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Item Ships From: Bay Area
Xavier Cugat (1900-1990, Spanish) "Monkey Business"
By Xavier Cugat
Located in San Francisco, CA
Xavier Cugat (1900-1990, Spanish)
"Monkey Business"
Serigraph on Canvas Board
7.5" x 9.5" unframed
13.25" x 15.25" framed
Category
20th Century Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Board
Nude
By Jan De Ruth
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Nude" is an oil painting on canvas by noted Czech/American artist Jan De Ruth, 1922-1991. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas size is 16 x 13 inches, framed size is 24 x 21 inches. Framed in the original wooden gold and black antique style frame, with fabric liner and gold bevel. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Born Karlsbad, Czechoslovakia
Studied: Rotter Art School, Prague; Ruskin Art School, Oxford University, England; ASL New York; New School, NY; also with Frederic Taubes.
Exhibited: 38 National Juried Exhibitions, 14 Museum Solo Shows and 51 Gallery Solo Exhibitions.
Author: Portrait Painting, 1964; Painting the Nude, 1968.
De Ruth, a native of Czechoslovakia and an American citizen, spent the years of World War II being shunted through five different concentration camps, including the infamous Auschwitz. He made four escape attempts and finally made good on his fifth try.
De Ruth constantly sought materials with which to draw, but "The only things we had were the few pieces of cloth we wore," he recalls. By chance, he was transferred to Germany as part of a labor detail and managed to sneak a pencil away from the camp supervisor. "I became a perfect thief during those years," he says. De Ruth drew a mother and child on a scrap of paper he scrounged from the factory where he worked and filled it in with shadings of coffee in various strengths-his finger was his brush. He exchanged the sketch for a piece of bread from a camp guard, and in effect, sold his first painting.
In March of 1945, after being transferred to his native Czechoslovakia, he made his successful escape "knowing every step of the way." After the war, De Ruth became the commissar in a small Czech town and remained in the post for one year, just long enough to forge some documents that allowed him to flee to England. He took up residence in London and enrolled at the Ruskin Art School in Oxford University. He arrived in the USA in 1948.
There are times in the life of a painter when his dedication to his art is overshadowed by the immediate requirements of self-preservation. This was one of those times! From '48 to 1955 he supported himself by working at night, earning his way painting designs on neckties and bathroom cups...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,300
The Rose
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Figurative painting from the artist's "Figures with Edges" series. This painting is featured in the book, Figures with Edges, pg 1. Acrylic paitning is 10 3/8 x 9 7/8. Professionally...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
19th Century American School Oil on Board
Located in San Francisco, CA
Charming 19th Century oil on board. Adorable young child either daydreaming or posing while leaning on a fence with the moon in background. Looks like it could possibly
be done by ...
Category
19th Century American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Benjamin Stahl Illustration
By Benjamin Stahl
Located in San Francisco, CA
Benjamin Stahl: 1910-1987. Well listed illustrator with auction records over $10,000. I bought this fabulous illustration 15 years ago and it has been hanging on my wall ever since....
Category
Mid-20th Century Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Tuscan Roof
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Tuscan Roof" 2009, is an oil painting on panel by American artist Annamarie (Anna) Nelson. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist, also signed, tit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Sacrifice
Located in San Francisco, CA
Given the subject of this painting, you won't be surprised to learn that actor and artist Vincent Price was a patron of Noel Rockmore (1928-1995), this work's American artist. Additi...
Category
1950s Modern Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,250
Boy Playing Cello
By Helen Rayburn Caswell
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Boy Playing Cello" c.1970 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist, Helen Rayburn Caswell, 1923-2018. It is signed at the right bottom corner by the arti...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
(Untitled) A Scandalous Tea with a Stranger in Leiderstein
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the depths of the Great Depression, American women sought escape from their worries. For 25¢,“Hearst’s International Cosmopolitan” magazine delivered. The magazine published ficti...
Category
1930s American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Love" Boys With A Toy in Nigeria
Located in San Francisco, CA
Nigerian artist Akingbade Mayowa (born in 1988) titled this piece “Love.” Was he referring to the universal love of a father for his sons? Or perhaps ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Bride to Be
By Elena Zolotnitsky
Located in Burlingame, CA
Female nude figurative painting depicting a young bride to be - oil and lace on treated paper, professionally framed under plexiglass. The painting is 17 x 22 1/2 inches and the oute...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Monkey Business
By Xavier Cugat
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Monkey Business" is an oil painting on canvas board by noted Spanish artist and musician Xavier Cugat, 1900-1990. It is signed at the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Other Art Style Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Diver in Red
By David Shevlino
Located in Burlingame, CA
David Shevlino's female diving figure beautifully links traditional representation with abstraction. Through Shevlino’s sensuous application of paint, his use of broad brushstrokes f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Early 20th-Century European Street Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
The very ordinariness of this European street scene is a delight. With Armistice recently signed, all the depravations of the recent war are letting up, enough so that two women can ...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Subway no. 2 - Beijing
Located in Burlingame, CA
BING ZHANG's Subway no. 2, 48 x 36 inches, oil on canvas. Proudly presented by Andra Norris Gallery in California.
Bing Zhang’s Subway painting series explores themes of class, labo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Three Nuns
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Three Nuns" 1964 is an oil painting on hardboard by Italian artist Leonardo (Leo) De Magistris, 1933-2010. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by th...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Radiant Dust
Located in Dallas, TX
oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Shower of Whispers
Located in Dallas, TX
oil on linen
Category
2010s Abstract Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Subway no. 1 - Beijing
Located in Burlingame, CA
BING ZHANG's Subway no. 1, 36 x 48 inches, oil on canvas. Proudly presented by Andra Norris Gallery in California.
Bing Zhang’s Subway painting series explores themes of class, labo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Limoges Vieilles Maisons
By Louis Peyrat
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Limoge vieilles Maisons" 1964 is an oil painting on canvas by noted French artist Louis Peyrat 1911-1999. It is signed at the lower right corner by the artist, t...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Jockeys at the Rail
Located in San Francisco, CA
There’s an instant in a competitive horse race—whether it’s at Churchill Downs, Del Mar, Santa Anita Park, Saratoga or Belmont—of the utmost ferocity. That’s when the riders are jamm...
Category
1960s Modern Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fall in the Canyon (Lake Tahoe)
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Fall in the Canyon (Lake Tahoe)" 2014, is an oil painting on canvas by noted American artist Andrew (Andy) Skaff, b.1945. It is signed at the lower right corner ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Iris Plate
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Iris Plate" c.2000, is an oil painting on panel by noted American impressionist artist Douglas Paul Morgan, 1948-2021. It is signed at the lower right corner by ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cover #9
By Micah Crandall-Bear
Located in Napa, CA
Micah Crandall-Bear’s abstract landscape paintings examine Earth’s intrinsic resources and our disposition toward their accelerated transformation. His concept is infused with linear...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
California Landscape in Autumn
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "California Landscape in Autumn" c.1980, is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Bill Shaddix, b.1930. It is signed at the lo...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
flowers
By Irina Belotelkin Roublon
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Irina Belotelkin Roublon (Russian, 1913-2009)
Title: Flowers
Year: Circa 1960
Medium: Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 35 x 25 inches
Signature: Signed lower left by the...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Halloween
Located in Burlingame, CA
Halloween - an iconic American painting by James Torlakson who is known for his photorealist oil paintings, watercolors and aquatint intaglio etchings.
Torlakson’s photorealism subj...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
(Untitled) Filipina Woman with Pottery, in Beige, Black & Tan
Located in San Francisco, CA
Manilla-born painter Francisco “Paco” Gorospe (1939-2002) took a detour with this piece. Normally working with colors to rival any spring flower garden, h...
Category
Late 20th Century Cubist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Snowstorm in Peru
Located in San Francisco, CA
Uruguayan painter D. Rodríguez Candhalés (1919-2004) traveled extensively in his dual careers as a successful painter and a professional soccer player. With this work, painted in Per...
Category
1960s Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Inspired by Aspens
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Inspired by Aspens' by celebrated figurative artist Kim Frohsin, painted in 2018. The artwork is 15 x 11 1/2 inches and it is professionally framed in a museum quality white maple h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Mixed Media, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pencil
Palm Shade Thinker
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Palm Shade Thinker' by celebrated figurative artist Kim Frohsin, painted in 2018. The artwork is 12 x 10 1/2 inches and it is professionally framed in a museum quality white maple h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pigment
Children Flying Kites
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Children Flying Kites" 1963, is an oil painting on hardboard by noted Haitian artist Bourmont Byron, 1920-2004. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Romantic Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Romance Novel Cover Illustration
Located in San Francisco, CA
As the writing on the verso suggests, this may have been proposed cover artwork for one of author Danielle Steel's staggering count of 182 novels. Booksellers and publishers routinel...
Category
1960s Other Art Style Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
City Market, Vienna
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "City Market, Vienna" c.1930, is an oil painting on canvas laid down to panel by noted Austrian artist Hans Johann Wagner, 1866-1940. I...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Farmer Market, Milan
Located in San Francisco, CA
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...
Category
Late 20th Century Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Belgian Landscape II
By Gustav Pynaert
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Belgian Landscape" c.1960 is an oil painting on canvas board by Belgian artist Gustav Pynaert, 1900-1968. It is signed at the lower lef...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
It's Five O'clock Somewhere, by Donald Daugherty
Located in San Francisco, CA
The scene flows with a mix of people out and very much milling about against a backdrop of high rises half hidden in mist. There’s the dandy sporting a red fedora, a white-helmeted b...
Category
1980s American Modern Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
All Basha
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
A rare "clothed" figurative portrait by multi-disciplinary artist Kim Frohsin. Professionally framed in a white ash hardwood floater frame, with an opening on the back, to reveal the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled: figure
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Untitled, figure' by celebrated figurative artist Kim Frohsin, painted in 2018. The artwork is 11 x 8 inches and it is professionally framed, 20 x 16 1/2 inches in a museum quality ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache, Archival Paper
James Elliott Bama Oil on Board "And Then There Was One"
Located in San Francisco, CA
James Elliott Bama was born in 1926 in New York City. He studied at the Arts Student League and became a very successful illustrator for magazines like ...
Category
1960s American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Subway no. 3 - Beijing
Located in Burlingame, CA
BING ZHANG's Subway no. 3, 48 x 48 inches, oil on canvas. Proudly presented by Andra Norris Gallery in California.
Bing Zhang’s Subway painting series explores themes of class, labo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Lonely Girl
Located in San Francisco, CA
No background setting is needed in this painting by Fichtl to reference solitude's impact on the young woman. Loneliness is etched into her features. The choice of a dark coat—is it ...
Category
1960s Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Back / oil painting
By Elena Zolotnitsky
Located in Burlingame, CA
Female figurative back in oil with 22 karat gold on mylar mounted to wood and framed in maple. A sophisticated nude in muted green, gold, and pink. The painting is 17 x 8 3/4 inches....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Les Eboulements
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Les Eboulements" 1981, is an oil painting on board by noted Canadian artist Terry Tomalty, b.1935. It is signed, titled and dated at the lower right corner by th...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Amado Maurillo Pena Jr. " 5 Wise Men "
Located in San Francisco, CA
C. 20th Century - Beautiful " 5 Wise Men " Done by Amado Maurillo Pena Jr. ( Native American Serigraph )
Category
20th Century Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Glass
Princeton, California
By Clifford Holmes
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Princeton, California" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas size is 20 x 24 inches. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Clifford Holmes, noted California artist. The artist is a descendent of early California pioneer families and is a former member of the Art League. Among the founders of the Oakland Art...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fishing Boats
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Fishing Boats" 1966 is an oil painting on canvas linen by noted Filipino artist Cesar Buenaventura Espinosa, 1919/22-1983. It is signed and dated at the lower left corn...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Landscape with Trail
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape with Trail" c.1930 is an oil painting on canvas by noted American artist Frederick Ernest Swedlun, AKA: Ernest Fredericks (18...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Surya
By Willard Dixon
Located in Burlingame, CA
The paintings from Willard Dixon's "NEWS series" are generally taken from small black and white newspaper photos from the artist's daily reading of the news. He changes the images somewhat by cropping them, taking things out, adding color, etc. But the image is definitely something seen originally by someone else. “I must say”, says Dixon, “I have rather strong feelings about these images myself. I see them at least in part as an homage to the intrepid photographers on the front lines who are telling truth to the world about what’s actually going on out there.” This is 'Surya', which is hindu for sun; A 48 x 60 inch oil on canvas painting depicting a kaleidoscope of colorful women...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$12,000
“The Showman” after Abraham Le Blond
Located in San Francisco, CA
This itinerant showman, with his drum and what appears to be a peep show, met a real need. What’s offered definitely engages the man in the group, but the woman pawing at his shoulde...
Category
19th Century Romantic Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
A Soulful Modernist Portrait
By Boris Deutsch
Located in San Francisco, CA
On offer is a portrait of an unknown sitter who is rendered with profound dignity yet lifted from gloomy solemnity by a vibrant and intriguing background. Notably, artist Boris Deuts...
Category
1950s American Modern Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Mid Century Modern Cubist Painting w/ Figures of Children by Spurlock c.1950
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid century modern figural abstract painting with a touch of cubism.
Original oil on canvas.
Dimensions 35 1/2" x 23 1/2". Frame dimensions 41" x 29".
Very good vintage conditi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Day's End
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Day's End" 1988 is an oil painting on canvas by American artist Donald A. Peters, 1921-2002. It is signed and dated at the lower right corner by the artist. The canvas size is 16 x 20 inches, framed size is 22 x 26 inches. Framed in original wooden grey/brown frame, with grey fabric liner. It is in excellent condition.
About the artist:
Since his birth in Indianapolis, Indiana on May 19, 1921, Don Peters has continually expressed his multifaceted talents. While serving in the US Marine Corps. at the age of 19, Don received his first international recognition from combat sketches made between 1942 and 1945. Exhibited in the National Galleries of London and throughout the US. These sketches earned Don a scholarship from the National Newspaperman's Association, metaphysics, spiritual space, romantic realism and miniaturism. His preference for the rapidly drying medium of acrylic allows Don to achieve drama in his color placement.
He began his career in Hollywood in 1953, where he worked with Walt Disney, M.G.M., Paramount, Twentieth Century Fox, Warner Brow., Columbia and Filmation. In 1964, Don won the Venice Film Festival award for his screenplay, "The Soldier." Also, in 1966, Don received the Academy Award Nomination for the original screenplay and story "Naked Prey". 1971 Don was a background Artists on the film Journey Back to OZ aka Return to OZ. Animated Musical Fantasy.
Don Peters' Mean Machine design
Peters later helped design the 1968-69 Hanna-Barbera cartoon series Wacky Races for Iwao Takamoto and Jerry Eisenberg, as Eisenberg recalled: "Iwao designed Penelope Pitstop and her car... And then there was some guy named Don Peters, who Iwao knew from his days at Disney, he was a designer. And he got Don to do some freelance help, and he designed that car that Dick Dastardly had, it looked like a Captain Nemo-type car, you know, like a submarine. Peters then worked on animated series Hot...
Category
Late 20th Century American Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Caught it! Spearfishing a Wary Grouper
Located in San Francisco, CA
In the eternal man vs prey contest, spearfishing might be one of the most challenging sports. The fisherman must enter the alien watery realm to hunt, perhaps only equipped with snor...
Category
1950s Modern Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
1940s Philippino Masterpiece
Located in San Francisco, CA
I believe this powerful painting is by the very talented Philippines artist Virgilio Daclan. He was born in 1920 in Cebu city. He studied art in 1951 a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Vessel no. 1
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Vessel no. 1' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with serious themes including global ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Landscape, California
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Landscape, California" c. 1935 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Elmer Stanhope, 1907-1956. It is signed at the lowe...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cathedral
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "Cathedral" 1970 is an oil painting on cardboard panel by Czech/American artist Andre Boratko, 1912-1990. It is signed at the lower right co...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Walk in the Park
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Walk in the Park" 1965 is a palette knife oil painting on canvas by noted artist Paul Blaine Henrie, 1932-1999. It is signed and dated...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Fishing Village, Puttaya, Thailand
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Fishing Village, Puttaya, Thailand" c.1980 is an oil painting with gold addition on canvas by renown Thai artist Kid Kosolawat, 1917...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Bay Area - Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
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