Maurice Monnard Impressionist Country Landscape with Figures

Fine antique oil painting by French artist Albert Lenfant, circa 1874. A wonderful French country landscape with a woman gathering water from the river and child close behind. ...

Emiel Hansen (Denmark) figures on a cloudy day original oil painting circa 1930 Brilliant 1930s original oil painting by listed artist Emiel Hansen. The painting shows a man wa...

Early 20th century American School Western Landscape A fine illuminated Western landscape. Original oil on board. Dimensions 8.5" wide x...

Jean Claude Werdier (French painter Jean Claude Werdier was born in 1922. He later moved to the U.S. where he painted surrealist landscapes.) created this fine vintage Normandy villa...

American landscape oil painting "Youngsville, New York" by Mystery Artist, circa 1925 A beautiful antique oil painting of a young woman with cattle n...

Pieter Gerardus Bernhard, Dutch, 1813-1880 Pieter Gerardus Bernhard Portrait of Military Officer in a Seaside Landscape, circa 1850s The...

Gaston Sebire French, 1920-2002 Landscape with figures Oil on canvas 31 by 41 ½ in. With frame 38 by 48 ½ in. Signed lower right Gaston Sebire (1920 – 2002) Gaston Sebire, was one of Europe’s leading landscapists, was born in the village of Saint-Samson in Normandy in 1920. A self taught artist, he began to paint seriously at the age of eighteen. For eight years he worked as a postal clerk in the Rouen, sorting letters at night in order to support his career as a painter. In 1952 Gaston Sebire had his first exhibition at the Galerie Gosselin in Paris. The following years he enjoyed the double triumph of winning both the coveted Prix de la Critique and the Prix Casa Velasquez. The Latter award made it possible for him to spend a year and a half in Spain. Of this formative period he said, “They were my first, wonderful years without worry. For fifteen years I had never known what the next day would bring.” The year 1957 marked another important stage in his career. His painting “La Dinde” won the Greenshields Prize in a field of 136 competitors, making it possible for him to paint for another two years without the worry of finances. Winning the awards naturally drew public attention to the artist from Normandy, and his works were presented in highly successful one-man shows in Paris. Sebire was a Norman, a man strongly attached to the soil, and after his exhibitions in Paris, he returned to Rouen to his large house overlooking the town and once again plunged into painting the countryside. Gaston Sebire was a strongly built man with square hands and a rather heavy walk. He had immense vitality, and used that to his advantage.  As he said of himself, “When the snow falls, I can’t stay indoors. I set out with my paint box. I paint outdoors from nine in the morning until five at night. If it were only a question of money, one could just as well paint in one’s own room.” But Sebire went into the countryside, or into the village, and sets up his easel. When there is a café into which people are going; there is a fence, a telegraph pole, a few buildings in the background. The scene takes on life, vivid life, with a sense of some event about to take place in the scene. Like many artists, and like a typical Norman, Sebire was silent and solitary by nature, with a personality as strong and Frank as his paintings. A painting, he says, “must have an element of mystery, show an effort to look beyond the aura surface of things.” Sebire’s early paintings were somber with much use of black and white tones. In 1970 he turned to colour. The subtle light of the Normandy skies; the shifting light and color along the seacoast; the magnificent blues of the Rouen pottery...

Mid-Century Modern painting of a busy impressionist scene with interesting colorful figures by Pascal Cucaro (American 1915-2003). The painting features vivid shades of blue and red ...

Arts & crafts impressionist landscape painting, Chicago Artist, 1926 This painting is a perfect example of the Arts & Crafts movement. It is a matur...

An original Post-Impressionist framed gouache on paper landscape painting featuring a soft palette mostly made of brown and pale green colors, accented with delicate blue and white t...

Signed lower left. A fine winter landscape with green fir trees on snowy hills leading to snow covered fields with bands of rust tone trees. Low blue hills complete the distant scene by William Alexander Drake...

A lovely oil on board scene of Paris by American artist Stuart C. Henry (1906-1991), presenting a figure walking in the Tuileries Garden. Upon graduating from Harvard with a degree in fine art in 1928, Stuart Henry...