About Skippings Fine Arts
Skippings Fine Arts is run by Tamara de Poniatowska, a Cambridge University educated art historian and former expert at the Paris auction house. She has twenty years experience in buying, selling, researching and appraising art. Skippings specialises in 19th to mid 20th century pictures - impressionist, modernist, figurative and abstract - mostly with a French connection. We also occasionally present contemporary art and choice pieces of Haute Epoque sculpture and non-European art. Genuine artefacts are never lifeless: they have the power to transform and brighten ou...Read More
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Featured Pieces
Art School Model: A Jeweller's Nude Echoing Bernard Buffet’s Post-War Aesthetic
Located in Norwich, GB
Staunch and utterly absorbed, the Art School Model is seized in a moment of confident detachment, posing not for the students, but for posterity.
Here is a remarkable and historicall...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Visionary Vaudou Surrealism Large Contemporary Haitian Painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A mesmerising acrylic on canvas by the world-renowned contemporary Haitian master, Franz Zephirin. Celebrated for his highly original style, Zephirin is a key figure in modern Caribb...
Category
1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mystical Portrait, Universal Woman Haitian School of Beauty Caribean painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A captivating oil painting by the Haitian master, Albert Desmangles. This piece is a wonderful example of his work within the highly sought-after School of Beauty art movement, which...
Category
1980s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Acrylic
Taurus, A Characterful Guardian: Unique Hand-Modelled Bull Animalier Sculpture
Located in Norwich, GB
This striking, characterful bull is a wonderful, early, and truly unique piece by the Russian/French sculptor Joseph Constant (1892-1969). Dating from the 1940s, this animal subject ...
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1940s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Beautiful May, Boston, 1936: intimate art deco modernistportrait of young woman
By Mariette Lydis
Located in Norwich, GB
A rare and captivating original portrait drawing by Mariette Lydis, executed during her important 1936 journey to America.
This work showcases Lydis’s mastery of line, colour, and p...
Category
1930s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Watercolor, Graphite
Mid-Century Modern Paris: A View of the Seine
Located in Norwich, GB
Experience the romance and abstraction of 1950s Paris through this striking original mixed media drawing by the acclaimed American Modernist, Frederick E. Conway (1900–1973).
This c...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Jean Marais, Cocteau's Muse, Master of Stage Design: Curtain for Sleeping Beauty
By Jean Marais
Located in Norwich, GB
Jean Marais (1913–1998) is immortalised as the face of French cinema's golden age—the hero of Beauty and the Beast, the swashbuckler of Le Bossu, and the muse of Jean Cocteau. Yet, t...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
No Ordinary Winter's Tale: Resilience, the War 1943, German Expressionist oil
Located in Norwich, GB
This is no ordinary winter scene. It is the story of prosecution and survival; of resolve and resilience during World War 2, as it was experienced by German Expressionist Heinz Lohma...
Category
1940s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Figures by a stream, Solitude in the Woods, Fontainebleau Romantic landscape
Located in Norwich, GB
This wonderfully evocative work aligns with one of the most significant movements in 19th-century European landscape painting, reflecting a major shift toward Naturalism and the dire...
Category
1850s Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Meissen, Louise Sleeping, after a drawing by Greuze, 19th Century figurine
By (Circle of) Jean Baptiste Greuze
Located in Norwich, GB
As all of you will know, every Meissen figure is painted individually by an artist. While all Meissen is of high quality, I feel that the present figure is particularly fine, with th...
Category
1850s Academic Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Surrealist interior with leaning sculpture, similar to Georgio de Chirico
By Giorgio De Chirico
Located in Norwich, GB
Although I have no proof whatsoever, I like to think that this remarkable picture might have been painted by a young Georgio de Chirico shortly after his arrival in France in 1911. I...
Category
1910s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
The pensive country girl, Impressionist child study, Swedish artist in Paris
Located in Norwich, GB
A beautiful and sensitive study of a country girl by William Feron.
William Feron was born in 1858 in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the son of the famous jeweller Ludwig Constantin Fero...
Category
1880s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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