Pal Fried Nude Portrait Oil on Canvas

Abstract mixed media painting on panel titled "Pacific #2" by Margaret Ash, circa 1950s. Retains label from Esther Bear Gallery in Santa Barbara, California.

Wonderful painting by listed Russian artist Moisey "Moses" Alexandrovich Feigin and dates form 1988. The painting is featured in a hardbound book about this artist. One of the last s...

Vintage bar serving tray featuring Marilyn Monroe on red velvet, titled "Golden Dreams" and dates from the early 1950s. Iconic photo by Tom K...

Excellent example of a large oil on canvas abstraction by Fred Hocks from 1957. This painting was included in the 1976 retrospective at the Fine Arts Gallery in San Diego which later became the San Diego Museum of Art. No painter embodies San Diego’s early avant-garde more than Fred (Ferdinand) Hocks, a German-born painter who began visiting San Diego in the late 1920s after studies at the California School of Fine Art in San Francisco and the Art Students League in New York. Fellow painter Dan Dickey credited Hocks in 1947 with “opening up pathways for future, more enlightened generations (of artists),” and predicted that Fred Hocks would be “esteemed a master.” During the post-war years Hocks was assistant director of the San Diego School of Arts and Crafts, a private art school in La Jolla, and was instrumental in keeping affordable artist’s studios in Spanish Village. Along with modern architect Lloyd Ruocco, Fred Hocks co-founded the dynamic Allied Artists Council with Belle Baranceanu, Everett Gee Jackson, Dan Dickey and John Olsen. The well-travelled Hocks exhibited in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, Paris, Mallorca and Guadalajara, had several one-person shows at the Art Center La Jolla/La Jolla Museum of Art and at the Fine Arts Gallery (SDMA). The San Diego Museum of Art held a major retrospective of his painting in 1976, just a few years before his death. He brought a continental element to the local art scene and is described in Bruce Kamerling’s 100 Years of Art in San Diego as “one of the most adventurous local artists…an intelligent and articulate defender of modern tendencies in art.” Local arts and architecture writer James Britton called Fred Hocks “the dean of the San Diego moderns...

Jan Nosek (American, 1876-1966) Seated nude woman in an interior setting by artist and illustrator Jan Nosek. Oil on canvas, mid 20th century Signed lower right: J. Nosek sight: 1...

Oil on canvas painting depicting a seated nude woman with red hair. Areas of unfinished canvas; signed by Savignol. Please see images for condition details.

Vintage Swedish painting, 1936. Oil on linen.

Stamped on back: "Aktiebolaget Wil Becker, Stockholm"

Dimension of painting without frame - 23 3/8 w x 17 5/8...

Charming oil on canvas in period frame by the Russian-born American artist, Charles Polowetski (1884-1955) depicting a lovely seated female. Stretcher 21.5 by 29.5 inches and the fr...