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
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
Nuns And Doves, The Family, Avant-garde Woman Artist Marcel Duchamp's daughter
Located in Norwich, GB
In 1910, having separated from her first husband, the artist model Jeanne Chastagnier Serré had a relationship with the surrealist Marcel Duchamp: you know, the one of the porcelain ...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Fiberboard
The Modern Troubadour Pop Art Precursor Poet and Hound Abstracted Colorful Joy
Located in Norwich, GB
Artists tend to peak quite young, and I often love their early work. It tends to have an infectious enthusiasm, great vigour, originality, imagination and a sense of fun. René Marie...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Modern Knight Pop Art Precursor The Jostling Match Abstracted Colorful Joy
Located in Norwich, GB
Artists tend to peak quite young, and I often love their early work. It tends to have an infectious enthusiasm, great vigour, originality, imagination and a sense of fun. René Marie...
Category
1910s Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Artist's Model, Seated Female Nude, Mysterious Young Woman Seen From Behind
Located in Norwich, GB
One of my favourite pieces at the moment - the subject, a mysterious young woman seated on a stool with her back towards us has such a strong presence that it feels as if she were ri...
Category
1890s Art Nouveau Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Chalk, Charcoal, Laid Paper
Cubist Musician, Abstracted Figure by American Modernist in France Woman Artist
Located in Norwich, GB
A touch of Chagall and a lot of individuality in this singular work by American modernist artist Genevieve. A free spirit, Genevieve White, born 1913 in Idaho, left home at 14 to mov...
Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Symbolist Renewal, Springtime after Wa: Blossoming Trees near a Ruined Abbey
Located in Norwich, GB
This scene, depicting delicate foliage and blossoms as well as a lone sculpture -in the grounds of a ruined Abbey or castle, was painted in the first spring after World War I. It is ...
Category
1910s Symbolist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Pastoral Scene at Auvers sur Oise by Durch friend of van Gogh Barbizon landscape
By Théophile de Bock
Located in Norwich, GB
You may have recognised the church in the painting, Our Lady of the Assumption in Auvers sur Oise, made famous by van Gogh's 1890 portrait of it. Interestingly, the present work was ...
Category
1880s Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Scintillating Light: View from the Hills to the City, a winding path, Madrid
Located in Norwich, GB
A perfectly Impressionistic work with beautifully loose, almost pointillist brushstrokes, focussing on the scintillating light and the remote hilltop atmosphere.
Artist Frans Hog...
Category
1910s Pointillist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
The Tow path: figures by the Seine River, luminous sky, French Impressionist oil
By Emile Cagniart
Located in Norwich, GB
Like many of the great French Impressionists Emile Cagniart (1851-1911) was inspired by the River Seine and its surrounding landscapes between in Ile de France and Normandy. Interest...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paris Montparnasse, the Bohemian life, the artist's model resting female nude
Located in Norwich, GB
this painting perfectly encapsulates the artistic Parisian Montparnasse bohemianism of the 1920s and 30s. We see a beautiful but certainly nonchalent woman seated on a day bed in the...
Category
1930s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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