Animal Skin Paintings

' The Phasianus Colchicus, look there it is! A little to the left from that tree, straight underneath the flower branch...' This wonderful vista is a lovely look at nature due to th...

A pair of hand painted panels with urn, parrot and floral motif. Circa. 1920's. California Rancho or Spanish Revival style. Warm, old world glow and patina. Can be mounted to a wall side by side or separately. Originally part of a 3 or 4 panel floor screen...

18th century Anglo-Dutch painted leather screen in country house condition. This screen was most likely made in England by Dutch craftsmen who settled in England during the time of William and Mary. The screen is large and could act as a room divider or hang on a wall as a large painting. It is a real interior decorator's piece. The subject of the painting is children playing. A nurse looks after the family who are playing Blind Man's Buff and a there's a child being pulled on a baby walker...

Unusual artwork made on an original piece of Louis Vuitton monogrammed canvas. Hand painted items include an adorable Yorkie with LV collar, Statu...

Unusual artwork made on an original piece of Louis Vuitton monogrammed canvas. Hand painted items include a pair of peacocks, a lemon tree, a postage stamp both with the words Capri ...

Beautiful 17th century Tooled Leather Oil Painting mounted on board and our best hypothesis is that it is probably Spanish, with a second guess possibly being Dutch. What we do know from a local expert, is that the Putti or Cherub is close to 400-years old. The correct word I believe is actually Putto which is singular for Putti and depicts a chubby small child, typically male. The Putti painting...

George Herms, California (b. 1937), "Handle", 1997. Found object assemblage. Mixed media including metal, wood, wire, newspaper, carpet and parchment. Signed and dated on verso. Measures 22" high x 22-1/2" wide x 6"deep. Artwork is in very good as-found condition. Detailed photos show full condition. George Herms is an American artist best known for creating assemblages out of discarded, often rusty, dirty or broken every-day objects, and juxtaposing those objects so as to infuse them with poetry, humor and meaning. He is also known for his works on paper, including works with ink, collage, drawing, paint and poetry. The prolific Herms has also created theater pieces, about which he has said, "I treat it as a Joseph Cornell box big enough that you can walk around in. It's just a continuation of my sculpture, one year at a time." Legendary curator Walter Hopps, who met Herms in 1956, "placed Herms on a dazzling continuum of assemblage artists that includes Pablo Picasso, Kurt Schwitters, Marcel Duchamp, and Joseph Cornell, as well as California luminaries Wallace Berman...

This is a one-time only facsimile edition limited to 987 copies of a Medieval illuminated manuscript, the Book of the Hunt, by the Fren...

Fantastic work by the Ecuadorian painter Luis Millingalli, reflecting the cultural richness of indigenous peoples, specifically in this work he shows...

This is a one-time only facsimile edition limited to 987 copies of an atlas from the Renaissance, the Atlas Vallard, owned by the Huntington Library in San Marino, CA, made by combin...

This is a unique facsimile reproduction limited to 987 copies of an atlas from the Renaissance, the Atlas Miller, devised as a present from Manuel I of Portugal to fool Emperor Charl...

This is a one-time only facsimile edition limited to 987 copies of the Dioscorides of Cibo and Mattioli made during the 16th century. We created it by combining the highest technology with the mastery of the bookbinders who have handmade its binding by hand using only 100% full grain naturally tanned leather. In this remarkable codex, the artistic genius and botanist Gherardo Cibo (1512-1600) compiled a selection of medical and botanical texts from the Discorsi by the famous physician of Siena Pietro Andrea Mattioli (1501-1577), and illustrated them with more than 160 remarkable pictures of plants and landscapes that rank amongst the most beautiful of the Renaissance. Discorsi is Mattioli’s Italian translation of Dioscorides’ De Materia Medica (1st century AD) with the addition of lengthy commentaries based on his personal experience and on popular and learned medicine. Gherardo Cibo was an avid reader and admirer of this book by Mattioli. He copied entire passages in neat script, adding his own comments, anecdotes and legends and, more importantly, illustrated them with delicate and lifelike botanical images...

Fantastic work by the Ecuadorian painter Luis Millingalli, reflecting the cultural wealth of indigenous peoples, specifically in this work he shows u...

18th century French Baroque Old Master painting oil on leather. Old Master painting, French Baroque period 18th century oil on leather represents a lush imaginary landscape in ric...

Fantastic mixed media painting by Contemporary French Artist Richard Texier. A combination of watercolor, ink and collage on paper this work was is called Marges. Signed upper right corner and dated. This painting was once part of GE's corporate art collection. Colors may vary slightly. Image size is 13 inches high by 8.50 inches wide. Today Texier is regarded as one of the best living artists of his generation. He began painting at a young age and his keen interest in the history of astronomy is largely inspired by the creation of his own personnel cosmography. Known for both his paintings and sculptures he has installations throughout the world. His works are to be found in numerous important public and private collections, both in France and abroad. Many major museums around the world have exhibited his work including the National Museum of Taiwan, the National Museum of Luxembourg, the Marine Museum in Paris, the Botanical Museum of Brussels, the House of Culture Moscow and the Shanghai museum of Fine Art. He has also graced the covers of Decorating Magazines especially in France. HIs current contemporary large scale paintings retail between $28,000 and $64,000 both at auction houses like Christie's and Artcurial as well as galleries. His sculptures have even higher price points including two that reached $404,00 and $915,00. In addition he has also worked with Daum creating unique glass sculptures. Since November 6, 2015, his red bronze sculpture: Angel Bear, more than 7 meters in height which portrays a bear with wings, is placed on the Gare du Nord square in Paris. It evokes the downward spiral of polar bears due to global warming, one of his favorite themes. Selected personal exhibitions: 1982: FIAC, Gallery Claudine Bréguet, Paris, France [14] 1983: Exhibition Space, Leo Castelli, 112 Greene Street, New York City, United States [24] 1985: Gallery Kouros, Madison Avenue, New York City, United States [25] · [26] 1985: Exhibition at the museum of fine art of La Rochelle & Sainte-Croix museum, Poitiers, France [27] 1986: Richard Texier: el continente de la peonza, Museo Casa Natal de Jovellanos, Gijón, Spain [28] 1986: La Roche-sur-Yon museum, France [29] 1987: Sawaya & Moroni, Milan, Italy[30] · [31] 1988: Galerie Lea Gredt, Luxembourg 1988: Gallery of Applied Arts, New York City, United States [32] 1989: Galeria Ciento, Barcelona, Spain[33] 1991: Territoires nomades at the Musée des beaux-arts d'Angers, France [34] 1992: Galerie Mobile & Galerie Hadrien- Thomas, Paris, France [35] 1992: Moscou 92 VDNKh in Moscow, Russia [36] 1992: Histoire du Ciel, Galleria La Bussola, Turin, Italy [37] 1992: Contemporary Art Center of Moscow, Russia [36] 1993: The Botanique museum, Brussels, Belgium [33] 1994: Gallery Nii Osaka, Japan [38] 1994: Château de Chambord, France [39] 1994: Institut français de Taipei, Taiwan 1994: Galleria Grafica Tokyo, Japan [40] 1995: the Bouvet-Ladubay Contemporary Art Center, Saumur, France [41] 1995: Gallery Garando Nagoya, Japan [40] 1995: Gianni Piretti Gallery, Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden 1996: Museum of Fine Art of Taiwan, Taipei [42] 1996: Manufacture des œillets, Ivry-sur-Seine, France [43] 1996: Galerie Virus, Anvers, Belgium [44] 1997: Galerie Reflex, Amsterdam, Netherlands [45] 1997: Suzanne Tarasiève, Barbizon, France 1998: Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain [46] 1998: Musée national de la Marine , Palais de Chaillot , Paris , France [47] 1999: Carrousel du Louvre, Art Paris Art Fair, Paris, France [46] 1999: Villa Noailles, Hyères, France [48] 2000: Sculptures, Galerie Artcurial, Paris, France [42] 2001: Galerie J. Bastien Art, Bruxelles, Belgium[49] 2002: Suite des droits de l'homme 7 Aubusson tapistries, Musée du Président-Jacques-Chirac, France [2] 2002: Nomadic Atelier, Gallery Atelier 14, New York City, United States [50] · 2004: Les îles de la destinée, Galerie Tessa Herold, ARCO, Madrid, Spain [52] 2004: Creation of 8 stained glass windows, Abbaye d'art de Trizay, Trizay, France [54] 2005: Fine art museum of Shanghai (Shanghai Meishu Guan), China 2006: 5 large bronze sculptures, Grand Palais, Paris [52] 2007: “Opere recenti”, Galleria San Carlo, Milan, Italy,[56] 2007: Paintings on Chinese Nautical...

An English regency domed leather portrait box with a doré bronze border and a velvet interior. The box opens to a 19th century painting on ivory. Si...

Extraordinary pair of massive art nouveau leather inset panel screens featuring flora and fauna embossed and painted designs. The leather panels ar...

English Victorian miniature oil painting portrait on bone of a seated lady wearing a black dress in leather case (signed: Charles J BASEBE 1841).  

Karl Springer design… Rare polyhedron tables covered in natural goat skin… 14 sides consisting of triangles and squares… Included in the photos is the original Maquet and mock up...

Antique portrait miniature of Thomas Osborne, 1st Duke of Leeds Dimension: W: 6 cm H: 8 cm In miniature is depicted Thomas Osborne, wearing a s...

(1896-1975) Portrait painting of Chief Red Cloud Sioux by Louis Shipshee on hide mounted on board. Very nice painting by a great artist. Period: Mid ...

1980s Sergio Hernández Mixed Media Abstract Art Oil on Goatskin Parchment 22.13 x 22.5 x 1.5 art 21.63 x 21.75 signed art Preowned original unrestored condition See images provided.

Clearly painted by a master hand when Tudor Revival and Mediterranean Revival homes were the rage in America, this is a remarkable example of painting on leather...

This ‘cuir bouili’ (moulded leather) panel is a truly beautiful and rare piece of early 18th Century art. It is a profile portrait of the French King Louis XIV (1643-1715), depicted at around the age of 50. This image is based on a marble relief sculpture...

St. Bartholomew's Martyrdom. Painting on vellum. After models from Ribera y Cucó, José (Játiva, Spain, 1591-Naples, Italy, 1652). The composition is organized around the diagonal t...

A small, colorful painting featuring Balinese folk imagery. Beautifully framed in shagreen with a linen matte. An unusual and colorful wall hanging...

Beautiful oil on board painting of Carlsbad or Karlovy vary in western Bohemia. Depicts a Baroque statue from 1716 and a Gothic castle in the background f...

A very attractive oil on canvas by Jacques Alsina, a well listed nineteenth century French artist. This elegant delicate work depicts a young woman in a restive pose playing the flut...