20th Century Still-life Paintings

Abstract Expressionist composition by Andre Guillou (French 1925-2017) oil on board stuck on board, mounted mount: 25.5 x 19.75 inches board: 19 x 13 inches provenance: the artists ...

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...

Rene Genis (French 1922-2004) “Nature Morte A La Nappe Rouge” Still Life on a Red Tablecloth. An abstract grouping of items on a table in just deep red...

Interior Design by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed pastel/watercolor on paper, unframed painting: 10 x 16 inches good condition provenance: from the artists estate, France ...

This still-life fresco painting is part of a series depicting ancient Greek amphoras and pottery vases from the archaeological site of Paliopoli, in the Greek island of Kythera, known as the place where Aphrodite was born and emerged from the sea. Tzannes used his own fresco technique where the pigment is imbedded in the slab as it dries. The outcome is a sensual, almost silky surface with subtle gray and white tones. The drawing is imbedded in the concrete surface, nearly as an ancient fossil. The amphoras are drawn from the original Minoan pottery...

The painting in question captures the dynamic energy of a moment seemingly frozen in time—an oil sketch by Eugen Kask featuring two ants engaged in an intense wrestling match. Kask’s approach to this piece is fluid and spontaneous, with broad, swift strokes that lend an air of immediacy to the scene. Much of the canvas remains untouched, its raw state highlighting the areas where Kask chose to concentrate his efforts, thus drawing the viewer's gaze directly to the central action of the ants. This decision to leave the background undefined gives the work a sense of incompleteness, a characteristic that is often celebrated in studies and sketches for its authenticity and connection to the artist's initial spark of inspiration. Eugen Kask, born on January 18, 1918, in Kiev and passed away on May 11, 1998, in Vimmerby, was an Estonian-Swedish painter of diverse talents. A descendant of an architectural lineage, with his father Kristjan Kask and his own background in architecture and fine arts, Kask brought a structural eye to his compositions. His life, marked by the upheaval of wartime displacement, led him to Sweden where his contributions to art continued to flourish through exhibitions and group showcases. His work spans a variety of subjects from pastoral landscapes to intimate animal studies...

Gorgeous American Impressionist still life oil painting of a basket of vibrant vegetables with a white curtain background by Monterey, California artist Genevieve Rogers (American, 1...

Roger Marcel Limouse, (Algerian/French 1894 - 1989) Still Life, October 1939, Oil on canvas. Signed upper right and marked Oct 39 on back. Greens, Blues, and Yellow/Browns prevail in this still life of a table with fruits, cake, and a candle. Nude is painted verso on stretched canvas under frame. Frame 24.5 x 28.875 x 1.625, Canvas 21.875 x 23.875 A student of Paul Albert Laurens (1870-1934) at the Académie Julian, his figurative work, very colorful, with powerful and stripped down forms, made him one of the last representatives of Fauvism and the eldest of the group of Painters of Poetic Reality. He belongs to the School of Paris. In 1943, Jacques de Laprade dedicated a book to Roger Limouse in the collection "The Masters of Tomorrow" directed by Francis Carco. He writes, "One of the characteristics of this personality is strength. There is nothing in Limouse that lacks relief. This small and extremely vigorous man seduces by his direct and dru language, by his deep conviction, by the picturesque of his stories, by his very life which testifies to his energy. In 1948, Roger Limouse was appointed professor at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris (Professor at the School of Fine Arts). He held this position until 1964. In 1949, the journalist Gisèle d'Assailly (1904-1969) devoted a book "With the Painters of Poetic Reality" to eight friendly painters, supporters of a colorful and intimate figurative painting of French inspiration, Maurice Brianchon, Christian Caillard...

Abella. still lafe cubist original acrylic canvas painting 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 well present. In 1956 we find him in Pont d'Inca (Mallorca), studying baccalaureate and magisterium, at the same time that he graduates in artistic drawing and publicity with outstanding. In the correction of the first works, the teachers add this annotation: "You have in your hands a treasure that you can not neglect, you have achieved in only a few lessons what Fine Arts students have achieved for years. Plaster quality ". In 1970 he moved to Barcelona. He studied at the Universidad Central, graduating with outstanding study of the provisional architecture: "The Tomb of Charles V in Valladolid", which would later be published by the Higher Council of Scientific Research. He completed his training with Fine Arts at the Superior School of Fine Arts in Barcelona. He has held exhibitions in Florida, Amsterdam, Barcelona, ​​Madrid, Mallorca and Plasencia. His paintings can be seen in the Hispanic American...

Signed, verso, "Ament" and "de la Roche" for Janet Ament de la Roche (American, 1916-2000) and titled "Black Vase"; painted circa 1955. Oil still-life of a black teapot...

Still life with ribbons is a modern artwork realized by Gianni Cacciarini. Mixed colored oil on board.  Hand signed on the lower margin. Includes an elegant frame (with some loss).

Work on paper mounted on cardboard

'Grapes' by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) signed bottom right watercolour on paper, unframed painting: 8 x 10.75 inches Delightful early 20th century Fr...

Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021), Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...

A very fine original antique English botanical watercolour painting depicting this beautiful depiction of a flower/ plant. The work came to us from a private collection in Surrey, England and had been part of an album of works assembled by the artist during the early 1900's. During the Victorian and Edwardian era in Britain, it was very fashionable for ladies of aristocratic and wealthy backgrounds to draw and paint still lifes of flowers and plants that they had picked or seen in gardens. Many were highly accomplished and extremely talented artists, who sadly were not encouraged to exhibit due to society frowning upon such activities. Artist/ School: Caroline Worsley...

Initialed lower right 'K.I.' for Kraesten Iversen (Danish, 1886 - 1955) and painted circa 1915. Born in Copenhagen in 1886, Kraesten Iversen first studied with Hendrik Gronvold at ...

Signed upper right, 'G. Simonka' for Georges Simonka (Hungarian, 1916-2001) and dated 1955. A substantial, mid-century modernist, oil still-life showing an assemblage of items on a table-top Born in Budapest, Georges Simonka studied at the University of Applied Arts in Budapest. After his first solo exhibition in Budapest in 1943, he moved to Paris, where he became a regular exhibitor at several salons including the Salon d'Automne and the Salon Comparaison. An active member of several Parisian art groups, Simonka exhibited successfully throughout Europe and his work may be found in the permanent collections of numerous European museums, including that of the Centre Pompidou...

Flower Sketches by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) signed pastel/watercolor on paper, unframed painting: 13 x 19 inches good condition provenance: from...

Work on canvas

Boris Buchet (French, 1917 – 1999) Apples and a coffee pot Oil on board Signed and dated ‘B. Buchet 62’ (upper left) 14.7/8 x 23. ¾ in. (37.8 x 60.5 cm.)

by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) signed original gouache painting on thick paper/ card unframed double sided condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuf...

This superb floral still life oil painting is by Scottish artist David Alison. Painted circa 1930 it is an arrangement of pink roses in a glass vase on a table. The darker background...

A. Carceller Nunez:1894-1969. Listed Spanish artist. Most notable for doing these very realistic still life’s. This oil on canvas measures 25 inches wide by 19 inches high and is unf...

by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) signed original gouache painting on thick paper/ card unframed condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...

Still Life Oil Painting of a Clock By J.B.Holmes, British artist, 20th Century Oil painting on board, unframed Board size: 12x10 inches This sweet observation of a mantel piece clock...

A Welsh artist, Morgan studied at Cardiff College of Art under Ceri Richards. He was a renowned imaginative artist and friend of Cedric Morris. He was influenced by the Benton End ar...

Composition with roses. Oil on cardboard, 50x40 cm Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001) Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied at the Stalingrad School o...

Exceptional oil on paper still life painting of an artist's palette and supplies by French artist Raymond Bailly, 1967. Original one-of-a-kind artwork on paper displayed on a whit...

Paul Riba (American, 1912-1977) Driftwood and Fish Oil on panel Signed lower right 9.25 x 23.5 inches 14 x 28.25 inches, framed Paul Riba was a painter of Magic Realism. He explore...

Oil work on canvas with frame. Total size with frame is 38x78 cm Signed E. Brandt

. BREAD. JARS original still life acrylic painting. Illana, an artist trained in Barcelona and Paris, although heavily self-taught, reduces the forms in his paintings to essentia...

by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) signed original gouache painting on thick paper/ card unframed condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuffs/ edge tear...

Roger Bonafe (French b. 1932) signed oil pastel on thick art paper, inscribed verso Size 29.75 x 20 inches Bonafe was born in the town of Caux (Herau...

French Modernist School, signed lower corner dated 1960's verso signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 8.75 x 6.25 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good ...

Artist/ School: French School, mid century, signed Habnot? Title: Beautiful interior scene with apples on the most lovely green tablecloth, thickly p...

Work on wood Green wooden frame 63.5 x 49 x 3 cm

Estate stamp, verso, for Victor di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1960. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art Center and t...

signed Sinai French Post-Impressionist School, late 20th century oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 8.75 x 10.5 inches provenance: private collection condition: very good and s...

Huile sur toile. Dimensions encadré: 59x68 cm

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...

Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 58.5 x 78 x 4.5 cm

Rene Genis (French 1922-2004) “Nature Morte A La Table Pliante” Still Life On A Folding Table. Oil on Woven Paper (BFK). Oranges and reds predominate wit...

Deep Night 1988/89 24 inches x 30 inches oil on canvas Artist Statement: This is an early work I produced in my studio at 11th street and Ave 'B" NYC...

Vintage modernist still life and cityscape painting. Oil on canvas, circa 1911. Signed. Image size, 41L x 33H.

Still life, oil on canvas. Unsigned. Acquired with a collection of signed works by the artist.

Bold mid-century still-life painting with plates and cups by French artist Chantal Jouvin, circa 1950. Original artwork on paper displayed on a ...

ROBINSON, Geoffrey (b.1945) Outer Reaches XVI 1998 29.5 x 42.0 cm Oil on board, Unframed Geoffrey Robinson trained at Bournemouth College of Art in the 1960’s, before a career in ...

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...

Edifying still life painting in tones of green, circa 1960. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic sleeve and Certificate of Authen...

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...

Landscape is an original watercolour on paper realized by Alfonso Avanessian in the 1990s. The piece is hand signed lower right. Good condition. ...

Boldly colored acrylic still life painting of stacks of books and pipe atop a table by French artist Madeleine Scali (1911-2000), circa 1960. Original one-of-a-kind vintage work of...

Original oil painting by P. Valetti (French, second half 20th century) oil on canvas, unframed size: 18 x 14.75 inches condition: very good provenance: from the artists estate, Franc...

Pullman Limousine Adler Standard. Gouache and watercolour heightened with gum-arabic on very dark green card, annotated in pale ink with body type below, numbered ‘93’, in upper lef...

Artist: George Chemeche, Iraqi/American (1934 - ) Title: Composed Flower Garden Year: circa 1979 Medium: Six Acrylic on Canvas Panels mounted to Canvas, signed l.r. Image Size: 43.25...

Artist: Lowell Nesbitt (1933-1993) Title: Impossible Series (Stone Leigh) Year: 1984 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 18 x 18 inches Inscription: Signed, dated by the artist, verso LOWEL...

Richly-hued vintage French acrylic painting of three ceramic pitchers, in a style beautifully mimicking a mosaic, circa 1950. Original artwo...

"Giverny Series 10 April 1995" is an original oil painting on paper by Leslie Parke. The artist signed and titled the work lower right. This piece depicts a lily pad with blooming fl...