FOMOBOY Art

Jules Engel (1909-2003) Untitled, ca. 1960. Beautiful ultra pale yellow color field painting verging on white. Hints of pink, orange and blue evident in underpainting. Signed by ...

Robert Steven Koffler (1938-2022). Unnumbered Triangle, 1981. Oil on canvas, 38 x 52 inches. Total measurement with wood frame: 39 x 53 inches. Signed and dated by artist, cente...

Robert Steven Koffler (1938-2022). Triangle XXX, 1982. Oil on canvas, 38 x 52 inches. Total measurement with wood frame: 39 x 53 inches. Signed and dated by artist, lower right....

Robert Steven Koffler (1938-2022). Violet Triangle, 1981. Oil on linen canvas, 38 x 52 inches. Total measurement with wood frame: 39 x 53 inches. Signed and dated by artist, cen...

Robert Steven Koffler (1938-2022). Untitled, 1963 Oil on masonite panel, 36 x 48 inches. Total measurement with wood frame: 38 x 50 inches. Signed and dated by artist, lower ri...

John Higginbotham (b.1963). Serengeti, 1984. Pencil on paper, image measures 15 x 21 inches. Framed measurement: 23 x 29 inches. Signed and dated by artist lower right.

Petr Zlamal (b. 1949) Czech Cityscape, 1971. Oil on linen, 20 x 28 inches. Measuring 24 x 32 inches in original frame. Signed and dated by artist, lower right. A rare example ...

Irvin Nahan (b.1927) Interior with Standing Dog, 1970. Watercolor and pencil on paper. Image measures 5 x 6.5 inches. Framed measurement: 10 x 12 inches. Signed and dated by ar...

Nobuku Koike (Japanese, b.1937) La Cour, 1974. Color etching on Arches paper. Plate measures 7.5 x 8.5 inches. Framed measurement: 12 x 13.5 inches. Signed, dated, numbered an...

Jay Weaver (?-1960). Is This Necessary?, 1952. Oil on canvas measuring 12 x 16 inches. Framed measurement: 18 x 22 inches. Signed by artist lower right. 1952 Salmagundi label af...

John Higginbotham (b.1963). Serengeti, 1984. Pencil on paper, image measures 15 x 21 inches. Framed measurement: 23 x 29 inches. Signed and dated by artist lower right.

A pair of antique period prints by American photographer Charles Christian Cook (1873-1957). "Wonderful" and "Bonnie Khayam". ca. 1920's. Platinum prints glued down to backing boa...

Beautiful cubist portrait depict a Harlequin and Child playing violin. Oil on canvas, measuring 23.5 x 35.5 inches. Framed measurement: 25.5 x 37.5 inches. Unsigned.

Boleslaw Cybis (1895-1957). Surrealist Landscape with Grecian Urns and Figures, ca. 1930's. Ink, pencil and gouache on paper, image measures 10.5 x 13 in...

Elsie Manville (1922-2012) The Hand Mirror (Self-portrait Still Life), ca. 1955. Oil on canvas measuring 10 x 12 inches. Signed by the artist lower right. Framed measurement: 1...

L. Dano Keys (Chickasaw, 1919-1980) Heritage of a Chief, 1970. Tempera on blue paper, 12 x 16 inches. Signed and dated by artist, lower right. Original matting and labels. No fr...

Beautiful French School Portrait of a Lady wearing French or Austrian fashion. The subject is a young woman, possibly royalty, as she is adorned in extremely expensive and elaborat...

Maurice Libby (20th Cent.) Woman of Martinique, 1952. Oil on artist panel, 12 x 16 inches. Measuring 20 x 28 inches in a deep vintage chestnut frame. Signed lower right. Origina...

Boleslaw Cybis (1895-1957). Lowicz Girl, ca. 1930's. Conte on paper, sheet measures 18 x 23 inches. Signed by the artist some years after its creation in blue ink, on verso bottom...

Boleslaw Cybis (1895-1957). Unnamed Horses (Wild Horses), ca. 1930's. Conte on paper, sheet measures 20 x 23 inches. Signed by the artist some years after its creation in blue ink...

Boleslaw Cybis (1895-1957). Prancing Ram, ca. 1930's. Conte on paper, sheet measures 18 x 23 inches. Signed by the artist some years after its creation in blue ink, on verso botto...

Dick Ruhl (American, 1926-1991) Original Gouache Painting of Goofy, one of three images created specifically for Disney Interview portfolio, Los Angeles 1943. (see reference in bio below). Image measuring 12 x 18 inches. Signed & dated 1943 lower right. Framed measurement: 19 x 25 inches. Dick Ruhl was the grandson of German immigrants who settled in Nebraska as farmers brought to the US by the federal government to raise food for a growing population after the Civil War. On his mother’s side, his family dates back to Nathan Hale. Her father was in the Union Army and given a small farm by the government near Guthrie, Oklahoma. Dick’s parents, John and Lucille, were married in Chandler in 1902, and his dad got a job with the Frisco Railroad. Since the main yard and a hub were in Sapulpa, they moved here, initially settling at Elm and Lee street, but later they bought five acres at 1300 Cleveland and built a simple home with a water well, outdoor toilet, and coal oil lamps. Dick is a Sapulpa native who left his hometown at 16 to become an animator during the “golden age” of Disney Studios. Photo courtesy of Sapulpa Historical Society. Dick finally came along in 1926 and was born in the Sapulpa City Hospital at Division and Cleveland Streets. According to Dick, his doctor, William Polk Longmire—a famous Sapulpan in his own right—named Dick after himself on his birth certificate, listing Dick’s name as “Polk Knox Ruhl.” It wasn’t until 1937 that it was discovered and changed to James Richard Ruhl. Dick was doing farm chores at 5 years old, mostly feeding the animals and milking the cow. Every evening, he delivered milk to his last customer, a cousin named “Nellie,” whom Dick says was a bootlegger. Dick recalls one evening as he put Nellie’s milk in her icebox, a handsome gentleman named Charlie took him up on his lap. “He was wearing a gun, which impressed me,” Dick said, adding that Charlie gave him a shiny half dollar as a gift. “Each evening I rushed to Nellie’s, hoping to meet Charlie again, until one evening, she told me he would never be back.” Nellie showed Dick the evening Sapulpa Herald announcing that Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd had been killed. Dick started school at 5 years old and said his teacher “loved and whipped me through first grade.” It must have done some good because he was able to skip the 2nd grade. In 3rd grade, his teacher, Miss Giles, had her students draw a house. “I don’t know why, but I drew my house in perfect perspective,” Dick said. “She bragged about my talent and it was then I decided to become a great artist.” Dick turned a small chicken house at his parents’ farm into his first studio and gallery. “My clients were ducks, chickens, and an occasional pig,” he said. As the country fell into the Great Depression, Dick said “it didn’t mean anything to me. We raised our food and Dad eked out a small wage on the railroad. Mom made our clothes from feed sacks purchased at Lee Nevin’s Feed Store, and we had credit at Bodkin’s Grocery, House’s Grocery, and Katz Department Store.” It was in High School that Dick began to really pursue his creative talents again. “The WPA sponsored an art class at the library in the basement,” he said. “My algebra teacher let me attend the art class instead of algebra.” Dick said his art teacher was Henry Simpson—a retired Western artist from Ft. Worth— and another teacher named Mrs. Casteel, whom Dick said “gave me the greatest advice I have ever learned: ‘Don’t think you’re all that good! You’ll meet artists who are better than you, but don’t get discouraged, keep doing your thing.’” Disney comes calling Dick was working at the Criterion Theatre in Sapulpa when Disney released “Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs...

Paul Oberst (1955-2018) Untitled, 1982. 9.5 x 11 inches, image; 16.5 x 18 inches framed. Signed on reverse bottom.

Boleslaw Cybis (1895-1957). Taos (Timeless Ritual), Indian Negro Series, 6 of 18. Conte on paper, sheet measures 18 x 23 inches. Small tear in sheet left margin. Evidence of alter...

Boleslaw Cybis (1895-1957). Comanche (Indomitable Spirit) Indian Negro Series, image #8 of 18 unique image that comprise the drawing series. Conte on paper, sheet measures 18 x 23 inches. Signed by the artist some years after its creation in blue ink, lower left, ca. 1950's. The sheet is hinged at top margin, not glued down to backing board. The sheet has an encircled 1 notation on back signifying that it is the first of 9 images selected for the lithographic series. Provenance: Cybis Archive. This original drawing was created in 1939-40 during an extensive visit to the Southwest US. The artist created 18 portraits and titled the series "Indian Negro Serie". Of the 18 images, only 9 were selected to be included in a limited edition lithographic series some 30 years after creation. 1000 editions were printed. This is the original drawing upon which one of the images is based, and is thus unique. Of the 18 original drawings, 2 are owned by the polish government, 5 are in our collection and the other 11 are whereabouts unknown. The artist and his wife opened a porcelain factory in the 1950's, Cybis Studios. The only non-porcelain retail offering from the Cybis studio was a 1970s art issue called the Folio One. This was a limited edition reproduction series taken from nine conté drawings of Native Americans made by Boleslaw Cybis in 1939. Conté is the name of a type of crayon made of compressed charcoal or graphite mixed with wax or clay. The artist Georges Seurat was particularly fond of using conté for his drawings. Boleslaw Cybis was fascinated by the Native American (then typically referred to as American Indian) culture and peoples. This may seem odd when you consider that much of his ceramic-based works were distinctly Rococo and/or Old World European in style….a pretty stark contrast, I’d say! But Cybis was nothing if not eclectic in his tastes. The originals were reproduced as color lithographs, in an edition of 1000, in 1970. This meant “1000 of each individual print.” At present its original issue pricing is unknown, but a Spring 1972 dealer price list shows the full set of nine at $500. Individual prints could also be purchased at either $50 (for Comanche, Shoshone, or Apache) or $65 (for any of the other six)… representing a $40 savings when buying the entire folio at once versus singly. The Spring 1981 price list is the final one that shows the Folio One set for sale, still at the same price ($500) as it was a decade earlier. Individual prints are not available on that list. According to the 1979 Cybis catalog text “Each of the 12″ x 20″ prints is hand-numbered on heavy Beckett rag-content paper, with a specially designed validating hallmark in the lower right-hand corner, and carries an accompanying page with a brief tribal history.” The hallmark is blind-embossed, not surface printed. However, the Spring 1972 dealer price list cited above described the prints as being 17″ x 23″ in size. Checking past auction listings for the set, the actual prints are indeed 17″ x 23″, which means that the 12″ x 20″ size probably refers to the image area. The overall size of the set’s burlap-covered box is 18.5″ x 24.5″. These nine portraits represent seven different tribes: the Comanche, Shoshone, Taos, Apache, Hopi, Mohave, and Yuma. A bit of trivia is that only two of those tribes (Apache and Shoshone) were featured within the modern studio’s North American Indians porcelain...

Boleslaw Cybis (1895-1957). Apache (Image Makers), Indian Negro Series, image #15 of 18 unique image that comprise the drawing series. Conte on paper, sheet measures 18 x 23 inche...

Boleslaw Cybis (1895-1957). Yuma (Vanished Dreams), Indian Negro Series, image #7 of 18 unique image that comprise the drawing series. Conte on paper, sheet measures 18 x 23 inche...

Boleslaw Cybis (1895-1957). Mother and Baby, Indian Negro Series, image #15 of 18 unique image that comprise the drawing series. Conte on paper, sheet measures 18 x 23 inches. Si...

Beautiful monumental Abstract Expressionist painting, ca. 2000. Mixed media on natural Belgian linen canvas, 46 x 66 inches.. Unframed and unsigned. Staples are on back side prese...

Harold Altman (b.1924). Figures in a Landscape, ca. 1950's. Ink on wove paper, sheet measures 5.25 x 6 inches. Framed measurement: 10.25 x 11 inches. Signed in pencil lower righ...

Harry Finney (fl.1875-1945) Portrait of Dorothy with her Coton de Tulear, 1940. Oil on canvas, 25 x 31 inches. Signed, dated and dedicated lower left. We have an antique frame (n...

Boleslaw Cybis (1895-1957) Portrait of a Girl, ca. 1930. Oil on sized paper glued down to cardboard panel. Sheet measures 17.75 x 23.75 inches. Measures slightly larger with cardboard panel. Highly distressed condition but the piece could be beautifully restored with professional conservation. No inpainting or restoration. Unsigned. Provenance: Cybis Porcelain...

Luigi Corbellini (1901-1968) Vue d' Anvers (View of Antwerp), ca. 1950 Oil on canvas, 19.5 x 25 inches. Measuring 27.5 x 33 inches in original frame. Signed lower left. Titled i...

John Thompson (b.1949). Willo Weep for Me, ca. 1975. Edition #1 of 6. Screen print and hand painted elements on paper. Image measures 11 x 13 inches. Framed measurement: 18 x 1...

Eric White (b. 1968). Collusionary Amalgam, 2004. Giclee print on paper. Unframed. Ships rolled in tube. DESCRIPTION Eric White (American,1968), giclee on paper, pencil signe...

Perdro Celestino Flores (Peruvian, Early 19th century) Exceptional and unique pair of Peruvian Revolutionary Period illustrations documenting collegiate uniforms of The College of S...

Portrait of a Young Woman, ca. 1850. Oil on antique English millboard, panel measures 20 x 24 inches. Excellent condition with surface stress cracking and paint shrinkage consisten...

Nestor Fruge (1916-2012). Bayou Landscape, ca. 1970. Watercolor on paper, 13 x 19.25 inches. Framed measurement: 18 x 24.25 inches. Excellent condition. Signed lower left. B...

Pasquale Napolitano (1901-2001) Seted Figure of a Man, ca. 1935. Carved hardwood, measuring 22" h., 9.75" d., 14" w. Signed bottom right side. Natural wood shrinkage cracking on...

William Barnett (1918-1992). Portrait of a Reclining Woman ca. 1960. Pencil and Ink on paper measuring 6 5/8 x 9 inches. Signed lower right. Unframed. William Barnett ( called ...

Katharine Ludington (1869-1953). Portrait of Mrs. Allen Wilson, Villanova PA, 1904. Pastel on cardboard. Panel measuring 11 x 16 inches. Signed and dated lower left. Unframed. ...

William Barnett (1918-1992). Portrait of a Man ca. 1960. Pencil and Ink on paper measuring 11 x 14 inches. Signed lower right. Small tears on sheet upper margin and right margin,...

William Barnett (1918-1992). Portrait of a Reclining Woman ca. 1950's. Pencil and Ink on paper measuring 8 3/4 x 8 3/4 inches. Signed lower right. Unframed. William Barnett ( c...

Leon Dolice (1892-1960). Chrysler Building at Dawn, ca. 1940. Pastel on paper, 14 x 21 inches. Framed measurement: 22 x 29 inches. Signed lower right. Original frame and matting....

Pietra Dura Watermelon Slice, Italian inlaid Marbles. Plaque 7-1/2 x 9-1/2 inches. Overall framed size is 12-1/2 x 14-1/2 inches. Watermelon Pietra Dura Plaque, hand made for Ugolin...

William Barnett (1918-1992). Portrait of a Reclining Woman ca. 1950's. Charcoal and Ink on paper measuring 11 x 11.5 inches. Signed lower right. Unframed. William Barnett ( cal...

William Barnett (1918-1992). Portrait of a Man ca. 1950's. Pencil and Ink on paper measuring 10.25 x 12 inches. Signed lower right. Unframed. William Barnett ( called Will) was...

William Barnett (1918-1992). Portrait of a Man ca. 1950's. Pencil and Ink on paper measuring 10.25 x 13 inches. Signed lower right. Unframed. William Barnett ( called Will) was...

William Barnett (1918-1992). Portrait of a Reclining Man ca. 1950. Pencil and Ink on paper measuring 5.25 x 8.5 inches. Signed lower right. Unframed. William Barnett ( called W...

Simon Greco (1917-2005) Mesopotamian Artisans, ca. 1955. Gouache on illustration board, measuring 17 x 25 5/8 inches. Signed lower center. A native of Italy, Greco was born in 1...

Beautiful gestural abstract painting, ca. 1990. Oil on heavy Belgian linen, 22 x 30 inches. Unsigned.

Bar Interior, ca. 1965-70. Ink and watercolor on paper, 5.5 x 6.5 inches. Measuring 11 x 12 inches framed. Signed indistinctly lower right.

William Barnett (1918-1992). Portrait of a Reclining Woman ca. 1950. Pencil and Ink on paper measuring 9 x 8 inches. Signed lower left. Unframed. William Barnett ( called Will)...

Augustus Edwin John (Welsh, 1878-1961). Portrait of Barbara, ca. 1930. Oil on canvas, 11 5/8 x 14 5/8 inches. Framed dimension: 16 x 19 inc...

Beautiful Impressionist drawing of a young ballerina, ca. 1990. Pastel on paper, image measures 10 x 14 inches. Double matting, measuring 14 x 18 inches. Unsigned. Unframed.

Stunning abstract stone sculpture, ca. 1990. Carved and polished black/grey granite. Measuring 21.75 inches diameter. 3.75 inches width. Weighs approx. 125 lbs. Will require a st...

Masatoyo "Kuki" Kishi (1924-2017) Untitled. 1995. Cast Stone, 19.75 x 19.75 x 3 inches. Depth of base measures 3 inches and gracefully tapers to 0.25 inch at top. Carved signatu...

Eugene Berman (1899-1972) La Cattedrale Nocturna, 1951. Gouache and india ink on paper. Sheet measures 16 x 20 5/8 inches. Framed measurement: 24.5 x 28.5 inches. Signed with art...

Raymond Johnson (1915-1997). Cover Illustration for If Hate Could Kill, 1960. Gouache on illustration board, image measures 13 x 21 inches. Illustration board measuring 19.5 x 26 ...

Beautiful minimal Abstract Expressionist painting. Mixed media on paper glued down to illustration backing board. Paper sheet measures 10.25 x 14 inches. Cardboard panel measures 1...