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Artist: Unknown
Lobbycard, The Beatles' - Yellow Submarine, Movie, Film, USA 1968
Located in Cologne, DE
Yellow Submarine (also known as The Beatles: Yellow Submarine) is a 1968 animated musical adventure film inspired by the music of the Beatles, directed by animation producer George D...
Category
1960s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Archival Paper
Circa 1944 original poster showcasing the Swastika Broken by the Allies
Located in PARIS, FR
The circa 1944 original poster showcasing the "Croix gammée brisée par les alliés" (Swastika Broken by the Allies) is a powerful piece of World War II propaganda art. This poster cap...
Category
1940s Unknown Art
Materials
Linen, Lithograph, Paper
Terrace on the Sea - Oil Painting on Panel - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Terrace on the Sea is an original painting realized in the 19th century by an anonymous artist.
The artwork is a colored oil panting on panel.
Signed on the ...
Category
19th Century Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Framed Mid 20th Century Oil - Market Day, Honfleur
Located in Corsham, GB
A vibrant oil painting depicting a bustling market day in the Normandy commune of Honfleur. Well-presented in a large gilt-effect frame with foliate mouldings. On canvas on stretchers.
Category
20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$412 Sale Price
20% Off
Lake Giverny Monet Inspired Tapestry
Located in Atlanta, GA
Claude Monet's painting of his lily pond at Giverny is transformed into this beautiful dramatic jacquard tapestry woven in Belgium. Monet painted many scenes from his home at Giverny...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Tapestry
Pair of Antique Hand Painted Chinese Jars With Foo Dogs and Inscriptions
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Pair of Antique Hand Painted Chinese Vases with Foo Dogs and Inscriptions
China, early 20th century
Porcelain
17 x 8 x 8 inches
Painted in iron red, these Foo Dogs or Imperial Guardian Lions are strong Feng Shui protection symbols which were traditionally placed in front of Imperial palaces, temples, and government offices. They were also a traditional symbol of family wealth and social status and were placed in front of wealthy homes.
It is widely accepted that foo dogs were created sometime after real lions...
Category
Early 20th Century Qing Unknown Art
Materials
Porcelain, Paint
$1,500 Sale Price
75% Off
Fine Early 19th Century Oil - Lady in a Yellow Shawl
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightfully fine early 19th-century portrait of an elegant lady with fair skin and rosy cheeks. The subject wears a yellow shawl, delicate gold hoops and a glittering emerald broo...
Category
Early 19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Painting Normandy Dieppe harbor Naïve art French 20th
Located in PARIS, FR
20th century French painting
View of the quays of Dieppe, Normandy
Oil on canvas (old canvas)
Located at the bottom left "Dieppe"
47 x 65 cm
Naïve art of th...
Category
20th Century French School Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Detailed Contemporary Impressionist Train Station Signed and Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Super detailed French impressionist train depot painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 16"H x 20"L.
Category
1990s Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$780 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Oil Painting The Blacksmith Shop 1940's
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
1664 Antique oil painting of a blacksmith shop in the south
Image size 17.5x 23.5"
Framed
Category
1940s Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Vintage French Impressionist Floral Still life Vase of Flowers
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3795 Impressionist vase of flower
Signed on verso Gelant
Set in a carved gilt wood frame
Image size 19.75 x15.75"
Category
1970s Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Young Beautiful Framed Woman Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderful American modernist portrait painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 20H by 16L.
Category
1940s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Naturalistic Italian painter - 19/20th still life painting - Flowers
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (dated 1919) - Still life with vase of roses.
117 x 90 cm.
Antique oil painting on canvas, without frame.
- Work signed and dated bottom right: “P. Daudenarde 1919”...
Category
Early 20th Century Naturalistic Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,364 Sale Price
42% Off
Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XXII (circa 1980s-90s)
Located in London, GB
"Florentine Expressions: A Portrait Series XXII", oil on canvas, mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an int...
Category
1980s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
$1,043 Sale Price
30% Off
French School of the 18th Century : Mythology, Bacchanalia - Oil on canvas
Located in Paris, IDF
French School of the 18th century
Mythology : Bacchanalia
Oil on canvas
Unsigned
On canvas 43 x 34 cm
Presented in a gilded carved wooden frame 58 x 49 cm
Very good condition, smal...
Category
Early 18th Century Academic Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Vintage Hawaiian Landscape Framed Tropical Modern Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Finely painted contemporary tropical landscape. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed verso.
Category
Early 2000s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$380 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American School Ashcan New York Cityscape Signed Street Scene Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderfully painted American impressionist street scene oil painting. Framed. Oil on board. Signed. Image size, 12H by 16L.
Category
1960s Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,800 Sale Price
20% Off
The Lamentation Of Christ, 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
The Lamentation Of Christ, 17th Century
follower of CARAVAGGIO (1571-1610)
17th century Italian Old Master depiction of the Lamentation Of Christ, oil on canvas laid to panel. Exce...
Category
17th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel
$3,522 Sale Price
35% Off
Robert Béenard (1734-1794) - 18th Century Engraving, Le Cirier & Le Vanille
Located in Corsham, GB
Well presented in a simple mahogany frame and cream mount On wove.
Category
Early 18th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Engraving
Late 19th-Century Calming Landscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This late 19th-century (or early 20th) painting can have a deeply calming effect on the viewer. Based on the framing label, which points to a supplier located at the time in The Hagu...
Category
Late 19th Century Barbizon School Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Scale Persian Hunt Landscape Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-01 Large Scale Persian Hunt, circa 1920's oil painting on canvas depicting hunting scene, displayed in a wood-gesso frame.Image size 39 H X 59.5 W
Arti...
Category
1920s Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Original oil painting on canvas, cityscape, Paris, unsigned, framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This vibrant impressionist-style cityscape captures a bustling Parisian street scene, likely from the late 19th or early 20th century. Tall, historic buildings with warmly glowing sh...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
1984 Pierre Etaix 'Vive la pub' Art Book
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vive la Pub, published in 1984 by Gilbert Salachas, Paris, is a hardcover edition bound in blue cloth with a dust jacket. While the jacket shows a few small tears, the book remains i...
Category
1980s Contemporary Unknown Art
Materials
Other Medium
$60 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage American Pointillist Figurative Landscape Framed
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3170a Rare and finely painted American Colorful Pointillist landscape oil painting of a woman with an umbrella.Signedn Baxter
Set in a vintage wood frame
Category
1950s Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Stormy Sea - Mixed colored Oil on Canvas - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Stormy sea is an original modern artwork realized by Artist of Northern Europe School of the mid-19th Century.
Mixed colored oil on canvas.
Includes frame.
Category
Mid-19th Century Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
1943 Focke-Wulf FW 190 Würger Luftwaffe World War 2 airplane recognition poster
Located in London, GB
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US Naval Aviation Training Division
Focke-Wulf Fw 190 - World War II aeroplane
Aeroplane identification poster, 1943
63x47cm
A particularly unusual style of aeroplane identification poster, owing to the very arty images. Most such posters rely on very plain silhouettes, this series - and we have several in this series - have a much more arty approach to the task with shading and an interesting angle view.
The Würger (in English, Shrike) is a single-seat single-engined fighter airplane widely used during World War II by the Germans. Designed in 1936 over 20,000 were built, beginning operations in August 1941 outclassing the Spitfire Mk V...
Category
1940s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Lithograph
Antique American School Summer Beach Scene Framed Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape beach scene oil painting. Oil on board. No signature found. Framed. Image size, 18L x 14H.
Category
1950s Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
J. Urban - Late 19th Century Oil, Still Life, Fruit & a Pheasant
Located in Corsham, GB
A large late 19th century still life of fruit, captured alongside a freshly shot pheasant. Signed' J. Urban' to the lower left. On canvas on stretchers.
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$380 Sale Price
20% Off
Early 20th Century Oil - The Blacksmiths
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine early Century oil interior scene showing a blacksmith's workshop, with three men working at their stations with large, arched windows flooding the space with natural light and...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$532 Sale Price
20% Off
Hurki Costume for an opera - Pencil and watercolor drawing by Taho - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
Costume for an opera is an original artwork realized by Taho in the 1930s.
Beautiful pencil and watercolor drawing on cardboard.
Good conditions.
Category
1930s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Architectural whimsy with Roman ruins, column and ancient arches.
Located in Firenze, IT
Architectural whimsy with Roman ruins, column and ancient arches. Year 1718.
Oil on Canvas. Original canvas.
Roman school of the early 18th century.
The painting is part of the seri...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian School Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,063 Sale Price
40% Off
Vintage Impressionist Portrait Painting Nicely Framed Mid Century Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage impressionist portrait painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed.
Category
1960s Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$316 Sale Price
20% Off
Agnus dei - Puerta de sagrario - Siglo XVII
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Muy interesante puerta de sagrario de madera tallada y policromada del siglo xvii.
Es de comienzos del barroco, hay la representación del agnus dei con...
Category
17th Century Baroque Unknown Art
Materials
Wood Panel
$1,134 Sale Price
20% Off
Isaac Newton, physicist, scientist, 19th century portrait engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Isaac Newton'
Steel-engraving. C1850. Facsimile signature below title.
80mm by 60mm (image) 260mm by 170mm (sheet)
Sir Isaac Newton (1642 – 1726/27) was an English polymath acti...
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Unknown Art
Materials
Engraving
The Actress Barbara Bouchet - Vintage b/w Photograph - 1986
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage Photo.
Rome, 13.3.86, The German-American Actress Barbara Bouchet.
Good condition.
Category
1980s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Trevor Frankland (1931-2011) - 20th Century Linoprint, Interior with Fruit Bowl
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. On Japanese paper.
Category
20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Screen
Framed Early 20th Century Watercolour - Traditional Geisha
Located in Corsham, GB
This early 20th century watercolour & gouache study depicts a beautiful Japanese Geisha wearing a luxurious silk kimono, adorned with delicate embroidery and hand-painting. Every par...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Watercolor
$369 Sale Price
20% Off
American School Modernist Large Abstract Expressionist Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 36L x 36H.
Category
1970s Abstract Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$316 Sale Price
20% Off
American School, Portrait of a Woman
Located in Astoria, NY
American School, Portrait of a Woman, Oil on Burlap, circa 1920, apparently unsigned, painted wood frame. Image: 23.5" H x 26.5" W; frame: 27.75" H x 30.75" W.
Category
1920s American Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Burlap, Oil
Antique American Framed Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very nicely painted mid century abstract expressionist oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Great colors and bold brush strokes.
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$780 Sale Price
20% Off
A Little Duckling - Original Lithograph - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 20,5 x 15,5 cm
A Little Duckling is an adorable lithograph printed on poussins rigid paper.
Signed on plate: G. Süs. Original Title: Das Erste Sturihad.
Good con...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Lithograph
Antique American Trompe L'Oil Interior Scene Finely Framed 19th C Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American interior scene oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 20H by 16L.
Category
1880s Realist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Christ Falls on the Way to Calvary, Dutch-Italianate School, c.18th-19th Cent.
Located in Soquel, CA
Expressive depiction of Christ being aided by Simon of Cyrene by an unknown artist, Italiante School style of 17th-century Northern European painters principally Dutch, c.1700s-1800s. This piece is composed of oil on linen, laid down on fiberboard. Presented in a giltwood frame. Image size: 42"H x 33"W.
Italianate painters, group of 17th-century northern European painters, principally Dutch, who traveled in Italy and, consciously adopting the style of landscape painting that they found there, incorporated Italian models and motifs into their own works. Chief among the Italianates were Bartholomeus Breenbergh, Andries and Jan Both, Nicolaes Berchem, and Jan Asselijn...
Category
18th Century Romantic Unknown Art
Materials
Linen, Oil, Fiberboard
$7,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century California Mission Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful mid century landscape of a historic California mission, highlighting its iconic architectural details such as a columned arches, white was...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Cardboard
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Late 19th century Bunny Rabbits
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charming 19th century oil on canvas of bunny rabbits. The painting appears to be unsigned. It measures 15 inches wide by 10 inches high. The period frame...
Category
19th Century American Realist Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Attrib. Bernard de Falaye - French School Early 20th Century Oil, Park Scene
Located in Corsham, GB
This delightful early 20th century oil attributed to Bernard de Falaye captures a day at the park. The artist employs impressionist brush strokes to create a sense of energy and move...
Category
20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Modern Abstract Expressionist Framed Original Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract cubist oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed.
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$620 Sale Price
20% Off
Painting Holy Family with Saints 17th century
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on Canvas. Venetian school of the 17th century.
The figures, portrayed in the half-length foreground, have Mary placed in the center holding the infant Jesus; behind them on the ...
Category
17th Century Other Art Style Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Signed Framed Abstract Expressionist Large Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed illegibly. Framed. Image size, 36L x 16H.
Category
1940s Abstract Expressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,196 Sale Price
20% Off
Large 1970s Modern Sailing in Sunshine, Colorful Vintage, Abstract
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
" Sailing in Sunshine ", circa 1970s
Oil on Canvas
50" x 40"
Housed in a Slat-wood frame
Overall Size: 50 1/2" x 40 3/4"
Appears to be in very good condition.
We are looking f...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,875 Sale Price
25% Off
Mid-18th-Century French School, Portrait Of A Lady With Sapphires
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This charming mid-18th-century half-length French portrait depicts a lady wearing an olive green gown, together with a red cloak, and exquisite sapphi...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Modernist Cubic Flowers in a Vase Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6104 Modernist Abstract flowers in a vase table Setting
Category
Early 2000s Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Her Imperial Majesty Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, consort of Nicholas II
Located in PARIS, FR
This exquisite lithographic portrait depicts Her Imperial Majesty, Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, consort of Nicholas II, the last Tsar of Russia. Rendered in finely detailed monochro...
Category
1890s Unknown Art
Materials
Linen, Paper, Lithograph
Portrait Of "Bedgebury Lion" a Standard English Bulldog, 19th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of "Bedgebury Lion" a Standard English Bulldog, 19th Century
by Eugene Rouse (19th century, British)
19th Century portrait of "Bedgebury Lion" a standard English Bulldog, ...
Category
19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,333 Sale Price
35% Off
Vintage Signed American Modernist Framed Landscape Architectural Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
1960s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$556 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique French School Signed Barbizon Seascape Beach Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French impressionist seascape signed oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Image size, 28L x 20H.
Category
1890s Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid to Late 19th Century Portrait of an Elegant Young Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Superb Mid to Late 19th Century Portrait of an Elegant Young Woman
The sitter is an elegant young woman in her finest dress and jewelry.
Original oil on canvas. Dimensions 22" x 27...
Category
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Art Deco Bird Still Life Signed Oil Panting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Signed.
Category
1950s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$221 Sale Price
25% Off
Pigging Out at the Diner, Surreal Anthropomorphic Pig Satirical Illustration
Located in Soquel, CA
A satirical, surreal depiction of a pig at a lunch counter by an unknown artist (20th Century). This scene, full of symbols and satire, portrays the anth...
Category
Late 20th Century Surrealist Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Illustration Board
$680 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century Modern Swedish Green Landscape Oil Painting - Pastoral Geometry
Located in Bristol, GB
PASTORAL GEOMETRY
Size: 51 x 91 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A serene mid-century modernist landscape that captures a cluster of farmhouses nestled within a stylised patchwork...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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