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Paintings For Sale
Period: 1940s
Period: Early 1900s
"FANTASY" Oil on Canvas by Thomas Hart Benton
By Thomas Hart Benton
Located in New York, NY
"FANTASY" by Thomas Hart Benton. Oil on canvas laid on wood with a gorgeous gold gilded frame. Price upon request.
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
"Crested Bird with Pomegranate, " Rare Pencil and Gouache Painting by Parzinger
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Best known for his handsome, beautifully-crafted furniture designs, much in demand today, Tommi Parzinger also painted over the span of his career. His rare, early works -- such as t...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Painting by Unknown Artist, Oil on Canvas, circa 1940
Located in Barcelona, ES
Painting by unknown artist, circa 1940. Oil on canvas. Unsigned. In original condition, with some visible signs of previous use and age, preserving a beautiful patina. Unfra...
Category
1940s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
The Green Fairy with Roses, A French Framed Hand Painted Porcelain Plaque c.1900
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Berthe Pascault (XIXth-XXth)
Green Fairy with Roses
Berthe Pascault
La Fée Verte aux Roses
Hand-painted polychromed oil on porcelain
Signed lower left
Original gilt wood frame
Circa...
Category
Early 1900s French Belle Époque Antique Paintings
Materials
Porcelain, Wood
"Standing Male Nude", Rare, Early Painting by Paul Goadby Stone, 1949
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Exquisitely accomplished, this lovely male nude by Paul Goadby Stone is the earliest piece we have ever offered by the artist. Although it has the a...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Paintings by 19th C & Contemporary American Artists, the Collection Samuel Shaw
Located in valatie, NY
Paintings by 19th century and Contemporary American Artists, from the Collection of The Late Samuel T. Shaw, NY: Parke-Bernet Galleries, Nov. 21, 1945. Softcover, 89 pp. 15 b&w plate...
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper
Japanese Two Panel Screen: Bamboo with Calligraphy Poem
Located in Hudson, NY
Moon and bamboo in ink on gold paper with red and black lacquered negoro frame. (Meiji period) Calligraphy reads: Beauty in ink painting with standing woods and branches, like in par...
Category
Early 1900s Japanese Antique Paintings
Materials
Paper
1902 "High Coastal Seascape" Watercolor & Gouache on Paper by Edmund D. Lewis
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
Dated 1902 "High Coastal Seascape" watercolor & gouache on paper by Edmund D. Lewis. Signed & dated lower left. Edmund D. Lewis, American, 1835-1910. Watercolor & gouache on buff pap...
Category
Early 1900s American Romantic Antique Paintings
Materials
Paint, Paper
19 Century Scottish Or English River Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Delray Beach, FL
Fine quality antique oil painting by unknown artist , much admired and celebrated River landscape, with two people overlooking at the river and a bridge .interesting with Fine detai...
Category
Early 1900s Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages by Baron Van Der Elst, Stated 1st Ed
Located in valatie, NY
The Last Flowering of the Middle Ages by Baron Joseph Van Der Elst. Published by Doubleday, Doran and Company Inc., 1944. Stated 1st Ed hardcover. An in-depth look into art of the Middle Ages. Contents: 1. The Times and the Men who Made Them: Men of Flanders; The Flemish Parade; The Good Black Earth; The Rise of the Towns; The Medieval Guilds; Of Love, the Dream; The Upward Glance; Pt. 2. The Flemish Masters: Jan van Eyck; Petrus Christus...
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper
Oil Painting by Christo Stefanoff - Sheaves of wheat - dated 1949
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful oil painting depicting sheaves of wheat in a summer landscape. It is a painting by the famous painter Christo Stefanoff. He is known for his mastery of showing light and ...
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1940s French Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Personnage dans l'arbre", oil on canvas by Paul Ackerman, France, circa 1945
Located in Paris, FR
Large oil on canvas by Paul Ackerman, entitled « personnage dans l’arbre » (« character in a tree »).
Biography
Paul Ackerman, Romania-France (1908-1981)
Paul Ackerman is a Romanian painter, lithographer, sculptor and theater designer, living in France since 1912, he belongs to the School of Paris .
Paul Ackerman was four years old when, in 1912, his father, a company director and great art lover, decided, out of constraint in the face of « the anti-Semitism which is a harsh reality in Romania », to come and settle in Paris, in a large villa facing the Bois de Vincennes. He did his secondary studies at the Lycée Charlemagne (where he befriended Gabriel Arout, future playwright for whom he would later design the sets), then at the Ecole Alsacienne. From 1925, Ackerman studied law and letters at the Sorbonne, but, frequenting the Louvre Museum assiduously, he knew that his vocation lay elsewhere.
In 1933, Paul Ackerman met Simone Laverrière, a native of Royan, whom he married in 1935. In 1936, in his studio at 100, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, he designed projects for posters, fabrics and jewelry for Elsa Schiaparelli and Marcel Rochas while visiting Fernand Leger’s studio.
In 1939 Paul Ackerman was mobilized, taken prisoner then released, he found his wife Simone in Vichy where he was expelled as a Jew and left for Saint-Tropez. He then leads a cloistered life in the south of France, made up of small means (painting on...
Category
1940s French Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Outside the Inn" by Heywood Hardy
Located in Wiscasset, ME
An oil on panel signed and dated in the lower left depicting two riders on horseback sharing a drink outside a country inn. The painting measures 17.75" x 21.75" including the frame...
Category
Early 1900s English Victorian Antique Paintings
Materials
Paint
Antique French pastel painting "Mother with Child" from the early 1900s
Located in Traversetolo, IT
Old French pastel painting "Mother with Child "from the early 1900s,the author demonstrates great skill in conveying the feeling of complacency of the maternal figure,not to mention ...
Category
Early 1900s French Art Nouveau Antique Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
20th Century Expressionism Oil on Canvas by Alphonse Vermeir
Located in Casteren, NL
20th century oil on canvas painted and signed by the Belgium artist Alphonse Vermeir (1905-1994.)
Depicting a Belgium townview.
Originates Belgium, dating, circa 1940.
Category
1940s Belgian Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Émile Renard (French, 1850-1930) A Charming Oil on Canvas "A Good Poker Hand"
By Renard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Émile Renard (French, 1850-1930) A Fine and Charming Oil on Canvas "A Good Poker Hand", depicting a joyous seated man, smoking a pipe, showing his Poker h...
Category
Early 1900s French Other Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Leonard Maurer Oil Painting "Ferry" 1949
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A charming modernist painting by Leonard Maurer, ca' 1949. Influenced by Matisse, but clearly in his own style with a uniquely American mid-century feel.
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Young Woman in Blue Dress", Stunning 1940s Portrait of Blonde Female
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This fresh and vibrant portrait of a young woman with glowing blond hair and a blue 1940s frock is one of the finest World War II vintage portraits we have ever offered. Her complex...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Floral Still Life on Board by Rosario Gerbino (1900-1972)
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A vibrant impressionist style oil painting on bard, artist signed Derbino '41..
Framed in original frame.
Born in Sicily, Italy, Rosario Gerbino became a landscape painter and illustrator who lived in New York City where he taught at the Leonardo da Vinci Art School. He studied at the National Academy of Design with George Maynard, Charles Hinton...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood, Giltwood, Paint
Antico dipinto ad olio "Paesaggio di Montagna con torrente" di Lazlo Neogrady
Located in Traversetolo, IT
Laszlo Neogrady nacque a Budapest, in Ungheria, nel 1896. Era il figlio dell'artista Anatal Neogrady, e studiò pittura all'Accademia Ungherese di Belle Arti ...
Category
1940s Hungarian Other Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Original Oil on Canvas Painting After Norman Mills Price
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Unsigned Original oil on canvas painting after Norman Mills Price.
Canvas is a bit loose. Frame appears to be original.
Canvas and Frame show age.
See image of illustration of the same image signed in corner by Norman Mills Price
"Norman Mills Price never fully received the popular recognition that his work deserved. Because he was so intently interested in historical subjects, he restricted his work to these almost exclusively.
The dedication and artistry he brought to his work, however, was especially appreciated and respected by a select group – his fellow-illustrators. His painstaking research into every detail made each picture an authentic documentary, but the detail was never allowed to detract from the dramatic concept of the illustration itself. Although Price made effective use of tone and color, his pen-and-ink drawings were especially effective, exhibiting a full range of values and textural effects."
"Price was born in Canada, studied art there and in London and Paris. By 1912, he had established himself in New York and had begun to work for American publications. Some of his most successful illustrations were done for a long series of historical novels by Robert W. Chambers for Liberty magazine. He was a charter member of the Society of Illustrators at the time of his death."
"Illustrator, Norman Mills Price was born in Brampton, Ontario (1877) and began his studies at the Ontario School of Art. Around 1901 he spent time in London, studying at the Goldsmith's Institute; Westminster School of Art; and with Cruikshank. While in London, he was the founder of Carlton Studios.
He later went on to Paris, studying at the Academie Julian, with J.P. Laurens and R.E. Miller. He did freelance work in Paris until an assignment in Belgium for Century brought him to the attention of other American publishers. In 1911, he had a studio in New York City, and worked for such publication as Harper's, Cosmopolitan, and Liberty.
He illustrated the novels: "The Lamb's Tales from Shakespeare (1905), The Rogue's Moon (1929), Leif Erikson...
Category
1940s American American Classical Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Mid 20th Century Flower Still Life in Pastel on Board Paintin by Simone Dujardin
By Dujardin
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
Beautiful flower still life, painted with soft pastels on paper, by the Belgium female artist Simone Dujardin. Signed and dated (1944) left under. The painting has a lively use of bright colors. The porcelain and book provides a nice balance in the composition. The painting is framed behind glass, for protection of the pastel. In a beautiful carved gold leaf wooden frame.
Dimensions frame: 53 x 58 cm
Dimensions painting: 38 x 43 cm
Simone Dujardin was a Pupil of Firmin Baes...
Category
1940s Belgian Romantic Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper, Giltwood
Antique 4 Drawings by a Boston Artist, Signed 1908, D1
Located in Norton, MA
4 Drawings by a Boston Artist, Signed from 1908 D1
Four drawings of figures, each 7.25" x 4.5", were drawn in the early 20th century, 2 "Framed (16.75" x 22.5") under glass.
Category
Early 1900s American Antique Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
Striking Oil on Canvas Portrait of a Young Lady
Located in Søborg, DK
Striking antique oil on canvas portrait of a young lady.
The artist skillfully captured this young lady’s beauty whilst at the same time also her striking pose.
Signed H.P. On th...
Category
Early 1900s German Victorian Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Vintage Oil Painting Of Gypsy From Zamutov, Czechoslovakia 1940s
Located in Zohor, SK
Beautiful vintage oil painting in an original frame. The pinting is named Gypsy Woman from Zamutov. Originally from the region of Czechoslovakia. The painting was hanging in the firs...
Category
1940s Czech Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
"Two Philosophers", 1948 Painting with Two Male Nudes by Arthur Kampf
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Serving, perhaps, as a commentary on the futility and horror of war, this allegorical painting of "Two Philosophers" was made by Arthur Kampf in 1948-49, shortly after the end of World War II and toward the end of his long life. Kampf was known for his historical and allegorical paintings, including a large scene showing a group of nude soldiers...
Category
1940s German Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Bullfighting poster, Inauguration of the San Sebastian bullring. Oil on canvas.
Located in Madrid, ES
Bullfighting poster, Inauguration of the San Sebastian bullring. Oil on canvas. PÉREZ SAAVEDRA, Manuel (doc. Circa 1903). 1903.
Original poster for a bullfighting event for the open...
Category
Early 1900s Spanish Art Nouveau Antique Paintings
Materials
Other
Blackfeet Indians Prints by Weinhold Reis
Located in Coeur d'Alene, ID
Set of ten Weinhold Reis colored lithographs of the Blackfeet; period frames - Scalping Woman; Wife of Night Shoots; Lazy Boy; Blackfeet Medicine Man; Long Ti...
Category
1940s Native American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Other
Antique Italian oil Painting After The Bath Nude by Rosati
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3308 Oil on canvas in a custom gilt wood frame
Image size 15.5x11.5"
Category
1940s Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Kofron Fragment Hexentanz w. Decapitated Mans Head Oil on Canvas, Germany c 1940
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A strikingly brutal piece that raises more questions than answers. It was painted during the early 1940s by the German relatively unknown artist Franz Kofron. The fragment has been cut out of a larger subject/motif. Either due to censor or the obvious blasphemy of the subject mattter. A simple act of vandalism without any motiv does not make any sense.
The technique used is referred to as Grisaille where a variety of shades/nuances within one color, typically gray, is used to create dept, mystic and atmosphere.
The subject matter is a female with powerfull physic and rather masculine facial features/traits carrying a decapitated mans head attached to a stick by his long hair. One can argue that it articulates a reference to Judiths beheading...
Category
1940s German Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Portuguese 1944 Watercolor Sunday Morning Mass
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Portuguese 1944 Watercolor Sunday Morning Mass.
Category
1940s Portuguese Vintage Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood
"Theatrical Scene, " Art Deco Painting with Tragedy, Comedy in Celestial Setting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This extraordinary, almost surreal scene by one of America's leading muralists in the Art Deco period, Eugene Savage, depicts a floating female nude on the stage, with figures of Com...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Antique French Winter Horse Drawn Carriage Ride Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3288 Winter horse drawn carriage
Oil on board
Image size 19.5x 15.5"
Category
1940s Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Leonard Maurer Oil Painting, 1948
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A charming oil painting by noted Washington DC artist Leonard Maurer, ca' 1948. Depicting children climbing trees. Wonderful sense of color and a real m...
Category
1940s American Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Painting from the 1940s, Golden, Mid-Century Art, Blue, Chocolate & White Colors
Located in New York, NY
Decorative painting from the 1940s. Painting has a beautiful gold frame with a linen liner.
Category
1940s American Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Vase of Flowers with Fruit Oil Painting, Fitger Hermann
Located in Vo', Veneto
Fitger Hermann - Vase of Flowers with Fruit
Measures: 32cm x 44cm - frame excluded
50cm x 62cm - with antique fir frame
oil on canvas applied to cardboard - 1946
20th cen...
Category
1940s German Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Rollin Crampton Early Abstract Expressionist Oil on Board
Located in Sharon, CT
An early "over-all painting". Oil and graphite on 'beaver board'. This painting is illustrated in "The Art of the Artist" Arthur Zaidenberg, Crown Publishers NY 1951. Signed on back....
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Mid Century Modern Artist James Koenig 1948 Buffalo NY Titled 'Net Work'
By James Koenig
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Titled ‘Net Work’ buffalo artist James Koenig paintings reflected many phases of American painting styles including scenes from the WPA period, abstract...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Provincetown Ice House, 1940s" by Bruce McKain
Located in New York, NY
"Provincetown Ice House, 1940s"
Bruce McKain (American, 1900-1990)
C. 1940s
Oil on Canvas
Canvas Dimensions:
41.5 in. Width
31.5 in Height
Frame Dimension...
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Very Fine Impressionist Painting, Signed, Oil on Canvas, circa 1880-1910
Located in Aalsgaarde, DK
Very fine impressionist painting, signed, oil on canvas, circa 1880-1910. Good condition, and original frame.
Measures: H. 83 W. 65 cm.
H...
Category
Early 1900s French Antique Paintings
20th Century Oil on Masonite Italian Dated and Signed Still Life Painting, 1942
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Italian painting dated 1942 on the back. Oil on masonite framework signed lower left Laustino, referable to Emanuele Laustino (1916-1988) depicting a pleasant still life with primros...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Paintings
Materials
Masonite
John Henry Frederick Bacon, A.R.A. Life-size English Family Portrait
Located in New York, US
Our magnificent oil on canvas by John Henry Frederick Bacon, A.R.A. (1868-1914), entitled The Golden Butterfly, depicts the family of John and Julietta Boyd-Harvey at Tondu House in South Wales in 1907. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 1907, no. 572.
This very large painting depicts the Boyd-Harvey family on the lawn of Tondu House in South Wales, with the mountain and valley of Tondu in the background. John Bacon...
Category
Early 1900s British Edwardian Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
"Coca-Cola and Coffee", Important Industrial Design for 1949 Vending Machine
Located in Philadelphia, PA
An astonishing and important example of Moderne-Mid Century Modern industrial design, this original watercolor rendering of a short-lived Coca-Cola/coffee vending machine was painted...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Mario Carreño "Serenade" Oil Painting on Canvas, Cuba 1941, Signed
Located in Miami, FL
Mario Carreño "Serenade" Oil Painting on Canvas, Cuba 1941, Signed
Offered for sale is an important oil on canvas painting by Cuban artist Mario Carreño (1913-1999) signed and date...
Category
1940s Cuban Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Eduardo León Garrido (Spanish, 1856-1949) Oil on Panel "Dressing for the Ball"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Eduardo León Garrido (Spanish, 1856-1949) A very Fine oil on panel "Dressing for the Ball" depicting 18th century interior scene of a young 'High Society' maiden getting dressed for ...
Category
Early 1900s Spanish Rococo Antique Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
"Stoking the Engine", Painting for Coca Cola on "Uses of Coal" for 1949 Campaign
By Lyman Anderson
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Important both historically and artistically, this painting by Lyman Anderson of a railroad engineer feeding the engine with a fresh supply of coal was commissioned by the Coca Cola ...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Gotsch Friedrich Karl '1900-1984' Painting, Still Life 1945
Located in Handewitt, DE
Friedrich Karl GOTSCH (1900-1984), very well-known and renowned german painter of the golden era of expressionism, impressionism and „Neue Sachlichkeit“.
Friend of many world-famous artists of the time. His extraordinary works can be found in many exhibitions and collections around the world.
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Oil / Gouache on cardboard from 1945. New professional framed.
Monogrammed „F...
Category
1940s German Expressionist Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Signed French Framed Artwork Resting Nude Woman Hand Carved Bleached Oak Frame
Located in Miami, FL
Signed French framed artwork resting nude woman hand carved bleached oak frame.
Category
1940s French French Provincial Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oak
Signed William Sheldon Horton Impressionist Landscape Painting
By William Sheldon Horton
Located in Redding, CT
Signed William Sheldon Horton impressionist landscape painting. This "Plein Air" artist has majestically captured the purple desert canyons of California. This substantial canvas is ...
Category
1940s American Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Uno Dewoon Oil Painting Landscape Painting (1909-1988) Swedish Neutral Artwork
Located in Rochester, NY
Signed and dated. Plaque affixed to frame reads: Nykopings automobil Fabrik. Heder spris. Nykoping Jun 7, 1946.
This soothing oil painting has a serene feeling to it, and the neutr...
Category
1940s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Little Boy Blue Painting on Canvas Cloth
Located in Redding, CT
Early 20th Century Little Boy Blue Painting on Canvas Cloth. Classic Fairy Tale illustration of Little Boy Blue fallen asleep in the hay. Grea...
Category
1940s Folk Art Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen
"Negro Night Club, " 1945 Painting Depicting African American Social Life
By Adalie Margules Brent
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A brilliant and lively depiction of a crowded cafe scene in 1945, this painting by Adalie Margules Brent depicts a slice of Black America at the end of World War II, probably in New Orleans, complete with a waiter, fashionably dressed men and women and wafts of cigarette smoke...
Category
1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
"Justice Triumphant", Mural Study for Queens, Ny Courthouse, circa 1941-1942
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A striking example of WPA mural art, this study for one of the murals proposed for the new Queens Supreme Courthouse -- a 1930s Works Progress Administration project in Queens, New York -- was painted by Eugene Savage. Like many paintings from the period, the study is teeming with allegory and symbolism, surmounted at the top by the figure of Justice with a long sword, spurning businesspeople at her feet who offer gifts and favors. Savage is best known for a spectacular set of murals illustrating the history and lore of Hawaii commissioned by Matson Shipping Line for the S.S. Lurline, executed in the 1940s but not installed until the 1950s. The artist also painted other series of murals and paintings, include an enormous mural...
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1940s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Original Bavarian Tyrolian Folk Art Painting, Signed and Dated
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Original Bavarian Tyrolian Folk Art painting, signed and dated
This charming folk painting is executed in oil on artist board. A beautiful and rus...
Category
1940s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Other
Original Watercolor Ski Poster "Pontresina" by Herbert Leupin, circa 1949
Located in Nantucket, MA
Original Watercolor Ski Poster "Pontresina" by Herbert Leupin (Swiss: 1916 - 1999), a watercolor and gouache painting original for one of Leupin's celeb...
Category
1940s Swiss Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paper
Large-Scale American Folk Art Carnival Game Board, Very Graphic
Located in Atlanta, GA
Large-scale Folk Art Carnival game board, American, circa 1940s. This painted carnival game board came from Texas and combines wonderfully patinate...
Category
1940s American Folk Art Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood, Cork
Antique Canvas Depicting 'The Preaching of St. Peter'
Located in Milano, IT
Beautiful framed wooden canvas from the end of the 19th century.
The reference narrative is the one found in the Acts of the Apostles (Acts 2:14-42) in which Saint Peter starts pre...
Category
Early 1900s Italian Romantic Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Surrealist African American Self-Portrait by Harry Leopold D. 1943
Located in Peabody, MA
An African American self portrait by the surrealist painter Henry Leopold (1920-2009). Leopold studied fine art in Belgium, France and Italy. He attended the American Artists school, the Pratt...
Category
1940s North American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Antique and Vintage Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs
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