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Italian Art nouveau Nude Boudoir painting woman warming herself by a stove Paris
By Tito Lessi
Located in Norwich, GB
A very pure and tender rendition of a female nude. Elegant in its simplicity, the artist's model, is warming herself by a large stove!
It is a work by Tito Lessi dating from circa 1890. Lessi was born in Florence, Italy and studied at the Florentine Academy of Fine Arts, under Enrico Pollastrini and Antonio Ciseri...
Category
1890s Academic Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Laid Paper, Watercolor
Auguste Renoir"s last student: portrait of Renoir"s son painting
By Lucien Boulier
Located in Norwich, GB
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...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Corot student Barbizon landscape with Figure French 19th Century oil painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful rural scene of a woman walking at sunset in a wide landscape, imbued with almost magical light. It is a work by French artist Pierre-Ernest Ballue, who had studied painti...
Category
Late 19th Century Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
Landscape by Moonlight, Barges in Vietnam lithograph by Vietnamese Master
By Dang Lebadong
Located in Norwich, GB
Wonderful original original artist's proof lithograph by Vietnamese/French Master Dang Lebadang. Marked EA (for "Epreuve d'Artiste" lower left, signed lo...
Category
1960s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Prints
Materials
Lithograph
The Dandy a Salon in Paris 19th Century portrait of a young man French painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful depiction of a dapper Parisian dandy, dating from 1848. I love his air of decadence! It is a work by F de Korff, a mysterious French aristocratic portrait artist who had ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Leda and the Swan modernist mid century sculpture by French woman artist
Located in Norwich, GB
A unique piece: a hand modelled sculpture by French artist Jeannine Nathan (b.1924). Working in Paris, Jeannine was able to visit Picasso’s studio, and was impressed by the
Master’s ...
Category
1960s Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Large colourful modernist abstract landscape painting Vietnamese American artist
By Ngoc Dung
Located in Norwich, GB
A striking, bold colourist painting by Vietnamese artist Ngoc Dung (1931-2000), dating from circa 1960.
His highly individualistic art is hard to categorise. In the artist"s own wor...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Big sky, clouds over the Seine River French Impressionist landscape painting
By Gaston Prunier
Located in Norwich, GB
A stunning sky and cloud study by Gaston Prunier. Originally from Le Havre, the sea port where the Seine empties into the English Channel, Prunier was c...
Category
1890s French School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Laid Paper, Gouache, Watercolor
Swan Lake: large art deco period French post impressionist landscape painting
By Marius Petit
Located in Norwich, GB
A stunning and atmospheric painting by Marius Petit (1882-1960). It dates from the 1920s, the height of the art deco period. Glorious, scintillating and beautifully coloured; it is a...
Category
Early 20th Century French School Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Early Haitian Picasso-like Modernist Mother and Child oil painting Haiti
Located in Norwich, GB
Mother and child/maternité: a gorgeous, almost Picasso-like early oil on canvas by Petion Savain, dating from 1953. The painting is monogrammed and dated...
Category
Mid-20th Century Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Yoruba Ibeji triplets master sculptor.Abegunde of Ede tribal African Art Nigeria
Located in Norwich, GB
An extraordinary group of Ibeji "triplets" sculpted by the same master sculptor.
Ibeji is name of a very specific type of carved wooden figure from Yoruba in Nigeria.
Ibejis repre...
Category
1930s Tribal Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Outsider artist singular virgin and child art brut sculpture mother and child
Located in Norwich, GB
An extraordinarily moving piece by an outsider artist who must have spent many a day conceiving, cutting, hammering, soldering and welding this stunning metal group made of tin and iron. The result is something completely individualistic, which at the same time recalls early medieval...
Category
Mid-20th Century Outsider Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Large mid century modern abstracted cityscape painting southern landscape
By Claude Dechezelle
Located in Norwich, GB
A major, mid century modern work by French artist Claude Dechezelle (1928-2003). Having studied with the art deco painter and designer Jean Dupas at ...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pears and Grapes large Modernist mid century Still Life Interior painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A large and elegant still life with grapes and pears on a table which also features a pristine white bowl and a candle stick. Painted with simplicity, clarity of structure, and restrained emotion, this is a superb modernist work by Jean Chauffrey (1911-) dating from
circa 1950.
At the time, Chauffrey had a contract with mythical Paris art dealers...
Category
1950s French School Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Art Deco male athlete harlequin with guitar by deaf artist cubist painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A stunning oil on canvas in the purest art deco style by French born Jean Hanau. It depicts a harlequin-in a tight chequered body suit. Athletically built, ...
Category
Early 20th Century Art Deco Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Evening Prayer in The Polish Mountains by woman artist large jewel coloured oil
Located in Norwich, GB
It is always wonderful to be able to do original research on a mysterious painting by a mysterious artist. Born in Paris in 1867, Marthe Alers-Abran died tragically young in the same...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rustic Apples and Bread Food Still Life French Salon Academic Antique Painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A remarkable work by Charles Nicolas Etienne Mayre, an academic painter born in Choisy le Roi near Paris in 1819. He studied with the masters Michel-Martin Drolling and Leon Cogniet...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Moby Dick 4 original mid century illustrations for Herman Melville's masterpiece
By Rockwell Kent
Located in Norwich, GB
A stunning ensemble of fiour original mid century illustrations for Herman Melville's "Moby Dick" . Whilst sharing the modernist, stylis...
Category
1940s Modern Animal Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
Mythological scene: naked male rider and his dog French relief sculpture carving
Located in Norwich, GB
An early French wooden panel carved in bas relief, depicting a muscular male nude rider, accompanied by his dog. Sculpted in honey-coloured wood, this antique piece, dates from the ...
Category
19th Century Northern Renaissance Nude Sculptures
Materials
Wood Panel
Mother dog and her puppies, 19th Century French Barbizonf armhouse painting
Located in Norwich, GB
An charming 19th century dog painting depicting a mother dogue and her exuberant topsy turvy pups by the farmhouse barns or cowsheds , with a young child given them a fuss!
Dating from ca 1860-70, the oil on canvas is unsigned, but bears on the verso a rather special stamp from colour and artists supplies merchant Paul Durand-Ruel (1831-1922). Paul Durand-Ruel is known as the legendary art dealer who launched, almost single handedly, the Impressionist movement. He represented Monet, Pissarro, Sisley, Renoir in his Paris, London and New York Galleries.
Like his father Jean Marie Durand, Durand Ruel had started as both a merchant of art supplies, and dealer. Often, these two activities overlapped, as he would supply cash strapped artists who left paintings as security. Paul Durand Ruel was one of the first to discover Barbizon artist...
Category
1860s Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Family scene, children dog and pup, French painting by Delacroix' prodigy friend
Located in Norwich, GB
A sweet and intimate family scene by the rarest of artists: French early 19th Century child prodigy Henri-Louis-Hippolyte Poterlet (1804-1835).
Poterlet was a close friend and confi...
Category
1820s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge topical Black History slavery painting Jamaica Morant Bay 1865 rebellion
Located in Norwich, GB
Uprising - a huge and incredibly powerful and topical painting by Jamaican master painter Barrington Watson (1931-2016).
It depicts the 1865 Moran...
Category
1960s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Akan Ashanti Memorial Portrait Head of a Noble Tribal African Art Sculpture
Located in Norwich, GB
This elegant terracotta head is a memorial portrait (nsodie) of an Akan nobleman from the part of Africa which is today southern Ghana and southeastern Cô...
Category
19th Century Tribal Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Terracotta
Children on the Beach Marine Landscape French Antique Oil Painting
Located in Norwich, GB
The setting is the French coast, on a tranquil summer's evening. Clouds are drawing in, the sky is turning dusky pink and purple, but there is still time left for play, for the children on the beach...
Category
Early 20th Century Academic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Mid Century Hyper Realist Marine with Boats Vigo Bay Spain, French Oil
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful atmospheric seascape by French Henri Cadiou (1906-1989), depicting the Galician beach of Vigo - a rare painting, exhibited at a major international exhibition in 1958!
He...
Category
1950s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
African art tribal maternity figure, Lobi peoples Ghana - Ivory Coast
Located in Norwich, GB
A delightful African maternity figure from the Lobi peoples of the Ivory Coast/Ghana. With a serene yet feisty expression, the mother is carry...
Category
Mid-20th Century Folk Art Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Abstracted grey and red modernist French cityscape painting:
Located in Norwich, GB
A superbly clever, très French and highly decorative abstracted painting by Bernard "Becool" Coolen which tells a story: it is in fact a stylised representation of of the Champs Ely...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mexican large abstract oil painting 1970s by Leopoldo Flores modernist design
Located in Norwich, GB
A large and impressive abstract oil on canvas by noted Mexican artist Leopoldo Flores. It is intemporal and yet to me also perfectly embodies the 1970s...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French 19th Century Romantic Period 1830s Parisian Lady Portrait Madame Seguin
By Adele Grasset
Located in Norwich, GB
A stunning portrait of a Parisian beauty from the romantic period by Adele Grasset (active ca 1830-1850). With her intelligent eyes and determined look, doesn't this lady bear great resemblance to Chopin's paramour George Sand?
The sitter is Jeanne Marie Vidal, wife of Claude Auguste Seguin, from a prominent family in Avignon, as the family tree attached to the back for the frame indicates. Research in old annals has also revealed that Madame Seguin was a modern and independent lady: she worked in lady's fashion in Paris, and patented wrapping mechanism that protected lady's hats during their transport!
As often with woman artists of the 18th and 19th century, there is little biographical information available on the artist, Adèle Grasset. We do know however, that she had studied with the highly prominent artist François Gérard (1770-1837) , known also as the Baron Gérard...
Category
1830s Academic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Paper
French 19th Century Romantic Period 1830s Paris Society Beauty Portrait
By Adele Grasset
Located in Norwich, GB
A astounding portrait of a society beauty by Adele Grasset (active ca 1830-1850). With an open face and and lightly smiling lips, she is wearing a gown typical of the romantic period. Drawn in graphite and heightened with white, the drawing is dated 1836
As often with woman artists of the 18th and 19th century, there is little biographical information available on Adèle Grasset. We do know however, that she had studied with the highly prominent artist François Gérard (1770-1837) , known also as the Baron Gérard...
Category
1830s Academic Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Gouache
Japan Japanese Garden by French naive outsider folk art primitive artist, 1975
Located in Norwich, GB
A perfect painting for lovers of Japan and those of primitive/naive outside art.
It is a work by an internatoanlly noted extraordinary artist with an extraordinary life.
Maurice LOIRAND (1922-2008) is born into a working class family in Brittany, near the Atlantic coast coast in France. He starts working as a skilled labourer in the shipyards aged 15.
Aged 20, when the Nazis start to occupy the country, he joins the Resistance movement, where he meets and befriends thinkers, painters and poets. He is thus introduced to an artistic and intellectual universe far removed from the world of his origins.
Loirand finds himself drawn to art, and soon dedicates all his free time to learn how to paint. Completely self taught, he soon begins to exhibit his pictures alongside high level artists. He moves to Paris in the 1950s, and - although still working as a technician - paints all night.
He finally becomes a full time artist in 1968. International travel and a multitude of exhibitions follow. He exhibits in Brazil, Argentina, and with Jean Tiroche Gallery in New York, among others. His work is now shown alongside works by Leger, Matisse and Picasso. The Collector's Guild New York Ltd commissions Maurice Loirand for several works of lithographic art.
Loirand discovers Japan in the early 1970s, and decides to stay for 18 years.
He marries Kazué SHIMOTORI, a Japanese poet...
Category
1970s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Village Scene, Cornwall England - 19th Century, Impressionist Landscape Drawing
Located in Norwich, GB
A lovely and very fresh watercolour on paper by John Baragwanath KING (1864—1939)
This village scene is signed lower left, and measures 25 x 38 cm. It is presented in its original frame - the framed is 39 x 51cm
Born in Cornwall, the artist trained first as an engineer before turning to art, and exhibited in London, Manchester and Paris. He lived at 'Westbourne', St Austell...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Head VIII
By Erik Scholz
Located in Norwich, GB
Erik Scholz was a Hungarian artist who trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. He was awarded the prestigious Munkácsy Award in 1950, and received stipends to work and study...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Figures in a landscape
By Erik Scholz
Located in Norwich, GB
A rare, very poetic figurative work by Eric Scholz, dating from the 1980s.
Scholz was a Hungarian artist who trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. He was awarded the pre...
Category
1980s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Masonite
Abstracted Figures
By Erik Scholz
Located in Norwich, GB
Erik Scholz was a Hungarian artist who trained at the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest. He was awarded the prestigious Munkácsy Award in 1950, and received stipends to work and study...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media
Paris Street Scene, Notre Dame
By Maurice Falliès
Located in Norwich, GB
Notre Dame Cathedral by Maurice Falliès (French, 1883-1965), an artist who specialised in Paris street scenes. His work was recently shown at the Musée...
Category
1930s Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Haystacks
By Manuel Barthold
Located in Norwich, GB
Haystacks, ca 1910, by Manuel Barthold (1874- 1947)
This charming and peaceful rural scene was painted probably in Brittany,. With its pure colour and feel of immediacy, it is styli...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Gladiator
By Rainer Küchenmeister
Located in Norwich, GB
An exquisite watercolour and paint painting on paper by German resistance fighter and concentration camp survivor Rainer Küchenmeister (1926-2010)...
Category
1970s Expressionist Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
