Skippings Fine Arts

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

A rare 19th-century oil by the aristocratic painter and distinguished collector, Count Charles Gaston Esmangart de Bournonville de Saint-Maurice. It depicts an equestrian gathering ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

A perfectly Impressionistic work with beautifully loose, almost pointillist brushstrokes, focussing on the scintillating light and the remote hilltop atmosphere. Artist Frans Hog...

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...

An atmospheric sunset after the rain. The light reflected on the still-wet street is creating the most beautifully shimmering light. Two village women carrying baskets are chatting, ...

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...

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 ...

Artist André Strauss was known for painting outdoors, on the motif. It gives his paintings a wonderful freshness and immediacy - you feel as if you were right there, in the grounds o...

Born in Yugoslavia in 1947, Miodrag "Micha" Markovic was naturalised French and lives in Paris. His work has been shown not only in exhibitions of naive art in Japan, Germany and Ita...

A mysterious blond young woman is standing by the window in a plush drawing room which has a velvety feel. With her back turned to us, she is looking out over the spires and roofs of...

If something about this painting seems familiar, it is for good reason! Dating from circa 1905-10, it is a work by Lucien Boulier (1882-1963), who was effectively Renoir's last stude...

This 15th century bishop - sculpted ca AD1460 - has a smile on his lips and a benevolent presence. He is also something of an Adonis - one tends to forget that in the medieval churc...

This remarkable, deeply evocative fragment is a hand-carved piece of religious statuary from 16th Century France. It depicts the torso of a serene figure, likely a Saint or Archangel...

A strong and witty piece - not only if you love music, concerts or perhaps play a string instrument! Look at the passion of the performers, all with individual faces. Our gouache pa...

The 1903 painting by Henri Louis Ottmann (1877-1927) which is in the Musée d'Orsay depicts vast train station with all its dynamism. Our painting, created three years earlier, shows ...

Meet the genuinely exciting modernist William Einstein, who is probably better known in Europe, where numerous publications on his work have been written, than in his native US! Eins...

A dramatic, one of a kind oil study. Certainly not your run of the mill 19th Century portait! Depicted is a young man, whose face is brightly lit from what is likely is an open fire....

Here is your chance to have your own private chapel with devotional objets and saint figures - in the form of this lovely painting by Joseph Bergès (1878-1956). Berges was born in the South East of France in the Pyrenees, not far from the Spanish border. After studying at the Academy of Fine Arts in Toulouse, he was accepted at the Paris Academy. However, although his career took him to Paris, a remained very much attached to his homeland, a pious, rustic area with many chapel such as the one he portrayed here. Having studied with the Masters Eugène Cormon and Léon Bonnat , Bergès exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français from 1907. He was obtained a second Grand Prix de Rome in 1908 for the painting The Death...

This sweet little boy sits quietly like a well brought up child, but you can see in his eyes how much he likes to run and play. In this sensitive portrait painted in circa 1860 by Fé...

A strong portrait, and a piece of history. It was confidently sketched in 1923, during the heyday of the "Lost Generation" in Paris, at the Closerie des Lilas - Ernest Hemingway's favourite haunt and home-from-home in the City. This historical café is where Hemingway first read The Great Gatsby with his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald and where he wrote most of The Sun Also Rises...

They may be damaged and battered, but real historic objects will always give you a sense of awe. Can you sense it, looking at this ancient carved granite which depicts, as it is call...

Here is an almost two hundred year old painting which is so irresistibly charming that it's crazy! You may have seen painted landscapes, portraits, genre scenes - but how many pretty...

This charming and exuberant posy of peonies immediately made me think of similar works by Marcel Dyf - but it is actually a work by the ultimate master of art deco...

I love the feisty attitude of the girl depicted! With her hand on her hip, she seems to be saying to the artist: "Whatya looking at anyway?" She looks like she has a good head on he...