Gilt Paintings

American intra-war artist and illustrator Porter Woodruff (1894-1959). Arabian Horses and Riders, oil on board with chalky gouache. Signed Porter Woodruff Hammamet 1958 in pencil on the back. Indistinct PW on lower right of painting. His Art Deco-influenced paintings are highly decorative and appealing, the compositions complex and well-thought out. The gold leaf background is decorative and elegant. His are rare Modernist paintings by an artist who found himself at the very heart of design, fashion and celebrity life in the early part of the century. Dimensions: 11.5" H x 15.5" W (sight) 13.5" H x 17.5" W (frame) Porter Woodruff, was an illustrator artist and contributor to Vogue Magazine and Home & Garden (including covers for both). He was one of five artists stationed in Paris in 1923 for Vogue. Woodruff spent considerable time in Tunisia, North Africa, residing with his romantic partner, Romanian socialite George Sebastian. Sebastian owned a lavish, coastal property in then-trendy Hammamet, near Tunis on the Mediterranean. Sebastian fell in love with the simple beauty of the quiet fishing port of Hammamet and was the first of the international set of the times to build his villa there. He started a trend that has never ceased. Frank Lloyd Wright is said to have claimed Dar Sebastian to be ”the most beautiful house I have ever seen”. American and European intelligentsia and upper-crust were attracted to the area between the wars. The artists Cocteau, Elsa Schiaparelli, Paul Klee, Andre Gide, the Sitwells, and Cecil Beaton enjoyed visiting, partying, and undertaking what someone once described as indulging the opportunity to do 'some rather elaborate sinning'. Other visitors included Art Deco designer Jean-Michel Frank, Wallis Simpson, Somerset Maugham, and Greta Garbo, among others. The onset of war disrupted this scene and it never truly regained its former glory. Dar Sebastian was requisitioned by the 'Desert Fox', German General, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel...

American intra-war artist and illustrator Porter Woodruff (1894-1959). Arabian Horses and Riders, oil and gold leaf on board with chalky gouache. Signed Porter Woodruff Hammamet 1958 in pencil on the back. Initialed PW on lower left of painting. His Art Deco-influenced paintings are highly decorative and appealing, the compositions complex and well-thought out. The gold leaf background is decorative and elegant. His are rare Modernist paintings by an artist who found himself at the very heart of design, fashion and celebrity life in the early part of the century. Dimensions: 11.5"h x 15.5"w (sight) 13.5"h x 17.5"w (frame) Porter Woodruff, was an illustrator artist and contributor to Vogue Magazine and Home & Garden (including covers for both). He was one of five artists stationed in Paris in 1923 for Vogue. Woodruff spent considerable time in Tunisia, North Africa, residing with his romantic partner, Romanian socialite George Sebastian. Sebastian owned a lavish, coastal property in then-trendy Hammamet, near Tunis on the Mediterranean. Sebastain fell in love with the simple beauty of the quiet fishing port of Hammamet and was the first of the international set of the times to build his villa there. He started a trend that has never ceased. Frank Lloyd Wright is said to have claimed Dar Sebastian to be ”the most beautiful house I have ever seen”. American and European intelligentsia and upper-crust were attracted to the area between the wars. The artists Cocteau, Elsa Schiaparelli, Paul Klee, Andre Gide, the Sitwells, and Cecil Beaton enjoyed visiting, partying, and undertaking what someone once described as indulging the opportunity to do 'some rather elaborate sinning'. Other visitors included Art Deco designer Jean-Michel Frank, Wallis Simpson, Somerset Maugham, and Greta Garbo, among others. The onset of war disrupted this scene and it never truly regained its former glory. Dar Sebastian was requisitioned by the 'Desert Fox', German General, Field Marshal Erwin Rommel...

Alfredo Carmelo (1896-1985) was a Filipino artist known predominantly for marine, nautical and seascape genre. Dramatic rough wind driven seas. Oil pai...

Signed Newcomb-Macklin frame. Newcomb Macklin hand carved and gilded frame. Partial paper label intact. Antiqued carved and gesso Beaux-Arts style frame. Partial exhibition label int...

A framed oil painting dated 1954 by Scandinavian artist Ivar Morsing. Morsing was born in Angelholm Sweden in 1919 and after serving in WW2, he became ...

Selection of Modernist or gallery wall, circa 1950s. They have all been framed in vintage gilt frames. They are priced at $650 each. From left to right as seen in the first photo, they are: 1) Original female nude painting, oil on board, artist unknown. It measures: 12.75" H x 11" W 2) Salvador Dali "Don Quixote" etching. “Certificate of Authenticity” on verso. It measures: 16.5" H x 13.25" W. 3) Original harlequin musician painting...

Iconic European Street Scenes paintings by Italian Listed Artist Antonio Ninetti, a pair Born in Naples in 1928, Antonio Ninetti firs...

This is a beautiful watercolor by the renowned artist John Berry entitled 'At the seaside' mid-20th century in date. The painting depicts a very picturesque scene of three girls and their mother playing on the shore, with a view of an English coastal town and mountains in the background. Signed Berry on the bottom left and housed in a simple gilded frame. Condition: In excellent condition, please see photos for confirmation. Dimensions in cm: Height 42 x width 46 x depth 2 - Frame Height 25 x width 30 - Watercolor Dimensions in inches: Height 16.5 x width 18.1 x depth 0.8 - Frame Height 9.8 x width 11.8 - Water colour John Berry John Berry was one of the stable of artists who illustrated the Ladybird books, which have entertained generations of children at the same time as teaching them to read. Between 1961 and 1978 Berry illustrated some 35 books for Ladybird. These included the "People at Work" series, featuring jobs such as policeman, fireman, postman, potter, nurse, coal miner, farmer and engine driver. The series forms an almost complete record of British industry as it was at the time. He also illustrated all six books in the "Hannibal the hamster" series between 1976 and 1978, and publications such as Come to France, Come to Denmark, Come to Holland and Learning to Ride. John Leslie Berry was born in Hammersmith, south-west London, on June 9 1920. He was educated locally before, in 1934, being accepted by Hammersmith College of Art. From there he won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy but was unable to take it up owing to the outbreak of war – a disappointment that he never got over. Berry served as an official war artist attached to the Eighth Army in the Western Desert – some of his pictures were exhibited during wartime at the National Gallery in London, and are now in the Imperial War Museum. On the return of peace, he worked on various advertising campaigns, including, in 1951, the famous image for Esso of the "Tiger in your tank". He also became a prolific portrait painter, his subjects including the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh (for the Royal Artillery Regiment) and Lady Astor...

Fabulous gouache on board by Cornish artist Frank Middleditch. Presented in an antique Regency giltwood frame. Signed bottom left. The measurements given below are the frame...

Abstract cityscape painting on board by Chicago artist, William McBride, Jr. McBride was born in 1912 in New Orleans. His parents, who were vaudevi...

Mid-Century Modernist Jean (Hans) Arp. "Presque Vase et Fleur" (A. 331), lithograph in colors, 1955, hand signed in pencil by the artist and numbered 197/200. Attractively matted and framed with a custom gallery partial gilt-wooden frame. Sheet: 19" H X 16.5" W. including frame: 27.75" H X 24.25" W. Depicting an abstract black vase with a grey flower on a yellow background, an iconic example of Arp's work. Jean Arp. B. 1886, STRASSBURG, GERMANY; D. 1966, BASEL Jean Arp was born Hans Arp on September 16, 1886, in Strassburg. In 1904, after leaving the Ecole des Arts et Métiers, Strasbourg, he visited Paris and published his poetry for the first time. From 1905 to 1907, Arp studied at the Kunstschule, Weimar, and in 1908 went to Paris, where he attended the Académie Julian. In 1909, he moved to Switzerland and in 1911 was a founder of the Moderner Bund group there. The following year, he met Robert and Sonia Delaunay in Paris and Vasily Kandinsky in Munich. Arp participated in the Erste deutsche Herbstsalon in 1913 at the gallery Der Sturm, Berlin. After returning to Paris in 1914, he became acquainted with Guillaume Apollinaire, Max Jacob, Amadeo Modigliani, and Pablo Picasso. In 1915, he moved to Zurich, where he executed collages and tapestries, often in collaboration with his future wife Sophie Taeuber (who became known as Sophie Taeuber-Arp after they married in 1922). In 1916, Hugo Ball...

Beautiful oil on masonite board of potted irises. Signed lower left, Stern. Painterly and expressive brush work. Circa 1960. Very good original condition. Gilded wood and gesso ...