Paul Albert Baudouin, the Harvesters

Paul Emile Lecomte 1877-1950 Oil on canvas. "High tide" Signed 'Paul Emile Lecomte' (lower left). Measures: 24 1/8 x 36in (62.3 x 91.44cm) Provenance: Bonhams and Butterfield, New York October 17...

Auguste Toulmouche (attributed) (French, 1829-1890) THE LETTER Signed A. Toulmouche (lower left) Oil on canvas Measures: 17.75 in. by 14.5 in., (45.08 cm. by 36.83 cm.).   

Frederick Goodall (British, 1822-1904) "Returning from the Well". Initialed FG monogram, and dated 1867 l/l. Watercolor on paper, with touches of varnish. Provenance: Sotheby's, 11 Dec 03, Property of Seymour Stein.

Jacques J. Leopold Loustau (1815-1894) "Startled on the Shore" (1865) Painting Oil/canvas Measures: Canvas: 32 by 25 in.; 81.2 by 63.5 cm Framed: 42 by 35 in.; 106.6 by 88.9 cm....

A Calm Day in the Harbor'. Signed Anthony Brandrett l/r. Oil on canvas 24 3/4" x 50",size with frame 35" x 60" Provenance: Sotheby's , 30 Nov 20...

A Berlin (K.P.M.) Painted Rectangular Plaque, "The Dance", Late 19th Century depicting dancers in an 18th century interior also titled "The Waltz", impressed sceptre mark, KPM plaque 11 1/2 x 18 1/2 in.; overall 26 x 18 1/2 in. 29 x 46 cm Catalogue Note A nearly identical plaque sold...

Portrait of his Majesty Baudouin I - Pierre Piget Oil on isorel signed and dated lower right Numbered on the back : 46 Size : 50cm x 61cm 1954 250€ ...

Gouache on paper "The Mustachioed King" - Albert Chubac Techniques : Gouache on paper Circa 1960-1970 Size of the frame : 61 x 80 cm Ref : /5 Price : 7500€ for this work

Framed watercolor by Albert Andre signed lower right. Measures 17" x 15" including frame and 12" x 9" sight. Provenance: Sothebys Andre came to Paris in 1889 as an industrial designer. At the age of 23 he enrolled at the studio of William Bouguereau at the Académie Julian, where he met Ranson, Louis Valtat and the young poet and dramatist Henry Bataille, who at the time was training as a painter. He illustrated L'étang de Berre by Charles Maurras and Les Petites Alliées by Claude Farrère. He produced cartoons for tapestries for the Beauvais factory. In his youth he worked in Paris and Loudun, but later settled in the Midi, where he became curator of the museum in Bagnols-sur-Cèze, building up a major collection of contemporary art, including works by Monet, Renoir, Bonnard, Vuillard, Matisse and Despiau. In 1923, as a friend of Renoir, he compiled his recollections of the painter in a preface to an album of collotypes of his works. He was initially influenced in his painting by Delacroix, and it was Cézanne's paintings that helped him discover how to give the impression of volume using colour: warm tones for illuminated surfaces and cool colours for shadow. But it was undoubtedly Renoir who had the most profound influence on him, especially as it was Renoir who noticed his paintings in 1894 and introduced him to Paul Durand...

Our still life depicting a metal brazier on ledge is a rare painting by Baudouin Yvart (French, 1611-1690).  Stretcher measures 15 1/4 by 19 inches.  It has an extraordinary ebonized sgraffito frame, 24 by 28 by 1 3/4 inches, with inlaid mother of pearl and pewter mounts.  Professionally relined and mounted on keyed stretcher. Provenance: Private Collection, Paris, by 1974; Anonymous sale; Boisgirard et Associés, Paris, June 26, 1985, lot 26; Jocelyn Fielding Fine Art Ltd., London; Mr. and Mrs. John H. Gutfreund, CEO Salomon Brothers, New York. Literature: Michel Faré, Le grand siecle de la nature morte...

Very large oil on canvas (2.10 m x 1.45 m), of a young woman leaning on a sculptor's easel, probably resting between two posing sessions. Nude, adorned with gold and silver jewels, p...

Charming interior scene painted on panel by Albert Roosenboom. This delicate painting, in the purest manner of the painter's work, shows us, in a very precise interior, rich in detai...