...

Unsigned. On canvas laid to board.

Wildflower Still Life signed by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) dated 1971 original watercolor on artist paper size: 20 x 17 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoy...

signed Sinai French Post-Impressionist School, late 20th century oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 10.75 x 14 inches provenance: private collection condition: very good and so...

RALPH ROSENBORG – "ROCK FLOWERS" Oil on Canvas ⚜ Signed & Dated Lower Left & Verso ⚜ Float Frame A VIBRANT EXPRESSIONIST WORK FROM A TRUE AMERICAN MODERNIST In Rock Flowers, painted...

Excellent gouache on paper titled “Still Life with Flowers” ​​by the artist M. Chamorro. This floral composition offers a free and vibrant interpretation of the traditional flower st...

Juan Jose Abella Rubio was born in Estercuel, a hamlet anchored in the Teruel mining basin in March 1944. In his painting the ocher and reddish colors of his first environment are w...

Boris Buchet (French, 1917 – 1999) A carafe of wine, root vegetables and apples Oil on canvas Signed and dated ‘B.Buchet 72’ (upper left) 21.3/4 x 26. 5/8 in. (55.3 x 67.5 cm.)

Frank Chabry (1916-1979) was a 20th-century artist whose career spanned several transformative decades in the art world. His work likely reflects the arti...

SERGE FERAT 1881-1958 (Le Comte Sergueï Yastrebzov) Moscow 1881-1958 Paris (Russian/French) Title: Still Life with Guitar on Gueridon, circ...

A pair of floral still life paintings. The first painting depicts 2 bouquets, one in a large white vase and the second in a small blue one,...

Les Blanches Roses by Louise Derival, French early 20th century signed oil on canvas, framed in a beautiful period frame. framed: 31 x 31 inches canvas: 26 x 26 inches provenance: p...

Warmly hued oil on paper still life of open wooden box with artist's supplies spilling out, circa 1930. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with ...

Roses in Vase By Gustave Poetzsch (Swiss 1870-1950) signed oil painting on board, framed framed: 15 x 17 inches board : 10.5 x 14 inches provenance: private collection, France condit...

Artwork sold with frame (43 x 56.5 x 3.5 cm) Baldo Guberti was an Italian painter, engraver, and illustrator born in Ravenna in 1907 and died in Camaiore in 1974. His work is known ...

Still life - Oil on canvas cm.42x30, Italy 1998, Gianluca d'Este Here we admire a composition of white and red grapes, apples, a beautiful chalice on a table with a satin drapery. Th...

Pink Flowers Still Life French impressionist artist, mid 20th century signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 18 x 21.5 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: a few ...

Modern Abstract Blue Rose, Vintage Abstracted Minimalist Floral by Eleanor Perry Modernist blue and white rose abstract by San Francisco, California artist Eleanor Louise Perry (Ame...

Scottish Cliffside, Antique Oil Painting, Signed by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) Signed on the lower right hand corner oil painting on canvas, framed Framed size: 23 x 33 inche...

#5-3517 Black and White still life ,oil on black paper, signed by Anna Stathys,displayed in a mat-glass and gilt wood frame.Image size 11.75 H x 8.5 W

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers) Year: circa 1963 Medium: Acrylic on double layered Masonite Size: 29.5 x 21 inches Condition: Good P...

A beautifully detailed still life oil painting with a table adorned with a vase of sunflowers, assorted fruit, and other objects on a colorful tablecloth with an Italian countryside ...

Signed lower right "Vantore" for Mogens Erik Christien Vantore (Danish, 1895-1977) and painted circa 1925. A fine early twentieth-century oil still-life of white and yellow daisies ...

Mid century kitchen still-life with an antique coffee grinder, ladle, and measuring cup on a table by Maurice Blond (Polish, 1899-1974), c.1950s. Signed ...

Aime Victor Barraud Swiss, 1902–1954 Still Life with Flowers in Ceramic Jug Oil on canvas 20 by 20 in. Wframe 26 ½ by 26 ½ in. Signed & dated 39...

Still Life by Fernand Audet (French, Tarascon 1923- Mulhouse 2016) signed, oil painting on canvas canvas: 8.75 x 6.25 inches Superb original oil painting by Fernand Audet (1923-201...

#5-3419 White Bouquet paintings contemporary still life , on canvas signed by Neapolitan artist P.Russo .Unframed Rapped canvas ready to hand

Golden Wave A Crest of Elegance and Diamonds circa mid 20th century by Paul Touzet (French b. 1917) original gouache painting, with pencil on tracing paper, unframed overall design o...

Contemporary Impressionist Still Life by Helen Greenfield (British 20th century) signed initials oil painting on board, framed framed: 25 x 31 inches board: 24 x 30 inches condition:...

Still life is an artwork realized by an artist of the late 20th Century.  Oil on panel, 62 x 42 cm with frame; sheet 50 x 28 cm. Hand signed bottom right. Good conditions

Floral still life of pink roses in a red vase with two figures, set against a dark background. Oil on canvas measures 15 3/4 x 11 7/8; frame dimensions measure 20 1/2 x 16 1/2 x 2 3/...

Luce Brélaz-Jacquet was a Swiss painter born in 1915. Although biographical details about her life and career remain scarce, she is recognized in Swiss art archives and known for he...

Artwork sold with frame (51 x 59 x 5.5 cm)

Interwoven Elegance in Gold and Silver Jewelry Design circa mid 20th century by Paul Touzet (French b. 1917) original gouache painting, with pencil on tracing paper unframed overall ...

Roger Bonafe (French b. 1932) signed and dated 81 oil pastel on thick art paper, inscribed verso Size 22.5 x 30 inches Bonafe was born in the town of ...

Orange Chair by Helen Greenfield (British 20th century) gouache painting on artist paper, unframed artist paper: 25 x 18 inches condition: overall very good provenance: all the pai...

#5-3325a Figurative Still Life painting,vintage acrylic on artist board displayed in a wood-black frame,signed by E.Zoran .Image size 18 H x 14 w

Work on paper Gilded wood frame with glass pane 75 x 57 x 2,5 cm

Vibrant French oil still life painting of violin in blue lined violin case by artist Raymond Bailly, circa 1965. Signed lower right. Original artw...

Champagne by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) oil on artist paper, unframed painting : 26 x 19.5 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and sound condition

Vito Tomasello (American, ?-1982). Still Life with Strawberries, 1979. Oil on masonite panel, 10 1/2 x 11 5/8 inches. Signed and dated low...

Artist: Les Bullene Title: Flower Still Life in front of Window Year: circa 1960 Medium: Oil on Canvas mounted to Wood, signed Image: 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 60.96 cm) Frame Size: 28 x 3...

Exceptionally realistic still life of a bust of a young fisherman in the style of Claude Buck by Leila Sullivan (American, 1903-1998), who studied with Claude Buck for 5 years and Ma...

Oil on artist's board, 20th century, signed Paul Zimmerman Reminiscent of the Mid Century Social Realist and WPA works of Ben Shahn this captures a group of tenement children of mixe...

Nature Morte French School, late 20th century signed verso oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 13 x 16 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sou...

Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School of Art, Saratov Art School, graduated from the Depar...

Late 20th century oil on board painting of a still-life signed bottom left 'Magotti'. The painting is titled 'pepe, sale e stecchii' (pepper, salt and toothpicks) to the reverse and ...

TRUMPET AND MIMOSA original impressionist acrylic painting. SOLÁ paints in a natural way, which reflects the Old Masters, soaking up the colour, air, smell and the pure scent of hi...

Silken Knot: The Elegance of Tied Silver Jewelry Design circa mid 20th century by Paul Touzet (French b. 1917) original gouache painting, with pencil on tracing paper, unframed over...

Oil on canvas. Signed lower left.

ROBINSON, Geoffrey (b.1945) Geoffrey Robinson Black Sea 1996 21.0 x 29.7 cm Unframed Geoffrey Robinson trained at Bournemouth College of Art in the 1960’s, before a career in advert...

Illustrated in "Joseph Barrett, The Prime Years 1970s - 1990s", pg. 54, plate #062. Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Joseph Barrett (1936 – ) Joseph Barrett was born in Midland, North Carolina, in 1936 and studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Barrett, now of Lahaska, Pennsylvania, has been painting his entire adult life. His favorite subjects include the landscape surrounding New Hope and many local landmarks often encompassing figures into his compositions. Barrett utilizes a heavy impasto and his palette bears similarities to that of Fern Coppedge and George Sotter. Barrett’s paintings are always found in unique and somewhat charming handmade frames designed by the artist and finished in metal leaf. A living contemporary of the no longer living “New Hope School” impressionist painters, Joseph Barrett resides outside of New Hope above his old-fashioned antique shop and studio. Entering Barrett’s shop is like taking a step back in time. Inside this cluttered and dusty haven of treasures from the past, is a studio spanning only four by eight feet. This little studio, containing cans of old brushes and hundreds of used paint tubes...

Still life "Wine with Orange" by Claude (Charles Claude) Buck (1890-1974). Signed lower left. Artist's notes and color scheme on verso. Displayed in rustic giltwood frame. Image, 14"...

Robertine De Vooght (1904 - 1979) Still life with peonies 1936 Oil on canvas 99.7 x 79.5 cm (107 x 84,3 cm with frame) Signed and dated lower left

A large and wonderful Modernist still life of a cast iron pot, squash and ladle by notable Chicago artist Flora Schofield. Artwork size: 28 1/2" x 20". Framed size: 24" x 26". A painter, print maker and sculptor, Flora Schofield (Schoenfield), was born in Lanark, Illinois. She studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and taught Saturday classes there until 1904. Schoenfield also studied with Charles Hawthorne, B.J.O Nordfeldt and William Zorach in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She studied with Albert Gleizes, Fernand Leger and Natalia Goncharova in Paris, France. In 1923, Schofield’s abstractions caused a split at the venerable Chicago Society of Artists. When her artwork was was accepted by the jury, the notable Impressionist painter Pauline Palmer and the notable Modernist painter Carl Hoeckner got into a row that ended-up splitting the group. The Impressionists then broke away into their own organization called the ”Association of Chicago Painters and Sculptors”. Paintings by Flora Schofield have been exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; the Salon d’Automne and Salon de Independants, Paris; the Salons of America; the Society of Independent Artists, New York; the Wichita Museum of Art, Wichita; Gallery Carmine, Paris; the National Arts Club Galleries, New York; Marshall Fields Galleries...

Stéphanie Caroline Guerzoni (1887-1970) was an Austrian-born artist who spent much of her life contributing to the European art scene. Born in Vienna, she experienced the vibrant cul...