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Impressionist Paintings

IMPRESSIONIST STYLE

Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.

The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.

Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.

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Style: Impressionist
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Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 11.5 x 15 inches Condition: Go...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

Untitled (Abstract Garden Still Life with Plants and Pumpkins)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Garden Still Life with Plants and Pumpkins) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 29.5 x 21 inches Cond...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

MID 20TH CENTURY FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST OIL - LADY SEATED IN LONG GRASS FIELD
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century Title: Lady in a Field Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed. Size: painting: 9 x 13 inches Provenance: from a private collect...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Vivid Vintage Monterey Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful Monterey seascape in vivid blues by California artist T. Samantha Cook (American, 20th Century). Signed and dated "T. Samantha Cook / 68" lower right corner. Titled "A Sea ...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Cardboard, Oil

California Livery Stable
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant Livery stable Landscape of Niles, California (in Bay Area) by Elsa Hull (American, 20th Century). Presented in a wooden frame. Watercolor on paper. Signed "Elsa Hull" lower r...
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1970s Impressionist Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Pair of English Impressionist Horse and Buggy scenes with drivers
Located in Woodbury, CT
When Johnny left school, there were many interests which ran alongside his career at the time in the City of London as an Aviation Insurance Broker at Lloyds – writing music, playing with a band, tinkering with Vintage cars, marketing various inventions and making painting trips when possible – it wasn’t long before the Arts beckoned and at twenty six he won a place at the Fine Arts Academy in Florence where he moved in 1972. A year later, moving near Lake Trasimeno, he continued his studies at the Fine Arts Academy in Perugia. Again on the move, he travelled to Pietrasanta near Carrara with some sculptors and stayed on this coast for nearly a year before moving eventually to Grimaldi, just inside Italy – a small medieval village about three hundred yards from the Italian /French frontier close to Monte Carlo. Here he began a series of backstage paintings – at the Opera and Orchestra rehearsals, fashion shows, at the Circus, Jazz and Cabaret – exhibiting regularly along the coast in Monaco, Nice, Cannes and Antibes. In 1984, circumstances changed and it was necessary to return to England – where a chance invitation to the races triggered a whole new series ‘At the Races’ which in time produced a wider series entitled ‘The British Sporting Year’ of Polo, The Henley Regatta, Derby Day, Wimbledon, Bowls, Cricket, Golf – even Jousting at Hever Castle...
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1990s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Etude
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Shatalin was one of the most influential painters from Kiev, Ukraine from the last 50 years. He was a member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and a corresponding member of the Academ...
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1970s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Untitled (Abstract Male Reclining Nude)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Male Reclining Nude) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 29.5 x 21 inche...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

'The Arc de Triomphe from the Champs-Élysées', Paris, France, Post-Impressionist
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Boucher' (French, 20th century) and painted circa 1960. A bright and breezy, mid-century oil showing numerous shoppers and pedestrians outside the fashionable s...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Ventana" - Bougainvillea and Flowers Around a Window
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright painting of flowers growing around a window by an unknown artist "A. Marquez". Signed "A. Marquez" in the lower right corner. On verso is written "Ventana / Oleo a espatula". ...
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1970s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Colorful flowers - Still Life Painting Green Brown Blue Yellow White Pink
Located in Sofia, BG
"Colorful flowers" is an impressionist still-life painting, oil on canvas by Maestro Olga Kashshay . About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting STYLE: Contemporary Edition : Uniqu...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sutter Buttes, from near Grimes, CA, 1989, oil on canvas 19 1/2x23 1/2 inches
Located in Atlanta, GA
Framed dimensions 24 x 28 inches Hand-signed by artist, Signed in verso Donald Jurney was born in Rye, New York, in 1945, and was educated at Columbia University, the Pratt Institu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Todos los Santos Lake, Chile, Mid Century South America Landscape
By Marco Ortiz
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene mid century landscape of Todos Los Santos Lake in Chile by Marco Ortiz. Signed, Marco Ortiz (Mejor) and location on verso. Presented in a giltwood fr...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard, Linen

Mid Century Desert Mesa Landscape with Cacti
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful mid century desert landscape with beautiful cacti by Vina McPheeters (American, 1892-1964). Signed "Vina McPheeters" in the lower right corner. Presented in an antiqued bronze-colored frame. Image size: 20"H x 24"W. Vina Pearl McPheeters (American, 1892-1964) was born in Iowa on October 7, 1892. Vina was the wife of Robert Guy McPheeters. By 1930 she had settled in southern California into a home in Montebello (Los Angeles County). Exhibited in her home town of Van Nuys California, studied with Hanson Puthuff, Jack Wilkinson Smith and Bennett Bradbury...
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1950s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1960's French Portrait Man With Red NoseCaricature
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Character Portrait French school, Mid 20th Century Gouache paint on unframed paper signed lower corner Image : 12 x 9.25 inches Superbly decorative 1960's French portrait p...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Ink, Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

CLAUDINE RIBOULET (French 1924-2013) LARGE EXPRESSIONIST OIL - STILL LIFE FLEURS
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Claudine Riboulet (French 1924-2013), signed Title: Still Life, inscribed verso Medium: oil painting, on canvas. Size: framed: 28...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

"Spring"Garden, flowers, spring, gardener, lilac Oil cm. 37 x 24 1985
Located in Torino, IT
Garden, flowers, spring, gardener, lilac,Green, Landscape, Russia,Soviet Realism, Shipment is included in the price everywhere ALEKSEJ (Chuchunovka, Brjansk, 1925 ) Works by the ...
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1980s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Courting - 19th Century Watercolor, Figures by River in Landscape by Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Watercolour on paper circa 1908 by Henri Duhem depicting a couple on a path by the river at sunset, with the crescent moon visible in the sky. Signed lower left. This painting is not...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper

Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) signed bottom right watercolour on paper, unframed painting: 9.25 x 14 inches Delightful early 20th century F...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit)
Located in Fairfield, CT
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: Good Provenance: Estate of Ian Hornak, East Hampton, NY Notes: A rare original painting by Ian Hornak...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 29.5 x 21 inches Condition: Good Provena...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

'Landscape outside Bari', Apulian oil, Italian Impressionist, Machiaioli
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'F. Colella' (Italian, 1900-1981) and painted circa 1950; additionally signed verso, 'Franco Colella Bari'. Framed Dimensions: 11.7...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Board, Oil

Peace Doves in Vineyard, Springtime Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Fantastical portrayal of five white doves surrounded by flowers and clusters of grapes in a dreamy, colorful vineyard garden setting by Mohammad Hourian (Iranian/American, 1955-2014)...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Paintings

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Acrylic, Plaster, Other Medium, Paper, Board

"Seurat's Studio with Picasso" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Louis Recchia's (US based) "Seurat's Studio with Picasso" is an oil painting that depicts a collage like combination of pop imagery and picasso like style with yellow and white flowe...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Creekside Campsite - Mid Century Forest Landscape Watercolor
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid century landscape watercolor of a campsite in the forest by Joseph Yeager (American, 20th Century). This piece is unsigned, but was acquired with a collection of Yeager work dire...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper, Pencil

Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit)
Located in Fairfield, CT
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...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit)
Located in Fairfield, CT
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...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

"Family Unit" Oil painting
Located in Denver, CO
Louis Recchia's (US based) "Family Unit" is an oil painting that depicts a family of felines personified in interior setting with birds Louis Recchia has been producing contemporary...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit)
Located in Fairfield, CT
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...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 29.5 x 21 inches Condition: Good Provena...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

Paul Fortis Windswept Trees Original Pastel
Located in San Francisco, CA
Paul Fortis Windswept Trees Original Pastel Pastel dimensions 1.5" wide x 6.5" high The frame measures 18.5" wide x 15" high Signed by the artist Very good vintage condition - L...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Pastel

"Paddle Board Lesson" North Shore Hawaii Plein Air Oil Painting
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A sun drenched oil painted on location on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii by noted California and Hawaii artist Jacobus Baas, this plein air painting "Paddle Board...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

"Alpi Apuane, Italy" american impressionist watercolor painting of Swiss Alps
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
Painted from life, the Swiss Alps as viewed from Italy. Framed in a thick grey wooden frame. Dimensions framed: 12.5 x 19.25 inches Nelson H. White was born in New London, Connectic...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

Wharf - Gloucester, Massachussetts, Oil Painting on Board by Harry H. Howe
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Harry H. Howe Title: Wharf - Gloucester, Massachusetts Medium: Oil on board, signed lower right Size: 6 x 7.5 inches Frame Size: 7.5 x 9.25 inches
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Board, Oil

Gary Wing, Lisbon Street, Original Architectural Painting, Affordable Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Gary Wing Lisbon Street Original Cityscape Painting Watercolour Pain on Paper Sheet Size: H 29.7cm x W 21cm x D 0.01cm Sold Unframed Please note that in situ images are purely an ind...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

"Children" Little girl, child, red, blue, reading cm. 31 x 24 1980
Located in Torino, IT
Little girl, child, red, blue, reading we send the work anywhere Shipping included OLGA BOGAEVSKAJA (Moscow, 1916 – St. Petersburg, 2000) Works by Olga Bogaevskaja can be found in v...
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1980s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

Paris, le Sacre Coeur, Rue Norvin
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Robert Giovani (French, 1900-1977 Title: Paris, le Sacre Coeur, Rue Norvin Year: Circa 1950 Medium: Oil on hardboard Board size: 8.75 x 6.25 inc...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Seaside in Bright Sun, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on linen mounted on gatorboard. It is available unframed. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Re...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Mid Century Fishing Boats Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant watercolor of three fishing boats by Cora Alice Akers Wright (American, 1908-1992). which are anchored in a small body of water. Signed...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor, Laid Paper

Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit)
Located in Fairfield, CT
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...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

Northern California Vibrant Ocean Sunset
Located in Soquel, CA
Vibrant ocean sunset, an oil painting of a pastel sunset by an unknown Northern California artist. Unframed and unsigned. Image size, 24"H x 24"L.
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Early 2000s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Aerie, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The eagle rests obscurely within the misty distance. Triptych, wired and ready to hang side by side or spaced. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an officia...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Acrylic

Portrait of a Young Man in Striped Shirt
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful 1965 portrait of a young man (possibly the artist Don Bachardy) in a striped shirt looking back over his shoulder by Paul Sorel (American, b- 1920...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Little Tree, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Oil on linen mounted on gatorboard. It is available unframed. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Re...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Early Morning, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This oil painting is of a cold and wintry morning as the sun began to rise. That morning the hoar frost glistened and sparkled through the sun rays. Cold and beautiful. This paint...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 11.5 x 15 inches Condition: Go...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

Winter: Impressionist En Plein Air Landscape Painting of Trucks on a Farm
Located in Hudson, NY
Impressionist style en plein air landscape painting on linen of a rural country farm with red trucks in a yellow field under a blue sky #5745 Winter Quarters, painted by Harry Orlyk ...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Linen, Board, Oil

Irish mid century river landscape , Mulroy Bay, Co. Donegal
Located in Woodbury, CT
Irish mid-century landscape of Mulroy Bay, Co. Donegal. Well painted scene of the Irish landscape with water and mountains. The artist was active during the 1950s-1960s and these s...
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1950s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) signed bottom right watercolour on paper, unframed painting: 8 x 5.5 inches Delightful early 20th century Fre...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

"Colors", Malva, Original Oil on Canvas, Impressionistic Still-Life, 32x32 in.
Located in Dallas, TX
"Colors" by Malva is an impressionistic still life painting measuring 32x32 in. A Colorful vase od flowers including white daisies, orange and yellow pansies, and purple anemones s...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

On the River - French Impressionist Oil, Boat on River Landscape - Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Oil on panel by French impressionist painter Henri Duhem depicting a man in a small boat on the river, with trees and reeds on the bank in the foreground. Signed lower left and dated...
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1930s Impressionist Paintings

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Panel, Oil

Sand Dune - Abstracted Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Energetic abstracted landscape by an unknown artist (20th Century). Presented in an ornate frame with green accents. Unsigned. Image 24" x 30:.
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers and Fruit)
Located in Fairfield, CT
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...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

Etude - Charcoal on Paper Grey Color
Located in Sofia, BG
"Etude" by the impressionist Alexandr Reznichenko. About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: charcoal on paper STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary Edition : Unique, signed The painting is un...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Charcoal, Paper

Gentleman's Whims - Oil Painting Canvas Pink Yellow Green White Purple
Located in Sofia, BG
"Gentleman's whims" is a landscape painting, by Maestro Nelli Kirman About the artwork: TECHNIQUE: oil painting STYLE: Impressionist, Contemporary Edit...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Maison sur la colline - Impressionist Watercolour, Landscape by Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Watercolour on paper circa 1925 by French Impressionist painter Henri Duhem depicting a woman standing near a small white chalet house in the hill near Lake Geneva (Lac Léman in Fren...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor, Paper

Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers, Fruit and Bottle)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Ian Hornak (1944-2002) Title: Untitled (Abstract Still Life with Flowers, Fruit and Bottle) Year: 1963 Medium: Watercolor on heavy archival paper Size: 29.5 x 21 inches Condi...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

Neige - 19th Century Oil, Haystacks in Snowy Winter Landscape by Henri Duhem
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Oil on panel by Henri Duhem depicting landscape blanketed in snow, with haystacks in the distance and the outline of a village beyond. Signed lower right. This painting is not curren...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings

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Panel, Oil

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