Impressionist Art

This original mid-century oil painting depicts a majestic tall sailing ship cutting through calm waters at sunset, its full sails illuminated by warm hues of gold, crimson, and soft ...

Beautiful Parisian street scene depicts Place de Clichy. Watercolor and pencil on paper. Sheet measures 14 x 20 inches. Signed illegibly lower right and on back.

Moonrise Marsh Gulls 12 x 18 unframed 17.88 x 24 framed. Signed LR Moonlight Marsh is an oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showca...

This rare exhibition poster features Pierre Bonnard’s La Terrasse, created around 1918–1920, and published as part of the Collection of European Masters for the Kunstsammlung Nordrhe...

Artist: Alexander Shandor Title: Stones Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2013 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 31.5" x 31.5" x 0.8" inch ( 80 x 80 x 2cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery ...

Harry Finney (fl.1875-1945) Portrait of Dorothy with her Coton de Tulear, 1940. Oil on canvas, 25 x 31 inches. Signed, dated and dedicated lower left. We have an antique frame (n...

A charming impressionist pastoral scene depicting Spring in Tuckamony Farm Solebury PA Pleasant, Pennsylvania. This piece is executed in an intimate yet energetic manner. Christopher...

This painting is a charming depiction of 42nd St. at the Public Library on a Snowy day in New York City. A cozy impressionistic street scene with colors of cobalt, light pink, yellow...

About the artist: I am an oil painter based out of Southern Maine. My subject matter focuses mainly on animals and capturing a sense of movement and narrative through the captivat...

Karl Albert Buehr (1866-1952) Strolling in the Park Oil on canvas, relined, c. 1910 Unsigned Provenance: Gift of the Artist to his wife, Mary Hess Beuhr The artist's niece, daughter of Will Hess David Saltzman Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago, exhibited 1994 Karl Albert Buehr at Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago Exhibition dates The exhibition was held in 1994 at Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, 715 North Franklin Street, Chicago. Surviving provenance records describe it as the gallery’s first exhibition at its North Franklin Street location. Works documented as included include Woman on a Patio, Rocky Inlet (France), and apparently other paintings and studies acquired through David Saltzman from the family of Buehr’s wife, Mary Hess Buehr. The 1994 Karl Albert Buehr exhibition at Robert Henry Adams Fine Art represented an important act of historical recovery. Although Buehr enjoyed considerable recognition during his lifetime—as an exhibiting painter, prizewinner, and influential teacher at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago—his reputation had become less visible in the decades following his death. By bringing together paintings and works on paper that had descended through the artist’s family, the Adams exhibition helped restore Buehr to his proper position among the leading exponents of American Impressionism and the most important Chicago-trained painters working in France before the First World War. Giverny was crucial to Buehr’s mature development. American painters had been drawn to the Norman village since the late 1880s, attracted both by Monet’s presence and by the region’s gardens, river valleys, cultivated fields, and distinctive northern light. Buehr did not simply imitate Monet. His figure compositions remained grounded in the academic training he received in Chicago and Paris, but he enlivened that structure with broken brushwork, heightened complementary color, and an increasingly luminous palette. His characteristic compositions place elegantly dressed young women on terraces, beside windows, or within flowering gardens. These figures are neither conventional society portraits nor anonymous decorative accessories. They occupy a carefully balanced space between individual presence and pictorial harmony. Faces and gestures are often quietly observed, while dresses, parasols, flowers, foliage, and shifting sunlight become vehicles for color. Lavender shadows, rose and coral fabrics, emerald foliage, and brilliant passages of yellow or blue transform the garden into a chromatic environment surrounding the sitter. Works associated with the Adams exhibition illuminate the breadth of Buehr’s French production. The pastel Woman on a Patio, circa 1915, demonstrates his ability to translate Impressionist color into the immediacy of a dry medium. Pastel allowed him to place one hue directly beside another without losing intensity. The resulting surface possesses a soft atmospheric unity while retaining the energy of individual strokes. The work’s history—gifted by Buehr to Mary Hess Buehr and subsequently descending through her family—also gives it a particularly intimate character. Rocky Inlet (France) presents another aspect of Buehr’s practice. In place of the cultivated garden and poised female figure, the artist confronts a rugged coastal landscape. Yet his essential concern remains light acting upon color. Rock, water, and vegetation are constructed through abbreviated touches rather than continuous modeling. The small scale suggests direct observation, possibly an outdoor study made during Buehr’s travels in Normandy. Its provenance likewise begins with Mary Hess Buehr and passes through the family before reaching David Saltzman and Robert Henry Adams Fine Art. This family provenance was central to the significance of the 1994 exhibition. The works had not merely circulated anonymously through the market; many retained a direct association with the artist’s household. Such a group could include informal studies, experimental compositions, and personal gifts that Buehr elected to keep rather than send to public exhibitions. Together they offered a more private and exploratory view of his career. Condition: relined canvas and cleaned Image/Canvas size: 10 x 9 inches Frame: 16-3/4 x 15-3/4 x 1-3/4 inches Karl Albert Buehr (1866–1952): France and the Giverny Years Karl Albert Buehr—whose surname is sometimes misspelled “Beuhr”—was a German-born American painter and influential teacher associated with the second generation of American Impressionists working at Giverny. Although his artistic identity was rooted in Chicago, the years he spent in France transformed his palette, subject matter, and approach to painting. Born on February 14, 1866, in Feuerbach, near Stuttgart, Buehr immigrated with his family to Chicago, probably in 1881. After working briefly for a commercial lithographer, he enrolled at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1888. He studied with John H. Vanderpoel and graduated with honors in 1894, after which the school invited him to teach. He also served in the Illinois cavalry during the Spanish-American War and married Mary Guion Hess, one of his students and an accomplished artist in her own right. Early study in Europe Buehr’s European education unfolded in several stages. Around 1900 he settled in Paris and studied at the Académie Julian, principally under the French painter Raphaël Collin. Collin was known for idealized female figures placed in luminous outdoor settings, a combination of academic draftsmanship and Impressionist light that anticipated Buehr’s mature work. Buehr reportedly received a gold medal at the Académie in 1901. His early European paintings included portraits, landscapes, and scenes of rural labor. Visits to Holland exposed him to the restrained tonalism of the Hague School, while his travels in Italy—particularly Taormina, Sicily, during 1906 and 1907—encouraged a brighter response to Mediterranean sunlight. He also studied in London, where his contacts with Frank Brangwyn and the decorative currents of British painting strengthened his interest in broad design, rhythmic composition, and large arrangements of figures. A decisive factor in this extended European residence was the patronage of Chicago philanthropist Lydia Coonley Ward. From approximately 1906 until 1913, Ward provided Buehr with a monthly stipend, enabling the artist, his wife, and their children to remain abroad and pursue their work without the immediate pressures of the American market. Buehr at Giverny Buehr entered the Anglo-American artistic community at Giverny around 1909, probably through his friendship with Henry Salem Hubbell, another American figure painter supported by Lydia Coonley Ward. From approximately 1909 through 1912, Buehr generally spent winters in Paris and the warmer months at Giverny. In 1912 and the summer of 1913, the family reportedly lived at Sainte-Geneviève-lès-Gasny, close to Giverny. By this date Giverny was no longer merely the village in which Claude Monet lived. It had become an international artists’ colony, particularly attractive to American painters who admired Impressionist color but wished to retain firm drawing and carefully organized figure compositions. Buehr’s associates included Frederick Carl Frieseke, Richard Edward Miller, Guy Rose, Lawton Parker, Louis Ritman, Edmund Greacen, Karl Anderson, and Theodore Earl Butler. Buehr was especially close to the circle of Frieseke and Miller. These artists specialized in decorative paintings of fashionably dressed women reading, sewing, taking tea, or resting in sunlit gardens. Their figures were surrounded by flowers, patterned fabrics, parasols, and flickering passages of colored light. Buehr adopted this repertoire, but his paintings usually retained a stronger structural organization and a more assertive contrast between complementary colors. During his first months at Giverny, Buehr worked on a large decorative panel of dancing figures. The composition received an honorable mention at the Paris Salon of 1910, an important professional recognition. That summer, however, he increasingly turned toward intimate garden scenes and outdoor figure studies. The influence of Richard Miller can be detected in the decorative arrangement of the figures, while Frieseke’s example encouraged Buehr s use of brilliant sunlight, patterned surfaces, and saturated hues. Relationship with Claude Monet Claude Monet was Buehr’s artistic hero, but the extent of their personal relationship should not be overstated. Buehr’s children played with the children of Theodore Butler, Monet’s son-in-law, and they visited the Monet household. Buehr’s daughter Kathleen later recalled that Monet was gracious to the children. Nevertheless, the best available scholarship suggests that no close personal association between Buehr and Monet has been documented. Monet’s importance to Buehr was therefore primarily artistic. At Giverny, Buehr learned to regard colored light as a central subject rather than merely a means of describing objects. Shadows became violet, blue, or green; white dresses reflected the surrounding garden; and faces and arms were modeled through small strokes of warm and cool color. The enclosed garden also became a kind of outdoor studio in which human figures, flowers, fabrics, and sunlight could be orchestrated into a unified decorative design. The Giverny style Buehr became best known for paintings of young women seated or standing in gardens, often accompanied by colorful parasols. Works such as Springtime in Giverny, Under the Parasol, and related pictures of women reading or conversing exemplify his mature style. Although inspired by French Impressionism, these paintings are not spontaneous transcriptions of fleeting visual experience in the strict Monet tradition. They are carefully staged figure compositions. Buehr himself explained that the outdoor figure painter should concentrate upon the ensemble—grouping, arrangement, and color—rather than laboriously describing every feature. This principle helps distinguish his Giverny paintings...

Beautiful antique oil on canvas painting depicting a young peasant woman standing beside old stone steps while balancing a clay vessel upon her head. Executed in the romantic Europea...

Abstract Landscape French, circa 1970 Signed & dated oil on canvas, unframed Canvas : 15 x 18 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris Condition: very good condition Description...

Original vintage poster Carthusia Capri (Italy) perfume vintage poster. Artist: Mario Laboccetta. "CARTHUSIA I PROFUMI DI CAPRI" Size 26.5" x ...

* No US duty or taxes to pay on this item * A very beautiful signed and dated 1900 impressionist oil on board depicting a sunset on the coast, by Danish artist Holger Lübbers...

A charming Impressionist winter snow-covered pastoral scene depicting "Road Through Point Pleasant PA" Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This piece is executed in an intimate yet energetic...

This is a beautiful landscape painting by Alexandra Czierpka. By reducing color and form to their essentials, she invites the observer to contemplate the harmony between humans and n...

Gaston Hippolyte Ambroise Boucart 1878-1962 Artwork Size: 21 1/2 x 25 3/4" (55 x 65cm) Artwork Size with Frame: 28 1/2 x 32 3/4" (72 x 82cm) Size: Medium Signed Oil on Canvas He was born at Angouleme (Charente) and spent all his life in France. He was a pupil of the progressive artist Gustave Moreau- then later Aime Morot, Francois Flameng and Fernand Cormon at the school of fine art in Paris. Boucart specialised in painting architectural subjects, landscapes with animals and urban landscapes. He is especially known for his depictions of country lanes, his well observed interiors and all the waterways and architecture of Venice- a subject he became particularly fond of. He showed his work at the Salon of French Artists in Paris from 1913 to 1939, and went on to become a member there, receiving an honourable mention in 1928 and a knighthood for his services to art in 1937. His work is represented in the museums of Angouleme and Niort. Categories: Artists Boucart, Gaston Hippolyte Ambroise European Art Impressionist Art Marine Art Tags: Beach European European Art European Artists European Paintings Impressionist Impressionist Art Impressionist Artists Impressionist Paintings Marine...

JOHN JOSEPH ENNEKING American (1841-1916) Raining Pasture oil on canvas, signed "Enneking" lower right Framed dimensions - 15 x 18 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches 11 x 14 1/2 inches Provenance:...

Sunlit Field Landscape dated 1994 signed by Georges Bordonave (French contemporary) oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 20 x 25.5 inches condition: very good provenance: from a ...

The Old French Town by Claude Marin (French 1914-2001) signed and dated 84 oil on artist card stuck on board, unframed board: 7.5 x 9.5 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris, ...

Minimalist Floral Study fine pen drawing on artist paper painting: 11.5 x 8.5 inches provenance: private collection, England condition: very good and sound condition Description: Th...

Artist: Mishurovski V.V. Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Style: Impressionism Year: 2008 Title: Sea shore Azure Size: 19.5" x 39" ...

Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Title: Valley View Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2026 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 30" x 44" x 1" inch (76 x 112 x 3cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery Wrapped...

The River Cottage by Clive Madgwick (1934–2005) signed & dated 1980's oil on canvas, framed in an elaborate swept frame framed: 18 x 23 inches canvas: 13 x 17.5 inches Provenance: pr...

This atmospheric seascape by Roal English captures the power and beauty of the open ocean. Rolling waves crash against partially submerged rocks while sof...

Boathouse Landscape by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 9 x 10.5 inches Oil painting on board, unframed Condition: The painting is in good condition, with minor signs of aging. Prov...

A serene autumn landscape unfolds in this evocative painting. The artist captures a fleeting moment of seasonal transition en plein air in a single session in Moscow in 2003 . Soft b...

Nicolai Cikovsky 1894-1984 Bridgehampton Potato Field 12x17 inches sight size 20x26 inches with frame Oil on Board Signed lower Right 1960’s Here we have a wonderful Impressionist p...

Since 1956, Jean Claude Picot has been a full-time professional artist. He has seriously studied the works of the Fauvist masters Vlaminck, Derain and Matisse. Like these great maste...

The Venetian Backwater French artist, signed and dated 29/4/2000 oil painting on canvas, framed framed: 48.5 x 35 inches canvas: 46 x 32 inches condition: very good provenance: priv...

A. Dumoulin, Impressionist Landscape with Farm and Stone Bridge, circa 1968 A colourful rural landscape by A. Dumoulin, dating to circa 1968, depicting an old stone bridge, riversid...

"The Corn Field" by Alfred Bennet (British, 1861-1916) This beautifully executed oil on canvas painting titled "The Corn Field", signed and dated 1886 by British artist Alfred Benne...

Charles P Gruppe 1860-1940 Harvest Time, Farm Scene with Cow oil panel signed LR 8x10 unframed, 11.5 x 13.5 framed Colors are fresh and vibrant as the painting was recently clean...

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A mother and her children spend a quiet moment by a lake. Artist Carolyn Steward adds trees and pink hills, creating depth and childlike joy to the scene. Soft ...

Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Title: Village Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2026 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 14" x 17" x 0.8" inch (35 x 45 x 2cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery Wrapped on...

Portrait of a Young Woman French artist, mid 20th century signed oil on board, frames Framed: 29 x 23 inches Board : 22 x 15 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition:...

River Landscape by Charles Martin-Sauvaigo (French 1881-1970) * see notes below French Impressionist painter oil painting on wooden panel unframed size: 13 x 16 inches condition: ve...

A wonderful impressionist pastoral landscape with beautiful color tones throughout. David Chapple has portrayed this piece in a most intimate, yet energetic way, and has packed much ...

This landscape was painted during the first visit of the artist to Hawaii, on the North Shore of Oahu. Daria chose a view of the well-known Three Tables Beach — located right next to...

Artwork Details Title: Polka Dot Dress Female Silhouette Fashion Figurative Medium: Acrylic painting on matte paper Type: Original painting Style: Contemporary Figurative Art Year: ...

Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist UNFRAMED: 20" x 30" FRAMED: 26" x 36" x 2" Signed "Jove Wang 22" on lower left

Green hills and cypress trees, olive groves and mountains, all this is a typical Spanish landscape. Nature enchants, inspires and we never cease to admire it.These are wonderful land...

This elegant maritime oil painting by Karon depicts a magnificent tall ship sailing across a rolling ocean under a brilliant blue sky. The artist’s expressive brushwork captures both...

Title: Woman with Pitcher Artist: Antoni Valls Bordoy (1912–1980) Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 35 x 27 cm (13.8 x 10.6 in) Date: 1953 Signature: Signed “Valls Bordoy” in red at ...

The artist completed this sketch while painting en plein air in Pereslavl-Zalessky at Alla Prima in 2013. This striking artwork captures the tranquil beauty of a wintry forest. Set a...

Originally purchased at Abend Gallery in 2012. Born in 1957, in Omaha, Nebraska. English was raised in a rural town near Colorado Springs, and completed his formal artistic trainin...

Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Print on Canvas Subject: Stacks, SIZE: 13" x 16" x 0.8''inch, 33x41x2cm Unframed, Stretched on the wooden bar, Gallery Wr...

Montauban Harbour signed by Fanch Lel Size: 11.75 x 12 inches (height x width) Oil painting on thick board, unframed Inscribed Verso Condition: Good condition overall with minor sur...

Provenance Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist UNFRAMED: 11" x 14" FRAMED: 17.5" x 20.5" x 1.375" Signed "Obermeyer" on lower left

FRANCES H. GEARHART (1869-1958) SNOWBOUND c.1928 Color block print, Signed and titled in pencil. 11 x 6 ½” sheet c. 14 x 9” Laid down on backing board. The usual slight browning a...

Summer's Onslaught by Jon Carsman, (1944 - 1987) Date: circa 1979 Medium: Screenprint, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: AP Image Size: 25.5 x 17.5 inches Size: 30 in. x 22 in. ...

Tranquil River Scene French Impressionist artist, 1901 signed with initials lower corner oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 9.5 x 13 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condit...

Title: French Town Square Impressionist Painting with Figures and Market Stalls by Fanch Lel Size: 8.75 inches (height) x 10.5 inches (wi...

Frederick Kitson Cowley (British, 1878–1943) Nantucket Beach Dated 1929 Oil on card Signed and dated on the reverse A charming and atmospheric beach scene by the British painter Fre...

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A wide field opens onto an expansive sky, with trees marking the distant horizon. Artist Janet Dyer uses a brush and palette knife to capture the landscape in l...

This charming original painting on canvas by Joyce Roybal features a whimsical group of musicians joyfully playing instruments in Roybal’s signature naïve style. With bold colors, pl...

Impressionist New York City autumn city-scene depicting a horse and carriage ride through central Park. Figures are painted in a most intimate, yet energetic way, having a tranquil d...

A beautful early 20th century French imprressionist oil on panel depicting a wooded river landsape with a wonderful dappled light. The work is superbly executed, very atmospheric an...

Title: Colourful French Harbour with Figures and Boats in Expressionist Style by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 8.25 inches (height) x 11.75 inches (width) Oil painting on card, un...

1930's California Mountain Trail Landscape, Original Oil Painting, Signed A beautiful 1930's landscape titled "Trail into California Mountains" by Oklahoman artist Sidney Lorenzo Br...