20th Century Still-life Paintings

Artist/ School: French School, c. 1960's, signed lower corner Title: Still Life of table top with fruit bowl and cup and saucer. Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, framed Siz...

Samuel Rothbort (1881-1972) Floral, oil on canvas mounted board 22 x 30 1/2 in (55.9 x 77.5 cm), Hand signed lower right. Provenance: From the estate of the artist by descent to the granddaughter. Samuel Rothbort (Russian American Jewish folk artist 1881-1972) was born in the small town, shtetl of Wolkovisk in the Russian Woodlands.During his youth he worked as a cantor and traveled to various towns and villages, gaining many impressions of life in that era. Poverty as well as the political unrest of the times led to his immigration to America in 1904. Upon arrival in America, Samuel Rothbort worked as a laborer and muralist eventually giving that up to become a watchman of newly built homes. While on duty he began molding figures in clay and upon the advice and encouragement of his employer and colleagues he began to take his artistic talents more seriously and pursued this endeavor. Rothbort therefore began doing free-hand painting, murals on walls and ceilings for private homes and commercial establishments. In 1909 he met and married Rose Kravitz, which marked the start of his career as an artist. Well known for his scenes of New York City life, executed in heavy impasto. Rothbort exhibited from the 1920s-60s, at the Salons of America, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Museum, and a gallery at Rockefeller Center; however, he refused to sell his work, and in 1948, opened the Rothbort Home Museum of Direct Art, in his studio-home. Samuel Rothbort was a self taught outsider artist painting every subject in his own folk art impressionistic style. His artistic range was broad and he never stopped creating. He was fascinated with nature and his works are filled with his delightful perceptions of his surroundings. Rothbort worked in oil, watercolor, and pen & ink. In the years of the depression there was little money, Rothbort could not afford paint or canvas. It was there that he began carving wood and stone using found materials like driftwood, rails, and old fence posts. While not associated with the WPA, he was an artist of that period and sensibility. Rothbort entered the art world and spent much of his life in pursuit of modernist painting and sculpture. He was a member the Society of Independent artists, the Salons of America, the People's Art Guild, and the Brooklyn Society of Artists. During the 1920's and early 1930's , Samuel Rothbort was regularly represented in exhibitions organized by The Brooklyn Museum of Art. Through the 1930's , Rothbort exhibited his watercolors and sculptures at Grant Studios in Brooklyn. In 1940, he began a 28 year relationship with the Barzansky Gallery on Madison Avenue in New York City exhibiting oils, watercolors, and sculpture in individual and group shows. From 1915 through the 1960's, he was represented by many commercial galleries. Hamilton Easter Field, artist, publisher and founder of the Brooklyn Society of Artists was an early supporter of Rothbort's art work and helped further his career. Rothbort received much recognition for his naive folk art paintings which he often displayed in unique primitive frames that he had hand-carved he is also known for his social realist street scene paintings. In 1952, Rothbort wrote a book on his sculpture, entitled "Out of Wood and Stone", which he dedicated to Hamilton Easter Field. A significant expression for Samuel Rothbort's career occurred in the late 1930's through the 1940's when he began painting "memory paintings " or recreation of his boyhood experiences of life in the ghettos and surrounding areas of the woodlands and marshes of Polesia - White Russia. A prized winning documentary, "Memories of The Shtetl" was produced by Harriet Semegram (previously titled " The Ghetto Pillow ") and shown at the Edinburgh Film Festival. It utilized 215 of Samuel Rothbort's watercolors and became the major visual resource material for Jerome Robbins movie and play, " Fiddler On The Roof ". Another award winning documentary on Jewish Folk Art " The Lost Wooden Synagogues of Eastern Europe " which was produced by Albert Barry and Florida Atlantic University, used many of Rothbort's paintings in the film to show life in pre-war Eastern Europe. The film was shown at the U.S. Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. and on Public Television. He was a member of The Brooklyn Soc. of Artists; Soc. of Indp. Artists; and Brooklyn WCC. He exhibited at the SIA, 1917-40; Pratt Inst., 1919-22; Salons of Am., 1922-34; Brooklyn Mus., 1922-33; Charles Barzansky Gal., NY, 1940-44; Jewish Mus., NYC, 1984-85. His works hang in the NMAA; Brooklyn Mus.; Heckscher Mus.; Mus. of Stony Brook; Montclair AM; Sardoni AG; and Rutgers Univ. AG. Samuel was best known for his scenes painted in and around NYC. He had a bold style marked by heavy impasto. Selected Solo Exhibitions: 2003 New York, NY; Luise Ross Gallery New York, NY; Hollis Taggart Galleries 1998 East Hampton, NY; Morgan Rank Gallery New York, NY; Benjamin Cardozo Gallery, Yeshiva University Museum 1997 New York, NY; Giampietro Gallery 1985 Brooklyn, NY; Chassidic Art Institute 1968, 64 New York, NY; Kaufman Art Center 1940-6, 54, 56, 61, 65 New York, NY; Charles Barzansky Galleries 1960 Chicago, IL; Welna Gallery 1940 Brooklyn, NY; Tilden Gallery 1938 Brooklyn, NY; Lincoln Gallery 1934 Brooklyn, NY; Grant Studios Selected Group Exhibitions: 1998 Huntington, NY; Heckscher Museum, Celebrating New York: A Centennial Exhibition 1984-86 New York, NY; The Jewish Museum, The Jewish Heritage in American Folk Art (Travelling exhibition) 1968 New York, NY; National Arts and Antiques Show 1940-68 New York, NY; Charles Barzansky Galleries 1964 Bethesda, MD; Chevy Chase Gallery 1963 Huntington, NY; Heckscher Museum 1944 Richmond, VA; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts 1917-23, 25-31, 34, 38-40 New York, NY; Society of Independent Artists 1939 New York, NY; Academy of Allied Arts Gallery 1937-39 New York, NY; Vendome Gallery 1934, 39 New York, NY; Fifteen Gallery...

Gorgeous mid century still life painting of a white vase with blue daisies by Catherine Ristori (American, 20th Century). Signed "C. Ristori" bottom right. Presented in light carved ...

Artist/ School: French Modernist, signed verso Title: Cannes Medium: signed oil painting on canvas, framed and inscribed verso. framed: 32 x 24.25 ...

Still Life, oil on canvas. Signed to the lower right and dated '74.

A delightful study of Georges Braque's 1927 study Still Life with Clarinet. This striking abstract piece captures still life objects in vibrant colours and bold forms. Unsigned. Pres...

Provenance: Madison Gallery (Madison Connecticut) bears their label verso. Hunting and fishing cabin themed artwork in a hyper realist or photo realist style. James Carter (Born 194...

An ornately framed still life painting depicting a vibrant floral arrangement of roses in a glass vase. Beautifully presented in a Rocaille-style frame with German inscription verso....

This large, colorful still life painting by Paul Longenecker (1920-2008) depicts a varied assortment of flowers in an urn. There is a bird’s net to the lower right of the urn as well...

Acrylic painting of a marble female statue by French artist C. Carlinet, circa 1950. An open book and green folded fabric can be seen in the foreg...

Still life in oil. Signed to the lower right. Presented in an ornate gilt-effect frame with shell and acanthus mouldings. Labelled verso. On panel.

French School, late 20th century signed lower left and stamped verso with artists studio stamp purple, violet and pink flowers still life oil on canvas, framed 16 x 12 inches framed ...

Artist: French Impressionist School, 20th century, indistinctly signed Title: Cote d'Azur, south of France coastal pathway Medium: oil painting, on board, signed. Size: fram...

Rose in Ball Jar, Vintage Floral Pastel Still-Life Wonderful floral pastel still-life of roses by Des Matthews (American, b. 1935), circa 1970s. Signed...

In The New York Times Arts in America column, Edward M. Gomez writes of Valton Tyler, "visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined painti...

Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 29.5 x 21 inches Condition: Go...

Betsy Podlach (American, born 1964.) Still life with Fruit, a Bowl of Apples Framed 25 X 26 24 X 25 inches Betsy Podlach graduated from Harvard, cum laude, (she studied at Harvard with Alfred Decreido and William Reimann as well as Carlos Fuentes continuing her studies at the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting, and Sculpture, Ms. Podlach was awarded an art fellowship and residency at The International School of Art in Umbria, Italy. Betsy Podlach is an American painter who considers the Italian Venetians and the american abstract expressionist painters her mentors. The two painters she is most inspired by are Titian and Jackson Pollock, Both use the picture plane and abstraction and space, light, movement and form to communicate a physicality built entirely on the principals of painting, in the “classical” sense of a flat plane and lines, color, shape, space and light applied to that flat surface to create magic – light, space, form, emotion, force, movement, the physical and the spiritual. She describes her work as a figurative version of abstract expressionism. She was influenced by many of the abstract expressionists from the NY school...

'Marguerites' by Victor Di Gesu, 1964. Paris, Louvre, Salon d'Automne, Carmel, California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, San Francisco Art Association ---- Signed lower left, "D...

Still Life, oil on canvas. Unsigned. (Provenance: Studio Sale, George Weissbort).

Dramatic summer flowers pop against the colourful slip decoration of this elegant Chinese vase. Signed and dated to the lower right. The oil has be...

Work on paper without frame

Impressionist style plein-air landscape painting of trees and buildings by Stuart Shils. Oil on paper mounted on rag board. Image size: 16.75 x 13 inches. Frame size: 23 x 19.5 x 2...

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...

Vintage modernist abstract hat shop painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1950. Housed in a period frame. Image size, 32L x 26H.

"Still Life of Two Pots" is an Oil on Hardboard by Hayley Lever. Signed by the artist. It measures 13 x 17 inches with frame. The date of creation is unknown, but is believed to be f...

Como pueden apreciar, la obra va firmada en la parte inferior y fechada del año 1969 En la parte trasera, va nuevamente firmado Se presenta enmarcada El estado de la obra es bueno...

Francesc Todó (1922-2016) - Symmetrical and mirror in the center - Oil on canvas Oil measures 73x60 cm. Frameless. Tortosa, Tarragona, 1922 - Les Borges del Camp, Tarragona, 2016 Artist of engravings, monotypes, drawings and paintings. After a conventional post-impressionist period of schematic figures and another of painting complex and careful machines that are in tune with social art...

Work on cardboard

" FLOWER VASE"- Original- realist oil canvas--still life painting

A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came...

Abella original still life cubist acrylic painting Juan Jose Abella Rubio was born in Estercuel, a hamlet anchored in the Teruel mining basin in March 1944. In his painting the oche...

Still life. Oil on canvas. Very good condition. Châssis: 38 x 56 cm Frame: 46 x 63 cm

Boris Buchet (French, 1917 – 1999) Apples and wine Oil on panel Signed ‘B. Buchet’ (lower left) 10.1/2 x 18 in. (26.7 x 45.8 cm.)

'Apples' by Édouard Righetti (1924-2001) Signed lower front and back oil painting on canvas, beautifully painted with rick thick impasto oil and bold colors. very good condition I...

Unsigned. On board.

Elegant 1940's still-life of pussy willows in a white vase with a rich royal blue drape by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Unsigned and unfram...

With Abstract Expressionist painting, one could argue that the earlier, the more historically important. This stunning non-objective action painting is characterized by vast swaths o...

Lovely 1950's British oil painting capturing these soft, pastel shades of color, flowers in a vase. The painting dates to 1957 and is by the British artist, S. F. Jennieson (signed a...

Work on cardboard Golden wooden frame 53 x 48 x 3.5 cm

"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) signed bottom watercolor on paper, unframed set of 3 Top painting: 5 x 8.25 inches Left painting: 4 x 3.75 in...

"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) set of 3 watercolour on paper, unframed Left: 7 x 5 inches Top Right: 2.75 x 2.5 inches, signed lower right Bo...

Artist: Lowell Blair Nesbitt, American (1933 - 1993) Title: Vegetables Year: 1978 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed and dated verso Size: 30 in. x 40 in. (76....

Still Life Flowers and Fruit, Signed Oil Painting Signed by British artist 'Arthur Pass' C.1993 signed, oil painting on board framed Painting framed H24.5 x W21 inches Elegant stil...

Flowers in a white pitcher oil on canvas, signed, circa 1927. canvas 19 3/4 x 15 1/4 framed 25 3/4 x 21 1/4 Second still life painting available as shown on photo. Theresa Ferber Bernstein-Meyerowitz (March 1, 1890 – February 13, 2002) was a Polish-born American artist, painter, and writer. The only child of European immigrants Isidore and Anne (Ferber) Bernstein, Theresa was born in Krakow on March 1, 1890. She graduated from the Philadelphia School of Design for Women...

Work on paper mounted on cardboard

Oil on canvas with frame unsigned Total size with frame 31x39 cm

Vase de Roses by Eugene Schlumberger (French 1879-1960) signed lower left oil painting on canvas, framed painting: 41cm x 27cm Delightful French Impressionist oil painting on canvas...

Rolla Taylor (1872-1970) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 16 x 20 Frame Size: 20 x 24 Medium: oil Circa 1918 "Still Life" Biography Rolla Taylor (1872-1970) Taylor, originally...

Midsummer 1988. Oil on canvas, 80x60 cm The artist's portrayal captures the vibrant and lively essence of midsummer. The flowers are depicted in a variety of colors, showcasing the...

Work on cardboard Beige wooden frame 49 x 64 x 1 cm

Abstract Still Life, Muted Colours, Original Oil Painting By British artist, Beryl Darton, Mid 20th Century Signed by the artist on the lower left hand corner Oil painting on board, ...

Floral Still life, Fine Impressionist Oil Painting, Signed By British artist, 20th century Signed and dated by the artist on the lower right hand corner Oil painting on canvas, frame...

Artist/ School: French School, circa 1960's, stamped verso Title: Still life Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 6.25 x 8.25 inches Provenance: private collection, F...

A wonderful still life of cut flowers arranged in a pewter tankard. The artist has indistinctly signed to the lower right and the painting has been beautifully presented in a well pa...

Colourful Landscape, Oil Painting, British Artist By J.B.Holmes, British Artist, 20th Century Oil painting on board, unframed Board size: 8 x 10 inches This playful landscape is un...

The Rural Landscape By British painter JB.Holmes, 20th Century Oil Painting on board, unframed. Board size: 18 x 11 inch Soft colours portray an idyllic country road. Painted straig...

This work was painted in the open air in the shade of trees. It was hot and it was necessary to paint the picture quickly, as the fruit attracted wasps and could quickly deteriorate ...

SAMUEL ROTHBORT (Russian-American, 1882-1971), still life with wild flowers, oil on canvas board, signed lower left. Framed 25.5 X 30, board 18.5 X 23 Samuel Rothbort (Russian American Jewish folk artist 1881-1972) was born in the small town, shtetl of Wolkovisk in the Russian Woodlands.During his youth he worked as a cantor and traveled to various towns and villages, gaining many impressions of life in that era. Poverty as well as the political unrest of the times led to his immigration to America in 1904. Upon arrival in America, Samuel Rothbort worked as a laborer and muralist eventually giving that up to become a watchman of newly built homes. While on duty he began molding figures in clay and upon the advice and encouragement of his employer and colleagues he began to take his artistic talents more seriously and pursued this endeavor. Rothbort therefore began doing free-hand painting, murals on walls and ceilings for private homes and commercial establishments. In 1909 he met and married Rose Kravitz, which marked the start of his career as an artist. Well known for his scenes of New York City life, executed in heavy impasto. Rothbort exhibited from the 1920s-60s, at the Salons of America, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Museum, and a gallery at Rockefeller Center; however, he refused to sell his work, and in 1948, opened the Rothbort Home Museum of Direct Art, in his studio-home. Samuel Rothbort was a self taught, naive, outsider artist painting every subject in his own folk art impressionistic style. His artistic range was broad and he never stopped creating. He was fascinated with nature and his works are filled with his delightful perceptions of his surroundings. Rothbort worked in oil, watercolor, and pen & ink. In the years of the depression there was little money, Rothbort could not afford paint or canvas. It was there that he began carving wood and stone using found materials like driftwood, rails, and old fence posts. Rothbort entered the art world and spent much of his life in pursuit of modernist painting and sculpture. He was a member the Society of Independent artists, the Salons of America, the People's Art Guild, and the Brooklyn Society of Artists. During the 1920's and early 1930's , Samuel Rothbort was regularly represented in exhibitions organized by The Brooklyn Museum of Art. Through the 1930's , Rothbort exhibited his watercolors and sculptures at Grant Studios in Brooklyn. In 1940, he began a 28 year relationship with the Barzansky Gallery on Madison Avenue in New York City exhibiting oils, watercolors, and sculpture in individual and group shows. From 1915 through the 1960's, he was represented by many commercial galleries. Hamilton Easter Field, artist, publisher and founder of the Brooklyn Society of Artists was an early supporter of Rothbort's artwork and helped further his career. Rothbort received much recognition for his naive folk art paintings...

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

Original oil painting by P. Valetti (French, second half 20th century) oil on canvas, unframed size: 25.5 x 21 inches condition: very good provenance: from the artists estate, France...