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Period: 20th Century
Color: Brown
Mid Century Santa Cruz Mountains & Stream Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful oil landscape painting of the Santa Cruz Mountains by Santa Cruz, California artist Ann Fuson (American, 1926-2001), c.1960s. Signed "A....
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
L'Avant-Foyer de l'Opera /// French Impressionist Etching Figurative Lady Man
By Tony Minartz
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Tony Minartz (French, 1873-1944)
Title: "L'Avant-Foyer de l'Opera"
Portfolio: Revue de l'Art Ancien & Moderne
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1903
Medium: Original Etching on cream laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Unknown
Publisher: Revue de l'Art Ancien & Moderne, Paris, France
Framing: Not framed, but matted with 100% cotton rag matting from Holland, gold filet from Italy, and foam board backing. All archival
Matted size: 17" x 14.5"
Sheet size: 12" x 9"
Image size: 9" x 7.25"
Condition: In excellent condition
Notes:
Printed in one color: bistre.
This review was founded in 1897 in the continuity of the review Les Beaux-Arts published between 1861 and 1865; Jules Comte, the founder, entitled his first issue Les Beaux-Arts - Revue nouvelle then changed the title to La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Jules Comte directed the review until his death in 1912. Raymond Woog took over , who was provisional director until the start of the war in July 1914. In 1919, André Dezarrois took over this review and was its director until December 1937, date of last issue (published in January 1938). In the meantime, it publishes the Bulletin of ancient and modern art, which has gained a certain notoriety in the community.
Biography:
Tony Minartz, pseudonym of Antoine Guillaume, born 8 April 1873 to Cannes and died in that city on 13 December 1944 Is a painter, draftsman , illustrator and engraver French.
Painter autodidact , Tony Minartz starts to become known in 1896 by exhibiting paintings at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts , and then decorates the Pompadour theater of painted panels for fashion shows " Grand Guignol ", directed by L. Darthenay. In 1903, Henri Béraldi , with whom he worked, praised him in The Journal of ancient and modern art, writing that "it was thirty years ago," and he has received advice from Paul Renouard to be formed the technique of etching ; Béraldi adds that his favorite subjects are "Paris at night Paris at night, always." Minartz also gives them some high-remarkable in The Journal of ancient and modern art until 1910: balls, cafe concerts, Parisian in their most beautiful dresses, but also music-halls, music halls, restaurants, large and small theaters, are the preferred settings of his compositions.
Its fertile period seems to end in 1914. In addition to the National Salon, Minartz exhibited in Paris at the gallery Bartholomew (1903), the Independent Living (1905, 1906) and the gallery Devambez (1909) and received the Academic Palms . He occasionally collaborates with periodic illustrated as The Almanac Sports (Ollendorff, 1899), or satirical as Gil Blas...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Intaglio, Laid Paper, Etching
Ranchos Winter Robert Daughters serigraph
Located in Paonia, CO
Ranchos Winter by American impressionist Robert Daughter shows two women approaching the pueblo with the sun reflecting off the sides of the buildin...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Screen
'Monterey at Sunset', California Post-Impressionist Landscape
By John Maxon
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A substantial trillium monotype landscape showing a view of the cultivated fields and coastal hills of Monterey County, California bathed in the glow of a radiant sunset.
Signed lower left, "Maxon" for John Maxon (American, 20th century) and created circa 1985.
Coming from a western tradition in Wyoming, John Maxon developed an expansive view of nature and the spiritual essence it imbued. Moving eventually to the San Francisco Bay area, John’s delight in the effects of light and color led him to the decision to become an artist at the young age of 15. His natural ability was encouraged and, at 16, he began figurative art classes with Howard Brodie.
Maxon spent his youthful days painting seriously in the fields behind Stanford University, and was fortunate to be exposed to and to study the works of Nathan Oliviera, Wayne Thiebaud and David Park during those years. He attended San Jose State University, and apprenticed for Sam Richardson...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Monotype
Loggia a Deauville
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork is a original embellish serigraph on canvas by French artist Fanch (Francois Ledan, born 1949) it is signed at the lower right corner. The canvas size is 18.75 x 15.5 in...
Category
Modern 20th Century Art
Materials
Other Medium
Marc Chagall - Homage to Marc Chagall - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall
Original Lithograph
1969
From the revue XXe Siecle, edition of 12,000
Unsigned, as issued
Dimensions: 32 x 24
Condition : Excellent
Reference: Mourlot 572
Marc Chagall (born in 1887)
Marc Chagall was born in Belarus in 1887 and developed an early interest in art. After studying painting, in 1907 he left Russia for Paris, where he lived in an artist colony on the city’s outskirts. Fusing his own personal, dreamlike imagery with hints of the fauvism and cubism popular in France at the time, Chagall created his most lasting work—including I and the Village (1911)—some of which would be featured in the Salon des Indépendants exhibitions. After returning to Vitebsk for a visit in 1914, the outbreak of WWI trapped Chagall in Russia. He returned to France in 1923 but was forced to flee the country and Nazi persecution during WWII. Finding asylum in the U.S., Chagall became involved in set and costume design before returning to France in 1948. In his later years, he experimented with new art forms and was commissioned to produce numerous large-scale works. Chagall died in St.-Paul-de-Vence in 1985.
The Village
Marc Chagall was born in a small Hassidic community on the outskirts of Vitebsk, Belarus, on July 7, 1887. His father was a fishmonger, and his mother ran a small sundries shop in the village. As a child, Chagall attended the Jewish elementary school, where he studied Hebrew and the Bible, before later attending the Russian public school. He began to learn the fundamentals of drawing during this time, but perhaps more importantly, he absorbed the world around him, storing away the imagery and themes that would feature largely in most of his later work.
At age 19 Chagall enrolled at a private, all-Jewish art school and began his formal education in painting, studying briefly with portrait artist Yehuda Pen. However, he left the school after several months, moving to St. Petersburg in 1907 to study at the Imperial Society for the Protection of Fine Arts. The following year, he enrolled at the Svanseva School, studying with set designer Léon Bakst, whose work had been featured in Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. This early experience would prove important to Chagall’s later career as well.
Despite this formal instruction, and the widespread popularity of realism in Russia at the time, Chagall was already establishing his own personal style, which featured a more dreamlike unreality and the people, places and imagery that were close to his heart. Some examples from this period are his Window Vitebsk (1908) and My Fianceé with Black Gloves (1909), which pictured Bella Rosenfeld, to whom he had recently become engaged.
The Beehive
Despite his romance with Bella, in 1911 an allowance from Russian parliament member and art patron Maxim Binaver enabled Chagall to move to Paris, France. After settling briefly in the Montparnasse neighborhood, Chagall moved further afield to an artist colony known as La Ruche (“The Beehive”), where he began to work side by side with abstract painters such as Amedeo Modigliani and Fernand Léger as well as the avant-garde poet Guillaume Apollinaire. At their urging, and under the influence of the wildly popular fauvism and cubism, Chagall lightened his palette and pushed his style ever further from reality. I and the Village (1911) and Homage to Apollinaire (1912) are among his early Parisian works, widely considered to be his most successful and representative period.
Though his work stood stylistically apart from his cubist contemporaries, from 1912 to 1914 Chagall exhibited several paintings at the annual Salon des Indépendants exhibition, where works by the likes of Juan Gris, Marcel Duchamp and Robert Delaunay were causing a stir in the Paris art world. Chagall’s popularity began to spread beyond La Ruche, and in May 1914 he traveled to Berlin to help organize his first solo exhibition, at Der Sturm Gallery. Chagall remained in the city until the highly acclaimed show opened that June. He then returned to Vitebsk, unaware of the fateful events to come.
War, Peace and Revolution
In August 1914 the outbreak of World War I precluded Chagall’s plans to return to Paris. The conflict did little to stem the flow of his creative output, however, instead merely giving him direct access to the childhood scenes so essential to his work, as seen in paintings such as Jew in Green (1914) and Over Vitebsk (1914). His paintings from this period also occasionally featured images of the war’s impact on the region, as with Wounded Soldier (1914) and Marching (1915). But despite the hardships of life during wartime, this would also prove to be a joyful period for Chagall. In July 1915 he married Bella, and she gave birth to a daughter, Ida, the following year. Their appearance in works such as Birthday (1915), Bella and Ida by the Window (1917) and several of his “Lovers” paintings give a glimpse of the island of domestic bliss that was Chagall’s amidst the chaos.
To avoid military service and stay with his new family, Chagall took a position as a clerk in the Ministry of War Economy in St. Petersburg. While there he began work on his autobiography and also immersed himself in the local art scene, befriending novelist Boris Pasternak, among others. He also exhibited his work in the city and soon gained considerable recognition. That notoriety would prove important in the aftermath of the 1917 Russian Revolution when he was appointed as the Commissar of Fine Arts in Vitebsk. In his new post, Chagall undertook various projects in the region, including the 1919 founding of the Academy of the Arts. Despite these endeavors, differences among his colleagues eventually disillusioned Chagall. In 1920 he relinquished his position and moved his family to Moscow, the post-revolution capital of Russia.
In Moscow, Chagall was soon commissioned to create sets and costumes for various productions at the Moscow State Yiddish Theater, where he would paint a series of murals titled Introduction to the Jewish Theater as well. In 1921, Chagall also found work as a teacher at a school for war orphans. By 1922, however, Chagall found that his art had fallen out of favor, and seeking new horizons he left Russia for good.
Flight
After a brief stay in Berlin, where he unsuccessfully sought to recover the work exhibited at Der Sturm before the war, Chagall moved his family to Paris in September 1923. Shortly after their arrival, he was commissioned by art dealer and publisher Ambroise Vollard to produce a series of etchings for a new edition of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel Dead Souls. Two years later Chagall began work on an illustrated edition of Jean de la Fontaine’s Fables, and in 1930 he created etchings for an illustrated edition of the Old Testament, for which he traveled to Palestine to conduct research.
Chagall’s work during this period brought him new success as an artist and enabled him to travel throughout Europe in the 1930s. He also published his autobiography, My Life (1931), and in 1933 received a retrospective at the Kunsthalle in Basel, Switzerland. But at the same time that Chagall’s popularity was spreading, so, too, was the threat of Fascism and Nazism. Singled out during the cultural "cleansing" undertaken by the Nazis in Germany, Chagall’s work was ordered removed from museums throughout the country. Several pieces were subsequently burned, and others were featured in a 1937 exhibition of “degenerate art” held in Munich. Chagall’s angst regarding these troubling events and the persecution of Jews in general can be seen in his 1938 painting White Crucifixion.
With the eruption of World War II, Chagall and his family moved to the Loire region before moving farther south to Marseilles following the invasion of France. They found a more certain refuge when, in 1941, Chagall’s name was added by the director of the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) in New York City to a list of artists and intellectuals deemed most at risk from the Nazis’ anti-Jewish campaign. Chagall and his family would be among the more than 2,000 who received visas and escaped this way.
Haunted Harbors
Arriving in New York City in June 1941, Chagall discovered that he was already a well-known artist there and, despite a language barrier, soon became a part of the exiled European artist community. The following year he was commissioned by choreographer Léonide Massine to design sets and costumes for the ballet Aleko, based on Alexander Pushkin’s “The Gypsies” and set to the music of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
But even as he settled into the safety of his temporary home, Chagall’s thoughts were frequently consumed by the fate befalling the Jews of Europe and the destruction of Russia, as paintings such as The Yellow Crucifixion...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Portrait of Lady Caroline Price
Located in Miami, FL
DESCRIPTION: Perhaps the best Romney in private hands. If Vogue Magazine existed in the late 18th century, this image of Lady Caroline Price would be ...
Category
Old Masters 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
La Princesse et le Bouffon
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Theo Tobiasse (French/Israeli, 1927-2012)
Title: La Princesse et le Bouffon
Year: 1978
Medium: Color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 60/175 in pencil
Paper: Wove
Image siz...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Woman Circus Rider on Red Horse - superb Chagall poster
By Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
Original lithographic poster printed by L.R.B Permild and Rosengreen.
Category
Abstract 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Wifredo Lam, "Quetzal", from "Brunidor Portfolio Number 1", original lithograph
Located in Chatsworth, CA
This piece is an original lithograph in colors on wove paper created by Wifredo Lam in 1947. Lam, was a Cuban artist who sought to portray and revive the enduring Afro-Cuban spirit ...
Category
Modern 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Freight Dock
By John Rockwell
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Freight Dock" is an original oil on canvas by noted American artist John Rockwell, 1902-1960 It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist, and also signe...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Confiance à l’oiseau.
By Corneille
Located in Malmo, SE
Publisher GKM.
Unframed.
Edition of 150 ex
Paper: 300gr. Goya.
Signed, dated and numbered.
Corneille, one of the founders of the COBRA group, has passed away. He died in Paris on Su...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Art
Materials
Screen
"My Name is Freddie" - Portrait of Black Woman with Headscarf
By Lucille H. Olpin
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful, painterly portrait of a young black woman with colorful headscarf and sarong by Lucille H. Olpin (Ethel Lucille Harman Olpin), (American, 1909-1990). Signed "Olpin" lowe...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
OIL PAINTING By LOUIS DODD 20th CENTURY NAVY / MARITIME PIECE GOLD GILT FRAME
By Louis Dodd
Located in Ferndown, GB
FINE 20th Century Piece By Louis Dodd SEASCAPE British old master oil Style painting in a Gold Gilt Frame
Description
“condition is very good for age , o...
Category
Realist 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Breakfast Table, Northwich - British Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Breakfast Table, is a rare studio creation by Richard Heeps, inspired by a recent visit to Fleetwood, incorporating autobiographical elements, brought...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Talisman
By James Koenig
Located in Buffalo, NY
A modern abstract collage and oil on panel by American artist James Koenig.
Category
Abstract 20th Century Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Georges MANZANA-PISSARRO (1871-1961) Son of Camille
Located in Holywell, GB
A delightful pencil sketch on watermarked laid paper by Camille Pissarro’s son, George Manzana Pissarro. Signed by means of his studio stamp and with auct...
Category
Post-Impressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Pencil
La Femme du Gouverneur Gronde sa Fille - From the series “Les Ames Mortes”
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Signed on plate. Edition of 335 prints.
Plate n. 67 from the series : “Les Ames Mortes”. Cat. Matignon n.77 p.59
Image Dimensions : 27.6 x 21.3 cm
This artwork is shipped from Italy...
Category
Surrealist 20th Century Art
Materials
Etching
Red Vase, Oil Painting by Donald Roy Purdy
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Donald Roy Purdy, American (1924 - )
Title: Red Vase
Year: circa 1962
Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed l.r.
Size: 47 x 20 inches
Frame Size: 53 x 24 inches
Category
Modern 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Rubenesque nude woman . full figure Nude Regionalism - "Hilda Nellis"
Located in Miami, FL
Plump or fleshy and voluptuous nude... you can describe it as you see it. Signed, titled and dated lower left: John Steuart Curry / 1934 "Hilda Nellis",
John Steuart Curry is best ...
Category
American Realist 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait. 1975, oil on plywood, 32x27, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Portrait. 1975, oil on plywood, 32x27,5 cm
Abstract portrait
Robert Elibekyan (1941) (Armenian: Ռոբերտ Էլիբեկյան; born 21 April 1941) is an Armenian pa...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Plywood
Peinturelle
Located in Paris, FR
Mixed media
Handsigned by the artist in pencil
Mixed media and sand on paper.
Provenance: Kunsthandel ML de Boer, Amsterdam
Category
Abstract 20th Century Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Marc Chagall - Double Portrait - Original Lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Marc Chagall, Original Lithograph depicting an instant of the Bible.
Technique: Original lithograph in colours
Year: 1956
Sizes: 35,5 x 26 cm / 14" x 10.2" (sheet)
Published by: Édit...
Category
Modern 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Mid 20th Century oil painting of Venice by French artist Clement Serveau
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
A beautiful and bold composition of La Cad'oro in Venice with clear blue skies above and a cubist reflections of the buildings below in different shades of blues and turquoises.
H...
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
By Richard Pousette-Dart
Located in Miami, FL
Acrylic on masonite. This is a pivotal work in deep and radiant cobalt blue from 1950. It dipicts calligraphic and hieroglyph structures over a grid and pyramidal base by the first generation abstract expressionist.
Provenance: Skinner: November 13, 1992 [Lot 00219}, The entry in the Skinner catalog indicates that the painting came directly from the artist to the family of the consignor to Skinner. Kaminsky Auctions. There is an unbroken paper trail that traces the ownership of the painting from the current owner, through two auction houses to the artist. Perfect unbroken provenance.
Pousette-Dart was among the most inventive of the Abstract Expressionist generation, His uncanny talent was to expand the nature of abstraction and still make each mark each element very much his own; a reflection of what he called "the concealed power of the spirit," he said, “not of the brute physical form." His was not aiming for a singular, realized aesthetic formula but to expand the possibilities of painting; the transcendental in painting. Typical of such invention and exploration is this painting Untitled 1950 when the artist was only 34 years old and represented by one of the champions of the new American painting, Betty Parsons.
A banner year for Pousette-Dart, the Museum of Modern Art acquired their first painting by the Minnesota born artist. He worked on easel size works such as this painting an oil on masonite. At the same time Pousette-Dart was also working on larger scale works such as Path of the Hero, running over ten feet in length now in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Both contain fields of color articulated by a highly sophisticated white hieroglyphic vocabulary. Rather than demonstrate an expressionist sensibility, Pousette-Dart harnesses his more cerebral ideas transforming thick areas of paint into a more refined composition of geometric forms akin to the pattern and forms of say a stained glass window. In a way he is looking back at Fugue, 1940 a black and white composition which makes use of a similar format of painting albeit smaller. Color and form are minimal, but what Pousette-Dart has maximized is the rhythmic and syncopated character of painting casting his ideas into purely symbolic terms that one might link to the pictograms of Adolph Gottlieb. Nonetheless, nature is always at the core of Pousette-Dart’s thinking and dreaming. Here he has transformed the local Ramapo Mountains—where he will eventually move with his family to live and work— into a complex series of articulated fragments linked by style, scale and color. The painting’s imagery built on two large triangles and reduced to just two colors, cobalt blue and white all outlined in black. Pousette-Dart symbols stacked in horizontal and vertical rows: blue is ground, white is language, symbolic of light, consciousness and awareness . The painting maintains a mystical character images compounded that formulate a secret code and linked to the series of white paintings Pousette-Dart authored in the first half of the 1950s. Get up close to the picture and you discover images within images a kind of picture puzzle...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Les Quais a Venise
By Jean Jansem
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Jean Jansem (French/Armenian, 1920-2013)
Title: Les Quais a Venise
Year: 1966
Medium: Color lithograph
Edition: Numbered 127/160 in pencil
Paper: Arches paper
Image size: 18....
Category
Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Fauvist Mid Century Floral Impasto Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous mid-century painting of heavily textured Ranunculus flowers in a blue vase by Bonnie Yankauer (American, 20th Century), 1964. The palette and impasto brush strokes gives thi...
Category
Fauvist 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Metallurgy, OP Art Painting by Jack Brusca
By Jack Brusca
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jack Brusca, American (1939 - 1993)
Title: Metallurgy
Year: 1968
Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed, dated and titled verso
Size: 20 x 20 in. (50.8 x 50.8 cm)
Category
Abstract Geometric 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wagon on the Road, Early 20th Century Landscape with Donkeys
Located in Soquel, CA
Quaint early 20th century landscape of an old man traveling down a dirt road in a covered wagon led by two donkeys and a dog, through rolling hills and wildflowers, by S. Bassett Wei...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Romare Bearden - Mecklenburg Morning: Sunrise for China Lamp -
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sku: CB8608
Artist: Romare Bearden
Title: Mecklenburg Morning: Sunrise for China Lamp
Year: 1993
Signed: No
Medium: Serigraph
Paper Size: 35 x 43.75 inches ( 88.9 x 111.125 cm )
Imag...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Art
Materials
Screen
Sailing Boats in a Harbour
Located in West Sussex, GB
Emily Beatrice Bland
(1864-1951) British
Sailing Boats in a Harbour
Oil on board:10 x 9 in. Frame: 15 x 14 in. Inscribed on old gallery label ve...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Autumn Trees Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid mid century landscape of autumn trees blurring into colorful abstraction by Helen Gleiforst (American, 1903-1997). Presented in a giltwood frame. Image size: 10" H X 8" W.
G...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Cote d'Azur French Riviera Mid Century Landscape
By Charles H. Wilton
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful landscape of fishing boats at harbor on the Coast of France by Charles H. Wilton. Rendered primarily in muted tones, a few splashes of bold color add vibrant accents to the composition. A few boats sit at the docks, their reflections rendered expertly in the shimmering water. Above the water, several large buildings boldly cut into the sky.
Signed "CH Wilton...
Category
Impressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Poster of The Angel of Judgment-
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This poster was printed for an exhibition of Chagall's monumental work held at the National Museum, Nice 1974. Published by the Society of Friends of the National Marc Chagall Biblical...
Category
Modern 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Fanti Fishing Boat" Modern Abstract Figurative Woodcut Print 47 of 86
Located in Houston, TX
Abstract figurative woodblock print of a beach landscape with a boat. The print is stamped by the artist and titled and editioned in pencil. This print is editioned 47 of 86 and the print is not currently framed.
Artist Biography: Born in Gastonia, North Carolina in 1924, John Biggers studied at Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) under Viktor Lowenfeld and muralist Charles White. In 1943, Biggers' mural, Dying Soldier, was included in the exhibition curated by Lowenfeld, Young Negro Art, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
After serving in the United States Navy, Biggers transferred to Pennsylvania State University where he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees as well as his doctorate in art education. In 1949, Biggers accepted a faculty position at Texas State University for Negroes (now Texas Southern University) in Houston, where he founded and chaired the art department until his retirement. In the early 50s, he won prizes for his work at annual exhibitions held at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Dallas Museum of Art.
In 1957, he traveled to Africa on a UNESCO fellowship to study Western African cultural traditions, becoming one of the first black artists to study the culture first-hand rather than through library research. His work was profoundly influenced by his experiences in Africa.
He was known for his murals, but also for his drawings, paintings, and lithographs, and was honored by a major traveling retrospective exhibition from 1995 to 1997. He created archetypal imagery that spoke positively to the rich and varied ethnic heritage of African Americans, long before the Civil Rights era drew...
Category
Modern 20th Century Art
Materials
Woodcut
DaVinci Tee Threesome, Signed Lithograph, Group Portrait, Pizza, Orange, Rust
Located in Union City, NJ
DaVinci Tee Threesome is an original hand drawn lithograph by the NY figurative expressionist painter, Lester Johnson(1919-2010). DaVinci Tee Threesome was printed using hand lithogr...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil
Located in New York, NY
Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil. Signed lower left.
Not much is known about Marco de Marco, but just look at...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Raku Vase with Concentric Rings, " Ceramic signed by Marty Marcus
By Marty Marcus
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Raku Vase with Concentric Rings" is a ceramic piece signed on the bottom by the artist Marty Marcus. The vase has a variety of gorgeous color variations.
7 1/4" height; 8 1/2" dia...
Category
20th Century Art
Materials
Ceramic
Early 20th Century Still Life Oil Painting by C. G. Loane
Located in San Francisco, CA
Early 20th Century Still Life Oil Painting
Beautiful still life painting by Irish artist Cecilia G. Loane
Original oil on board
Dimensions 24" wide x 20.5" high
The frame measure...
Category
20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Stormy Skies Over Yosemite, Mid Century Mountain Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Classic and moody mid century landscape of rugged Yosemite mountains and stormy skies, by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Unsigned. Presented in...
Category
American Impressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Dusk
By Louisa Chase
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Chase was born in Panama City, Panama. Seven years later, her family moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She studied painting and sculpture at Syracuse University and at the Yal...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Art
Materials
Woodcut
1966 Pablo Picasso 'Papiers Colles' ORIGINAL LITHOGRAPH
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 25.25 x 19 inches ( 64.135 x 48.26 cm )
Image Size: 17.5 x 14.25 inches ( 44.45 x 36.195 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling
Addi...
Category
Pop Art 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
THE HAWK Signed Lithograph, Portrait Man with Mustache, Poker Face, Pink Brown
By Aldo Luongo
Located in Union City, NJ
THE HAWK is an original hand drawn lithograph by the Argentine artist, Aldo Luongo. Hand printed at Circle Gallery NYC using traditional lithography methods ...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Historical genre oil painting of two gentlemen playing a game of cards
By Marcel Brunery
Located in Moreton-In-Marsh, Gloucestershire
Marcel Brunery
French, (1893-1982)
A Good Hand
Oil on panel, signed
Image size: 18.75 inches x 23.5 inches
Size including frame: 26.75 inches x 31.5 inches
Provenance: Frost & Reed
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Category
Victorian 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Vega-Tuz
Located in Kansas City, MO
Victor Vasarely
Vega-Tuz
Year: 1981
Medium: Color Lithograph
Size: 23.0 x 16.0 in.
Signed in in the stone
COA provided
Victor Vasarely (Hungarian-French, 1906-1997) is one of the founding fathers of the Op-Art movement in Europe. His brightly colored optical patterns introduced a visually kinetic aspect to the traditionally flat paintings of his generation. Vasarely originally planned on becoming a doctor, however he abandoned medicine to follow his passion in the arts and enrolled at Sandor Bortnyik's private art school called Muhely, at the time widely recognized as Budapest's centre of Bauhaus studies...
Category
Op Art 20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
Railway : The Signal - Original oil on canvas - Signed
Located in Paris, FR
Jules CAVAILLES
Railway : The Signal
Original oil on canvas
Signed bottom left
also signed and titled on the back
33 x 20" (82 x 50 cm) at view
Presented in a luxuous Delf fr...
Category
Realist 20th Century Art
Vintage Vertical Abstract #5
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful vintage abstract expressionist painting by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009), circa 1970. From the e...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 20th Century Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Robert Marc - Untitled - Signed Oil on Canvas
By Robert Marc
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Robert Marc
Untitled
Oil on Canvas
Signed
60 x 80 cm
80 x 100 cm (Framed)
The painting is rich and complex with a palette and surface quality that warms and harmonises his ge...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Original Painting of Sweden Norway Fjord Landscape by Danish Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Original Painting of Sweden Norway Fjord Landscape by Danish Landscape Artist.
Art measures 27 x 23 inches
Frame measures 33 x 29 inches
An oil painting of an idyllic Scandinavian...
Category
Realist 20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Young Dutch Girl
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Signed and dated lower right; signed, titled and inscribed Milano. Observed in frame, the painting is in good condition. A minor loss to the left center edge. Inspection under UV lig...
Category
20th Century Art
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
1961 Coty Award Plaque Kenneth Hairdresser Jacqueline Onassis Bronze Fashion
Located in New York, NY
1961 Coty Award Plaque Kenneth Hairdresser Jacqueline Onassis Bronze Fashion
Bronze on wood. The wood plaque measures 12 3/4" by 20 3/4 inches. The bronze plaque itself is 13 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches and the the bronze inscription, which reads "COTY, American Fashion Critics Special Award 1961 to KENNETH of LILY DACHE...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Art
Materials
Bronze
"Don't Cry Long" Abstracted and Distorted Self-Portrait, One Crying Eye
Located in Detroit, MI
"Don't Cry Long" is a self-portrait of the artist and an unusual one at that in which the artist portrays herself shedding tears. Perhaps it is an expression of some grief experienced by Ms. Woodlock, but it also admonishes her to not "Cry Long" while at the same time poking fun because of her elongated face and the one lone "long" tear tracing a pattern down her face. In addition to self-portraits, Ethelyn painted commissioned portraits. In this painting her head is cocked and her famous bangs hang down her forehead. Compare two self-portraits, “Up From Under”, and “M’Eyes" to "Don't Cry Long." The major differences are the close facial view and the brilliant blood red paint that fills the entire canvas.
This painting is included in the book, "Dreams Have Wings: An Artist's Journey into Magic and Mystery" printed in the United States, 1985. She describes "Don't Cry Long" as showing how funny looking we are, if we cry too long.
Ethelyn Woodlock...
Category
American Modern 20th Century Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Sheeps in the Sheep-Fold
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Charles CLAIR (1860-1930)
Sheeps in the Sheep-Fold
Oil on canvas signed low right and dated 1913
Old original Frame
Dim canvas : 92 X 73 cm
Dim Frame : 126 X...
Category
Barbizon School 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Modern Cubist Mandolin Abstract Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Cubist composition of a mandolin and other objects by unknown artist (Helen) Solter (American, 20th Century). Signed "SOLTER" in the lower right corner. Unfinished painting...
Category
Cubist 20th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
"Fragments" Modern Textured Neutral Toned Abstract Mixed Media Painting
By Carole Myers
Located in Houston, TX
Modern neutral toned abstract mixed media painting by Texas artist Carole Myers. The work features a collage of different textured papers combined with pa...
Category
Abstract 20th Century Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Red Pushups, 1985 Huntington Beach, CA
Located in Hudson, NY
This listing is for the unframed photograph.
The Gallery proudly announces SUMMERTIME Salon 2019, an annual photography exhibit featuring gallery artists as well as a few newcomers...
Category
Contemporary 20th Century Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Montreal
Located in Westmount, QC
Armand Tatossian, Canadian, 1948-2012
Oil on canvas
12 x 16 in
Signed lower right ; signed and titled verso
framed
Category
20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Slim Aarons, Tennis in the Bahamas ( Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Tennis in the Bahamas, 1957
Chromogenic lambda print
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 with certificate of authenticity from the e...
Category
Modern 20th Century Art
Materials
Lambda