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Gaston Sebire French, 1920-2002 Landscape with figures Oil on canvas 31 by 41 ½ in. With frame 38 by 48 ½ in. Signed lower right Gaston Sebire (1920 – 2002) Gaston Sebire, was one of Europe’s leading landscapists, was born in the village of Saint-Samson in Normandy in 1920. A self taught artist, he began to paint seriously at the age of eighteen. For eight years he worked as a postal clerk in the Rouen, sorting letters at night in order to support his career as a painter. In 1952 Gaston Sebire had his first exhibition at the Galerie Gosselin in Paris. The following years he enjoyed the double triumph of winning both the coveted Prix de la Critique and the Prix Casa Velasquez. The Latter award made it possible for him to spend a year and a half in Spain. Of this formative period he said, “They were my first, wonderful years without worry. For fifteen years I had never known what the next day would bring.” The year 1957 marked another important stage in his career. His painting “La Dinde” won the Greenshields Prize in a field of 136 competitors, making it possible for him to paint for another two years without the worry of finances. Winning the awards naturally drew public attention to the artist from Normandy, and his works were presented in highly successful one-man shows in Paris. Sebire was a Norman, a man strongly attached to the soil, and after his exhibitions in Paris, he returned to Rouen to his large house overlooking the town and once again plunged into painting the countryside. Gaston Sebire was a strongly built man with square hands and a rather heavy walk. He had immense vitality, and used that to his advantage.  As he said of himself, “When the snow falls, I can’t stay indoors. I set out with my paint box. I paint outdoors from nine in the morning until five at night. If it were only a question of money, one could just as well paint in one’s own room.” But Sebire went into the countryside, or into the village, and sets up his easel. When there is a café into which people are going; there is a fence, a telegraph pole, a few buildings in the background. The scene takes on life, vivid life, with a sense of some event about to take place in the scene. Like many artists, and like a typical Norman, Sebire was silent and solitary by nature, with a personality as strong and Frank as his paintings. A painting, he says, “must have an element of mystery, show an effort to look beyond the aura surface of things.” Sebire’s early paintings were somber with much use of black and white tones. In 1970 he turned to colour. The subtle light of the Normandy skies; the shifting light and color along the seacoast; the magnificent blues of the Rouen pottery...

A very fine Italian 19th century porcelain plaque of Madonna della Primavera ("Madonna detter Primavera with Bambino"), after Nicolò Barabino (1831-1891). The finely painted standing Madonna holding baby Jesus in her arms surrounded by flowers, framed in a Gothic revival style giltwood carved frame. The back inscribed: "Madonna detter Primavera - nach Barabino" and handwritten "E. Guenther, Phila". Signed lower left corner, circa 1890-1900. Nicolò Barabino (1831–1891) was an Italian academic painter of religious and historical subjects, active in Florence and Genoa. He was born in Sampierdarena. His initial studies were at the Genovese Accademia Ligustica di Belle Arti, under Giuseppe Isola. In Genoa, he befriended Maurizio Dufour. In 1857, he won the Durazzo scholarship to attend the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence. He designed some of the lunettes completed as mosaics for the portals of the Florence Cathedral...

A 19th century oil painting on artist board depicting four horses in a bucolic setting on the banks of a river. The primitive style and naive perspective give this piece of Americana a real charm. In the original carved and painted frame. With the label of the renowned 19th century New York City purveyor of paints and art supplies...

A Glimpse into French Romanticism: 19th-Century Oil Painting This captivating oil on canvas painting captures the essence of the French Romantic movement in the late 19th century. ...

19th century framed painting of family crests was hand-painted in the late 19th century and framed in the 20th century. The artist used ink and wat...

19th century oil on wood sea landscape painting. Signed.

Step back in time with our Late 19th Century painting, a treasure in good condition and a testament to the artistry of the past. Signed in the bottom corner, this piece carries the a...

A romantic Scandinavian oil painting on canvas from the first quarter of the 20th century represents a "Riverscape with Trees". Dimensions: ...

ALBERTUS VERHOESEN Dutch, 1806-1881 Cattle and Sheep in a Landscape (1852) Oil on panel Signed lower left "A. Verhoesen 1852", ink-stamped verso "32 SPK(?)" "G.A.S. 51" with torn ...

Alpine Views (Northern Italy) – Henry Marko (1855 -1921) Work dimensions: 33 x 44 cm each Measurements with frame: 41 x 50 cm Technique: oil on canvas Period: circa 1890 Henry Mark...

Artist: Jean Carolus Painted: 1862 Medium: Oil on board Interior Scene Period: Romanticism Signed & Dated: Lower left J. Carolus 1862 Dimensions: H: 24 3/4 / 62.8 cm W: 18 3/4...

19th century Moonlit landscape Measures: Oil on canvas, 67 x 51.5 cm With frame 75 x 59 cm Signed lower left “Luigi Giavazzi” The landscape illuminated by the nocturnal light of the moon that illuminates the sky depicts a collision between natural elements: if on the one hand we find the luxuriant hilly landscape with the rocks covered by shrubs and the grotesque tower with the lion of San Marco...