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Incredibly realistic and charming early 20th century oval portrait of a young child. Oil on board signed and dated top left. Cannot make out signature. Date looks to be 1915. Wonderf...

This artwork titled "Cliff House, San Francisco" c.1980 is a original colors lithograph on paper by French artist (Fanch, Francois Ledan, born 1949) it is...

This work is registered as an authentic work by Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976) in the archives of the Calder Foundation (NY), under application number A.24492.  Created in 1967, this original pen and red ink drawing on paper is initialed ‘CA’ in blue ink in the lower right by Alexander Calder (1898 – 1976) with a handwritten dedication, also in blue ink, ‘To Alvin Lane’ along the lower center. The Sketch for ‘The X & Its Tails’ is an original study and preliminary drawing made by Calder preceding his large-scale sculpture for the Detroit Institute of Arts.  Sketches for models and sculptures are rare and this is no exception; according to Alvin S. Lane, collector and friend to Calder, “To the best of my knowledge there were very few, if any, preliminary drawings done by Calder that were on the market, but he was good enough when he did two for commissions to send the drawings to me as a present [including this Sketch for ‘The X & Its Tails’].  I included one of them here to show that although his drawings usually have a flowing steady line, his preliminary drawings are sloppy scribbles” (23). Provenance: ~       Gift of artist ~       Private Collection (Riverdale, NJ) Catalogue Raisonné and COA: Sketch for 'The X & Its Tails,' 1967 is fully documented and referenced in the below catalogue raisonnés and texts (copies will be enclosed as added documentation with the invoices that will accompany the final sale of the work). 1. Registered with the Calder Foundation, NY under application number A.24492. 2. Elvehjem Museum of Art. The Terese and Alvin S. Lane Collection...

Jylian Gustlin’s paintings are process driven – when looking at her work there is a sense the painting was “made” with effort, intention and even strength. The artist starts with an ...

Artist: Enrique Kico Govantes (Cuban, born 1957) Title: Uncle Charlie's Year: Circa 1980 Medium: Mixed media and collage Paper Sketch Image size: 9.5 x 13 inches Signatu...

Artist: Renate Dollinger (German/American, born 1924) Title: The Voyage Year: Circa 1970 Medium: Gouache and watercolor Paper: Watercolor Image size: 15.5 x 21.5 inches Signature: ...

This artwork titled "Les Petit Rats, Ballerinas II" c.1980 is an original color lithograph on Japan paper by noted Bolivian artist Graciela Rodo Boulanger, b.1935. It is hand signed and numbered XLII/C in pencil by the artist. The image size is 22.5 x 18 inches, framed size is 36 x 30.75 inches. Custom framed in a wooden gold leaf frame, with off white matting and gold color spacer. It is in excellent condition. About the artist:   Born in La Paz, Bolivia in 1935, Graciela Rodo Boulanger was raised in an artistic environment. Her mother, a concert pianist, and her father, a businessman and art connoisseur, nurtured her talents. She studied the piano and at age 11 enrolled in the School of Fine Arts. At 17 she went to Vienna to study both art and music, and at 22 shetravelled to Argentina for the stimulating artistic environment of Buenos Aires. Continuing to study both piano and painting...

This artwork titled "Hidelberg Terrace, Germany" c.1930 is an original color etching on watermarked Kasimir Vienna wove paper by Austrian/American artist Tana Kasimir Hoernes, 1887-1972. It is hand signed in pencil by the artist's estate at the lower center. The image (plate mark) size is 8.5 x 11.5 inches, sheet size is is 15 x 19 inches. It is in excellent condition, has never been framed About the artist: Tanna Kasimir...

Original large format still life photograph from Linda Rosewall's series "Flora Italiana", an intensely beautiful body of works exploring the botanical ...

This artwork titled "Saint Charles's Church (Wien Kariskirche)" c. 1970 is a color etching on wove paper by noted Austrian artist Robert Kasimir, 1914-2002. It is hand signed in penc...

Blue sky painting with sunlight shining through turbulent clouds with a warm hue. Created with a calm and etherial palette of blue, white, and lavender. Painted on a 5 foot circular canvas...

This mid-1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features two women reclined on improvised sunbeds at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshir...

A limited edition woodcut portrait of Don Quixote de la Marcha by George De Groat (1917-1995). Don Quixote is instantly recognizable due to his thin fa...

Craig Mooney makes paintings of dramatic moments and heightened emotionality that are known for being expansive and expressive. Though a representational painter, the artist incorpor...

This late-1970s portrait photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features Princess Lucy Ruspoli standing in front of a colourful wall of old skis in Lech am Arlberg...

Craig Mooney makes paintings of dramatic moments and heightened emotionality that are known for being expansive and expressive. Though a representational painter, the artist incorpor...

This mid-1980s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features people snowboarding in Cortina d'Ampezzo. This is an estate-stamped and hand-numbered edition of 15...

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Part of Onelio's ongoing series centered around people occupied in various simple tasks. This painting depicts a butcher at work in his shop - it could be a s...

'San Andreas Still Life no. 3' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, intensit...

Fabulous mystery midcentury abstract. It is oil on board measuring 60 inches wide by 20 high. Frame is 1/2 around. Painting is signed Kirstein. The artist was obviously very talented...

Roman was asked to photograph this old vineyard for the Nature Conservatory because it was going to be torn down. He captured it and titled it aptly. It is hand printed by the artis...

This beautiful 19th century framed engraving "The Fighting Temeraire" by James Tibbetts Willmore is based on an original painting by the renowned British artist J.M.W. Turner. It was published by James S. Virtue & Co. in London between 1859-1875. It depicts the once mighty British warship the HMS Temeraire being towed away down the river Thames by a much smaller steamboat to a ship-breaking yard to be broken up for scrap. The Temeraire was first launched in 1798 and represented the pinnacle of British ship-building. 180-feet long, constructed of English oak and armed with 98 guns, she was one of the largest warships of the period. The Temeraire became a symbol of British pride and military power that endured throughout the 19th century. The man-of-war served during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and was among the last serving ships to have been at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. It became one of the many older ships put out of service in the 1830s and 1840s. The once mighty and feared ship symbolizes a once magnificent, but now obsolete, technology. Turner seems to lament her inglorious final journey, being towed by a less magnificent, but modern steam powered tugboat. The Turner painting was created in 1838 and is now held in the National Gallery in London. Willmore's engraving, created in 1859, captures the dramatic scene with great detail and skill. The image has become an iconic representation of the decline of Britain's naval power and the transition from sail to steam in the 19th century. The sunset in the background is symbolic of the sun going down on British naval power and tradition. The painting conveys profound and diverse themes that are central to the human experience: those of mortality and change, technology and progress, heroism and brutality. The painting demonstrates Turner’s skill as an artist. His ability to produce scenes of great beauty that are dramatic, but are also symbolic, stimulating both thoughtful analysis, as well as emotion. Turner's painting was voted by the British public in a 2005 BBC radio sponsored survey to be the British people's favorite painting of all time. In 2020 it was included on a new British banknote...

This artwork is a vibrant abstract piece bursting with a dynamic interplay of colors and textures. The composition features a lively mixture of pastel pinks, yellows, and greens swir...

This artwork "Au Cafe (Three Women Sitting)" is an oil painting on canvas by noted Israeli artist Isaac Maimon, b.1955. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas size is 19.75 x 23.75 inches, framed size is 37.75 x 33.75 inches. It is custom framed in a gold frame, with double liner. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Painting in bold colors society scenes, Isaac Maimon was born in Israel in 1951 to French-speaking parents, and in his artwork, he shows much influence of the "boulevard culture" of French society and the Paris school of art...

This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers on the slopes at Courchevel, France. This is an estate-stamped and hand-numbered edition of ...

On the Road #1 feels like landscapes remembered in motion rather than observed in place. Bands of color slide past the eye; like fields seen from a moving car, horizons blur and diss...

Artist: Alice Asmar American (1929- ) Title: Joy of the Eternal Now Year: 1980 Medium: Lithograph Sight size: 17.75 x 28.75 inches. Sheet size: 22 x 30 inches. Signature: Signed lower right Edition: 105 This one: 57/105 Condition: Very good Unframed This print by Alice Asmar (1929- ) is in very good never-framed condition with no flaws to note. American contemporary artist of Lebanese and Greek descent, Alice Asmar's art is often inspired by her love of nature, combined with a deep respect for native American culture, her work evolved into Southwestern themes of Indian Ceremonial Dance-Dramas, Indian portraits and landscapes. Her parents moved to Portland, Oregon when she was just a baby. She started drawing and painting at a very early age. Alice was considered a child prodigy; she was winning awards and recognition before the age of 10. The artwork of her early years was inspired by the splendors of nature, from the inscrutable pines and ancient sculptured rocks along the Oregon Coast to the mysterious ocean mists. She Graduated magna cum laude from Lewis and Clark College in Portland and obtained her Master's of Fine Arts Degree at The University of Washington in Seattle. Soon after graduating she accepted a job as an engineering drafter at Boeing Aircraft in Seattle. Her Assignment was clearing top secret drawings for air-to-ground missile. Alice worked for Boeing for less than a year. They offered her an engineering scholarship but she decided to go back to the art she loved doing from she was a child. In 1954, Alice received her teaching certificate from the University of Washington after which she taught art at Lewis & Clark (1955 to 1958). After studying and traveling throughout the Near East, France, Switzerland, Italy, Yugoslavia, Turkey, The Greek Islands, Greece and Lebanon, Asmar set up studios in California, New Mexico and Oregon. Today, She works in an 800 - square-foot studio that she designed with four skylights and is located behind her home in Burbank, California. A master of several media, Asmar is distinguished for her many techniques which include paintings in Oil, casein and Acrylic, drawing in ink, pencil and pastel, collage, tapestry, books, lithography, etching, Engraving on metal on plexiglas, portraits, murals and banners. Her hand engraving of innovative designs for dinner and household wares for Nambe Mills in Santa Fe is also recognized internationally. Alice Asmar's works are in several hundred public and private collections in the United States and Europe, including the Smithsonian Institution, Franklin Mint, Portland Art Museum, Gene Autry Hotel in Palm Springs, The Public Art Museum of Gabrova, Bulgaria, Kaiser-Permanente, and the Dr. Nicholas Townell collection, Angus, Scotland. A selected list of her EXHIBITIONS is as follows: - Seattle Art Museum. - Museum of Science & Industry, Los Angeles. - Circle Gallery Ltd, Houston - Abbot Hall Gallery, William Temple...

observation of a Mediterranean beach scene in Nice, France, on a hazy summer day Nizza by Frank Schott 25.5 x 40 inches (65 x 102cm) edition of 25 signed 44 x 69 inches (112 x 17...

This mid-1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a skier carrying his boots in New Hampshire. This is an estate-stamped and hand-numbered edition of...

Artist: Harold Altman (American, 1924-2003) Title: Sunday, Central Park Year: c. 1985 Medium: Color lithograph Edition: Numbered 56/285 in pencil Paper: Wove Image size: 17.5...

This mid-1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features several skis leaning against the wall of a hut marked 'Ski Instructors Only' in New Hampshire. This...

In this series of trompe-l'œil oil and acrylic paintings, Myron Stephens realistically recreates images of mundane objects taped to what appears to be chalkboards covered with free s...

This artwork titled "Vegetation III" 1963, is an original drypoint etching by noted American artist Peter Winslow Milton, b.1930. It is hand signed, titled, dated and numbered 14/50 ...

This mid-1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers at the Cranmore Mountain Resort, North Conway, New Hampshire, USA, This is an estate-stamped...

This mid-1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features skiers on the slopes at Courchevel, France. This is an estate-stamped and hand-numbered edition of ...

She’s certainly no beauty, possibly in her 30s, but there’s a strength and clarity about this woman. She does her long hair into a complex chignon, a practical style in those years p...

Marfa ( Texas ) by Frank Schott country road view in West Texas, from a series of impressions captured in Marfa, Texas, longtime residence of minimalist artist Donald Judd 46 x 72 i...

This artwork titled "Interior with Bouquet" c.2000, is an oil painting on canvas by noted American impressionist artist Douglas Paul Morgan, 1948-2021. It is signed at the lower righ...

This artwork titled "Farmer Market, Milan" is an oil painting on canvas by noted Italian artist Guido Antonio Man tovani, 1916-1988. It is signed at the lower right cornet by the art...

Artist: Jack Wisby– American (1869 - 1940) Title: Hidden Valley, San Anselmo, Marin, California Year: 1909 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 20 x 28 inches. Fram...

'Eticuera' is a contemporary cast glass sculpture by David Ruth from the Chill Project Series. Made from cast glass, the piece is initially derived from textures taken off ice and ro...

This artwork "Landscape" c.1980 is an original color lithograph on wove paper by noted American artist Robert Kipniss, b.1931. It is hand signed and numbered 168/200 in pencil by the...

This artwork titled "Color and Black #3" 1991 is a colors etching with spit bit aquatint on Somerset textured white paper by renown artist Sol (Solomon) Le Witt, 1928-2007. It is and signed and numbered 11/15 in pencil by the artist. Whit the blind stamp of the publisher/printer at the lower right corner. The image size is 22.75 x 22.75 inches, paper sheet is 40.75 x 39.75 inches, Framed size is 43.25 x 42,5 inches. Published by Crown Point Press, San Francisco. Printed by Lawrence Hamin, Lothar Osterburg, Paul Mullowney and Pamela Paulson at Crown Point Press, San Francisco. Referenced and pictured in the artist's catalogue raisonne #1991.07, plate #03. Custom Framed in a wooden black frame, floated on a white backing, with white spacer. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Known for his modular white cube sculpture, geometric drawings and abstract design paintings including many wall paintings that took teams of people to execute, Sol LeWitt was a major promoter of dominant post World War II Conceptualism and Minimalism. He used geometric shapes and lines to challenge his viewers, and sometimes they seemed logical and other times they seemed to have no basis in either reason or reality. Although he was highly active in New York City, he shied away from any semblance of art celebrity life style and spent much of his later life working from his home and studio in Chester, Connecticut. At the beginning of his career when he was gaining notoriety, conservative critics panned him fiercely. Seeking to get away from the frenetic activity of the New York art scene, he went to Spoleto, Italy in the 1980s and remained there for many years. The influence of Italian culture seemed to lend a new opulent quality to his work, and also the launching of his wall paintings, which he called drawings even though they were done with acrylic paint. "He began making colored flagstone patterns, spiky sculptural blobs and ribbons of color, like streamers on New Year's Eve, often as enormous decorations for buildings around the world. It was if he had devised a latter-day kind of Abstract Expressionism . . ." (Kimmelman) Of his personal modesty it was written: "He tried to suppress all interest in him as opposed to his work; he turned down awards and was camera-shy and reluctant to grant interviews. He particularly disliked the prospect of having his photograph in the newspaper." (Kimmelman) Sol LeWitt was born in Hartford, Connecticut to Russian immigrant parents. His father, a doctor, died when Sol was age six, and he and his mother then went to live with an aunt in New Britain, Connecticut. His mother encouraged his art talent, and enrolled him in classes at the Wadsworth Atheneum. LeWitt's subsequent residence in Chester, after he was a well-known artist, was near the Atheneum, and he became a strong supporter of that institution including the securing of a long time loan to it of a highly prestigious private collection of modern art. LeWitt earned a B.F.A. degree from Syracuse University in 1949, and then was drafted in the Korean War. His special assignment was making posters for the Special Services. From 1955 to 1956, he worked as a graphic designer for architect I.M. Pei, who was beginning his career. He also did pasteups for Seventeen magazine...

This artwork is a giclee print with hand embelishment on canvas, by Brazilian artist Otto De Souza Aguiar 1936-2006. It is hand signed and numbered E.A 25/45 in gold pigment. The ca...

large format monochromatic photograph from a series of photographic observances around White Sands, New Mexico,and the calming color palette of nature White Sands by Frank Schott 48 x 72 inches / 122cm x 183cm signed edition of 7 27 x 40 inches / 68cm x 102cm signed edition of 25 archival quality fine art pigment print limited art edition published by Edition EKTAlux artist signed + numbered certificate of authenticity ________________________ Frank Schott grew up in Germany and attended the prestigious Academy of Arts in Cologne, studying under Professor Arno Jansen, who was an early influence. Moving to California in 1998, Schott's work has evolved to include the epic landscapes and deserts of the American West as well as architectural, conceptual and more formal environments from both home and his travels. Influenced by a number of photographic piers and precursors such as Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky. Thomas Struth. Jeff Wall, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Steven Shore...

This mid-1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features singer and actress Caprice Chantal (right) on the Italian island of Capri. This is an estate-stampe...

This is an original 19th century Currier and Ives hand-colored lithograph entitled "The Celebrated Trotting Team Edward and Swiveller, Owned by Frank Work Esq. N.Y.: Winning their ma...

This artwork titled "Cockle Burrs at Tinker's" 1966, is an original etching on Wove paper by noted American artist Richard Claude Ziemann, b.1932. It is hand signed, titled, dated an...

Artist: John Maxon (American, born 1947) Title: Dust Time Year: 1993 Medium: Color lithograph Edition: Numbered 146/210 Paper: Arches Image size: 26.5 x 39.75 inches Paper size: 31.5 x 44 inches Signature: Hand signed in pencil by the artist Condition: Excellent, has never been framed About the artist. Coming from a very western tradition in Wyoming, John Maxon developed an expansive view of nature . Moving eventually to the San Francisco Bay area, John's delight in the effects of light and color led him to the decision to become an artist at the young age of 15. His natural ability was encouraged, and at 16 he began figurative art classes with Howard Brodie, the artist well known for his WWII correspondence, drawings and the Watergate trial drawings. Education San Francisco Art Institute B.A., Painting, San Jose State University M.F.A., Painting, University of California, Davis Stanford University, Palo Alto, California Cabrillo College, Aptos, California Selected Solo Exhibitions 2018 Gallery Panza Verde – Antigua Guatemala, Guatemala 2015 Desert Art Collection - Palm Desert California 2015 Galeria Antigua – Antigua, Guatemala 2014 Galeria Panza Verde – Antigua, Guatemala 2008 Linda Durnell Gallery – Los Gatos, California 2006 Linda Durnell Gallery – Los Gatos, California 2005 Robert Allen Fine Art Gallery – Sausalito, California 2004 Ellis West Gallery – Durango, Colorado 2002 Ellis West Gallery – Durango, Colorado 2001 Robert Allen Fine Art Gallery – Sausalito, California 1997 Stanford University Faculty Club – Stanford, California Selected Group Exhibitions 2018 Chemers Art Gallery – Los Angeles, California 2009, 2010, 2016, 2017 & 2018 Robert Allen Fine Art – Sausalito, California 2017 Christopher Hill Gallery - St Helena, California 2013 / 19 Gallery North - Carmel, California 2015 Desert Art Collection - Palm Desert, California 2014 Paul Scott Gallery - Bend, Oregon 2014 Christopher Hill Gallery Healdsberg, California 2013 Firehouse Art Center - Pleasanton, Ca. 2013 2011 - 2013 Robert Allen Fine Art – Sausalito, California 2010 - 2012 Susan Street Gallery – Solano Beach, California 2010 (Awarded 1st place) and 2012 “Contemporary Landscape Painters of California” – Awarded 1st Place 2011 - 2012 Salisbury Fine Art – Avila Beach, California 2010 Bryant Street Gallery – Palo Alto, California 2009 Museum Art and History – Santa Cruz, California 2008 Cabrillo College – Aptos, California 2006 Christopher Hill Gallery – St. Helena, California 2005 Fort Lewis College – Durango, Colorado 2001 St. Supery Winery & Fine Art Gallery, Napa California 2001 Napa Valley Wine Auction – St. Helena, California 1997 West Coast Painting and Sculpture – Ocean Side, California 1997 Wolk Gallery – St. Helena, California Selected Museum Collections Interior Museum, Department of the Interior, Washington D. C. Santa Cruz County Art Museum – Santa Cruz, California University of California – Berkeley, California University of California – Davis, California Napa Valley Art...

Victor Vasarely Untitled Relief, 1973 is a Studio Line Rosenthal Porcelain relief with aluminum that is hand-signed by Victor Vasarely (Hungary, 1906 – France, 1997) on verso. Number...

This artwork "Untitled II" c.1970 in an original color aquatint on Arches paper by noted Polish artist Johnny Friedlaender, 1912-1992. It is hand signed and numbered 128/135 in penci...

Tomales Bay - The painting was created in 2024 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon’s...

This artwork titled "Peace Woman" 2008, is an original colors screen print on cream, Speckletone fine art paper. by noted American artist Shepard Fairey, b.1970. It is hand signed, d...

On the Road #4 feels like landscapes remembered in motion rather than observed in place. Bands of color slide past the eye; like fields seen from a moving car, horizons blur and diss...

This is a contemporary abstract watercolor painting by artist David Ruth. This series of paintings often feature bright colors and vibrant layouts that draw the viewer in. They are c...

This artwork "Harbor with Church" c.1990 is an watercolor on paper by noted California artist Edward Norton Ward, b.1928. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The ar...

From a limited edition portfolio - only 20 or so were made. Small spots on mat. Photograph in mint condition. See my other portraits.. I can make a deal for all.

Artist: Hans Figura (Austrian, 1898-1978) Title: Marche aux Fleurs Year: Circa 1950 Medium: Color etching with aquatint Edition: Unknown Plate mark (Image) size: 8.5 x 6.5...

This beautiful, original hand-colored orchid lithograph entitled "Lycaste Harrisoniae Eburnea" Orchids by John Nugent Fitch is plate 100 in Robert Warner's publication 'The Orchid Al...

Molesky’s latest body of work approaches art history with wit and irony. Drawing from classical themes and the heroic narrative, he subverts these traditions by casting the banana as...