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"A Frenchman and His Cow"
Located in San Francisco, CA
This cow knows her power; her man’s shirt is color-coordinated to her bridle. It would be hard to imagine any cocky tech bro prouder of his new Verde Mantis (Green) Lambo than this d...
Category
1990s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Bay Area’s Mt. Diablo, by Delia Bradford
Located in San Francisco, CA
No matter where one lives currently, be it London, Austin, or Mumbai, if you have lived near or hiked up Mount Diablo in San Francisco’s East Bay, this could bring back warm memories...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Cherub with a Future Prime Minister Inside
Located in San Francisco, CA
The biggest surprise for new parents is how much their child’s personality is already baked-in at birth. Croatian painter Vilko Šeferov responded to this toddler’s innate intensity i...
Category
20th Century Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Iowa City’s Portrait of Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780)
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a portrait of renowned English jurist Sir William Blackstone (1723-1780). Any attorney worth their standing with the state bar will recognize from law school days the aut...
Category
1880s Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Self-portrait after Van Gogh, by Henrico (Richio) Galvez
Located in San Francisco, CA
Given Vincent Van Gogh’s mental state when he painted his September 1889 self-portrait, possibly his last, it would be risky business by another artist to produce his own self-portra...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Soulful Modernist Portrait
By Boris Deutsch
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a portrait of an unknown sitter who is rendered with profound dignity yet lifted from gloomy solemnity by a vibrant and intriguing background. Notably, artist Boris Deuts...
Category
1950s American Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Abstract of Waves
Located in San Francisco, CA
For creative people living in the Bay Area, water vistas offer daily inspiration. Abstract artist Keith Race focused here on the steady, choppy surface of waves throwing off spray. W...
Category
1990s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
It's Five O'clock Somewhere, by Donald Daugherty
Located in San Francisco, CA
The scene flows with a mix of people out and very much milling about against a backdrop of high rises half hidden in mist. There’s the dandy sporting a red fedora, a white-helmeted b...
Category
1980s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dark Times
Located in San Francisco, CA
Dark times call for principled action. Painter, graphic artist and writer Hans Balushek had the bad timing to be born in 1870 in Breslau, Silesia, then an area within Germany, but to...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Warning
Located in San Francisco, CA
Copenhagen-born American artist Soren Edsberg (1945-2021) combined abstraction with impressionism in this vision of Armageddon. The son of a Danish painter, Edsberg converted in 1961...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,250
An Unmasked Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
No longer mysterious, she’s a beautiful friend, perhaps a lover, (thank heavens she’s happy to see you) and welcoming you to the party. She belongs on your wall for those days when y...
Category
1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,450
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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
After Vincent Van Gogh’s “Dr. Gachet” by Henrico (Richio) Galvez
Located in San Francisco, CA
The inspiration for this work was Vincent Van Gogh’s “Portrait of Dr. Gachet.” Both versions of the original perceptively convey the sitter’s sense of utter frustration, perhaps at h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of an Elegant Man in a Top Hat by H. de Vlaminck
Located in San Francisco, CA
H. de Vlaminck: A familiar artist’s name? An elegant signature, certainly. But no, it’s not that de Vlaminck. No fauve favoritism here. Nevertheless, an elegant sitter. A long, arist...
Category
1930s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Money Lenders” after Flemish Painter Quentin Matsys (1466-1530)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Well-fed, well-dressed, and well satisfied, counting and accounting for the money. The unknown painter has caught in these two the personification of the approbation against a profes...
Category
19th Century Northern Renaissance Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
Self portrait after Diego Velasquez
Located in San Francisco, CA
Self portrait after Diego Velasquez. Oil on canvas. 32.2,5 x 41 unframed, 35.75 x 44.5 framed. Late 19th century. Unsigned artwork.
Category
Late 19th Century Paintings
Materials
Encaustic
A 19th-century Painting of Classical Ruins
Located in San Francisco, CA
For the well-born and the well-heeled, spending a year or so making the rounds on the Grand Tour granted one the 19th-century’s equivalent of a MFA. Ideally, and based on your newfou...
Category
Early 19th Century Italian School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
“Two Puppies” in the Style of Thomas Dalton Beaumont
Located in San Francisco, CA
If ever there was a heart-tugger—assuming you’re a dog person if you’re reading these details—the duo in this picture hits the mark. The unknown artist, inspired by noted painter of ...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
“The Showman” after Abraham Le Blond
Located in San Francisco, CA
This itinerant showman, with his drum and what appears to be a peep show, met a real need. What’s offered definitely engages the man in the group, but the woman pawing at his shoulde...
Category
19th Century Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
DabsMyla Pop Art
By DABSMYLA
Located in San Francisco, CA
DabsMyla is the fabulous artistic duo of husband Dabs and his wife Myla. This incredibly talented pair is known for their pop art graffiti style paintings. They were originally from ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
$7,800
Louis SCHANKER “Jai Alai”
By Louis Schanker
Located in San Francisco, CA
Louis Schanker : 1903-1981. Well, listed American abstract artist. He was well exhibited and is in the permanent collections of many important museums. This fabulous piece is a color...
Category
1930s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Victor Salmones Father and Son
By Victor Salmones
Located in San Francisco, CA
Victor Salmones. 1937-1989. Very well listed sculptor who lived in worked in Mexico. He said Auction results as high as $23,500. This powerful work measures 10 inches high by 6 inche...
Category
1960s Realist Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Style of Motherwell
Located in San Francisco, CA
Very powerful, large abstract painting by a very talented artist. It is in the style of a Robert Motherwell or Franz. Kline. The painting measures 25 inches high by 21 inches wide. T...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
$1,250
Women in an Enchanted Mist
Located in San Francisco, CA
Through the Technicolor mist, two Asian ladies pass by. There’s a pensive one with a baby on her back. She carries an empty basket. The other is slightly smiling, completely absorbed...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Summer Bouquet in a Green Vase
By Irene Stry
Located in San Francisco, CA
Somewhere there is a room filled with polished mahogany and yards of immaculate warm white linen slipcovering the furnishings and framing the windows. The French doors open wide to f...
Category
1940s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Afterglow” A Mixed-Media Composition
By Anne Youkeles
Located in San Francisco, CA
It’s hard to restrain oneself from wanting to examine this piece up close, never mind the yearning to touch it, to experience its delicate three-dimensionality. Fortunately for the w...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Paint, Paper
On Stearns Landing, Kezar Pond, Lowell, Maine
Located in San Francisco, CA
It seems that Stearns Landing on Kezar Pond in Lowell (today Fryeburg), Maine has passed into history. But how lovely it was on that silvery overcast day in 1907 when the little Arka...
Category
Early 1900s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Scenic Snowy Winterscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
This is for your personal cozy spot in the Aspen house. Fire in the fireplace below where it will hang. A fringed, warm white cashmere throw on your down-stuffed chaise lounge, as so...
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
An Abstract of "Forces"
Located in San Francisco, CA
The artist of this piece, William "Bill" Stephens Shields Jr. (1925-2010), was born in San Francisco and following the death of his father in 1931, the then-4 year-old grew up in Tex...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A View of Stockholm, Sweden in 1941
Located in San Francisco, CA
Signed by Signar, this work offers a peaceful springtime view of Stockholm’s central waterfront from a small hillside lane. The vista includes the distinctive dark metal spire of Rid...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Wide Open Spaces
Located in San Francisco, CA
If you’ve been dreaming of owning a piece of Wyoming or Montana, this wide-horizons painting deserves a spot over your stone fireplace. Photographic in its crisp detail, the artist c...
Category
1970s American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Primitive Portrait of George Washington with Sword
Located in San Francisco, CA
This primitively rendered but admiring tribute to George Washington has a distinguished artistic lineage. The painter was undoubtedly in the presence of a much admired print engraved...
Category
Late 19th Century Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Lady with a Red Parasol
Located in San Francisco, CA
Sheltering under a red parasol from sunny afternoon skies while passing through this lovely waterfront park, a woman could easily find renewal. She strolls along the Mediterranean sh...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th-c. French Fishing Boats off Calais
Located in San Francisco, CA
Some painting subjects must be captured from life in their own time to connect with the viewer. Men engaged in fishing for their livelihood is one of them. In this intimate canvas, t...
Category
19th Century Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Surreal “Due Appetti” by Ferruccio Rosini
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ready for some self-reflection? Intriguing hints about this striking painting’s origin, handwritten on the reverse, could get you started. “Due Appetiti” di Vita suggests that two ap...
Category
1970s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Cubist "Nob Hill" Becomes San Francisco's "Oz"
By Jean Kalisch
Located in San Francisco, CA
San Francisco’s elegant Nob Hill caught the eye of Japanese-born, Californian painter Jean Kalisch ((1912-1995). In this atmospheric cityscape, the artist has rendered the famously e...
Category
1960s Cubist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
San Francisco's Broadway Tunnel
By Jean Kalisch
Located in San Francisco, CA
San Francisco’s Broadway Tunnel caught the eye of Japanese-born, Californian painter Jean Kalisch ((1912-1995). In this atmospheric cityscape, the street glistens under rainy wintery...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Picasso Painter with Nude Female Models, Drypoint on Wove
By Pablo Picasso
Located in San Francisco, CA
Nudes were a consistent subject throughout the world-famous artist's long career. One of the earliest examples, done in 1895 when Picasso was 15, appears in the opening pages of the ...
Category
1960s Modern Prints and Multiples
Materials
Paper, Drypoint
Portrait of a Classic 19th-Century Beauty
Located in San Francisco, CA
Everything about this portrait denotes an aristocratic sitter. Enrobed in an off-white silken gown, the young lady is adorned by a string of pearls extending beyond her waist. Since ...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
After Jean Miró, Pink and Purple Surrealism at Play
By (after) Joan Miró
Located in San Francisco, CA
There’s been a lot of gray and stainless steel in decorating in recent years. For someone tentatively thinking of introducing some fresh excitement into their minimalist maison, cons...
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The New Yorker Magazine Cover Art of The Metropolitan Museum
By Charles E. Martin
Located in San Francisco, CA
This especially rare original watercolor painting by American artist Charles E. Martin (1910-1995), depicting The Metropolitan Museum of Art in winter, appeared as the cover art for ...
Category
1960s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Illustration Board
Magnificent, Tragic Clipper
Located in San Francisco, CA
Here we have an intricately detailed mystery ship captured under full sail, flying an American flag, in unknown but well-painted seas. Noted on the verso, actually inked on the aged ...
Category
Early 1900s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carlo Maratti “Mary Virgin Assumed”
By Carlo Maratti
Located in San Francisco, CA
Carlo Maratti: 1625-1713. Very well listed 17 century Italian master. He has had Auction results over $1 million for a painting and over $4000 for an etching. He often printed etchin...
Category
17th Century Italian School Figurative Prints
Materials
Etching
Luigi Lucioni Vermont Barn
By Luigi Lucioni
Located in San Francisco, CA
Luigi Lucioni: 1900-1988. Very well listed American Painter and etcher. He has Auction results as high as $4600 for an etching. This adding is most likely a barn in Vermont.. It meas...
Category
1950s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Michel Delacroix “Les Marchands”
By Michel Delacroix
Located in San Francisco, CA
Michel Delacroix is a French artist born in 1933. He is very well listed and paints in the naïve style. This original lithograph with an edition of 1500 measures 17 inches wide by 12...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
A Peaceful Country Lane
Located in San Francisco, CA
There’s a gentle hand in Emanuel Matthews’ landscapes, exhibiting here and in other pieces a fondness for a more bucolic, genteel and barely industrialized America. Although painted ...
Category
20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,650
James Coignard Carborundum “Terre Des Autres”
By James Coignard
Located in San Francisco, CA
James Coignard: 1925-2008. Well, listed French artist with Carborundum print auction results over $3000 for a single print. He is best known for his print in the Carborundum techniqu...
Category
1970s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints
Materials
Etching
19th Century Tonalist Sheep Herder
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charming little 19th century oil on board. I am not sure if it’s European or American. The painting measures 12 inches wide by 6 inches high. The frame is 3/4 of an inch around. Pain...
Category
19th Century Academic Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Carmel's Romantic Mission San Carlos Borromeo Del Rio Carmelo
Located in San Francisco, CA
Without a doubt California's charming coastal village of Carmel compels one to romance. But this location, the 1797 Mission San Carlos Borromeo Del Rio Carmelo, with its lovely, foun...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pointillist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
A Little Lost Lamb
Located in San Francisco, CA
Legendary Hollywood producer Samuel Goldwyn once said about making motion pictures, “If you want to send a message, use Western Union.” However, it’s likely that artist M.A. Calvin c...
Category
19th Century Rococo Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,650
"Mending the Sails"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Beginning nearly 8,000 years ago, when humans first harnessed the winds with sails, they’ve been mending them. Even longer for fishing nets. We may have glanced at such activity when...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a British Officer on the Eve of WW1
Located in San Francisco, CA
In life, so much is a matter of timing. German and English portraitist Fritz von Kamptz signed and dated this picture in 1915 at age 49 when he was at the height of his powers. Havin...
Category
1910s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Clipper Ship “Balclutha”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Unlike the typical lost subject of a historic marine painting, this ship is cared for to this day by the San Francisco Maritime Museum. And it floats there secure in the dignity of h...
Category
1970s Other Art Style Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Bahamas Painting "Cockroach Cay"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charming little piece of Bahamian history. This watercolor and gouache is titled cockroach cay which is a small island in the Bahamas. It is titled lower left and initial DW 54 for 1...
Category
1950s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Gene Kloss “ Hunters in the snow”
By Gene Kloss
Located in San Francisco, CA
Gene Kloss: 1903-1996. Well listed and very important female American artist. She has Auction results up to $34,000 for an etching. She was born in Oakland California and died in Tao...
Category
1940s American Realist Landscape Prints
Materials
Etching
Susan Dysinger New Orleans Jazz Monoprint
Located in San Francisco, CA
Incredibly detailed and colorful mono print from the American artist Susan Dysinger. She studied art at the university of California at Santa Barbara. Known for these New Orleans jaz...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Monoprint
Pair of 19 century oil on porcelain portraits
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pair of fabulous 19 century oil on porcelain portraits. These finally detailed paintings are most likely, a husband and wife. The male portrait could possibly be Napoleon the second....
Category
19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Allen Rohan Crite Triptych Linocut
Located in San Francisco, CA
Allen Rohan Crite: 1910-2007. Extremely well listed and important African-American artist. He lived and worked mostly in Massachusetts Boston area. He has had Auction records for a L...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Prints
Materials
Linocut
Allan Rohan Crite Pair of Female nude drawings
Located in San Francisco, CA
Allan Rohan Crite: 1910-2007. Very well listed and important african-American artist. He has Auction results as high as $20,000 for a drawing. He lived and worked most of his life in...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pencil
"Crusader Wall"
By Marjorie Cathcart
Located in San Francisco, CA
By naming her work “Crusader Wall,” Berkeley, California painter Marjorie Cathcart (1918-2014) was sharing the location of her inspiration with posterity. However, there are at least...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
