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Artist: Unknown
Contemporary Abstract Surrealist Painting of a Green Pear in a Bathtub
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary abstract surrealist painting of green pear lounging in a white bathtub with a single lightbulb hung over it. The scene is set against a ligh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Unknown Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
A dynamic futurist inspired painting with a color-filled pallet
Located in Colfax, CA
A dynamic abstract painting from the 1950s.
The work appears to be signed, Nicotine, Nicotina, or Vicotina?
The artist was clearly influenced by earlier styles of abstraction, includ...
Category
1950s Abstract Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
American School Modernist Framed Pink Kitchen Still Life Abstract Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1950s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique Finely Framed Paper Birch New England Coastal Seascape Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed in a period arts and crafts giltwood frame. Image size, 20H x 16L.
Category
1950s Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,220 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Signed American School Abstract Pop Art Large Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
1970s Abstract Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Coastline landscape with San Francisco Skyline
Located in San Francisco, CA
Coastline landscape with San Francisco Skyline
Signed
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 unframed, 27 x 31 framed
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Romantic British painter - 19th century landscape painting - Fisherman
Located in Varmo, IT
English painter (19th century) - River landscape with fisherman receiving a letter.
123 x 99.5 cm unframed, 128 x 104.5 cm framed.
Oil on canvas, in a giltwood frame.
- Work signe...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
1953 Oil - Purple Asters
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine mid Century floral still life showing an earthenware vase filled with delicate purple aster. The painting is unsigned and presented in a simple mid Century frame. There is a s...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Abstract Still Life Interior View Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract still life oil painting. Oil on board, circa 1950. Housed in a vintage frame. Image size, 22L x 13H. Signed.
Category
1940s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
20th Century French Impressionist Oil Painting Summer Lake Green Teal Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French School, mid-late 20th century
unsigned
oil painting on canvas textured paper (reverse side is smooth, the painted side looks and feels as canvas), unframed
overall 15 x 18 in...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hidden Portraits IV
Located in London, GB
'Hidden Portraits IV', acrylic on canvas mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an intermediary of an ageing a...
Category
1980s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Tri-Directional Portrait Commemorating the Russo-Turkish War
Located in New Orleans, LA
Austrian School
18th Century
Tri-Directional Portrait Commemorating the Russo-Turkish War
Oil on wooden strips
This extraordinary tri-directional portrait exemplifies the rare innovation known as a triscenorama, capturing a pivotal diplomatic moment through ingenious artistic technique. Employing triangularly cut wooden strips, this remarkable work simultaneously depicts three imperial figures central to the Russo-Turkish War of 1735-1739: Empress Anna Ivanovna Romanova of Russia when viewed directly, Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI from the left and Ottoman Sultan Mahmud I from the right, commemorating the Treaty of Nissa that concluded this significant European conflict.
The portrait utilizes an exceptionally rare optical technique that predates modern movable imaging technology. When observed from different angles, the painted triangular wooden strips create a transformative effect, revealing entirely different imperial portraits as the viewer shifts position. The precision required to execute such a work demonstrates remarkable technical mastery, as the artist had to conceptualize three distinct portraits as well as the meticulous arrangement of the panels. This sophisticated manipulation of perspective creates an interactive viewing experience considered revolutionary for its time.
Almost certainly created by an Austrian artist, this diplomatic artwork likely served as a commemorative piece marking the Treaty of Nissa, signed in September 1739. The treaty concluded Russia's ambitious campaign to secure access to the Black Sea while countering Ottoman raids in Ukraine and the Caucasus regions. Given its exceptional quality and historical significance, this portrait was possibly commissioned by Emperor Charles VI himself, potentially serving as a diplomatic gift to either Empress Anna or Sultan Mahmud I during the treaty negotiations.
Under Empress Anna's leadership, Russia sought to counter devastating raids from Ottoman allies, particularly the Crimean Tatars...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Unknown Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil, Wood Panel
Antique American School Impressionist Artist Studio Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvasboard. Framed. No signature found.
Category
Early 1900s Realist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$316 Sale Price
20% Off
Important Victorian portrait of Alexander Smith
Located in New York, NY
Important Victorian painting depicting Alexander Smith. It has a fantastic frame and is in excellent condition. Written Alex Smith (...) on the letter.
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large French Oil painting On Canvas, portrait of a musketeer 19th century
Located in Gavere, BE
Beautiful Oil On Canvas, portrait of a musketeer French school 19th century
This is a French 19th century school with large dimensions .
Very decorative and exclusive portrait paint...
Category
1890s French School Unknown Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Contemporary Oil - At Home In Purple
Located in Corsham, GB
A quirky and kitsch portrait of a young woman, dressed in purple, sitting in her purple home surrounded by green plants. This captivating painting is heavi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
City on Fire, Abstract Landscape Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Unknown
Title: City on Fire
Medium: Oil on Canvas, Signed lower right (Anderson?)
Size: 14 x 18 inches
Frame Size: 20 x 24 inches
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Framed 1942 Oil - The Hayloft
Located in Corsham, GB
This realistic oil depicts a derelict farm building with hay still in the loft. The painting has been indistinctly signed and dated to the lower right-hand co...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Floral Still Life with Calla Lilies, Dahlias, and Freesia in Oil on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
Floral Still Life with Calla Lilies, Dahlias, and Freesia in Oil on Canvas
Bright and vibrant still life of a floral arrangement by an unknown artist (20th Century). This piece is a...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
$1,080 Sale Price
20% Off
Allegory of Music Ste Cecilia School After Lorenzo Lippi
Located in Pasadena, CA
The painting is about the Florentine school and a seventeenth-century Italian school. Oil on canvas
After Lorenzo Lippi (1606–1665) who was a prominent Florentine Baroque painter a...
Category
17th Century Renaissance Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Ride the Champion" Vintage American Carnival Ride Horse Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist horse ride portrait oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 20 by 24 inches image alone. Hands...
Category
1990s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Bearded Gentleman, 19th Century School of Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of a Bearded Gentleman, 19th Century
School of Edgar Degas (1834-1917)
Large 19th Century French Impressionist portrait of a bearded gentleman, oil on canvas. Excellent qu...
Category
19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,683 Sale Price
25% Off
Oil On Canvas Self Portrait of the artist Sir Anthony Van Dyck 18Th c
Located in Gavere, BE
"Oil On Canvas Self Portrait After Sir Anthony Van Dyck"
Follower of Sir Anthony van Dyck (Flemish painter, 1599-1641), Self portrait Oil on canvas (doubled),
Probably end 18th centu...
Category
Late 18th Century Baroque Unknown Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
$24,995 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century Modern Swedish Abstract Interior Oil Painting - Chair by the Archway
Located in Bristol, GB
CHAIR BY THE ARCHWAY
Size: 70 x 59 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A large mid-century painting that presents a loosely abstracted scene of an arched doorway with a simple chair ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dipinto Paesaggio con Edificio e Figure XVIII secolo
Located in Milan, IT
Olio su tela.
Paesaggio di campagna in cui scorre un piccolo corso d'acqua, su cui navigano barchette ed è costeggiato da piccoli aggregati di abitazioni rurali.
In primo piano tran...
Category
18th Century Other Art Style Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tropical Fantasy Floral #4 - Still Life Painting - Oil Paint By Marc Zimmerman
Located in Carmel, CA
Contemporary floral painting in a vase with voluptuous flowers. Delicate color and texture.
Tropical Fantasy Floral #4 - Still Life Painting - Oil Paint By Marc Zimmerman
This mast...
Category
2010s Contemporary Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$4,720 Sale Price
37% Off
Painting The Washing of the Feet 1600s-1700s
Located in Milan, IT
Oil on sheet, applied on wooden board. Central European school of the 17th-18th centuries.
In the scene a rich lady helped by handmaids is washing the feet of an elderly man under ...
Category
Late 17th Century Other Art Style Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Country Chic Americana Folk Art Rooster Portrait Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist chicken oil painting. Oil on canvas.
Category
1950s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Composition XXI - N. European school, 1970-oil paint, 49x56 cm, framed
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas, signed lower right. Framed. North Europe school.
Category
1970s Abstract Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Carriage Ride at Niagara Falls
Located in Milford, NH
A finely detailed 19th century American School landscape depicting a couple riding in a carriage with horses & driver, stopping to enjoy the view of the American Falls of Niagara...
Category
19th Century American Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
20th Century French Oil Painting Sails Below the Hay Field
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sails below the Hay Field
French School, mid-late 20th century
unsigned
oil painting on canvas textured paper (reverse side is smooth, the painted side looks...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$721 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Antique Oil on Canvas Paintings in Hand-Painted and Gilded Frames
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mated pair of oil-on-canvas, sheep and goat paintings in hand-painted and gilded frames. From the circle of Rosa di Tivoli (1655-1706), a highly regarded Baroque artist active in and...
Category
18th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Framed Original Vintage Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract expressionist painting. OIl on canvas. Framed. Finely painted with wonderful color palette. Signed. Dated Verso.
Category
1970s Abstract Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$476 Sale Price
20% Off
Monogrammed 1925 Pointillist Landscape Modernist Framed Original Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique modernist signed pointillist painting. Watercolor and gouache on paper. Signed. Framed. Rare early work!
Category
1920s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,980 Sale Price
20% Off
Governor John Penn Inspecting The Legion At The Isle Of Portland, Dorset, 1805
Located in Blackwater, GB
Village Landscape With Governor John Penn, Isle Of Portland, Dorset, 1805
John Penn (1760-1834) was the chief proprietor of Pennsylvania until 1776 when it was confiscate following ...
Category
19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$1,873 Sale Price
25% Off
Branko Paradis Painting on Canvas of a Lion or Panther with Birds
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Standout acrylic painting on canvas of a panther eyeing some unsuspecting flamingos while a bird looks on, executed in a charming naive style. Signed paradis 81 and presented in a wo...
Category
Late 20th Century Folk Art Unknown Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Antique American School Large Cubist Abstract Signed Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school cubist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed.
Category
1930s Cubist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,436 Sale Price
20% Off
19th century English School Portrait of a Gentleman, with Riding Crop & Dog
Located in York, GB
(early 19th century) unsigned English School Portrait of a Young Gentleman, with Riding Crop and Dog
The reverse stamped T Brown, High Holborn, Linen, oil on canvas,
The size overall being 104 cm x 84 cm whilst the painting is 89cm x 70cm
A charming portrait in overall very good condition housed in a gilt frame
The painting has been cleaned recently . There is some old restoration in the form of a small patch to the rear,barely visible to the front. some texturization to top right in certain light
Certainly does not detract from this charming painting
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Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$3,885 Sale Price
20% Off
20th Century Oil - Portrait of Maxim Gorky
Located in Corsham, GB
An expressive oil painting, depicting a portrait of Russian writer and political activist Maxim Gorky. Unsigned. On canvas on stretchers.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Framed Fauvist Large Cherry Blossom Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American fauvist landscape oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Image size, 25H by 30L.
Category
1960s Abstract Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage American School Modernist Geometric Abstract New York School Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed.
Category
1960s Abstract Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$396 Sale Price
20% Off
Rustic Country Road Mid Century Impressionist Landscape, Original Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Rustic Country Road, Impressionist Landscape, Original Oil Painting
British School mid 20th Century
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
Canvas size: 18 x 22 inches
Beautiful scene of a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$943 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid 20th Century Oil - Figure in a Landscape
Located in Corsham, GB
An expressive impasto painting of a figure in a landscape, possibly kneeling as he tends to some plants. Presented in a textured and distressed gilt-effect wooden frame with a white ...
Category
20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid-18thC French School Floral Still Life Oil Painting With Roses In An Urn
Located in Cheltenham, GB
US buyers pay no import tariffs on this item.
This splendid mid-18th-century French oil painting depicts an abundance of blooms emerging from a classical urn. Stylistically, it’s in...
Category
1750s French School Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
G. Cariteia - 1991 Oil, The Cottage
Located in Corsham, GB
This charming oil painting depicts a rustic village scene featuring cottages with terracotta roofs and weathered stone walls, set against a moody sky with dramatic cloud formations. ...
Category
20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Geometric Color Field Abstract Diptych Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American abstract oil painting diptych. Oil on canvas. Framed. Measuring: 16 by 20 inches each section. Framed in a wood molding. Great condition, ready to hang and enjoy.
Category
20th Century Color-Field Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Mid-Century Modernist Original Landscape Oil Painting - Riverside Town
Located in Bristol, GB
RIVERSIDE TOWN
Size: 42 x 61.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on canvas
A serene and charming mid-century modernist riverside townscape, executed in oil onto canvas.
The composition pres...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Market Scene - French Impressionist art 1914 watercolour painting indis signed
Located in Hagley, England
This charming French Impressionist watercolour painting was painted in 1914 and is indistinctly signed. The composition is a market scene with various stalls under trees. The colouring is lovely and it is housed in a superb, gilded oak frame...
Category
1910s Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Mid Century Modern Expressive Swedish Still Life Painting - Lemon & Literature
Located in Bristol, GB
LEMON & LITERATURE
Size: 56 x 72.5 cm (including frame)
Oil on board
A lively and expressive mid-century still life that captures a vibrant table scene where fruit, bottles, and...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Modernist Abstract Painting - Aerial Urban View of a City, ca 1980
Located in Baltimore, MD
As with most abstract paintings, one wants to find some sort of figural depiction within the overall composition of the work. Having owned this painting for quite a few years, I have...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Unknown Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Ray Barry (1931-2022) - Contemporary Acrylic, Circus
Located in Corsham, GB
A playful abstract by the artist Ray Barry (1931-2022). Unsigned. Well presented in a whitewash frame. On paper.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Framed Early 19th Century Oil - By the Fire
Located in Corsham, GB
A man eagerly warms his hands by the fireplace in this characterful genre scene. Another man reads a book nearby whilst a cat rests quietly on the floor. Well presented in a ridged g...
Category
Early 19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Modern Cubist Painting w/ Figures of Children by Spurlock c.1950
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid century modern figural abstract painting with a touch of cubism.
Original oil on canvas.
Dimensions 35 1/2" x 23 1/2". Frame dimensions 41" x 29".
Very good vintage conditi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Pop Art Portrait of Peter Max Original Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist portrait of iconic artist Peter Max. Signed. Framed. Original oil on canvas.
Category
1970s Pop Art Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
Austrian School Family Portrait
Located in Astoria, NY
Austrian School, Family Portrait, Oil on Canvas, late 19th century, depicting a husband and wife with young child in a garden, surrounded by cherubs, signed "Pawlicek" lower right, g...
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,440 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Miniature Persian Painting of Hunters on Horseback
Located in Jacksonville, FL
A miniature antique Indo Persian Mughal Art mixed media painting on paper depicting a hunting scene in a landscape painted in bold colors and with fine details with a background of colorful mountains, blooming trees and Cypress trees. Antique Miniature Persian Paintings...
Category
20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Mosaic
Early 20th Century "Net Menders" Original Oil Painting C.1920
Located in San Francisco, CA
Early 20th Century "Net Menders" Original Oil Painting C.1920
A fine old Italian school oil on paper
Dimensions 12.25" wide x 8.5" high
The lightly distressed frame measures 13" w...
Category
Early 20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil
Antique American School Modernist Large Abstract New York Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed verso. Dated 1950.
Category
1950s Abstract Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
Signed American School Modernist Seashell Minimalist Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed.
Category
Early 2000s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$520 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Large American Modernist Trompe L'Oeil Rose Flower Still Life Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American super realist oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Possibly signed verso.
Category
1980s Photorealist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
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