World War II Italian Soldiers in North Africa Desert by Bocassile, 1978 circa

Italian oil on canvas unfraimed painting featuring a resting farmer lying in the shade of a barn. Signed lower left Boccasile by Giorgio Boccasile Italian p...

Italian courtyard scene oil on canvas painting 1970 circa, by the Italian Annibale Scaroni. In excellent condition, unframed, this Italian village pa...

A flowers painting an Italian polychrome shiny colors flower composition, a 20th century Italian still-life of flowers, oil painted on wooden panel, signed lower left G.MARINI, a dah...

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...

African Ethiopian painting imported to Italy by a diplomat during the Italian occupation of Ethiopia, in the late 1930s. This tribal folk art painting depicts a battle scene and the canvas is mounted on a parallelogram-shaped frame. It is a large battle painting...

Annibale Scaroni Brusson Lake Aosta Valley Landscape 1973, Italian oil on canvas painting featuring a shore of the Aosta Valley lake with calm, blue water...

Fresh as a crisp fall day, this painting of a woman taking down laundry at the base of a hill dominated by her home above is a reassuring depiction of wholesome rural life in 1941, p...

Pulsating with life and color, this depiction of a crowded mom-and-pop store in wartime America, filled with a sailor in full regalia, homemakers and children, grandmothers and worki...

Very colorful modern oil-on-canvas painting of North African village scene (in smooth finished dark brown frame). Isabelle Del-Piano, French,...

The Making of an American Army: The World War II Artwork of Frederick Counsel (A G.I. View of Army Life) was an exhibit at the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center from 2019-2020. 1st Ed softcover. Frederick Counsel’s art book features many watercolor drawings of army life from his service days. He painted scenes of mess halls...

Charles Melohs (American, 1908 – 1982) Desert Rider, circa 1956 Mixed media composition on canvas Signed to the lower left Inscribed to the verso Intr...

This rich tapestry of life in and around a quiet courtyard in North Africa -- with domes, towers and minarets in the distance, and a woman lingering on a balcony to one side -- was p...