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Impressionist Art

IMPRESSIONIST STYLE

Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.

The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.

Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.

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Style: Impressionist
Impressionist Sunset Harbour Scene with Sailboats and Reflections in France
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Impressionist Sunset Harbour Scene with Sailboats and Reflections in France by Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 8.25 inches (height) x 10 inches (width) (size excluding frame; 4.75...
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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

"Saint Mandrier sur Mer, France" Marine Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful impressionist summer scene of "Saint Mandrier sur Mer, France". The artist has portrayed this piece in a most intimate, yet energetic way, and has packed much feeling int...
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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Arthur Best Impressionist Signed Flower Garden Landscape Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist flower landscape painting by Arthur William Best (1859 - 1935). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 14L x ...
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1890s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Cove Within - Original Colorful Oceanscape Still Life Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Michaela Jean is an accomplished painter, devoted gardener, and mother from Southern California (USA). Her lifelong passion for art and nature began in childhood, inspired by her gra...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Gold Leaf

Mid to Late 19th Century Portrait of an Elegant Young Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Superb Mid to Late 19th Century Portrait of an Elegant Young Woman The sitter is an elegant young woman in her finest dress and jewelry. Original oil on canvas. Dimensions 22" x 27...
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Mid-19th Century Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

New York City Brooklyn Bridge & Freedom Tower Oil Painting by Michael Budden
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Mystical Evening Freedom Tower oil/canvas 18 x 14 unframed, 23.5 x 19.5 framed Mystical Evening, Freedom Tower, NYC, is an oil painting on canvas by award winning contemporary artist...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Oil

Elegant Nude Lying in a Rose Garden
Located in West Sussex, GB
Konstantin Razumov (Born 1974) Russian Elegant Nude Lying in a Rose Garden in Summer Oil on canvas: 16 x 20 inches. Frame: 23 x 27 inches. Konstantin Razumov's work has been o...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Oil

'Theatre Du Chatelet, Paris' a framed gouache painting
Located in St. Albans, GB
Theatre Du Chatelet A stunning gouache by one of France's premier artists specialising in Parisian scenes. Eugene Galien LALOUE (1854 - 1941) Eugène Galien Laloue was particularly...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

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Gouache

Wooded River Landscape - Early 20th Century French Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
* No US duty or taxes to pay on this item * A beautful early 20th century French imprressionist oil on panel depicting a wooded river landsape. The work is superbly executed very,...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil, Panel

Robin Hoods Bay Clifftop View with Sea and Rocks Yorkshire Coast 1983
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Robin Hoods Bay Clifftop View with Sea and Rocks Yorkshire Coast 1983 By Tony Herbert (1927-2024) Medium: Watercolor on paper, unframed Size: 9.75 inches (height) x 11.25 inch...
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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Watercolor

Venice Festival, Italy, Cityscape, Gondola, Canal
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Born in Sibley, Iowa, in 1886, Frederic Milton Grant studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, with additional training at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts. Grant traveled to Italy in...
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1930s Impressionist Art

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Oil, Panel

Desert View, Landscape, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2022 Style: Impressionism, Subject: Desert View...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

"The Screen Door" Edward Dufner, Pastel Blue, Impressionist, Female Figure
Located in New York, NY
Edward Dufner The Screen Door, 1923 Signed lower left Oil on board 10 x 8 inches Exhibited New York, National Academy of Design, Winter Exhibition, November 17 - December 16, 1923, ...
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1920s Impressionist Art

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Oil, Board

Four Hooded Crows in a Winter Landscape, c. 1910–1915
Located in Stockholm, SE
This quietly atmospheric painting by Jon Loman captures a group of four hooded crows in a snow-covered winter landscape. Three of the birds perch on a rustic wooden fence, while the ...
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1910s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

French Impressionist Oil Painting of Village Street Scene with Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Village Street Scene with Figures By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 5.75 x 8.25 inches (height x width) Signed: Yes Oil painting on boar...
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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

'La Taverne Pausset, Paris', Salon d'Automne, Salon des Indépendants, Benezit
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'La Taverne Pausset, Paris' by Edouard-Jean Dambourgez. Salon d'Automne, Salon des Indépendants, Benezit ----- Signed lower right, 'Dambourgez' for Edouard-Jean Dambourgez (French, 1844-1931), inscribed, 'Paris' and painted circa 1880. Titled with inscription, verso, on old backing, ''Taverne Pausset', grands boulevards a Paris". A fine and detailed, cabinet-size oil painting showing an elegant Parisian cafe and bar, the interior lit by luminous, floor-to-ceiling stained-glass windows and filled with fashionably-dressed patrons drinking and socializing beneath a haze of pipe and cigar smoke. A minor, period masterpiece, providing an animated view of the city's fin-de-siècle nightlife, and characterised by finely observed and fully-realized figures showing an unusual degree of both social commentary and psychological penetration. Edouard-Jean Dambourgez first studied with Jules Lefebvre and, subsequently, as an engraver and chromo-lithographer under Gustave Boulanger. In 1880, Dambourgez commenced exhibiting at the Salon des Artistes Français, and, in 1883, was elected a member of the Society. Throughout the 1880's, he exhibited frequently and with success at the major Paris salons including the Salon d'Automne, the Salon des Independants and the Salon des Champs-de-Mars. In 1884, he was commissioned by the Louvre to engrave all illustrations for the catalog to the Thiers Collection, recently bequeathed to the Museum. The recipient of numerous prizes, medals and juried awards, Dambourgez was awarded an honorable distinction by the Salon in 1888, and an honorable mention in 1891. In 1888, the critic Albert Wolff recommended his painting, 'A Cheese Shop', for inclusion at the Salon des Artistes Français. In 1891, the city of Paris bought his large canvas, 'The Cream and Cheese Market...
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1880s Impressionist Art

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Postcard, Oil

River Landscape - 19th Century Antique Belgian Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A very beautiful signed and dated 1875 oil on panel depicting a river landscape, by Belgian artist Vital de Gronckel. Excellent quality early impressionist work, presented in an orn...
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1870s Impressionist Art

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Oil, Panel

Early Winter, Landscape Impressionism, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Peter Tovpev Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Style: Impressionism Title: Early Winter Size: 21.5" x 27.5" x 0....
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

"The Attack of the Merrimac" Alexander Charles Stuart, Civil War Naval Battle
Located in New York, NY
Alexander Charles Stuart The Attack of the Merrimac Signed lower left Oil on artist board 13 3/4 x 23 1/4 inches Alexander Charles Stuart, a Scottish-born painter of ships and marin...
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1860s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Vermont Landscape Framed Cow Grazing Barn Scene Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 30 by 35 inches overall, and 25 by 30 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. Handsomel...
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1910s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Original Maritime Oil Painting – Naval Battle Scene – Signed J. Harvey , Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This powerful maritime oil painting depicts an intense naval battle between two grand 18th-century ships locked in combat. Billowing smoke and flashes of cannon fire illuminate the s...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

Who's in trouble this time?, People, Police man, Dog
Located in Deddington, GB
Original painting of Whos's in trouble this time? Sean uses very toned down colours but draws the attention to the figures of an police man facing a lady. There is also a dog and a c...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Acrylic

1960’s French Oil Painting Exotic Summers Day Cagnes Sur Mer Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cagnes Ser mer dated 1961 Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

Carmel, Seascape, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2021 Style: Impressionism, Subject: Carmel, Size: 30" x 55" x 1'' in...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Point Lobos, California
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Point Lobos, California Oil on artist's board, c. 1925 Signed lower right: Wm J Edmundson (see photo) Condition: Very good condition Frame: Period McBeth Gallery style frame (see pho...
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1920s Impressionist Art

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Oil

Incoming Spring Rain: large oil painting, dramatic landscape with clouds in blue
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a large, glorious and dramatic oil painting of a dark, cloud-filled sky. It is painted on all edges so there is no need for framing. It is wired with all installation hardware and ready to hang. Signed on the back. Bucks County, PA landscape artist Kirby Fredendall...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Abstract Still Life with Fruit and Flowers
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful still life with flowers and fruit by Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson (American, 1928-2009). Unsigned but was acquired from the estate of Les Anderson in Monterey, California. Unframed. Image; 14"H x 20"W. Les (Leslie Luverne) Anderson(American, 1928-2009) owned and operated the Bear Flag Gallery in San Juan Bautista, California for many years and was known for his plein air watercolor...
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1980s Impressionist Art

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Paper, Watercolor

Impressionist French Harbour Scene with Lighthouse and Fishing Boats at Piriac
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Impressionist French Harbour Scene with Lighthouse and Fishing Boats at Piriac By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 10.5 x 7.5 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframe...
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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

Provence Colorful Trees Landscape - French Impressionist Original Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provence Colourful Trees, French Original Oil Painting French schooled artist, 20th Century Oil painting on thin card/paper, unframed Card size: 15 x 18 inches Delightful French Imp...
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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

Antique Masterful Frame American Winter Impressionist Snowy Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted winter impressionist landscape by Allen Dean Cochran (1888 - 1971). Oil on canvas. Housed in a spectacular, period, gold giltwood frame. Signed.
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1910s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Floating Lilies, Floral Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Title: Floating Lilies Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2025 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 30" x 56" x 1" inch (76 x 142 x 3cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery Wr...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Garden of Flowers, Impressionist Oil Painting by Diane Monet
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original impressionist painting by widely exhibited American artist, Diane Monet. Alexander Monet -- Diane Monet's grandfather -- moved to the United S...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Oil

Antique American Modernist Abstract Expressionist Framed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 36 by 31 inches overall, and 25 by 30 painting alone. In excellent original condit...
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1890s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Signed Impressive 19th Century Venice Italy Original Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Italian oil painting of Venice. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 31L x 21H.
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1850s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Early 1900's French Impressionist Signed Flower Watercolour by Marie Carreau
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Flowers" by Marie-Amelie Chautard-Carreau (French, 19th/20th century) signed bottom right watercolour on paper, unframed painting: 7.25 x 9.5inches Delightful early 20th century F...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

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Watercolor

Vintage Still Life -- Yellow & Blue Floral
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid late 1970's floral still-life featuring a colorful bouquet by Doro (American, 20th Century), 1979. Signed and dated "Doro 1979" lower left. Unframed. Image size, 24"H x 18"L.
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1970s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

H. De Ruyser Vintage oil painting on canvas, Seascape, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an original vintage oil painting on canvas depicting a nautical scene, with a large sailing ship in a choppy ocean. This is a classic maritime style, one that is so rarely ...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Oil

La Boullie (The Porridge), Old Masters Drypoint Etching by Jean Francois Millet
Located in Long Island City, NY
Etching printed in brownish black on light tan Chine collé, 1861. Image measures 6 x 5 inches, displayed in a 15.5 x 12.5 inch frame. Etched signature and date lower left. A very goo...
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1860s Impressionist Art

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Drypoint, Etching, Intaglio

Mid 20th Century French Impressionist Landscape Lovely Green Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, mid 20th century landscape oil painting on wood panel, unframed double sided measures: 10.5 x 14.5 inches condition report: provenance: France 10.5 x 14.5 inches
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

Woman Knitting in a Rustic Cottage Interior Painting Original French Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Quiet Reflection by the Window by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) size: 8.5 x 7.5 inches oil painting on board, unframed condition: the painting is in very good condition. It has previous...
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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

Summer Fields, Michigan Artist, American Impressionism, Landscape
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
Mathias Alten (German/American 1871-1938) Signed: M. Alten (Lower, Left) " Summer Fields ", circa 1914 Oil on Canvas Laid on Board 10" x 14" Housed in a 2" Carved Newcomb Mackl...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

"Sangre De Cristo Range, Salida Colorado" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
David Shingler's (NC based) "Sangre De Cristo Range, Salida Colorado" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a tan prairie leading to the ...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Wood, Oil

Jesse F. Santos "Harvesting Rice" Philippine Landscape Oil Painting c.1970
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jesse F. Santos "Harvesting Rice" Philippine Landscape Oil Painting c.1970 Original oil on canvas Dimensions 30" wide x 24" high Signed and dated lower right Very good vintage co...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Reflection Figurative Impressionism Oil Painting Handmade Artwork One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ashot Muradyan Work: Original Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2025 Style: Figurative Impressionism Title: Reflection Size: 15" x 23.5 "...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

"LOST AND FOUND" CATTLE STRAYS IN WEST TEXAS. WESTERN COWBOY COWS. FRAME 30 X 42
Located in San Antonio, TX
Lester Hughes (1938-2021) El Paso Artist Image Size: 24 x 36 Frame Size: 30 x 42 Medium: Oil "Lost and Found" West Texas Cattle STRAYS Biography Lester Hughes (1938-2021) From El Pas...
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1970s Impressionist Art

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Oil

Impressionist William Chadwick British/American Landscape with Trees Old Lyme Ct
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Landscape with Trees Oil/Canvas 12 x 16 unframed, 21.5 x 25 framed Painting is in good condition, signed bottom left margin with craquelure in the clouds as shown. Housed in beautif...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Oil

Flower by the window, Acrylic Interior Painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
Still Life by Liudmila Shabazova from Spain. A magnificent flower is surrounded by green leaves. The composition is simple but brightly colored. The...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Acrylic, Cardboard

Tranquility
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: Itzchak Tarkay (1935-2012) Title: Tranquility Year: Circa 2000 Medium: Silkscreen on wove paper Size: 13.5 x 11.5 inches Edition: 455/750, plus 100 Remarques Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed in crayon & numbered in ink ITZHAK TARKAY (1935-2012) Itzhak Tarkay has achieved international recognition as a leading representative of figurative artists. The inspiration for his work clearly lies with French Impressionism, particularly the paintings of Matisse and the drawing style of Toulouse-Lautrec. He drew upon the history of art to create many of his compositions, designing a kind of visual poetry from the aura of his cafes and intimate settings. His rich tapestry of form and color is achieved through the use of painting many colors laid over one another to create texture and transparency. Tarkay is considered one of the most influential artists of the early 21st century and has inspired dozens of artists throughout the world with his contemplative depiction of the female figure. ABOUT SELLER DO YOU HAVE ARTWORK TO SELL? WE ARE ACTIVELY SEEKING CONSIGNMENTS AND EXCEPTIONAL OBJECTS TO PURCHASE OUTRIGHT! Art Commerce...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Art

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Screen

Desert Foothills Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Vivid desert foothill landscape impasto painting by Michael Wright (American, 20th century). Inscribed "M. Wright" and dated "17" on the bottom center r...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Elegant Nude in Pink Peignoir, standing before a Mirror
Located in West Sussex, GB
Konstantin Razumov (Born 1974) Russian Elegant Nude in Pink Peignoir, standing before a Mirror Oil on canvas: 11 x 16 inches. Frame: 18 x 23 inches. Konstantin Razumov's work has...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Oil

'North Sea Dunes - Le Zwin' by René Toussaint (1902 - Spa - 1972)
Located in Knokke, BE
René Toussaint 1902 – Spa – 1972 Belgian Painter 'Belgian Coast – Le Zwin' Signature: signed lower left ’R Toussaint’ Medium: oil on panel Dimensions: image size 50 x 60 cm, frame...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil, Wood Panel

"Autumn" Colorful Mid-20th Century American Oil Painting Landscape with Tress
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful depiction of an Autumn landscape in Kent, Connecticut from the Mid-20th Century with puffed trees by the country side. For this beautiful depiction, we find distinct elements that are unique to the earlier works of George Lawrence...
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1950s Impressionist Art

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Oil, Board, Canvas

Salmagundi Club Artist with Club Label Dennis Sirrine Seascape Sunset Boat
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
The Cocktail Hour Dennis Sirrine oil/canvas 9 x 12 unframed, 14.5 x 17.5 framed Purchased at the 2008 Slamagundi Club Auction with label verso. Im an Artist member of the Club and ha...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

Antique American Impressionist Lake Landscape Geese Swimming Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 20 by 27 inches overall, and 12 by 16 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Hands...
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1920s Impressionist Art

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Board, Oil

Summer Breeze, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang, Impressionism
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Landscape Impressionism Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2023 Style: Impressionism, Subject: Meadow ...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Nicely Framed Antique American Nude Bathers Forest Stream Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist nude landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a silver carved molding. Excelle...
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1930s Impressionist Art

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Board, Oil

"Lazy Days Blues" TEXAS BLUEBONNETS, NICE LARGER SIZE LANDSCAPE CIRCA 1950
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 25 x 30 Frame Size: 34 x 39 Medium: Oil on Canvas Circa 1950 "Lazy Day Blues" Texas Bluebonnet Biography Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) Porfirio Salinas was a self-taught artist who painted landscapes of Central Texas with an emphasis on the vast bluebonnet fields that grow there in the springtime. Born in 1910 in Bastrop, Texas, he attended public schools in San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art School, Jose Arpa, as well as landscape painter, Robert Wood. Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets". Salinas served in the military from 1943 to 1945. Although he was assigned to Fort Sam Houston, he was allowed to live at home. At the fort, Colonel Telesphor Gottchalk assigned him to paint murals for the officer's lounge and various other projects, and Salinas continued to be able to paint during his entire conscripted period. Even before he achieved notoriety among galleries, dealers, and museums, Salinas was widely followed and appreciated by many Texans, including former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who may be considered responsible for launching Salinas popularity beyond the boundaries of Texas. In 1973, Texas capital, Austin, honored Salinas for having "done much to bring the culture of Mexico and Texas closer together with his paintings". Salinas died in April 1973 in San Antonio, Texas. From the years of the Great Depression through President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society of the 1960s, Texan Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) remained one of the Lone Star State's most popular artists. Today, his works remain popular with Texas collectors and those who love landscapes of the beautiful "Hill Country" that lies in the center of the state. One of the first Mexican American painters to become widely recognized for his art, Salinas was a favorite of President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, as well as of Sam Rayburn, the longest-serving Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Texas Governor John Connelly. In fact, President Johnson was so enamored with his Salinas paintings that the artist will forever be associated with America's first Texas-born President. Works by Porfirio Salinas is in a number of museum collections, grace the halls of the Texas State Capitol and the Governor's Mansion in Austin, and are included in virtually every major private collection of Early Texas Art. Porfirio Salinas was born on November 6, 1910, near the small town of Bastrop, Texas, about thirty miles from Austin. His father, Porfirio G. Salinas (1881-1967), and his mother, Clara G. Chavez, struggled to make a hardscrabble living as tenant farmers, but eventually were forced to give up farming. The family moved to San Antonio, where Salinas' father was able to get a job working as a laborer for the railroad, but the scenic area around Bastrop, with its pine trees and the wide expanse of the Rio Grande River, would forever remain a touchstone for the artist. For the rest of his life, Salinas and his brothers went back frequently to visit their grandmother in her little farmhouse. When in Bastrop, Porfirio painted on the banks of the Rio Grande or in the groves of pine trees. The Salinas family was close-knit, and Porfirio was the middle child of five children, so he had an older brother and sister as well as a younger brother and sister. His mother was a native of Mexico, so throughout his childhood the family made the long drive to Mexico to visit Clara Salinas' family. As a child growing up in the bi-lingual section of San Antonio, Salinas drew and painted incessantly and by the time he was ten, he was already producing work that was mature enough to sell to his schoolteachers. Many years later in an article in the New York Times he was described as a "boy whose textbooks were seldom opened and whose sketchbook was never closed." Instead of studying, the young artist spent his spare time watching artists paint in and around San Antonio. As an aspiring painter, Salinas was fortunate to grow up in the historic city, which had the most active art scene in Texas. It was his exposure to older, professional painters that encouraged the precocious young painter to leave school early in order to help his family and pursue a career as a professional artist, despite his father's inability to see art as a career with any future for his son. When Salinas was about fifteen he came to know the artist Robert W. Wood (1889-1979). He met Wood while he was employed in an art supply store and he soon began to work as an assistant to the English-born painter, who had moved from Portland to San Antonio in 1924. Although the diminutive Englishman was already an established professional artist, he did not have a great deal of formal art training and so he was then studying with the academically trained Spanish painter Jose Arpa (1858-1952) in order to augment his knowledge and give his work a more polished look. Salinas was an eager young man, and while working in Wood's downtown San Antonio studio he learned to stretch canvases, frame paintings and to sketch in larger compositions from small plein-air studies for the English artist. He began to accompany Wood and Arpa to the hills outside San Antonio, where they painted small Plein-air studies of fields of blue lupin - the state flower, the famous "Bluebonnets" of Texas - in the springtime and scenes of the gnarled Red Oaks as they changed color in the fall. He was soon assisting Wood in the tedious work of painting the tiny blue flowers that collectors wanted to see in the landscapes they purchased of central Texas. According to a 1972 newspaper story, "Legend has it that one day in the 1920s artist Robert Wood decided he could not bear to paint another bluebonnet in one of his landscapes. He hired young Porfirio Salinas to paint them in for him at five dollars a painting." Whether this story is accurate or apocryphal isn't clear, but the ambitious and independent young Salinas wasn't destined to be anyone's assistant for very long. The formative event of Porfirio Salinas' teenage years was the Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibitions, a Roaring-Twenties dream of the eccentric oilman Edgar B. Davis (1873-1951). These competitive shows of paintings of wildflowers and Texas life were mounted in San Antonio from 1927 to 1929. Held at the newly opened Witte Museum each spring, the exhibition featured large cash prizes donated by the philanthropic Davis, which were an inducement for artists to travel from all over the United States to paint in the Hill Country of Texas. The "Davis Competitions," as they were known, helped to cement San Antonio's reputation as an art center, a legacy that remains with the "River City" today. The shows generated a great deal of excitement in the area, helping to make celebrities of the some of the artists who had already settled there and encouraging others to make San Antonio their home. Over the three years that the wildflower competitions were held, more than 300 paintings were exhibited, and many thousands of viewers saw the paintings at the Witte Museum and on tours throughout the state and in New York. Each year Davis would generously purchase the winning paintings and then donate them to the San Antonio Art League. Young Porfirio Salinas would have been able to not only watch his two mentors - Robert W. Wood and Jose Arpa - paint the works that they entered in the Davis Competitions, he would have been able to see Arpa take several of the major prizes, receiving the judge's accolades for "Verbena," "Cactus Flower" and "Picking Cotton," works that are still on view at the San Antonio Art League Museum today. Unfortunately, Davis eventually put his donations to work in other charitable endeavors, bringing to an end the wildflower events, but only after they inspired Salinas and other young painters and had helped to make wildflower paintings the most sought-after subject for traditionalist Texas collectors. In 1930, when he was only twenty, Salinas hung out a shingle and began to paint professionally, augmenting the sales of his easel paintings with what little business he could garner by painting signs for local concerns. It was a struggle for the young artist to make a living, as the effects of the Great Depression were settling in. His early works are very similar to those of Robert Wood's, both in subject matter and treatment. Salinas did small paintings of Bluebonnets for the tourists who visited San Antonio to see the famous Alamo as well as paintings of the Texas missions...
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1950s Impressionist Art

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Oil

British impressionist, Sickert pupil, female artist, oil painting
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

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Board, Oil

G.Wilson Vintage Oil painting on canvas, children playing with rabbit, framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

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Located in Oklahoma City, OK
In this gilt wood framed oil on canvas waterscape, American Impressionist artist Harry Hoffman depicts the last moments of a morning sunrise over a river in predominant hues of lavender, purple, pink and blue. The sky is reflected in the water below with a sandy brown beach and large green tree in the foreground. Harry Leslie Hoffman was born in Cressona, a small community in Pennsylvania’s Schuylkill Valley. His mother was an amateur artist who encouraged her son to pursue a career in the arts. In 1893, Hoffman entered the School of Art at Yale University and studied with John Ferguson Weir, the son of Robert Walter Weir. After graduation in 1897, Hoffman moved to New York to continue his studies at the Art Students League. He also traveled to Paris and took classes at the Académie Julien. In the summer of 1902, Hoffman attended the Lyme Summer School of Art, in the town of Old Lyme on the Connecticut coast. The school was headed by Frank Vincent Dumond and was located in a boarding house owned by Florence Griswold. The school eventually grew into an artists’ colony and a center for American Impressionism. When Hoffman first arrived as a student, he was not permitted to stay in the house which was designated for the professional artists only. However, his outgoing personality soon won him many friends at the colony. In 1905, Hoffman settled in Old Lyme and worked as a full member of the artist colony. He was particularly influenced by Willard Leroy Metcalf, an Impressionist also working in Old Lyme. Fellow artists later fondly recalled Hoffman’s antics at the Griswold house, which included playing the flute and banjo, tap-dancing, singing humorous songs, and performing magic tricks. In 1910, Hoffman married another Old Lyme artist named Beatrice Pope, and the couple had one child in 1921. Hoffman and his wife often escaped New England during the harsh winter months. In the winters of 1914 and 1915 he traveled to Savannah, Georgia with fellow Old Lyme artist William Chadwick...
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1930s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

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