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Impressionist Baby eating breakfast
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mystery impressionist painting of a child eating breakfast. This painting is executed incredibly with the heavy impasto broken brush techniques of a master impressionist. The colors ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Eugene Gauss The Lovers
Located in San Francisco, CA
Eugene Gauss: 1905-1988. Well listed American sculptor who has Auction results as high as $13,200. He exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy for fine arts as well as the national Acad...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Young African Girl
Located in San Francisco, CA
Colorful little mystery gem. The subject is a young African or African-American girl. The colors and technique are quite interesting. It appears to be a mix of gouache and possibly o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
American Folk Art Marquetry Wall Panel
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a vintage American wood wall hanging featuring a powerful bison. If you have encountered such an animal, perhaps in Yellowstone looking at you as it crosses in front of y...
Category
1930s Folk Art More Art
Materials
Wood
“Sleeping Cat”
By William Zorach
Located in San Francisco, CA
This original pencil sketch, titled "Sleeping Cat," is a work by the renowned American artist William Zorach (1887-1966). Dated March 14, 1959, and inscribed "To Susan with Love" den...
Category
1950s American Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
“Recollections”/ “Dans Les Passes”
By Louis Icart
Located in San Francisco, CA
Still in her silken evening gown and dancing slippers, the glamorous ingénue is savoring her memories, her ribbon-tied love letters and long draws on her cigarette holder. Was he eve...
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
A Late 18th-Century Rural Family Scene
By George Morland
Located in San Francisco, CA
No sentimentality on the loose here. Not with the expressions on the mother and her three children all engaged in various forms of 18th-century drudgery on this late summer’s eve. An...
Category
Late 18th Century English School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A 19th-Century Vista of Palermo and Monte Pellegrino
Located in San Francisco, CA
It’s a lovely vista even today from this hillside spot recently ravaged by fire and filled in by 8- to 10-story high-rises in the basin below. Yet this work is a time capsule back to...
Category
19th Century Italian School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Gouache
Theodore B Dahl (1886-1971) Beautiful Country Landscape W/ Figures Oil on Canvas
Located in San Francisco, CA
Theodore B Dahl (1886-1971) Beautiful Country Landscape With Figures
Oil Paint on Canvas
Framed 26"H x 34"W
Unframed 20"H x 27.75"W
Category
19th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
“Chono Ca Pe, An Ottoe Chief”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Chono Ca Pe, is the remarkably handsome man looking back at us across some 200 years, expressing a certain wariness of the white man painting him. Also known as Big Kansas, the sitte...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Portrait Prints
Materials
Lithograph, Paper
“Thebes, Great Hall at Karnak”
By David Roberts
Located in San Francisco, CA
This lithograph titled "Thebes, Great Hall at Karnak" is a notable work by the Scottish painter David Roberts (1796-1864). This particular scene is part of Roberts' most famous colle...
Category
1840s English School Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
“Winter” from the “Four Seasons Suite” Series
By Alvar Sunol Munoz-Ramos
Located in San Francisco, CA
This embossed, numbered and signed lithograph, part of the “Four Seasons Suite,” is by Alvar Suñol Muñoz-Ramos (b. 1935), a renowned Spanish artist known simply as Alvar. In "Winter,...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
From “The Four Seasons Suite” Series
By Alvar Sunol Munoz-Ramos
Located in San Francisco, CA
This hand-signed, limited-edition lithograph with embossing is by the renowned Catalan Modernist artist Alvar Suñol Muñoz-Ramos, commonly known as Alvar. Part of “The Four Seasons” s...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
“Femme à La Guitare”
By Alvar Sunol Munoz-Ramos
Located in San Francisco, CA
A woman with flowing hair plays her guitar so beautifully that she captivates the full attention of a bird. Entranced, the creature responds with a full display of its feathers. The ...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
“Europa and the Bull”
By Alvar Sunol Munoz-Ramos
Located in San Francisco, CA
You have to hand it to the bull. Not just taking Europa with his unassailable power (he is Zeus in disguise, after all) he brings along a retinue for his seduction of the beautiful P...
Category
1980s Modern Figurative Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Taos Adobe Wall and the Sangre de Cristo Mountains
Located in San Francisco, CA
A study in neutrals, the essence of timeless Taos comes together in this picture. The backdrop of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains and particularly notice the brilliant light on the st...
Category
1980s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Adobe Wall Taos Pueblo”
Located in San Francisco, CA
In perfect simplicity, the essence of timeless Taos comes together in this picture. Start with the cerulean sky and particularly notice the light on the structure, a magnet to painte...
Category
1980s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Chinese Watercolor Emperor Qin Shi Huang Qin Dynasty
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous antique Chinese watercolor The colors are incredible. I was told by a Chinese Art Dealer that this is from or after Emperor Qin Shi Huang Qin dynasty. The scene is people pl...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Drawings and Watercolor Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
After Utrillo Montmarte
By Maurice Utrillo
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous painting, after or school of Maurice Utrillo. The painting is an oil on board or canvas panel and is unsigned. By the color of the back of the painting, it seems to be from ...
Category
1940s French School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mystery Signed Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Beautiful mystery painting signed lower left. I can only make out the first initial L the middle initial O and the last two initials of the last name look like IN or possibly TH. Thi...
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mystery Impressionist mountain landscape with cabin
Located in San Francisco, CA
Up for sale another beautiful mystery painting. An impressionistic little gem with very accomplished broken brushstroke technique. Painting is signed and dated upper right but I cann...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mystery Signed Pen and Ink Floral
Located in San Francisco, CA
Up for sale another mystery piece. This wonderfully executed pen and ink is signed lower right but I cannot decipher it. Obviously drawn by a very well trained artist. This floral pi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink
“Red Square” Serigraph on Paper
By LeRoy Neiman
Located in San Francisco, CA
It almost makes one want to board Aeroflot to see this firsthand…maybe going out of Istanbul? Well no. And yet, there’s a universal energy on full display in this view by a master im...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Paper
Birth of a Star in Daylight
Located in San Francisco, CA
Someone had Coltrane on the HiFi as they channeled Jackson Pollock. There’s a dark Gauloise going—a habit picked up in those student years in Paris—with smoke emitting from the chrom...
Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pair of Petit-point Embroideries
Located in San Francisco, CA
Could you do this? (without training since prepubescence?). Petit point roughly translates from the French as tiny dots. Think pixels. It takes a very fine mesh base to achieve this ...
Category
19th Century French School Mixed Media
Materials
Textile
Agapito Labios Girl with Birds
By Agapito Labios
Located in San Francisco, CA
Agapito Labios: 1898-1996. Well, listed Mexican Painter, who painted in the primitive Mexican style. He is best known for his paintings of young girls with either an inside or outsid...
Category
Mid-20th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Oil Painting Mother and Father Birds on Nest
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous antique oil on board of a mother and father bird. The mother is sitting on the nest and the father is above keeping a watchful eye. The painting is most likely late 19th or ...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
Popocatépetl, the Second Highest Peak in Mexico
Located in San Francisco, CA
The reason Mexican painter Rafael Huerta Carreón was referred to as "El paisajista del Estado de México" (The landscapist of the State of Mexico) was his output of works like this, t...
Category
1970s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Full Wind in the Sails
Located in San Francisco, CA
These magnificent ships, or carracks, depicted here in full sail were the heavy-duty workhorses of early 16th-century Spanish expeditions. Hernán Cortés used such ships to travel to ...
Category
20th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Snowstorm in Peru
Located in San Francisco, CA
Uruguayan painter D. Rodríguez Candhalés (1919-2004) traveled extensively in his dual careers as a successful painter and a professional soccer player. With this work, painted in Per...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Portrait of a Lady
Located in San Francisco, CA
Viewing the delicacy and grace of this portrait, one can appreciate that British artist Rosa Koberwein (1876–1903) was well recognized during her career for producing excellent portr...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Jacob Heller “Tropical Mexico”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous cubist wood cut of a Mexican village. It is titled tropical Mexico and is by the artist Jacob Heller. Really kool sky with lines for rain and ovals for clouds.There is not m...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Landscape Prints
Materials
Woodcut
Modernist Nude
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous 21st century modernist female nude. This colorful mystery painting measures 30 1/4 inches high by 10 1/4 inches wide. The frame measures 41 1/4 inches high by 21 1/4 inches...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$950
Portrait of an Exceptional Man
Located in San Francisco, CA
It’s the eyes you notice first, almost photographically rendered in this portrait, and very reminiscent of a certain film star whose first name was Paul. There’s a rock-solid steadin...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Attributed to Josef Lauer, Still Life with Roses, Tulips, Apples and Butterflies
By Josef Lauer
Located in San Francisco, CA
It would be hard to surpass the luscious allure of this 19th-century still life. Although unsigned, the vibrant colors and exquisite detailing reveal the hand of a master. That maste...
Category
19th Century Still-life 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
Woodland Landscape with Terriers on a Hunt
Located in San Francisco, CA
An example of terriers at their most eager, these three are focused on the quarry. Just what they were bred to do. British animal painter Frank Wormald Cassell (1862-1908) was renown...
Category
Late 19th Century Animal Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Lonely Girl
Located in San Francisco, CA
No background setting is needed in this painting by Fichtl to reference solitude's impact on the young woman. Loneliness is etched into her features. The choice of a dark coat—is it ...
Category
1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
"Carousel & Blossoms"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Signed by the painter as Ed Warren, this painting is the artistic expression of famed American paranormal investigator and author, Edward "Ed" Warren Miney (...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Mexico’s Tenango-Style Otomi Embroidery
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a framed example of the renowned textile art originated by the indigenous Otomi people of Hidalgo, Mexico, particularly from the municipality of Tenango de Doria. A story...
Category
Late 20th Century Other Art Style More Art
Materials
Textile
American Flag Signed by USA Olympic Women Medalists
Located in San Francisco, CA
A framed commemorative piece, this Stars and Stripes has been signed by women who achieved world-class athletic success as Olympic winners. Not confined to just one year’s event or p...
Category
2010s Other Art Style More Art
Materials
Brass
Portrait of a Young Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ohio-born painter William J. Forsyth (1854-1935) spent most of his life in Indianapolis and initially trained at the Indiana School of Art. But by 1882 Forsyth wanted to hone his drawing and rendering skills abroad. He enrolled at the Royal Academy in Munich, Germany. Fellow Hoosier students in Munich included artists T. C. Steele and J. Ottis Adams, which helped the new arrival’s transition.
Forsyth painted figures like this one while in Munich. One intriguing indication that this piece may have been done during the artist’s Academy period is that a very similar portrait of a remarkably similar sitter was described at auction as "German School, 1891" with the inscription "G. Büttner/Munich '91."
However, while there Forsyth shifted his interest to landscapes under the influence of American artist J. Frank Currier...
Category
1880s Barbizon School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a 19th-century Japanese Gentleman
Located in San Francisco, CA
This striking and remarkably Western-style portrait of a distinguished Japanese elder was done in the winter of 1885. His layered clothing with subtle details suggests formal attire,...
Category
1880s Other Art Style Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Alfred Birdsey Bermuda watercolor
By Alfred Birdsey
Located in San Francisco, CA
Alfred Birdsey: 1912-1996. Well listed artist who was born in England, but spent most of his adult life in Bermuda. He is almost exclusively known for his Bermuda watercolors such as...
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Country Chic in a Pair of Citrus Paintings
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer are a pair of still life paintings that manage to be both rustic and stylish. Expressive of another era, their presence in even the most contemporary kitchen or breakfast ar...
Category
1950s Folk Art Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Haitian Country Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
Haitian artist Jacksin Mésidor painted this from his Caribbean coastal hometown of Cap-Haitien in the north of his native land. As Haitian folk art, the painting delivers an archityp...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
The Man of Action
Located in San Francisco, CA
Here’s a man’s life in three volumes. In paint. On one canvas. And what a life! On the left, Volume 1, the labor movement against the monopolizing “Octopus” railroads and smoke-stack...
Category
1950s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Craig Pursley Big Sur
Located in San Francisco, CA
Craig Pursley is a working artist mostly associated with California and New England. He was born in 1954 and is obviously an incredibly talented artist. The detail of this painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Delivering a Promise to Marry
Located in San Francisco, CA
During Renaissance Italy, one way to send a message about the life-changing binding of two affluent families was to sit for a portrait like this. The finished work would then be deli...
Category
18th Century Italian School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tribute to an Aztec Warrior
Located in San Francisco, CA
Centered in this 20th-century assemblage of anthropological and natural elements is a clay representation of the face of a warrior wearing an Aztec eagle mask. Historically, an actua...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Mixed Media
Materials
Textile, Masonite
Germano Russo Impressionist Young Beauty
By Germano Russo
Located in San Francisco, CA
Beautifully executed heavy impasto impressionist painting by the Italian artist Germano Russo. He was born in 1935 in Florence Italy. This young lady, reading a book, reminds me of t...
Category
1970s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Mexican Hillside Village Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
The understated palette is the surprise here, given that it’s Mexico. No blinding white plaster walls. No bright green palms, hot pink bougainvillea and turquoise sea on the horizon,...
Category
20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Spring Flood on the River” by Hugh McChesney
Located in San Francisco, CA
In 1990, the year this work was completed by Hugh McChesney, heavy rains in May swamped Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and southern Mississippi. But wherever he may have set up his easel,...
Category
1990s Folk Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Fiberboard
The Feathered Hat
Located in San Francisco, CA
There something so poignant about this 40-something woman, painted sometime after World War I by F. Harding. She’s in her plain but “Sunday best” clothes. Yet she unwrapped for this ...
Category
1930s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Portrait of a Young Man Sitting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Rendered with the etherial background and casual elegance of a mid-century society woman’s portrait slated for her Palm Beach master suite, the subject of this work is instead a youn...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
“Sailboats on the Shore”
Located in San Francisco, CA
We might share with you the biography of Texas-born Steven Seymour Thomas (1868-1956), but it would take pages. Consider his precocious talent, which catapulted him to fame in New Yo...
Category
Late 19th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
A Pair of Indigenous Fillipino Portraits
Located in San Francisco, CA
One might reasonably ask: What were the 16th-century Spanish colonizers thinking when they took on the conquest of the Philippines? The archipelago nation is comprised of 7,641 islan...
Category
1950s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
“Americana 2”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Native-born Americans rarely experience the remarkable hopefulness and energy that can come with the privilege of U.S. citizenship, especially when it’s granted after birth elsewhere...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Polymer
$3,875
Austrian Folk Saying Grace Before Dinner
Located in San Francisco, CA
This work by Austrian artist Ivo Saliger (1894-1987) is an expression of devotion, of a tradition central to Austrian life a century ago. Then, Austria had a strong Catholic heritage, supported by more than six centuries of Hapsburg rule. The subjects of this reverential painting appear to be members of a family wearing traditional Austrian "tracht" or dress. Hands clasped in prayer, they are about to dine together, with the elder parents joined by their grown children and perhaps a spouse. Resolving any doubt in the viewer’s mind about the activity, a crucifix hangs above the gathering in the dining area’s corner adjacent to a painting of the Virgin Mary...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
