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Artist: Unknown
Abstract Composition - Lithograph- 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 38 x 46.5 cm.
Abstract Composition is an original color lithograph on paper realized around the 1970's.
Signed in pencil on lower right margin. Signature not comp...
Category
1970s Abstract Unknown Art
Materials
Lithograph
Antique European Paris School Impressionist Cityscape Framed Early Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique European impressionist cityscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring 28 by 33 inches overall and 22.5 by 27.25 painting alone
Category
1960s Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
18th/19th C. Italian Alabaster Sculpture of Infant Hercules Wrestling a Snake
Located in Beachwood, OH
18th/19th Century Italian
Infant Hercules Wrestling a Snake
Alabaster
18 x 18 x 6 inches
40 lb.
In Greek mythology, the infant Hercules (Heracles) is famously depicted wrestling wit...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian School Unknown Art
Materials
Alabaster
1950s "Black Floor" Mid Century Bay Area Figurative Movement Gouache Painting
Located in Arp, TX
From the estate of Jerry Opper & Ruth Friedman Opper
Black Floor
c. 1940-1950's
Gouache on Paper
15" x 18" Unframed
*Custom framing available for additional charge. Please expect framing time between 3-5 weeks.
From the estate of Ruth Friedmann Opper & Jerry Opper. Ruth was the daughter of Bauhaus artist, Gustav Friedmann.
San Francisco Abstract Expression
A free-spirited wave of creative energy swept through the San Francisco art community after World War II. Challenging accepted modes of painting, Abstract Expressionists produced highly experimental works that jolted the public out of its postwar complacency.
Abstract Expressionism resulted from a broad collective impulse rather than the inspiration of a small band of New York artists. Documenting the interchanges between the East and West Coasts, she cites areas of mutual influence and shows the impact of San Francisco on the New York School, including artists such as Mark Rothko and Ad Reinhardt. San Francisco's Beat poets...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Ubersichtskarte Des Mondes (Overview Map of the Moon), antique astronomy print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Ubersichtskarte Des Mondes'
(Overview Map of the Moon)
German chromolithograph, circa 1895.
245mm by 305mm (sheet).
Central vertical fold as issued.
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Unknown Art
Materials
Lithograph
Antique French Impressionist Paris Street Scene Signed Nicely Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted early French impressionist street scene. Oil on canvas. Signed illegibly. Framed and ready to hang!
Category
1940s Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
18th Century Oil - Bust of A Man in Red Cap
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking portrait featuring a figure in 17th-century dress. He sports a red cap and dark clothing against a shadowy background, masterfully capturing the subject's intense gaze and...
Category
Early 18th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
The Knight - painting - XVII century
Located in Roma, IT
The Knight is an original oil painting on canvas realized during the XVII century by an anonymous artist.
Provenance: Pecci-Blunt collection. Good condition...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
German oil painting, Figures in an interior/barn playing, 19th century, Antique
Located in Woodbury, CT
Well painted late 19th-century German genre painting. Often painted in the Munich area of Germany these highly desirable antique paintings are always of t...
Category
1890s Victorian Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$1,720 Sale Price
20% Off
Cosmic Explosion Oversized Triptych by D.Taylor ( 3 Panels)
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5073 Cosmic triptych large 3 panel oil abstract
each panel 24x40"
signed D.Taylor
total 3 panels 72" wide
Rapped canvas
Category
1970s Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$850 Sale Price
52% Off
Bohemian French painter - Early 20th century figure painting - Nude female
Located in Varmo, IT
French Bohemian painter (early 20th century) - Female nude.
100 x 70 cm without frame, 109 x 79 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a gilded wooden frame (some cracks...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,801 Sale Price
40% Off
19th Century Silhouette Portrait of Elegant Man
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th Century Silhouette Portrait of Elegant Man
Stamped Barret 148 Holborn London
6.75"H x 5.5"W x 1"D
Category
19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Watercolor
Large Antique American Impressionist Winter Snowy Landscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American winter scene impressionist landscape painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Image size, 18 by 24 inches.
Category
1930s Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$620 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Art Deco Exhibited Signed Portrait Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderful and finely painted American modernist portrait painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 20H by 16L.
Category
1930s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,980 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract composition
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Golden wooden frame
63 x 72 x 5 cm
Category
1960s Abstract Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$1,201
German School Early 20th Century Oil - The Morning News
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming study of an older gentleman reading the newspaper. Signed illegibly to the lower right. Presented in a gilt frame with foliate strapwork. On canvas.
Category
20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$746 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Oil - Driving the Plough
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming oil study depicting two farm hands steadying an ox-drawn plough as turns the soil ready for sowing. The miniature work has been composed in a wonderful folk art style, pac...
Category
19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$248 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Nude
Located in Cologne, DE
Silvergelatinprint
Category
1970s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
$672 Sale Price
30% Off
Nude Woman - Watercolor by French Master - Mid 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Nude Woman is an original drawing in watercolor on paper, realized by an Anonymous artist of the XX century.
The state of preservation of the artwork is good with the signs of the t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Watercolor
Vintage Mid Century Abstract Still Life Framed Wine Bottle Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract wine bottle still life oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed. Signed.
Category
1960s Abstract Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$620 Sale Price
20% Off
1951 Swedish Abstract Still Life Oil Painting - Patterns of a Summer Afternoon
Located in Bristol, GB
PATTERNS OF A SUMMER AFTERNOON
Size: 69 x 56.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A lively and playful abstracted mid-century still life that transforms everyday objects into rhythm...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cuban Socialists - Historical Photo - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Cuban Socialists - Historical Photo is a black and white vintage photograph realized in the 1960s. It belongs to historical albumen including photo reportages of historical events an...
Category
1960s Contemporary Unknown Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Signed European Impressionist Sunset River Landscape Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderfully painted luminous European sunset landscape painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 16H by 11L.
Category
1890s Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Marcel Schuette - Framed 1933 Etching, Isfield Place
Located in Corsham, GB
A finely detailed etching of Isfield Place in East Sussex by Marcel Schuette. Signed, dated, and titled in graphite below the plate line. Smartly presented in a black frame. On paper.
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Etching
Old Master French Sanguine Drawing of Hercules
Located in Pasadena, CA
Old Master, French School red chalk drawing on paper is not signed .
Done in Sanguine on paper the nude appear like Hercule . The feel and look of the works while academic studies a...
Category
17th Century Baroque Unknown Art
Materials
Archival Paper
Late 19th Century Oil - Girl Beside a Water Fountain
Located in Corsham, GB
Initialled 'R.M.' lower left. On canvas on stretchers.
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of Jane Seymour (1508-1537) Second Wife of King Henry VIII 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of Jane Seymour (1508-1537) Second Wife of King Henry VIII , 17th Century
English School
Large 17th Century English Court portrait of Jane Seymour (1508-1537), Queen of En...
Category
17th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$5,994 Sale Price
25% Off
Vintage American Modernist Kitchen Jars Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American still life painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 10 1/2 by 18 1/2 inches overall and 10 by 18 inches painting alone. Framed in a wooden molding. Exc...
Category
20th Century Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Rabbits, German antique animal chromolithograph print.
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Kaninchen'
(Rabbits)
German chromolithograph, circa 1910. Key in German to the types of rabbits at the bottom of the image. Central vertical fold as issued.
245mm by 305mm (shee...
Category
Early 20th Century Naturalistic Unknown Art
Materials
Lithograph
Gothic Decorative Motifs - Vintage Chromolithograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Gothic Decorative Motifs is a vintage chromolithograph realized by an anonymous artist in the early 20th Century.
Good conditions.
The artwork represents Gothic Decorative motifs i...
Category
Early 20th Century Gothic Unknown Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
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
Khomeini Returning To Iran - Vintage Photograph - 1983
Located in Roma, IT
Khomeini Returning To Iran is a vintage black and white photograph realized on 2/01/79 in Tehran.
Khomeini leader of the revolution of 1979 in Iran, came to Iran, after 15 years of ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Unknown Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Original political poster - Fight to live - IRA - Irish Republican Army
Located in PARIS, FR
From the 1960s onwards, Northern Ireland experienced a period of unparalleled violence and political unrest. Several paramilitary organizations took up arms to fight against the British presence on their soil. This was the beginning of the IRA (Irish Republican...
Category
1980s Unknown Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Escuela florentina - Círculo de Alessandro Allori - Virgen Dolorosa
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Escuela italiana; finales del siglo XVII, Siguiendo modelos de ALESSANDRO ALLORI (Florencia, 1535 – 1607)
"Virgen Dolorosa".
Óleo sobre tabla.
Presenta faltas restauraciones.
Med...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
19 cent or earlier Signed Antique Original Oil Painting on canvas, Genre Scene
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is a fabulous antique 19th-century or even earlier original oil painting on canvas depicting an interior scene with a seated female nude queen w...
Category
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$2,300 Sale Price
50% Off
Antique still life painter (Italyl) - 19th-20th Still life painting - Flowers
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (19th-20th century) - Still life with vase of flowers.
83 x 62 cm without frame, 96.5 x 76.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on wood, in a wooden frame (not sig...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
$1,441 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Italian Impressionist Capri Seascape Signed Giltwood Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Italian seascape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Handsomely framed in wide giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.
Category
1950s Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Austrian School Early 19th Century Oil - The Courting Couple
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming society scene depicting a young courting couple being serenaded by a gentleman playing the cello. The artist captures the fine details of the luxurious interior, with a la...
Category
Early 19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Large Abstract Oil Painting, Contemporary British Artist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Large Abstract Oil Painting, Mythical Style, Signed.
British School, indistinctly signed.
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
Signed on the bottom right hand corner, and also on the bac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$1,322 Sale Price
20% Off
Josephine Haswell Miller (1890-1975) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Autumnal Meadow
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming oil study by well listed artist Josephine Haswell Miller. The scene depicts a meadow lined with trees in late autumn. Through the branches a quaint cottage can be seen in ...
Category
20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Mid 19th Century Watercolour - Resting On The Style
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming watercolour finished with graphic black hatching, showing a woman and three young girls resting on a style overlooking a beautiful valley. The woman and young girls are sm...
Category
19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Watercolor
$301 Sale Price
20% Off
Bert Hardy 'Mercedes Racer' Limited Edition Photograph by Getty, 20x24
Located in San Rafael, CA
Argentinian race car driver Juan Fangio (1911 - 1995) in his Mercedes at Le Mans, June 1955. The race saw the death of Mercedes team mate Pierre Levegh and 80 spectators. Original Pu...
Category
1950s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Abstract Expressionist Red and Blue Oil
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
Blue and red abstrct expressionist painting on rapped canvas no frame required
Signed on verso
Category
1980s Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Susi Zimmermann - Early 20th Century Oil, Nude
Located in Corsham, GB
This striking oil study depicts a nude female figure against a dark, muted background. The artist's bold brushstrokes and use of light and shadow create a sense of depth and dimensio...
Category
20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
J. K. Whitton - Framed 20th Century Oil, Calm Trees
Located in Corsham, GB
Original landscape in oil. Initialled to the lower right. Presented in a large wooden frame. On canvas on stretchers.
Category
20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$246 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Geometric Composition with Paper, Fibers, and Acrylic on Canvas (Red)
Located in Soquel, CA
Abstract Geometric Composition with Handmade Paper, Fibers and Acrylic on Canvas (Red)
Whimsical abstract composition by an unknown artist (20th Century). Red acrylic paint makes up...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Unknown Art
Materials
Jute, Acrylic, Washi Paper
Antique, 19th C. Peugeot Frères Brevetés French Coffee Grinder Table Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
This is being sold as a piece of (functional?) decorator table sculpture for a kitchen or restaurant. I do not know if or how it works. the wheel and gears turn. It might be missing a cover on the handle. It is a lovely antique piece. Made in France.
A halfcentury before they produced their first car, the Peugeot brothers were making coffee grinders, continuing to do so for over 100years. In 1840 the Peugeots produced their first moulin a
cafe out of a combination of metal and wood. The beans were inserted into the metal
hopper up top; metal gears were turned by a woodenknob-capped metal...
Category
Late 19th Century Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Metal, Brass
Original 19th Century Romantic English Landscape Village Cottage Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
This captivating early 19th century antique oil painting presents a beautifully executed pastoral scene by an unknown but undoubtedly professional English master - signed lower left ...
Category
Early 19th Century Romantic Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Vintage American School Modernist New England Landscape Framed Lake Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract landscape. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1960s Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$380 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Impressionist Children Playing Original Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist painting of kids in a park. Oil on canvas, circa 1920. Unsigned. Displayed in a giltwood frame....
Category
1920s Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cicciolina Puppet - Vintage Photograph - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Cicciolina Puppet - Vintage Photograph is a black and white photograph realized in the 1980s.
Good conditions with slight foxing.
Category
1980s Contemporary Unknown Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
19th Century British School
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charming 19th Century painting of a grandmother and grandauughter in front of their thatched cottage. It is an oil on canvas measuring 18 inches by 14. The frame measures 20 3/4 by 1...
Category
1890s Realist Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
S. Kurth - 1919 Oil, Autumn Skies
Located in Corsham, GB
An atmospheric landscape scene depicting the view from the top of a valley with rolling hills and cloud-spotted skies. The artist captures the scene in a muted palette, embracing the...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Modernist Outsider Pop Art Abstract Large Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Category
1950s Abstract Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid 19th Century Oil Sailing Boat on Scottish Loch Waters at Sunset Beautiful
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sailing on the Loch
British School, mid 19th century
oil on board, framed
framed: 10 x 14 inches
board: 8 x 12 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very good and soun...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$1,102 Sale Price
20% Off
French painting portrait Bearded italian man oil canvas Second half 18th century
Located in PARIS, FR
French school of the second half of the 18th century Oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm (57 x 49 cm with the frame) Very beautiful frame in gilded wood from the Louix XVI period with decoratio...
Category
Late 18th Century French School Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$1,441 Sale Price
20% Off
Escuela española - Óleo sobre tabla - San Domingo Guzmán
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
La obra es de autor anónimo.
El retablo va muy bien enmarcado con un marco neogótico del siglo xix en madera estofada y policromada.
Medidas del retablo: 88 cm. altura x 56 cm. anc...
Category
17th Century Baroque Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Male Nude. Charcoal Drawing
Located in Brecon, Powys
Really well executed male study
Charcoal on paper. Matted
Drawing in good order
Image 25" x 18". matted 33" x 25"
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Unknown Art
Materials
Charcoal
Abstract Landscape Arabic Mixed Media Colorful Collage Painting Arab Calligraphy
Located in Surfside, FL
Large mixed media on canvas composed of torn piece of burlap on canvas painted with a landscape scene of a city street, abstract shapes and shades and finished with glittered Arabic ...
Category
1990s Abstract Unknown Art
Materials
Mixed Media
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