Diane DESMARAIS Paintings

“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.” Lucian Freud. "Nudes are interesting to paint; I've had people say my Ladies are ...

A stunning oil painting scene depicting figures by the beach in a sunny day at Nice, France done in the 20th Century. The vibrant colors and impressionistic brushwork is done with bo...

Delos Palmer Jr. Tree in Winter Signed lower left Oil on Masonite 10 x 8 inches Delos Palmer, Jr. was born January 26, 1890 in New York City. His father was Dr. Delos Palmer, a socially prominent Park Avenue dentist. His mother was Jennifer Emma Banta. His parents were both born in NYC, where they married in 1880 and had five children. There had three sons and two daughters. He was the fourth born. They lived in a private townhouse at 48 West 50th Street, with a cook, a waitress, and a nurse to assist in his father's dental practice on the ground floor. They lived a privileged life and the children all went to the best private schools. He graduated high school in June of 1908. He studied at The Art Students League from 1911 to 1915 with the renowned American Impressionist, George Bellows. According to the artist, "Bellows was a good influence on me. He taught me how to paint what I see and what I feel!" In 1916 Palmer moved to the historic Holbein Studios at 139 West 55th Street. He worked there until 1920, when he moved to the more fashionable Greenwich Village, where he became a successful society portraitist. He was 27 years old during the Great War, so he was not selected for military service. In 1923 Palmer began to sell interior story illustrations to Metropolitan Magazine, The Saturday Evening Post, and Liberty. In 1924 he married Helen Smith Romme and moved to Stamford, CT, where they raised a daughter and two step-sons. The fateful market crash of 1929 ended Palmer's high society portrait business, but he soon found work through his contacts at Liberty magazine's MacFadden Publishing, which also produced several crime and detective magazines such as Master Detective and True Detective. He then began to paint pulp covers for Dime Mystery, Clues, Frontier Stories, Action Stories, Western Trails, All Star Adventure, Complete Western Book...

Here is a painting that will lift you - one feels happy every time one looks at it. It is such a lovely, unusual twist to the theme of the floral still life: here we have flowers, not in a vase, but attached to a wooden front door. I wonder if the artist did this with actual flowers, perhaps for a sweetheart, and then decided to paint the scene? At any rate: who wouldn't want to come home to find a large bunch of glorious lilac as they come home? The artist is Emile Baudoux (1850 -1929), who studied with Humbert and Cabanel. Paris-born, he liked to work in Normandy, where he had his studio. He exhibited his work at the "Salon des Artistes Français" until 1927, where he obtained a gold medal in 1910. The important oil on canvas presented here, dating from 1901, may have been shown at the Salon, as it bears an exhibition number "30" at the upper right of the canvas. It is signed and dated at the lower left as seen in the photos. Measuring 81 x 60 cm, the overall size including its original large oak frame...

Titled Ball Players, this charming oil on paper by Charles Henry Miller (1842–1922) captures a lively scene of figures scattered across a bright green field beneath a dramatic, textu...

Artist/ School: French Post Impressionist School, circa 1950's Title: Figures in a sloped Provencal village landscape Medium: oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 23.75 x 28.7...

Calvin Lai's (US based) "Remover of Obstacles" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a still life of a black elephant statue and a metal Lord Ganesha statue...

'Agay, le château et le Sémaphore'. Oil on canvas. +/- 1922 Signed lower right Measurements : 60 x 73 cm. This painting will be recorded in the second volume of the Catalogue Raisonn...

Blue ,cornflowers ,Russia ,Flowers, Published in a monographic catalogue Georgij MOROZ (Dneprodzerzinsk, Ucraina, 1937 - St. Petersburg, 2015) 1937: he was born in Dneprodzerzinsk...

Confidences is an modern artwork realized by a mid-20th century Artist after Pierre Auguste Renoir. Mixed colore oil painting. Includes frame: 70 x 7 x 57 cm The artwork is from o...

'City At Night' 2021 by American artist, Lawrence Kelsey. Oil on canvas, 14.5 x 11 in. / Frame: 20 x 16 in. Depicting a night view of New York City, this impressionistic painting inc...

Josep María Vila Cañellas (1914-2001) - Canyelles Sitges Spain - Oil on board. Oil measures 14x18 cm. Frame 30x34 cm. Josep María Vilá Cañellas (Vic, Osona, 1914 - Barcelona, 2001)....