Max Herve Paintings

Edwin Hughes Signed and dated 1875 Framed oil on canvas Picture Size: 14 x 20" (36 x 51) Framed Size: 20 x 26" (51 x 66cm) Exhibited 1875 – 1895 Figure and portrait painter Edwin H...

Industrial Mid-20th Century WPA Modern Men Working American Scene Social Realism George Pearse Ennis (American, 1884-1936) "Forging a Gun Tube #1...

Signed and dated lower left. Includes a beautiful later wooden frame cm. 137x8x182. Very Good conditions. Prov. Christie's London, February 15th 1974, n. 19. This artwork is shippe...

In the late 1960', computers were different then they are today. A whole room was required to accommodate an IBM mainframe. It's here that this romantic scene takes place: in the p...

A child of the American South, Elliott Daingerfield was born in Harper’s Ferry, Virginia, and raised in Fayetteville, North Carolina, where his father, C...

"Chess" Mid-20th Century American Scene Social Realism Modern Art John Grabach (1886-1981) Chess Oil on canvas 30 x 36 inches Signed John R. Grabach ANA lower center Framed 35 x 41...

This oil painting called The Old Stone Stairway by Ferdinand Fagerlin offers an intimate glimpse into a quiet interior space, where the stillness of...

Circle of Giacomo Francesco Cipper, known as Todeschini (Feldkirch 1664 - Milan 1736) - Genre scene with young man and jug. 76 x 61 cm. Oil on canvas, unframed. (not signed) The p...

Guy Pene du Bois (1884-1958) "Two Figures in a Courtroom" 16 x 22 inches Oil on paper mounted to, c. 1945 Framed: 25 x 31 inches Provenance: James Graham & Sons Gallery Guy Pene du Bois' "Two Figures in Courtroom" is a WPA era American scene oil painting created in a realistic style. Modernism at its best The work is framed by Heydenryk. Pène du Bois descended from French immigrants who settled in Louisiana in 1738 and was raised in a Creole household. He was born in 1884 in Brooklyn, NY and first studied with William Merritt Chase at the New York School of Art and later continued his training with Robert Henri. Pène du Bois was greatly impressed with Henri's credo that "real life" was subject matter for art and throughout his life a realist philosophy informed his art as well as his parallel career, art criticism. In 1905, Pène du Bois made his first visit to Paris where he painted scenes of fashionable people in cafes rendered in the dark tonalities and impasto associated with the Ashcan School. By 1920, he had achieved his mature style, which was characterized by stylized, rounded, almost sculptural figures painted with invisible brushstrokes. The subjects of his paintings were often members of society whom he gently satirized. In 1924, Pène du Bois and his wife, Floy, left for France where they would remain until 1930. Returning to America showcases pictures the artist produced after this very productive period abroad. After five years of living in France, Pène du Bois was able to observe American life with fresh eyes. His work becomes more psychologically intense and less satirical. In Girl at Table a slender, blond is shown gazing at a small statue that she holds at arm's distance. The meaning is elusive, but a powerful sense of longing is evoked. Similarly, paintings such as Dramatic Moment and Jane are taut with unresolved dialogue. Both pictures depict mysterious interiors in which a lone woman anxiously awaits the denouement of a suspenseful scene. Other pictures, for example, Chess Tables, Washington Square and Bar, New Orleans, recall Pene du Bois's Ashcan origins in their depiction of urban entertainment. During this period, landscape becomes an important subject for Pène du Bois. Girl Sketching...

Jacopo Amigoni (Venice 1682 - Madrid 1752) - Madonna with Child and Young Saint John. 82 x 62 cm without frame, 104.5 x 86.5 cm with frame. Oil on canvas, in a carved and gilded wo...

Circle of Giacomo Francesco Cipper, known as Todeschini (Feldkirch 1664 - Milan 1736) - Genre scene with a young couple. 76 x 61 cm. Oil on canvas, unframed (not signed). The comp...

Venetian painter (18th century) - Madonna and Child. 37.5 x 45.5 cm (without frame) - 55 x 63 cm (with frame). Oil on canvas, in carved and gilded wooden frame (not signed). The c...