Model Antique Birch Canoe with Slat Rush Seats

Constructed of wood, paint and some metal mixed media. Paul Jacobsen used everyday objects, such as chairs, cars, airplanes, trains, motorcycles and puzzles, all built from scrat...

Custom sculpture constructed of painted wood. Paul Jacobsen used everyday objects, such as chairs, cars, airplanes, trains, motorcycles and puzzles, all built from scratch and turns...

Framed watercolor by Albert Andre signed lower right. Measures 17" x 15" including frame and 12" x 9" sight. Provenance: Sothebys Andre came to Paris in 1889 as an industrial designer. At the age of 23 he enrolled at the studio of William Bouguereau at the Académie Julian, where he met Ranson, Louis Valtat and the young poet and dramatist Henry Bataille, who at the time was training as a painter. He illustrated L'étang de Berre by Charles Maurras and Les Petites Alliées by Claude Farrère. He produced cartoons for tapestries for the Beauvais factory. In his youth he worked in Paris and Loudun, but later settled in the Midi, where he became curator of the museum in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, building up a major collection of contemporary art, including works by Monet, Renoir, Bonnard, Vuillard, Matisse and Despiau. In 1923, as a friend of Renoir, he compiled his recollections of the painter in a preface to an album of collotypes of his works. He was initially influenced in his painting by Delacroix, and it was Cézanne's paintings that helped him discover how to give the impression of volume using colour: warm tones for illuminated surfaces and cool colours for shadow. But it was undoubtedly Renoir who had the most profound influence on him, especially as it was Renoir who noticed his paintings in 1894 and introduced him to Paul Durand...

Frost pattern design from Maine, late 19th century. Museum mounted and ready to hang.

19th century portrait of a cabin boy with ship in the distance. Great folky appeal.

Very rare and interesting paint decorated bookcase with cabinet below and shelves above. Early 19th century or late 18th. Original lock and key and early paint. A very useful proport...

American Country Rustic style mid-century dark blue painted model of a canoe with a ribbed interior.     

Antique wooden canoe dated 1947. A hand- crafted canoe which is an awesome decorative object by the size and by his design. Look at the details i...

Vintage pine and cedar canoe scale model - featuring a detailed interior with two seats and fixed oars - the exterior base stained medium walnut, the cedar and pine left natural - un...

This is a French 19th century rush seat prie dieu. It has a painted wood finish with turned wood spindles on the back and also a shelf. It has a shaped wood top where your arms would...

A charming 19th century French Provincial prie-dieu/chair of carved cherry wood and handwoven rush seating, having lovely, scalloped details. The top chair seat pulls up in order to ...

Feed your baby in style in the antique child chair with attached feeding tray table. Crafted in Normandy, France circa 1870 and built of oak, the ...