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Art Subject: Building
Miniature Watercolor of Chapel of the Three Kings, Christmas Steps in Bristol
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Miniature Watercolor of Chapel of the Three Kings, Christmas Steps in Bristol
by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist
Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed
Measurem...
Category
20th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Monaco Street Scene Towards the Prince’s Palace Vintage French Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Monaco Street Scene
Tony Minartz (French, 1873 - 1994)
watercolour on artist paper
painting : 17 x 12.75 inches
Provenance: private collection in the South of France,
Condition: ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
$861 Sale Price
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Mid Century California Laguna Country Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful Impressionist landscape of a country scene by Paul Friederich Weindorf (German/American, 1887-1965). Signed "Paul Weindorf" lower right. Artist's bio on verso. Unframed. Im...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Linen
$1,072 Sale Price
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French Watercolor of Vaison-la-Romaine and Pont Romain
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of Vaison-la-Romaine and Pont Romain
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper
Size: 10.75 x 13.5 (heig...
Category
Late 20th Century French School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
1940s Yorkshire, England Landscape of Whitby Abbey Ruins
Located in Soquel, CA
Striking and atmospheric painting of North Yorkshire’s Whitby Abbey ruins by Marguerite Louis Blasingame (American; 1906-1947), circa 1940-45. Whitby Abbe...
Category
1940s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,000 Sale Price
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Luis Miguel Valdes large charcoal on canvas 10x30 feet (see making-of video )
Located in Miami, FL
(Added new images and video of the creation process, enjoy it)
Author: Luis Miguel Valdes (Cuban, 1949)
Title: Symphony La Siempre Habana
Size: 305x1015 cm. (10x30 ft.)
Medium: Charc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas, Oil Pastel, Oil Crayon, Varnish, Canvas, Charcoal
Parisian View of Notre Dame from the Seine Vibrant Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
View of Notre Dame
by Regine David (female French artist, 1910-2018)
oil painting on board, unframed
measures: 10.75 x 13.75 inches
condition: This painting is in excellent condition...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$358 Sale Price
30% Off
Cecile Hertz-Eyrolles (1875-1974) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Beynac, France
Located in Corsham, GB
Cecile Hertz-Eyrolles (1875-1974), Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Studio stamp verso.
Category
20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Miniature Watercolor Paintings of Bath Abbey West End and York Street View
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Miniature Watercolor Paintings of Bath Abbey West End and York Street View
by Jack Grunwell, 20th century British artist
Medium: Watercolor on thin card, unframed
Measurement...
Category
20th Century English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
$181 Sale Price
30% Off
The Garden and 'Pavillon Martin' at Lou Marronie, Cotignac, South of France.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Late 20th Century oil on board scene of a garden and pavilion by S Cornec. The painting is signed bottom left and signed and titled to the back board. Presented in a chip carved and ...
Category
Late 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Carmel Mission, 1870 - California School Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Soquel, CA
Carmel Mission, 1870 - Landscape Oil Painting
One of California's Mission settlements lies on the Central Coast in Carmel, depicted in this landscape oil painting. The Spanish architecture...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$920 Sale Price
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From the Island to the Eiffel - Landscape Beige Brown White Yellow Blue Grey
Located in Sofia, BG
"From the Island to the Eiffel Tower" is a Naïve style painting by the French artist Maestro Bouchon.
Through her art, she has a very sharp and unique style of bright and colorful e...
Category
Early 2000s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunshine on the Waterfront
By Carl Thorp
Located in San Francisco, CA
We’ve all seen the practical, plain and dreary structures of a fishing village somewhere at water’s edge. And we recognize the mindset: in lean circumstances something is good enough...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Wintertime, General Theological Seminary, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
One of my favorite buildings in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, as seen looking down from the High Line on a snowy blustery day! This building from 1817 takes up a full city b...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Oil
High Noon, Portofino, original 30x40 impressionist Italian marine landscape
Located in Spring Lake, NJ
You immediately head south at high noon along the Italian Riviera determined to arrive in Portofino in time for lunch in a cafe along the piazza. The flowers are as lovely as you re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Mountain Road, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Samantha Buller's (US based) "Mountain Road" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a red roof of a building and the road that runs alongsi...
Category
2010s Realist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
45039 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Among the Catalan artists who have remained loyal to figurative techniques, several have successfully fixed their gaze on the architecture, streets and commercial trappings of the mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
French Watercolor of Château de Chambord with Reflective Canal Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of Château de Chambord with Reflective Canal Scene
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper, unframed
...
Category
Late 20th Century French School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
"Anytime, Anywhere" by Josh George, Mixed Media Painting, Cityscape with Taxi
By Josh George
Located in Denver, CO
Josh George's (US based) "Anytime, Anywhere" is an original, handmade mixed media painting that depicts a bustling city street lined with tall buildings and a yellow taxi in the fore...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood Panel
Amish Farmscape #1
Located in New York, NY
This painting is the first in Edmund Lewandowski’s Amish Farmscape series, believed to have been created for his solo exhibition at the Sid Deutsch Gallery in New York City. He began...
Category
1980s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"MISSION CONCEPCION" SAN ANTONIO TEXAS FRAMED 23 X 27
Located in San Antonio, TX
Eric Harrison
(Born 1971)
Texas Hill Country Artist
Size: 16 x 20
Frame: 23 x 27
Medium: Oil
"Mission Concepcion" San Antonio Texas
Painted in 2017
Eric Harrison (Born 1971) Texas Hill Country Artist Bluebonnet painting...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pro Hart -- Australian village
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Pro Hart
Australian village
Oil on board, 1968
Hand signed lower right, dated lower left
Painting size 66 X 71CM
Frame size: 70.5 X 75 CM
Category
1960s Paintings
Materials
Oil
The harbor
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "The Harbor" c.1990, is an acrylic painting on canvas by noted American artist Robert (Bob) Logrippo, 1947-2021. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas size is 24 x 36 inches, framed size is 31 x 43 inches. Framed in a wooden gold frame, with fabric liner and gold color bevel. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Bob LoGrippo's paintings have appeared on magazine, book and album covers, as well as calendars, greeting cards and puzzles. The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Readers Digest, Six Flags...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
17805 Manhattan View - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Painting
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Among the Catalan artists who have remained loyal to figurative techniques, several have successfully fixed their gaze on the architecture, streets and commercial trappings of the mo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Mid Century French Original Pastel Drawing of Mountain View Overlooking Village
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Original Pastel Drawing of Mountain View Overlooking Village
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Oil Pastel on artist paper
Size: 24.75 (hei...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
Lively Paris street. 1973. Oil on canvas. 54 x 73cm
Located in Riga, LV
Lively Paris street. 1973. Oil on canvas. 54 x 73cm
Hiro Yamagata was born near Kyoto, Japan, went to Paris to study art, and considers himself an American artist. In his Los Angeles studio, Yamagata paints minutely detailed scenes of Paris streets, cafes and parks. He captures the essence of the naif style by presenting life in simple terms, and the world in the happiest light. His creative synthesis of photorealist and neo-folk techniques has won countless admirers and collectors.
Yamagata's vision is unequivocally cheerful and his imagery is endlessly inventive. He works from a palette of over 100 shades of acrylic paints, and renders in exacting detail with brushes with as small as two hairs. Serigraphs of some of Yamagata's most popular paintings...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Interior Scene with Kitchen - Oil on Canvas - 1659
Located in Roma, IT
Signed and dated lower left.
Includes a beautiful later wooden frame cm. 137x8x182.
Very Good conditions.
Prov. Christie's London, February 15th 1974, n. 19.
This artwork is shippe...
Category
1650s Baroque Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hallman's, American Impressionist Landscape with Figures and Farmhouse
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Hallman's" is a landscape with figures and farmhouse, by American Impressionist painter Albert Van Nesse Greene. The painting is a 13.5" x 19....
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
"Porto San Stephano" Italian Coastal Village View Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
Located in New York, NY
A captivating view from a town of Italy "Porto Santo Stefano". This scene is a seaport town on the west coast of Italy, in the municipality of Monte Arge...
Category
1960s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Geneva Countryside" by J-P George - Oil on cardboard 16x31 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on cardboard sold with frame
Total size with frame 24x39 cm
Jean-Philippe GEORGE-JULLIARD is an artist born in Switzerland in 1818 and died in 1888. His works have been sold at ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Coastal Farm Landscape - oil on canvas
Located in Burlingame, CA
Coastal Farm Landscape. Oil on canvas painting, created in 1972 by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio etchings.
Torla...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Spring Morning" - Contemporary Realist Oil Painting of Rural Barns, 2024
Located in Denver, CO
Michael Miller’s "Spring Morning" (2024) captures the serene beauty of rural America in a masterfully executed oil on panel. This contemporary realist work depicts a timeworn red bar...
Category
2010s Photorealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1950's French Modernist Colorist Signed Oil Painting St. Mark's Square Venice
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Piazza San Marco, Venice
by Maurice Delavier (French 1902-1986)
signed oil on canvas, unframed
dated 58'
canvas: 21.5 x 25.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France, with exhib...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Lady of the Manor
By Lynette Cook
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Lady of the Manor' - depicts a historic San Francisco apartment building with warm sunlight and shadows cascading across the facade of the white building with...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Village by the Lake
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Old master painting featuring a busy port city in the 17th century. Most likely Dutch and very close in style to the work of Thomas Heeremans. This is...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fabulous 1950 Painting Titled "47th & Woodlawn Ave in Chicago, ILL" by EC Nieman
Located in Chicago, IL
Make it yours! A fabulous painting titled "47th & Woodlawn Ave in Chicago, ILL" by EC Nieman and dated 1950. It depicts a Walgreen's Drug Store, a horse pulling a milk truck, a new...
Category
1950s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
British Impressionist Watercolor of a Rural Cottage, Farmyard, and Chickens
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of a Rural Cottage, Farmyard, and Chickens
By Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023)
Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed
Signed: Yes
Dim...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
1960s French Post Impressionist Oil Cagnes Sur Mer French Coastline Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Enter Cannes et Vence
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
View Venice Grand Canal See Landscape 18th Century Paint Oil on canvas Venice
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Vedutist painter of the 18th century
View of Venice with the Grand Canal, the Punta della Dogana with the Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute on the left, the Palazzo Della Zecca wi...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid 20th Century 1950's French Post-Impressionist Oil Doges Palace Venice
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Doges Palace, Piazza San Marco, Venice
by Regine David (female French artist, 1910-2018)
oil painting on board, unframed
measures: 10.75 x 13.75 inches
condition: the painting is...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Charming Village Road Leading to a Rustic House with Red Roof and Stone Walls
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Charming Village Road
by Regine David (female French artist, 1910-2018)
pastel painting on artist paper
inscribed verso
painting: 10 x 13 inches
condition: This painting is in excell...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel
The Grand Canal Venice British Signed Impressionist Oil Painting Listed Artist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Grand Canal, Venice
by Sydney Foley (British 1916-2001)
signed oil on board, framed
framed: 12.5 x 23 inches
board: 8.25 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: ver...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,291 Sale Price
30% Off
Ecole de Paris Mid 20th Century 1948 Paris Place de la Concorde
By Henri Miloch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paris: Place de la Concorde looking towards Rue Royale
by Henri Miloch (1898-1979)
signed lower right and dated for 16th September 1948
watercolour and gouache painting on artist's paper, unframed
Sheet:: 9.5 x 12.25 inches
Very pretty painting by the highly regarded painter, Henri Miloch. It depicts Place de la Concorde with a cyclist making their way through the traffic. The artist was seated immediately by the fountain closest to Hotel de la Marine...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
$693 Sale Price
30% Off
Aurora Borealis
Located in Zofingen, AG
A blessing that touches even the night.
The Aurora — the bridge of the gods, the subject of countless myths. Whatever name it takes, one truth remains: witnessing the Northern Lights...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"MISSION IN TEXAS" BLACK FOLK ARTIST Leon collins
By Leon Collins
Located in San Antonio, TX
Leon Collins
Birthdate Unknown
Galveston / Navasota Texas Artist
Image Size: 22 x 34
Frame Size: Unframed
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dated 2025
"Mission in Texas"
Leon Collins Birthda...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Port Lligat Cadaques Spain oil on canvas painting spanish seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Francisco Carbonell Massabe (1928) - Port Lligat Cadaques - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 65x81 cm.
Frameless.
Category
1990s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mirror Room- 21st Century Contemporary Oil Painting of a Palace interior
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Sylvia van Opstall
Mirror Room
120 x 120 cm
Framing is possible
The artist Sylvia van Opstall comes from all kinds of "worlds that deal with design and classical painting," the des...
Category
2010s Contemporary Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Daniel Nichols - 2021 Oil, Parliament By Night
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking moonlit view of the London embankment with the Houses of Parliament and Big Ben Lit up. The artist has initialed at the lower left. On canvas.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$312 Sale Price
20% Off
Le Grand Hotel, Paris, 1954
By Jean Salabet
Located in Sheffield, MA
Jean Salabet
French, B. 1900
Le Grand Hotel, Paris ,1954
Jean Salabet was a School of Paris painter know for his colorful Parisian cityscapes.
His work i...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Trajan’s Column View Rome Early 19th Century Grand Tour Gouache on Paper
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
This charming gouache on paper painting, from the early 19th century, presents a detailed view of Trajan’s Column in Rome, a historically significant landmark dating back to ancient ...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$956 Sale Price
30% Off
Haycart Crossing The Ford Of The Old Packhorse Bridge
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Norman A.Olley ( British, 20th Century) dated 1995 and inscribed verso
Title - Haycart At The Ford Of The Old Packhorse Bridge
Medium: gouache/watercolour/ ink/ pen...
Category
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Pencil
$478 Sale Price
30% Off
Memories of Hotel Del Coronado - Original Landscape Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Kathleen Keifer's original artworks represent one of the most significant expressions of New California Realism. Keifer brings a fresh perspective to her colorful scenes of everyday ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,560 Sale Price
20% Off
20th Century Plein Air Impressionist Northern California Landscape, Farmhouse
Located in Denver, CO
Original Mid 20th Century Northern California Landscape Painting by Jon Blanchette (1908-1987). This vintage plein air style painting depicts a serene rural scene with a white farmho...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Venice See Landscape Bella 18th Century Paint Oil on canvas Old master Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Gabriele Bella (Venice 1730 – Venice 1799) attributed
View of Venice with the Guglie bridge (or the Cannaregio bridge, as it was formerly called) circa 1750/60
oil on canvas, ...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Materials
Oil
$10,819 Sale Price
20% Off
"Winter Sunlight"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Walter Emerson Baum (1884 - 1956).
Born in Sellersville, Pennsylvania, Walter Baum was one of the only membe...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modern Impressionist Amalfi Cityscape "Corner Shop" Oil by Bryan Mark Taylor
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Corner Shop" is a fine example of Bryan Mark Taylor's modern approach to Impressionism. This sun drenched oil on panel packs a lot of the scenic beauty of a uniquely Amalfi Coast p...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Hyannis Pond" John F. Carlson, Massachusetts American Impressionist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
John F. Carlson
Hyannis Pond, 1940
Signed lower left
Oil on board
16 x 20 inches
Provenance
Vose Galleries
Private Collection, New Jersey
The native Swede John Fabian Carlson beca...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
L'atelier du peintre
Located in Boston, MA
Thomas Bossard was born in 1971 in Poitiers, France, to a large and creative family. His mother fostered his interest in art since an early age, bringing Thomas to various museums wh...
Category
2010s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Joy of Spring, American Impressionist Landscape, Farm Scene, Oil on Canvas
Located in Doylestown, PA
"Joy of Spring" is an Impressionist landscape with houses and blooming springtime trees by American painter Albert Van Nesse Greene. The painting is a 18.25" x 22.25" oil on canvas, ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Exterior of the Basilica, Venice, Italy
Located in Boston, MA
Adam Van Doren, American (b. 1962), Exterior of the Basilica, 2009. Signed lower right: "Van Doren". Painting dimensions: 40 x 60 inches. Framed dimensions: 40 3/4 x 60 3/4...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
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