Quintessential Things Art

Really well drawn, signed and dated nude. I cannot make out the signature in the date. Looks like either 1964 or 1969. Really well executed with the cross hatch mesh like technique. ...

Andre Hambourg: 1909-1999. Well, listed French artist with auction results over$14,000 for a watercolor and much more for oil paintings. This fabulous rendering of a beach house coul...

An adorable wide-eyed, smiling lion nestles deeply within lush foliage, amid overlapping leaves, and clusters of small garden flowers. Californian artist Edward Lupper's distinctive ...

On offer is a pair of vintage hand-carved African figures. These serve as a classic example of traditional African post sculptures, closely matching the ancestral stylistic tradition...

Marie Laurencin: 1883-1956. Very well listed French artist who has had Auction results as high as $187,000 for a watercolor and ink on paper. Although she is best known for her color...

Jose Luis Cuevas: 1934-2017. Well, listed Mexican with Auction results over $20,000 for a mixed media on paper. This piece is a mixed media as well which seems to be mostly watercolo...

Diana Maxwell Armfield was a British artist who was born in 1920. She is well listed with Auction results as high as $12,900. She is most notable for her beautiful still lifes of flo...

On offer is a vibrant work of contemporary outsider folk art celebrating the seminal 1980s Washington, D.C. hardcore punk movement. The artwork juxtaposes classical 19th-century mili...

This twentieth-century oil on canvas painting depicts a traditional Dutch country genre scene complete with a quiet waterway, cottage, and windmill against a pale sky. A young girl s...

Vintage Oil Painting "Barn in the Distance" c.1970s. Original painting of a summer sunset and a barn in the distance. A summer haze hangs over the air. The subtle layers of land len...

This mid-20th-century American Western painting depicts a young cowboy on a white bench, adjusting his spur strap. He wears typical Western a...

This original 19th-century European genre painting depicts an intimate, domestic scene of two children. The painting captures a playful moment of hide-and-seek or a lighthearted conf...

This is a traditional mid-20th-century impressionist landscape painting, heavily inspired by the late 19th-century Dutch School. The artwork depicts a tranquil wetland scene featurin...

On offer is a heavily stylized, kinetic street scene of San Francisco. It features an iconic vintage streetcar/cable car negotiating a steep hill, flanked by towering, distorted arch...

First of all, it’s not from Renaissance Italy, and certainly not by Leonardo. The artist is likely Cehaku Okamoto (Japanese/American, 20th Century). And this painting should be title...

This sculpture is an antique Chinese lacquered and polychrome-painted wood figure dating from late in the Qing Dynasty (1644–1911). Hand-carved from a single piece of wood, set on an...

This African carved wood figure represents a male ancestor or spirit spouse statue. Standing at an impressive 26.5 inches tall, figures of this size and posture typically serve as fo...

This sculpture is a standing female figure from West Africa. As standalone wooden figures are relatively rare compared to masks, this is quite a notable traditional piece. The head ...

On offer is a 19th-century Italian Orientalist alabaster bust of a woman with a serene, downcast gaze, a coin necklace, fringed headscarf, and carved roses at the base. Likely modele...

This standing male figure is a traditional African power or ancestral sculpture. The bared, pointed teeth and stylized open mouth are classic indicators of power or protection, expre...

This watercolor captures an idealized 18th-century European aristocratic scene. Here is a game of mixed doubles in full court attire, complete with wigs and corsets. They're playing...

On offer is a recreation of a famed "Romantic Realism" composition by the renowned Chinese master Chen Yifei (1946–2005). The striking piece replicates one work in Chen Yifei's renow...

On offer is an idyllic, tropical waterside landscape featuring a traditional thatched-roof hut tucked beneath an expansive, dense banyan tree. The unknown artist utilized a rapid, co...

This signed drawing, "Low Fog" by American artist Justin Murray (1912–1987), features a lone caricatured man smoking a pipe amid rolling fog, with distant hills, buildings, and powe...

Kanwal Krishna: 1910-1993. He was born in Kamilia Punjab which is present day, Pakistan. He has auction records over $200,000. He was one of the first artist to be able to travel to ...

Allan Rohan Crite: 1910-2007. Well, listed African-American artist mostly associated with the Boston area. He was known in his time as the Deen of African-American artist. He chronic...

This large, horizontal bronze sculpture is a modernist work typically referred to as "Bird" or "Bird in Flight." Made of cast bronze with a smooth polished or patinated finish, it is...

This work is a strong example of Abstract Expressionism in the drip or gesture painting style. It uses layered, all-over compositions with dripped and poured paint forming overlappin...

This painting, identified verso as “Composition #11,” exemplifies David Ladin’s mid-century figural style, an exploration of a blend of modern abstraction and classical figure drawin...

Norman Barr: 1908-1994. American scene Painter and muralist known for his realistic depiction of every day working class people. He is a very underrated unknown American artist who l...

Spectacular impressionist scene most likely early 20th century. This is most likely painted by a French impressionist, but could be American as well. It looks to be a popular subject...

Aileen Rose Dent: 1890-1978. Well listed Australian female artist with Auction results over $4200. She was known for portraits and landscapes or seascapes. Out of all the examples o...

Frank Goodnow: 1923-2004. Listed American artist and professor at Syracuse University. Magnificent colors in this rare Frank Goodnow Painting. It is a spectacular cubist painting. It...

Robert Arthur Goodnough: 1917-2010: Very important and well listed American abstract expressionist artist. He has had Auction results as high as $52,500 but sells for much more in galleries and privately online. This spectacular powerful abstract was most likely painted in the late 1940s as that was his style during that period. His style would change in the 1950s and then again in the 1960s. He is considered a second generation abstract expressionist after the first generation which included Pollock, Rothko and deKooning. Several art gallery owners and critics said he was allergic to self promotion and was the most underrated artist of his generation. In 1952 apparently someone twisted his arm, because he had a one man show at Tibor Nagy...

On offer is a portrait of a dapper young man holding a hat who is believed to be Philip Edward Tabb (1830–1901). This painting is a classic example of mid-19th-century American portr...

There is something very poignant about a ship that is no longer of use. Who knows how many decades this small two-masted sailing craft carried cargo between area ports. But here she ...

On offer is an American Impressionist landscape painting featuring a vibrant sunset casting a glow over a farm setting. The work depicts a figure walking down a dirt path through a m...

On offer is a pastoral scene in a forested clearing along a stream. A small figure tends to five goats grazing near the water's edge on a sunny day. Given its diminutive size and an ...

There is something captivating about a night scene, when all are asleep, glowing in full moonlight. On offer is a nocturne, as such works are called, of a 19th-century serene rural s...

This abstract painting is a work by Joan Miller Linsley (1922–2000), an American artist recognized for her contributions to the Washington, D.C. art scene and her powerful social com...

This mixed media piece exemplifies Inez Storer's "magical realism," combining paint and collage to explore identity and personal history. The work features familiar motifs like hats ...

This watercolor of a mountain clearing featuring towering gum (eucalyptus) trees in the foreground, a dusty track, and a sunlit cliff face in the distance is a classic landscape by H...

This painting is a distinguished example of vintage surrealism by Fabio Lemus, a mid-century artist working in Chile noted for his theatrical and whimsical imagery. The composition f...

Martin Petersen: 1867-1956. Listed Danish American artist who just had an Auction sale this past January for over $2000. I feel that that painting which was a little smaller is not n...

This mid 19th-century British rural landscape titled "Near Norwich" is by Victorian artist Edward Charles Williams (1807-1881). Against a backdrop of a windmill situated a little bey...

This mid 19th-century British rural landscape by Victorian artist Edward Charles Williams (1807–1881) depicts a shepherd, a young woman, sheep, and farmhands set against a traditiona...

This tinted lithograph, titled "Interior of the Temple of Abu Simbel," was created by Scottish artist David Roberts, R.A. (1796–1864) at a time when the temple was largely obscured b...

This oil painting by American-born Charles Brady (1926–1997) depicts a faded, teal-colored double door set into an old, textured wall, likely representing a scene from a sunlit Europ...

On the face of it, on offer is an ordinary street scene ostensibly painted in Greece. But you might be wrong. This is a work of mystery, memories, lost stories and a forceful use of ...

Edgar Franklin Wittmack: 1894-1956. Well, listed American illustrator who did the covers of numerous magazines. He has had Auction results over $5400 but sells for much more in speci...

William Heath: 1794-1840. well, listed early 19th century British artist with Auction results for a watercolor over $35,000. This is fabulous, watercolor, and ink on paper and is typ...

This oil-on-canvas portrait was painted in 1915 by the American artist Nicholas Richard Brewer (1857–1949). It captures a mother seated with her daughter and son, a classic example o...

A woman must remain fashionable, even when at the beach. This late 19th-century gouache and watercolor piece, likely created between 1885 and 1900, depicts two lively young women in ...

Hans Pinggera "An Evening Recital" original oil painting circa 1940 Hans Pinggera (Austria b.1900) A Fine oil painting of a young pianist giving an evening recital. The painting ...

This abstract painting is an original vintage piece likely from the mid-20th century. Paintings of this scale and aesthetic are frequently associated with the Mid-Century Modern move...

This painting is a classic example of the work of Mori Sosen (1747–1821), the most famous painter of monkeys in Japanese art history. The painting, executed in ink and light color on silk, portrays a mother monkey protectively holding her infant while perched on a gnarled tree limb. The protective pose and the interaction between the mother and infant...

Andre Renoux: 1939-2002. Well, listed French artist with Auction records as high as $5300. I don’t know what to say about this painting. It’s been one of my favorites for a long time...

Really cool mid-century painting described by a tag 1957 Berlin St., Café. It also says on the tag that it was an artist named Heinz Klaiberg. There are a few artists with the same l...

Gertrude Partington Albright: 1883-1959. Well, listed American artist mostly associated with San Francisco, where she lived throughout her life. She has had Auction results as high a...

Fabulous 1966 Picasso lithograph exhibition poster. Picasso design this in 1966 for the grand opening of the Los Angeles County Museum of art. He designed it in wax crayon, and it wa...