Colonial Oil Painting, Fort with Steamship, Early Victorian

A wonderful modernist impasto oil painting by E. Francisco, dating from the mid-1970s, featuring excellent colour and texture. In great condition and one of those paintings that will...

An excellent and very stylish impasto oil on board of Ranunculus flowers in an urn vase. The expressionist impasto paint application is fascinating. Clearly the work of a competent colourist. It really evokes the texture of Ranunculas flowers, their weight and the vibrancy of their colour. Unsigned, dating from the 1960s. The style is Expressionist. It reminds us of the work of William Dobell...

Anne Montgomery has been considered for many years one of the women artists Australia forgot. Not any more. Along with the likes of Clarice Beckett and Lina Bryans, her work is now recognised as an important part of Australian modernism. The breadth and quality of Montgomery's work over a long lifetime has always been appreciated by other artists. As Australian women artists in the mid Century period were relegated to the fringes of the establishment, they freely explored their own vision and developed their own style. Montgomery's work richly deserves the attention it's now receiving. This work shows Montgomery's unique perception and expression of colour in the Australian landscape. Her use of oil on board gives her work a robust structure but the inclusion of ink sketching in the work gives it a delicate texture. Her foliage and grasses tickle, her fabric floats, trees dance - her landscapes are in constant movement. This painting depicts a family camping under canvas amongst the Tea...

This small but lovely work is an excellent example of Montgomery's joyfully experimental modernism. It is a sketch in oil on composition board. A table and jug are heavily outlined. The shape of a white seashell is superimposed, with a ghostly idea of it's internal spiral and speckled surface sketched in. The table surface is covered in sgraffito curls while heavy brush strokes build texture in the background. Montgomery's painting vibrates with lively observations of colour and texture. It was purchased from the artist's own studio (the address is penciled on the back) for a single owner collection, then passed down by descent. Anne Montgomery has for many years been one of the women artists Australia forgot. Not any more. Along with the likes of Clarice Beckett...

A very large framed oil on canvas by extensively exhibited Australian artist, Beverley Downie. Downie's keen interest in opera has always influenced ...

A large oil on canvas by extensively exhibited Australian artist, Beverley Downie, a painter whose keen interest in opera has strongly influenced her w...

Rare 18th century Spanish Colonial "Christ Ascending" on Canvas. There is a figure of Christ below a cross.

Charming 19th Century nautical painting of a British merchant steamship at sea. In the painting, the Red Ensign flag or "Red Duster" can be seen flying on the back of the boat along ...

A small oil-on-board maritime painting of a steam powered yacht with steadying sail, circa 1890, in painted frame. Signed indistinctly "J C Wilock".

Mid-Century oil on canvas genre scene painting depicting people tending to a colonial garden next to a river outside of the city walls with large buildings on the horizon in a rectan...

Mid-Century oil on canvas genre scene painting depicting people tending to a colonial garden next to a river outside of the city walls with large buildings on the horizon in a rectan...

Ink and gouache painting on paper of a 19th century Great Lakes steamship executed in precise draftsman style and signed by noted American artist Frank Crevier, framed and presented ...