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Paintings For Sale
Vintage Mid-Century Large Snow Leopard Painting in Original Frame
Located in Wichita, KS
Large format Vintage Mid-Century Modern painting of a Snow Leopard. The painting maintains its original frame and is signed by the artist. The theme of this painting was very popul...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Pablo Picasso Collectible Art Book First Edition, 1955
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage, 1955, first edition, Picasso, S.P.A.D.E.M. Paris, Boeck and Sabartes,
Vintage, Pablo Picasso, First Edition, 1955.
Pablo Picasso, Library or Coffee Table Book,.
Description:...
Category
20th Century Spanish Modern Paintings
Materials
Paper
Pair French 18th-19th Century Chinoiserie Circle of Jean B. Pillement
By Jean-Baptiste Pillement
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine pair of French 18th-19th century whimsical rococo style chinoiserie oil on canvas, circle of Jean-Baptiste Pillement. (French, 1728-1808). One oil painting depicting an outdoor patio scene of a standing young mother, holding a fan, with her three young children playing with a horse-toy, a parrot and a cat, all surrounded by flowers, plants, trees, planters and flanked by a dragon fountain...
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Late 18th Century French Chinoiserie Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Mid 19th Century Oil Painting Dogs by Joseph Stevens
By Joseph Stevens
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
An oil painting of two rustic dogs fighting over a piece of food. It is painted on an oak panel. Signed top left. The signature is a bit faded, it's a monogram J.S. by Joseph Stevens. He often signed with a monogram. In a gilded frame frame with gesso moldings.
Dimensions frame: 41 x 47 cm
Dimensions painting: 17 x 23 cm.
Joseph Stevens is the older brother of the very well-known artist Alfred Stevens. In the book 'The Belgian Art Book' by J. de Geest, it is written that Joseph Stevens has given a new dimension to painting animals. Joseph Stevens is an early representative of realism and social art. While Eugene Verboeckhoven has royal dogs pose on a beautifully embroidered cushion, Joseph Stevens already has an eye for the dark side of animal existence: exploitation by man, who in turn is a victim of society. His first successful painting, Brussels in the morning, shows how miserable dogs and poor people suffer the same fate. In the Sandman, Stevens shows a joint effort of man and dog, in which the viewer cannot ignore the social conditions: exhausting labor at dawn in some suburb. The gray sky and monochromy of the suburb add to the sinister atmosphere. Joseph Stevens was one of the first artists to take the urban proletariat as his subject. Stevens enjoys a very high reputation in his Parisian years. His brother Alfred writes: 'I am of this time, but you, Joseph, you are of the race, and thus you are of all times.' French critics agree. Stevens' works are a source of inspiration for the literature of the time. For example, Beaudelaire writes a poem about Stevens' dogs.
Joseph Edouard STEVENS. Belgium, 1819-1892
Stevens was a painter, etcher and engraver. Brother of the gifted painter Afred Stevens. Education at the Academy in Brussels (1834-1835). Debuted at the Salon in Brussels in 1842. Continued his career in Paris in 1852. He was primarily the painter of canvases depicting domestic animals (dogs, monkeys, horses), sometimes in curious, even idiosyncratic situations, and far from romanticism. This realism, of which he was one of the pioneers, earned him the interest of critics and intellectuals.
His approach was defined by this contemporary realism that eschewed idealized depictions of animals as heroic emblems of nobility. Rather, Stevens emphasized the ordinary animals of everyday life, with a particular focus on working dogs, stray dogs and all of the mutts that wandered the streets of Brussels. Museums and public collections, including' Royal Museum of Fine Arts Brussels, Ghent, Hamburg, Paris, Musée du Louvre, Rouen, Musee des Beaux-Arts. Stuttgart, State Gallery. King Leopold...
Category
1850s Belgian Beaux Arts Antique Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Oak, Pine, Paint
Cornelis de Cocq Still Life Paintings, 1871
Located in Chicago, IL
Spare, haunting, and quietly magnificent—this set of 19th-century oil paintings by Cornelis de Cocq (1815–1889) captures the stillness of the hunt’s aftermath with remarkable restrai...
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1870s Dutch Romantic Antique Paintings
Materials
Paint
French 20th Century Large Landscape Painting
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
A wonderfully large and vibrant landscape painting from France. Signed in the bottom right corner by the artist. Protected behind antique rolled glass...
Category
20th Century French French Provincial Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Giltwood, Paint
Crimean War Soldiers Oil Painting on Canvas 19th Century
Located in Nottingham, GB
Crimean War Soldiers Oil Painting on Canvas 19th Century
Dimensions: 41 x 33cm,
Good condition overall, with professional restorations to back of canvas
From a private collection.
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Category
19th Century Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
John Lear Watercolor "Aftermath"
By John B. Lear
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large John B. Lear watercolor, "Aftermath". Painted in the early 1960's, probably one of his most provocative and important works! Jesus on the Cross is a common theme in LGBT Christ...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Original Ernest Lawson Plein Air New York Painting of Wooded Landscape
By Ernest Lawson
Located in Tustin, CA
Beautiful original plein air impressionistic and realistic style, oil on canvas painting, features a wooded landscape, with magnificent trees which dwarf a woman and child, who are w...
Category
Early 20th Century American Other Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Framed 19th Century English Embroidery of a Country Landscape
Located in Atlanta, GA
Framed 19th Century English Embroidery of a Country Landscape
Category
19th Century English Antique Paintings
Materials
Fabric
Deep Ocean, Contemporary Color-Field Abstract by Benjamin Casiano
Located in Spring Valley, NY
Evocative color-field abstract composition by contemporary American artist, Benjamin Casiano. Casiano is a lover of color and uses dramatic brushstrokes to bring color alive on his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Nudes in the Surf", Atmospheric Painting with Male Nudes and Horses
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Continuing a tradition going back decades, Josef Pieper painted a series of seaside scenes with multiple nude male figures, riding and leading horses along the shore, their strong bodies...
Category
1920s German Art Deco Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
Oil on Board Painting of Horse in Stable by Louis Nadler, Early 20th Century
Located in Atlanta, GA
This early 20th-century oil on board by American artist Louis Nadler offers a vivid portrait of a chestnut horse standing alert in its stall. Characterized by its anatomical precisio...
Category
Early 20th Century American Paintings
Materials
Wood, Giltwood
Large Oil on Canvas "Homage to Monet's House at Giverny"
By Claude Monet
Located in Redding, CT
Large oil on canvas "Homage to Monet's House at Giverny". This bucolic and romantic scene is framed in a large gilded gold leaf frame. Muted pastel ton...
Category
1960s Romantic Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood, Canvas
Kim Jung Gi Contemporary South Korean Ink Drawing
Located in New York, NY
Ink pen on paper drawing by Kim Jung Gi, 1975 to 2022, a South Korean cartoonist and manhwa artist known for his highly detailed illustrations, often drawn...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Korean Paintings
Materials
Paper
Antique Painting on Linen - Two Polar Bears
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A beautiful antique painting on linen, a representation of two polar bears. There is no information known about the origin of this work.
Presumably of Asian origin, Japan or China, e...
Category
1890s Chinese Antique Paintings
Materials
Linen
Australian Aboriginal Painting Rain Dreaming Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
By Ronnie Tjampitjinpa
Located in Atlanta, GA
A contemporary painting by Australian Aboriginal artist Ronnie Tjampitjinpa (1943-). Entitled "Rain Dreaming", the artwork was acrylic on canvas and painted in 1999
Fully documented: originally purchased in 1999 from Kimberley Australian Aboriginal Art, Melbourne, cat. no. KA 708/99; The in the collection of The Kelton Foundation, Santa Monica; It was exhibited in: "G'Day LA" Australia Week, in partnership with the Australian Consulate Los Angeles, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA, 15-25 January 2004. It is housed in a black thin wood frame.
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa was born in Pintupi land at Muyinnga, about 100 kilometres west of the Kintore Range, just across the Western Australian border. He is the son of Uta Uta Tjangala’s older brother, Minpuru Tjangala (c.1899–1976).
Artist's Biography (Courtesy of Art Gallery NSW)
After his initiation into Pintupi law at the site of Yumari, Tjampitjinpa and his younger brother Smithy Zimran Tjampitjinpa walked into the Aboriginal community of Yuendumu. They later joined their parents and other siblings – who had come in to Ikuntji (Haasts Bluff) in 1956 from the Dover Hills/Yumari area – at the new settlement of Papunya. Tjampitjinpa worked as a labourer, assisting with the fencing of the aerodromes at Papunya and Ikuntji. He was one of the youngest of the group of men who began painting at the start of the Western Desert art movement in 1971, and was a founder of Paunya Tula Artists.
During the 1970s, Tjampitjinpa was preoccupied with returning to his traditional lands and became a strong advocate for the outstation movement, travelling between meetings in Papunya, Yuendumu, Wirrimanu (Balgo) and Mount Doreen Station. His goal was finally achieved with the establishment of the Walungurru (Kintore) settlement in 1981. Tjampitjinpa moved there with his young family in 1983, establishing an outstation at Ininti (Redbank) and serving as chairman of the Kintore Outstation Council. During this period, he emerged as one of Papunya Tula Artists’ major painters, pioneering the bold, scaled-up, linear style that came to dominate many of the Walungurru painters’ work during the 1990s. His distinctive aesthetic preoccupa-tion is exemplified in the untitled works of 1994 and 2001. Now one of the last founding members of Papunya Tula Artists, Tjampitjinpa’s career spans more than 40 years. He has had six solo exhibitions since 1989 in Australia, most recently at Utopia Art, Sydney.
Throughout the 1980s Tjampitjinpa worked devotedly on a land claim for Ininti, holding meetings in Darwin, Warmun (Turkey Creek...
Category
1990s Australian Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Vintage American Framed Oil on Canvas - Boy with a Toy Boat, Signed Trevor James
By Ammi Phillips
Located in Morristown, NJ
Vintage folk art style oil painting by Trevor James depicting a young boy holding a sailboat. The boy has a very sweet face and the stray curl of hair on his forehead further adds to...
Category
1990s American Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
HANSEN, Børge Herman Abstract Oilpainting 1960s
Located in Handewitt, DE
Danish artist Børge Herman Hansen. Abstract oilpainting 1960s. Title: "Tema, Bornholm". Original frame. In front and back signed. Oil on plate.
Framed 61 cm c 73,.5 cm / painting: 48...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood
Period Venetian Signed Landscape Painting
Located in Roma, IT
Period Venetian Signed Landscape Painting
Beautiful and evocative painting in the splendid style of Federico Faruffini.
The strong colours, languor and romanticism emanating from this painting make this oil on canvas a small masterpiece.
This artwork, never before on the market, comes from an important private collection and is beautified by an impressive antique frame in gilded wood, in almost perfect condition.
Every item of our Gallery, upon request, is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity issued by Sabrina Egidi official Expert in Italian furniture for the Chamber of Commerce of Rome and for the Rome Civil Courts.
Federico Faruffini (1833–1869) was an Italian painter and engraver of historical subjects, in a style that combines the styles and themes of Realism with the diffuse outlines and lively colors of Scapigliatura painters.
Born in Sesto, a commune now inside the metropolitan area of Milan, he initially trained with Trecourt in Pavia.
He befriended Tranquillo Cremona and accompanied him to Milan and Venice.
He traveled with Giovanni Carnovali. In the 1864 exposition at the Brera, he submitted a watercolor, Coro della Certosa di Pavia, and four oil canvases...
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Mid-19th Century Italian Romantic Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
19th Century American Antebellum Portrait of a Lady, Original Giltwood Frame
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
19th Century American Antebellum Portrait of a Lady, Original Giltwood Frame
Oil on Canvas 36-inches high x 30-inches wide
Apparently Unsigned
USA, Circa 1850s
This 19th-century ...
Category
Mid-19th Century American American Classical Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
Maurice Mazeilie, French Impressionist Watercolour - Two Figures At The Beach
Located in Cirencester, GB
"Watercolour Beach Scene"
by Maurice Mazeilie (French)
Watercolour painting on paper, unframed
Stamped verso
Painting: 4.25 x 5.5 inches
A delightful original oil painting b...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Other
SECOND HALF OF THE 19th CENTURY DANTE AND BEATRICE PAINTING BY RAFFAELE SORBI
Located in Firenze, FI
Beautiful oil painting on canvas, framed in an elegant carved and gilded wooden frame, complete with mirror. This work, belonging to the famous Florentine painter Raffaello Sorbi, bears the artist's signature at the bottom right and is dated 1863, placing it in his early youthful production. Sorbi's stylistic characteristics are clearly visible, in which the warm Macchiaioli tones blend with neo-Gothic and romantic subjects, taken from the Renaissance and the Middle Ages. In this case the painting portrays the meeting between Dante and Beatrice, set in Florence, in front of a church, probably the Badia Fiorentina, a place frequented by both Dante, Beatrice and their respective families. Against the backdrop of Renaissance Florence, you can see people entering and leaving the church, while on the sides of the main scene there are figures of the people and a little girl sitting on the steps. The central scene represents the meeting between a young Dante, wearing the characteristic red tunic...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
Large Mid Century Lee Reynolds Vanguard Studio Painting
By Lee Reynolds
Located in Redding, CT
Large Mid Century Lee Reynolds Vanguard studio Painting on canvas. Large abstract composition in yellows, whites and greens with a chrome fram...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Chrome
New York City 5th Avenue Empire State Impressionist Winter Scene Oil Painting
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Impressionist New York City, a snowy winter day on 5th avenue. Cars fill the street and snow fills the air. The city that never sleeps gleaming with patriotic pride with the famous E...
Category
Late 20th Century American Classical Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
French Vintage Fishing Camp Oil Painting
Located in Baton Rouge, LA
French vintage oil on panel seashore landscape, signed E. Perdriel. This colorful work depicts a rising sun on the horizon, greeting a small fishing community of modest shacks on a p...
Category
20th Century French Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood
Large Vintage Oil on Canvas, Paris, Painting, Parisian Street Scene, Framed Art
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a large vintage oil on canvas of a Paris. An unsigned Parisian street scene in quality frame, dating to the late 20th century.
Charmingly evocative street scene of a rain sl...
Category
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Original Purvis Young Extra Large Outsider/Street Art
By Purvis Young
Located in North Miami, FL
Abstract mixed-media work by artist Purvis Young. Folk Art portraying a very powerful scene of chained figures. The work depicting modern slavery is painted in vivid ochre, red, blue...
Category
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood, Plywood
19th Century Oil on Canvas French Painting Camp with Soldiers and Horses, 1840
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Antique French painting from the 19th century. Artwork oil on canvas, on the first canvas, depicting a view of a camp with soldiers and horses of good pictorial quality. A painting t...
Category
1840s French Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Fine Oil Reproduction Painting of Vermeer's Masterpiece the Woman in Blue
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Beautiful reproduction Vermeer painting in a gilt frame. This piece is oil on canvas. Canvas is secured to a wood frame with nails. Craquelure throug...
Category
20th Century American Baroque Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Peter Buchman "Just another thing hanging over your head.", 2017
Located in New York, NY
Contemporary New York artist Peter Buchman's "Just another thing hanging over your head." is made of enamel, house paint, pla...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Materials
Enamel, Gold Leaf
18th Century Italian Neoclassical Oil on Canvas Screen with Trompe L’œil
Located in IT
18th century, large Italian neoclassical oil on canvas four panels screen with Trompe L’œil
These large screen is composed of four panels in oil on canvas painted. Neoclassical, dating to the second half of the 18th century.
Each panel represents a trompe l'oeil, with a classical architecture with square section marble columns and large clogging. Inside the pink space of the first and third panels are painted, as inserted in a niche with bronze frame, ancient busts...
Category
Late 18th Century Italian Neoclassical Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Poinciana Tree Painting By Ray McLendon
Located in Bradenton, FL
Ray McLendon is a second generation of Florida African American painters called "Florida Highwaymen". His father (Roy) was an original Florida Highwaymen artist. The original highway...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Framed Modernist Oil On Panel
Located in Essex, MA
Painted on artist board. Abstract still life in a arts and crafts frame.
Category
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood
French Giltwood Framed 19th Century Oil on Canvas Painting Depicting Fruits
Located in Atlanta, GA
A French giltwood framed oil on canvas still-life painting from the 19th century depicting a bowl of fruits. Born in France during the 19th century, this horizontal oil on canvas still-life painting depicts a delicate arrangement of mouth-watering fruits standing out beautifully on a brown-toned neutral background. Our eye is immediately drawn to the yellow and red grapes displayed...
Category
19th Century French Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
The Infant Margarita Teresa After Diego Velazquez Portrait Painting Framed 32"
By Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez 1
Located in Dayton, OH
Still Life Portrait of the Infant Margarita Teresa, After Diego Velazquez. The oil painting is on canvas and signed lower right. Framed in Baroque manner with ornate detail, scallo...
Category
Late 20th Century Baroque Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
19th C. Oil on Panel, Portrait of a Lady with Lace Collar
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Unsigned. Ca. mid-19th c. portrait of a lovely seated lady wearing a black dress with a fine broad lace collar, a sign of her high status in socie...
Category
19th Century Victorian Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Antique Still Life Fruits Oil on Canvas English Oil Painting Giltwood Frame
Located in Dublin, Ireland
An exceptionally fine quality example of an elaborately framed English Still Life of fruits Oil Painting on canvas, in the style of Oliver Clare or Eloise Harriet Stannard, second qu...
Category
Early 19th Century English Victorian Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Standing Man Painting by Cyrstofer Christopher Shoemaker
By Christopher Shoemaker
Located in Houston, TX
Cyrstofer/Christopher Shoemaker (Italian/German)
Standing Man, 20th Century
Acrylic on canvas
Category
20th Century American Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Oil on Panel City of Nice, the Casino Signed Journay 1930 France
Located in palm beach, FL
Oil on panel City of Nice, the casino
signed R Journay 1930 France
This delightful painting represents a panoramic view of the French Riviera. The Bay of Angels, its fabulous casino...
Category
1930s French Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
After Alfred de DREUX Amazone on her horse - Painting Oil on canvas 19th Century
By Alfred de Dreux
Located in TEYJAT, FR
After Alfred de DREUX Amazone wearing a beret on her grey horse - 19th Century
Provenance: This striking painting appears in the Catalogue raisonne curated by Marie-Christine RENAUL...
Category
Mid-19th Century French Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Frederick Kammeyer Muenchen Munich Landscape Oil Painter Mountain Pass Stream
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Fredrick Kammeyer, Muenchen (1873 - 1941)
Exact date of painting unknown.
There is extensive chipping to thick paint on the frame, but the Canvas remains undamaged.
Frame W 37 x H...
Category
1920s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Wood
Golf Painting, Rye Golf Club, Rye Harbour from the 3rd Tee
Located in Oxfordshire, GB
A fine golf painting, "A View of Rye Harbour - Rye from the 3rd Tee" oil on canvas. Signed and dated Charles M. Orchardson, 1904.
The artist was the...
Category
Early 20th Century British Sporting Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Matteo Lovatti 19th Century Oil on Panel Young Prince's Visit
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Matteo Lovatti (Italian, b. 1861) a fine 19th century oil on panel "The Young Prince's Visit" Depicting an interior tavern scene with a jester introducing and welcoming a young Princ...
Category
19th Century Italian Baroque Revival Antique Paintings
Materials
Wood
Alfred Birdsey Vintage Bermuda Bayscape Painting
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Transporting mid century acrylic painting on board of a bermuda bayscape with houses, boats, and a lone figure, executed in a loose modernist style. Signed Birdsey in the lower right...
Category
Mid-20th Century Bermudian Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint
Pair of French paintings "Urban Scenes" by Jean Yves Herbin, 1991
By Jean-Yves Lanvin
Located in Valladolid, ES
Exceptional pair of oil paintings on canvas featuring two views of elegant homes in broad daylight. They are titled The Shadow of the Tree on the White Facade and The House with the ...
Category
1990s French Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
English Cow Portrait in Half-Moon Form, Wooden Frame - circa 1920
Located in Atlanta, GA
Painted in England circa 1920, this half-moon shaped livestock portrait depicts a standing cow rendered in a naturalistic style, positioned against a backdrop of verdant pasture and ...
Category
Early 20th Century English Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Impressionist Portrait Painting of a Bohemian Woman Budapest, 1925
Located in Rochester, NY
Bohemian woman Budapest, Hungary 1925 by Bertha De Hellebranth. Fabulous period painting brings to life the bohemian intelligentsia of Europe in the 1920's. I believe the painting is...
Category
Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Paint
"Circus", Large and Ambitious Painting by John B. Lear w/ Male Nudes, 1965
By John B. Lear
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This early and ambitious watercolor painting by John B. Lear shows the growing scale and detail of his best work, here incorporating three nude and semi-nude male figures in a surrea...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
17th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Tiger & Dragon by Kaiho Yusetsu
Located in Kyoto, JP
Kaiho Yusetsu (1598-1677)
Tiger and Dragon
Early Edo Period, Circa 1650
A Pair of Six-fold Japanese Screens. Ink and slight color on paper.
Dimensions:
Each screen: H. 171 cm x W. 380 cm (67.5’’ x 149.5’’)
In this pair of early Edo period Japanese screens a group of tigers prowl in a bamboo grove whipped with fierce wind, while a dragon claws through clouds and mist. The dragon embodies elemental qualities - looming out of the mist, the coils of its body disappearing in the clouds. The dragon is calling for rain, symbolizing spring which is considered the fountain of life. On the other side, the tigers calls for the wind, symbolizing autumn which is considered the end of life. Tigers were familiar motifs within Japanese art from ancient times though the animals were imaginary to the people in the 17th century. While dragons and tigers are usually associated as sacred and ferocious, in this painting, both animals have rather amusing expressions. The tigers appear to glare at the dragon with cat-like eyes, and the look on the swirling dragon’s face appears almost affectionate - lending a playful flair to an otherwise magnificent theme.
The tiger and dragon are cosmological symbols of the balancing forces in the world. Screens such as this were originally meant to express the fluctuating nature of the world. For Japanese in the early Edo period, they likely suggested the powers of the cosmos. In Japan the tiger and dragon motif was originally absorbed into the circles of Zen monasteries before spreading into the secular world. The theme especially appealed to the military classes with the Kano school, the official painters to the Shogun and the samurai, being the leading contributors. The painter of this pair of screens, Kaiho Yusetsu (1598-1677), was closely patronized by the third Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu. In his later years he worked with Kano school artists...
Category
Mid-17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Paintings
Materials
Silk, Wood, Paper
18th Century Spanish Colonial School, Cuzco, Angel
Located in Bradenton, FL
18th century Spanish Colonial School, Cuzco: Angel, oil on tin. Framed, in good condition. Rich colors of red, blue and white. Inscribed in upp...
Category
18th Century Spanish Spanish Colonial Antique Paintings
Materials
Tin
Still Life With Flowers By Frederick Arthur Jessup (1920-2007) Oil On Canvas
Located in LE CANNET, FR
Still life by Frederick Arthur Jessup entitled " Garden gourds ". Framed and signed work.
Born in Victoria in 1920, Frederick Arthur JESSUP educated at East Sydney Tecnichal College ...
Category
1960s Australian Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Midcentury Oil on Canvas Painting Merchants in an Old Jerusalem Market Setting
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Midcentury impressionist view of a market possibly in Old Jerusalem. Great color and subject matter. Signed but cannot decipher. Period 1960s Frame.
Category
1960s American Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Hardwood, Paint
19th Century Cuzco School Oil On Canvas Holy Mother and Infant Jesus
Located in Hastings, GB
19th Century Peruvian Cuzo School Oil on Canvas of the Holy Mother holding the Infant Jesus. Painting has been newly framed.
The Cuzco or Cusco school was a Roman Catholic artisti...
Category
Mid-19th Century Peruvian Baroque Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
A 19th Century Portrait of a Boy With Pet Pigeon
Located in Conwy, GB
The seated boy feeding cherries to a tethered pet pigeon.
Signed, G. Reines, 1849.
Category
Mid-19th Century European Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas
EARLY 18th CENTURY PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN
Located in Firenze, FI
Beautiful oil painting on canvas depicting a gentleman belonging to the ancient chivalric order of Saints Maurice and Lazarus, founded in 1572 by the House of Savoy. The protagonist ...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian Louis XIV Antique Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood
Realistic Flower Still Life Oil Painting by the Belgian Artist Jan Verdoodt
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
Beautiful flower still life by the Belgian painter Jan Verdoodt (1908-1980). He studied from 1926 at the Art Academy in Sint Jans Molenbeek. He developed his own artistic style, insp...
Category
1940s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Paint
1975 Hard Edge Square Oil Painting on Canvas, in the Manner of Josef Albers
By Josef Albers
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Oil on canvas painting signed "B. Raab 5/75"
after the famed "Homage to the Square" by Josef Albers
Measures 30-1/4" X 30-1/4" square. Original aluminum frame.
Colors are bold and b...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Paintings
Materials
Aluminum
Antique and Vintage Paintings for Sale on 1stDibs
When paired with the perfect frame, the right antique and vintage paintings and other wall decorations can either subtly showcase your personality or steal the show altogether.
The earliest paintings were created on the walls of caves, proving even our ancient ancestors knew that striking artwork is meant to be on display. Cave paintings on an Indonesian island are reportedly older than the earliest cave art in Spain and France, and the figurative paintings back then were produced with inorganic pigments like iron oxide.
Later, the people of Ancient Greece — who learned about art from the Egyptians before them — conceived panel paintings of wax and tempera that were collected and publicly displayed. In the centuries that followed, artists would be commissioned to create large-scale wall murals and frescoed ceilings in sprawling European palaces and in the homes of the aristocracy.
Today, 1stDibs makes it easy for you to celebrate this rich history in your own home. Our collection of paintings includes Art Deco paintings, baroque art and a broad range of other categories. Search by material, period or other attributes to find the right fit — browse an array of 19th century landscape paintings in giltwood frames or abstract oil paintings and portraits made during the 1950s and ‘60s.
An understated contemporary work can complement your space’s color palette without drawing the focus away from the other pivotal design choices you’ve made over the years. Roy Lichtenstein’s Pop art, on the other hand, demands attention with its array of vibrant hues and subjects inspired by popular culture.
Whether you aim to create a gallery in your home or build a single, stunning focal point, you can find what you’re looking for in an extensive inventory of paintings on 1stDibs.