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
Young woman with Miniature Pischer dog: Art deco portrait 1920s painting
By Emil Biorn
Located in Norwich, GB
Step into the roaring twenties with this evocative Art Deco portrait dated 1925.
The young sitter is the quintessential garçonne of the era, sporting the iconic, sharp bob haircut th...
Category
1920s Art Deco Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Stone Carrier: rare German Expressionist Bronze Sculpture
Located in Norwich, GB
A rare bronze by the German sculptor Walter Scheufen, who died during the First World War in the Flanders fields when only in his mid 30s. Depicting a stone carrier straining beneath...
Category
1910s Expressionist Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Dynamic Cityscape: Paris the Place de La Concorde and Eiffel Tower oil painting
By Lucien Adrion
Located in Norwich, GB
A powerful Parisian cityscape by French master Lucien Adrion (1889–1948). Known for his vibrant Impressionistic crowd scenes, this particular work captures the sharper, more structur...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Board
French Post-Impressionist Painting, Parisian Seine Bridge with Barge landscape
Located in Norwich, GB
Dated July 1913 on the verso, this luminous oil offers a rare, intimate glimpse of the Seine at Passy, specifically looking toward the evocatively named l'Île aux Cygnes (the Isle o...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
White Roses: Scottish woman artist Louise Perman floral still life paining
Located in Norwich, GB
This exquisite oil by Louise Perman (1854-1921) captures the fleeting beauty of roses with a fresh, spontaneous energy that only a true master of the genre could achieve. Unlike her ...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large vibrant jewel coloured Brazilian mid century Modernist, abstract impasto
Located in Norwich, GB
A painting unlike any I have encountered before. The surface is alive with texture: a dense, mosaic-like impasto that catches the light and gives rhythm to the composition. Colour mo...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The River Gate at Dusk: Corot friend and student Barbizon landscape pre Brazil
Located in Norwich, GB
This compelling piece perfectly captures the transitional "pre-expatriation" period of Henri Vinet. While most associate him with Brazil, this work feels like a moody farewell to the...
Category
1840s Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil, Board
Activity on the River, at Sunset Twilight near Barbizon landscape painting
By Alessandro Altamura
Located in Norwich, GB
An atmospheric twilight scene by Alessandro Altamura, depicting a tranquil river teeming with activity, likely set near the forest landscape of Fontainebleau in France. The compositi...
Category
1890s Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Large Vibrant Jewel Coloured German Expressionist Figures Style of Emil Nolde
By Herbert Beck
Located in Norwich, GB
This striking large-scale work by Herbert Beck (1920–2010) is a luminous example of the artist’s mastery of colour and light. Measuring an impressive 100 x 80 cm in its frame, the pi...
Category
1970s Neo-Expressionist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
Girls and Ponies: naive surrealist outsider Alice in Wonderland style painting
Located in Norwich, GB
Step into a dreamlike pastoral paradise with this enchanting mid-century oil on canvas by French artist Denise Collet. Titled "Girls and Ponies," this wo...
Category
1980s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
John Burroughs at Roxbury, Catskills Cabin Definitive Life Study American Artist
Located in Norwich, GB
Formally documented in The Life and Letters of John Burroughs (Vol. II, p. 168), this monumental canvas is not merely a portrait; it is a primary historical document. Painted in 1911...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Passing Clouds, Before The Storm: A Dramatic Belle Époque Landscape
By Paul Leon Felix Schmitt
Located in Norwich, GB
This striking oil landscape is dominated by a vast, cinematic sky, rendered with the rapid, "plein air" brushwork that defined the late 19th-century French school. Rather than a stat...
Category
1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
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