Paintings

Deer under maples Late Taisho period, circa 1925-1930 Pair of two-panel screens. Ink and pigment on silk. Signature: Goho Seal: Goho A pair of two-fold Japanese silk screens...

A painting of a garden landscape, oil on canvas signed left below 'M. Tytgat Aine'. Médard Tytgat (8 February 1871, Bruges – 11 January 1948, Brussels), a Belgian painter, lithograph...

Oil on canvas winter landscape by the renowned Swedish-born American Impressionist painter, John Fabian Carlson. Framed in a lemon gold molding. A...

Wonderful post-impressionist oil painting of a Paris street scene by a good artist, Isaac Lichtenstein. Possibly Montmartre district. Oil on canvas.Old re-lining. No title. Signed ...

A decorative, moody, quality portrait. Very sought-after. All the rage in interiors right now. This antique oil painting on stretched canvas has been sourced in France. It is signed ...

Large and dynamic, this 1947-vintage painting depicts a shirtless man handling a high-spirited Percheron horse that won a blue ribbon at the Indiana st...

Step into the rustic charm of a bygone era with this captivating 1940s Expressionist French oil painting. Skillfully depicting a vibrant farmer's market scene, the canvas comes alive...

Early 20th century German Art Deco landscape oil painting around 1920 by German artist Florenz Engelbert Hegemann. The painting is oil on wood and has got the original frame. Th...

A vivid and striking example of Art Deco painting, this depiction of St. Sebastian in tones of gold and pink-papaya shows the figure with a rich, brown complexion, wounded with four ...

Beautiful flower painting, oil on canvas, dating from circa 1920. The painting is painted with a quick, somewhat coarse touch and a beautiful palette of contrasting colours. The painting shows a beautiful incidence of light and a sense of liveliness. The painting is signed at the bottom right, but the signature is not clearly legible. The artwork is framed behind glass in a wooden gilded frame...

Set of 4 -1940's Asian Hollywood Regency Period Artisan Hand Painted [on a gilt cork ground] .Flowers and Birds depicted. These are beautiful and the set is framed with gilt faux Bam...

Abstract modernist oil painting on canvas female nude ( his wife Thelma ) signed lower left corner Zoute '40. A great example of his earliest work. Zoute' - born Leon Salter 1903-197...

One of a kind painting by the Swiss artist Hugo Cleis. Cleis began his artistic career with Swiss Expressionism, which featured social content, although in the mid-1940s his work fo...

Decorative painting of Swiss alp

Decorative painting by Decarli of French alp

This superbly painted view of the mountains framing a river valley in northern New Mexico is attributed to Frank Guy Applegate, who lived and worked in the state during the 1920s, and is known for his watercolors -- such as this -- that present strong, abstracted views of the local landscapes, all in vivid colors and bold strokes of paint. Applegate was considered one of the New Mexico Modernists, and was accompanied on some of his painting forays by B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Andrew Dasburg and Josef Bakos. Applegate also had enormous respect for the culture and artistry of the native people, and encouraged a revival of the Pueblo style...

Description : For sale is a magnificent etching depicting a maritime scene, created by the famous French artist Alphonse Lafitte in 1920. This work delicately captures the beauty of ...

Hilly landscape Measures: 50 cm x 45 cm 65 cm x 60 cm framed 19.7 in x 17.7 in 25.6 in x 23.6 in framed Oil painting on board. Dense, material painting that gives stru...

One of the most striking and remarkable Art Deco paintings we have ever offered, this depiction of a group of 1940s sailors visiting a New Orleans brothel is full of boisterous energy and strong color, providing an amused and amusing view of Navy life during or after World War II. The sailors -- in their tight white pants and youthful swagger -- are enjoying the company of an array of brothel workers, reigned over by a madam dressed in ruby red, with two young paramours to her side. Taking it all in is a group of jeering young men in straw hats to the right, and a young gay...

Monumental oil on canvas by caricaturist Georges Goursat, also known as SEM. Georges Goursat - 23 November 1863 - 26 November 1934 - was a French caricaturist and portraitist famous during the Belle Époque and Art Deco periods. This painting greeted visitors to the cellars...

Richard Geiger Large Oil on Canvas Master Painting Scene of the Commedia dell’arte. The Commedia dell’arte is an early form of theater in Italy. Various performers in the troupe w...

Original Work of Art, Painting in Gouache, Pencil and Ink on Paper, "Maquette" or Study for a Poster for Studebaker Cars, by Leonetto Cappiello circa 19...

Composition by Mikael Pasternak, 1920. Gouache on Paper, 62 x 51 cm. Mikael Pasternak (born 1905 in Riga, died 1967 in Virum) came around 1920 at a very young age to the Academy of Fine Arts in Riga, where he was trained as a painter and draftsman. On a study trip to Paris he met the young Danish girl, Anne Margrethe Petersen from Roskilde and married her in 1927.⁠ The couple lived in Riga, where Pasternak was a cartoonist for weeklies and newspapers. ⁠ ⁠ When Pasternak came to Denmark in 1935, he started drawing at Politiken's Sunday supplement "Magasinet", which had its heyday from 1922-1963. The magazine was very popular due to cartoonists such as Aage Sikker Hansen, Arne Ungermann, Ib Andersen and Mikael Pasternak.⁠ ⁠ In the beginning, he also decorated shop windows. During the war, the family lived in Hulby near Slagelse, and he was a regular cartoonist at Sorø Amtstidende.⁠ ⁠ Later, the family moved to Copenhagen, and Pasternak became a freelance artist. Among other things. he was a regular illustrator at Svikmøllen from 1946-1954 - and for many years he provided illustrations for Illustreret Familie Journal.⁠ ⁠ His postcard production is not large; but shortly after he came to Denmark around 1936-37, he made a series of lovely Christmas postcards...

Painting, Still Life with Bouquet of Flowers, Jean Dufy (1888 - 1964), oil on canvas, 1927, signed and dated Jean Dufy was born in Le Havre, France, into an extremely artistically t...

Rudolf Claudus is one of the most important European naval artist. Born in 1893 in Austria, since his childhood cultivates a passion for visual art and the sea. At the end of the Fi...

Tavik Frantisek Simon (1877-1942). Scene from the Seine, Paris. Colored etching. Dimensions: 38 x 32 cm. (60 x 54) cm.

Vassily Kandinsky Double Ascension print 1925. Measures: Height 62cm Width 52 cm Print on paper In good conservative condition, present signs of time due to use and age. (Ple...

Textural Floral and Fruit Still Life Signed Leyster. Oil on Board in the style of Cezanne. Solid wooden frame. Perfect classical piece for that fine dining room or hallway entry. Ple...

California Coastal Landscape Painting Mystery artist Oil on board Circa 1940s 15 x 20 unframed 18.25 x 23.25 framed

Great Italian painting from the first half of the 20th century. Oil on canvas artwork, first canvas, depicting a landscape with rich still life of excellent pictorial quality and fab...

WPA era (1930s/1940s ) Oil on Oval Canvas Grouping of 3 Paintings of Trains with a Ribbon and Floating Ball, a bit Surrealist. Inspired by Thomas ...

Kusche, Paul (1882-1952), flower vase with gladiolus Measures: 100 cm x 70 cm (frame excluded) 39.4 in x 27.6 in (frame excluded) oil on board, 1920 Ancient painting depicting...

5118 Antique Scandinavian portrait of a beatiful young pigtailed beauty Framed Image size 11.5x19 Signed C.Keskulla 1941

Konigssee Measures: 30 cm x 40 cm (without frame) - oil on canvas, 1920s 11.8 in x 15.7 in (without frame). Painting depicting the Königssee, probably the most famous German alpine...

A pair of framed Airbrushed watercolor paintings on paper by Shirrel Graves. Each painting features a male deer in the forest, gazing into the distance as the noon sun shines overhea...

Full of energy and elegance, this genre scene of African Americans eating and chatting in a 1920s lunchroom -- dressed to the nines in furs, fashionable hats...

An early work by the American realist Stephen Morgan Etnier (1903-1984) depicting the village of Harpswell, Maine were he built his home and studio in the 1940s and lived until his d...

Monumental oil on canvas from 1927 by french artist Georges Conrad in its wooden frame with gold leaf. Georges Conrad (24 February 1874, Aubervilliers - 7 December 1936, Rouen) was ...

A very interesting and unusual Pfoutz Original Farm Scene Oil Painting by artist J. Earle Pfoutz. The painting is produced on artist and comes complete with what appears to be an original artist decorated/painted frame. The Pfoutz Original Farm Scene Oil Painting is signed on the front by the artist and appears to be dated 1948 on the rear. Known for his unusual subjects Pfoutz outdid himself with this effort, capturing the essence of a Lancaster County farm but with the startling twist of portraying a large turkey vulture in the foreground. Definitely unique. Overall frame Size approximately 33″ wide x 3″ deep x 26″ high J. Earle Pfoutz had a long and distinguished career as a self trained artist. More can be learned about him from reading this article produced by Gary Hawbaker at askART Earle Pfoutz Born: 1891 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania Died: 1957 Known for: Landscape, figure, still life painting An image of J Earle Pfoutz Biography from the Archives of askART J. Earle Pfoutz (John Earle Pfoutz) – (Oct 23, 1891-Nov 9, 1957) “A seventh generation descendant of a Swiss family which arrived in America early in the 17th Century, J. Earle Pfoutz was born in Lancaster, PA, son of John Bachman and Susan Allison Pfoutz. He painted houses for a living and pictures for a life. A self-taught artist, described as a primitive, he was distinctive for his vivid imagination and bold color application. He painted hundreds of Lancaster County scenes. Pfoutz traveled through the hills near his home and along the Susquehanna River in search of scenes. He began painting with a brush when he was fourteen, but added a palette knife after suffering an eye injury. He completed eighth grade in the Lancaster Public Schools and there his formal education ended. However, the Department of Public Instruction of the State of Pennsylvania thought so highly of his work as an artist that officials certified him as an art instructor and he taught for a year in the York (PA) public schools. He also was an art instructor under the program for disabled veterans, sponsored by the Veterans Administration, when he gave private instruction to veterans in their homes. In 1947, J. Earle Pfoutz finally earned national recognition as an artist. His painting, Opalescent October, was chosen by the Museum of Art of Dayton Ohio, to travel all over the country for a year with its Group Exhibition. Described as a “very colorful, calm scene, iridescent in color, sweeping in design,” the painting started on its journey around the country early in 1948. In an interview with the Sunday News (Lancaster, PA – Nov 2, 1947), Pfoutz stated that he didn’t know whether he was a “primitive” or an “impressionist.” No master taught him, no school channeled his style. “Sometimes I didn’t eat, but I always managed to paint,” he recalled. Many of his hundreds of canvases -most of them not sold, but given away to friends – found their way to other parts of the country. “I never remember the day when I did not love color,” Pfoutz said. “I was about 12 years old when I saw my first palette – a string of different colored paint paddles that graced the stores of that day. As a boy I had two great desires. One was to be able to eat all the strawberry jam I could, and the other to possess a string of those beautiful paint paddles. Well, I’ve got my fill of jelly, but I’ve never yet got my fill of beautiful colors.” In 1950, Pfoutz’s one man show of paintings made front page headlines in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal: “Most of the twenty oil paintings on exhibition are landscapes, although there are several interesting figure studies. Colors again, as in all Pfoutziana are rich and full-bodied, but for the most part not as startlingly as in some of the earlier work. Most of the paintings were done during the past year, and also reveal the painter’s characteristic heavy impasto technique, in which the rich swirls of paint carry their own message. Among the figures, The Banjo Picker, and The Magician, are the most provocative. Both are character studies; the first being of a tramp musician whose drab clothing is set-off by a luminous aqua blue background. Modern in feeling and treatment is The Magician, a clown-faced wizard whose spinning ball in the air suggests the fourth dimension – space. The use of the primary colors in this picture serves to emphasize the theme effectively. A large colorful landscape, Opalescent October, depicting rolling hills against a late afternoon sky is new to Lancastrians, as it has just returned from Dayton, Ohio, where it hung in the Dayton Art Institute. Another landscape with soft dreamy colors is Fantasie D’Autumne, and one of the loveliest pictures in the show. Pennsylvania Dutch Country is another with eye appeal, and was one of the works which was hung in the Old Customs House in Philadelphia during Pennsylvania Week, and before that in a collection of Pfoutz work in the same place. In deep contrast to the sunny skies and brilliant foliage of many of the pictures, is the somewhat morbid Worry, in which the center of interest is a tremendous rat. This, the painter explains, was symbolic of 1948 in China, which was ‘The Year of The Rat’ in the Chinese calendar. Background material for the picture was furnished to Pfoutz by author Pearl Buck. Other pictures include Autumn Prelude, Miners Village, painted at Cornwall, PA; Humid Day, Saint Peters Kierch, at Middletown, PA; Lady Pfoutz, inspired by the painter’s wife; Sun Flowers, Sentimental Journey, Gyne, Luzon Woman, Old Bridge, The Cow Path. Lemures, based on Roman mythology, and Ethiopian, painted from an ebony wood carving from Kenya Province, S. Africa.” In 1953, Pfoutz was installed as President of the Lancaster County Art Association. A. Z. Kruse, New York City artist, writer and member of the faculty of the Brooklyn College and the Cartoonists and Illustrators School, Manhattan, was the guest speaker. In January of 1953, thirty-five Pfoutz oils were exhibited at the Old Custom House in Philadelphia, PA under the sponsorship of the Carl Schurz Memorial Foundation. Several Lancaster County landscapes and covered bridges were included as well as Katy, a Pennsylvania Dutch scene. Symbolic paintings included End of the Second Day, the artist’s visualization of the second coming of Christ, and Twilight, typifying the grief of mothers of all lands for sons lost in battle. In June of 1953, a Pfoutz oil made history in Lancaster. From the Lancaster New Era: “For the first in local art history, a painting has been withdrawn from an exhibition because of objections from viewers and hostesses serving at the show. The painting, Jeune Fille, a standing nude done by Pfoutz, was one of the paintings in the annual spring exhibition of the Art Association and had become the center of the controversy. Pfoutz said he took the painting down… ‘graciously but reluctantly.’ ‘From an artistic standpoint, there is nothing offensive about the painting,’ Pfoutz said. ‘This community just wants its nudes with clothes on.’ “It is most brilliant in color, and because it is so brilliant I thought it would make a nice lively spot for the show. This is the first time I’ve had to take a picture off the walls. I substituted a seascape for it.’ Pfoutz said he felt the painting brought a lot of viewers to the show because it was so controversial. It had never been exhibited before. ‘If this had been shown in a metropolitan city,’ he commented, ‘people wouldn’t have given it a second glance. But the viewpoint here is more conservative, even though I don’t think moderns would have minded.’ He said he felt the painting was neither ‘objectionable nor pornographic,’ but had complied with the wishes of fellow members of the Art Association who telephoned him to relay the protests they had received. The art controversy was the first to arise here publicly since the showing of Amish Grandmother, an oil by William Gropper which was part of the Gimbel Pennsylvania exhibit at the Griest Building several years ago. — Numerous viewers of Amish Grandmother, [a painting showing an Amish woman holding a white goose], expressed themselves quite vocally, calling it an affront to the Plain Folk. But it stayed on exhibit throughout the length of the Gimbel show. Pfoutz expressed no rancor, implying that if Gropper could take it so could he.” After his death, there were several shows of Pfoutz’ work organized by his son J. Earle, Jr. J. Earle, Jr. also saw to it that President Eisenhower would receive an oil called The Cow’s Path. The president first saw the painting in 1950 when, as president of Columbia University, he visited Lancaster to address a student assembly at Franklin and Marshall College. After his address was over, the then Gen. Eisenhower stopped at the Fackenthal Library on the campus to view an exhibition of Pfoutz’s paintings. The Cow’s Path intrigued him. For some time, as his aides fumed to get him back on his time schedule, Eisenhower and Pfoutz talked, as artist to artist. Prior to his death, Pfoutz requested that The Cow’s Path be given to the President if he wanted it. The painting was presented to Ike at the White House in November of 1959. Mrs. Eisenhower owned a Pfoutz painting titled, In the Manor. Though house painting was his livelihood, he worked for Millersville State Teachers College (now a university) for a time during World War II, and called himself “the Chimney Sweep of MSTC.” During that period he knocked out a dizzying canvas in the surrealist style (he thought it was terrible) and got into the campus newspaper when one of the students spotted it. Earle Pfoutz was not the humble, downtrodden artist, not the Douanier Rousseau type at all. As he developed his skill and style through the years, he also fashioned a resilient confidence in himself as an artist. Whether he was building his own home (he built two) or painting one for somebody else, he never lost faith in his ultimate recognition—though he was never sure he would live to see it. Whether he was working as a rigger for a hoisting company, in the Stehli Silk Mill of Lancaster, carving Cloister-style chairs, decorating old chests, cementing bricks from the old Safe...

This remarkable scene depicting the moment when Bellerophon was about to lasso the flying figure of Pegasus after the creature paused for a drink below was painted in 1926 by Bryson ...

Collection of Vintage Artist's Palettes, American, circa 1940s - 1960s. The largest palette measures 15.5"H x 19.5"W. The smallest measures 7.5"H x 10.5"W.

Crestmount is the Mediterranean Revival Style mansion built by architect Robert D. Farquhar in 1923 for Antonio Morino "The It Man" and Daisy Can...

Painting by unknown artist, circa 1940. Oil on canvas. Ilegible signature. In original condition, with some visible signs of previous use and age, preserving a beautiful patina...

Hilly landscape - Waldemar Runde Measures: cm 60 x cm 80 (without frame) - oil on canvas, 1930s 23.6 in x 31.5 in (without frame) Waldemar Runde (1892 - 1988) XXth century ...

Parke-Bernet Galleries Inc., New York , “An Important Collection of Early American Miniatures and Silver. Property of Mrs Dorothy Draper Hamlen Removed from Her Home in Wayland, Mass...

Oil on canvas, orientalist scene, signed Louis Saphier. This lovely painting was executed around 1920. Louis Saphier was active and lived in both New Yor...

Offered here for your consideration is a vintage original Earl MacPherson pastel painting of a pin-up girl. Depicting a blond, smiling, nude pin-up girl dressed only with two larg...

striking oil painting from the 40s of a forest scene in strong impasto strokes and bold colour tones. Simply framed of the period by well known Swedish artist Gunnar John, who studi...

Large Impasto Painting of House on the Water by Lephe Kingsley Holden. Signed lower right. Lephe Kingsley Holden (1881 - 1973) was active/lived in Connecticut, New York. Lephe Holden was a painter and art teacher. She was born in Hadley, Massachusetts on May 1, 1881. She was the daughter of Elbridge Kingsley and Elizabeth (Cook) Kingsley. Elbridge Kingsley was a painter, wood engraver and illustrator for the Century Co. Lephe was a graduate of Hopkins Academy, Hadley, Massachusetts and the Art Student's League, New York. She studied privately with Augustus V. Tack, Dwight Tryon, Guy Wiggins, George E. Browne, Hippolito Hidalgo, and Ed Carviedes. Holden taught art at Maxwell Training College, New York (1908-1912). She married Samuel M. Holden on October 1912, and they were married until his death in January 1936. Holden also served as the Director of Art Instruction in Westport, Connecticut School System (1927-1947). Initially she was the only art teacher, but at the time of her retirement there were five assistant instructors. She exhibited with the American Watercolor Society Education: Pratt Institute; Art Students League, NYC; With George Elmer Browne; Guy Wiggins Summer Art School, Essex, Connecticut, 1936. Membership: Key West Art and Historical Society; Key West Artists...

Painting by Jordi Casacuberta Codinach, circa 1940. Oil on canvas. Handsigned. In original condition, with some visible signs of previous use and age, preserving a beautiful patina...

Louis Picard (1861-1940), a well-listed French artist. Oil on canvas. Composition with a beautiful young nude woman reclining in a forest scenery. Approximately from the 1920s. Sign...

Important, wonderful painting signed by the famous Italian artist Orazio Amato Portrait of young woman with landscape, oil on canvas signed This artwork, never before on the market...

Esteve Serrat Paxinc painting. Made in Spain, circa 1979. Hand signed by the author In good original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a bea...

Oil on panel representing "The Death of Cleopatra" Signed lower right Maria SZANTHO, dated 1928. Hungarian school. Former pianist, she launched an artistic career under the tutelage...

Very Nice, Old, Painting of Industrial Landscape Scene signed Duff, 1942 couple small repairs as seen on canvas back small "puncture" along the left side of the painting small "crea...

Framed Print of Saint Anthony. By unknown artist, circa 1940. In original condition, with some visible signs of previous use and age, preserving a beautiful patina. Material...

Condition: Original Vintage Condition Materials: Oil On Canvas, Gold Leaf Wood Frame Style: Realism

Delight in the beauty of early 20th-century art with this captivating watercolor by Campana, a renowned French Art Deco painter. Created around 1920, this painting beautifully depict...