Erik Johnsen Art

Sir Matthew Smith, CBE (British, 1879 – 1959) Still life with sculpture oil on board 21.1/4 x 23.3/4 in. (54 x 60.3 cm.) Provenance: Removed with the contents of his Aix studio, by Marion Monay, tfor the aertistin early 1940, to Beauchene, the nearby house of fellow artist Harry Morton Colvile (1905-1992) Given by the artist toColvile in January 1946 along with otherstudio effects. Given by Colvile’s only child, Professor Georgiana Colvile (1943-2018) to the present owner circa 2000 Literature: Alice Keene, ‘The Two Mr Smiths, The Life and Works of Matthew Smith’, 1995, pp.61,65,70 & 128 When in early 1940 Smith went back to Aix to pack up and close his studio there and send back to London all the paintings possible, the residue was hidden (see Literature, Keene 1995, p.61,65 &70) in various locations around Aix by Marion Monay, a good deal at Beauchene the house of his and her friend Harry Colvile who had been Monay’s lover prior to Smith (see Literature, Keene 1995, p.59) In 1946 with the war over, Smith went to Aix to retrieve all he could manage to ship back to England but what he had to leave at Beauchene he give to Colvile, including the clay female...

A joyous colorful floral still life painting depicting a bunch of freshly picked flowers placed effortlessly. The piece is done in a highly impressionistic manner and is a wonderful display of Reilly's more impromptu style, with bold colors of joyful yellow, deep rouge, and softer colors of light blue, hints of brown, and pops of pink. White ostrich daisies along with blue bluebells, orange, yellow and mamey flowers on a background of bright green grass and dark bushes in the background. This still life in nature, in the garden from nature. This bouquet reminds us of sunny summer days filled with the scent of flowers and nature. This piece is titled and has artist's estate stamp on the back, it comes housed in a contemporary gold leaf plain air wood frame with hanging wire on verso ready to be displayed. Art measures 30 x 24 inches Frame measures 37 x 31 inches John Reilly is a critically acclaimed and award-winning New Jersey artist, born in Brooklyn, NY in 1942. He received his early art training at the School of Art and Design, formally known as ‘The School of Industrial Art’ in Manhattan, where he studied advertising art. By the age of twenty-three, he operated a mid-town-based sales promotion agency, eventually expanding the business to service large companies such as Bacardi Rum, Johnson and Johnson, Nabisco, and KLM...

"Interior with Chair and Vanity" circa 1918 Ricardo Gomez-Gimeno (Spain/France 1892-1954) Oil on cardboard Signed 17 1/4 x 14 1/4 (22 1/2 x 19 1/2 frame) This painting and its mat...

Mid-Century post impressionist oil on board of waterlillies by French artist Marc Mussier. Signed and dated 1959 to the reverse. This evocative oil painting captures a serene aquat...

Abstract geometric three-dimensional wood wall sculpture in bright pastel hues of sage green, light grey, and beige "Turnabout", hand-carved wooden wall sculpture by Hudson Valley ar...

French Mid 20th Century oil on board Fauvist still life, flowers in a vase in an interior scene, by Hyppolite Roger. The painting is signed bottom righ...

Forest Moons is an abstract painting in layered greens, with a mix of soft circular shapes and more solid, angular forms. The composition suggests a natural setting, with lighter spo...

Carl Johansson (1863–1944) Sweden Lavaklippstrand, Tenerife (Lava Coast, Tenerife), 1894 signed lower left “Carl Johansson” oil on canvas, executed in grisaille unframed 27.5 × 49.5 cm (10.8 × 19.5 in) framed 39 × 61 cm (15.4 × 24 in) Literature: För Svenska Hem. Illustrerad Familjetidskrift, first year, 1895–1896, issue 26, pp. 416–417, reproduced across the centre spread. The contemporary caption reads: “Bild från Tenerife: Lavaklippstrand. Efter en oljemålning för ‘För Sv. Hem’ af Carl Johansson.” Condition report: Please contact the gallery for a detailed condition report. Essay: Painted during Carl Johansson’s journey to Tenerife in 1894, Lavaklippstrand presents the volcanic Atlantic coastline as an austere study of rock, water and light. Jagged formations of dark lava dominate the foreground and middle distance, breaking the surface of the sea in an irregular progression towards the horizon. Behind them, the coast dissolves gradually into mist, while the almost colourless sky occupies the upper half of the composition. The painting is unusually restrained for a landscape executed during a period when Johansson had recently encountered the brighter palette of modern French painting. Here, instead, he deliberately reduces the scene to a near monochrome range of blacks, greys, browns and white. Johansson was born in Härnösand in 1863 and studied at the Royal Swedish Academy of Fine Arts in Stockholm between 1882 and 1885, where his teachers included Edvard Perséus and the landscape painter Per Daniel Holm. He belonged to the generation of Swedish artists that increasingly looked beyond academic landscape conventions during the 1880s and 1890s. A period in France in 1891 and 1892 brought him into closer contact with contemporary French landscape painting...

This atmospheric painting depicts Kornhamnstorg in Gamla stan during the quiet hours of evening. The scene unfolds along the waterfront where the historic square meets the water, wit...

Axel Haggren (1898–1968) Sweden Mountain Landscape, 1936 signed and dated lower left A. Haggren -36 oil on panel unframed 39 × 49 cm (15.4 × 19.3 in) framed 50 × 59 cm (19.7 × 23.2...

Olof Thunman (1879–1944) Sweden Sandö, Wallda Varby, Halland, 1913 oil on canvas (laid on panel) unsigned unframed 31 x 47 cm (approx. 12.2 x 18.5 in) framed 42 x 58 cm (approx. 16...

Signed oil on canvas figures and animals in landscape circa 1955 by French post impressionist painter Jean Dufy. This colourful piece depicts a view of horses and their riders at a s...

Abstract geometric three-dimensional wood wall sculpture in bright hues of red, peach, pink, maroon, white and beige Piquant, hand-carved wooden wall sculpture by Hudson Valley artis...

Signed oil on board riverscape circa 1950 by French Post Impressionist painter Georges Charles Robin. The work depicts a view of the Dordogne riv...

A complex composition of interlocking pyramids defines Cornwell not only as a great storyteller but a master of painting fundamentals and design. There is no living artist today who can paint and draw at a level comparable to Dean Cornwell. Published in Cosmopolitan magazine: "The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber" by Ernest Hemingway Reproduced in Dean Cornwell, Dean of Illustrators (Broder) The work is rendered in the painterly style of a school of impressionism. Dean Cornwell was Normam Rockwell's favorite Illustrator. He was a student of Harvey Dunn, he in turn taught artists and developed talents for a generation. Oils for Cosmopolitan, Redbook, True, American Weekly, Life, Good Housekeeping. Book art for Man from Galilee and others. Ad contracts for GM, Eastern, Pennsylvania Railroad, Paul Jones Whiskey, Aunt...