Vintage African Tribal Batik Painting with Elephants

Small abstract oil composition executed with putty and hands/fingers on canvas. It bears its title to its back 'Heidi' and is dated 1977. Its a portrait of an unknown female called H...

Contemporary portrait of Afghan boy. Executed partly in oil and acrylic paint. The artist P. Rüd are rather unknown outside Scandinavia. The painting is professionally framed.

A hole lot is going on in this vintage Danish abstract painting. Both oil and acrylic paint were used to create texture, dept and drama. A mentionable feature is the double framing c...

Matching set of 2 oil paintings by the Danish artist J. P. Nielsen. JPN worked out of his studio in Esbjerg, Denmark. These two works: a fruit bowl still...

Hand-painted batik in orange, scarlet, saffron, green, brown and black. Several vignettes featuring Indian men and women in daily activities such as pipe smoking and music playing, a...

Ancient Ethiopian painting imported to Italy by a diplomat during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, in the late 1930s. This genre scene painting is divided into eighteen squares bordered by a black frame and divided into three lines. The scene depicts the story of a couple with three children through the stories of their domestic life and their rural activity; each box has a caption written in the Amharic language. In the first line: they grind; they drink; …illegible… while they spin; they bring water. In the second line: comb, cut your hair; treats your teeth; grind; they bring the wood; they bring water. In the third section: they prepare beer; they prepare bread; they cook bread; they prepare lunch; while they eat; while they drink. This canvas is painted in shades of ocher and is mounteed on a ebonized frame. Dates back to the late 1930s. The canvas show minimal tears and signs of wear but we can customize a restoration. The human figures are characterized by unrealistic proportions of the head and body and depicted in static positions. This sense of fixity and the narration in successive chapters in domestic environments make the paintings easily intelligible and suggestive. A particularly fascinating aspect of Ethiopian art...

Beautiful Batik painting of a nude in a landscape holding a flower.

Italian mid century painting with an African motif. Painting is made on cotton canvas and mixture of tapestry and paint. Panted by the ar...