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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 Winter Landscape from 1928
Impressionist Winter Landscape from 1928

Impressionist Winter Landscape from 1928

Located in Stockholm, SE

In the foreground, a rustic wooden fence and a stand of evergreens emerge from soft, pristine drifts, their dark green needles and the artist’s characteristic ultramarine shadows con...

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1920s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Warm Autumn, landscape, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Warm Autumn, landscape, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang

Warm Autumn, landscape, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang

Located in Granada Hills, CA

Artist: Alex Kalenyuk Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on canvas Year: 2020 Style: Impressionism Title: Warm Autumn Size: 8" x 10" x 0.8'' ...

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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Park Scene" Parisian Impressionistic Oil Painting of Figures by the Riverside
"Park Scene" Parisian Impressionistic Oil Painting of Figures by the Riverside

"Park Scene" Parisian Impressionistic Oil Painting of Figures by the Riverside

By Francesco Tammaro

Located in New York, NY

Francesco Tammaro was born in Naples in 1939 where he attended the Instituto D'Arte di Napoli, one of the most reputed Fine Art schools in Italy. Shortly after graduation he traveled...

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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Impressionistic Rural Landscape Oil Painting Michael Budden Sunset Inspiration
Impressionistic Rural Landscape Oil Painting Michael Budden Sunset Inspiration

Impressionistic Rural Landscape Oil Painting Michael Budden Sunset Inspiration

By Michael Budden

Located in Chesterfield, NJ

Inspiration LL oil/panel 11 x 14 unframed, 17.5 x 20.5 framed "Inspiration II " is a beautiful impressionistic sunset landscape oil painting that I did of a farm near my studio in 20...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Edgar Degas, Three Dancers, 1945 (after)
Edgar Degas, Three Dancers, 1945 (after)

Edgar Degas, Three Dancers, 1945 (after)

By Edgar Degas

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Trois danseurs (Three Dancers), originates from the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island, 1945, this work reflects Degas’s sensitive mastery of line, movement, and the intimate psychological nuances of the ballet studio. Executed as a lithograph and pochoir on velin paper, this work measures 13 x 17 inches (33.02 x 43.18 cm). Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued. Rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island. Artwork Details: Artist: After Edgar Degas (1834–1917) Title: Trois danseurs (Three Dancers), from Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, 1945 Medium: Lithograph and pochoir on velin paper Dimensions: 13 x 17 inches (33.02 x 43.18 cm) Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued Date: 1945 Publisher: The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Printer: Albert Carman, City Island Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Notes: Excerpted from the album, Born in Paris in 1834, Edgar Degas lived, and surely loved the life of that city during most of his years. These continued somewhat sadly beyond those of most of his friends— into the debacle of the first World War, during which he died in 1917. Judging by the frequency with which he used them as models, he must have had an especial admiration for the ballet girls who followed a profession that at the time brought none of the glory and prosperity which attend it today. New aspects of the human body, revealed in movement, fascinated him. But his occupation with the simply anatomical side of his subjects never resulted in a cold interpretation. On the contrary there is a warmth and sympathy that pervades all of his work. The drawings here represent the painter in one important phase of his multi-sensitive view of life; and permit an insight which a more ambitious work might not do-into the operation of the creative process, the artist's transformation of reality as it passes through the mesh of his sensibilities. The Edition of this Portfolio is limited to MMMD examples. Rendered by Albert Carman. About the Publication: Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches (1945) is one of the earliest and most significant American postwar fine art portfolios devoted to Edgar Degas’s intimate works on paper. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, and rendered and printed by Albert Carman at City Island, the album sought to faithfully reproduce a group of Degas’s ballet-related drawings through a combination of lithography and hand-applied pochoir coloring. This hybrid technique allowed the edition to preserve the immediacy, tonal subtlety, and gestural delicacy central to Degas’s draftsmanship. Conceived as a fine art publication rather than a commercial book, the portfolio provided American audiences unprecedented access to Degas’s private, spontaneous studies—images that reveal the artist’s fascination with movement, anatomy, and the psychological atmosphere of the rehearsal studio. The album exemplifies the mid-20th-century revival of pochoir as a means of recreating the texture and coloristic nuance of original works on paper, and it remains an important document of how Degas’s legacy was translated into high-quality printed form for collectors, museums, and connoisseurs. About the Artist: Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was a French painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor whose groundbreaking fusion of classical draftsmanship, modern experimentation, and psychological depth helped define the trajectory of Western art, positioning him as one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; renowned for his depictions of ballet dancers, racehorses, theater scenes, cafe life, domestic interiors, milliners, laundresses, and women at their toilette, Degas reimagined observational realism through radical compositional innovation—employing extreme cropping, asymmetrical framing, oblique viewpoints, and dramatic lighting that anticipated photographic and cinematic language long before these technologies shaped visual culture, and although associated with Impressionism, he rejected plein-air spontaneity in favor of studio-based discipline rooted in the linear precision of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the expressive chromaticism of Eugene Delacroix, and the modernity of Edouard Manet while also drawing inspiration from Japanese ukiyo-e prints, classical sculpture, and early photography; his independent artistic philosophy resonated with and helped shape the innovations of Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, whose explorations of movement, form, dream logic, abstraction, and conceptualism all find antecedents in Degas’s investigations into seriality, temporality, and the fragmented figure, and his pioneering use of pastel, monotype, and wax sculpture fundamentally transformed each medium, influencing artists from Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Giacomo Manzu to Paula Rego, contemporary realists, experimental photographers, and choreographers; his works are held in nearly every major museum collection worldwide—including the Musee dOrsay, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Courtauld Institute, and the National Gallery, London—affirming his central place in the history of art, and the highest auction record for Degas was achieved at Sothebys London on February 3, 2015, when Danseuses en Bleu sold for 37,033,000 GBP, cementing his status as one of the most sought-after and enduringly significant artists of the Western canon. Degas pochoir, Degas lithograph...

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1940s Impressionist Art

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Lithograph

American Impressionist Artist Allen Dean Cochran Oil Painting Summer Catskills
American Impressionist Artist Allen Dean Cochran Oil Painting Summer Catskills

American Impressionist Artist Allen Dean Cochran Oil Painting Summer Catskills

By Allen Dean Cochran

Located in Chesterfield, NJ

"Foothills of the Catskills," 1915 Oil on canvas Signed and dated lower right: Allen D. Cochran, titled on the frame plaque 24" H x 30" W CONDITION Visual: Generally good cond...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Finds and Replicas, Oil Painting
Finds and Replicas, Oil Painting

Finds and Replicas, Oil Painting

By Onelio Marrero

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Onelio Marrero captures a moment inside an antiques shop, where a man browses lamps, pictures, and replicas of Frederic Remington bronzes. The interior i...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

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Oil

French Impressionist Oil on Canvas, 19th Century, of a French Market
French Impressionist Oil on Canvas, 19th Century, of a French Market

French Impressionist Oil on Canvas, 19th Century, of a French Market

Located in Cotignac, FR

French Impressionist oil on canvas painting of a Provencale market, late 19th century, by Joseph Faust. The painting is signed bottom left and is presented in a very fine carved and ...

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Late 19th Century Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

French Impressionist River and Park Landscape
French Impressionist River and Park Landscape

French Impressionist River and Park Landscape

Located in Cotignac, FR

A French Impressionist oil on canvas view of a river in parkland by the noted French artist Albert Uriet. The painting is signed and dated bottom right and is presented in a fine car...

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

"Point Pleasant" Bucks County New Hope PA River Snow Scene Oil Painting Framed
"Point Pleasant" Bucks County New Hope PA River Snow Scene Oil Painting Framed

"Point Pleasant" Bucks County New Hope PA River Snow Scene Oil Painting Framed

Located in New York, NY

A wonderful Impressionist winter pastoral scene of colorful quaint homes by the river. Willet has portrayed this piece in a most intimate, yet energetic way, and has packed much feel...

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20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board, Canvas

Signed Vintage American Winter Impressionist Framed Landscape Original Painting
Signed Vintage American Winter Impressionist Framed Landscape Original Painting

Signed Vintage American Winter Impressionist Framed Landscape Original Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique American landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 15 by 12 inches overall, and 12 by 10 painting alone. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.

Category

1920s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Impressionist Harbour Scene with Fishing Boats Lighthouse and Sunset Sky
Impressionist Harbour Scene with Fishing Boats Lighthouse and Sunset Sky

Impressionist Harbour Scene with Fishing Boats Lighthouse and Sunset Sky

By Fanch Lel

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: Impressionist Harbour Scene with Fishing Boats Lighthouse and Sunset Sky By Fanch Les Size: 15 x 18 inches (height x width) Oil painting on cardboard, unframed Condition: The ...

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20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Golden Foothills; Carmel Valley
Golden Foothills; Carmel Valley

Golden Foothills; Carmel Valley

By Ray Roberts

Located in Pasadena, CA

Acquired by the gallery directly from the artist UNFRAMED: 30" x 40" FRAMED: 39" x 49" x 2.5" Signed "Ray Roberts" on lower right Artist Statement "In Golden Foothills, I explore...

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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Mid Century Parisian Watercolor Scene - Palais Garnier and Cafe de la Paix
Mid Century Parisian Watercolor Scene - Palais Garnier and Cafe de la Paix

Mid Century Parisian Watercolor Scene - Palais Garnier and Cafe de la Paix

Located in Soquel, CA

Mid Century Parisian Watercolor Scene - Opera Garnier and Cafe de la Paix Vintage watercolor painting showing the historic Palais Garnier Opera house and the Cafe de la Paix in Par...

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1960s Impressionist Art

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Paper, Watercolor

1930's French Modernist Oil Painting Lunaria Honesty Plants Still Life Blue Jug
1930's French Modernist Oil Painting Lunaria Honesty Plants Still Life Blue Jug

1930's French Modernist Oil Painting Lunaria Honesty Plants Still Life Blue Jug

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Lunaria - Honesty Plant French School, circa 1930's period oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 18 x 15 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris Condition: very good condition The f...

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Fine Antique French Impressionist Signed Oil Painting Beautiful River Landscape
Fine Antique French Impressionist Signed Oil Painting Beautiful River Landscape

Fine Antique French Impressionist Signed Oil Painting Beautiful River Landscape

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

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...

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

Impressionist William Chadwick British/American Landscape with Trees Old Lyme Ct
Impressionist William Chadwick British/American Landscape with Trees Old Lyme Ct

Impressionist William Chadwick British/American Landscape with Trees Old Lyme Ct

By William Chadwick

Located in Chesterfield, NJ

Landscape with Trees Oil/Canvas 12 x 16 unframed, 21.5 x 25 framed signed LL Painting is in good condition, signed bottom left margin with craquelure in the clouds as shown. Housed ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

French Impressionist Oil of Twin Turrets and Trees Reflected in River Scene
French Impressionist Oil of Twin Turrets and Trees Reflected in River Scene

French Impressionist Oil of Twin Turrets and Trees Reflected in River Scene

By Fanch Lel

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: French Impressionist Oil of Twin Turrets and Trees Reflected in River Scene By Fanch Lel Signed: yes Size: 15 x 18 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unframed Cond...

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20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

The Tulip Poplar on Salem Pike, Impressionist Tree Landscape
The Tulip Poplar on Salem Pike, Impressionist Tree Landscape

The Tulip Poplar on Salem Pike, Impressionist Tree Landscape

Located in Beachwood, OH

Glen Tracy (American, 1883-1956) The Tulip Poplar on Salem Pike , 1920 Oil on board Signed lower left, dated and titled verso 12 x 9 inches 17.25 x 14.5 inches framed Since he studi...

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1920s Impressionist Art

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Oil

Sunset in Maksimkovo
Sunset in Maksimkovo

Sunset in Maksimkovo

By Simon Kozhin

Located in Zofingen, AG

This sketch, painted by the artist from plain air near Maksimkovo, is a dramatic landscape at sunset, capturing the approach of rain on the slope of the day and the transition from d...

Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Peaches"
"Peaches"

"Peaches"

Located in Edinburgh, GB

Original Oil painting by Ukrainian artist Evgeny Chernyakovsky ""Peaches" 60.0 X 50.0 CM / 23.6 X 19.6 IN HIGH QUALITY oil on canvas Signed on the front and back Dated 2026 Good co...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

French school Landscape House with Orange Roof signed
French school Landscape House with Orange Roof signed

French school Landscape House with Orange Roof signed

Located in Zofingen, AG

➡️ Landscape House with orange roof⬅️ ⏩It is signed J Dangu⏪ ⭐Medium:⭐ Oil on canvas ⭐Technique: ⭐Impasto painting with expressive brushwork. ⭐Size:⭐61x50cm / 23.6x19.7 inch ...

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Late 20th Century Impressionist Art

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Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

"Winter"

"Winter"

Located in Edinburgh, GB

The winter night landscape is immersed in silence and cold light. A river flows calmly through the painting, its dark water hidden in places by thin ice and snow. Moonlight reflects ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Louvre, Paris, Impressionist Oil on Canvas, Early 20th Century
The Louvre, Paris, Impressionist Oil on Canvas, Early 20th Century

The Louvre, Paris, Impressionist Oil on Canvas, Early 20th Century

Located in Cotignac, FR

French early 20th century architectural oil on canvas view of the Palace and Musee du Louvre in Paris by Émile Saudemont. The painting is signed and located bottom right and is prese...

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Early 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Roses  √ 5
Roses  √ 5

Roses √ 5

Located in Zofingen, AG

The painting is painted with large brushstrokes in the style of impressionism. The idea is based on color contrasts. The variety of colors is intertwined into a beautiful bouquet Coo...

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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Figures At The Summer's Day French Parasol Market Landscape Oil Painting
Figures At The Summer's Day French Parasol Market Landscape Oil Painting

Figures At The Summer's Day French Parasol Market Landscape Oil Painting

By Fanch Lel

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Summers Market Signed by Fanch Lel Size: 13 x 16 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board , unframed Condition: Good condition overall with minor surface handling marks and ligh...

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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

"Afternoon Glow" Colorful Serigraph of Lahaina Harbor, Maui
"Afternoon Glow" Colorful Serigraph of Lahaina Harbor, Maui

"Afternoon Glow" Colorful Serigraph of Lahaina Harbor, Maui

By John Cosby

Located in Laguna Beach, CA

This 90 color hand pulled serigraph exhibits all of the subtle brushwork, light, and color that the artist is known for. "Afternoon Glow" is signed by the artist in an edition of 240...

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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Screen

Impressionist Terrace Scene with Figures and Parasols in a Summer Setting
Impressionist Terrace Scene with Figures and Parasols in a Summer Setting

Impressionist Terrace Scene with Figures and Parasols in a Summer Setting

By Fanch Lel

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: Impressionist Terrace Scene with Figures and Parasols in a Summer Setting by Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 8.75 inches (height) x 10.75 inches (width) Medium: Oil on board, unfr...

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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

Mid-20th Century French Signed Oil Portrait of a Woman
Mid-20th Century French Signed Oil Portrait of a Woman

Mid-20th Century French Signed Oil Portrait of a Woman

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

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:...

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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

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Oil

Bayou Landscape (New Orleans Louisiana Artist)
Bayou Landscape (New Orleans Louisiana Artist)

Bayou Landscape (New Orleans Louisiana Artist)

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Nestor Fruge (1916-2012). Bayou Landscape, ca. 1970. Watercolor on paper, 13 x 19.25 inches. Framed measurement: 18 x 24.25 inches. Excellent condition. Signed lower left. B...

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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

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Watercolor

Impressionist Harbour Scene with Lighthouse Fishing Boats and Seagulls in Motion
Impressionist Harbour Scene with Lighthouse Fishing Boats and Seagulls in Motion

Impressionist Harbour Scene with Lighthouse Fishing Boats and Seagulls in Motion

By Fanch Lel

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: Impressionist Harbour Scene with Lighthouse Fishing Boats and Seagulls in Motion By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 16.25 x 12.25 inches (height x width) Gouache painting on board...

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20th Century Impressionist Art

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Gouache

Water Lilies
Water Lilies

BarnesWater Lilies

$2,120Sale Price|20% Off

Water Lilies

By Barnes

Located in Atlanta, GA

Born in the San Si Providence of China, Jang Jin Joong, known as his artist’s name Barnes, fell in love with art since he was a child. His passion for art continued into his pursuit ...

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2010s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil

Edgar Degas, Dancer, from Dance Drawings, 1936 (after)
Edgar Degas, Dancer, from Dance Drawings, 1936 (after)

Edgar Degas, Dancer, from Dance Drawings, 1936 (after)

By Edgar Degas

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite engraving after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Danseuse (Dancer), originates from the celebrated album Degas Danse dessin (Degas Dance Drawings), published by Ambrois...

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1930s Impressionist Art

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Engraving

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