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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
Large French 20thC Oil Painting Fishing Boats Mediterranean Harbor Port
Large French 20thC Oil Painting Fishing Boats Mediterranean Harbor Port

Large French 20thC Oil Painting Fishing Boats Mediterranean Harbor Port

By Georges Bordonove

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

The Old Harbor by Georges Bordonave (French contemporary) signed with initials oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 15 x 21.75 inches condition: very good provenance: from a larg...

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Late 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

"Yacht at the pier"
"Yacht at the pier"

"Yacht at the pier"

By Evgeny Chernyakovsky

Located in Edinburgh, GB

The painting depicts a quiet Croatian coastal harbor, where snow-white yachts bob at a wooden pier. Their masts are reflected in the calm water, broken only by gentle ripples. Beyond...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Summer evening. Original painting by Spanish artist Liudmila Shabazova
Summer evening. Original painting by Spanish artist Liudmila Shabazova

Summer evening. Original painting by Spanish artist Liudmila Shabazova

By Liudmila Shabazova

Located in Zofingen, AG

Summer seascape at sunset. The bright colors of the day are replaced by gentle ones. The damp smell of the sea mixes with the smell of plants and flowers. The work is done with acrylic on paper. 11x16 inches (30x42 cm.) The product will be well-packaged and protected from moisture and damage when sent by mail. I appreciate your interest in my painting. Artist Liudmila Shabazova.

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Acrylic, Watercolor, Archival Paper

Juan Giralt Lerin “Finishing Touches”
Juan Giralt Lerin “Finishing Touches”

Juan Giralt Lerin “Finishing Touches”

By Juan Giralt Lerin

Located in San Francisco, CA

Juan Giralt Lerin was a well listed Spanish artist born in 1907. He is best known and his most desirable paintings are of ballerinas. He has had Auction results as high as $2700 for ...

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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Evening Colors Landscape Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Evening Colors Landscape Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang

Evening Colors Landscape Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang

Located in Granada Hills, CA

Artist: Garry Nalbandyan Title: Evening Colors Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2026 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 10" x 18" x 0.8" inch (25 x 45x 2cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery ...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Lucent
Lucent

Lucent

By Jennifer Moses

Located in Pasadena, CA

Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist UNFRAMED: 20" x 22" FRAMED: 30.5" x 32.25" x 1" SIGNED: Lower Right Artist Statement "Moved by fleeting thresholds—dawn or dusk, ...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Messina, Sicily, Italian Oil Painting
Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Messina, Sicily, Italian Oil Painting

Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Messina, Sicily, Italian Oil Painting

Located in Cheltenham, GB

This early 20th-century oil painting by Italian artist Augusto Alberici (1846-1922) depicts the Corso Vittorio Emanuele at Messina, under a brilliant Sicilian sky. Boats crowd the h...

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Early 1900s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique French Impressionist 1901 Oil Moody River Reflections & Arched Bridge
Antique French Impressionist 1901 Oil Moody River Reflections & Arched Bridge

Antique French Impressionist 1901 Oil Moody River Reflections & Arched Bridge

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Tranquil River Scene French Impressionist artist, 1901 signed with initials lower corner oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 9.5 x 13 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condit...

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

{Blumen in Vase} Flowers in Vase
{Blumen in Vase} Flowers in Vase

{Blumen in Vase} Flowers in Vase

Located in Plano, TX

Impressionistic oil painting of a bouquet of pink and white flowers. Hass, a late Impressionist painter of the Munch school, was known for his sensitivity of color perception and lig...

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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Nymph Adorning a Bust in a Garden, Signed Nude Painting
Nymph Adorning a Bust in a Garden, Signed Nude Painting

Nymph Adorning a Bust in a Garden, Signed Nude Painting

By Albert Cresswell

Located in Genève, GE

Signed "Cresswell" in the lower right corner. This evocative oil painting presents a poetic, symbolist-inspired scene of a nude female figure, likely a nymph, gently adorning a sculpted bust with flowers in a secluded garden setting. The composition unfolds in a softly lit, atmospheric space, where warm, earthy tones and delicate transitions of light create a sense of intimacy and reverie. The artist employs a fluid, painterly technique, allowing forms to emerge through subtle gradations rather than sharp definition. The figure’s elongated silhouette and graceful posture recall the classical tradition, while the blurred contours and tonal harmonies align with late 19th-century aesthetic sensibilities. The presence of sculptural elements and floral offerings suggests allegorical undertones, possibly referencing themes of beauty, transience, and devotion. Stylistically, the work sits at the intersection of Academic painting and Symbolism, with a strong affinity for the intimism and softness associated with artists influenced by Impressionism. The muted palette, combined with expressive brushwork, enhances the dreamlike quality of the scene. Both refined and sensual, this painting would appeal to collectors of Symbolist art, fin-de-siècle painting, and classical-inspired figurative works. symbolist painting, nymph painting, nude female figure oil painting, allegorical art, classical nude painting...

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Yellow sofá."
"Yellow sofá."

"Yellow sofá."

By Liudmila Shabazova

Located in Zofingen, AG

Miniature painting is like a little pearl in a collection of paintings. It was created specifically so that you can decorate your room and harmoniously place it in combination with paintings of a different genre and size. The yellow sofa...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Lacquer, Acrylic

"Fishing Schooners and Sailboats at a dock" Original Oil on Canvas
"Fishing Schooners and Sailboats at a dock" Original Oil on Canvas

"Fishing Schooners and Sailboats at a dock" Original Oil on Canvas

Located in Soquel, CA

Fishing Schooners and Sailboats at a dock, "Fischerschoner und Segelboote an einem Dock" by Rudolph Guba (German/American, 1884-1950) Impasto work which depicts several sailing ves...

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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Cold Winter Landscape Impressionism Original Oil Painting
Cold Winter Landscape Impressionism Original Oil Painting

Cold Winter Landscape Impressionism Original Oil Painting

Located in Granada Hills, CA

Artist: Alexander Shandor Title: Cold Winter Medium: Oil on Hardboard Year: 2011 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 7.5 x 7.5" x 0.2" inch (19 x 19x 1cm) Presentation: Unframed, Type...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Lady in White, Impressionist Portrait Study
Lady in White, Impressionist Portrait Study

Lady in White, Impressionist Portrait Study

Located in Genève, GE

An elegant and atmospheric portrait depicting a young woman standing gracefully in a flowing white gown against a dark, painterly background. Executed with delicate tonal transitions...

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Evening Mood, View Over Graneberg, Oil on Canvas, Signed, 1924
Evening Mood, View Over Graneberg, Oil on Canvas, Signed, 1924

Evening Mood, View Over Graneberg, Oil on Canvas, Signed, 1924

By Olof Thunman

Located in Stockholm, SE

In Evening Mood, View Over Graneberg (original Swedish title Aftonstämning, Graneberg, Uppland), painted in 1924, Olof Thunman presents an afternoon scene in the countryside outside ...

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1920s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vintage Canadian Impressionist Winter Snow Landscape Oil Painting
Vintage Canadian Impressionist Winter Snow Landscape Oil Painting

Vintage Canadian Impressionist Winter Snow Landscape Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Vintage Canadian impressionist landscape oil painting by Lawrence Nickle (1931 - 2014). Oil on panel. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 12 by 14 inches overall, and 10 by 12 painting alone....

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1950s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Tennis Match

Tennis Match

By Donald S. Vogel

Located in Dallas, TX

Donald S. Vogel has been a set designer and technical director in the theater, a fine art dealer, and a writer, but first and foremost he is a painter. From a young age he was intrig...

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Late 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Panel

1930's French Impressionist Coastal Harbour In French Village Town Landscape
1930's French Impressionist Coastal Harbour In French Village Town Landscape

1930's French Impressionist Coastal Harbour In French Village Town Landscape

By Louise Alix

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

French Town Harbour by Louise Alix, French 1950's Impressionist gouache on artist paper, unframed painting: 13.5 x 16.5 inches provenance: from a large private collection of this ar...

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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Gouache

Huge 20th Century French Signed Oil Fishing Boats in South of France Harbour
Huge 20th Century French Signed Oil Fishing Boats in South of France Harbour

Huge 20th Century French Signed Oil Fishing Boats in South of France Harbour

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Artist/School: G. Lefevre, French School (20th Century), signed Title: Fishing Ports Moored In A Southern Port, wonderful blue sea and sky colours with rising mountain beyond and gr...

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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Antique European Impressionist Elegant Young Woman Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Antique European Impressionist Elegant Young Woman Portrait Framed Oil Painting

Antique European Impressionist Elegant Young Woman Portrait Framed Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique European impressionist portrait oil painting . Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 26 by 32 inches overall, and 21.5 by 26.5 painting alone. Handsomely framed in a gi...

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1890s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Summer Has Passed Landscape Original Oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Summer Has Passed Landscape Original Oil Painting, Ready to Hang

Summer Has Passed Landscape Original Oil Painting, Ready to Hang

Located in Granada Hills, CA

Artist: Alexander Shandor Title: Summer Has Passed Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 23.5" x 31.5" x 1" inch (60 x 80 x 2cm) Presentation: Unframed, ...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

La charette par temps d'Orage  - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Edouard Cortes
La charette par temps d'Orage  - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Edouard Cortes

La charette par temps d'Orage - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Edouard Cortes

By Édouard Leon Cortès

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Signed oil on panel horse and figure in landscape circa 1925 by impressionist painter Edouard Leon Cortes. The work depicts a figure leading his horse and cart along a track outside ...

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1920s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Antique Impressionist English River Landscape - Original Oil Painting, Signed
Antique Impressionist English River Landscape - Original Oil Painting, Signed

Antique Impressionist English River Landscape - Original Oil Painting, Signed

Located in Soquel, CA

Antique Impressionist English River Landscape - Original Oil Painting, Signed Beautiful antique landscape by Christopher Mark Haskell (British, b. 1849 d. 1933.) A river sits in the...

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Late 19th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Courtyard Scene with Arched Doorway Rustic Walls and Figures in Traditional Garb
Courtyard Scene with Arched Doorway Rustic Walls and Figures in Traditional Garb

Courtyard Scene with Arched Doorway Rustic Walls and Figures in Traditional Garb

By Simone Forge

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Charming Courtyard Scene Simone Forge 1930's French Impressionist oil on board unframed board: 9.5 x 7.5 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: great condition For more ...

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Early 19th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Vintage Alpine Mountain Landscape with Chalet – Oil on Canvas – Signed Rosetto
Vintage Alpine Mountain Landscape with Chalet – Oil on Canvas – Signed Rosetto

Vintage Alpine Mountain Landscape with Chalet – Oil on Canvas – Signed Rosetto

Located in Palm Coast, FL

This vintage oil on canvas depicts a serene alpine mountain landscape centered around a rustic chalet perched on a grassy hillside. Tall evergreen trees frame the structure, while a ...

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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

The Symphony of Lilacs
The Symphony of Lilacs

The Symphony of Lilacs

By Andrey Dmitriev

Located in Zofingen, AG

Bring the intoxicating, sweet fragrance of a spring garden straight into your home. This magnificent original oil painting captures a lavish, overflowing bouquet of deep purple and v...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Sunflower
Sunflower

Sunflower

By Casey Childs

Located in Pasadena, CA

Visual Description: This contemporary painting painted in oil on linen is a portrait of a red-headed woman in an impressionistic style. Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly ...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

Lilacs, Flowers, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang

Lilacs, Flowers, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang

By Vahe Yeremyan

Located in Granada Hills, CA

Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2021 Style: Impressionism, Subject: Lilacs, Size: 24.5" x 30.5" x 0...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Series BIRD'S BAZAAR part #5
Series BIRD'S BAZAAR part #5

Series BIRD'S BAZAAR part #5

Located in Edinburgh, GB

Birds! Who are they? Just birds, Angels in the image, symbols of the deity, human souls? For me - symbols of Freedom and irrepressible striving forward! With this work, I open the BI...

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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Giverny Landscape, Karl Albert Buehr, c. 1912, American Impressionism, Expatriot
Giverny Landscape, Karl Albert Buehr, c. 1912, American Impressionism, Expatriot

Giverny Landscape, Karl Albert Buehr, c. 1912, American Impressionism, Expatriot

By Karl Albert Buehr

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Karl Albert Beuhr (1866-1952) Giverny Landscape Oil on relined canvas, c. 1912 Signed lower right: K A Buehr Condition: Canvas relined for support Image size: 13 1/4 x 15 3/8 inches Frame size: 19 5/8 x 21 7/8 inches Provenance: Gift of the artist to his wife, Mary Hess Beuhr The artist's niece, daughter of Will Hess Buehr David Saltzman Robert Henry Adams Thomas French Fine Art Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Horner, Canton, Ohio Exhibited: Canton Museum of Art, Impressionism: An American View, 1983, label on verso Karl Albert Buehr at Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago Exhibition dates The exhibition was held in 1994 at Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, 715 North Franklin Street, Chicago. Surviving provenance records describe it as the gallery’s first exhibition at its North Franklin Street location. Works documented as included include Woman on a Patio, Rocky Inlet (France), and apparently other paintings and studies acquired through David Saltzman from the family of Buehr’s wife, Mary Hess Buehr. The 1994 Karl Albert Buehr exhibition at Robert Henry Adams Fine Art represented an important act of historical recovery. Although Buehr enjoyed considerable recognition during his lifetime—as an exhibiting painter, prizewinner, and influential teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago—his reputation had become less visible in the decades following his death. By bringing together paintings and works on paper that had descended through the artist’s family, the Adams exhibition helped restore Buehr to his proper position among the leading exponents of American Impressionism and the most important Chicago-trained painters working in France before the First World War. Giverny was crucial to Buehr’s mature development. American painters had been drawn to the Norman village since the late 1880s, attracted both by Monet’s presence and by the region’s gardens, river valleys, cultivated fields, and distinctive northern light. Buehr did not simply imitate Monet. His figure compositions remained grounded in the academic training he received in Chicago and Paris, but he enlivened that structure with broken brushwork, heightened complementary color, and an increasingly luminous palette. His characteristic compositions place elegantly dressed young women on terraces, beside windows, or within flowering gardens. These figures are neither conventional society portraits nor anonymous decorative accessories. They occupy a carefully balanced space between individual presence and pictorial harmony. Faces and gestures are often quietly observed, while dresses, parasols, flowers, foliage, and shifting sunlight become vehicles for color. Lavender shadows, rose and coral fabrics, emerald foliage, and brilliant passages of yellow or blue transform the garden into a chromatic environment surrounding the sitter. Works associated with the Adams exhibition illuminate the breadth of Buehr’s French production. The pastel Woman on a Patio, circa 1915, demonstrates his ability to translate Impressionist color into the immediacy of a dry medium. Pastel allowed him to place one hue directly beside another without losing intensity. The resulting surface possesses a soft atmospheric unity while retaining the energy of individual strokes. The work’s history—gifted by Buehr to Mary Hess Buehr and subsequently descending through her family—also gives it a particularly intimate character. Rocky Inlet (France) presents another aspect of Buehr’s practice. In place of the cultivated garden and poised female figure, the artist confronts a rugged coastal landscape. Yet his essential concern remains light acting upon color. Rock, water, and vegetation are constructed through abbreviated touches rather than continuous modeling. The small scale suggests direct observation, possibly an outdoor study made during Buehr’s travels in Normandy. Its provenance likewise begins with Mary Hess Buehr and passes through the family before reaching David Saltzman and Robert Henry Adams Fine Art. This family provenance was central to the significance of the 1994 exhibition. The works had not merely circulated anonymously through the market; many retained a direct association with the artist’s household. Such a group could include informal studies, experimental compositions, and personal gifts that Buehr elected to keep rather than send to public exhibitions. Together they offered a more private and exploratory view of his career. Karl Albert Buehr (1866–1952): France and the Giverny Years Karl Albert Buehr—whose surname is sometimes misspelled “Beuhr”—was a German-born American painter and influential teacher associated with the second generation of American Impressionists working at Giverny. Although his artistic identity was rooted in Chicago, the years he spent in France transformed his palette, subject matter, and approach to painting. Born on February 14, 1866, in Feuerbach, near Stuttgart, Buehr immigrated with his family to Chicago, probably in 1881. After working briefly for a commercial lithographer, he enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1888. He studied with John H. Vanderpoel and graduated with honors in 1894, after which the school invited him to teach. He also served in the Illinois cavalry during the Spanish-American War and married Mary Guion Hess, one of his students and an accomplished artist in her own right. Early study in Europe Buehr’s European education unfolded in several stages. Around 1900 he settled in Paris and studied at the Académie Julian, principally under the French painter Raphaël Collin. Collin was known for idealized female figures placed in luminous outdoor settings, a combination of academic draftsmanship and Impressionist light that anticipated Buehr’s mature work. Buehr reportedly received a gold medal at the Académie in 1901. His early European paintings included portraits, landscapes, and scenes of rural labor. Visits to Holland exposed him to the restrained tonalism of the Hague School, while his travels in Italy—particularly Taormina, Sicily, during 1906 and 1907—encouraged a brighter response to Mediterranean sunlight. He also studied in London, where his contacts with Frank Brangwyn and the decorative currents of British painting strengthened his interest in broad design, rhythmic composition, and large arrangements of figures. A decisive factor in this extended European residence was the patronage of Chicago philanthropist Lydia Coonley Ward. From approximately 1906 until 1913, Ward provided Buehr with a monthly stipend, enabling the artist, his wife, and their children to remain abroad and pursue their work without the immediate pressures of the American market. Buehr at Giverny Buehr entered the Anglo-American artistic community at Giverny around 1909, probably through his friendship with Henry Salem Hubbell, another American figure painter supported by Lydia Coonley Ward. From approximately 1909 through 1912, Buehr generally spent winters in Paris and the warmer months at Giverny. In 1912 and the summer of 1913, the family reportedly lived at Sainte-Geneviève-lès-Gasny, close to Giverny. By this date Giverny was no longer merely the village in which Claude Monet lived. It had become an international artists’ colony, particularly attractive to American painters who admired Impressionist color but wished to retain firm drawing and carefully organized figure compositions. Buehr’s associates included Frederick Carl Frieseke, Richard Edward Miller, Guy Rose, Lawton Parker, Louis Ritman, Edmund Greacen, Karl Anderson, and Theodore Earl Butler. Buehr was especially close to the circle of Frieseke and Miller. These artists specialized in decorative paintings of fashionably dressed women reading, sewing, taking tea, or resting in sunlit gardens. Their figures were surrounded by flowers, patterned fabrics, parasols, and flickering passages of colored light. Buehr adopted this repertoire, but his paintings usually retained a stronger structural organization and a more assertive contrast between complementary colors. During his first months at Giverny, Buehr worked on a large decorative panel of dancing figures. The composition received an honorable mention at the Paris Salon of 1910, an important professional recognition. That summer, however, he increasingly turned toward intimate garden scenes and outdoor figure studies. The influence of Richard Miller can be detected in the decorative arrangement of the figures, while Frieseke’s example encouraged Buehr s use of brilliant sunlight, patterned surfaces, and saturated hues. Relationship with Claude Monet Claude Monet was Buehr’s artistic hero, but the extent of their personal relationship should not be overstated. Buehr’s children played with the children of Theodore Butler, Monet’s son-in-law, and they visited the Monet household. Buehr’s daughter Kathleen later recalled that Monet was gracious to the children. Nevertheless, the best available scholarship suggests that no close personal association between Buehr and Monet has been documented. Monet’s importance to Buehr was therefore primarily artistic. At Giverny, Buehr learned to regard colored light as a central subject rather than merely a means of describing objects. Shadows became violet, blue, or green; white dresses reflected the surrounding garden; and faces and arms were modeled through small strokes of warm and cool color. The enclosed garden also became a kind of outdoor studio in which human figures, flowers, fabrics, and sunlight could be orchestrated into a unified decorative design. The Giverny style Buehr became best known for paintings of young women seated or standing in gardens, often accompanied by colorful parasols. Works such as Springtime in Giverny, Under the Parasol, and related pictures of women reading or conversing exemplify his mature style. Although inspired by French Impressionism, these paintings are not spontaneous transcriptions of fleeting visual experience in the strict Monet tradition. They are carefully staged figure compositions. Buehr himself explained that the outdoor figure painter should concentrate upon the ensemble—grouping, arrangement, and color—rather than laboriously describing every feature. This principle helps distinguish his Giverny paintings...

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1910s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Impressionist paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Impressionist paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, purple, green, orange and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Vahe Yeremyan, Richard Szkutnik, Iryna Kastsova, and Michael Budden. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Impressionist paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available.