20th Century Paintings

Mid-Century 20th Century Oil Painting of Flowers in Vase by Gerald Cooper (1898-1975). Lovely painting of poppies, hibiscus, Nicotiana an...

Mid-20th Century Signed painting of a lighthouse in a harbor. Colorful, happy composition of colors. Signed Vera Bettinger? Solid wooden frame. This item can parcel ship domestically...

Celebrated as an unsurpassed colorist and for the beauty of his large-scale abstract works, Robert Natkin was a Chicago-born artist associated with the Color Field and Lyrical Abstra...

Popularized during the Qing dynasty, reverse glass painting requires an artist to essentially work backwards, starting with details and shading before adding color and form. Lending the finished work a subtle three-dimensional effect, this exacting technique doesn't allow for any corrections, and is only revealed to its full effect when the glass pane is turned around. This example dates to the late 19th century and depicts the Taoist immortals He Xiangu and Cao Guojiu. Said to have attained immortality through their studies of the natural world, the Eight Immortals each represent a different condition in life and impart blessings of prosperity and longevity. The charming scene is likely one of a set of...

Gorgeous original oil on canvas southwest desert plein air landscape painting by listed artist Dorothy Glascow, circa 1950s. This wonderful piece measures 33.25" x 27"and it is signe...

A fine oil on canvas painting in the manner of Georges Roualt's "le Vieux Roi or The Old King". This painting is marked on the back indicating that ...

Still life by Frederick Arthur Jessup entitled " Garden gourds ". Framed and signed work. Born in Victoria in 1920, Frederick Arthur JESSUP educated at East Sydney Tecnichal College ...

Oil on canvas painting signed on verso "B. Raab 5/75" After the famed "Homage to the Square" by Josef Albers Measures 30-1/4" X 30-1/4" square. Original aluminum frame. Colors are b...

Sunset In Harbor by Dong Moy Chu Kingman (1911-2000) Watercolor Signed. A charming watercolor painting created by Dong Kingman. This is an extraordinary piece of his art style and un...

Transporting mid century acrylic painting on board of a bermuda bayscape with houses, boats, and a lone figure, executed in a loose modernist style. Signed Birdsey in the lower right...

Yasse Tabuchi Modern ink drawing Signed and dated “Tabuchi 65” In the back “Tabuchi 1965” Yasse Tabuchi studied art history at the University of Arts of...

Vintage original still life oil painting by French born artist, Charles Levier. 1920=2003. Painting depicts a vase of flowers on a table in front of a window with a balustrade and wa...

Charles Melikoff is a Belgian Orientalist Impressionist & Modern painter. In an era when fine art and natural history museums commissioned artists to...

A wonderful 1960s Parisian oil painting, a Tourist Street Souvenir, by artist J. de P. of the Regatta at Argenteuil originally by Claude Monet. I...

Immerse your interior in the sophisticated allure of Mid-Century Modern art with this original abstract oil painting on canvas, signed "BYLE." The artist masterfully employs a rich, ...

Gorgeous ,Framed original x large painting of Venice canal in Italy with lots of colorful flowers and building. With wide black and gold fram...

Oil on canvas signed ROBJ, France, 1930s. Couple near the Pound. with frame - 134.6x107x7 cm - 53"x42"x2.75" ; without frame - 116x89 cm - 45.7x35 inches. 50F format. Signed "Robj" l...

Very sensual, large original oil on canvas of a beautiful reclining red headed nude woman, by famous deceased listed Dutch artist, Leo Jansen (1930-1980). T...

This continental large size turn of the century (19th-20th) oil painting on canvas is set in an antique giltwood frame. The scene is placed in w...

A large and remarkable masterpiece from the heyday of Art Deco mural painting, this colorful and detailed study was made by Eugene Savage in preparation for an enormous ceiling mural...

Lovely original impressionistic oil painting of a Venice Canal scene at dusk by Edward Barton (1926-2012).

This is a one-panel wooden door made in Japan around the 20th century. The material used is presumed to be Japanese cypress or Japanese cedar, and the delicately straight grain of th...

city scape, oil on canvas, art, painting, landscape, wall art wall decoration

Striking, dramatic and moody oil painting on canvas and wood frame. Deep red with shades of black. Light abstract texture throughout to catch addition light and create depth. Curbsi...

A fine collection of Five original silhouette portrait miniatures by the Miniaturist painter Dorothy Turton ( 1900 to 1990s). These are all hand painted...

Raoul Dufy "Venice" gouache on paper. Nice new wood frame included. Framed size: 26" x 33" Image size: 16.5" x 23.5".

Abstract oil painting in earthy colors and in period frame. It is titled Driftwood - Glasklint and was painted by the Danish artist Hening Nielsen born in 1930 sometime during the 19...

Late 20th century modernist oil painting of Greco Roman wrestlers done in the classical style. By David Loeb. Oil on handmade paper. Signed on reverse and dated 1989. Loeb was born in 1953 and raised in Chappaqua, New York, David Loeb’s mother and her identical twin were painters, and he has been painting since childhood. He studied with Gillian Pederson-Krag at Cornell University; Reed Kay at Boston University; Louis Finkelstein, Wolf Kahn and Philip Guston at the Yale Summer School of Art and Music; and attended graduate school at Indiana University, Bloomington, where he studied with Robert Barnes...

A charming oil painting of 'The Cascine', the gardens in Florence. The Cascine run along the river Arno and once was the destination for horse carriage rides and passeggiata. The pai...

A pretty oil on canvas by John Lochhead (1868-1921) a listed British artist born in 1868. The style of the painting is classic Victorian with a slightly naughty title on the back label "The Trysting Place". The piece depicts a well-dressed young woman seated on a bench in a charming bucolic garden setting with grazing sheep on a riverbank. The frame is a fine example of elaborate late 19th century carved giltwood with the label of a well-known carver and gilder...

Framed Oil "Wild Roses" on Masonite Panel, by John Heliker, American (1909-2000). Retains Gallery Label from Kraushaar Galleries, New York. Kraushaar Galleries was founded in 1885 and is still in business. Determined to become an artist, Heliker dropped out of high school to copy paintings...

This striking and unusual painting -- beautifully composed with a rich palette -- depicts two nude British youth, sitting on a rocky outcropping during a day of swimming. Each is sl...

1960s oil on canvas abstract painting signed 'Reynolds'. This large scale artwork features a bright white ground with vivid yellow, orange, red and pink textured palette knife detail. See the obituary for Lee Reynolds Burr...

Spectacular large Balinese Painting on Silk with an outstanding bamboo and woven rattan frame. This marvellous painting was realized in Bali around the 1960s and is signed on the bot...

Aleksei Alekseevich Shovkunenko (Ukrainian, 1884-1974), Standing Nude Man, Oil on Canvas, signed lower left, signed "Olexiy Shovkunenko / 1884-1974" and in Cyrillic to verso, unframe...

A rare gemstone artwork in the art nouveau style modeled after Alphonse Mucha's "Spring". The painting was done on the back of glass and applied with quartz to create the iridescent background. The Goddess finely painted, delicately inlaid with natural gemstones. She wears a long mermaid...

The Antique Painting, Vase Of Flowers paintings on canvas depicts a beautiful bouquet of flowers with Dahlias, Asters and Chrysanthemums above a table. The flowers are gathered in a...

A very large beautiful oil painting by Hartman, "Theatre de Vaudeville" oil on canvas. Measures: 36" x 48" view and 47" x 59" framed. Artist Hartman Medium Oil on canvas. ...

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...

Condition: Original Vintage Condition Designer: Wanda S. Neumann Manufacturer: Wanda S. Neumann Materials: Oil On Canvas, Wood Frame Style: California Realism

Italian Renaissance style (modern) oil painting of Madonna & Child in antique gold carved frame

Otto Pilny (Swiss, 1866-1936) A very fine orientalist oil on canvas "The Slave Market", depicting a desert scene with the offering of two female slaves. Signed and Dated (l/r): Otto Pilny, 1910. Canvas height: 31 1/2 inches (80 cm). Canvas width: 47 1/4 inches (120 cm). Frame height: 37 inches (94 cm). Frame width: 52 inches (132.1 cm). Previously offered at Christie's New York, 19th Century European Art, Sale 2521 on October 12, 2011, Lot 84. Latest Otto Pilny Sale: Christie's London - The Orientalist Sale including Works from the Najd Collection on 30 March 2021 - Lot 49 "Dance in the Desert" was sold for £100,800 ($138,500) There is not that much information about Otto Pilny who began his artistic education in Prague. Pilny also lived in Vienna and ended up settling in Zurich. Just like Ludwig Deutsch (1855-1935), Rudolf Ernst (1854-1932), and Carl Leopold Müller (1834-1892), Pilny was encouraged to travel abroad. During his two trips to Egypt, a favorite destination of the Austro-Hungarian school, the first one in 1889 and later en 1892, he acquired the taste of painting Orientalist scenes of Middle Eastern landscapes...

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 two-tone gilt wood, gilt-patinated 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. Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Painting diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 55 1/8 inches (140 cm) Frame width: 46 inches (116.8 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 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...

Lofty pair of Anglo Indian watercolors on paper of a man and a woman riding elephants in fancy saddles or howdahs. Presented under glass in a mahogany frame.

This piece, despite the lack of refined artistic details makes up for it in the sarcastic and unusual department. That sure is a funny chicken being stroked by a fruit-basket-hat wea...

Chinese panel art featuring a raised bird perched on a flowering tree branch detailed in pieces of mother of pearl against a burgundy and brown floral bordered background in a carved...

This is a vintage coastal painting. A Welsh, framed watercolour, dating to the late 20th century, circa 1980. Delightfully peaceful scene w...

Origin II, 1962 Large square monochromatic black, grey and white abstract with heavy impasto by Thomas George. Thomas George (1918-2014) was an internationally recognized artist wh...

Anonymous Summer willow and sparrows Taisho period, circa 1920 Framed painting. Mineral pigments, mica, gold, ink and gofun on silk Dimensions (framed): H. 98 cm x W. 135 cm x D...

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Beautiful gouache painting of an exotic bird by the important Mexican artist, known as "Chucho" Reyes. Measures: 19"x 28.5" in a period wood frame, u...

Mid Century Modern Watercolor on crinkled handmade paper titled "Hauling in the Net" depicting a young Tahitian man by canoe. Lovely Tropical theme with vibrant colors of green,blue,...

This superb depiction of two nude male boxers at the height of their fight, one knocking out the other, was painted by François-Louis Schmied, one of ...

Semi-abstract framed acrylic on canvas painting depicting a harbor with pilings, a boat and building using soft purples, blues and pinks. Painting is by artist Marion, 1966.

Spanish Contemporary oil painting of a stylized still life of fruit resting on a pedestal in a black frame (signed: [Jorge] CASTILLO 83 NY)

Acrylic on canvas painting. American, mid-20th century. Abstract composition in grey, blue, and yellow colors. Impasto technique. Unsigned. Collectible Modernist Fine Art And Wall De...

Oil painting By Victor Tempest On canvas Framed Mid/late 20th century.

Graciela Rodo Boulanger (Bolivian 1935-) The Bird Vendor Offset lithograph This beautiful print by the popular artist was printed in France in 1977.

Stunning oil painting on canvas of a European waterfront buildings. It look like a strip in the French Rivera. Framed with ornate wide gold frame. It had fresh air color and calm fe...

A stunning midcentury abstract oil on board by the listed artist William Ernst Burwell (1911-1974). It is entitled 'Water Symphony' a...