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Recognized Seller Listings
'Erblüth' a Large 19th Century Berlin 'KPM' Porcelain Plaque
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
'Erblüth' a large and very fine Berlin (KPM) Porcelain plaque, after Angelo Asti. In a giltwood and composition shadow box frame.
Signed 'Weigel', impr...
Category
19th Century German Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Porcelain, Giltwood
Still Life Oil on Canvas with Grapes and Corn by Giuseppe Falchetti, ca. 1875
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Giuseppe Falchetti (Italian, 1843-1918). Nineteenth Century Oil-on-Canvas Still Life with Grapes and Ears of Corn, Signed Lower Left, 'G Falchetti,' the gilded frame with intricate ...
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1870s Italian Romantic Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Canvas
A Flemish-Style Still Life Oil-on-Canvas Signed Marcial Conza, 39 x 47-ins.
Located in Banner Elk, NC
A Large Flemish-style Oil-on-Canvas, Still Life with Vegetables, including eggplant, red bell peppers, yellow ears of corn, green celery: and objects, a clay ewer, pots, and lanter...
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1990s Belgian Baroque Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Massive Abstract Acrylic on Canvas, Pascal Magis (1955-2011)
By Pascal Magis
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This is an absolutely beautiful acrylic on canvas by French artist, Pascal Magnis. A master of color, Magnis creates a canvas in which the colors and shapes appear to be jumping off the canvas. At the grand size of 9'10" x 6'9" this would ignite that drab wall! The artwork is signed in the lower right corner.
Below From: Wimbledon Fine Art
"Pascal Magis...
Category
1990s French Modern Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Large Acrylic on Canvas, Pascal Magis (1955-2011)
By Pascal Magis
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Truly a spectacular piece, this acrylic on canvas is by French artist, Pascal Magis. Known for his use of color, Magis uses acrylics as though the paint has a life of its own. Domina...
Category
1990s French Modern Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Oversized Abstract Acrylic on Canvas, Pascal Magis (1955-2011)
By Pascal Magis
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This oversized acrylic on canvas is by French artist Pascal Magis. Known for his use of color, this would add flare to any interior. Dominant colors are red, black, yellow and blue. ...
Category
1990s French Modern Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Still Life with Lemons and Pewter, Oil on Canvas, Signed Paul F. Wilson, 24 x 30
Located in Banner Elk, NC
Still Life with Lemons and Pewter, Oil on Canvas, Signed Paul F. Wilson,
signed lower right 'Paul F Wilson.' The frame with display plaque, 'LEMONS Paul F. Wilson.'
PAINTING SIZE:...
Category
1960s American Vintage Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Canvas
19th Century Oil On Canvas Equestrian Scene by George Armfield
By George Armfield
Located in Dublin 8, IE
George Armfield (1808-1893) oil on canvas painting, depicting an atmospheric scene of three horses to foreground with a thunderstorm in the background. Dramatic tension is created by...
Category
19th Century English Aesthetic Movement Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Paint
Oil on Canvas painting of 'The Barber of Seville' by Luis Alvarez Catalá
Located in London, GB
The Barber of Seville
By Luis Alvarez Catalá
Executed in oil on canvas, housed in a giltwood frame, the painting depicting an 18th century domesti...
Category
19th Century Italian Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Paint
19th Century Oil On Canvas Titled ‘Dean Swift & The Young Merchant’ By T.P. Hall
Located in Dublin 8, IE
19th Century oil on canvas titled ‘Dean Swift & The Young Merchant’ by Thomas P. Hall.
Thomas Paul Hall (1810 - 1867) was a London painter of genre and historical scenes, who enjoye...
Category
Mid-19th Century English Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
18th Century Painting By Matthew William Peters Titled ‘Adorational’
Located in Dublin 8, IE
18th Century painting on porcelain by Matthew William Peters titled ‘Adorational’. Circa 1780.
Peters (1742 - 1814) was an English portrait and genre painter who later became an Ang...
Category
18th Century English Georgian Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Porcelain, Giltwood, Paint
Socrates, 18th Century, Oil on Canvas, Unsigned
Located in Mjöhult, SE
Death of Socrates, oil on canvas, Unsigned, 18th century possibly Italy.
Category
18th Century Italian Baroque Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Two KPM Porcelain Plaques in Giltwood Frames after Murillo
By KPM Porcelain, Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Located in London, GB
These wonderful porcelain plaques were created in circa 1860 by the prestigious Konigliche Porzellan Manufaktur or KPM (German, founded in 1763). The plaques feature beautiful paintings based on works by the famous Seville-based Baroque artist, Bartolome Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1618-1682).
One plaque is decorated after Murillo...
Category
Late 19th Century German Baroque Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Porcelain, Giltwood
Japanese Folding Screen Six Panels Painted on Gold Leaf
Located in Brescia, IT
Paravento a sei pannelli di scuola giapponese Kano: paesaggio con bellissime ed eleganti gru vicino al fiume, con alberi di pino e sakura.
Dipinto a mano con pigmenti minerali ed inc...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pitcher with Flowers, Oil on Canvas, Gaston Sébire (1920-2001)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This is a stunning oil on canvas by Gaston Sébire entitled, "Le Bouquet de Paquerettes", Pitcher With Flowers. Depicted is a pitcher with a handle holding what appears to be daisies and grasses.The pitcher and flowers stand out against the black and brown background. His thoughtful attention to detail can be seen in the fallen flowers...
Category
1960s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Hand Painted Watercolor Portrait of a Little Girl England Mid-19th Century
Located in Katonah, NY
A small, mid-19th-century English School watercolor portrait of a young girl with her hair in perfect curls and wearing a plaid dress.
She has a serious look appropriate for standin...
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Mid-19th Century English Victorian Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Paper
"Vase de Fleur", Oil on Canvas, Andrés Segovia (1929-1996)
By Andrés Segovia
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This is a wonderful oil on canvas floral composition by Andres Segovia. Adding so much interest to this piece is the placement of the vase and the appeared wall in the background, dr...
Category
1950s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Watercolor Painting of Two Young Ladies Walking Home
Located in Katonah, NY
A skilled English painter from the mid-19th century painted this lovely pair of watercolors.
They exemplify the traditional style of the era, with light and airy backgrounds that fo...
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Mid-19th Century English Country Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Paper
Early 20th Century Japanese Screen Pair - Ink Pine Trees on Gold
Located in Kyoto, JP
Imao Keisho (1902-1993)
Pine Trees
Early 20th Century, Circa 1930
Pair of six-panel Japanese screens. Ink on silk and gold leaf.
Dimensions: Each screen H. 67.5” x 148” (172 cm x 376 cm)
A pair of monumental six-panel Japanese pine screens by the renowned Nihonga artist Imao Keisho. Here Keisho entirely removed the background and brought the pine trees to the surface of the painting. This simplification of the elements makes the scene exceptionally direct and compelling and injects a very modern...
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Showa Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Large Italian Painting of a Merchant Ship "The Venetian Workers' Society Offers"
Located in Katonah, NY
A unique work of art, this charming painting was hand painted in Italy in the mid-19th century.
Created to promote The Venetian Workers' Society, this large hand-painted oil paintin...
Category
Late 19th Century Italian Folk Art Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Glass, Wood
Watercolor with Pen and Ink Showing A Riverside View of a Walled Medieval City
Located in Katonah, NY
This 19th century watercolor with pen and ink is most likely Dutch, having been acquired in Holland. It shows a romantic scene of an attractive walled city with buildings and rooftop...
Category
Mid-19th Century Dutch Romantic Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Paper
Philip and Kelvin LaVerne "Horses Plaque" with Colorful Enamels 1960s (Signed)
Located in New York, NY
"Horses Plaque" in patinated bronze and pewter with colorful hand-painted enamel cloisonne horses by Philip and Kelvin LaVerne, American 1960's (signed "Philip Kelvin LaVerne"). The background of this piece is patinated pewter and the piece is trimmed in patinated bronze. The colorful green, blue and yellow enamels used for the horses are stunning.
Reference:
”Philip and Kelvin LaVerne, Sculpture III”, paper catalog published in the 1970’s, this painted wall sculpture is on page 38 titled, “Horses Plaque“. The description on the back of the catalog is written as followed: “HORSES PLAQUE - Ming horses...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Bronze, Pewter, Enamel
Abstract Oil on Panel, John Sacarro (1913-1981)
By John Saccaro
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This is a wonderful abstract oil painting on a wood panel by John Saccaro, acquired from his estate. Saccaro was a prominent artist in San Fransisco in the 1940-1960s. His bold use o...
Category
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Wood
Abstract Oil on Panel, John Sacarro (1913-1981)
By John Saccaro
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This is a wonderful abstract oil painting on a wood panel by John Saccaro, acquired from his estate. Saccaro was a prominent artist in San Fransisco in the 1940-1960s. His bold use o...
Category
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
An Oversized Floral Still Life, Oil on Canvas, Sarkis Sarkisian 1909-1977
By Sarkis Sarkisian
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This is an impressive oversized floral still life by Sarkis Sarkisian featuring tulips and Lillies in a vase. The mauve background is subtle enough to compliment the flowers and vas...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Japanese Screen of Spring on Gold Leaf
Located in Brescia, IT
It is a two-panel screen from the Taisho period, around 1920, beautifully painted in excellent detail.
The best of Rinpa's school painting: large empty space that highlights a pair of mandarin ducks in the middle of the pond.
On the right, flying birds give the painting a great lightness, under many multicolored flowers they celebrate spring.
All very proportionate and pleasant, the dimension really interesting.
Mineral pigments on gold leaf. It turns out Anonymous.
Lucio Morini.
Category
Early 20th Century Japanese Taisho Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Fisherman by Reuven Rubin- Watercolor Painting
By Reuven Rubin
Located in New York, NY
Fisherman by Reuven Rubin (1893-1974), watercolor on paper.
Signed lower left, Rubin in English and Reuben in Hebrew.
Dimensions with frame: 43x63 cm
Original frame included.
An Ar...
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1940s Israeli Expressionist Vintage Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Paper
Aboriginal Jukurrpa by Andrea and Kathleen Martin Nungarrayi
By Warlukurlangu Artists of Yuendumu, Kathleen Martin Nungarrayi
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This is a beautiful Aboriginal Jukurrpa (dreaming story) by P Andrea and Kathleen
Nungarray Martin P. Both artist are a part of the Warlukurlangu Artists of...
Category
Late 20th Century Australian Other Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Linen
3 Small Watercolor Portraits of Little Girls, England, circa 1840
Located in Katonah, NY
Three hand painted watercolor portraits of little girls.
These watercolor portraits each capture that girl's unique personality and expression.
Painted by skilled portrait artists...
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Mid-19th Century European Victorian Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Paper
20th Century Portrait
Located in Mjöhult, SE
Portrait of a man, oil on canvas, unsigned, circa 1950s, Belgium.
Category
Mid-20th Century Belgian Mid-Century Modern Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Mid-18th Century Japanese Screen Pair, One Hundred Flowers, Chrysanthemums
Located in Kyoto, JP
Omori Soun (b. 1704)
Chrysanthemums - One Hundred Flowers
A Pair of Six-fold Japanese Screens. Ink, color, gofun and gold leaf on paper.
Dating ...
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Mid-18th Century Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
19th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Flowers & Birds of the Four Seasons
Located in Kyoto, JP
Flowers & Birds of the Four Seasons
Pair of six-fold Japanese Screens. Ink, color, gofun and gold on paper.
Second half of the 19th Centur...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
17th Century Japanese Screen. Ink Plum Tree & Birds by Kano Naonobu.
Located in Kyoto, JP
Kano Naonobu (1607-1650)
Plum Tree and Birds
Six-fold Japanese Screen. Ink and slight color on paper.
In this evocative ink work spread over a six-panel folding screen, we see the consummation of the elegance and refinement of the Edo Kano school. This 17th century screen is a rare surviving example of a large-scale bird and flower painting by Kano Naonobu, the younger brother of Kano Tanyu...
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17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paper
Japanese Painting, Hanging Scroll, 19th Century Bamboo in Moonlight
Located in Kyoto, JP
Bamboo in moonlight
Gamo Rakan (1784-1866)
Hanging scroll, ink on silk.
Dimensions:
Scroll: 201 cm x 58 cm
Image: 137 cm x 45 cm
In this early 19th century work by Gamo Rakan a light ink wash applied to the silk background silhouettes the moon and suggests the atmosphere of early evening. Even though it is a literati subject, Rakan’s bamboo is quite realistic with a strong decorative style. The painting finds its inspiration from Chinese Ming dynasty painters who often used a single-tone, jet black stroke to emphasize the calligraphic nature of bamboo.
In a different era, decorative would have been seen as somewhat unrefined. But increasingly in the Edo period, it was the hallmark of high style. The Japanese people, in particular the rising merchant class, had gradually become apathetic toward the traditional Sesshu and Kano schools of painting. Chinese professional and amateur painters living in the port of Nagasaki during the 18th century had a profound effect on Japanese painting and the freshness of their style and its decorative appeal contributed greatly to its popularity. Gamo Rakan’s teacher, Tani Buncho...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Silk
Philip and Kelvin LaVerne Unique Bronze Painting "Acceptance", USA, 1960s
Located in New York, NY
Philip and Kelvin LaVerne unique "Acceptance" bronze painting with etching in patinated bronze and pewter with colorful hand-painted enamels. This Abstract Expressionist illustration...
Category
1960s Vintage Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Bronze, Enamel, Pewter
'Les Quatre Eléments' by Pierre Victor Galland
Located in Brighton, West Sussex
Pierre-Victor GALLAND (1822-1892)
‘Les Quatre Eléments’
Four, oil on canvas.
France, Circa 1873.
Each painting depicting one of the cardinal elements personified as a female figure in the presence of its most evident attribute. Painted with strong light and colour.
Earth panel depicts one of the four elements in a compelling fashion with an ascendent female figure robed in flowing drapery with foot and arm extended reaching skyward: each with attendant putti below.
Earth is shown swathed in robes of greens and white, with a fanciful foliate headdress of lush leaves and bullrushes.
Air leaps effortlessly into the sky draped in blush pink and holding a slender fruiting bough.
Fire ascends dramatically into the sky holding forth a flaming torch and draped in bright burnished orange and grey, her image seemingly lit from a fire kindled below by an ignipotent putto.
Water suitably draped in billowing azure blue with a translucent undergarment, holds aloft a bubble representing water is portrayed with shimmering translucent wings, an attendant winged putto pulling at her hem.
Under the Second Empire, Haussmann’s transformation of Paris went hand in hand with the construction of luxurious mansions for the new haute bourgeois. Gallards extensive work for wealthy patrons such as Lionel de Rothschild and Edouard André, led him to become one of Paris’s most admired and sought-after decorative artists. His fame quickly spread and led him to carry out projects outside the capital for, among others, Baron von Derwies in Nice, Prince Narischkine in Saint Petersburg and William Vanderbilt in the United States.
Literature
Pierre-Victor Galland, Un Tiepolo français au XIXe siècle. Published in 2006, Somogy, Piscine-musée d'art et d'industrie André Diligent, Musée départemental de l'Oise (Paris, Roubaix, Beauvais). ISBN 978-2-7572-0027-8. (in French)
Materials
Oil on Canvas
Provenance
Acquired in France with four other panels (The Four Seasons), at the end of the 19th century by Herman Ossian Armour (1837-1901), businessman, and founder of the Armour Meat Company and American humanist. He brought them back to his USA residence at Fifth Avenue, New York
Bequeathed to Mary Armour...
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19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Victorian Watercolor Portrait of Scandalous Lady Painted by M King Signed Dated
By Mr. King
Located in Katonah, NY
The hand-written notes on the back of this miniature watercolor tell what was, at the time, a scandalous story.
The portrait is of Hanah Tichbon. The inscription reads in part, "wen...
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19th Century British Victorian Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Paper, Wood
17th Century Japanese Screen Pair. Tiger & Dragon by Kaiho Yusetsu
Located in Kyoto, JP
Kaiho Yusetsu (1598-1677)
Tiger and Dragon
Early Edo Period, Circa 1650
A Pair of Six-fold Japanese Screens. Ink and slight color on paper.
Dimensions:
Each screen: H. 171 cm x W. 380 cm (67.5’’ x 149.5’’)
In this pair of early Edo period Japanese screens a group of tigers prowl in a bamboo grove whipped with fierce wind, while a dragon claws through clouds and mist. The dragon embodies elemental qualities - looming out of the mist, the coils of its body disappearing in the clouds. The dragon is calling for rain, symbolizing spring which is considered the fountain of life. On the other side, the tigers calls for the wind, symbolizing autumn which is considered the end of life. Tigers were familiar motifs within Japanese art from ancient times though the animals were imaginary to the people in the 17th century. While dragons and tigers are usually associated as sacred and ferocious, in this painting, both animals have rather amusing expressions. The tigers appear to glare at the dragon with cat-like eyes, and the look on the swirling dragon’s face appears almost affectionate - lending a playful flair to an otherwise magnificent theme.
The tiger and dragon are cosmological symbols of the balancing forces in the world. Screens such as this were originally meant to express the fluctuating nature of the world. For Japanese in the early Edo period, they likely suggested the powers of the cosmos. In Japan the tiger and dragon motif was originally absorbed into the circles of Zen monasteries before spreading into the secular world. The theme especially appealed to the military classes with the Kano school, the official painters to the Shogun and the samurai, being the leading contributors. The painter of this pair of screens, Kaiho Yusetsu (1598-1677), was closely patronized by the third Shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu. In his later years he worked with Kano school artists...
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Mid-17th Century Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Silk, Wood, Paper
Early 20th Century Japanese Cherry Blossom Screen by Kano Sanrakuki
Located in Kyoto, JP
Cherry Blossoms
Kano Sanrakuki (1898-1981)
Showa period, circa 1930
2-panel Japanese Screen
Color, gofun and gold leaf on paper
Against a backdrop of gold-leafed ground, the lichen covered trunk and branches of the life-sized cherry blossom tree reach out and beyond the confines of the pictorial surface. The overall composition has a feeling of flatness which draws emphasis to the surface and the three-dimensionality of the cherry blossoms. Painstakingly built-up layers of thickly applied shell-white gofun detail the voluminous blossoms and cover large areas of this tour-de-force of Japanese Nihonga painting. By simplifying the background, minimizing the number of colors and depicting the blossoms with such heavy relief, the artist has emphasized the stunning presence of the cherry tree. The type of tree depicted is the Yae-Zakura; a double-layered type of cherry blossom famed for its beauty and strength. When we think of Japanese cherry blossoms, the first thing that comes to mind is Somei Yoshino variety, which has a single flower with five almost white petals. This type is fragile and easily blown away by strong wind or rain. Most of the double-flowered cherry blossoms begin to bloom when the Somei-Yoshino falls, and the flowering period lasts longer than that of the Somei-Yoshino.
Kano Sanrakuki originally studied painting at the Kyoto City Arts and Crafts School under the tutelage of Yamamoto Shunkyo...
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Early 20th Century Japanese Showa Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique German Mountain Landscape Oil Painting of Cattle and Sheep, 19th Century
Located in Shippensburg, PA
GERMAN SCHOOL MOUNTAINSCAPE OF CATTLE AND SHEEP
Circa 19th Century, Unsigned
Item # 409KNY06A
A precious and crisp work in oil on panel, this incredibly detailed and bright little...
Category
19th Century German Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Early 19th Century Japanese Screen. Cherry Blossom & Pheasants by Mori Tetsuzan
Located in Kyoto, JP
Mori Tetsuzan (1775-1841)
Pheasants and Cherry Blossoms
Two-fold Japanese screen. Ink, color, gofun, gold and silver on paper.
A two-fold Japanese bir...
Category
Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
17th Century Japanese Screen Pair, Cranes
Located in Kyoto, JP
Cranes
Anonymous, Kano School.
Edo period, second half of the 17th century.
Pair of six-panel screens. Ink, pigment gofun and gold l...
Category
1670s Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
“Lakeview” '1868' American Landscape Painting by Frank Henry Shapleigh
Located in Shippensburg, PA
"LAKEVIEW" (1868) BY FRANK HENRY SHAPLEIGH (AMERICAN, 1842-1906)
In oil on canvas, signed lower left "F. H. Shapleigh 1868"
Item # 001RDV25X
Th...
Category
19th Century American Barbizon School Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Wood, Canvas, Paint
"Desert Figures" Mixed Media by Ynez Johnston '1920-2019'
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This unique work in mixed media is by Ynez Johnston. Amidst a pale of grays, greens and blue, Johnston intricately created this piece with different textures, drawings and etchings. Using plumbers putty to imply a topographical effect, her etchings and drawings can be seen in a plethora of different textures. The piece has been custom framed in a 3" frame. This unique piece can easily stand alone our join an existing art collection.
"Ynez Johnston was born in 1920 in Berkeley, California. She attended the University of California, Berkeley where she studied drafting, painting and printmaking with Worth Ryder, Erle Loran and Margaret Peterson...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Paint
19th Century Japanese Shunga Hand-Scroll, Katsukawa School
Located in Kyoto, JP
Shunga
Unknown artist
Meiji era, circa 1880
Hand-scroll mounted with 12 paintings
Ink, pigment and gofun on silk
Dimensions:
Each image measures H. 23.2 cm x W. 34.4 cm (9.15” x 13.5”)
The hand-scroll measures H. 28 cm x W. 540 cm (11” x 212”)
A set of 12 late 19th century Japanese Shunga paintings mounted as a hand-scroll. Two of the leaves bear the signature and seal ‘Setsuzan’, although we are unable to confirm the identity of the artist using this art name. 6 of the 12 images are taken almost directly from Katsukawa Shuncho’s late 18th century woodblock series, ‘Erotic Pictures...
Category
Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Silk
19th Century Japanese Screen for Tea-Ceremony, Ink Bamboo and Plum on Gold Leaf
Located in Kyoto, JP
Three Friends of Winter
Nakajima Raisho (1796-1871)
Late Edo period, circa 1850
Ink and gold leaf on paper.
This is a double-sided Japanese Furosaki or tea-ceremony screen from the mid 19th century; bamboo and plum on the front, young pines the back. It by Nakajima Raisho, a master painter of the Maruyama school in the late Edo and early Meiji periods. In this work Raisho combines exquisite ink brushwork with large open spaces of brilliant gold-leaf to inspire the viewers imagination. Rather than naturalism, he is searching for the phycological impression of the motifs, resulting in abstraction and stylization. His simplification of the motifs the result of looking to capture the inner nature of the objects. This art motif is known as Sho Chiku Bai, or the Three Friends of Winter. Evergreen pine connotes steadfastness, bamboo suggests both strength and flexibility, while plum blossoms unfurling on snow-laden branches imply hardiness. Combined, this trio is emblematic of Japanese new year. Chinese literati were the first to group the three plants together due to their noble characteristics. Like these resilient plants flowering so beautifully in winter, it was expected of the scholar-gentleman to cultivate a strong character with which he would be able to show the same degree of perseverance and steadfastness even during times of adverse conditions.
The screen would have been placed near the hearth of a room used for the Japanese tea ceremony, shielding the fire from draughts and also forming a stimulating and decorative backdrop behind the tea utensils. It would have been used in the Hatsugama, or first tea-ceremony of the new year.
Nakajima Raisho (1796-1871) originally studied under Watanabe Nangaku before entering the school of Maruyama Ozui. He was the highest ranking Maruyama school painter at the end of the Edo period and was known as one of the ‘Four Heian Families’ along with Kishi...
Category
Mid-19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
19th Century Japanese Silk Painting by Kano Chikanobu, Phoenix & Paulownia
Located in Kyoto, JP
Birds & Flowers of the seasons
Pheasants & Plum in Snow
Unframed painting. Ink, pigment and gofun on silk
Kano Chikanobu 1819-1888
Signature...
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Mid-19th Century Asian Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Silk
Meiji Period Japanese Screen Pair, One Hundred Birds by Hasegawa Gyokujun
Located in Kyoto, JP
One hundred birds
Hasegawa Gyokujun (1863-1921)
Meiji period, circa 1900.
Ink, color and gofun on silk.
Dimensions of each screen:
H. 170 cm x W. 190 cm (67’’ x 75”)
Despite the title, well over 100 birds are represented in this pair of two-fold Japanese screens (the title functions figuratively to convey the idea of a large number). The monumental work is rendered with a comprehensive and highly complex composition which is exquisitely executed and meticulously colored. More a celebration of naturalism than the traditional “One Hundred Birds” paintings which originated in China. This was a subject matter known for its auspicious meaning as much as its actual depiction of nature. These paintings generally had a phoenix (occasionally peacocks) placed in the center, and the other birds paying homage to it.
In this quintessentially Japanese scene painted by Gyokujun, a couple of long-tailed birds modeled after paradise flycatchers are included; these are traditional auspicious motifs in Oriental bird and flower painting and denote themes such as celebration and enduring generations. In addition there is the playful inclusion of single exotic parrot. Even so, the vast majority of the birds and flowers are native to Japan. Reading the scene from right to left, from spring through to autumn, the overwhelming sense is one of movement and haste. It is almost as if the birds are in a race, with the fleetest leading the way forward. Although these native birds were commonly drawn amongst artists of the Shijo school, rarely were they painted with such drama and dynamism. It is not strictly a depiction of sketched birds whose manner was faithfully handed down through the traditions of the Shijo school. Rather we see Gyokujun seeking and achieving new expressions in the heart of the turbulent Meiji period.
Hasegawa Gyokujun (1863-1921) was born in Kyoto. He was the eldest son of Hasegawa Gyokuho, a Shijo school painter who studied under Matsumura Keibun. Gyokujun studied painting under his father and became a prominent member of the Kyoto painti
ng world from a young age. In 1891 he established the ‘Young Painters Social Club’ along with Takeuchi Seiho, Miyake Gogyo and Taniguchi Kokyo. Also in 1891 he was selected as a judge of the Great Private Paintings Exhibition along with Takeuchi Seiho, Yamamoto Shunkyo...
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Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
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Silk, Wood
19th Century Japanese Silk Painting by Kano Chikanobu, Crane, Pine & Camelia
Located in Kyoto, JP
Birds & Flowers of the Seasons
Pheasants & Plum in Snow
Unframed painting. Ink, pigment and gofun on silk
Kano Chikanobu 1819-1888
Signature...
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Mid-19th Century Asian Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
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Silk
Oil Painting on Photograph "Old City Gate, St. Augustine, Florida" after John St
Located in Shippensburg, PA
"THE OLD CITY GATE, ST. AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA - 1893" IN OIL ON PHOTOGRAPH AFTER JOHN L. STODDARD
Unsigned, after the 1893 photograph by John L. Stoddard for "Portfolio of Photographs of Famous Cities, Scenes and Paintings"
Item # 906TYX05P
An intricate and very finely detailed scene that simply embellishes the 1893 photograph by John L. Stoddard from his volume "Portfolio of Photographs of Famous Cities, Scenes and Paintings" published by the Werner Company of Chicago. The scene is executed on a dense mahogany panel with gently bevelled rear edges, set inside carefully painted black framed lines hidden just behind the edge of the frame. The precise detail in the walls, the horse, the carriage and the seated riders is riveting and is much assisted by the photograph behind the oil.
Built by the Spaniards during the 16th century to protect the settlement of St. Augustine, the wall stretched from shore to shore...
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20th Century American American Classical Hand-Painted Paintings
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Mahogany, Paint
19th Century Japanese Silk Painting by Kano Chikanobu, Peacock & Bamboo
Located in Kyoto, JP
Birds & Flowers of the Seasons
Pheasants & Plum in Snow
Unframed painting. Ink, pigment and gofun on silk
Kano Chikanobu 1819-1888
Signature...
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Mid-19th Century Asian Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Silk
Pair of French Reverse Glass Paintings or Cartoons
Located in Lymington, Hampshire
A pair of French reverse glass paintings or cartoons, each of oval form, one depicting a man with a mass of hair or full wig using a brush to fence with a woman wielding a broom, the...
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1830s French Sporting Art Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
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Glass, Giltwood, Paint
Japanese Silver Screen Pair, Meiji Period, Herons & Plovers, Shijo School
Located in Kyoto, JP
Heron & Plovers
Ink and silver leaf on paper
Maekawa Bunrei (1837-1917)
A pair of low six-panel Japanese screens by Maekawa Bunrei, a later master of the Kyoto based Shijo school of painting. On the right screen a solitary white heron stands motionless in a stream. On the left screen plovers play along a shoreline. The elegant forms are executed employing fluid, minimalistic ink brushstrokes. The soft brushstrokes and the sharp light of the silver leaf lend the scenes a sense of translucence. The sophisticated composition superbly exploits the long, horizontal pictorial surface of the pair of folding screens...
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Early 1900s Japanese Meiji Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
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Silver Leaf
Pueblo Harvest Dance, vintage Painting by Jose Roybal (San Ildefonso Pueblo)
By Jose Roybal
Located in Denver, CO
An original watercolor painting by San Ildefonso (Pueblo) Native American artist, Jose Roybal (1922-1978) depicting the Pueblo Harvest Dance. Presented in ...
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1970s American Native American Vintage Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Paper
Meiji Era, Circa 1900 Japanese Screen Pair, Flowers & Birds of Spring & Autumn
Located in Kyoto, JP
Flowers & Birds of Spring and Autumn
Unknown artist.
Japan. Meiji period, circa 1900.
A pair of six-fold screens. Ink, color, gofun and gold leaf on paper.
Signed: Gaga S...
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1890s Japanese Meiji Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
19th Century Japanese Scroll Painting by Igarashi Chikusa, Poppies & Butterflies
Located in Kyoto, JP
Poppies & Butterflies
Ink, pigment and gofun on silk
Igarashi Chikusa (1774-1844)
Signature: Chikusa Ran Zen
Upper Seal: Ran Shuzen
Lower Seal: Kyoho
Dimensions:
Scroll: H. 68” x W. 18” (172cm x 45cm)
Image: H. 38.5’’ x W. 12.5’’ (98cm x 32cm)
This composition shows elegant images of poppies and the butterflies that are inevitably drawn to them. It captures a momentary glimpse into a world both visually dazzling and startlingly realistic. The painting is infused with sensitivity and attention to seasonal change and weather conditions. The thin and fragile poppies are beautifully depicted with brilliant colors and the butterflies are similarly infused with life. The painting is on silk which requires extremely precise painting skills as no element once painted can be removed.
Poppies were a favorite subject of Rinpa school artists through the ages. Originally they were somewhat abstracted but by the age of Sakai Hoitsu...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Silk
Japanese Six Panel Screen: Rolling Country Landscape
Located in Hudson, NY
A mid-sized six panel screen. Edo period (c. 1800) painting of a landscape features a temple on the mountain top, a river with fishermen emerging from gold...
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Early 19th Century Japanese Edo Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Antique Landscape Paintings Attributed to Pieter van Bloemen, 18th Century, Pair
Located in Shippensburg, PA
PAIR OF LANDSCAPES "RESTING ON THE BLUFF" ATTRIBUTED TO PIETER VAN BLOEMEN (FLEMISH, 1657-1720)
Unsigned, later engraved attribution plaque on each frame, executed in oil on canvas
I...
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18th Century European Romantic Antique Hand-Painted Paintings
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Wood, Canvas, Paint
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