Silk Painting in Japanese Style, 1950s

Painted canvas figuring a man in the Michelangelo style, bottom and side view. He is naked with muscles reminding the one from the Italian Renaissance painting...

Painted canvas figuring a man in the Michelangelo style, side view. He is naked with muscles reminding the one from the Italian Renaissance painting...

Pair of French Restauration style rectangular reverse glass paintings representing baskets of flowers on a white background, one of peonies one of roses. The whole ensemble has a fir...

Empire style lamp in gilt bronze. Shaft in fluted column shape topped by a decor of acanthus leaves, a brettée frieze around a smooth ring and leaves. It is finished by a decor of pa...

Painted canvas figuring a side view of a woman portrait in the Renaissance style. She wears a black dress with a gilt collar, belt with gilt flower motifs, grey sleeves adorned wit...

Regency style carved and gilded wooden mirror decorated with acanthus leaves, scrolls and scrolls and violin shape. French work from the Napoleon III period, circa 1880. Dimensions...

This is a Japanese Haori jacket for men made in 1950s (Showa era) and made with silk. It is reversible. Inside of this haori, the design is small fans. ...

Mid-Century Modern Medieval Inspired Bas Relief Wall Decoration in Polychromed Carved Wood. Spain, 1950s. Beautifully hand-carved bas relief depicting genre scene. Two standing men f...

American intra-war artist and illustrator Porter Woodruff (1894-1959). Arabian Horse scene, oil and gold leaf on board with chalky gouache. Signed Woodruff on lower right of painting. Signature somewhat obscured by frame. His Art Deco-influenced paintings are highly decorative and appealing, the compositions complex and well-thought out. The gold leaf background is decorative and elegant. His are rare Modernist paintings by an artist who found himself at the very heart of design, fashion and celebrity life in the early part of the century. Label at back for Pitt & Scott Ltd London - well known for its expertise in handling antiques, works of art and fragile artefacts. Dimensions: 11.5"h x 15.5"w (sight) 12.5"h x 17.5"w (frame) Porter Woodruff, was an illustrator artist and contributor to Vogue Magazine and Home & Garden (including covers for both). He was one of five artists stationed in Paris in 1923 for Vogue. Woodruff spent considerable time in Tunisia, North Africa, residing with his romantic partner, Romanian socialite George Sebastian. Sebastian owned a lavish, coastal property in then-trendy Hammamet, near Tunis on the Mediterranean. Sebastian fell in love with the simple beauty of the quiet fishing port of Hammamet and was the first of the international set of the times to build his villa there. He started a trend that has never ceased. Frank Lloyd Wright is said to have claimed Dar Sebastian to be ”the most beautiful house I have ever seen”. American and European intelligentsia and upper-crust were attracted to the area between the wars. The artists Cocteau, Elsa Schiaparelli, Paul Klee, Andre Gide, the Sitwells, and Cecil Beaton enjoyed visiting, partying, and undertaking what someone once described as indulging the opportunity to do 'some rather elaborate sinning'. Other visitors included Art Deco designer Jean-Michel Frank, Wallis Simpson, Somerset Maugham, and Greta Garbo, among others. The onset of war disrupted this scene and it never truly regained its former glory. Dar Sebastian was requisitioned by the 'Desert Fox', German General, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel...

Oil on canvas painting Signed by Bagong Kussudiardja. Indonesian,1928-2004. Dancers. Dimensions including the wooden frame: Width 95 cm. height 70 cm.

Dancers. Oil on canvas painting with dancing people signed by Bagong Kussudiardja. Indonesia, 1928-2004. Dimensions including the wooden ...

Expressive oil painting on wood panel French by La Martiniere in 1952. The painting depicts fisherman and three small fishing boats laying on the shore. It is painted in large brush strokes full of texture to express the moment. The painting without frame...