20th Century Paintings

Nils Johansson (1922-2014), Sweden. Oil on board. Abstract composition. Dated 1961. The board measures: 40 x 32 cm. The frame measures: 1.5 cm. In ...

Oil painting on canvas proudly signed C. G. Moody untraceable painter! It sits in a very nice and matching frame chosen by the artist. In this impressionist painting from the 196...

Emile Aubry, France, 1932 documentation, comparable with a similar work - catalogue "Salon des Independents" Paris from 1932 Muse´e des Beaux-Arts, Pau, Be´arn, Pyre´ne´es-Atlantique...

This is an Oil Painting of a Flamboyant or Royal Poinciana Tree. It depicts a large leafy Flamboyant Tree in a breezy countryside road in Puerto Rico. Some red petals have fallen in ...

Modern Clemmen Clemmensen painting oil on canvas. 70 x 66 cm (27,5" x 26"), Denmark circa 1960. The painting is painted in a classic modern style with a slightly expressive character...

Copy of a painting of an Impressionist beach scene showing people in Victorian garb in chairs and walking by waters edge

A beautiful view of a street scene in Paris, France. This painting perfectly depicts life in Paris with its restaurants, busy streets, cafes, hotels, monuments, and wonderful archite...

This is an original vintage oil on canvas maritime landscape painting with motive of cows at the seaside. The sun breaking the skies creates a dramatic effect in the otherwise calm s...

Copy of a portrait painting titled "Mona Lisa"

A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved gilt wood and gesso frame, which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting. A retailer's label reads " Fred K/ Keer's Sons - Framers and Fine Art Dealers - 917 Broad St. Newark, N.J." - Another label from the gilder reads "Carlo Bartolini - Doratore e Verniciatori - Via Maggio 1924 - Firenze". Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Canvas diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 54 inches (137.2 cm) Frame width: 42 1/2 inches (108 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/2 inches (14 cm) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...

Striking mid century Haitian acrylic painting on board of a jungle scene with animals, trees, flowers and fruit executed in a distinctive naive style, signed Michelet in the lower le...

Bark cloth or tapa cloth mounted on plywood and trimmed in mahogany. Bark cloth, or tapa, is not a woven material, but made from bark that has been softe...

Large still life oil on canvas Painting Artwork. Unsigned, believed to be early 20th Century as judged by the frame. In good antique condition with minor knocks, marks, age related ...

Original 'Hyde Park' color lithograph by André Derain. Lithograph printed from an original painting made by the author in France in 1906. Published by Fernand Mourlot in Les Fauves. Paris, circa 1972. Framed and signed in the stone. Frame will be slightly different from the one on the photos, each piece will be framed once it sells, this is an exhibition frame. In good original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a beautiful patina. About the Artist: André Derain (10 June 1880 – 8 September 1954) was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder of Fauvism with Henri Matisse. Derain and Matisse worked together through the summer of 1905 in the Mediterranean village of Collioure and later that year displayed their highly innovative paintings at the Salon d'Automne. The vivid, unnatural colors led the critic Louis Vauxcelles to derisively dub their works as les Fauves, or "the wild beasts", marking the start of the Fauvist movement. In March 1906, the noted art dealer Ambroise Vollard sent Derain to London to produce a series of paintings with the city as subject. In 30 paintings (29 of which are still extant), Derain presented a portrait of London that was radically different from anything done by previous painters of the city such as Whistler or Monet. With bold colors and compositions, Derain painted multiple pictures of the Thames and Tower Bridge. These London paintings remain among his most popular work. Art critic T. G Rosenthal: "Not since Monet has anyone made London seem so fresh and yet remain quintessentially English. Some of his views of the Thames use the Pointillist technique of multiple dots, although by this time, because the dots have become much larger, it is rather more simply the separation of colours called Divisionism and it is peculiarly effective in conveying the fragmentation of colour in moving water in sunlight." He experimented with stone sculpture and moved to Montmartre to be near his friend Pablo Picasso and other noted artists. Fernande Olivier...

Big Hand-painted panel Agostino Piazza Italy, 1960 Colorfull Art Naif by Agostino Piazza. Paint on wood Very good condiction

Featured in the book A Savannah Experience, by Myrtle Jones, this large pastel painting is one of the artist's finest paintings. Acrylic on canv...

Oil on Canvas Painting Stone Bridge MCM Architectural Art Signed, hard to read appears as Oastruita. Vintage wear on wood frame. Original unrestored vintage condition. Please refer t...

Perhaps the finest portrait we have ever offered, this depiction of a young jockey in 1941, his complexion warm and glowing and his blue eyes echoing the color of his shirt, was pain...

Bring pastoral elegance and equestrian charm to your space with this vintage Boho oil painting on paper, featuring a stately horse and rider set against a sweeping countryside backdr...

A magnificent large traditional Indian gouache painting of a royal horse on silk. This Rajasthani piece is unique in that it is very large. We typically ...

Untitled, Large Abstract by Mandy Wilkinson, British B. 1970 Mandy Wilkinson, British 1970 Oil on canvas, 49 inches wide by 36 inches high Giltwood Fra...

A Rare Parisian Gem: "Le Vert Galant" by Henri-Jean Pontoy This captivating oil painting by Henri-Jean Pontoy (1888-1968) offers a unique perspective on the famed Paris, France land...

Oversized Mid Century Modern Abstract Impressionist Oil on Canvas Painting Signed by Sharie Jones C1968 Measures - 30.5"H x 48.75"W x 1.75"D A striking oversized oil on canvas pain...

Reynolds Beal, Impressionist Oil Painting, USS Utah Rockport Mass, American, 1928 A fine impressionist oil on canvas by the well celebrated Reynolds Beal. Dated 1928 on verso and si...

Signed lower left. A lovely pensive woman dressed in 19th c. style holding flowers. She looks to the left with fruits in an abstract composition on a tab...

Painting of a casual, abstract female body in oil on newspaper by Antonio Guanse, Paris 1963 The woman's body lolls casually under the artist's brushstrokes. The abstract depiction ...

French Victorian gilt framed oil painting of seated black and white terrier (signed DUBOUY, 1904).    

A beautiful oil on canvas painting titled "Montmartre rue de l'Abreuvoir" signed by G. Denis. This very decorative work of art is painted in the manner of Edouard Cortes that delig...

Melbourne H Hardwick (b 1857-1916) a well recognized and active societal member of the Salmaguni Club, painted this exceptional portrait of a Boston terrier on the year of his death....

Original watercolor on board painting entitled "Diamond Head 1893", circa 1930s. The piece is in very good antique condition and measures 16.75" x 12.75". #2493 The piece came from the estate of a gentleman named Dr. Roger Dustin Mermod ("Poppy") who was born in Switzerland in 1888. Per the book, "Men of Hawaii", which is a biographical reference library, "complete and authentic, of men of note and substantial achievement in the Hawaiian Islands", Mermod came to Honolulu in 1917 to work at the Queen's Hospital as a physician and surgeon, eventually becoming Chief of Surgery. (Queen's Hosp., Honolulu, 1917-19; phys. and surg. Oahu Sug. Co., Waipahu, Oahu, Oct., 1919. to date. Member Med. Society of Hawaii, University Club...

Immense mid 20th century pastel painting on board by Hilbert R. Whiteman, depicting a tropical fantasy scene featuring a topless brunette woman surrounded by terracotta sculptures, l...

A fabulous 1960's portrait-oil on canvas by Charles Levier, aka Villard. Beautifully done, similar in style to Bernard Buffet. High quality frame made in Belgium.

Watercolor & ink on paper depicting a landscape with bright yellow and orange sunflowers in the foreground, a large structure over-looking the blue waters and rolling hills off in th...

HENRY SCOTT R.S.A. British, 1911-2005 "Down Easter 'Harvey Mills' in the Lower Inner Harbour, Boston, with Governors Island in the Distance Oil on canvas signed lower left titled...

Sensitively painted with a rich but subdued palette and dramatic lighting, this large painting of a male youth leaning on a long pole was made by Sigvard Mo...

Fine danish expressive / abstract oilpainting 1930s-1950s. Oil on canvas. Signed back "P-Østergard".or " P-Ødtgård " Original frame. Incl frame: H. 80 cm / W. 70 cm / D. 4 cm pain...

Title: Anselm Kiefer (Venezia Contemporaneo) Publisher: Brand: Charta Publication Date: 1997 Binding: Soft cover An excellent overview of Anselm Kiefer_s long career. Over the past four decades, Anselm Kiefer has produced a diverse body of work in painting, sculpture and installation that has made him among the most important artists of his generation. His subject-matter ranges over sources as diverse as Teutonic mythology and history, alchemy and the nature of belief, all depicted in a bewildering variety of materials, including oil paint, dirt, lead, models, photographs, woodcuts, sand, straw and all manner of organic material. By adding found materials to the painted surface of his immense tableaux, he invents a compelling third space between painting and sculpture. Synopsis: This monograph presents Kiefer's complete work to date, reproduced in full color. Review: Writing about one of the most important and complex artists of our times requires the erudition, clarity, and broad view of a Daniel...

Vintage Pichhavai painting on fabric of Krishna playing is flute with Radha and female Gopis gathered by his side. The colors, details and facial ex...

Giuseppe Augusto Levis (1873-1926), this painting from 1912 depicting a simple A-frame tent with spikes in a desert background near dusk, in a period guilloche frame with a gilded ra...

This superbly painted view of the mountains framing a river valley in northern New Mexico is attributed to Frank Guy Applegate, who lived and worked in the state during the 1920s, and is known for his watercolors -- such as this -- that present strong, abstracted views of the local landscapes, all in vivid colors and bold strokes of paint. Applegate was considered one of the New Mexico Modernists, and was accompanied on some of his painting forays by B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Andrew Dasburg and Josef Bakos. Applegate also had enormous respect for the culture and artistry of the native people, and encouraged a revival of the Pueblo style...

A charming mid century bullfight painting by Epifanio Ortega, A Mexican artist, ca' 1969. Born in 1947, Ortega's paintings have a very modern, Cub...

Beautiful large oil painting on wood of nude woman. Shades of blue, peach, and brown with great texture. Unsigned. Newly framed in a natural walnut wood frame.

"Les bienfaits de la nature offerts au plus grand nombre" “Nature's Goodness offered to more people” An Impressive and Decorative Art Deco oil on canvas painting Original frame Signe...

Michael Qvarsebo (born 1945), listed Swedish artist. Oil on board. Abstract composition with impasto brushstrokes. In perfect condition. Signed and d...

Thorvald Hagedorn-Olsen, Danish artist. Oil on artist's board. Modernist Danish landscape with grazing cattle and a fjord. Signed and dated '47. In excellent condition. Image size: ...

Vintage mid century expressionistic painting by Danish artist Freddy Halle (b. 1936) with organic motive of naked, twirling trees with a dramatic, dark background. The style is figur...

Nakamura Daizaburo Turtledoves in a Peach Tree Taisho period, circa 1920 Framed painting. Mineral pigments, ink and gofun on silk Signed: Daizaburo Dimensions (framed)...

A painting of the famous Hindenburg disaster in 1937. This was used as an illustration in SHIPS OF THE AIR, a book by award winning children's book author and illustrator Lynn Curlee...

Provocative and unapologetic, this watercolor depiction of a fully nude sailor sprawled across his bed, his uniform and cap neatly laid on a chair to one s...

Maxwell Mays (1918-2009) American painter and illustrator. Signed and dated 1983. This painting titled "Cascade Springs" is an intricate and lively depiction of a bustling Colorado town during its historical boom period. The painting illustrates the vibrant energy of the town with details of trains, trolleys, horse-drawn carriages, and pedestrians in a winter landscape. The scene captures the essence of Victorian and Edwardian architecture alongside the Rockies, representing a mix of rural charm and the burgeoning industrial presence with trains labeled "Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe" and freight cars marked "Rock Island" and "DRG." The composition is filled with movement: people strolling on the sidewalks, horses pulling carts loaded with goods, and trains arriving and departing, indicating a hub of economic and social activity. The detailed rendering of buildings, including "William M. Baxter Hay & Grain" and market scenes, emphasizes the town's industry and commerce. The snowy mountains and rooftops in the background further ground the painting in the Colorado Springs region, showcasing the rugged, wintry landscape that frames the town. The palette of subdued winter tones, combined with bright pops of color in the trains and clothing of the figures, enhances the painting’s nostalgic and whimsical quality typical of Mays' work. The title plaque on the back provides historical context, describing how people came to Colorado Springs for both riches and health, symbolizing a new society born from the merging of the West with industrial advancement. This picturesque narrative combined with Mays’ folk art style makes it a remarkable piece evoking both history and community. Overall, "Cascade Springs" is a celebration of early American life in a rapidly modernizing town, capturing both its charm and progressiveness through Mays' detailed and stylized artistic lens. Dimensions: 45.5"w x 35"h x 1.5"d (sight) Condition: Good. No issues observed. Ready to hang. About the Artist" Maxwell Mays was born in Rhode Island in 1918, and focused his art on celebrating the landscapes of his home state. Known for their birds-eye perspectives and nostalgic style, Mays' prints have appeared multiple times on the cover of Yankee Magazine. His paintings hang in many establishments, including the University of Rhode Island, and are particular favorites of Rhode Island residents. Mays' artwork often depicts scenes from throughout Rhode Island and the surrounding areas of New England but he did produce works depicting communities from across America . Featuring town squares, farm lands, and harbors, Maxwell Mays' prints celebrate the Americana found in small towns. A graduate of RISD, he began painting seriously while serving in the US Air Force in Brazil during WWII. His first one-man commercial show was at the Ferargil Gallery in New York in 1948. In the ensuing years he became notable for a number of highly successful art shows and magazine covers, and was a highly sought-after speaker and storyteller. As a successful businessman, he was Treasurer of Mays Manufacturing Company, a family business until its sale in the mid-1980s. He was Past President and Director Emeritus of the Providence Art...

Lovely still of roses by Anna Hornby Vintage Still Life of Roses by Anna Hornby'Christmas Roses' by Anna Hornby is an exquisite portrayal of delicate hellebores, known as Christmas ...

Enchanting vintage Anglo Indian Pishhwai gouache painting on cloth mounted on board, steeped in alagorical context, depicting Krishna dancing with villagers in a background of birds ...

A colorful flower still life in impressionistic style. Oil paint on canvas, in a gilt frame. Signed right under: Arthur de Geest. Arthur de Geest. Belgium, 1894-1968 Painted mainly...

Heshi Yu Abstract Cityscape/Village Naive Chinese Modernist Oil Painting on Canvas. Signed Delightful, intricately detailed, vividly hued, modernist village by Chinese-American art...

Excelente obra de temática costumbrista donde podemos observar una conversación entre bellas telas, instrumentos y armas firmado por el pintor Sánchez. Dimensiones marco: 59 x 49 cm ...

Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War. During the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also a...

Painted by Dunbar Beck, one of America's most accomplished and successful muralists, this painting of a half-nude man floating over a succession of dancing couples below was one of a...

Serene Japanese Showa period two-panel folding byobu screen depicting a large spring blossoming prunus tree or plum tree. Beautifully painted with ink and natural color pigments on m...

A mid-20th century 'Kamasan' cotton textile painting from Bali, Indonesia. The hand-painted image has great detail and depicts Balinese Hindu mythology. Key features of this image ar...

John Haanstra (Dutch, b. 1940), signed and dated 1985 on lower right. A charming oil painting, showing a winter landscape. Skaters are enjoying seasonal fun on a frozen canal while others go about their daily activities. A typical Dutch windmill can be seen in the background. Typical Dutch style housing can be seen in the foreground. The sky seems to be laden with more snow, creating the sense of more winter fun...