Austrian Paintings

Painting made in oil on panel, 91 x 55 cm, by artist Giuseppe Mincato around the 1930s. The work entitled "Salsedine" depicts a female figure with red hair, candied and luminous skin wearing a light blue...

American intra-war artist and illustrator Porter Woodruff (1894-1959). Arabian Horse scene, oil and gold leaf on board with chalky gouache. Signed Woodruff on lower right of painting. Signature somewhat obscured by frame. His Art Deco-influenced paintings are highly decorative and appealing, the compositions complex and well-thought out. The gold leaf background is decorative and elegant. His are rare Modernist paintings by an artist who found himself at the very heart of design, fashion and celebrity life in the early part of the century. Label at back for Pitt & Scott Ltd London - well known for its expertise in handling antiques, works of art and fragile artefacts. Dimensions: 11.5"h x 15.5"w (sight) 12.5"h x 17.5"w (frame) Porter Woodruff, was an illustrator artist and contributor to Vogue Magazine and Home & Garden (including covers for both). He was one of five artists stationed in Paris in 1923 for Vogue. Woodruff spent considerable time in Tunisia, North Africa, residing with his romantic partner, Romanian socialite George Sebastian. Sebastian owned a lavish, coastal property in then-trendy Hammamet, near Tunis on the Mediterranean. Sebastian fell in love with the simple beauty of the quiet fishing port of Hammamet and was the first of the international set of the times to build his villa there. He started a trend that has never ceased. Frank Lloyd Wright is said to have claimed Dar Sebastian to be ”the most beautiful house I have ever seen”. American and European intelligentsia and upper-crust were attracted to the area between the wars. The artists Cocteau, Elsa Schiaparelli, Paul Klee, Andre Gide, the Sitwells, and Cecil Beaton enjoyed visiting, partying, and undertaking what someone once described as indulging the opportunity to do 'some rather elaborate sinning'. Other visitors included Art Deco designer Jean-Michel Frank, Wallis Simpson, Somerset Maugham, and Greta Garbo, among others. The onset of war disrupted this scene and it never truly regained its former glory. Dar Sebastian was requisitioned by the 'Desert Fox', German General, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel...

Charming and full of light, this gouache painting of a young man in a black swimsuit lounging on a wide beach was painted by Louise Alix in the 1950s. The man's rosy complexion, the...

A particularly atmospheric painting of a woman with a hat, in oil on Isorel board. Date estimated around 1930. Signed H. Scheiber. It's quite a large painting and it has the charact...

Art Deco cubist painting of guitar player by Bela De Kristo. Strong cubist style and colors, original and of the period. The image representing a solo g...

Art Deco painting depicting panther in the wild. Unusual dimensional treatment with all the paint. Look closely at the texture of this piece. In an original frame that also has a pai...

Set of THREE artworks, gouache on paper partially glued on cardboard. Signed A.CHABAUD, dated and numbered. Some notes. Projects of textiles and wall papers Provenance: Collection...

Laurie Hill Phelps has been a painter for 37 years in Taos New Mexico. Her water colors and oils represent the colorful images of Northern New Mexico. Laurie's paintings have a life ...

Detailed hand painted Chinese picture on silk, featuring two Chinese workers processing tea leaves, with a white blossom tree and mountain background. It has a bamboo surround frame,...

"The Mules" Oil on Canvas Painting. Oil painting of a rural scene in a parcel-gilt wooden frame.

Offered is an original oil on canvas featuring a beautiful red poppy flower. We're unsure of the age, but guessing it was made in the last 30 years. Although it is unsigned by the ar...

Cubistic painting of a school boy reading. Oil on canvas. Faded signature of lower left hand corner. Newly framed in grey and gold leaf.