Early 20th Century Paintings

These are a set of 12 Lenox orchid plates from the 1920s. Each one is hand painted with a different orchid by W. H. Morley, who is a famous Lenox a...

Pigment on silk. Various walkways interconnecting the temple complex with one lone figure of a woman. Back paper is hand-stamped with mica paint. Signature and seal read: Gekkan

An original impressionist landscape oil on canvas by listed Austrian artist Josef Krotter (b. 1894), signed lower right. Depicts a bucolic landscape with a central curving body of wa...

Japanese six-panel screen: Buck and doe at dawn. Showa period (1926-1989) painting of a rising sun seen through a woodland scene with a pair of deer. In Japan, deer are thought to be...

Sizeable and decorative wall plates depicting wildlife in the mountains. These are not your average, transfer printed wall plaques or plates. These sizeable plates each come with a ...

Fritz Stäger 'Village Green' Oil on Canvas 1928. This is a wonderful and very naively painted early work by Fritz Stäger, a Swiss painter. Great atmosphere and colors - lots to se...

Vintage framed Still Life Oil Painting of Fruit with Pitcher. Framed in a lovely wooden frame. Ready to hang with wire along the back. French, circa 1920. Size of frame: 16 x 18 i...

An interesting still life, signed, illegibly, ca' 1930's-30's. Oil on canvas, nicely done in a gild wood frame.

G. van Rampelberg 'Gewichtige Bespreking' Oil on Panel, Belgium, 1920s. This is a truly fantastic painting by G. van Rampelberg, made in the early 20th century in Flanders, Belgium....

This painting is an oil on canvas and signed in the lower right, dating to about 1920. It does has craquelure which would be expected for an untouched painting of this age, but it d...

Winter Landscape Snow Scene Country Road Painting Oil on Canvas Framed Argnegger . Late 19th-early 20th century winter landscape / snow scene, by...

Original painting inspired by cesare Auguste Detti museum art work titled Autumn flirt, it shows two courting couple in romantic setting, the unknown artist master the clothing and ...

Dutch Landscape Oil on Canvas 1940s. Beautiful and well painted landscape - most probably Dutch. Very tactile and refined impressionist painting. Thick brush strokes and rich colors...

Jean Lafon, alias Keuleyan-Lafon (1886 Paris - 1973) SUNSET AT AGAY Painted in the 1910s Oil on canvas, 38 x 54 cm signed lower right: Keuleyan Jean Lafon...

Antique Victorian pastel on paper of a fine quality still life with game by American Artist, William Henry Chandler (1854-1928). Chandler was a ...

Danish original vintage oil on canvas painting from 1937 by artist Lars Knudsen Buus (1874-1947). Lars Buus was a renowned painter residing in the Middelfart area of Funen, mostly k...

Treated almost like a diptych, with two sheets of paper joined together to form one panoramic scene, this watercolor masterpiece -- probably by Frank Guy Applegate -- depicts a serie...

Early 20th century oil on canvas painting after Frans Hals' work known as "The Gypsy Girl." Depicts a young peasant woman with brown hair and low fron...

This is a charming Post-Impressionist painting of a young girl caught in an intimate moment of brushing her hair. William Foster's (1883-1953) expert display of light on his young s...

Mineral pigments on silk, mounted on a gold panel, in silk border. Signature and seal read: Yoho.

Expressive Realism Oil Painting Still Life of Sunflowers. Signed E. Gotzmann (1881-1950) This is an exceptional still life painting by Emmy Gotzmann, the primary student of the German artist Max Pechstein (1881-1955). She was considered equal to or even superior to her teacher. Emmy Gotzmann, a Jewish women painter...

A very colorful, early 20th century original oil painting on canvas board. Sourced in France, this modernist artwork is signed by the artist and colo...

Oswald Grill, a native of Vienna, was a freelance artist active in Dachau since 1906 after studying painting under Karl Karger at the Vienna School of Arts and Crafts, as well as Car...

Pair of Antique Hand-Painted Porcelain Sailor Portrait Plaques in 9ct Gold Mounts, English, Circa 1900 This evocative pair of antique portrait plaques features finely hand-painted im...

Tonalist shoreline seascape oil on canvas mounted in a painted molding. The painting is defined by a row of pilings projecting into the sea with sailboats on the horizon, where gray ...

Condition: Original Vintage Condition Materials: Oil On Canvas, Wood Frame Style: Portrait

Playful Cat Hirose Toho (1875-1930) Hanging scroll, ink, mineral pigments and gofun on silk. Painting inscription: Toho Sha Painting seals: Upper - Hirose Hitoshi Lo...

Beige ground lacquer with black and grey lacquer penguins with small pieces of shell making up white areas. Lacquer on wood. Writing reads: Lacquer Screen By Izumi Atsuhiko. It was ...

A fine French oil painting on canvas featuring a still life of a vase of flowers in a Montparnasse frame. The Montparnasse frame takes its name from the Parisian district where it w...

Oil Painting "Italian Street Scene" by Elizabeth R. Withington The Artist: Elizabeth Rupp Withington was a Rockport, Massachusetts illustrator and artist in watercolors, gouache, and oils. She was born on 6 September 1883 in Roxbury, Massachusetts to John Rupp...

This is an original vintage oil on canvas maritime painting with a beautiful sailboat and seagulls in the early morning light. The waters are slightly uneasy and the crew members can...

Flowers in a Vase Oil on Canvas. Delicate and elegant little painting. Flowers in orange and red tones in a vase. Painted freely and naive, but ...

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...

This is a KPM style hand painted plaque of Saint Catherine of Alexandria. The bright colors of her robes highlight her porcelain skin. Sh...

Oil Painting on Canvas signed Maurice Braun, 1902 Listed Artist A very lifelike rendering of a European street scene with houses. This early 20th Century painting features houses ...

English school, oil on canvas fishing boats alongside dock signed by English portrait and landscape painter Frederick Stead, (1863-1940). Antique wooden frame. Great subtle color and...

Monumental Harley Francis abstract male nudes oil painting on canvas Offered for sale is a monumental abstract oil painting by Harley Frances ( 1940...

An early 20th century 'Kamasan' cotton textile painting from Bali, Indonesia. The hand-painted image has great detail and depicts Balinese Hindu mythology. It has been framed with a ...

CHARLES ADELIN MOREL DE TANGUY French, 1857-1930 Sailing at Sunset Oil on Panel housed in an almost certainly original giltwood frame Signed lower right in script "Morel de Tanguy...

An American School Folk Art pastel painting on paper depicting a portrait of an Afro American boy. Signed by the artist, F. L. Turner, lower right. Framed. Circa: the first half of t...

An original pencil architectural sketch on paper realised in 1928 by the Italian architects Michele Busiri Vici and Clemente Busiri Vici for the large vill...

Antique oil on canvas of a gentleman in a quality carved gilded frame Early 20th Century A quality painting in a wonderful frame H 76 x W 67 x D 6.5cm Date 1901

Danish original antique oil on canvas landscape painting from 1932 by artist Nicolai Jensen Tving (1893-1973). The painting is signed by the artist in the lower left corner and fram...

A black-yellow, dark green antique Austrian still life oil on canvas painting depicting a clear glass vase with many flowers painted by Franz Xaver Pieler in a hand carved, original gilded wood frame, in good condition. The colorful painting depicts a dining table in a DIM room, representing the 19th...

"Arkitktur" is a mixed media painting on a panel by Swedish artist Carl Einar Andreas Forseth (1892–1988). It depicts a scene with three craftsmen (builders) in an arched structure w...

Portrait by French artist Silas Broux (1867-1957). This painting is dated 1912. This is oil on a wood panel. There are a few small marks to the painting and some wear to the frame. Silas Broux was a student at the National School of Decorative Arts in Paris from 1886 and the pupil of Gustave Moreau and Jules-Élie Delaunay. He exhibited scenes varying from topographic landscapes to portraits of...

The category of antique paintings, Landscape Paintings proposes a Glimpse of Venice with gondola and gondolier in a Venetian canal. Art Deco. The work depicts a moment of daily lif...

Antique painting “Madonna with a Napkin” after Bartolome Esteban Murillo, 1666 This lovely oil painting on beveled wood panel is after the f...

A charming antique 1920s oil on canvas painting of a mountain scene in a period frame. While the work is well executed it is unsigned. The painting was collected in France so presuma...

An original turn of the century Venetian watercolor painting by Italian artist Andrea Biondetti (b.1851-1946). Titled ‘The Bridge of Sighs’, the painting depicts the famous enclosed ...

This exquisite still life by Danish artist Ludvig Steensen showcases a masterful composition of two game birds resting on a draped table alongside a rustic copper mug...

Marco Aurelio Tricca (American/Italy, 1880-1969) "The Dump" Truck"—Building Baruch College, 1919 Oil on Canvas 20" x 30" Giltwood Framed 24" x 34" A histo...

Willem Johannes Weissenbruch (Dutch, 1864–1941) Canal Scene with Drawbridge and Barge, c.1900–1920 Oil on canvas Signed lower right Giltwood frame A peaceful Dutch river landscape...

These elegant oval frames were custom made to hold a set of “his and hers" oil portraits; probably a wealthy Italian couple. The wood carving is well-detailed and quite sturdy. The ...

A beautiful quality antique pietra dura plaque of an elderly couple, possibly by Giovanni Montelatici, made in Florence, Italy c. 1910. The image in this piece is all made of pietra...

Antique Framed Oil Painting on Canvas by Leon Meechelaere (1880-1964) is a splendid representation of the ancient city of Bruges, that at one time was the preeminent port for that pa...

The miniature etching on paper depicts a landscape of Venice with a view of Basilica of Santa Maria della Salute, with gondolas and small boats passing by. The etching is signed by t...

An early 20th Century Oil on canvas by Gustave Wiegand (1870-1957). The painting depicting assorted vibrant flowers in a yellow vase. Original frame. ...