French Folk Art Painting of a Squirrel Eating Nuts

Fabulous French abstract lion painting found at an antique fair in the South of France. Great color palette of blues, greens and oranges creating this s...

Beautiful antique painting of "Pious Maidens" attributed to British Artist Francis Philip Stephanoff (1787-1860). Masterfully painted of two...

Fabulous early painting by listed Italian artist Sergio Sarri, Man and Horse, circa 1961 found in its original gilt silver and gold burnish wood frame. St...

Fabulous vintage abstract painting of a French gendarme with a woman over his back circa 1950's. This painting is oil on board, with a linen mat framed under glass in a gold leaf fra...

Charming acrylic painting on canvas of a group of colorful figures in a tropical setting executed in a naive style. Signed Osnel in the lower right and presented in the original wood...

This pair of oil paintings on canvas are done by the well known portrait and landscape Russian artist, Vera Alabaster in circa 1940 in a Folk Art style. The paintings depict a Jamaic...

Oil on canvas. Samuel P. Howes was born in 1806, likely in Plymouth, Massachusetts. As a young man, he began divinity studies but changed his career to painting and moved to Boston i...

Ancient Ethiopian painting imported to Italy by a diplomat during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, in the late 1930s. This genre scene painting is divided into eighteen squares bordered by a black frame and divided into three lines. The scene depicts the story of a couple with three children through the stories of their domestic life and their rural activity; each box has a caption written in the Amharic language. In the first line: they grind; they drink; …illegible… while they spin; they bring water. In the second line: comb, cut your hair; treats your teeth; grind; they bring the wood; they bring water. In the third section: they prepare beer; they prepare bread; they cook bread; they prepare lunch; while they eat; while they drink. This canvas is painted in shades of ocher and is mounteed on a ebonized frame. Dates back to the late 1930s. The canvas show minimal tears and signs of wear but we can customize a restoration. The human figures are characterized by unrealistic proportions of the head and body and depicted in static positions. This sense of fixity and the narration in successive chapters in domestic environments make the paintings easily intelligible and suggestive. A particularly fascinating aspect of Ethiopian art...