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Artist: Unknown
Mid-19thC Austrian School Portrait Of A Lady In Spanish Attire, Oil Painting
Located in Cheltenham, GB
US buyers pay no import tariffs on this item.
This exquisite mid-19th-century bust-length Austrian portrait depicts a young lady wearing a red gown together with a black lace veil, ...
Category
19th Century Victorian Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mid 20th Century French Charcoal Drawing, Portrait of a Standing Nude Women
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Portrait"
by Geneviève Zondervan (French 1922-2013)
Pencil/ charcoal on thick paper, unframed
Paper size: 25 x 19 inches
Beautifully decorative, mid 20th century French origin...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Impressionist Flower Still Life Nicely Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist flower still life oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 30.5H by 21.5L.
Category
1920s Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Fine 18th Century Pen and Ink Drawing - Parthamasiris, King of Armenia
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine 18th century ink and wash drawing by an unknown hand depicting Parthamasiris, King of Armenia in a scene from Ancient Rome, likely a monument or relief sculpture.
In 113 CE, ...
Category
Early 18th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Pen
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 Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Antique Chinese Junk Reverse Oil Painting on Glass 1940
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3537 Reverse oil painting on glass with gilt detailing.
Set in a gilt wood frame
Image size 9.5x7.5"
Category
1940s Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Modernist Pear Still Life Framed Original Fine Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible early American modernist still life oil painting. Housed in a great antique giltwood frame. Oil on board.
Category
1950s Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$540 Sale Price
20% Off
Biedermeier Period Early 19th Century Oil - Innkeeper Ludwig Brandt
Located in Corsham, GB
A delightful Biedermeier period portrait depicting the innkeeper Ludwig Brandt. One finds oneself captivated by the sitter's gripping gaze, whilst the decorative waistcoat and gold p...
Category
Early 19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Art Deco Formula Two Grand Prix Car Racing Modernist MCM Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very rare and well painted Formula Two racing painting. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. Nicely framed.
Category
1950s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,980 Sale Price
20% Off
Animalier British painter - 19th century dog painting - Mouse hunting
Located in Varmo, IT
British Painter (dated 1899) - Dogs chasing a mouse.
51 x 76.5 cm without frame, 68 x 93.5 cm with frame.
Old painting, oil on canvas, in a gilded wooden frame.
- Work signed and ...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,809 Sale Price
25% Off
Five mid 20th century Italian oil landscapes with figures, castles, Churchs
Located in Woodbury, CT
A very interesting set of five mid-20th-century Italian oils on copper.
All five are classical landscape subjects and are signed Roger, though we don't know which artist with the n...
Category
1950s Old Masters Unknown Paintings
Materials
Copper
$4,517 Sale Price
35% Off
A Summer's Sunset
Located in San Francisco, CA
In this abstract landscape, artist Geneva Cross conveys the mood of a dreamlike summer evening that might be remembered by any of us in its universality. Blending the basic elements ...
Category
1970s Abstract Unknown Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Antique Old Florida Southern School Beach Lighthouse Framed Seascape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist southern oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Label from a Florida frame shop verso.
Category
1950s Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century Autumn Chrysanthemums in Vase Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful mid-century still life oil painting of Chrysanthemums in vase. Against a yellow background, white, orange, and yellow chrysanthemums sit in a red vase. The arrangement is r...
Category
1960s American Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage American Modernist Abstract Cubist Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid 20th century cubist abstract. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1950s Cubist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$980 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Figures
Located in Los Angeles, CA
UNIDENTIFIED
"ABSTRACT FIGURE"
OIL ON CANVAS, UNSIGNED
AMERICAN, C.1960S
27.5 X 35 INCHES
Fine Condition
Category
1860s Abstract Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$950 Sale Price
51% Off
Antique American School Signed Abstract Expressionist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 19L x 13H.
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$556 Sale Price
20% Off
American School Still Life Painting 'Study of Citrus Fruits'
Located in San Rafael, CA
American School (20th c.)
Still Life Study of Citrus Fruits
Oil on canvas
Unframed
18in H x 24in W
This charming still-life study of lemons, oranges and other citrus exhibits wonder...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Paris School Peacock Portrait Framed Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage French realist landscape with exotic birds. Oil on board. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 9 by 7 inches overall. Handsomely framed in a gilt...
Category
1940s Realist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cecile Hertz-Eyrolles (1875-1974) - Mid 20th Century Oil, Mother and Child
Located in Corsham, GB
A soft mid-century study depicting a mother and her child by the artist Cecile Hertz-Eyrolles (1875-1974). Marked with the artist's studio stamp to the lower left. An additional arch...
Category
20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
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 Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
$1,447 Sale Price
20% Off
Riva - Spanish School 1940 Oil, Spanish Street in Summer
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed 'Riva' and dated 1940 in the lower left corner. Presented in a wooden frame with a gilt inner window. On board.
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage Mid Century Modern Abstract Landscape Monogrammed American Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
Orientalist Venetian painting - 18th century figure painting - Turkish scene
Located in Varmo, IT
Venetian painter (18th century) - Turkish nobles with parrot and musician.
43.5 x 63.5 cm without frame, 50 x 70 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,413 Sale Price
55% Off
Late 1800s Naturalist Country Scene in Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Rich and detailed country landscape by an unknown artist (19th Century). A grove of large oak trees is carefully rendered on the right side of the composition. In the center, there a...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Unknown Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Antique Italian Super Realist Surreal Landscape Framed Signed Modern Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Italian modernist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Provenance from a Brooklyn, NY collection. Measuring: 23 by 33 inches overall. Handsomely framed in d...
Category
Early 1900s Surrealist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Modern British 20th Century Colourful Abstract Painting - Geometric shapes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition
British School, monogrammed/ dated lower corner
gouache painting on paper laid over card, unframed
actual painting: 22 x 15.5 inches
Superb - bold - and very co...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Unknown Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$445 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid Century Signed Landscape -- Old Country Cottage with Chickens
Located in Soquel, CA
Charming mid century country landscape with cottage with thatched roof and chickens foraging. Signed "H. H." and dated "1955." Condition: good; some edge and corner wear consistent w...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$600 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Original Oil Painting on Canvas Still Life, Framed, Signed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is a vintage original oil painting on canvas depicting Still Life Composition with fruits, yellow bottle and kettle.
Overall and impressive-looking medium size paintin...
Category
20th Century Realist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
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 Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Signed American School Modernist Abstract Cubist Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive signed 1967 abstract landscape. Appears to be an abstract coastal scene. Framed.
Category
1960s Cubist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,180 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique American Modernist Horse Carousel Animal Portrait Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Really impressive early American modernist painting. Oil on board. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
"The Dapper Frenchman" Antique French Oversized Interior Scene Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5140 Oversized Antique French oil painting depicting a Frenchman in an interior scene
Framed
Category
1940s Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$450 Sale Price
35% Off
Young Boy - Scottish art 19th Century oil painting male portrait ginger hair
Located in Hagley, England
A fine Scottish portrait oil painting of a sweet young boy with bright blue eyes. This quality portrait dates to circa 1900 and is housed in a fine Watts frame. A beautiful painting....
Category
19th Century Realist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Framed Abstract Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American abstract painting. Gouache on board. Measuring: 18 by 22 inches overall and 12 by 16 artwork alone. Framed in antique gilt wood frame. Excellent condition, ready to...
Category
20th Century Abstract Unknown Paintings
Materials
Board, Gouache
Confidences - Painting After Pierre Auguste Renoir. - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Confidences is an modern artwork realized by a mid-20th century Artist after Pierre Auguste Renoir.
Mixed colore oil painting.
Includes frame: 70 x 7 x 57 cm
The artwork is from o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait Of A Man, 17th/18th Century after Franciabigio (1482-1525)
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of A Man, 17th/18th Century
after Franciabigio (1482-1525)
Large 17th/18th Century Italian renaissance portrait of a Florentine Man, oil on canvas. Excellent quality and c...
Category
18th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Abstract Painting by Chamlin Oil Paint on Canvas
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid-century Abstract Painting by Chamlin
Oil Paint on Canvas
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
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 Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Baroque Italian painter - 18th century landscape painter - Sheperds
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (18th century) - Arcadian landscape with flock and shepherds.
56 x 70 cm without frame, 63.5 x 79 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a wooden frame (...
Category
Early 18th Century Rococo Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,206 Sale Price
64% Off
Geometric Beach Scene, Colorful Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Long Island City, NY
Unknown and unsigned painting of a bright beach scene with bold colors and 1980's inspired shapes.
Image Size: 47.5 x 35.5 inches
Frame Size: 50 x 3...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Parisian Street Scene w Horse & Carriage" Post War Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
A masterful oil painting depicting a view of Paris at twilight. This piece is a pertinent example of the works produced during the 20th Century by the artist with use of beautiful co...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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 Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
India Bangladesh Indistinctly signed in Bengal 1979 Watercolour Fisherman Dacca
Located in Norfolk, GB
Indistinctly signed in Bengali, dated ‘79
Bangladesh/Indian
Indistinctly signed in Bengali and dated ‘79
Untitled - Fishermen
1979
Watercolour on paper
Paper size: 34 x 53 cm
Frame Size: 46 x 62.5 cm
Provenance: From a private UK family
A fabulously evocative watercolour painting showing fisherman, struggling against the elements. This is Bangladesh, 1979, not long after Independence, when the focus was on the working classes, the everyday struggle to make a living and when the artists depicting these times were concurrently exploring and establishing a new aesthetic.
The painting combines naturalism with the wash method of watercolour painting and a reduced palette which allows for a rich harmony of shadow and light. Although appearing to simply utilize monotone colours, closer inspection reveals splashes of quite vivid colours; the yellow on the horizon, a deep crimson on the trousers of one of the figures, blue in the nets etc. The colour is subtle but adds a richness to the overall composition implying that this artist has received an academic training; knowing how to get the most from the materials.
Add to this the beautiful watery effect from the wash on the paper and we can immediately see references to Bengal school art techniques. It is not surprising that the artist employs this medium. Neuroarthistory points to the rich heritage of Bengal school painters and the fascination with wash technique emanating from their connection to the water which provides the backbone for the region. From supplying food; fish and seafood, to transportation, agriculture and festivities. Bengal and Bangladesh live and die with the water.
Some of the leading protagonists of the mid 20th century Bengal school of painters were equally captivated by the same subject and ideology. D P Roy Choudhury was a leading figure in the academic art institutions in the first half of the 20th century. He was also a great experimenter of style. In the image shown,, we can see Choudhury’s treatment of the same subject and how he to chose the monotone palette. It is through observing the similarities and differences that we begin to learn more about the times these artists were painting in and in the case of the Bangladeshi artists how they were approaching the political traumas of the time.
The label to the back of the frame tells its own story;. Saju Arts & Crafts, Dacca-12.
“Saju was born in 1944 in Ramu, Cox's Bazar. At one point, he became friends with Shamsul Islam Nizami, one of the veteran painters of Bangladesh. At that time, Nizami was a teacher of the Institute of Fine Arts (now Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Dhaka).
Nizami introduced Saju to all the notable painters in the contemporary art scenario -- from master painters like Zainul Abedin, Quamrul Hassan...
Category
1970s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
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.
Category
1970s Abstract Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
19th Century Oil - La Rue Saint Rouen
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed illegibly and inscribed with location. Monograph to the reverse on the canvas with initials V. M. G. Presented in a gilt frame with a cotton slip. On canvas.
Category
19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
French School Late 19th Century Oil - Rounding Up the Pigs
Located in Corsham, GB
French School, oil on canvas. Signed 'Dubosi' to the lower right.
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
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 Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Still Life Painting Vintage Post-Impressionist Oil On Canvas
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Mid Century still life oil painting on canvas, signed in the bottom right and dated 1953. This is an unusual and stylishly simplistic painting but delightfully charismatic. A ruffl...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
$844 Sale Price
20% Off
Floral Still Life
Located in Soquel, CA
A beautiful oil still life of a vase of assorted flowers, with two roses on the table. Unframed. Unsigned. Image, 16"H x 20"L.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$319 Sale Price
20% Off
19thC oil painting, thatched cottages and church, two horses, figures, wetland
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Large oil painting of a rural early Town, British or other European, of thatched cottages and church set in a wide landscape with horses and figures on shining wet ground reflecting ...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard, Canvas
$1,722 Sale Price
30% Off
Netherlandish School XVIII Century Monogrammed Old Master Oil Painting
Located in Holywell, GB
Netherlandish School XVIII Century Monogrammed Old Master Oil Painting
An intriguing oil painting of early extraction depicting the crucifixion at Calvary outside Jerusalem. I am s...
Category
18th Century Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique English Oil Painting Classic Tall Ships Marine Harbour Scene Sunrise
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
English School, late 19th century
oil on canvas, unframed
faint signature
painting: 15 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection
condition: overall good and sound condition, some ol...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,113 Sale Price
20% Off
Hidden Portraits V
Located in London, GB
'Hidden Portraits V', 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 ar...
Category
1880s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mary Magdalene - Oil on Canvas by Italian School 19th cent.
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas. cm 60.5 x 2 x 50
Nice Oil painting (Italian School of XIX century) with a rapid sign and intense colors backgrpound. Some color cracking on left margin and top edge, ...
Category
18th Century Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
Signed Antique American Modernist Watermelon Still Life Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American school modernist watermelon still life pastel painting. Pastel on paper. Signed. Framed. Measuring 18 by 22 inches overall and 16 by 20 painting alone.
Category
1940s Modern Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Old Times House Interior Scene with Naughty Boy 19th century Genre Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
The painting captures a wonderfully amusing family moment set in the 16th century. In the center of the painting we see the father, exhausted by worries and dozing in his chair in fr...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Oil
Original Mid 20th OIL PAINTING Century English Country Lady in A Summer Garden
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Unsigned Early Mid 20th Century English School
TITLE: "Lady In A Garden"
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
SIZE: 87cm x 40cm inc frame
CONDITION: very good
NOTES: Well composed 1920's ...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Unknown Paintings
Materials
Oil
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