McNaught Fine Art

Signed lower left, 'Bagley' for Bill Bagley (American, 1944-2011) and painted circa 1985. Bill Bagley's artistic career reflected a luminous engagement with color and form. Based fo...

Signed lower right, 'Eleida Ashcraft' for Eleida Bosler Ashcraft (American, 1875-1940) and dated 1931/2. Framed dimensions: 23.5 H x 2.5 D x 25.25 H inches Displayed in a carved 22kt...

Painted by Anne Margrethe Grosell (Danish, 1909- 1999), circa 1935, and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity. Unsigned. An accomplished Post-Impressionist self-portra...

Attributed to Hortense Mattice Gordon (Canadian, 1886-1961) and painted circa 1925. Unsigned. The attribution is based on the similar style, composition and subject matter of McGill ...

Painted by Jack Sparrow (American, 1993-1961) with the artist estate information verso and stamped with certification of authenticity verso. Unsigned and painted circa 1945. Provenan...

Certification of authenticity stamped, verso, for Victor Di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) and painted circa 1955. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los...

Signed lower right and upper left, 'Geoffrey Lewis' (American, 1928-2005) and painted circa 1975. Born in San Francisco, Geoffrey Lewis enlisted in the Merchant Marines at the age o...

Scandinavian School, early twentieth century. Unsigned and inscribed, verso, on stretcher bar, 'Anna Ancher' with additional indistinct inscription and painted circa 1910. A psychol...

Painted by Nura Woodson Ulreich (American, 1899-1950) as a full-page illustration for the book 'The Buttermilk Tree', unsigned and dated circa 1935. A rare example of a fully-develop...

Signed lower left, 'Sydney J. Yard' for Sydney Janis Yard (American, 1855 -1909) and painted circa 1905. Sydney Janis Yard was born 1855, in Rockford, Illinois where he first studie...

Signed lower right, 'A. K. Skeele' for Anna Katharine Skeele (American, 1896-1963); titled, verso, 'Taos Yard' (visible from front, lower left) and painted circa 1945. Born in Ohio ...

Signed lower left, 'Corinne West' for Michael Corinne West (American, 1908-1991) and painted circa 1965. Titled, verso, 'Red, White and Grey' and inscribed, 'Shoe-In'. Corinne Michelle (Michael) West occupies a singular position in the history of American abstraction, bridging the New York School’s formative years with a fiercely independent sensibility. Born in Chicago and raised in Ohio, she studied at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music before transferring her ambitions to painting and entering the Cincinnati Art Academy in the late 1920s. By 1932 she had moved to New York, enrolling at the Art Students League where she studied with John Sloan and, more crucially, with the German émigré Hans Hofmann. Hofmann’s rigorous formalism and insistence on the “push–pull” dynamic of color relationships proved decisive for her early development. West’s formative European encounter came in 1933–34, when she traveled abroad, working briefly in France and absorbing both Cubism and Surrealist idioms then dominant in Paris. Back in New York she aligned herself with the small but growing circle of advanced modernists, exhibiting with the American Abstract Artists and maintaining close ties to Arshile Gorky, with whom she had both a personal and artistic relationship. At Gorky’s urging, she changed her professional name from “Corinne” to “Corinne Michelle West,” later signing works as “C. M. West” or “Michael West...