Folk Art Art

Ira Moskowitz, Polish/American (1912 - 2001) - Fiddler - III, Year: 1989, Medium: Ink on Paper, signed, Size: 13 in. x 10 in. (33.02 cm x 25.4 cm), Description: Sitting down in an a...

Charles Bragg, American (1931 - 2017) - Erik, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Etching, signed, numbered, and titled in pencil, Edition: 300, Image Size: 8.5 x 9.5 inches, Size: 11.25 x 1...

Bold color lithograph, hand signed in pencil and numbered AP IX/X (artist’s proof 9/10), Jerusalem Print Workshop blind stamp lower right. On French Arches paper. Gabriel Cohen, Sel...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Blue Cat. Year: circa 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil, Edition: EA, Size: 15 x 10.5 in. (38.1 x 26.67 cm), Description: Rendere...

The Sphinx Tighe O’Donoghue, American (1942–2023) Date: circa 1980 Etching, Signed in Pencil Image Size: 11 x 14 inches Size: 22 in. x 27 in. (55.88 cm x 68.58 cm)

Architectural oil painting on canvas of Heydon Hall executed in a rustic naive style with contrived aging and presented in a maple frame. Signed Dan Dunton.

Oil paint

Laurent Marcel Salinas, Egyptian/French (1913 - 2010) - Owl. Year: circa 1970, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: 50, Image Size: 10 x 15 inches, Size: 17.5...

Illuminated with a glowing light, this mythical depiction of a knight on horseback holding a lance by Tighe O'Donoghue features the artist's signature delicate script and mathematica...

Oil paint.

Ernani Silva, Brazilian - Women with Flowers, Medium: Acrylic, Collage and Enamel on board, signed in marker, Size: 9.25 x 27.5 in. (23.5 x 69.85 cm)

Cradle Song Tighe O’Donoghue, American (1942–2023) Date: circa 1978 Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of m 2/10 Image Size: 14.7...

Holy Thursday Tighe O’Donoghue, American (1942–2023) Date: circa 1978 Etching with Aquatint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition of m 2/10 Image Size: 14.5 x 17.75 inches Size: 22 ...

Vulcanus from the Celestial Meridian Suite Tighe O’Donoghue, American (1942–2023) Date: circa 1985 Etching with Aquatint, signed in pencil Edition of M 4/10 Size: 27 in. x 22 in. (68...

Johnny Banks (1912-1988) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 14 x 22 Frame Size: 21 x 29 Medium: mixed media Circa 1970s "The Safari Hunt for the Man Eating Tiger" Biography Johnny Banks (1912-1988) In my opinion one of the greatest Texas folk artists of all time. The following information was compiled and submitted by Stephanie Reeves: John Willard Banks, San Antonio, Texas, African American Folk Artist John Willard Banks, black self-taught artist, the son of Charlie and Cora Lee (McIntyre) Banks, was born on November 7, 1912, near Seguin, Texas. At the age of five his parents took him to San Antonio, where he attended Holy Redeemer School until the age of nine, when his parents were divorced and John returned to his grandparents' farm near Seguin. From childhood Banks's favorite pastime was drawing pictures on his Big Chief tablet. He later recalled, "As a kid I used to lie flat on my stomach, drawing and drawing. . . . My mother had to kick me off the floor to sweep." While helping out on his grandparents' farm, Banks completed the tenth grade before striking out on his own. His favorite activities during his youth were singing in a gospel quartet and playing baseball. In his adult years he worked in oilfields and cotton fields, drove a truck, and tended a San Antonio service station. During World War II he joined the army; he held the rank of sergeant and was stationed in the Philippines. After the war he returned to San Antonio, where he worked as a custodian at Kelly Air Force Base, at Fort Sam Houston, and at a local television station. Banks married Edna Mae Mitchell in 1928, and they had five children. The marriage ended in divorce around 1960. In 1963 he married Earlie Smith. His art career began in 1978 while he was recuperating from an illness for which he had been hospitalized. Banks's wife admired her husband's drawings and secretly took several of them to a San Antonio laundromat. There she hung the drawings on the wall, offering them for sale at the price of fourteen dollars. They were purchased and taken to a gallery for framing. Quite by chance, a San Antonio physician and collector of works of art by black artists...

"I Am Beautiful" is an original opal stone sculpture by Savheri Chirwa, a contemporary Shona sculptor. This sculpture features an elongated face with textu...

Rae Baymiller - Save the Creatures, Year: 1992, Medium: Screenprint Poster, signed and numbered in pen, Edition: 85/175, Size: 30 x 20 in. (76.2 x 50.8 cm)

Tighe O'Donoghue's dimensional rendering of a sloping mountain surrounded by clouds above a series of the phases of the moon retains the same mystic elements as his other work while ...

Shah Mat Suite - Duncan Tighe O’Donoghue, American (1942–2023) Date: circa 1979 Etching with Aquatint, signed in pencil Edition of V Size: 22 in. x 15 in. (55.88 cm x 38.1 cm)

Tighe O'Donoghue's detailed depiction of a flower is highly reminiscent of anatomical drawings and mathematical studies due to the careful linework, detailed shading, and soft colors...

Sundial - Suite 2 Tighe O’Donoghue, American (1942–2023) Date: circa 1976 Etching with Aquatint, signed in pencil Edition of M 10 Size: 30 in. x 22 in. (76.2 cm x 55.88 cm)

Decorated with a black-and-white pattern, the conch shell in this print by Tighe O'Donaghue bears a striking peachy interior that contrasts deeply with the teal environment surroundi...

Tighe O'Donoghue's detailed depiction of a nautilus shell features delicate script and anatomical lines that add a sense of Magical Realism to the overall composition. Prince Tighe...

MADELINE CHRISTINE CLAVIER (1913-2015) Signature: Signed lower right & titled verso Medium: Oil on canvas Provenance: The collection of the artist's family Marie Christine Clavier was born in Saigon, Vietnam in 1913 to French parents and lived there for her formative years. She returned to France as a teenager and began to study painting. Her work quickly developed into whimsical paintings of poetry and songs – harmonized in a unique and distinct painting technique. Her work has an impasto feel and a folk art, outsider artist sensibility to it. Similar in style to Maik and other fantasy realists who use animals, flowers and foliage in their artworks. Marie Clavier painted ro herself rather than for profit as she was quite independently wealthy. She exhibited extensively in the United States in the 1970s especially across Connecticut and New York, showing at various galleries and cultural centres. She had numerous solo exhibitions in the 1970’s- notably at the Maison Francaise in New York and New York University. She showed at Galerie Bernheim Jeune in Paris. She won many awards for her work including Gold Medals and Palme D’Or medals. In 1988 the prestigious art publisher Leopard D’Or produced catalogue book on her life and work – by this point she had virtually given up painting. She died in 2015 aged 102. Bernheim-Jeune gallery is one of the oldest art galleries in Paris. Opened on Rue Laffitte in 1863 by Alexandre Bernheim (1839-1915), friend of Delacroix, Corot and Courbet, it changed location a few times before settling on Avenue Matignon. The gallery promoted realists, Barbizon school paintings and, in 1874, the first impressionist and later post-impressionist painters. It closed in 2019. In 1901, Alexandre Bernheim, with his sons, Josse (1870-1941), and Gaston (1870-1953), organized the first important exhibition of Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris with the help of art critic Julien Leclercq. In 1906, Bernheim-Jeune frères started presenting works by Pierre Bonnard, Edouard Vuillard, Paul Cezanne, Henri-Edmond Cross, Kees van Dongen, Henri Matisse, Le Douanier Rousseau, Raoul Dufy, Maurice de Vlaminck, Amedeo Modigliani, Maurice Utrillo and Georges Dufrenoy. From 1906 to 1925, art critic Félix Fénéon was the director of the gallery and was instrumental in bringing in the art of Georges Seurat and Umberto Boccioni. In 1922, an exhibition brought together works by Alice Halicka, Auguste Herbin, Pierre Hodé, Moise Kisling, Marie Laurencin, Henri Lebasque, Fernand Leger and Henri Matisse. The gallery now exhibits painters and sculptors in the tradition of the École de Paris and artists such as Jean Carzou, Shelomo Selinger or Pollès. Her style is a recognizable, cheerful, whimsical and a happy creation. Naïve art is any form of visual art that is created by a person who lacks the formal education and training that a professional artist undergoes (in anatomy, art history, technique, perspective, ways of seeing). Unlike folk art, naïve art does not necessarily evince a distinct cultural context or tradition. Naïve art is recognized, and often imitated, for its childlike simplicity and frankness. Paintings of this kind typically have a flat rendering style with a rudimentary expression of perspective. One particularly influential painter of "naïve art" was Henri Rousseau (1844–1910), a French Post-Impressionist who was discovered by Pablo Picasso. Naïve art is often seen as outsider art that is by someone without formal (or little) training or degree. While this was true before the twentieth century, there are now academies for naïve art. Naïve art is now a fully recognized art genre, represented in art galleries worldwide. Museums devoted to naïve art now exist in Kecskemét, Hungary; Riga, Latvia; Jaen, Spain; Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Vicq France and Paris. Another term related to (but not completely synonymous with) naïve art is folk art. There also exist the terms "naïvism" and "primitivism" which are usually applied to professional painters working in the style of naïve art (like Paul Gauguin, Mikhail Larionov, Paul Klee). At all events, naive art can be regarded as having occupied an "official" position in the annals of twentieth-century art since - at the very latest - the publication of the Der Blaue Reiter, an almanac in 1912. Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, who brought out the almanac, presented 6 reproductions of paintings by le Douanier' Rousseau (Henri Rousseau), comparing them with other pictorial examples. However, most experts agree that the year that naive art was "discovered" was 1885, when the painter Paul Signac became aware of the talents of Henri Rousseau and set about organizing exhibitions of his work in a number of prestigious galleries. The Earth Group (Grupa Zemlja) were Croatian artists, architects and intellectuals active in Zagreb from 1929 to 1935. The group included the painters Krsto Hegedušić, Edo Kovačević, Omer Mujadžić, Kamilo Ružička, Ivan Tabaković, and Oton Postružnik, the sculptors Antun Augustinčić, Frano Kršinić, and the architect Drago Ibler. A term applied to Yugoslav (Croatian) naive painters working in or around the village of Hlebine, near the Hungarian border, from about 1930. Some of the best known naive artists are Dragan Gaži, Ivan Generalić, Josip Generalić, Krsto Hegedušić, Mijo Kovačić, Ivan Lacković-Croata, Franjo Mraz, Ivan Večenaj and Mirko Virius. Camille Bombois (1883–1970) Ferdinand Cheval, known as 'le facteur Cheval' (1836–1924) Henry Darger (1892–1973) L. S. Lowry (1887–1976) Grandma Moses, Anna Mary Robertson...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Atlanta Olympics - Athlete with Ball. Year: circa 1996, Medium: Pastel and Collage on Paper, signed l.r., Size: 25.5 x 19.5 in. (64.77 x 49....

Ernani Silva, Brazilian - 5 Figures, Medium: Acrylic, Collage and Enamel on board, signed in marker lower left, Size: 10.5 x 22 in. (26.67 x 55.88 cm)

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Umbrella. Year: circa 1970, Medium: Lithograph with Embossing, signed and dedicated in pencil, Edition: EA, Image Size: 14 x 9.5 inches, Siz...

Hand signed, limited edition on BFK Rives French art paper. I believe the title is Honeymoon. Jan Balet (20 July 1913 in Bremen – 31 January 2009 in Estavayer le Lac, Switzerland), w...

Howard Finster (American, 1916-2001), "Hosen Leva", Mixed Media on Wood Panel, 6 April 1993, signed, titled, dated, and inscribed "Hosen Leva By Howard Finster . Apr - / 6-1993-28.00...

Roy Finster (American, 1941-2021), "Cabin by the Stream", Mixed Media on Wood Panel, 5 April 1993, titled and signed lower left, signed, dated, and inscribed "841 - Piece Art / 4-5-9...

Ernani Silva, Brazilian - Women in the Wind, Year: 1993, Medium: Acrylic and Enamel on board, signed and dated in marker lower left, Size: 10.5 x 20.5 in. (26.67 x 52.07 cm)

Ernani Silva, Brazilian - Six Figures, Medium: Acrylic, Collage and Enamel on board, signed in marker lower left, Size: 9.5 x 21 in. (24.13 x 53.34 cm)

Acrylic and spray paint

Acrylic and spray paint

Johnny Banks (1912-1988) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 11.5 x 9.5 Frame Size: 21.75 x 15.75 Medium: Multimedia on Poster Board 1987 "Watermelon Time" Johnny Banks (1912-1988) In my ...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - A Labon of Moles. Year: circa 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil, Edition: EA 60/60, Image Size: 13 x 8.5 inches, Size:...

Artist: Ralph Fasanella, American (1914 - 1997) Title: Family Supper Year: 1974 Medium: Screenprint on Arches Paper, signed in pencil Edition: 250, AP 25 Size: 41 in. x 31 in. (104.1...

Roy Finster (American, 1941-2021), "Queen Elizabeth II of England", Mixed Media on Wood Panel, 1993, titled and signed lower right, inscribed and dated "Jesus Saves / 749 - Piece Art...

A thoroughly charming original acrylic on canvas painting by American folk art artist James C. Litz. Perfect as a holiday gift or a wonderful adornment for your own home, this impo...

Golfam Jozdani Saint Minecraft XXVI Mixed Media on Cardboard; Acrylic, Pencil, Colored Pencil Size: 9.44 x 14.17 inches (24 x 36 cm) Signed and dated by hand COA provided *Framing O...

Judith Bledsoe, American (1938 - 2013) - Rabbit in Hat from A Little Circus. Year: 1974, Medium: Lithograph, signed in pencil, Edition: HC, Size: 15 x ...

Golfam Jozdani Saint Minecraft XXV Mixed Media on Cardboard; Acrylic, Pencil, Colored Pencil Size: 9.44 x 14.17 inches (24 x 36 cm) Signed and dated by hand COA provided *Framing Op...

This listing is for the one Silkscreen serigraph piece listed here. Mexico City, 1945. First edition. plate signed, limited edition of 1000, these serigraph plates depict various types of traditional and folk art indigenous clothing...

To Chicago-based artist Patrick Fitzgerald, his sculptures are a means of traveling through time. Working from found materials, Fitzgerald constructs miniature soap box cars...

Bow Tie Hand signed and numbered, ,limited edition lithograph collage assemblage. Barbara Kohl-Spiro is a Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based artist whose work has spanned over five decades...

Johnny Banks (1912-1988) San Antonio Artist Size: 11 x 15 Frame: 16.75 x 20.75 Medium: Mixed Media "On Pay Day" Biography Johnny Banks (1912-1988) In my opinion one of the greatest T...

Artist: Branko Bahunek, Croatian (1935 - ) Title: Cancan Year: 1989 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed Size: 18 in. x 15 in. (45.72 cm x 38.1 cm)

An elegant totem with a rooster top and a fishy midform. It has all the delightful texture and warm orange overall cast to make this a great garden icon

This porcelain sculpture is a playful rendering of a juggling monkey. The monkey's costume lends the animal a sense of performance, and engages the viewers' childhood imagination. ...

A grumpy, hard-to-please wine connoisseur is depicted being served by a well-prepared waiter/sommelier. Caption reads, Well, Then, How About This Fine Chateauneuf-Du-Pape?' Signed lo...

American Naive School, Landscape Scene of a Green House, Acrylic on Canvas Panel, 1966, signed "CL" and dated lower right, giltwood frame. Image: 7.75" H x 9.25" W; frame: 14.5" H ...

Mid century Chinese puppy box from the Shanghai collection ambitiously crafted in bamboo wicker with carved wood feet and tail.

"Drover" is an original yellow & green opal serpentine stone sculpture by Aaron Perkins Chikumbirike, a contemporary Shona stone sculptor. The artist signed the piece. It depicts...

ABOUT Stephen Basso Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imaginat...

This striking acrylic mixed-media painting on board by Serg Graff presents a wild, expressionist portrait of Andrew Jackson (American lawyer, planter, general, and statesman who ser...

ohnny Banks (1912-1988) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 11 x 14 Frame Size: 17.75 x 20.75 Medium: Multimedia on Paper "Mountain Home" Biography Johnny Banks (1912-1988) In my opinion ...

This flat shadow puppet was created by an unknown Indonesian artist using water buffalo hide. This shadow puppet, 14" high with movable arms, was used in Indonesian Wayang puppet shows. This puppet is an archer. Wayang (Krama Javanese: Ringgit ꦫꦶꦁꦒꦶꦠ꧀, "Shadow"), also known as Wajang, is a form of puppet theatre art...

Mid-Century acrylic on board of Venetian gondolas in harbour signed L Mariani, bottom right. This is a jewel of a painting. Its bright, joyful and intense c...

19th Century Italian carved wood remnant with classical form and a worn silver leaf finish holding a tole bouquet with flowers and leaves with a perfect time worn patina.

This work by Dimitri reflects his imaginative process. He says, "Multiple layers of materials laid down over a ten-year period. The painting recently fell into place." With a colorf...