Modern Paintings

Sunlit Riverbank with Cottage and Boat Blue Green French Landscape Oil Painting French School, early 20th century oil on board, unframed Board: 9 x 13 inches Provenance: private coll...

Bruno Wiklund (1937-2011) Sweden Stormig natt (Stormy Night) (1978) medium: pastel signed and dated unframed 52 × 41.5 cm (approx. 20.5 × 16.3 in) framed 59 × 48 cm (approx. 23.2 ×...

Artist: Arnold Grossman (American, 1923-2016) Title: Still Life Year: c.2000 Medium: Oil painting on paper Paper: Thick oil painting paper Size i...

Set of Two Paired Studies 1960's British Modernist Drawing by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) oil crayon drawings on light brown artist paper stuck on A4 artist paper, unframed overal...

A really striking and stylish large still life by this Modernist master. René Genis (1922-2004) Pot Bland et poivrons Signed and further signed to reverse and inscribed with the tit...

Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...

Philippe Auge (French, b. 1935) Des Fruits Heureux D'Etre Fruits, 1966 Oil on canvas Framed: 10 1/8 x 13 5/8 x 1 in. Signed upper right: Auge Inscribed verso: Philippe Auge, Paris Fr...

Harmonious Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original oil on artist paper size: 23 x 20 inches condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed Description: This impr...

Fisherman Watercolor Comes Framed (see photo) About the Artist: Kenneth B Walsh (1922-1980) In the 1950s, Kenneth Bonar Walsh came to Montauk fr...

Nude Model is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Good conditions. Not signed. Antonio Feltrinelli (Milan, 1...

Antique American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.

Melancholic Seated Woman, Post-Impressionist Figurative Oil Painting, Spanish School Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 50 x 61 cm (19.69 x 24.02 in) Framing: Unframed Signature: Sig...

'Port of Saint-Malo', oil on canvas affixed to board, French Modern School (1984). Although the artist dated this painting '84, it depicts a nostalgic view of the port of Saint-Malo in Western France's, Brittany in 1884 judging by the clothing worn by the characters depicted. The crowd on the shoreline is watching a sailboat regatta starting just inside the port's breakwater. A rather rare sunny day in Brittany brought out the parasols of the sitting ladies on the edge of the old ramparts. The walled city...

Oil on wooden panel realized in 1930s. Good condition.

Abram Tromka ( Polish/ Russian American 1896-1954 ) Hand signed upper center right. Bears label from Marbella Gallery, New York verso "Two Men Praying" (Davening) Dimensions: Sight- ...

De Hirsh Margules (1899-1965). Christopher Street, 1939. Watercolor on Arches wove paper. Signed and dated in pencil by artist lower margin. Sheet measures 15.5 x 20 inches. Window in matting measures 15 x 19 inches. Framed measurement: 23 x 30 inched. Bears fragment of original label affixed on verso. Incredibly vibrant and saturated color with no fading or toning of sheet. Provenance: Babcock Galleries, NYC Exhibited: The American Federation of Arts Traveling Exhibition. From the facade of The Waverly at Christopher is depicted One Christopher Street, the 16-story Art Deco residential building erected in 1931. It is not a casual coincidence that the structure appears in this cityscape: 1 Christopher Street is the subject. The original intention of this project was to transform the neighborhood, bring a bit of affluence and make a bid to rival the Upper West Side. Margules, a sensitive aesthete, understood how a massive piece of architecture such as One changes a neighborhood. Sound, scale and focal points are forever altered. A pedestrian's sense of depth and distance becomes pronounced. All of these factors contribute to the intent behind this image. Tall buildings disrupt the human scale, change the skyline and carve up space. In this piece, negative space conforms to the man-made geometries. Clouds become gems fixed in settings. De Hirsh Margules (1899–1965) was a Romanian-American "abstract realist" painter who crossed paths with many major American artistic and intellectual figures of the first half of the 20th century. Elaine de Kooning said that he was "[w]idely recognized as one of the most gifted and erudite watercolorists in the country". The New York Times critic Howard Devree stated in 1938 that "Margules uses color in a breath-taking manner. A keen observer, he eliminates scrupulously without distortion of his material." Devree later called Margules "one of our most daring experimentalists in the medium" Margules was also a well-known participant in the bohemian culture of New York City's Greenwich Village, where he was widely known as the "Baron" of Greenwich Village.[1] The New York Times described him as "one of Greenwich Village's best-known personalities" and "one of the best known and most buoyant characters about Greenwich Village. Early Life De Hirsh Margules was born in 1899 in the Romanian city of Iași (also known as Iasse, Jassy, or Jasse). When Margules was 10 weeks old, his family immigrated to New York City. Both of his parents were active in the Yiddish theater, His father was Yekutiel "Edward" Margules, a "renowned Jewish actor-impresario and founder of the Yiddish stage." Margules' mother, Rosa, thirty-nine years younger than his father, was an actress in the Yiddish theater and later in vaudeville. Although Margules appeared as a child actor with the Adler Family[11] and Bertha Kalich, his sister, Annette Margules, somewhat dubiously continued in family theater and vaudeville tradition, creating the blackface role of the lightly-clad Tondelayo (a part later played on film Hedy Lamarr) in Earl Carroll's 1924 Broadway exoticist hit, White Cargo. Annette herself faced stereotyping as an exotic flower: writing about her publicist Charles Bouchert stated that "Romania produces a stormy, temperamental type of woman---a type admirably fitted to portray emotion." His brother Samuel became a noted magician who appeared under the name "Rami-Sami." Samuel later became a lawyer, representing magician Horace Goldin, among others. A family portrait including a young De Hirsh, a portrait of Rosa and Annette together, and individual photos of Rosa and Edward can be found on the Museum of the City of New York website. At around age 9 or 10, Margules took art classes with the Boys Club on East Tenth Street, and his first taste of exhibition was at a student art show presented by the club. By age 11, he had won a city-wide prize (a box camera) at a children's art show presented by the department store Wanamakers. As a young teenager, Margules was already displaying a characteristic kindness and loyalty. Upon hearing that two friends (one of them was author Alexander King), were in trouble for breaking a school microscope, the nearly broke Margules gave them five dollars to repair the microscope . Margules had to approach a wealthy man that Margules had once saved on the subway from a heart attack. Margules didn't reveal the source of the five dollars to King until twenty-five years later. In his late teens, Margules studied for a couple of months in Pittsburgh with Edwin Randby, a follower of Western painter Frederic Remington. Thereafter he pursued a two-year course of studies in architecture, design and decoration at the New York Evening School of Art and Design, while working as a clerk during the day at Stern's Department Store. He was encouraged in these artistic pursuits by his neighbor, the painter Benno Greenstein (who later went by the name of Benjamin Benno). Artistic career In 1922, Margules began work as a police reporter for the City News Association of New York .Margules then considered himself something of an expert on art, and the painter Myron Lechay is said to have responded to some unsolicited analysis of his work with the remark "Since you seem to know so much about it, why don't you paint yourself?" This led to study with Lechay and a flurry of painting. Margules' first show was in 1922 at Jane Heap's Little Review Gallery. Thereafter Margules began to participate in shows with a group including Stuart Davis, Jan Matulka, Buckminster Fuller (exhibiting depictions of his "Dymaxion house") in a gallery run by art-lover and restaurateur Romany Marie on the floor above her cafe. Jane Heap, left, with Mina Loy and Ezra Pound During the 1920s, Margules traveled outside of the country a number of times. In 1922, with the intent of reaching Bali, he took a job as a "'wiper on a tramp steamer where [he] played nursemaid to the engine." He reached Rotterdam before he turned back. He would return to Rotterdam shortly thereafter. In 1927, Margules took a lengthy leave of absence from his day job as a police reporter in order to travel to Paris, where he "set up a studio in Montmartre's Place du Tertre, on the top floor of an almost deserted hotel, a shabby establishment, lacking both heat and running water." He studied at the Louvre and traveled to paint landscapes in provincial France and North Africa. Margules also joined the "Noctambulist" movement and experimented with painting and showing his artwork in low light.Jonathan Cott wrote that: the painter De Hirsch Margulies sat on the quays of the Seine and painted pictures in the dark. In fact, the first exhibition of these paintings, which could be seen only in a darkened room, took place in [ Walter Lowenfels'] Paris apartment. Elaine de Kooning remarked that studying the works of the Noctambulists confirmed Margules' "direction toward the use of primary colors for perverse effects of heavy shadow." It was also in Paris that Margules initially conceived his idea of "Time Painting", where a painting is divided into sectors, each representing a different time of day, with color choices meant to evoke that time of day. In Paris, his social circle included Lowenfels, photographer Berenice Abbott, publisher Jane Heap, composer George Anthiel, sculptor Thelma Wood, painter André Favory, writer Norman Douglas, writer and editor George Davis, composer and writer Max Ewing, and writer Michael Fraenkel. Upon his return to New York in 1929, Margules attended an exhibition of John Marin's paintings. While at the exhibition, he "launched into an eloquent explanation of Marin to two nearby women", and was overheard by an impressed Alfred Stieglitz. The famous photographer and art promoter invited Margules to dine with his wife, the artist Georgia O'Keeffe, and his assistant, painter Emil Zoler. Stieglitz thereafter became a friend and mentor to Margules, becoming for him "what Socrates was to his friends." Alfred Stieglitz Stieglitz introduced Margules to John Marin, who quickly became the most important painterly influence upon Margules. Elaine de Kooning later noted that Margules was "indebted to Marin and through Marin to Cézanne for his initial conceptual approach - for his constructions of scenes with no negative elements, for skies that loom with the impact of mountains." Margules himself said that Marin was his "father and ... academy." The admiration was by no means unreciprocated: Marin said that Margules was "an art lover with abounding faith and sincerity, with much intelligence and quick seeing." Stieglitz also introduced Margules to many other artistic and intellectual figures in New York. With the encouragement of Alfred Stieglitz, Margules in 1936 opened a two-room gallery at 43 West 8th Street called "Another Place." Over the following two years there were fourteen solo exhibitions by Margules and others, and the gallery was well-respected by the press. It was in this gallery that the painter James Lechay, Myron's brother, exhibited his first painting. In 1936, Margules first saw recognition by major art museums when both the Museum of Modern Art and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston purchased his works. In 1942, Margules gave up working as a police reporter, and apparently dedicated himself thereafter solely to an artistic vocation. "The Baron of Greenwich Village"[edit] Margules made his mark not only as an artist, but also as an outsized personality known throughout Greenwich Village and beyond. To local residents, Margules was known as the "Baron", after Baron Maurice de Hirsch, a prominent German Jewish philanthropist. Margules was easily recognizable by the beret he routinely wore over his long hair. Writer Charles Norman said that he "dressed with a flair for sloppiness." He was said to "know everybody" in Greenwich Village, to the extent that when the novelist and poet Maxwell Bodenheim was murdered, Margules was the first one the police sought to identify the body. Margules' letters show him interacting with art world figures such as Sacha Kolin, John Marin and Alfred Stieglitz, as well as with prominent figures outside the art world such as polymath Buckminster Fuller and writer Henry Miller. Most of his friends and acquaintances found Margules a generous and voluble man, given to broadly emotionally expressive gestures and acts of kindness and loyalty. In 1929, he exhibited an example of this loyalty and fellow-feeling when he appeared in court to fight what the wrongful commitment of his friend, writer and sculptor Alfred Dreyfuss, who appeared to have been a victim of an illicit attempt to block an inheritance. The Greenwich Village chronicler Charles Norman described the bone-crushing hugs that Margules would routinely bestow on his friends and acquaintances, and speaks of the "persuasive theatricality" that Margules seemed to have inherited from his actor parents. Norman also wrote about Margules' routine acts of kindness, taking in homeless artists, constantly feeding his friends and providing the salvatory loan where needed. Norman also notes that Margules was blessed with a loud and good voice, and was apt to sing an operatic air without provocation. The writer and television personality Alexander King said I think the outstanding characteristics of my friend's personality are affirmation, emphasis, and overemphasis. He chooses to express himself predominantly in superlatives and the gestures which accompany his utterances are sometimes dangerous to life and limb. Of the bystanders, I mean. King also spoke with affectionate amusement about Margules' pride in his cooking, speaking of how "if he should ever invite you to dinner, he may serve you a hamburger with onions, in his kitchen-living room, with such an air of gastronomic protocol, such mysterious hints and ogliing innuendoes, as if César Ritz and Brillat-Savarin had sneaked out, only a moment before, with his secret recipe in their pockets." Margules was such a memorable New York personality that comic book writer Alvin Schwartz imagined him at the Sixth Avenue Cafeteria in a risible yet poignant debate with Clark Kent about whether Superman had the ability to stop Hitler. Margules' entrenchment in the Greenwich Village milieu can be seen in a photograph from Fred McDarrah's "Beat Generation Album" of a January 13, 1961 writers' and poets' meeting to discuss "The Funeral of the Beat Generation", in Robert Cordier [fr]'s railroad flat at 85 Christopher Street. Among the people in the same photograph are Shel Silverstein...

Vintage American modernist cow abstract still life oil painting by Jeanette Welty Chelf (1929 - 2021). Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 20L x 16H.

The painting is called "Lady in a Green Room." It features a luxurious interior with subdued lighting. The figure itself is painted in an abstract style. Everything about this painti...

Antique modernist landscape painting by Jan Matulka (1890 - 1972). Watercolor on paper. Signed. Framed. Measuring 24 by 28 inches overall and 15.5 by 19.5 painting alone.

Antique American modernist nocturnal street scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed . Measuring: 14 by 12 inches overall, and 8 by 10 painting alone. In excellent original...

Striking mid-20th century abstract oil painting on canvas by artist Johnsen, titled “Jazz IX – Club Date” (as inscribed on the verso). The work features a bold interplay of geometric...

Antique American school modernist watermelon still life pastel painting. Pastel on paper. Signed. Framed. Measuring 18 by 22 inches overall and 16 by 20 painting alone.

Claude Gaveau Seascape : Yellow Sunset, c. 1975 Original oil on canvas Signed in the lower right corner Signed again on the back On canvas 60 x 60 cm (c. 24 x 24 in) Very good con...

Antique American ashcan school modernist cityscape painting by Judith Chamberlain (1893 - 1965). Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Excellent ready to hang condition.

Marcel Vertes (French/Hungarian, 1895 – 1961) ‘Circus performance’ Oil on canvas board Signed `VERTES` (to the reverse) 20 x 24 in. (51 x 61 cm.) Provenance: With the Hammer Gallerie...

Cubist acrylic and oil on board in the modern form of a stylised mannequin figure portrait by French artist Créqule. The painting is influenced by the paintings of Giorgio de Chirico...

Antique American modernist abstract nude landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed illegibly.

Alexander by Eduardo Arranz-Bravo, Spanish (1941) Date: 2006 Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 60 x 40 in. (152.4 x 101.6 cm) Frame: 63 x 44 in. (160.02 x 111.76 cm) This fabulous im...

A Colorful, Picturesque 1930s American Scene Country Mountain Landscape Painting of a Summer Pasture in Vermont by Famed Chicago Modern Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). A vib...

To Female Portraits is an original modern artwork realized in the early 20th Century by the Italian artist Mino Maccari (Siena, 1898 - Rome, 1989). Original painting. Tempera on pap...

'Portrait of Boy in a Chair', gouache on art paper, by Raymond Debiève (circa 1960s). Here the artist paints a young boy, very probably his son, Vincent, sitting in a chair posing fo...

Vintage American still life painting. Oil on canvas. Framed in a period wood frame. Measuring: 23 by 17 inches overall and 19 by 13 inches painting alone. Excellent condition, ready...

Nude Figure In Pink Interior by Jacqueline Boisselot (French, late 20th century) oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 9 x 10.75 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris Condition: ver...

Farm in the Valley - Plein Air California Landscape Beautiful mid century landscape of a California farm by Baumgardner (American, 20th Century). The viewer stands on a dirt road, w...

Veiled woman is an orignal modern artwork realized by Antonio Feltrinelli in 1930s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Not signed. Antonio Feltrine...

ARTIST: Julian Jake Paltenghi (1955-) British / French TITLE: "Tall Still Life OF Flowers" SIGNED: verso MEDIUM: oil and mixed media on canvas SIZE: 111cm x 55cm inclusive of fram...

John Leslie Berry (1920–2009) Grand Armee - Officer of Hussars Oil on canvas Signed lower right Canvas size - 14 x 10 in Framed size - 18 1/2 x 14 1/2 in ohn Leslie Berry was a Bri...

Antique American modernist portrait oil painting by Salpi Miriam Mavian (Born 1908). Oil on canvas, circa 1930. Signed. Displayed in a giltwoo...

Golden Fields French Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas Jacqueline Boisselot, French, late 20th century oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 5.5 x 7 inches Provenance: from a ...

Antique European modernist landscape painting. Oil on board, circa 1930. Unsigned. Image size, 20.5L x 17.5H. Housed in a period giltwood frame.

Impressive contemporary abstract expressionist painting by Stephen Heigh. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 14H x 11L.

Antique American modernist oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 16L x 11H. Signed.

A scenic, colorful Modern 1930s summer harbor scene of Saugatuck, Michigan by notable Chicago Modern artist, Francis Chapin. Depicting a lively summer harbor view of the historic S...

Pastel Landscape by Irina Hale (British 1932-2022) pastel sketch on brown artist tracing paper , unframed painting: 4.5 x 3.75 inches provenance: private collection, Cotswolds condit...

Antique American modernist interior still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a modernt wood molding. Excellent cond...

Antique American signed modernist flower still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 16L x 30H.

Wonderful antique American modernist Sunflower still life painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Unsigned.

Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...

Genre: Modern Subject: Music Medium: Oil Surface: Board Country: France Dimensions: 36.5" x 23.5" Dimensions w/Frame: 43.5" x 31" Hand signed lower right NISSAN ENGEL Israel, b. 19...

Soft Green French Landscape by Jacqueline Boisselot (French, late 20th century) oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 6 x 7 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris Condition: very goo...

Rabbit Hunters, egg tempera on Masonite, 12 x 9 inches, 1947, signed and dated lower left, signed, titled and dated verso “Rabbit Hunters Egg Tempera Roger Medearis 1947,” exhibited at Medearis' solo show at Kende Galleries, New York, in 1949 (Medearis’ record book, a copy of which is held by Vose Galleries in Boston, MA, indicates this is painting “No. 23” and that is was completed in 1947 and sold via Kende Galleries (at Gimbel Brothers...

Nitun Kundu (Bangladeshi 1935 - 2006) Untitled - Buriganga Quayside c. 1960’s Watercolour and charcoal pastel on paper Image size: 24 x 38cm Mount Size: 31 x 46 cm Signed verso Prov...

Ireland Landscape Rocky Cliffs with Castle on the Northern Irish Sea Coastline, by 20th Century Irish Australian Artist, Henry McLaughlin. Art measures 10 x 8 inches Frame measure...

Artist: William Harnden, American (1920 - 1983) Title: Concert Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed Image Size: 15.5 x 20 inches Frame Size: 22.5 x 27 inches

'Portrait of a Smiling Woman', oil on board, by Peter Robert Keil (1983). A cheerful look on the painting's subject puts a smile on the face of the viewer as well. Her beautiful blue eyes express a contentedness suggesting life is good...

Summer on the Beach Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020) signed oil painting on canvas 20 x 24 inches. All the paintings we have for sale by this artist have come from the artis...

The Artists Model by Jacqueline Boisselot, French late 20th century 18 x 15 inches inscribed verso oil on canvas, unframed condition: very good and ready to enjoy provenance: from a ...

Free to Be Myself (part of the “Red Horse” series) This work explores a state of quiet inner freedom — the moment when a woman no longer shapes herself for the outside world, but r...

Signed Upper Left "Tosca" for Tosca Olinski (American, 1909-1984) and painted in 1941. Provenance: Mongerson Wunderlich Galleries, Chicago. Exhibited: New Directions in American Pai...

Work on watercolor paper