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Style: Art Deco
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Bela De Kristo Art Deco Cubist Oil on Canvas Man Playing Guitar
By Bela De Kristo
Located in Oakland, CA
Art Deco cubist painting of guitar player by Bela De Kristo. Strong cubist style and colors, original and of the period. The image representing a solo g...
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1930s Hungarian Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

Early 20th Century Impressionistic Oil Painting Flowers, Mécislas de Rakowski
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
Beautiful painting by the Polish-Belgian artist Mécislas de Rakowski. The painting shows a flower still life in a Chinese vase. Beautiful display of delicate white flowers against a...
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Early 20th Century Belgian Art Deco Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Paint

Delightful Watercolor by Dutch Artist Gertrude Maria, 1880
Located in Bastogne, BE
This beautiful water color scene by Dutch artist Gertrude Maria (1814-1886) has a really great museum value!!! The painting is made in watercolor. It will perfectly fit into any ...
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18th Century Unknown Baroque Antique Paintings

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Wood

Bouquet of Roses by Hermine David, Oil on Cardboard Linen, Signed
By Hermine David, Jules Pascin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bouquet of roses by Hermine David, oil on cardboard linen, signed. Framed. Hermine Lionette Cartan David (19 April 1886 in Paris – 1 December 1970 in ...
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1930s European Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Wood, Paint, Canvas

Large Art Deco Period Portrait Painting of an Elegant Young Woman, 1937
Located in San Francisco, CA
A very large Art Deco style full length portrait of an elegantly dressed beautiful young woman. The woman in this painting is Millie Stokes. Oil on canvas in original silver gilt wood frame. Signed Frederic Tellander...
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Mid-20th Century American Art Deco Paintings

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Canvas, Paint

Giltwood Framed Limoges Enamel after François Boucher 'The Bird Catchers'
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Giltwood Framed Limoges Enamel after François Boucher 'The Bird Catchers' France, Circa 1880s Framed in an elaborate hand carved pierced and giltwood t...
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Late 19th Century French Baroque Antique Paintings

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Copper

Dora Keen Butcher Watercolor Painting Hawaiian Island Scene
Located in Miami, FL
A very well executed original painting by Dora Keen Butcher (American 1905 - 1982). This watercolor landscape painting. The painting is clearly artist signed and dated in pencil in t...
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20th Century American Art Deco Paintings

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Post Cubism Work by Etiennette Johan
Located in bari, IT
Of Spanish origin, born in Valencia in the early 1900s, she specialized in sculpture and animal painting. She worked mainly in Lyon, her painting influenced by post-Cubist geometry remains realist in style; straight lines dialogue with curves and plays of angles give rhythm to the composition, her taste for color harmoniously mixes light and dark tones. His works represent the broad creative scope referable to the “Animaliér” artists. Johan’s works can be found in major French and American collections and were presented at the Palazzo Strozzi antiques exhibition...
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1950s Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

Italian Snowy Landscape Painting - Lonny Von Plänckner
Located in Albignasego, IT
Italian snowy landscape painting - Lonny von Plänckner (1863-1925) Measures: 50 x 65 cm - without frame 68 x 79 cm - with frame early 190...
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1920s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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"Five Olympic Rowers", Monumental 1930s Painting of Nude Male Oarsmen
Located in Philadelphia, PA
One of the most stunning and monumental depictions of male nude figures -- and male athletes -- ever accomplished in the Modern era, this large painting shows five nude rowers, relaxed and conversational, as they hold their oars and await the next round of competition. The figures are shown with flushed, ruddy complexions, contrasting with the fresh green of the grass and trees surrounding them. The artist, James Stroudley, presents his rowers as consummate modern British men...
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1930s British Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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"Knockout, " Dramatic Art Deco Painting of Boxers, Possibly 1936 Olympics
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This dramatic depiction of two boxers in the ring, with the winning boxer standing over his opponent after a knockout, was painted by Paul Daxhelet in 1936, possibly at the Berlin Olympics...
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1930s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Art Deco Gouache Painting Woman with Mirror by Louise Galand-Legendre, 1942
By Leon-Laurent Galand 1
Located in Antwerp, BE
Art Deco gouache painting woman with mirror signed by Louise Galand-Legendre. Dated 1942. Gouache and pastel on board with original frame. France. Louise Galand-Legendre France, 18...
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1940s French Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Still Life Oil Painting
By William Drummond Bone
Located in Perth, GB
This is one of the artist best painting with heavy impasto execution giving a vibrant and colourful impactact to the beauty of the work William Drummon...
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Late 20th Century British Art Deco Paintings

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Paint

"New Mexico River Valley, " 1920s Painting, Black, Green & Blue, Attr. Applegate
By Frank Applegate 1
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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...
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1920s American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Young Women Portrait by Alfred Schmidt, 1920
Located in Albignasego, IT
Alfred Schmidt (1876 ????- 1956) – Portrait of the concert singer Caroline Naase Oil on canvas circa 1920 60 x 47 cm – without frame 78 x 65 cm – frame included Signed center r...
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1920s German Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

Art Deco Black and White Male Nude Painting by Emil Fiala Vienna, circa 1918
Located in Vienna, AT
The painter Emil Fiala (8.9.1896 Prossnitz - Mähren Czech Republic - Dec. 1960 Vienna) studied at the Viennese Academy by Franz Rumpler, August Eisenmenger, Julius Schmid, Christian ...
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Early 20th Century Austrian Art Deco Paintings

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Paper

Antique Portrait Oil Painting on Canvas Depicting a Young Woman
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This very well executed antique oil painting is unsigned, with unknown origins, and is presumed to date to approximately 1920 and done in the period impressionistic style. The painti...
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Early 20th Century Unknown Art Deco Paintings

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Canvas, Paint

19th Century Italian Pair of Cherub Paintings on Wood Baroque Syle Framed
Located in Milan, IT
19th century pair of Putti oil paintings on wood, set of two walnut panels depicting woodland landscapes with cherubs playing of Italian origin. Thi...
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Mid-19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Paintings

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Walnut

"Nude Male Bathers, " 1930s Watercolor Painting of Nude Figures, Blue & Tan
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Strikingly and vividly painted in watery tones of blue, green, tan and rose, this watercolor painting by Jean Paul Slusser depicts three nude male bathers...
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1930s North American Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Post cubism work by Etiennette Johan 50's
Located in bari, IT
Of Spanish origin, born in Valencia in the early 1900s, she specialized in sculpture and animal painting. She worked mainly in Lyon, her painting influenced by post-Cubist geometry remains realist in style; straight lines dialogue with curves and plays of angles give rhythm to the composition, her taste for color harmoniously mixes light and dark tones. His works represent the broad creative scope referable to the “Animaliér” artists. Johan’s works can be found in major French and American collections and were presented at the Palazzo Strozzi antiques exhibition...
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1950s Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

Caravaggesque Oil on Copper "Flagellation of Christ" Baroque Sicilian, 17th Cent
Located in Milano, IT
Splendid 17th-century Italian painting by unknown artist, but certainly a follower of Caravaggio, relying on style and drawing. The painting has a very beautiful gilded wooden frame, with a subtle greek with spheres and an overlying rectangular frame with sinuous flowers on each corner, very elegant and beautiful. The painting depicts one of the most depicted religious scenes ever, the scourging of Christ, and is entirely done in oil on copper. The scourging of Jesus is an episode narrated in the Gospels (Mk15:15-16; Mt27:26-27; Lk23:16-26; Jn19:1-17[1]). Scourging is a flogging, particularly bloody, by means of sticks, rods or cat-o-nine-tails, the latter instrument consisting, in the Roman typology, of a short stick to which were secured several strings ending in metal claws, leads and bone splinters that caused tremendous lacerations and fractures to the tortured person. Chains are used in this scene, both to immobilize Jesus Christ and to flog him, as we can see in the upper right hand of the scourger. According to some personal research, it turned out that the actual scourging of Christ was mostly depicted at the column, while this Christ is on the ground, so presumably Christ here is scourged during the Way of the Cross at one of those stages where he fell. The painting has a very dark coloring, which is why this painting is believed to faithfully follow Caravaggio's style of dry, authoritarian brushstrokes. The painting shows a figure agonizing on the ground that continues to receive beatings and floggings of all kinds, representing Christ; his face is crucified in a loquacious expression of pain, he turns his eyes to heaven as if to invoke God, but at the same time those same eyes admonish the wickedness and arrogance inherent in humanity. Christ has one hand resting on the ground in the act of holding himself, while the other takes a completely unnatural stance against the barren ground. His body appears hardened to wanting to parry the blows, his legs are curled up on his knees as he takes kicks from the soldier above him. Christ is depicted pinned down from the neck with a very large and strong black iron bolt held by the other soldier. The soldier on the right in the foreground wears a one-shoulder tunic with an orange tunic and blue pants. On his feet he wears gray shoes, at his waist he has a belt with an iron helmet...
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17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Paintings

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Copper

Antique Old Master Floral Still Life Oil Painting Flowers 18th Century Italian
Located in Bradenton, FL
A Beautiful Italian Still Life oil painting on old canvas of a brass urn holding a bouquet of assorted flowers set on a ledge. 18th or ...
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18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Paintings

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The temptation of St Anthony. Oil on canvas. 17th c., after David Teniers II
Located in Madrid, ES
Temptations of San Antonio Abad. Oil on canvas. 17th century, following the model of David Teniers II (Antwerp, 1610-Brussels, 1690). Oil on canvas showing a figurative scene located inside a cave. To the right, you can see a cross standing, supported; to the left, a hut; and in the center of the painting appears an elderly, bearded man, leaning on a table on which there is a ceramic jug and a skull, with an open book at the foot of it. The man looks towards a woman, who points to something outside, and appears accompanied by a large frog and a series of ghostly beings or monsters dressed in brightly colored cloth and clothing. San Antonio Abad or Antonio Magno (251-356) was a Christian monk, considered the founder of the eremitical movement. He was tempted numerous times by the devil while he was in the desert, becoming a subject frequently represented in art (as can be seen in this oil painting). He is represented in a black habit because the Order of the Knights of the Hospital of San Antonio (Hospitals) was placed under his patronage, being the color of the habits of the members of this order (the tau or Egyptian cross was also the symbol chosen by they). David Teniers II or El Joven was a prominent Flemish painter and engraver, son of David Teniers El Viejo or I and father of David Teniers III, much appreciated at the time for his scenes of villagers and common people, his paintings of monkey painters, etc. . He dealt with the theme of the Temptations of Saint Anthony...
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17th Century European Baroque Antique Paintings

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Other

Impressionist Painting of a Landscape in Austria, Oil on Canvas Around, 1930
Located in Berlin, DE
This Impressionist painting, shows a landscape with a lake in Austria. On the lake are boats and in the background you can see the snow-covered mountains. A very beautiful and coher...
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1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

Post Cubism Work by Etiennette Johan from the Fifties
Located in bari, IT
Opere di Johan sono presenti nelle maggiori collezioni francesi e americane e sono state presentate alla mostra di antiquariato di Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze 2005. Of Spanish origin, born in Valencia in the early 1900s, she specialized in sculpture and animal painting. She worked mainly in Lyon, her painting influenced by post-Cubist geometry remains realist in style; straight lines dialogue with curves and plays of angles give rhythm to the composition, her taste for color harmoniously mixes light and dark tones. His works represent the broad creative scope referable to the “Animaliér” artists. Johan’s works can be found in major French and American collections and were presented at the Palazzo Strozzi antiques exhibition...
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1950s Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

Post Cubism Work by Etiennette Johan 50's
Located in bari, IT
Opere di Johan sono presenti nelle maggiori collezioni francesi e americane e sono state presentate alla mostra di antiquariato di Palazzo Strozzi, Firenze 2005. Of Spanish origin, born in Valencia in the early 1900s, she specialized in sculpture and animal painting. She worked mainly in Lyon, her painting influenced by post-Cubist geometry remains realist in style; straight lines dialogue with curves and plays of angles give rhythm to the composition, her taste for color harmoniously mixes light and dark tones. His works represent the broad creative scope referable to the “Animaliér” artists. Johan’s works can be found in major French and American collections and were presented at the Palazzo Strozzi antiques exhibition...
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1950s Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

Very Large Painting “a Van Der Plas”
Located in LELYSTAD, FL
Adrianus Marie van der Plas was borne in 1899 in Rotterdam and died in 1974 in Kerkrade. He was a painter, a sculptor and a graphic artist. “Het Rotterdams Nieuwsblad” wrote in 1969?...
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1920s Belgian Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

Art Deco pastel painting nudes in a landscape by Georges Lavergne France 1936
Located in Antwerp, BE
Art Deco pastel painting nudes in a landscape by Georges Lavergne. Signed and dated 1936. Ink, crayon and pastel on paper. France. Contemporary frame. Size: H. 68 cm. x L. 89.5 c...
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Large Painting Representing "The Adoration Of The Shepherds", Italy 19th
Located in VERSAILLES, FR
Grand et beau tableau, huile sur toile, représentant " L'adoration des Bergers " Ce tableau est une œuvre réalisée au début du XIXème siècle par un peintre non identifié mais très talentueux puisqu'il fallait une certaine maitrise pour s'attaquer à la réalisation d'un tel tableau de si grande taille, encadré par un beau cadre en bois sculpté et doré, italien également. Pour comprendre l'origine de ce tableau il faut remonter au début du XVIIème siècle; en effet, une poignée d’artistes, d’Utrecht aux Pays Bas, arrivèrent à Rome appelés par des commanditaires, très impressionnés par le Caravagisme. Parmi eux se trouvait Gerrit van Honthorst...
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19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Paintings

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Giltwood, Paint

1896 Realism Landscape Oil Painting of Polperro by Hely Smith Orig Gilded Frame
Located in Topeka, KS
Fabulous antique realism landscape oil on canvas painting titled Polperro signed Hely Smith (a.k.a. Hely Augustus Morton Smith) with original Baroque style ...
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1890s English Baroque Antique Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Boats on a Port, Oil on Wood Panel, Signed and Framed, Norway, early 1900s
Located in Hønefoss, 30
A melancholy painting of boats on a port. Oil on wood panel, signed and framed. Norway c. early 1900s.
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1910s Norwegian Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Canvas

18th Century French Grisaille Painting of Putti in Hunting Scene
Located in Essex, MA
Early 18th Century French Oil on Canvas Grisaille of Putti in a Hunting Scene. Gray-green tones, sculptural looking putti in a landscape with auct...
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18th Century French Baroque Antique Paintings

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Still Life Painting, Flower Pot with Roses and Fruits, Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Breganze, VI
Still life artwork, oil painting on canvas, Flower Pot With Roses And Fruits. Still life painting rich and colorful. Art Déco. The painting expresses the fashion of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Probably inspired by Russian painting. More precisely in the thirties of the twentieth century and a signature not easily translatable, in fact, on the back of the work on the frame there is a name that probably refers to the author, Vladimir Alexandrovich Kutum. The painting bears a handmade frame in shaped, pinstriped and gilded wood from the contemporary era. This still life, oil painting on canvas dates back to the first half of the twentieth century, Art Deco...
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Early 20th Century French Art Deco Paintings

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Canvas

"Medieval Battle, " Brilliant Art Deco Painting w/ King and Knights, Red & Yellow
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Rich with color -- including blood red, canary yellow and rich blue -- and full of astonishing detail, this crowded scene depicts a Medieval king on horseback expiring from an arrow to the chest, surrounding by a writhing crowd of knights in armor, many dead or dying, their faces contorted from the agony of the moment -- a testimony to the violence and tragedy of war. Above the scene, like the stage curtain of a theatre production, hangs three layers of Art Deco clouds in graduated shades of gray. The artist was Cesare Bentivoglio...
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1920s Italian Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Michelangelo Unterperger 'Circle' ca. 1775 "St. Michael Archangel" (71x88x7cm)
Located in Firenze, FI
Stunning late 1700s baroque oil painting (Fiemme Valley. Trentino) Strongly considered a Unterperger's circle artwork by the experts hired for this task...
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1770s Austrian Baroque Antique Paintings

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Canvas, Paint

Pair of KPM Porcelain Plaques After Spanish Baroque Paintings by Murillo
Located in London, GB
Pair of KPM porcelain plaques after Spanish Baroque paintings by Murillo German, Late 19th Century Plaques: Height 25cm, width 19cm, depth 0...
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Late 19th Century German Baroque Antique Paintings

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Porcelain

Art Deco Era Still Life by Kupur of White Peonies and Gazelles
Located in Toledo, OH
Art Deco Era Still Life by Kupur. White Peonies in a blue vase with Gazelles Gouache. Circa 1930's. Painting on board. Signed by Ruben Kupur. Great condition. Image size is 29" W x 3...
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Mid-20th Century Art Deco Paintings

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Canvas

1937, Oil on Canvas by Carl Forup '1883-1939'
Located in North Miami, FL
Behold "Hilltop View," a captivating oil-on-canvas masterpiece created in 1937. This evocative painting presents a young girl standing amidst a breathtaking mountainous landscape, expertly rendered by the skilled hand of Carl Forup...
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20th Century Danish Art Deco Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Paint

Early 20th Century Framed Oil on Canvas Painting “Low Waters” Signed A. Thieme
Located in Dallas, TX
Decorate a study, living room or den with this beautiful and colorful antique coastal seascape painting. Painted probably during the artist's time studying at the Hague or in his travels afterwards down the east coast of the United States circa 1920, the artwork is set in a carved gilt wood frame. The piece illustrates a picturesque little pier in the impressionist style, and is signed in the lower left corner "A. Thieme," the signature of Anthony Thieme (1888–1954). The oil on canvas painting shows several fishing boats with sails hanging moored at a small coastal docking area surrounded by buildings, with people moving about the pier, fishermen milling around on the boats, and seagulls flying overhead. The early 20th-century painting is in excellent condition commensurate with age and use, and adorns rich, vibrant colors; throughout the piece, the viewer gets a sense of the artist's expertise in the rendering of space, light and a beautifully hazy atmosphere, as he was referred to "The Master of Light and Shadow". The painting is in excellent condition commensurate with age and use. The back reads: "Low Waters". Sourced from the estate of a prominent Dallas family. Artist lsted in the Benezit. (See last picture). Anthony Johannes Thieme was born in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam in 1888. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Rotterdam, at the Royal Academy at the Hague, as an apprentice to George Hoecker, a well known stage designer in Düsseldorf, Germany, and to Antonio Mancini...
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Early 20th Century Dutch Art Deco Paintings

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Giltwood, Paint

After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine Italian 19th century oil painting on canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520) The circular canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved gilt wood and gesso frame (all high quality gilt is original) which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting, circa 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Measures: Canvas height: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Canvas width: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Painting diameter: 28 1/4 inches (71.8 cm) Frame height: 57 7/8 inches (147 cm) Frame width: 45 1/2 inches (115.6 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 cm).   Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...
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19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Wood

Abduction of Europe Oil on Canvas, 18th Century, After Veronese
By Paolo Veronese
Located in Madrid, ES
Rapture of Europe Oil on canvas. 17th century, following the model of VERONESE, Paolo Caliari (Verona, 1528-Venice, 1588). Oil on canvas showing a scen...
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18th Century European Baroque Antique Paintings

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Art Deco Etching a Tangi au Repos by Paul Jauve
Located in Miami, FL
Art Deco etching by Paul Jouvé depicting an Oriental scenery. Made in France Circa: 1933 Signature: Jouvé.
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20th Century French Art Deco Paintings

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Paper

Late 20th Century Marilyn Lanfear Impressionist Portrait Painting
Located in Seguin, TX
Vintage circa late 20th century gouache on paper of woman by Marilyn Lanfear (1930-2020) Texas. Part of the series Portrait of Mona ( from a photo of t...
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Late 20th Century North American Art Deco Paintings

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Paper

"Jazz Club Dancing, Paris, " Quintessential 1920s Painting by Paul Colin
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Painted by Paul Colin, one of the artists who helped define the elegance of 1920s Paris, and in particular the rising prominence of jazz clubs which featured Josephine Baker and other Black performers, this piece features a couple dancing to a modern tune with high energy, their arms and legs at acute angles which echoed the geometries of high style Art Deco form. The Black male figure is the height of fashion in his tuxedo, and the female figure is wearing a thin, diaphanous, pale green dress...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Paint

19th Century Florentine Baroque Style Giltwood Hand Carved Mirror Frame
Located in Vero Beach, FL
This is a beautiful hand carved and gilded mirror frame. It is a dramatic wall hanging with a stunning depth of more than 3 inches. The circa 1880...
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19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Paintings

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Wood

Pair of Tiger and Lion Art Deco Framed Paintings
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of tiger and lion Art Deco framed paintings. Oil on panel. Beautiful carved wood frames.
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1930s French Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Hardwood, Paint

19th Century Italian Oil on Canvas Painting, Style of Guardi
By Francesco Guardi
Located in Bradenton, FL
A beautiful 19th century Italian oil painting on re-lined canvas presented in a gilded wooden frame. Done in Guardi style with gold frame. The...
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19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Paintings

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Paint

A. Larren Signed Original Oil on Copper Painting Depicting Tennis Players
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This original painting is signed "A. Larren" presumably from England, and dating to approximately 1920 and done in the period Art Deco style. The painting is done in oil paint on a c...
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Early 20th Century English Art Deco Paintings

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Copper

Watercolor Painting of Tropical Architecture in the Bahamas
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Delightful watercolor on paper of colonial architecture with water, mountains, and two mysterious figures. Signed in the lower left by noted Amer...
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Early 20th Century Bahamian Art Deco Paintings

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"Couple with Apples", Swedish Copy of British Masterwork
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Charming and lovely, this quiet depiction of two young lovers sitting under a tree in 1942, while World War II was being waged not far away, was painted by G. Lundgren in Sweden and is a close copy of "Amity" by Bernard Fleetwood Walker, owned by the Walker Art gallery in Liverpool, England. The original is well known and was painted in 1933. The young blond female figure is shown with a basket of apples at her side, in a pale blue dress...
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1940s Swedish Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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"St. Sebastian & Ionic Column, " Painting in Ink and Watercolor, Porter Woodruff
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This sensitive depiction of St. Sebastian, pierced by a myriad of arrows but not yet expired, was painted by Porter Woodruff in a gorgeous combination of watercolor, gouache and ink. The saint is shown against an Ionic column, with a dark and turbulent sky behind that is punctuated by a row of poplars pointing skyward. Woodruff was best known for his paintings and illustrations for Vogue magazine -- one of five American fashion illustrators who worked for the magazine -- as well as House & Garden. Woodruff was born in Tennessee, but spent much of his creative life in Paris and Tunisia, where he lived with Georges Sébastian, an important Hungarian-born, French orchestra...
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1930s Tunisian Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Paint

Leonetto Cappiello, Poster Study Maquette, Studebaker, Automobile, Car, 1926
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
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...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Paintings

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Paper, Paint

Da Annibale Carracci Deposizione di Cristo Opera Barocca Italiana 1650 circa
By Annibale Carracci
Located in Milan, IT
Deposizione di Cristo nel Sepolcro 1650, opera barocca di scuola emiliana ispirata al Cristo deposto nel sepolcro di Annibale Carracci esposto al Metropolitan Museum of Art in New Y...
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Mid-17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Paintings

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Wood, Canvas

Painting of Hard Stones of the 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Painting of hard stones of the xix century. Elegant painting made with hard stones of different colors. Very nice work. Made in firenze-Italy in the XIX century. Measures:34 x 28Y16 ...
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19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Paintings

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Stone

Period Italian Religious Framed Painting
Located in Roma, IT
A beautiful painting of the Italian school from the second half of the 17th century. The religious subject depicts the Virgin Mary with Jesus and Saint...
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Late 17th Century Italian Baroque Antique Paintings

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Copper

Flower Painting, White and Red Dahlias, Oil on Canvas, 20th Century, Art Déco
Located in Breganze, VI
Flowers artwork, Art Déco, oil painting, floral vase painting which represents white and red Dahlias. It also has a golden frame realised in the 1900s. The oil on canvas paintin...
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Early 20th Century French Art Deco Paintings

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Canvas

Large Oil Painting from the 18th-19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Large oil painting from the XVIII-XIX century- it is an oil painting on canvas of large dimensions. The frame is made of plaster. It comes from an old palace in Cordoba-Spain and was...
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18th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Paintings

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Paint

Important Painting of Hard Stones 19th Century
Located in Madrid, ES
Important Painting Of Hard Stones XIX TH LARGE PAINTING OF HARD STONES OF DIFFERENT COLORS THAT REPRESENTS THE: VIA APIA DE ROME. THIS IS A VERY CO...
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19th Century Spanish Baroque Antique Paintings

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Paint

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. 

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