Skippings Fine Arts

I am absolutely delighted to present a work by the Russian avant garde woman artist Alexandra Pregel (b.1907). If I say avant garde, I do not say it lightly! Alexandra was the daught...

I try not to buy too many views of Paris, as I am aware that not all of you are as attached to the the city as I am. However, this bright, dynamic and fun view of the Seine and its b...

Here is a painting that will lift you - one feels happy every time one looks at it. It is such a lovely, unusual twist to the theme of the floral still life: here we have flowers, not in a vase, but attached to a wooden front door. I wonder if the artist did this with actual flowers, perhaps for a sweetheart, and then decided to paint the scene? At any rate: who wouldn't want to come home to find a large bunch of glorious lilac as they come home? The artist is Emile Baudoux (1850 -1929), who studied with Humbert and Cabanel. Paris-born, he liked to work in Normandy, where he had his studio. He exhibited his work at the "Salon des Artistes Français" until 1927, where he obtained a gold medal in 1910. The important oil on canvas presented here, dating from 1901, may have been shown at the Salon, as it bears an exhibition number "30" at the upper right of the canvas. It is signed and dated at the lower left as seen in the photos. Measuring 81 x 60 cm, the overall size including its original large oak frame...

Alexander Warshawsky was born in Cleveland, Ohio on March 29, 1887. He studied painting at the Cleveland School of Art and the National Academy of Design in New York City. Warshawsky...

A lovely hand modelled sculpture in bas relief, depicting the head of a smiling young Parisian lady with a gleam in her eyes. The work dates from from the Belle Epoque, the art nouv...

One wonderful thing about this painting is its light. It’s pitch-perfect: if it were a tad darker, it would be gloomy; a tad lighter, and it there would be less to discover. The joy ...

This simple and elegant still life depicts a potted Geranium and a bowl of Oranges on a table decorated with a vase and a tablecloth. Clearly, the artist chose objets close to her he...

A gorgeous novecento animalier painting, depicting a curious colt and.a white rabbit, by Gaetano Jerace (1860-1940) Gaetano Jerace was born in Polistena in Calabrian into a dynasty of artists: his brothers Francesco (1894-1937) and Vincenzo (1862-1947) also became painters. Gaetano moved to Naples as a young man, where a attended the Academy of Fine Arts, studying with Francesco Lojacono...

It's just a little embarassing. Our young bather went for a skinny dip in the river and now needs to snatch her clothes without being spotted by the elderly artist on the river bank ...

Like every true master painter, André Bourrie had a unique, distinctive style - an inimitable blend of neo-impressionism and pointillism which, while dra...

Our 19th Century painting of a mountain dwelling, bathed in soft light light is a fresh and relevant as if it had been created yesterday. Painted certainly in plein air on the motif,...

“He dipped his brush in light and air” – wrote the artist Sir John Lavery RA about Alexander Jamieson's art. See the evidence of this in this wonderful view of the Paris with dapple...