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
A Mountain Dwelling: 19th Century landscape bearing Corot signature on verso
By Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Located in Norwich, GB
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,...
Category
Mid-19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Barbizon Fontainebleau region Impressionist French summer landscape with figure
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful view of the heartbreakingly beautiful Fontainebleau/Barbizon region, which was home to some of the greatest painters of the 19th and early 20th Century. The particular spot presented here is the river Loing at Montigny-sur-Loing, where Cezanne and Sisley loved to paint. The village is just a short walk away from Grez-sur-Loing, where John Singer Sargent, Francis Brooks Chadwick, Robert Vonnoh, Edward Simmons...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
American Impressionist: Springtime, a sunny path in France 19thC oil painting
By William Baptiste Baird
Located in Norwich, GB
This beautiful and light filled painting testifies of a new dawn: in the 1880s the landscape and animalier artist William Baird turns to Impressionism. Our Sunny Path, with looser brushwork and lighter colours, convey the fleeting nature of the present. Our lovely oil on canvas may well be homage to Claude Monet - according to Baird's inscription on the stretcher, it was painted in Mantes, which is only about 6 miles from Vétheuil, where Monet was living and working in the 1880s!
William Baptiste Baird was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1847, but as an adult moved to Paris to perfect his painting technique. In Paris, Baird studied under Adolphe Yvon...
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1880s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Floral Still Life Country Flowers in a Vase by Flemish Barbizon artist in France
Located in Norwich, GB
A gorgeous floral still life which marries the depth and the richness found in the work of the Flemish old masters with the elegance and light of French painting. As you will see, th...
Category
1880s Flemish School Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
The sensitive Roman Girl Portrait of a Young Woman German Jewish artist in Italy
Located in Norwich, GB
Born into difficult times, the life of German Jewish artist Hermann Hirsch was not filled with peace or abundance. However, I believe at least while he w...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Nouveau Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Little Mistress of the Casa de los Azulejos-a Portrait of Childhood, Mexico City
By Agapito Labios
Located in Norwich, GB
A delightful early work by the celebrated Mexican folk artist Agapito Labios (1898–1996). It depicts a young girl in a richly embroidered lilac dress, lace collar and tiny satin shoe...
Category
1940s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
Joyful Flowers in a Turquoise Vase, Lucie Valore Utrillo Still Life Painting
Located in Norwich, GB
The rarest of combinations: a painting which is both elegant and and radiates joyful simplicity. Our post-war still life by the French painter Lucie Valore (1878–1965), depicts a bou...
Category
1940s French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Epicurean, Zest for Life, A Joyful Bohemian, French 19th Century painting
Located in Norwich, GB
An unforgettable nineteenth-century portrait of a joyful bohemian, remarkable for its wit, humanity and striking originality.
Standing full-length against an almost abstract backgro...
Category
1870s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pensive Salon Beauty Young Woman in an Interior, French Belle Epoque painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A captivating Belle Époque character study attributed to the French painter Tony Tollet (1857–1953), depicting a young woman seated in quiet contemplation.
Rather than presenting hi...
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Early 1900s Art Nouveau Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
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