Leonid Balaklav Paintings

Family scene. Oil sketch on cardboard. This work will be recorded in the catalogue raisonné of the work of the artist currently in preparation. Jules Van Biesbroeck was the son of Jules Evariste van Biesbroeck, a painter of Ghent, but was born in Italy, in Portici, near Naples, while his parents were staying there. (In the 19th century many artists made educational trips to Italy). It was a long visit: the child was two years old by the time the family returned to Ghent.[1] After a short period of practice with his father, van Biesbroeck was enrolled in the Academy of Fine Arts in Ghent. His first painting, "The Shepherd" (French: Le pâtre), was sold at the Triennale in Ghent. In 1888, when he was only 15 years old, he made his debut at the "Salon des Champs-Elysées" in Paris with his monumental work "The Launch of the Argo" (French: Le lancement...

Original oil on canvas painting of a lavish interior dinner party scene by Venancio Zolla. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. Bibliography printed label on frame verso. O...

Louis Valtat (French, 1869-1952) Fauvist Oil painting of a mother and child. A very large painting by Louis Valtat titled Mere et Enfant (Mother and C...

This colorful post-impressionist French painting depicts a village scene likely towards the south of France. The location is along a river’s edge. The array of houses is rendered wi...

Mediterranean Harbor Scene with Boats and Figures, Spanish Oil Painting Artist: Juan Casellas Martínez Title: Mediterranean harbor scene with boats and figures Technique: Oil on can...

Otto Lindberg (1880-1955) 'The Moonlit Boathouse' ‍ Oil on canvas 60 x 95 cm, 73.5 x 108 cm framed Signed and dated 1940 There is something mesmerising about the way the moonlight...

Here we have a beautiful period 1921 charming oil painting by Emile Ancelet. Painting depicts a mother and child in a landscape. Painted almost Like a ...

Marcel Dyf, France (1899-1985) Claudine Medium: Oil on canvas Framed size: 29.5 x 26 Inches Unframed size: 21.5 x 18 Inches Signature: Signed Provenance: Private collection, UK ...

Mediterranean Town Square Painting Church Plaza Catalonia Spain Large Oil on Canvas Artist: Josep Moscardó (1953–) Title: Plaza de Santa María, Mataró Year: 2003 Medium: Oil on canv...

Spanish Mediterranean Fishing Boats Beach Scene Oil Painting Coastal Village Artist: Francisco Carbonell Massabé (1928, Spain) Title: Las Embarcadoras Día de Levante Date: c.1995 Medium: Oil on canvas Signature: Signed and titled verso Condition: Good condition Frame: Unframed Dimensions: 60 × 73 cm Original Mediterranean coastal village scene by Catalan painter Francisco Carbonell Massabé depicting fishermen and small boats along a Levantine shoreline under changing sea light conditions. The composition captures everyday maritime life through a loose impressionist brushstroke and luminous chromatic palette characteristic of late twentieth century Catalan coastal painting. Figures, boats and architecture are integrated into a balanced atmospheric structure typical of plein-air Mediterranean tradition. Scenes representing working harbors and coastal communities form a central subject within Carbonell Massabé’s production and remain especially appreciated among collectors of Spanish regional landscape painting. An excellent decorative and collectible Mediterranean maritime composition suitable for residential interiors, coastal houses and curated European landscape painting collections. Francisco Carbonell Massabé (Barcelona, 1928) trained at La Llotja and the School of Fine Arts of Barcelona. His work focuses primarily on Mediterranean landscapes, ports and urban coastal scenes rendered through impressionist brushwork and light-sensitive chromatic structure. He exhibited widely across Spain and Europe including Paris, Munich and Palma de Mallorca, developing a recognizable body of work centered on Mediterranean atmosphere and everyday maritime life. This painting belongs to the Catalan Mediterranean landscape tradition connected with: Joaquim Mir Eliseu Meifrèn Santiago Rusiñol Ramon Pichot and later twentieth-century coastal impressionist painting...

Mediterranean White Village with Mother Child Donkey and Hens Oil Painting Artist: Ignacio Gil Sala Title: Mediterranean Scene with Mother, Child,...

Very finely painted in muted pastel colors is an original oil on canvas board painting by the American artist, Norwood Hodge MacGilvery. Signed lower right. Titled verso along with ...

Pluie a Venice is painted in Hambourg's preferred palette of muted blue-green, grey, and gold with splashes of ruby red, deep blue, and emerald green. The soft colors work well for beach scenes and rainy days such as the ones portrayed in this painting. The impressionistic scene shows multiple pedestrians strolling down the boardwalk, shielding themselves from the rain with colorful umbrellas that provide pops of color and balance the overcast sky. The background contains a three-masted ship and Piazza San Marco's famous bell tower and Basilica. Hambourg uses the minimum number of brushstrokes necessary to portray ships, seagulls, buildings and people as well as reflections on the glistening sidewalk. The brushstrokes in the sky have an interesting texture that is controlled yet carefree and there is heavy impasto throughout. His portrayal is both realistic and romanticized. Hambourg was clearly influenced by the great Impressionist artists of earlier generations, perhaps none more than the one with a direct connection to his family. Hambourg's wife, Nicole Rachet, was born into a family with a large collection of works by Impressionist master Eugene Boudin. Rachet's grandfather was a contemporary and friend of Boudin's, and a collector of his work. In their later years, Hambourg and Rachet donated over 300 canvases by Boudin and other artists to the Eugene Boudin Museum in Honfleur, France. It was such a large and important gift that the collection bears...

Signed lower left Lillian Genth was an important American figurative painter. She studied in the U.S. and in Paris, under James McNeil Whistler. Genth p...

Colorful Mediterranean Beach Promenade with Café Terraces and Figures Artist: Elisabeth Ollé Curiel Title: La Playa Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 60 × 73 cm / 23.62 × 28.74 in Framed dimensions: 78 × 91 cm / 30.71 × 35.83 in Signature: Signed “Ollé Curiel” lower right Inscription: Titled “La Playa” on the reverse Origin: Spain Style: Fauvist, Expressionist, Mediterranean Modern Period: Late 20th century Condition: Good original condition, with minor signs of age and wear consistent with its history Frame: Presented in its original wooden frame DESCRIPTION A vibrant Mediterranean beach scene by Spanish painter Elisabeth Ollé Curiel, depicting a lively seaside promenade filled with café terraces, striped awnings, strolling figures and sunlit architecture overlooking the deep blue sea. Ollé Curiel constructs the composition through broad, spontaneous brushstrokes and an exuberant palette of turquoise, cobalt blue, emerald green, yellow, red and ochre. The figures and architectural elements are deliberately simplified, creating a rhythmic and highly expressive vision of everyday coastal life. The large green-and-white café canopy anchors the foreground, while the promenade leads the eye toward the sea and the bright horizon. Rather than offering a literal representation, the artist transforms the beach into a celebration of color, movement and Mediterranean light. The painting is signed in the lower-right corner and titled “La Playa” on the reverse. Its generous format and vivid chromatic presence make it an excellent statement piece for a contemporary, modernist or Mediterranean-inspired interior. ARTIST BIOGRAPHY Elisabeth Ollé Curiel is a Spanish painter and sculptor born in Barcelona in 1960. Her artistic identity is shaped by both her Catalan background and her family connections with Venezuela and the Caribbean. Her work explores memory, cultural identity, travel and the meeting of different landscapes and traditions. Mediterranean villages, Caribbean settings, urban scenes, music and the human figure frequently appear in her paintings. Ollé Curiel’s pictorial language combines expressive color, simplified forms and gestural brushwork. Her work reveals affinities with Fauvism, Expressionism and lyrical abstraction while maintaining a distinctive and highly personal character. Her paintings have been exhibited internationally and are appreciated for their vitality, emotional immediacy and fusion of European and Caribbean visual influences. PICTORIAL INSPIRATION The painting reflects the legacy of Henri Matisse, Raoul Dufy and the Fauvist tradition, particularly in its liberated use of color, flattened perspective and joyful interpretation of Mediterranean life. Its energetic brushwork and spontaneous figures also evoke European Expressionism, while the luminous palette and bustling café atmosphere recall the modern coastal scenes painted throughout the French and Spanish Mediterranean during the 20th century. Mediterranean beach painting, Spanish modern art, colorful seaside painting, beach promenade art, café terrace painting...