Early 20th Century Paintings

French school of the 20th century still life with flowers oil on canvas mounted on cardboard signed lower left (undecipherable) and dated 1938 . Measures: 50 x 40 cm.

Maritime oil on canvas depicting a port scene. Within a later wooden frame. Late 19th-early 20th century Back of the canvas reads: "J. Harvey, 15 Cat...

Olga Lau (1875-1960), Danish artist. Oil on canvas. Large painting. Seated woman seen from the back lost in deep thoughts. Inspired by Italian Renaissance works. Modernist style. V...

A Fine Oil on Canvas of the ‘Lass That Loved a Sailor’ by Julius Mendes Price, 1906 Depicting a finely and fashionably dressed lady, sitting on a quay staring out to sea, ships visi...

The Caravan by Alphonse Birk (1859–1942) Watercolor on paper, signed lower right. This finely rendered Orientalist scene depicts a richly adorned caravan halting in the desert, with ...

Painting, oil on canvas from the early 20th century, depicting the Pont Marie. Oil on canvas, painting from the early 20th century, depicting the Pont Marie, framed, signed. Frame: ...

Copy of a painting by French Fauvist Georges Braque titled,"The Musicans Table" (c 1913) showing Cubist composition of music sheets on a table. Condition: Good; Wear consistent with...

Painting from Playful Putti in a Natural Frame A unique painting from 1910 by A. Gevels. Begium This enchanting painting from 1910 by the Belgian artist A. Gevels shows four playfu...

Orientalist engraving after Horace Vernet, wood frame, Empire period Orientalist engraving depicting Rebecca at the Fountain giving a drink to...

A cubist oil on canvas by listed artist Harry Hutchinson Shaw, (1897-1989). A vibrant scene characterized with crimson depicts the San Miguel de Allende in Mexico; a colonial-era cit...

American Art Moderne 1940s oil painting of 1930s bar scene with trumpet player. (Companion pieces: 054912A-054912D)

William Knox (1862-1925). A fine Watercolour Drawing of the Grand Canal, Venice. Signed to bottom right William Knox dated '23'. The Picture is currently without glass, but this can ...

A fine quality large oil on canvas painting artwork by Pierre Peltier 1927, a vintage antique cityscape. The painting depicts a tugboat in trouble on the Seine at Pont Neuf. Titled 'La Seine au...

Spectacular melancholic antique winter scape with hare oil on canvas large painting. Signed in cirillyc lower right/ probably White Russian emegrant artist.

Henri Alphonse Barnoin (1882-1940) studied with Emile Charles Dameron at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. In 1912 he moved to the small commun...

A pair of Continental European oil painting of impressionist style harbor scenes in later giltwood frames. The painting are 14.5 wide, 11.5 high with frames, 11 wide, by 9 high unfra...

Harry Stinton (British, 1882–1968) – Watercolour Landscape with Mill and Figures A fine early 20th-century English watercolour by Harry Stinton, depicting a tranquil rural mill scen...

Early 20th Century English Watercolour of a Country House in Gilt Frame A charming early 20th century English school watercolour, finely painted and depicting a handsome Gothic Revi...

Neo-realist still life oil on board by Victor Simonin (1877-1946) painted in the early 20th century. Signed by the artist. Victor Simonin trained at the Royal Acdemy of Fine Art in...

This is a miniature watercolor painting featuring the ceremony to secure the Tower of London by the British Beefeaters (They are in charge to protect the Crown Jewels). The guards ar...

Stanton MacDonald-Wright (American, 1890-1973) Still Life canvas: 16 by 20 inches frame: 19 ¾ by 23 ¾ inches

Original oil painting of two children playing tea party. Vibrant colors of green, blue, and red in the scene. Mounted in a gold painted wood and plaster frame and signed Ludvig Jaco...

Oil on canvas with golden Baroque frame of wood and stucco. (S-138).   

1861-1944 Nicolas Briganti oil on canvas. European Scene Active in New Bedford, Massachusetts between 1893 and 1897, Nicholas Briganti painted l...

Jean Leroy attributed (1896 - 1939) Painting on panel - Signed lower right Belgium Painting - Vintage - decoration Measures : 119,5cmx100cm - With frame : 121cmx4,5cm H:102,5cm Wear...

France, 1920s Art Deco Gouache on paper Stylized portrait of a woman in profile on geometric background in grey, black and cream tones. 20 x 16 framed.

An original oil on canvas portrait of Marquise de Broglie (1718-1777). The original portrait by Jean Marc Nattier (1685-1766) hangs in the National Museum in Stockholm, while this re...

This is a woman portrait painting of a lady dressed in white. This oil painting has an original frame realised in the 1900s. Art Déco. Although the signature of the canvas portr...

In good condition From a private collection Free international shipping VLADIMIR ROZMAINSKY (Tbilisi 1885-1943 Paris) Russion Oil

Antique oil on canvas painting of a French gentleman sneezing after probably taking snuff from the snuff box he is holding. A naive portrait painting with plenty of charm and charact...

Painted with a brilliant palette and very fine detail, this depiction of a tropical fish swimming above a strand of seaweed and a giant clam, surrounded by a cloud of bubbles, is a c...

Edouard Goerg (1893 - 1969) "Le Grain de Beauté" Oil on canvas, signed. The painting has been relined. Provenance: Estate of Nelly Kaplan & Claude Makovski.

Frans Roofhooft(1888-1957), a Belgian artist was known for floral still lifes' and landscapes. This painting is a classic example of his work. The oil painting depicts a bounty of fl...

A very interesting and unusual Cornwall Iron Banks Original Oil Painting by artist J. Earle Pfoutz. The painting is produced on canvas and comes complete with what appears to be an original artist decorated/painted frame with later touch ups. The Cornwall Iron Banks Original Oil Painting is signed on the front by the artist and appears to be dated 1948 on the rear. Known for his unusual subjects Pfoutz outdid himself with this effort, capturing the workings of one of the largest iron ore mines in the eastern United States, located in Cornwall PA. This mine and others in the area that came before it, played a crucial role in the development of the United States of America from the Revolutionary War, through the industrial revolution up until the 1970’s when the mine was flooded during Hurricane Agnes and closed operations. Overall frame Size approximately 26″ wide x 2″ deep x 30″ high J. Earle Pfoutz had a long and distinguished career as a self trained artist. More can be learned about him from reading this article produced by Gary Hawbaker at askART Earle Pfoutz Born: 1891 – Lancaster, Pennsylvania Died: 1957 Known for: Landscape, figure, still life painting An image of J Earle Pfoutz Biography from the Archives of askART J. Earle Pfoutz (John Earle Pfoutz) – (Oct 23, 1891-Nov 9, 1957) “A seventh generation descendant of a Swiss family which arrived in America early in the 17th Century, J. Earle Pfoutz was born in Lancaster, PA, son of John Bachman and Susan Allison Pfoutz. He painted houses for a living and pictures for a life. A self-taught artist, described as a primitive, he was distinctive for his vivid imagination and bold color application. He painted hundreds of Lancaster County scenes. Pfoutz traveled through the hills near his home and along the Susquehanna River in search of scenes. He began painting with a brush when he was fourteen, but added a palette knife after suffering an eye injury. He completed eighth grade in the Lancaster Public Schools and there his formal education ended. However, the Department of Public Instruction of the State of Pennsylvania thought so highly of his work as an artist that officials certified him as an art instructor and he taught for a year in the York (PA) public schools. He also was an art instructor under the program for disabled veterans, sponsored by the Veterans Administration, when he gave private instruction to veterans in their homes. In 1947, J. Earle Pfoutz finally earned national recognition as an artist. His painting, Opalescent October, was chosen by the Museum of Art of Dayton Ohio, to travel all over the country for a year with its Group Exhibition. Described as a “very colorful, calm scene, iridescent in color, sweeping in design,” the painting started on its journey around the country early in 1948. In an interview with the Sunday News (Lancaster, PA – Nov 2, 1947), Pfoutz stated that he didn’t know whether he was a “primitive” or an “impressionist.” No master taught him, no school channeled his style. “Sometimes I didn’t eat, but I always managed to paint,” he recalled. Many of his hundreds of canvases -most of them not sold, but given away to friends – found their way to other parts of the country. “I never remember the day when I did not love color,” Pfoutz said. “I was about 12 years old when I saw my first palette – a string of different colored paint paddles that graced the stores of that day. As a boy I had two great desires. One was to be able to eat all the strawberry jam I could, and the other to possess a string of those beautiful paint paddles. Well, I’ve got my fill of jelly, but I’ve never yet got my fill of beautiful colors.” In 1950, Pfoutz’s one man show of paintings made front page headlines in the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal: “Most of the twenty oil paintings on exhibition are landscapes, although there are several interesting figure studies. Colors again, as in all Pfoutziana are rich and full-bodied, but for the most part not as startlingly as in some of the earlier work. Most of the paintings were done during the past year, and also reveal the painter’s characteristic heavy impasto technique, in which the rich swirls of paint carry their own message. Among the figures, The Banjo Picker, and The Magician, are the most provocative. Both are character studies; the first being of a tramp musician whose drab clothing is set-off by a luminous aqua blue background. Modern in feeling and treatment is The Magician, a clown-faced wizard whose spinning ball in the air suggests the fourth dimension – space. The use of the primary colors in this picture serves to emphasize the theme effectively. A large colorful landscape, Opalescent October, depicting rolling hills against a late afternoon sky is new to Lancastrians, as it has just returned from Dayton, Ohio, where it hung in the Dayton Art Institute. Another landscape with soft dreamy colors is Fantasie D’Autumne, and one of the loveliest pictures in the show. Pennsylvania Dutch Country is another with eye appeal, and was one of the works which was hung in the Old Customs House in Philadelphia during Pennsylvania Week, and before that in a collection of Pfoutz work in the same place. In deep contrast to the sunny skies and brilliant foliage of many of the pictures, is the somewhat morbid Worry, in which the center of interest is a tremendous rat. This, the painter explains, was symbolic of 1948 in China, which was ‘The Year of The Rat’ in the Chinese calendar. Background material for the picture was furnished to Pfoutz by author Pearl Buck. Other pictures include Autumn Prelude, Miners Village, painted at Cornwall, PA; Humid Day, Saint Peters Kierch, at Middletown, PA; Lady Pfoutz, inspired by the painter’s wife; Sun Flowers, Sentimental Journey, Gyne, Luzon Woman, Old Bridge, The Cow Path. Lemures, based on Roman mythology, and Ethiopian, painted from an ebony wood carving...

An oil painting on canvas of a wintry alpine landscape at sunset by Russian early 20th century artist Victor Emanuelov (Russian, 1884–1940). THe artist painted almost exclusively w...

Exotic and highly atmospheric, this nocturnal Art Deco scene of the famed Egyptian prince, Saif ul Malook, from the fairy tale by Mian Muhammad Baskh, was painted by Gösta Adrian-Nil...

Duncan Smith 1877-1934. Lived worked in New York. Illustrator, Mural Painter, Teacher. 35 1/2 by 26 1/2" overall size. Canvas size 30 by 21". It appears t...

The painting is quaint, as written on the back Edward Mack Hawkins the artist was motoring from NYC to Upstate during the World War, Near Windset on a country road he saw this meager...

Old French pastel painting "Mother with Child "from the early 1900s,the author demonstrates great skill in conveying the feeling of complacency of the maternal figure,not to mention ...

Large oil on canvas Painting Artwork by O. Redgrave Still life with Genie C1900. An impressive large work. Something really different that would look great in the right location! ...

Émile Renard (French, 1850-1930) A Fine and Charming Oil on Canvas "A Good Poker Hand", depicting a joyous seated man, smoking a pipe, showing his Poker h...

Impressionist Watercolor Shore Scene by Ferdinand Leys (Belgian: 1873 -1960), circa 1920, a hand painted original watercolor on paper impressionist view of a figure seated on the sal...

In good condition From a private collection Free international shipping Vogel Signed Huge Art Deco Portrait Oil Painting

A rediscovered Danish female painter wit this motif from Italy.

Large nocturnal winter landscape painting by California artist Peter ILYIN. Framed oil on canvas titled 'First Snow'. This painting hung in the Bohemian Club in San Francisco, and r...

Jean Lafon, alias Keuleyan-Lafon (1886 Paris - 1973) THE RED ROCKS OF AGAY IN THE EVENING LIGHT Oil on canvas signed lower right: Jean Lafon Jean Lafon w...

Abstract Watercolour Masked Portrait Signed TH Gerson Good condition, as seen. From a private collection. Free international shipping.

Oil on canvas, signed lower left. Daniel Sherrin (1868-1940): Born in Brentwood, Essex in 1868, Daniel Sherrin was the son of John Sherrin and, later, ...

This elegant and lovely depiction of a shepherd with his staff, clearly influenced by classic Greek painting and pottery, was made by François-Louis Schmied, one of France's two lead...

Oil on board signed lower right. Provenance: Private collection New England, David Dike Fine Art, Dallas Measuring 25" x 19" panel and 30" x 24" including the frame. Max Gaisser...

Nicely painted with a wine bottle and various foods displayed on a azure blue curtain. The white washed frame with a distressed surface.

We present you an oil on canvas depicting the forest landscape. The signature is unidentified. The whole is closed in a wooden frame, which is decorated with molding in the color o...

Antique French provincial oil Painting. Scene of the country side with 2 small houses near a river in a forest. South of France, Province. Oil...

Antique painting of a steam powered yacht flying a British flag and named "Sapphire" as seen on the Mediterranean sea with Mt.Vesuvius in the background. Executed in gouache by noted Italian marine artist Luca...

Brilliantly painted in rich jewel tones -- emerald, sapphire and canary -- this high style Art Deco-cum-Fauvist painting depicts a female bather, swathed in a large towel, in conversation with a muscled male rower, high above the beach below. Sunbathers under their umbrellas can be seen in the distance, and above the couple is a vivid sky with bolts of blue and coral above hills of green, yellow and pink. The artist, Marius Woulfart...

This early 20th-century oil painting depicts a peaceful French countryside scene, with a cottage by a river, surrounded by lush trees and rolling hills. A small wooden boat rests ne...

Peripatetic and brilliant, Hari Kidd, the painter who created this brilliant still life was associated with Philadelphia, Detroit, Key West and Tucson, but h...

This large antique oil painting was done by the well known Willem Hendriks of the Netherlands in approximately 1920 in his signature realistic style. The painting is an oil on canvas and is titled "The Old Well" and depicts a Dutch woman...

Prominant and listed with international sales, English artist Thomas Mackay (1851 - 1920) featured here the impressionistic watercolor "Woman on Stairs" in a beautiful frame with glass. Thomas Mackay British visual artist who was born in 1850. Many works by the artist have been sold at auction, including "A young Girl beside a Duck Pond" and "A young Girl in a Flower Field" sold at Christie's South Kensington "British and Continental...

Hand painted sign from classroom door. Made around 1900s.