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Paintings For Sale
Style: Other
Style: Folk Art
Fantastic 19th Century American Pair of Folk Art Still Life Paintings
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Each panel measures approximately 18" x 18". Very rare to see a pair of this quality. They have a great folk art appeal with watermelons, peaches, grapes, etc. Dating to the first ha...
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Mid-19th Century American Folk Art Antique Paintings

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Wood, Paint

Naive Ethiopian Painting Hospital Scene, 1970s
Located in Budapest, HU
Naive Ethiopian Painting Hospital scene, 1970s with Ge'ez language inscriptions.
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1970s Ethiopian Folk Art Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

Unique Two-Headed Horse Abstract Expressionist Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Immerse yourself in the extraordinary allure of our unique Expressionist painting on canvas, capturing a one-of-a-kind scene. This abstract artwork presents a captivating horse-like ...
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Early 2000s American Folk Art Paintings

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Acrylic, Wood, Paint, Canvas

Peter Arvidson Post Modern Modernist American Painter 'the Lovers" 1993, Oil
Located in Buffalo, NY
An original oil on canvas painting by listed Contemporary artist Peter Arvidson. The thick imposto and color choices create a whimsical but striking ...
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1990s American Folk Art Paintings

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Canvas, Paint

Vintage Large Balinese Painting on Silk from Ubud Bali
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Mid-20th century Balinese painting on silk fabric, framed. Vintage large Balinese art painting, from Ubud, Bali acrylic on silk. Beautiful artwork by the Indonesian artist from Ubud. Painted in Peliatan, Ubud Bali by W. Kurpelir as signed on the bottom left hand corner. Balinese Folk Festival ceremonial procession, Ink and acrylic paint on canvas. Batuan painting evolved in the 1930s after a group of local villagers tested different forms with ink-washed paintings upon black backgrounds. These paintings often reveal Batuan’s cultural life, directly through their elements of line, shape, and tone. Meticulous design, craftsmanship, and strong visual impression are characteristic of the style. The painting comprise individual shapes which are painted in a precise and systematic manner that does not leave any empty space. The complexity of the paintings is inevitable as each of the strokes, lines, gradations, the characters or the subjects forms a delicate unity that finely balances the figure-filled canvas. Various gradations of colors separate different sections of the painting. The landscape is enticing and endless. About Bali Art...
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Mid-20th Century Balinese Folk Art Paintings

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Silk

19th Century American Oil Painting Still Life with Fruit and Grapes
By Severin Roesen
Located in Vero Beach, FL
19th century American oil painting still life with fruit and grapes. Beautiful and masterfully executed still life oil painting depicting grapes and fruit against a blue sky. This work is monogrammed and dated ‘88 (1888). It was received in the manner of Severin Roesen...
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1880s American Other Antique Paintings

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Canvas

Painting "Road Between Meadows"
Located in Chorzów, PL
Dimensions: Frame: height 64 cm / width 87 cm The painting: height 50 cm / width 73 cm Slightly damaged.
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1940s Danish Other Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

Large Impressionist Oil Painting on Canvas Signed R. Blum
Located in Houston, TX
Large Impressionist oil painting on canvas Signed R. Blum. Beautifully executed antique impressionist oil painting on canvas signed R. Blum. This lovely large oil painting possibly d...
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1920s European Other Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

19th Century Seascape Oil Painting Signed J.C. Schotel
Located in London, GB
An early 19th century seascape oil on panel: depicting fishermen in stormy seas with windmill in contemporary carved giltwood frame. Dutch Sc...
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Early 19th Century Dutch Other Antique Paintings

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Paint

Mid 20th Century Original Oil on Canvas Painting - Clipper Ship at Sea - Signed
Located in Charlotte, NC
An original oil on canvas painting, from the mid 20th Century. Untitled, (Clipper Ship at Sea). Signed "Norman Dalkes" to lower right. Presented in an ornate gold painted wood frame ...
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Mid-20th Century American Other Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Paint

Framed Korean Official Portrait Joseon Dynasty
Located in Atlanta, GA
A hyper realistic portrait of an official with watercolor on silk bordered panel, framed in dark wood, from Korean late Joseon dynasty, circa 19th century. The beard man sitting with a formal frontal view, displays a benevolent facial expression, in keeping with the Confucius value of the officialdom at the time. He dons a black linen official hat and a blue silk robe...
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19th Century Korean Other Antique Paintings

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Silk, Wood

Antique Victorian P. Hackett Americana Watercolor Painting School Boy with Horn
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique Victorian Americana watercolor portrait of a young boy dressed in blue and holding a horn. Signed P. Hackett on the back of the frame.
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19th Century Folk Art Antique Paintings

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Paint, Paper

Colorful Abstract Painting, Purple Love
Located in Port Washington, NY
This framed colorful piece has many different aspects and stages of life in it. If you look closely and pat attention to this artists' myriad of details, you can see people painted t...
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Early 20th Century Other Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Wood, Paint

20th Century Original Oil Painting on Canvas - German Landscape - Signed Michell
Located in Charlotte, NC
An original oil painting on canvas, from the 20th Century. Untitled, (German Landscape). Signed "Michell" (German artist H. Michell) to lower right. Presented in an ornately carved g...
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20th Century German Other Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Paint

Vintage Folk Art Cabin in Winter Snow Landscape Long Format Painting
Located in Seguin, TX
Antique circa 1915 oil on wood board folk art winter forest cabin scene painting, wood is from an old tobacco crate. Unsigned. Unframed, edge wear.
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Early 20th Century American Folk Art Paintings

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Wood, Paint

Wonderful Folk aRT / outsider art Oil on Board painting by Charles Moore
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderful Folk aRT / outsider art Oil on Board painting by Charles Moore ."Tattoo Legs" .Western nEW yORK aRTIST,,
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2010s American Folk Art Paintings

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Paint

Seascape with a Five Masted Bark, by Julius Gregersen, circa 1920s
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Seascape with a Five Masted Bark, by Julius Gregersen (German: 1860 - 1953), circa 1921 - 1928, an oil on canvas seascape with view of the five masted bark KOBENHAVN sailing ...
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1920s Danish Other Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

JOHN R. WATTS, Folk Art Watercolor & Gouache Landscape Painting, U.S., C.1890
Located in Chatham, ON
JOHN R. WATTS (Unknown/Unidentified Artist) - Folk art watercolor and gouache landscape painting on paper - unframed - twice signed and dated lower right (one with applied paper stam...
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Late 19th Century American Folk Art Antique Paintings

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Paint, Paper

Exceptional F. Munsterfeld Painting
By F. Munsterfeld
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Exceptional F. Munsterfeld painting, titled "Collecting The Day's Catch" and signed. Active, circa 1880. Oil on canvas 32" x 50.5"; with frame 41" ...
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1880s German Other Antique Paintings

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Canvas

Bernard Watercolor Columbian Woman Carries Fruit Basket Folk Art Ornated Frame
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage Bernard Watercolor Framed behind Glass Columbian Young Woman carries a Fruit Basket on her Head. Signed on Bernard, Copyright. Wood Frame is whitewashed and ornate. In vi...
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Late 20th Century Colombian Folk Art Paintings

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Glass, Wood, Paper

19th Century Signed Dutch Master Painting Oil on Canvas of Mother and Child
Located in Vero Beach, FL
19th Century signed Dutch Master painting oil on canvas of mother and child. This wonderful piece is visually stunning. The artist uses trad...
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19th Century Dutch Other Antique Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Hand Painted Haitian Game Board
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Vintage Haitian game board crafted in wood and hand painted with parrots, ballet dancers, and the tree of life in a rustic naive style and signed by the artist J Michel.
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20th Century Haitian Folk Art Paintings

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Paint

19th Century Dutch Style Framed Oil Portrait Painting in the Style of Van Dyke
Located in New York, NY
Dutch style (19th Century) oil painting portrait of boy on a white and green background in an ebonized frame (Van Dyke copy, Caruso Collection).  
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19th Century Other Antique Paintings

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Canvas

Outsider Art "Animals and Castles" Oil on Panel by Bruno Del Favero
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on panel by acclaimed outsider artist, Bruno Del Favero (b. Italy 1910, d. USA 1995), circa 1970. Fine example showcasing Del Favero's aptitude for creating fantastical landscapes. Contrasting oxen / bulls and flamingos with a castle backdrop creates an imaginary context removed from reality. Del Favero's marriage of fantasy and whimsy beautifully suits his Naïve painting style. Singed on verso. Bio from the Philadelphia Museum of Art: Born Princeton, Michigan, 1910; died Greenwich, Connecticut, 1995 Bruno Del Favero moved from Michigan to northern Italy with his parents at age five, returning in 1928 and settling in Greenwich, Connecticut, where he married and remained for the rest of his days. He made his living as a mason, chauffeur, and landscape gardener. It is not known exactly when or why he began to paint his delicate and mysterious landscapes, but he was exhibiting in local art shows by the early 1970s and took himself seriously enough as an artist to join the Greenwich Art Society. He maintained a studio in the basement of his home, but never shared his art with his wife and five children. After the artist's death his family introduced his work to New York dealers Shari Cavin...
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1970s American Folk Art Vintage Paintings

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Paint

1950s German Oil Painting on Wood in an Old Gilded Frame by Josef Hofbauer
Located in Berlin, DE
This beautiful 1950s German Oil Painting on Wood in an old gilded Frame by Josef Hofbauer. A unique piece which is a great eye-catcher for your anti...
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1950s German Folk Art Vintage Paintings

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Hardwood, Fruitwood, Paint

Framed Korean Jakhodo Tiger and Magpie Folk Painting One of the Four
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Korean Folk Art painting watercolor on silk mounted with brocade border and framed. The watercolor was likely dated from late 19th century to the tur...
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Late 19th Century Korean Folk Art Antique Paintings

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Brocade, Silk, Wood

Portrait of the Clipper Ship Oriental by Lucius A. Briggs, 1925
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Seascape Portrait of the Clipper Ship ORIENTAL by Lucius A. Briggs, (Boston and New Bedford: 1852 - 1931), 1925, a watercolor seascape with the tea clipper under rosy sky, si...
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1920s American Folk Art Vintage Paintings

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Paper

Framed Korean Folk Painting of General Guan Gong
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Korean folk Shamanism watercolor on textile matted with woven brocade and presented in a wood frame with an oriental style metal hanging hardware. The painting was estimated to be from early 20th century circa 1910-1930s. It depicts Guan Yu (160-220AD), a legendary Chinese warrior and general from Eastern Han Dynasty. Long worshiped in China as a deity, across all three major religions, Guan Gong...
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Early 20th Century Korean Folk Art Paintings

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Textile, Brocade

Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas, Saussay, France, 1975
Located in Mombuey, Zamora
Oil painting on canvas, 1970s Saussay, France, near Paris Author's work Signed Wooden frame with golden profile Landscape paintings.  In these times, art has returned to our walls in...
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1970s French Other Vintage Paintings

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Other

Anselm Kiefer Collectible Art Book
By Anselm Kiefer
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Title: Anselm Kiefer (Venezia Contemporaneo) Publisher: Brand: Charta Publication Date: 1997 Binding: Soft cover An excellent overview of Anselm Kiefer_s long career. Over the past four decades, Anselm Kiefer has produced a diverse body of work in painting, sculpture and installation that has made him among the most important artists of his generation. His subject-matter ranges over sources as diverse as Teutonic mythology and history, alchemy and the nature of belief, all depicted in a bewildering variety of materials, including oil paint, dirt, lead, models, photographs, woodcuts, sand, straw and all manner of organic material. By adding found materials to the painted surface of his immense tableaux, he invents a compelling third space between painting and sculpture. Synopsis: This monograph presents Kiefer's complete work to date, reproduced in full color. Review: Writing about one of the most important and complex artists of our times requires the erudition, clarity, and broad view of a Daniel...
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20th Century Italian Folk Art Paintings

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Paper

Late 19th Century Wood Framed Folk Art Painting Depicting Hound Dogs by River
Located in Middleburg, VA
Late 19th Century Wood Framed Folk Art Painting Depicting Hound Dogs by River. The two dogs are hunting water fowl. Wood framing is modern. United States, 1...
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Late 19th Century American Folk Art Antique Paintings

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Canvas, Paint

Folk Art Maine Rocky Coast Seascape, by D. A. Fisher, circa 1900
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Folk Art Maine rocky coast seascape, by D. A. Fisher (1867 - 1940), circa 1900, an oil on board seascape with gentle combers breaking on rocks on the foreground, with two sloops sailing in the background, signed lower right. The reverse retaining the label for Frost & Adams Academy Boards, Artists' Tube Colors, etc. , dealers in fine art materials in Boston from 1869 to 1921. There is also a label from The Thomas Co, Picture Framing, Washington D.C. D.A. Fisher lived in Portland Maine and was a prolific painter of primarily marine landscapes, with subjects focused primarily in southern Maine, but also Massachusetts and New Hampshire. While his work is quite similar and sympathetic with "The Brushians," a group of about 16 artist from Portland that painted on outings around Casco Bay...
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Late 19th Century American Folk Art Antique Paintings

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Other

Chinese Yangliuqing New Year Painting of Peace & Prosperity
Located in Chicago, IL
Chinese New Year paintings (nian hua) are colorful folk paintings created to celebrate the annual Spring Festival. Drawn or printed by folk artists in regional studios, nian hua pain...
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1920s Chinese Folk Art Vintage Paintings

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Paper

Painting "Female Figure in the Stream, " Carlo Cherubini 1950s
Located in Vicenza, VI
Painting done in oil on canvas applied to panel by Venetian painter Carlo Cherubini (Ancona 1897-1978 Venice) around the 1950s. The work in questi...
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1950s Italian Other Vintage Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Paint

19th Century Italian Painting of Ladies in Waiting
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Italian painting of ladies in waiting, Naples school, second half 19th century, an oil on wooden panel realist portrait of two Neapolitan c...
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19th Century Italian Other Antique Paintings

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Wood

Coussot Bex, Blue Dragon, 2021
Located in Saint ouen, FR
Coussot Bex - Blue Dragon 2021 Acrylic on canvas Signed by the artist Measures: 100 x 100 x P2cm.
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21st Century and Contemporary European Other Paintings

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Canvas

Large Vintage Balinese Painting on Silk from Ubud Bali 1960's
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Mid 20th Century Balinese Painting on silk fabric, Framed. Vintage large Balinese art painting, from Ubud, Bali acrylic on silk. Beautiful artwork by the Indonesian artist from Ubud. Painted in Peliatan, Ubud Bali by VJ. Kupur as signed on the bottom left hand corner. Balinese Folk Festival ceremonial procession, Ink and acrylic paint on canvas. Batuan painting evolved in the 1930s after a group of local villagers tested different forms with ink-washed paintings upon black backgrounds. These paintings often reveal Batuan’s cultural life, directly through their elements of line, shape, and tone. Meticulous design, craftsmanship, and strong visual impression are characteristic of the style. The painting comprise individual shapes which are painted in a precise and systematic manner that does not leave any empty space. The complexity of the paintings is inevitable as each of the strokes, lines, gradations, the characters or the subjects forms a delicate unity that finely balances the figure-filled canvas. Various gradations of colors separate different sections of the painting. The landscape is enticing and endless. About Bali Art...
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Mid-20th Century Balinese Folk Art Paintings

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Silk

Framed Korean Jakhodo Tiger and Magpie Folk Painting One of the Four
Located in Atlanta, GA
A Korean Folk Art painting watercolor on silk mounted with brocade border and framed. The watercolor was likely dated from late 19th century to the tur...
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Late 19th Century Korean Folk Art Antique Paintings

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Brocade, Silk, Wood

Tadashi Kaminagai, paint: “Casario do Rio de Janeiro, 1958”
By Tadashi Kaminagai
Located in PARIS, FR
“Casario do Rio de Janeiro, 1958”. Oil s/ duratex. Signed and dated at the bottom right. The painting represents an urban landscape of the city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, This harmonious painting in the post-impressionist style is in excellent condition, by the artist Tadashi Kaminagai whose works are rarely available in the art market. The work is in its original frame, made of wood with the cut border. Tadashi Kaminagai (1899-1982) is a contemporary Japanese painter of the painter Foujita of whom he was the neighbor in the Cité Falguière. He also resided in Brazil and marked the history of Brazilian painting...
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Mid-20th Century Brazilian Other Paintings

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Plywood, Paint

European Flower and Farmer's Market, Charlottenburg School, 1927
Located in Nantucket, MA
Antique Impressionist Flower and Farmer's Market, Charlottenburg School, 1927, an oil on canvas urban landscape painting of town square with flower venders, signed illegibly A___ V____ (looks akin to A__ssy V_erge) and dated 1927 lower left. An autumnal scene with classic "viktualienmarkt" that looks so much like the Munich Altstadt but is almost surely the park alongside the Prussian Charlottenburg Palace in Berlin. This is a very charming and beautiful painting. The Charlottenburg area was the seat of the Berlin Secessionist school of German progressive artists that espoused modern art, especially impressionism and expressionism. Max Liebermann in particular, a painter and printmaker, was one of the leading proponents of Impressionism in Germany and continental Europe, and a leading light of the Berlin Secessionism. The Charlottenburg art community became a sort of German "Left Bank" and was at the avant garde of of the visual arts and literature, including the likes of Alfred Döblin, Otto Dix, Gottfried Benn, Else Lasker-Schüler, Bertolt Brecht...
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1920s German Other Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

20th Century Original Oil on Canvas Painting - Bunnies - Signed C. Buronson
Located in Charlotte, NC
An original oil on canvas painting, from the 20th century. Untitled, (Bunnies). Signed "C. Buronson" to lower left. Presented in a gold painted wood frame with wire hanger. Measures...
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20th Century American Other Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Paint

Flower by Caroline Rennequin 2021 Gouache on Handmade Indian Paper
Located in Santa Gertrudis, Baleares
In 2020, Caroline Rennequin painted 350 flowers. Including a series of 301 gouaches on handmade Indian paper, in a work that narrates the aesthetics of the feminine and its relationship with nature, which she endlessly colors with a living palette. Flowers with rounded and feminine contours, influenced by the 1970s. She uses gouache, an impulsive and immediate technique. A sometimes childish vocabulary in the gesture, without being regressive. Her artistic work revolves around her relationship to nature, whether real or fictitious. This work has been shown for the first time in October 2021 at Galeria Tambien...
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2010s French Other Paintings

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Plywood, Parchment Paper

Impressionist Painting Titled Nancy by Savannah Georgia Artist Myrtle Jones
By Myrtle Jones
Located in Savannah, GA
Featured in the book A Savannah Experience, by Myrtle Jones, this large pastel painting is one of the artist's finest paintings. Acrylic on canv...
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1980s American Other Vintage Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Nantucket Old North Slip Watercolor by Doris & Richard Beer, circa 1940
Located in Nantucket, MA
Vintage Nantucket Old North Slip watercolor by Doris & Richard Beer, circa 1940, a watercolor on paper view of Old North Slip (Wharf), signed in pencil power right. Doris and Richard Beer (1898-1967 and 1893-1959 respectively) produced a well-known series of watercolor miniatures featuring popular Nantucket scenes. Working at their Wharf Head Studio on Old North Wharf for 18 years, the couple worked together on these copyrighted creations, photo-duplicating Doris's line sketch and Doris and Richard completing the watercolor. One of a large collection of beer watercolors...
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Mid-20th Century American Folk Art Paintings

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Paper

Large Contemporary / Modernist Folk Art Oil on Canvas by M J Meyrs, c.2008
Located in Buffalo, NY
Large oil on canvas painting by M J MYERS... depicting bar scene,, Amazing use of color ,space and texture,,, Born in Buffalo, NY and raised in the city of Tonawanda, MJ Myers attended the State University at New Paltz where he received a Bachelors of Fine Arts with a concentration in Drawing and Painting and a minor in Art History. Deeply embedded in the Buffalo art world, Myers works as an art handler for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, UB Anderson Gallery, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin D.Martin house. His work has been shown at multiple galleries as well as in many performances by the Buffalo, NY performance troupe Torn Space Theater. In 2014, MJ performed his first wedding painting...
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Early 2000s American Folk Art Paintings

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Canvas, Paint

Collection of Mexican Prayer Plaques "Retablos Ex-Votos" from 1950s and 1960s
Located in East Hampton, NY
This is an amazing and important collection of 8 plaques (7 tin metal and one in wood) that have been hand painted by Catholic religious devotees in gratitude to either Christ, Virgi...
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1950s Mexican Folk Art Vintage Paintings

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Tin

Framed Watercolor on Paper of a Cuban Sailboat
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Watercolor on paper of a sailboat in repose, flying a Cuban flag, in a tropical setting as if some grand adventure is waiting. Presented under glass and sign...
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20th Century Cuban Folk Art Paintings

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Paper

Fantastic Highly Detailed Large Painting by Julian Rockmore
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Incredibly detailed whimsical large canvas of a circus coming to an old American town, by artist Jullian Rockmore, signed lower left. Rockmore came from a family of artists and his w...
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1980s North American Folk Art Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

Vintage Reverse Glass Mythical Seascape Painting from Madura Island, Indonesia
Located in Jimbaran, Bali
A framed reverse glass painting from the island of Madura, off the Northeastern coast of Java. The painting depicts a mythical seascape with a bright array of colours. The painter wo...
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1980s Indonesian Folk Art Vintage Paintings

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Glass, Wood

"Harness Racer at Belmont Park 1884, Philadelphia" by Agustus Kollner
Located in Wiscasset, ME
Watercolor on paper, signed lower right Agustus Knoller and dated 1884. Inscribed on the reverse in pencil "This trotting came off Aug 15th 1884 at Belmont Park near Manayunk." This ...
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1880s American Folk Art Antique Paintings

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Paint, Paper

Large Oil Painting 'Old Town in Swabia', by Eduard Zetsche, Vienna, 1910
Located in Vienna, AT
'Old Town In Swabia' Oil on canvas Signed Ed. Zetsche 1910 In a gilded wooden frame Painting: 40.55 x 28.74 in Frame: 47.24 x 35.43 in Inscription on the back: Ed. Zetsche...
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1910s Austrian Other Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

Antique Folk Art Watercolor Painting Children with Cat Instruments Framed
Located in Dayton, OH
Antique folk art style watercolor painting of a pair of children with instruments and a cat walking down a road lined with a white fence. Measures: 9.375” x 1” x 8” / Sans Frame -...
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Early 20th Century Folk Art Paintings

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Paint

Original Cover of Mexican Comic "Sensacional de Maestros"
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
We offer this amazing original cover painted in gouache in excellent vintage condition, issue 291 "Al gato y al ratón jugabas con mi chon", circa 1990. About the Sensacional Comics as part of the Mexican Culture: "Sensacional" is the generic name of a handful of Mexican comics published at the end of the 1970s (1979 to be exact) and whose "boom" remained in force within the Mexican idiosyncrasy for around 20 years, (all the decade of the 80's and 90's) to then go downhill and "evolve", so to speak, until they become sexually explicit...
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1990s Mexican Folk Art Paintings

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Acrylic

19th C. Mexican Retablo, C.1880
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT An original 19th century Mexican folk retablo. Oil paint on tin. Subject unknown. CREATOR Unknown. DATE OF MANUFACTURE c.1880. MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Oil Paint on Tin. CONDITION Good. Wear consistent with age and use. DIMENSIONS H 14 in. W 10 in. HISTORY Retablos, better known as 'laminas' in Mexico, are small oil paintings on tin, wood and sometimes copper which were used in home altars to venerate the almost infinite number of Catholic saints. The literal translation for 'retablo' is 'behind the altar.' This unique genre of art, deeply rooted in European history, was brought to Mexico with the arrival of the Spanish and then ultimately adopted by New World mestizo natives to become what is known today as the Mexican folk retablo. The retablo was an art form that flourished in post conquest Mexico and then ultimately, with the introduction of inexpensive mediums such as tin, reached its pinnacle of popularity in the last quarter of the 19th century. With some exceptions, mostly untrained artists from the provinces worked to produce and reproduce these sacred images; some subjects painted more prolifically than others. A typical "retablero" may have reproduced the same image hundreds, if not thousands of times in his or her career. These oil paintings were sold to devout believers who displayed them in home altars to honor their patron saints. There are virtually hundreds of saints, each invoked to remedy a different situation. "San Ysidro Labrador," the patron saint of farmers, is venerated for good weather...
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19th Century Mexican Folk Art Antique Paintings

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Tin

Chinese Yangliuqing New Year Painting of Beauty and Baby, c. 1920
Located in Chicago, IL
Chinese New Year paintings (nian hua) are colorful folk paintings created to celebrate the annual Spring Festival. Drawn or printed by folk artists in regional studios, nian hua pain...
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1920s Chinese Folk Art Vintage Paintings

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Paper

Folk Art Americana Hand-Painted Circus Banner of a Seal Man by Fred Johnson
Located in New York, NY
20th Century American painted side show circus banner of a man in the form of a seal titled "Sealo" (signed FRED JOHNSON, O HENRY TENT & AWNING, Chicago).  
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Early 20th Century American Folk Art Paintings

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Canvas

Large Contemporary / Modernist Folk Art Oil on Canvas by M J Meyrs C.2008
Located in Buffalo, NY
Large oil on canvas painting by M J MYERS... depicting bar scene,, Amazing use of color ,space and texture,,, Born in Buffalo, NY and raised in the city of Tonawanda, MJ Myers attended the State University at New Paltz where he received a Bachelors of Fine Arts with a concentration in Drawing and Painting and a minor in Art History. Deeply embedded in the Buffalo art world, Myers works as an art handler for the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, UB Anderson Gallery, and Frank Lloyd Wright's Darwin D.Martin house. His work has been shown at multiple galleries as well as in many performances by the Buffalo, NY performance troupe Torn Space Theater. In 2014, MJ performed his first wedding painting...
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Early 2000s American Folk Art Paintings

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Canvas, Paint

Portrait "Young Girl with Red Bow, " Venetian-Venetian Ambit
Located in Vicenza, VI
Painting depicting a young girl dressed according to the fashion of the time. The luministic rendering of the dress, wide hat and red ribbon is expertly done...
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Late 19th Century Italian Other Antique Paintings

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Canvas

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.

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