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This 1930s large oil on canvas painting by Gregory Orloff, depicts a lovely aristocrat woman in a park setting. Signed in lower right corner. Original frame. Orloff (1890-1981) m...

An English oil on board painting from the late 19th century depicting a Newfoundland dog, after Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, set in antique giltwood fram...

Watercolor and ink on laid cut paper featuring a solider and his love. With cut out lettering at the top reading "Valentine The (23 or 25) of December 1816" and at the bottom "When T...

An authentic English pub sign (one-sided) featuring a painting of a British brigantine or two-mast sailing ship featuring flags with St. George's cross, titled: The Ship. A very fin...

Mid-century colourful abstract oil on board, with an old plain wooden frame, Europe, anonymous, 1950's. Please note that we often have a much shorter handling time than advertised.

This is a vintage Danish landscape oil on canvas painting with motive of a forest scene. A large, gnarled tree with thick and twisting branches appear in the foreground, the surround...

Original mid century maritime Danish oil on canvas nautical painting of a coastal town with houses in the foreground and a ship with a Danish flag in the background. Cobblestones a...

Original vintage Scandinavian oil on canvas painting depicting a quiet but vibrant springtime scenery at the countryside. The motive is a farmhouse in the background with chickens an...

Great original mixed media abstract oil painting by listed female artist Mil Lubroth and dates from the 1960's. Wonderful design and comes in its original silver painted wood frame. ...

French Art Deco mixed-media painting on panel by Vanvinckenray (School: Beaux-Arts of Brussels). Provenance: Daughter of the artist.

Fanciful vintage Haitian acrylic painting on board depicting an idyllic rural village executed in a playful naive technique. Signed Phiton Latortue and presented in the original carv...

Full of atmosphere, rich color and drama, this fully realized oil on canvas study by Dunbar Beck was executed in preparation for his lobby painting at the US Post Office...

Maxwell Mays (1918-2009) American painter and illustrator. Signed and dated 1975, a framed oil on canvas. This painting captures a lively and nostalgic scene of a carnival featurin...

A true Art Deco masterpiece, painted as a final study for one of a series of large murals for the National Elks Memorial in Chicago, finished in 1926, this large gold-hued scene depi...

A striking combination of realism and abstraction, this portrait of a nude male youth with his arms behind his neck -- Stanley Christensen -- is beautifully expressed in tones of cha...

A monumental traditional Rajasthani painting professionally framed in a gilt frame. We often come across miniature versions of these which are ref...

A handsome and sophisticated mixed media on canvas by American artist John Rigsby. Found in a original state of preservation. His works are few and far between. The following biography was submitted by John David Rigsby, Jr., son of the artist. The author is Lisa Rigsby Peterson, daughter of the artist, and owner of the copyright of the biography. John David Rigsby was born on October 10, 1934, the seventh child of an Alabama Depression-era sharecropper's son. He and his family moved frequently, from one one-room structure to another, often with no running water, no plumbing, no heat but the stove. His father was killed in a car accident when Rigsby was just 9 years old. Life for the remaining eight family members proved tumultuous and difficult -- food wasn't plentiful, nor money. The family moved from place to place, following work -- Rigsby attended 30 different schools before graduating from high school. Despite living in poverty, Rigsby demonstrated academic and artistic aptitude at a young age. Two oil paintings on covers ripped off of old books that he painted when he was eight years old show the promise of an imaginative and gifted eye. Rigsby was drafted by the U.S. Army in 1953. As he later wrote, "When basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina, was over, I was told to go out and find a job. Jasper Johns was painting visual aids for the 28th Regimental Headquarters. He suggested the Band Training Unit." Rigsby played the clarinet in that unit, and after 2 years of service, he enrolled at the University of Alabama on the G.I. Bill to study art. After just two years, he left school and followed his mentor (and one of the greatest and longest-lasting influences on his art), Japanese artist and U of A art instructor Tatsu Heima, to New York City. Heima introduced him to Isamu Noguchi and suggested that Rigsby work as Noguchi's assistant. Instead, Rigsby chose a job as a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, since "the notion of seeing all of that art appealed more to me than the boring task of studio assistant." The opportunity was a rich one for Rigsby. He had a chance to study the masters, and cited Rembrandt with his simplicity and elegance as another of the most important influences on his work. In the years between 1957 and 1963, when Rigsby eventually earned his BFA in sculpture, the artist traveled back and forth between New York and Tuscaloosa, alternating study with forays into the fertile New York art scene. Rigsby exhibited some of his early sculpture work in 1958 at a small New York gallery, which was also exhibiting the work of Willem and Elaine de Kooning and Theodore Stamos. Shortly thereafter, searching for an educational venue closer to New York City, Rigsby visited New Haven, Connecticut, and spent an afternoon speaking with Josef Albers at Yale. Albers agreed to accept Rigsby into the Yale program on the condition that he take freshman drawing all over again. A brilliant opportunity, but, in Rigsby's words, "When it was time to register, I was hitchhiking back to Alabama, looking for food and shelter." Rigsby had his first one-man show at the University of Alabama in 1959. A visiting critic from New York, J.F. Goosen, reviewed the show and wrote "here is a talent which produces art because that is the thing for a gifted person to do. In his effortless ease of conception and execution, he has already achieved a goal that eludes many artists for a lifetime." Finally, in 1963, Rigsby received his degree in sculpture, dissolved a short-lived marriage, visited his family, packed up his car and headed permanently for New York. That year, his work was included in a group show at the Delgado Museum in New Orleans - which led to a one-man exhibit at the Delgado in 1964. During 1964, Rigsby took drawing classes at Columbia University, and worked at the General Post Office at night. He met his future wife, Linda Palmieri, and married. In 1965, his daughter Lisa was born, followed in 1966 by the birth of his son, John David Jr. In 1966, Rigsby had a successful one-man show at the Pietrantonio Gallery in New York. Shortly thereafter, he and the family moved to Tunis, Tunisia at the suggestion of a colleague, who urged him to "come paint by the light of Klee." Rigsby worked for the United States Information Agency as a teacher, and he spent the next year and a half painting over ninety paintings inspired by the smells, light, and Phoenician and Roman art surrounding him. He also executed a number of character and landscape drawings, capturing the Tunisian way of life. During his time in Tunisia, Rigsby's work was shown there in two major exhibits. Upon the family's return to the U.S. in 1968, Rigsby once again exhibited at the Pietrantonio Gallery. Later that year, Rigsby enrolled in Southern Connecticut State College's Urban Studies program, earning a master's degree in 1970. During his time at SCSU, Rigsby worked as the city of Bridgeport's Curator of Exhibits, driving a mobile art gallery from schools to neighborhood fairs and housing projects. After completing his degree, Rigsby had an exhibit at the Telfair Museum in Savannah, Georgia. This exhibit caught the attention of a member of the search committee looking to hire an artist for a newly-developed program in neighboring South Carolina. In 1970, Rigsby was selected as the first Artist-in-Residence in the state of South Carolina for the National Endowment for the Arts Artists in Schools program. His work with the newly-integrated students at Beaufort (SC) High School over the term of his residency precluded substantial work on his own art. He did, however, set up a studio in downtown Beaufort, and was able to create a modest number of paintings, which were included in exhibits at the Columbia Museum in South Carolina in 1971 and Yale University in 1973. At the end of his residency in 1974, Rigsby was named the National Visual Arts Coordinator of the Artists in Schools program for the NEA, a post he held for two years. In this position, Rigsby traveled the country, reviewing grant applications, meeting with state leaders in government, education and the arts to promote program concepts and explore local opportunities. The message he repeated over and over again echoed that of one of the other major influences on Rigsby as an artist - Ruth Asawa Lanier, whose words taught him that all of the work that the artist does is the artist's work, not simply the paintings he creates. In his capacity as National Coordinator, as well as many times in the future, Rigsby stressed that artists function in the same way as any other person in society, and deserved the same respect and place for their work as did all other professions. After two years traveling the country, Rigsby was ready for a change, saying "for the first time in my adult life, there was not a body of paintings to show for the years put into my work." In 1976, a summer retreat to the mountain community of Central City, Colorado, led to a permanent relocation. Eventually settling in the small town of Evergreen, Rigsby followed his own advice about artists becoming actively involved in their communities, and he established the Evergreen Visual Arts Center. The Center provided working space for artists, classes for adults and children, and, most importantly, a place for Rigsby to create his own work. Buoyed by the opportunity to concentrate once again on his art, and inspired by his new surroundings, Rigsby entered an extremely prolific period in his career. In 1977, he organized a traveling exhibition of his paintings, which showed at the Kimball Arts Center in Utah, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and the Arvada Center in Colorado. 1978 brought more exhibits, notably in Aspen and Denver, as Rigsby's work continued. He took an extended trip to visit his mentor, Tatsu Heima, in Japan, where he climbed Mt. Fuji, followed by travels to Tehran, Delhi, and several European countries. He chronicled his impressions from his travels in a small collection of paintings upon his return to the U.S. - the beginning of a practice which would continue through the rest of his life. In 1979, Rigsby's marriage failed, and at the same time he lost the lease to his Evergreen studio to redevelopment plans. In response to the personal chaos around him, Rigsby began a series of what he called "hard-nosed process paintings," the watercolor paintings of dots which marked his work from this period. The paintings gained him an NEA Individual Artist grant in 1980, as well as a Yaddo fellowship in 1981. The polka dot paintings were followed by a series of cupcake-like images, again examining space and color. During the early 1980s, Rigsby lived in a suite of old dentists' offices in a rundown part of Denver, with a studio in an area that reminded him of the Bowery in New York. In 1984, Rigsby founded the Progreso Gallery in the building where he lived, using the space both to show his own work and also to mount shows of the work of many Colorado artists. The gallery also served as a focal point for Denver's local arts community, hosting weekly discussion groups and classes. In 1984, Rigsby traveled to the Baja Peninsula and then in 1985 to Yugoslavia. After each sojourn, Rigsby returned to create vibrant and explosive paintings based on his experiences, showing them at his Progreso gallery and another alternative gallery in Denver, the Edge Gallery. The economic recession of the mid-eighties hit the art market and Rigsby hard, however, and although he continued to create new works of art, major exhibitions were difficult to come by. In 1987, Rigsby decided to leave Denver and spent six months in Barcelona, Spain. It was an electrifying trip for him. Rigsby wrote of that time: "The streets alone are a visual feast, and the additions of museums from Saarinen, Picasso and Miro to 12th century icons produced artistic indigestion. My paintings are always about the way things look and feel. Barcelona was a time machine extending those sensory and emotional concerns back to the Middle Ages. I felt the need to reduce my work to essential elements of color, scale, drawing and format. The [resulting] color studies speak eloquently for themselves, and in doing so, redefine all of the work I've done in the past 35 years of painting." Rigsby completed over a hundred paintings while in Barcelona - color studies, street portraits of the characters he encountered on a daily basis, and a number of dark landscape paintings. He found time to run with the bulls in Pamplona, and began writing stories about his adventures that were later published. Upon his return to Denver in 1988, Rigsby continued to explore the alter egos of the color studies - he concentrated on a series of dark paintings, all prominently featuring back. He commented about these black paintings that he " decided it was time to explore the perception of the eye and physical space as defined by low -light conditions…I find these paintings elegant, joyous and light-filled, with no feeling of heaviness at all." In mid-1988, Rigsby moved permanently to Houston, Texas, where he would spend the last five years of his life. Once in Houston, Rigsby made a discovery that would serve as the inspiration and material for some of the last works of his career. In 1989, he discovered a salvage yard filled with scrap rubber, and he began working on black rubber sculptures, as well as paintings with rubber elements incorporated. He made strong connections in the Houston alternative arts scene, and became a regular contributor and art critic for a local weekly newspaper, The Public News. From 1989 through 1992, he exhibited his sculptures and paintings at Houston's Brent Gallery, Fountainhead Gallery, and Blaffer Gallery. He also produced an installation of his rubber sculptures on the roof of the Diverse Works Gallery in Houston. 1992 also marked Rigsby's return to Denver when he exhibited his sculptures at the Payton-Rule Gallery in Denver, leading to an Absolut Rigsby commission by Carillon Importers. The 1990s were a tremendous struggle for Rigsby, with financial crises compounded by physical trauma (he accidentally sawed off the top joint of the index finger of his left hand while working in his studio). Although his work was being shown, it wasn't selling, and the tremendous financial pressure he felt weighed heavily upon him. He spent an increasing proportion of his time going to flea markets and garage sales, rehabilitating and repairing the things he bought there, and then re-selling them simply to raise enough money to keep a roof over his head. He had little time to paint or sculpt, the things in life that had always, no matter what the circumstances, brought him joy. Rigsby's final works were a series of intricate paintings and drawings on used books that he purchased at the flea market. Most of these drawings, which he referred to as sculptural form drawings, were executed on page after page of science texts, music books, and a Korean bible and fill hundreds of pages. Additionally, Rigsby created an exquisite book he titled 28 de los Angeles, in which his twenty-eight simple and elegant drawings of angels resonated with the influence of Rembrandt he had so admired in his early days. In a sense, Rigsby's final works, art created on used books which were the only materials he could afford, brought his work and life full circle from his childhood days. Rigsby's life, though begun and ended in adversity, was nonetheless illuminated and enriched by the irresistible impulse he had to create art and beauty. John David Rigsby was killed in a one-car accident in Colorado in August, 1993. Biography from the Archives of askART Following is a review by Michael Paglia of the artist's July 2004 retrospective at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art. It was submitted by John Rigsby, Jr., son of the artist. There's a magnificent retrospective at Denver's Museum of Contemporary Art devoted to the work of the late John David Rigsby, who was a major powerhouse in Colorado's art scene. "Dots, Blobs and Angels" surveys more than forty years' worth of the remarkable artist's paintings and sculptures. The year 1993 was strange, and by that I mean terrible. Many of the city's galleries closed because of bad economic times, and then the artists started dying. In a matter of a few months, Denver lost three significant artists: Rigsby, experimental photographer Wes Kennedy...

Very large oil on canvas representing a young man crowned with laurels, seated in front of muses and shepherds In the background, a very beautiful landscape Very good condition, 1 h...

Each depicting a noble male figure in formal attire with a flower or cup in hand. Both portraits are embellished with gold and detailed borders, with inscriptions in Persian along th...

A rare and evocative example of Spanish Colonial art from the Cusco School, this 17th-century oil on wood panel captures the iconic biblical scene of Sain...

An Italian carved-wood wall mounted shelf bracket from the mid 20th century. This vintage architectural piece from Italy has been hand carved in a motif of leafy scrolls. The shelf top is flattened along the wall side and arches outward into a rounded front design. Coloring is primarily a bronze/gold color with a nice patina throughout. This mid-century Italian wall mounted shelf...

An authentic kinetic painting, a gouache on paper, Post-Modernist, Abstract Geometric, Op-Art, composition of interlocking geometric lines in shades of red, orange, gray and black, w...

This compelling mid-20th century French oil painting depicting construction workers embodies the spirit of European Socialist Realism, celebrating collective labor, rebuilding, and t...

Rocmar Studio’s curated vintage gallery wall are a ready-to-install solution to fit out walls quickly and meaningfully. Composed of 3 authentic artworks, each piece is carefully sour...

Henri (Rik) van Kogelenberg 'Flemish Dovecote' Naively Painted Oil on Canvas Belgium 1960s This is a delightful and beautifully naively painted mid 20th century work by Henri (Rik) ...

Scott Kerr is a self-taught Contemporary Abstract Artist. As a young boy, he was exposed to the art world by his father through the works of a local Texas artist, David Brownlow. Ama...

19th C. Orientalist Painting Pastel Arab and Camel, desert landscape fauna Flora . Beautiful and fine 19th century orientalist Pastel painting of an Arab Man with his camel traveling...

A dynamic pair of steeplechase paintings capturing the intensity, risk, and rhythm of cross-country equestrian sport. Likely originating from the...

Large Scale Abstract Painting, entitled "Kingston Snakepit" by Jerry Clapsaddle, American, circa 1970s-1980s. It measures an impressive 96" width x 72.25" height.

Portrait of Queen Marie Leszczynska, Wife of Louis XV, oil on canvas, 18th century Oil on canvas depicting Marie Leszczynska, Queen of France and wife of Louis XV, dressed in a luxu...

Original artwork by German artist Peter Keil. The painting is 24" x 40" unframed and with the framed it is 32" x 48". The frame is a silver traditional style with black color band al...

John Lear was a contemporary of Paul Cadmus and like him, highly focused on depicting the male figure in various settings and positions. However, Lear never gained fame beyond his circle of admirers in the Philadelphia area. Unlike Cadmus, Lear depicted nude or half-nude figures set in fantastic or exotic environments such as the circus, carnival, deserted beach, or Dali-esque setting. This richly-detailed watercolor, depicting a tall, lean male figure straddling a pole holding a Medieval banner...

An Italian oil on canvas still-life painting from the 19th century in carved giltwood frame, signed Florentine. Created in Italy during the 19th century, this still-life painting dep...

Portrait of Augustus Schwartze, Founder of the Union Manufacturing Company, Baltimore, Maryland American School, c. 1810–1820 This striking early 19th-century American portrait depicts Augustus Schwartze (1785–1844), prominent Baltimore industrialist and founder of the Union Manufacturing Company, one of Maryland’s earliest and most important textile mills. Executed in oil on canvas and attributed to an unidentified yet accomplished hand within the American Federal portrait...

Copy of a painting titled "Portrait of Madame Recamier 1802"

A painting titled "The Favorite", dated 1990, by the Santa Barbara, California artist Ursula Skeate. She was known for her elaborate portraits of friends and family, typically portra...

A small French oil on panel kitten painting from the early 20th century, signed by Jules Le Roy. This charming small French oil on panel kitten painting f...

Large, impressive, abstract, dimensional, wall sculpture in distressed, neutral tan and taupe hues features a rough-hewn, brutalist texture. The painting is uniquely constructed of u...

A beautiful oil on canvas painting of a Parisian street scene. This painting perfectly depicts life in the "City of Lights" with its restaurants, busy streets, cafes and wonderful ar...

Copy of a painting of a faux tiled mural of monument showing a medieval knight on horse against a red background

Portrait of a Noble Lady, Spanish or Flemish School, oil on canvas, 17th century Oil on canvas depicting a high-ranking lady, dressed in rich jewels and lace typical of 17th-century...

This is a pair of original oil on canvas paintings from Denmark painted by renowned artist William Henriksen (1880-1964). William Henriksen was an apprentice of famous painter H.O. ...

Great mid century painting of a shirtless black man back turned. Dark and moody. Signed 1 of 2 listed

Selection of still life oil on canvas paintings by Philip Bornarth, American, circa 1940s. Philip Bornarth was born in Chicago, IL in 1929. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago a...

Set of 6 paintings attributed to the Cusco School, 18th–19th centuries Series of five small-format oil paintings on canvas, attributed to the Cusco School, 18th–19th centuries. They...

This atmospheric and magical view of a single nude male figure on a California beach is imbued with lovely, unexpected colors and textures which rise up to a sky that is a pale shade of green. The blond young man has been sunbathing on a towel stretched along the sand, and seems to be placidly examining the viewer -- the painter -- from afar. The artist is Duane Wakeham...

A fine & large antique Russian Orthodox icon, circa 1820. This large antique Russian icon painted with egg tempera on wooden panel, depicts the "True Cross" to the center with S...

Rare Portrait of Elizabeth Petrovna of Russia (1709-1762) 18th Century Signature Signed by court painter Magnificent oil on canvas depicting Empress Elizabeth Petrovna (1709-1762),...

Antique Spanish Colonial retablo of the Virgin Mary and baby Jesus framed by red roses, they are both wearing crowns and floating on clouds. ...

An abstract painting by Venezuelan artist Alejandro Rios. Rios is known for creating largely abstract landscapes that disappear through the texture a...

An original vintage gouache on board painting of a bathroom scene by mid century artist, Margaret Layton. Wonderful detailing throughout. Signed in the lower left corner. Mounted in ...

This is an original antique oil on cardboard impressionist painting from 1903. The motive is a desert landscape with mountains in the background kept in warm and intriguing colours. ...

This delightful 19th century oil on panel presents an intimate and romantic outdoor scene, capturing two refined ladies dressed in voluminous gowns seated in the countryside, near th...

Full of light and color, this highly evocative watercolor painting by Porter Woodruff depicts a group of Tunisian youth swimming off the beach along Hammamet Gulf in Tunisia, near hi...

Amy Kasi, Japenese American oil over canvass over masonite board.

* Florentine painter, 17th century "THE ANNUNCIATION" Oil on canvas, 69cm x 100.5cm Good condition This painting depicts the biblical moment of the Annunciation, where the angel Gabr...

Bold and striking, this high style Art Deco painting depicts a nude male archer with his bow stretched and his arrow aiming toward a flock of geese overhead. In the background is a ...

Oil painting on canvas of fruit with bird nest, butterflies, insects, vegetables and Foliate entangled background. presented in a gilt and parcel black painted wooden frame. After ...

Beautiful dog portrait by the Dutch painter Jan Essen. The painting shows a Schipperke, which is a breed of dog that used to be more common than it is now. It is a small-sized shepherd, of Belgian origin. The painter has succeeded in portraying the dog in its natural position. Beautiful details are the black fur of the dog and the eyes. The way the dog looks is just very dog like, a dog lover will recognize this faithful, loyal look. Jan Essen is a well-known Dutch animal painter from the second half of the 19th century. Initially he painted landscapes and cityscapes, but under the influence of the English animal painter J. Swan he also started painting animals from 1885 onwards. He has never lacked appreciation, because his work has been awarded at exhibitions in Amsterdam, Germany, France and Australia. He learned the trade from Conrad Greive (1837-1891). Signed and dated top left, Jan van Essen...

Abstract oil on canvas by California artist Carlos Lopez. Framed, matted and behind glass. Signed and with artist bio on back.