Dramatic Painting by Edouard BIsson (1856-1939)

A fabulous striking Isaac Maimon original oil on canvas of one of his stylized Parisian cafe ladies dressed in a strapless red gown and dramatic hat. Measure framed 38.5” W x 32.2...

A pair of original gauche paintings by Charles John de Lacy, illustrating the interior of two different warships. These detailed cutaway technical drawings wer...

Fluidly and confidently painted, this vivid depiction of a group of figures surrounding a leafless tree may have been a study for a mural by Sylvia Bernstein...

Painted in soft, dreamlike colors and depicting a magical landscape of attenuated nude figures dominated by a painter and his muse, this extremely fine Surrealist work was painted by Arthur Ames in 1939. Here he used egg tempera on gesso-finished board -- a favorite medium among painters such as Paul Cadmus, Jared French and others in the 1930s, 40s and 50s -- to create a highly detailed view of an imagined landscape. Behind the central couple and the painting on its easel, there is a retreating woman in a flowing, Classical robe, and in the far distance a couple embracing on a mountain top. Ames was born in the Midwest but studied on the West Coast and became a California artist through and through; he participated in the Federal Art Project, and worked with his fiancée, Jean Goodwin...