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Artist: Unknown
'Fish, Dove and Musical Instrument', Italian School (circa 1940s)
Located in London, GB
'Fish, Dove and Musical Instrument', gouache on paper, from the Italian School of artists (circa 1940s). Surely this very attractive piece was inspired by Georges Braque (1882-1963) ...
Category
1940s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
$1,131 Sale Price
30% Off
Myanmar (Burma) Mandalay Standing Buddha
Located in Long Island City, NY
Myanmar (Burma) Mandalay Standing Buddha
Title: Standing Buddha
Medium: Painted hand-carved wood sculpture with gold and jewel detailing
Size: 60 x 26 x 8 in. (152.4 x 66.04 x 20.32...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Unknown Art
Materials
Gold
Mid 20th Century French Cubist Signed Oil Painting- Beautiful Composition
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, mid 20th century, signed lower front corner
Title: Cubist composition
Medium: oil painting on canvas, framed
Size: framed: 20.25 x 24.25
...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Whistlers Mother by Anonymous Artist Original Oil on Canvas 1924 after Whistler
Located in Soquel, CA
Whistlers Mother by Anonymous Artist Original Oil on Canvas 1924
Nicely executed painting after James McNeil Whistler of his mother by an anonymous artist (American, 19th-20th C.)
I...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
19th Century Oil - New Pastures
Located in Corsham, GB
This pastoral landscape painting captures a serene rural scene, with cattle gathered near a wooden gate in the foreground and rolling hills stretching into the misty distance. The ar...
Category
19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Modernist Framed Abstract Expressionist Beach Scene Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage abstract beach scene oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a wood molding. Excellent condition, ready to han...
Category
1950s Abstract Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Original "The 3rd Man" 1949 original first printing vintage movie poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “The 3rd Man”, 1949, linen-backed vintage one-sheet movie poster "The 3rd Man". NSS: # 49/452. Excellent condition with restored original fold m...
Category
1940s American Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Offset
40x60 "Apollo 8 Earth Rise" Space Photography NASA Fine Art Print Photograph
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Original museum grade exhibition prints on acid-free archival photographic luster paper.
These are the highest quality NASA prints ever produced.
Edition of 250
Taken aboard Apollo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Pigment
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
Flamenco Dancer with Fan
Located in Houston, TX
Stunning French ink drawing of flamenco dancer poised with fan extended, circa 1960.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Archival plastic sleeve...
Category
1960s Unknown Art
Materials
Ink
Antique American Impressionist Coastal Sunset Beach Scene Pointillist Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderfully painted sunset coastal beach scene. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 20"H by 24"L.
Category
1940s Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,980 Sale Price
20% Off
Marie von der Osten (b.1856) - Framed Oil, Apples in a Paper Bag
Located in Corsham, GB
Marie von der Osten (b.1856), Oil on canvas. A still life of apples in a brown paper bag. Well presented in a charming wooden frame with bead course to the inner window. Labelled ver...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Flowers in terracotta pot - Still life Oil on canvas
Located in Geneva, CH
Unsigned
Work on canvas
Gilded wooden frame
70,5 x 48 x 4,5 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$408 Sale Price
49% Off
VIRGEN CON NIÑO - ESCUELA CUZQUEÑA - SIGLO XIX
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Interesante óleo sobre lienzo de Virgen con Niño de mediados del siglo XIX.
Es de escuela Cuzqueña, va con un marco ebonizádo que le queda muy bien.
En buen estado general solo tie...
Category
19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Mi Careme de Nantes original vintage French poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original vintage French poster: Mi Careme de Nantes carnaval poster. Printer: Jagueneau - Nantes, France.
Over 50 years old, Linen ...
Category
1960s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Lithograph
ARTIST UNKNOWN 'Montauk Beach' 2025- Offset Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Titled Montauk Beach: 125 Miles in the Cool Atlantic, this reproduction captures the lively spirit of a classic American seaside destination. Originally created by Winchell Publicity...
Category
2010s Unknown Art
Materials
Offset
Hard Conversations by Murray Duncan, mix media on artist board
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Hard Conversations by Murray Duncan, 2023
Mix media on artist board
Size - 48" x 60" x 2"
Unframed
Murray Duncan is a self-taught creative visionary. Know for his large-scale, expre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Unknown Art
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Viollet Fuller (1920-2008) - Mid 20th Century Oil, October in Thaxted, Essex
Located in Corsham, GB
This atmospheric painting by Violet Fuller captures a moody, autumnal scene with rolling hills and sparse vegetation. The artist employs a muted colour palette of earthy browns, gree...
Category
20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Attrib. Franz Schams (1823-1883) - Framed 19th Century Oil, The Rehearsal
Located in Corsham, GB
Attributed to Austrian genre painter Franz Schams (1823-1883). This intimate oil painting depicts a lively gathering of musicians engaged in a much-needed rehearsal. An apparently di...
Category
19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
1920's French Charcoal Sketch of Seated Nude Lady The Artists Model
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Artists Model"
French School, circa 1920's
charcoal drawing on paper, unframed
paper: 24.5 x 17.5 inches
Condition report:
The painting is in good and sound condition
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Charcoal
A heron fishing – Edo School, 19th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Ink and watercolor on fibrous Japon paper laid down to period cream laid paper, 6 x 7 1/2 inches (155 x 190 mm). Minor toning and some insect damage on the mount, painting itself rem...
Category
Mid-19th Century Edo Unknown Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper
Incredible Large Modernist Sunflower Portrait Framed Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderful antique American modernist Sunflower still life painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1950s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,000 Sale Price
20% Off
1707 Antique 18 cent. original oil painting on canvas, Portrait Maria Adelaida
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is a beautiful Antique 18-century original oil painting on canvas depicting a portrait of a beautiful woman In a dress of dark gold brocade trimmed with lace. A bright bl...
Category
Early 1700s Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Antique American Fluffy Pomeranian Dog Portrait Wide Gold Frame Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible signed early American dog portrait painting. Oil on board. Signed. Housed in a period gold giltwood frame.
Category
1870s Realist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,980 Sale Price
20% Off
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XX (circa 1980s-90s)
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XX", oil on canvas mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an interm...
Category
1980s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
$1,043 Sale Price
30% Off
Set of 2 French antique dog paintings 19th Century watercolour dog paintings
Located in AIGNAN, FR
An authentic pair of watercolours featuring hunting dogs in their original frames, untouched since the 1880's. Very delightful and expertly drawn. The first, larger painting is of ...
Category
1880s Art Nouveau Unknown Art
Materials
Watercolor
Mughal School, 18th century – Emperor Jahangir in his harem in flagrante delicto
Located in Middletown, NY
Emperor Jahangir in his harem surrounded by lotus blossoms; symbols of paradise itself.
Circa 1690. Gouache and ink with gold heightening on cream laid paper, 8 1/2 x 6 1/4 inches (...
Category
17th Century Rajput Unknown Art
Materials
Gold
French school 20th Century, Portrait of a young man in green, oil
Located in Paris, FR
French school of the 20th Century,
Portrait of a young man in green,
oil on cardboard panel, cradled on the back
53 x 40 cm
This intense portrait is particularly moving and intere...
Category
1950s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Frank Sternberg - Barbizon School 1880 Oil, The Young Tatterdemalion
Located in Corsham, GB
This evocative painting depicts a solitary young boy in tattered clothing traversing a snow-covered rural path, framed by a wooden fence and distant trees against a muted winter sky....
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XII
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XII", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an intermediary of an ageing art professor from the Istituto di Arte di Porta Romana, Florence, Italy. The professor released works of artists whom he mentored over the years. We are unsure who painted the series we acquired as several are just signed, 'Giacomo', or, left completely unsigned, yet many are clearly by the same artist. This one is in good overall condition and has been newly framed with a French-style linen slip. The canvas is textural like one of the vintage maps...
Category
1980s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$853 Sale Price
30% Off
Large Antique American Impressionist Nicely Framed Picnic Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring 20 by 27 inches painting alone. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a gold g...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Board
$1,820 Sale Price
20% Off
Santa Fe The Chief Way original American railroad poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Santa Fe The Chief Way vintage railroad travel poster. Archival linen backed in very fine condition, ready to frame. Most of the Santa Fe Railway posters feature American Indians, but this poster features the big boss, The Chief! The poster has about a 1" white border around the entire image, the linen backing is not counted in the poster's measurement.
Several of the trains were named "Chief" which includes the San Francisco Chief, Texan Chief, Kansas City Chief...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Offset
Brook by the Church (Antique Oil on Panel, signed "M. Allen", Framed)
Located in New Orleans, LA
A beautiful Barbizon-style (though likely not French) landscape of a stream through the woods in the evening, with a church in the distance. It is signed "M. Allen." It is an evening...
Category
Late 19th Century Barbizon School Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
EXPLOSION OF FLOWERS - Watercolor on paper signed Gibor, Italy 1970
Located in Napoli, IT
Watercolor on brightly colored paper, signed Gibor, with wooden frame mis.cm.h.65x56
Category
1970s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Original "Stocks Americains" vintage French poster horizontal format
Located in Spokane, WA
Original “Stocks Americans” vintage poster. Linen backed in very good condition, ready to frame. No paper loss, no fold marks, clean and bright. Distress on one letter “S” in A...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Lithograph
$558 Sale Price
20% Off
Escuela española (XVIII) - Óleo sobre tela - San Francisco de Asís
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Como pueden apreciar, la obra no va firmada
Se presenta enmarcada la obra con un marco del siglo xix en madera estucada y policromada (el marco presenta algún leve descolche)
El es...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
"Black Nude" Minimal Figurative Black and White Abstract Monotype Print
Located in Houston, TX
Black and white minimal monotype print of an abstracted female torso. The work is signed and titled by the artist in pencil along the front lower margin. Currently hung in a black fr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Unknown Art
Materials
Monotype
Large Original Oil Painting on canvas contemporary Art young woman with a guitar
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an amazing, very impressive original large modern painting on canvas, depicting a young woman with a guitar sitting on the pavement.
The painting is in excellent condition...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$720 Sale Price
20% Off
Hubert Pattieu 'Art Graphique' 1985- Serigraph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 23.25 x 30 inches ( 59.055 x 76.2 cm )
Image Size: 19 x 28 inches ( 48.26 x 71.12 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling
Additional ...
Category
1980s Unknown Art
Materials
Screen
$64 Sale Price
57% Off
For Restoration Framed 19th Century Oil - At Home in the Alps
Located in Corsham, GB
Selling for restoration – this superb 19th-century oil depicting an impressive alpine view with a snow-capped mountain to the background. The artist has also captured two figures and...
Category
19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Barbara Urslerin - The Hairy Faced Woman
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
Barbara Urslerin, The Hairy Faced Woman, born in Germany in 1629 and exhibited as circus attraction. Suffered from Hypertrichosis (Ambras Syndrome).
Barbara Urslerin presents one o...
Category
19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Engraving
$102 Sale Price
20% Off
1930s Mexican Ex Voto Retablo – Healing Miracle After Fall from Church Tower
Located in Denver, CO
An extraordinary example of Mexican devotional folk art, this 1934 oil and ink painting on tin—known as an Ex Voto—depicts a miraculous healing following a life-threatening fall from...
Category
1930s Folk Art Unknown Art
Materials
Metal
Portrait of Diego Armando Maradona - Vintage Photo - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage black and white photograph depicting Diego Armando Maradona wearing the Argentina shirt.
Very good condition.
Category
1980s Contemporary Unknown Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Pacific Grove - Coastal Seascape in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Pacific Grove - Coastal Seascape in Oil on Canvas
Serene coastal seascape by an unknown California artist (20th Century). This impressionistic coastal landscape captures the rugged ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
A basket upgrade (springer spaniel)
Located in London, GB
Painted in 1922, this sensitive and beautifully observed portrait captures the quiet intelligence and loyal character of a liver-and-white Springer Spaniel. Seated with dignity on a ...
Category
1920s Realist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Swiss Vintage Snow Caped Alpine Village Langscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6052 Swiss vintage snow caped village landscape in an ornate wood frame
Image size 11x16"
Category
1960s Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Original AJANTA INDIA Bodhisattva Padmapani vintage travel poster 1959
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Ajanta India vintage travel poster from 1959. Archival linen backed in Grade A condition, ready to frame. Note that a later edition of this poster was printed but the im...
Category
1950s Old Masters Unknown Art
Materials
Lithograph
The Temple of Concordia, Agrigento - English School drawing, 19th Century
Located in Middletown, NY
A lovely grand tour image of the Doric architectural masterpiece dedicated to Castor and Pollux.
Dated 1863.
Watercolor and graphite on lightweight card stock, 10 x 13 3/4 inches (2...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Unknown Art
Materials
Watercolor, Cardboard, Graphite
Florals in classic urn Old Masters 17th century Dutch style
Located in Hillsborough, NC
‘Florals with Urn’ is in a classical Dutch style that dates to the 17th century. The canvas alone is 50” high by 30” wide; good-sized vertical painting, The bright flowers drape the...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,040 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Cubist Abstract Signed Framed Mid Century Modern Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage cubist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 27 by 34 inches overall and 24 by 30 painting alone. In excellent original condition. Handsomely fram...
Category
1970s Cubist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
VEDUTA DI PONTE NUOVO, Antonio Cardon - Print on paper with frame, modern
Located in Napoli, IT
Hand-colored print of the engraving by Antoine Alexandre Joseph Cardon of the original painting by Gabriele Ricciardelli. Edizioni Pontevecchio. Lily logo and a brush with the words...
Category
1970s Old Masters Unknown Art
Materials
Color
'Banks of Solitude' French School (1926)
Located in London, GB
Immerse yourself in the tranquil beauty of "Banks of Solitude," a charming oil painting on board from 1926. Though the artist is unknown, this exquisite piece captures the essence of...
Category
1920s Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Board
$521 Sale Price
30% Off
Audrey Hepburn in Gown with Dogs
Located in Austin, TX
Black and white glamour portrait of actress Audrey Hepburn posed smiling in a gown, walking poodles on leashes.
Audrey Hepburn was a British actress. Hepburn had a successful career...
Category
1950s Contemporary Unknown Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Large Antique Bird Still Life Oil Painting heron farmhouse hunting scene 1904
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Large Antique Hunting Painting still life of a heron. This unusual oil painting on canvas is signed in the bottom right and dated 04 (1904). An eyecatching smooth canvas, big enoug...
Category
Early 1900s French School Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Malcolm X and Muhammad Ali
Located in Austin, TX
Candid capture of Boxing legend Muhammad Ali smiling with Malcolm X at an event.
In 1962, Ali met Malcolm X, who soon became his spiritual and political mentor. Ali first met Malcol...
Category
1960s Contemporary Unknown Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
19th Century Oil - Madonna and Child
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming 19th-century study in oil depicting the Madonna and Child, rendered in a charming folk style. Unsigned. Well presented in a thick gilt frame with a gilt slip. On copper.
Category
19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
On-Of-A-Kind Contemporary painting on canvas, Abstract, Fantasy style, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale Original Abstract Acrylic Painting on canvas in a fantasy abstract style the viewer with its swirling, vortex-like composition of vivid colors and dynamic movement. At th...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Unknown Art
Materials
Acrylic
Humorous Gentleman's Magazine cartoon Dancing School
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Cartoon sketch, ca. 1955. Pencil on paper, sheet measures 8.5 x 11 inches. Unsigned with editor's notations.
From a group of sketches meant to be preliminary drafts for editor appro...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Pencil
$125 Sale Price
50% Off
Escuela española (XIX) - Óleo sobre tela - Retrato femenino
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra no va firmada
La obra se presenta enmarcada con un marco de la época de la pintura (el marco presenta alguna leve falta)
Medidas de la obra: 59 cm. de altura x 48 cm. de an...
Category
Mid-19th Century Old Masters Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Japanese Pagoda Woodblock Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3722 Japanese Woodblock on paper set in a vintage wood frame
Image size 9x10.5"
Category
1940s Unknown Art
Materials
Ink
$340 Sale Price
20% Off
Daniel Humair 'Roland Garros French Open' 2004- Poster
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Galerie Le Long Paris, 2004 French Open
Paper Size: 29.5 x 23.25 inches ( 75 x 59 cm )
Image Size: 29.5 x 23.25 inches ( 75 x 59 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: A: Mint
Shipping an...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Offset
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