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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
A Sunlit European Cityscape
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a post-World War II European cityscape. This scene, defined by French-influenced architecture, expresses a bright optimism that the worst is finally over. Here are people going about their daily lives in peace. The very ordinariness of this activity is beautiful. Spanish-born artist Jose Luis...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“The Wild Boar”
Located in San Francisco, CA
If you’ve been a longtime college football follower of the SEC, or the Southeastern Conference, you may have heard of this 1964 game in Shreveport, Louisiana. On December 29, the University of Arkansas Razorbacks in crimson and white played the University of Mississippi’s Ole Miss Rebels in The Bluebonnet Bowl, and handily won the contest 82-48 by racking up 52 points in the first half. As imagined here by American Surrealist Jean Jones Jackson...
Category
1960s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
“The Newspaper Boy”
Located in San Francisco, CA
The classic hard luck, independent kid, maybe 8 or 10 years old here, selling the day’s papers out on the grubby streets of early 1900s New York City. He’s paused in a quiet spot, ap...
Category
Early 1900s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
“Raising the Flag” by R. Kamal
Located in San Francisco, CA
You won’t find many wooden one-room schoolhouses these days—more likely utilitarian blocks of concrete and glass, fluorescents above, linoleum below, to do the job. The early schoolh...
Category
20th Century Folk Art Figurative 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--although the name Quentin Matsys was scratched into the verso of this work pro...
Category
19th Century Northern Renaissance Figurative Paintings
Materials
Copper
A Pointillist View of a Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
The artist had a lot to say. Why else spend the intense focus and time on rendering such a luminous work brought to completion literally point by point in tiny dots? Ask yourself: Ar...
Category
Late 20th Century Pointillist Abstract 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
River Passage in the Levant
Located in San Francisco, CA
A flight of fancy, this work is a bit of a surprise for a 20th-century California painter. With its colorful dhows topped by lateen sails and attended by turbaned sailors, the artist Anthony Muscat...
Category
1950s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Sacrifice
Located in San Francisco, CA
Given the subject of this painting, you won't be surprised to learn that actor and artist Vincent Price was a patron of Noel Rockmore (1928-1995), this work's American artist. Additi...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,250
An Elderly Couple
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a timeless expression of social realism, in the style of the late American artist Ben Shahn. You sense the couple has shared a lifetime. Still standing close together, th...
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,250
A Boy and His Rooster
Located in San Francisco, CA
The boy with a grown man’s expression. The dignified rooster, unfazed by his situation. This may have been painted from a 19th-century photograph, given the sepia tones of this paint...
Category
1980s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Timeless Allure of the “Javanese Dancer”
Located in San Francisco, CA
Unsurprisingly, she was much admired when exhibited by artist Luis Cutron at the noted Laguna Beach Art Association, today’s Laguna Art Museum in coastal Southern California. Exotic ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The First Lovers, an Art Nouveau "Adam and Eve"
Located in San Francisco, CA
Working in the Art Nouveau period style of Austrian Symbolist painter Gustav Klimt, artist Irina V. Karkabi has given form in this painting to the unimaginable, the moments whereby B...
Category
1990s Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jockeys at the Rail
Located in San Francisco, CA
There’s an instant in a competitive horse race—whether it’s at Churchill Downs, Del Mar, Santa Anita Park, Saratoga or Belmont—of the utmost ferocity. That’s when the riders are jamm...
Category
1960s Modern Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 20th-Century European Street Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
The very ordinariness of this European street scene is a delight. With Armistice recently signed, all the depravations of the recent war are letting up, enough so that two women can ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Romance Novel Cover Illustration
Located in San Francisco, CA
As the writing on the verso suggests, this may have been proposed cover artwork for one of author Danielle Steel's staggering count of 182 novels. Booksellers and publishers routinel...
Category
1960s Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Venice, An Intimate View
Located in San Francisco, CA
It's the dream. One going back centuries. The glossy canals instead of streets reflecting the delicate hues of adjacent buildings, yes. But especially when these waterways are dotted...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,250
Caught it! Spearfishing a Wary Grouper
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the eternal man vs prey contest, spearfishing might be one of the most challenging sports. The fisherman must enter the alien watery realm to hunt, perhaps only equipped with snor...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
"Love" Boys With A Toy in Nigeria
Located in San Francisco, CA
Nigerian artist Akingbade Mayowa (born in 1988) titled this piece “Love.” Was he referring to the universal love of a father for his sons? Or perhaps ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
A Cubist Cuban Country Chico
Located in San Francisco, CA
You cannot pass this doleful young man without engaging. If you have traveled, you have met him in the streets of Latin America, of India, of Africa and even some parts of the U.S. H...
Category
Early 2000s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
After Jacobus Joseph Eeckhout, A Dutch Drinking Companion in Golds, Red & Cream
Located in San Francisco, CA
As the actual artist and date of this piece are unknown, perhaps this genre painting was done by a skilled student. But certainly, at this skill level, it could have served to provid...
Category
Mid-20th Century Dutch School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Metal
(Untitled) Filipina Woman with Pottery, in Beige, Black & Tan
Located in San Francisco, CA
Manilla-born painter Francisco “Paco” Gorospe (1939-2002) took a detour with this piece. Normally working with colors to rival any spring flower garden, h...
Category
Late 20th Century Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
(Untitled) Little Girl Cradling Her Black Cat, in Greens and Chestnut
Located in San Francisco, CA
Poignancy. A little girl hugging her black kitty rendered in any realistic palette would be cloying. But not here. You look longer. Tight little patterns bubble over in the backgroun...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Beagles" Early 19th C. Country People & Dogs. Rockefeller Provenance
By Thomas Rowlandson
Located in San Francisco, CA
Originally the property of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., this watercolor scene, depicting a group of ordinary, early 19th-century English folk and their dogs resting in the shade, p...
Category
Early 19th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Paper
(Untitled) A Scandalous Tea with a Stranger in Leiderstein
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the depths of the Great Depression, American women sought escape from their worries. For 25¢,“Hearst’s International Cosmopolitan” magazine delivered. The magazine published ficti...
Category
1930s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid 20thC Painting, Ghost-like Figures Against Bronze Background
Located in San Francisco, CA
Subdued bronzes and saddle leather tones provide a rich background for a cluster of mysterious, ghostlike figures--"The Visitors" of the painting's title--imagined as weathered paint...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
19th-century Orientalist Reclining Odalisque Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Was she a gift to the Sultan, deliciously bejeweled and enrobed in the finest embroidered silks? By this time, resigned to her fate, the once Christian Circassian girl would have bee...
Category
1880s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Armando Villagran Original Painting
By Armando Villagran
Located in San Francisco, CA
Armando Villagran (Mexican, 1945-1995)
Untitled (Figure with Animal), 1991
Oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right
Canvas: 55"h x 43.5"w, overall (with frame): 56"h x 44"w
Born ...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Reclining Figure Mid Century Modern Cubist Painting C.1950s
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fantastic 1950's Cubist Oil Painting by Mystery Artist.
Though undated, this is a classic 1950's painting. A reclining figure under the sun. Original cubist oil painting on masonit...
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jesus Ortiz Tajonar (1919-1990) Boy W/Papier-Mâché Animal Warrior Mask
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jesus Ortiz Tajonar (1919-1990) Mexican Boy with Papier-Mâché Animal Warrior Mask
c.1950s
Fantastic mid century modern oil painting by listed Mexican artist Jesus Ortiz Tajonar.
W...
Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Style Of William Aiken Walker
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulous oil on canvas in the style of the famous William Aiken Walker. The details of this painting are amazing and is the same subject matter of...
Category
1970s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Pearl A Van Sciver New Hope Pennsylvania
Located in San Francisco, CA
Pearl A Van Sciver: 1895-1966. Well listed Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artist. She has had Auction results over $3900 She exhibited at the national Academy of design, Pafa and the Cor...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Dutch school 18th or 19th century The Scribe
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fantastic oil on panel possibly Dutch school. Looks to be at least 19 century possibly earlier. The scene looks like a very important gentleman or possibly royalty with a scribe taki...
Category
Early 19th Century Dutch School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Expressionist Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Fabulously colorful combination of abstract expressionist and outsider art. Most likely done in the 1950s or 60s signed lower right it appears to be a mixed medium on board. Very si...
Category
Mid-20th Century Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Arrigo Ghedini Don Quixote and Sancho Panza
Located in San Francisco, CA
Arrigo Ghedini: 1905-1997. Listed Italian, American artist who is highly collected. His paintings rarely become available on the open market as collectors hold onto them. He just had...
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Enamel
Ken Gore Nude in a Landscape
By Ken Gore
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ken Gore: 1911-1990. Well listed American artist with Auction records over $3500, but sells for more in galleries. Is best known for his paintings around Glou...
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mother and child painting by Muller
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charming painting of a mother and child. Very interesting early to mid 20th century oil on board. It is signed Muller. It could be a listed artist, but frankly there are too many Mu...
Category
1940s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract Expressionist Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Very powerful and colorful abstract, expressionist painting. Seems to be a mixed media of oil and gouache. The painting measures 15 inches high by 12 inches wide. The frame measures...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Dennis Ainsley French Market
Located in San Francisco, CA
Dennis Ainsley: 1880-1952. He was born in Illinois but spent a lot of time painting in France. This fabulous oil on canvas measures 36 inches wide by 24 inches high.. The beautiful f...
Category
1940s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mid Century Modern "Jazz Club" Original Oil Painting by Sandra Thaw
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid Century Modern "Jazz Club" Original Oil Painting by Sandra Thaw
Bright, bold and colorful oil painting of a Jazz Club c.1950s.
Signed in the lower right corner "Sandra Thaw".
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Category
1950s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Daybreak" Original 20th Century Oil Painting After Parrish
By Maxfield Parrish
Located in San Francisco, CA
"Daybreak" Original 20th Century Oil Painting after Parrish
A fine original copy of one of the most famous paintings by Parrish.
No visible signat...
Category
1930s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century Oil Painting "The Naughty Child" After Sir Edwin Landseer
By Sir Edwin Landseer
Located in San Francisco, CA
19th Century Oil Painting "The Naughty Child" After Sir Edwin Landseer
Delightful antique oil painting of "The Naughty Child" by a mystery artist. The original painting was done by ...
Category
Late 19th Century English School Paintings
Materials
Oil
