Florence Pasternak Art

Lamentation of Christ Follower of Anthony van Dyck (Antwerp 1599 - London 1641) Late 17th-early 18th century Oil on canvas (64 x 51 cm. - Framed 77 x 65 cm.) This is a very...

French painter (18th century) - The Bellows. 80.5 x 112.5 cm. Oil on canvas, unframed (not signed). The scene depicts an interior with three full-length figures: on the left, a ma...

French painter (18th century) - Flute Player and Dog. 43.5 x 35 cm (without frame), 54 x 45 cm (with frame). Oil on canvas, in a carved and gilded wooden frame. The scene depicts ...

This captivating late 19th-century oil painting on canvas, signed with the enigmatic name Gayling, is a magnificent example of European academic romanticism. The canvas depicts a gra...

Gérard de Lairesse (Liège 1641 - Amsterdam 1711) workshop The Myth of Apollo and Issa (from Ovid, Metamorphoses, book VI, 122-124) Oil on canvas 65 x 82 cm. - Framed 84 x 99 cm...

**"The Flamenco" (Flamenco Dancer in an Interior)** James Durden (British, 1878–1964) Oil on canvas, 36 × 30 inches (42½ × 36 inches framed) Signed Lower Right A luminous and masterfully composed interior scene, this large-scale oil on canvas ranks among Durden's most ambitious and captivating works. A flamenco dancer, dressed in a richly tiered pink and green ruffled skirt, dark beaded bodice, and red hair ornament, stands with hands on hips in a moment of quiet confidence — poised between performance and repose. Her dark-eyed gaze is directed toward the light-flooded window, creating a compelling sense of psychological presence. The room itself is a tour de force of English interior painting: a crystal chandelier catches the diffused afternoon light filtering through gauze curtains; a gateleg table set with green-trimmed porcelain and a vase of pink hydrangeas anchors the foreground; a gilded Oriental screen glows warmly behind a teal wingback...

German Realist painter (19th century) - Two children training a dog. 56.5 x 46.5 cm (without frame) - 69 x 59 cm (with frame). Oil on canvas, in a gilt wood frame. Signed indistin...

Represented by George Billis Gallery, NYC & LA --A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the validity of the canon, paintings of the old masters on the walls of museums like the Met, the Louvre, Rijks museum still have a certain cache. They're revered not just for their technique but because they enshrine our collective past experience. Of course, it's a selected past that gets validated. Conspicuously absent to me as a gay man...

Venetian painter (18th century) - Oriental scene with figures in Turkish costume and a parrot. 43.5 x 63.5 cm (unframed) - 50 x 70 cm (framed). Oil ...

Italian painting from the mid-20th century. Artwork oil on canvas, glued on cardboard, depicting Seascape with boats and fishermen at sunset, in impressionist style, of good pictoria...

Charles Bertie Hall (British, Contemporary) French Harvest Landscape with Wildflowers Oil on board Signed lower right Presented in a Whistler-style frame A luminous and richly atmos...

A walk through any major museum will reveal paintings that depict or legitimate only certain kinds of experience. Despite the good intentions of critical theorists questioning the va...