Marie Calves Furniture

Framed watercolor by Albert Andre signed lower right. Measures 17" x 15" including frame and 12" x 9" sight. Provenance: Sothebys Andre came to Paris in 1889 as an industrial designer. At the age of 23 he enrolled at the studio of William Bouguereau at the Académie Julian, where he met Ranson, Louis Valtat and the young poet and dramatist Henry Bataille, who at the time was training as a painter. He illustrated L'étang de Berre by Charles Maurras and Les Petites Alliées by Claude Farrère. He produced cartoons for tapestries for the Beauvais factory. In his youth he worked in Paris and Loudun, but later settled in the Midi, where he became curator of the museum in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, building up a major collection of contemporary art, including works by Monet, Renoir, Bonnard, Vuillard, Matisse and Despiau. In 1923, as a friend of Renoir, he compiled his recollections of the painter in a preface to an album of collotypes of his works. He was initially influenced in his painting by Delacroix, and it was Cézanne's paintings that helped him discover how to give the impression of volume using colour: warm tones for illuminated surfaces and cool colours for shadow. But it was undoubtedly Renoir who had the most profound influence on him, especially as it was Renoir who noticed his paintings in 1894 and introduced him to Paul Durand...

The image shows "The Storm," an 1880 oil painting by French artist Pierre Auguste Cot, currently housed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The painting depicts a young c...

Miniature representing Marie Antoinette, late 19th century or early 20th century. A late 19th or early 20th century miniature of Marie Antoinette. H: 16cm, W: 14cm, D: 2cm

Extraordinary pair of massive art nouveau leather inset panel screens featuring flora and fauna embossed and painted designs. The leather panels ar...

Two Lacquer panels on wood Japanese inspiration soft colors , floral theme. Style Art Nouveau// Art Deco. French origine. Could fit perfectly above a pair of Art Deco or art Nouveau ...

Vincente Puig signed, oil painting "Europa", depicting the mythological subject of Europa on the back of Zeus turned into a bull. Signed top left. Newspaper article affixed to verso....

Beautiful, evocative Pencil Drawing Still Life with Flowers and Butterfly Early 20th century Signed at lower right The painting is embellished by a beautiful nineteenth-century la...

Hamilton Hamilton (American, 1847-1928) A large and impressive oil on canvas "Othello and Desdemona" after the William Shakespeare's play "Othe...

Very nice pastel on paper featuring a young girl noblewoman. This painting, never before on the market, comes from a private collection and is beautified by an impressive XVIII Cent...

Antique French pastel painting from 1925 depicting "maiden with dog",the author shows great skill in capturing the maiden's expression of happiness as well as demonstrating an absolu...

Painting, oil on canvas, The Dancers, signed Spadolini, early 20th century. Oil on canvas, 20th century painting, The Dancers, signed Spadolini, Alberto Spadolini, 1907-1972. Frame:...

A hand painted porcelain tile with a cherub and maiden. The frame with a gilt liner surrounded by a curly maple frame with nice mellow patination, Art N...