Berkshires - Paintings

Alfred Smith French, 1854-1932 Storm By the Cliff Oil on canvas 25 by 32 in, w/ frame 33 ½ by 40 ¾ in Signed lower left Inventory Number: 01856 Alfred Smith (1854–1932) was a Fren...

Georges D’Espagnat French, 1870-1950 Still Life with Roses Oil on canvas 25 ¾ by 32 in, w/ frame 33 ¾ by 40 in Signed lower right Inventory Number: 01547 Born at Melun on 14th Aug...

Antoine Blanchard French, 1910-1988 Avenue Des Champs Elysees Oil on canvas 18 ¼ by 21 ¾ in, w/ frame 29 by 32 ¼ in Signed lower right Inventory Number: 01874 Antoine Blanchard is...

Cesar Villacres Ecuador, 1880–1941 Parisian Street Scene in Winter Oil on canvas 20 by 24 in, w/ frame 29 by 33 in Signed "C. A. Villacres" lower left Inventory Number: 01500 Cesa...

Charles Blondin French, Mid 20th Century Parisian Art Seller Oil on canvas 12 by 16 in, w/ frame 17 ¼ by 21 ⅛ in Signed "Charles Blondin" lower left A "School of Paris" artist duri...

Charles Foster American, 1850-1931 Cloudy Sky Over Pasture Oil on canvas 14 by 22 in, w/ frame 23 ½ by 31 ½ in Signed lower right, dated 1890 Inventory Number: 01900 Charles Foste...

Bruce Barton Penney American, born 1929 Barn on a Hill Oil on board 25 by 30 in, w/ frame 30 ¼ by 35 in Signed lower right, dated 64 Born Laconia, New Hampshire. Addresses: Kennebu...

Eric Sloane American, 1905-1985 New England Landscape with Barn Oil on panel 22 by 30 in, w/ frame 30 ½ by 39 in Signed lower right Eric Sloane was born, Everard Jean Hinrichs, on ...

Eduardo León Garrido Spanish, 1856-1949 Portrait of a Smiling Woman Oil on canvas 12 ¾ by 18 in, w/ frame 19 ⅞ by 25 in Signed upper left Eduardo León Garrido was born in Madrid in...

Gabriel Spat American, 1890-1967 Jardin des Tuileries Oil on board 8 ⅛ by 11 ⅛ in, w/ frame 13 ¾ by 17 in Signed lower left Gabriel Spat spent most of his career in France painting...

Pierre Anfosso French, 1928-2004 Personnages Dans un Parc Oil on Canvas 15 by 18 in, w/ frame 21 ½ by 24 ½ in Signed lower left Pierre Anfosso (1 Dece...

Henri Bénard French, 1860-1927 A Love Letter By the Sea Oil on Canvas 19 ¾ by 24 in, w/ frame 26 by 30 in Signed Henri Bénard lower left

Victor Léon Jean Pierre Charreton French, 1864-1936 Le Jardin de Chateau Oil on canvas 23 ½ by 28 ½ in, w/ frame 30 ⅜ by 35 ½ in Signed lower right Inventory Number: 01912 Victor ...

William Penhallow Henderson American, 1877–1943 Venice Oil / Canvas 20 by 30 in, w/ frame 29 by 39 in Signed lower left W.P. Henderson & dated 1902 Provenance: Private Collection G...

Edward Loyal Field American, 1856-1914 Autumn Landscape Oil on canvas 27 X 22 in. w/ frame 34 ½ X 29 ¼ in. Signed lower right, monogrammed verso Etcher, watercolorist, and painter ...

Alfred Nathaniel Oppenheim German, 1873-1953 Park Terrace in St. Cloud Oil on board 12 ¾ by 16 ¼ in, w/ frame 19 by 22 ½ in Signed and dated 1908

Joaquín Mir Y Trinxet Spanish, 1873-1940 Coastal View Oil on board 11 ¾ by 16 in, w/ frame 25 ¼ by 29 ¼ in Signed lower right Joaquín Mir Trinxet was a Catalan Spanish artist. Livi...

Johan Conrad Greive Dutch, 1837-1891 Dutch Harbor Oil on canvas 12 ¼ by 20 ⅝ in, w/ frame 21 ⅜ by 29 ⅞ in Monogrammed lower left Johan Conrad Greive (1837–1891) was a 19th-century ...

Adelsteen Normann Norway, 1848–1918 Norwegian Fjord Oil on canvas 31 ¼ by 41 ½ in, w/ frame 37 ⅛ by 47 ⅜ in Signed lower right Inventory Number: 01...

Antoine Blanchard French, 1910-1988 Rainy Evening in Paris Oil on canvas 13 by 18 in, w/ frame 23 ⅞ by 27 ⅞ in Signed lower right Antoine Blanchard is the pseudonym under which the...

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Hoi Lebadang French-Vietnamese, 1922-2015 Abstract in Earth Tones Oil on canvas 18 by 36 in, w/ frame 24 by 41 ⅞ in Signed and dated 56 lower right Lebadang (Hoi) was born in Quang...

Arnold Marc Gorter Dutch, 1866-1933 An Autumn Landscape Oil on canvas 26 ¼ by 33 ¾ in, w/ frame 35 ¾ by 43 ¼ in Signed "A.M. Gorter" lower right Inventory Number: 01927 Arnold Mar...

Lawrence Lebduska American, 1894-1966 Two Pandas by the Water Oil on board 16 by 20 in, w/ frame 24 ¼ by 28 ¼ in Signed lower left Lawrence Lebduska was born in Baltimore, Maryland...

Antoine Blanchard French, 1910-1988 Quai Du Louvre, Paris Oil on canvas 13 by 18 in, w/ frame 21 ¾ by 26 in Signed lower left Antoine Blanchard is the pseudonym under which the Fre...

William Merrit Chase American, 1849-1916 Fruit and Porcelain Signed "Wm M Chase." l.l., identified on labels from the Corcoran Gallery of Art, B...

Henry Ward Ranger American, 1858-1915 Morning In the Village Oil on Academy Board 12 by 16 in, w/ frame 19 ¼ by 23 ¼ in Signed lower right A key person in the establishment of the ...

Emory Ladanyi Hungarian, 1902-1986 Atonal Oil on canvas 38 ¼ by 46 in, w/ frame 39 ½ by 47 ½ in Signed lower right Born November 8, 1902 in Kecskemet, Hungary, the child of Mihaly ...

Antoine Blanchard French, 1910-1988 Flower Market, La Madeleine, Paris Oil on canvas 13 by 18 in. W/frame 19 by 24 in. Signed lower right Provenance: Catalda Fine Arts, Inc., New York Private Collection, New York Trinity House Paintings, London Private Collcetion, New York Alexander Avenard Collection Le Trianon...

Antonio Y Mencia Garcia Spanish 1853-1915 Lily Pads Oil on canvas 24 by 29 in, w/ frame 31 by 36 in Signed lower left Inventory Number: 01257 Student of Matias Lavina. He made his...

Gabriel Godard French, Born 1933 La Theiere Oil on canvas 46 by 35 in, w/ frame 48 by 37 in Signed & dated 59 lower right Provenance: The Collection of Tom & Ruth Jones Private Col...

Francis Chapin American 1899-1965 Little River Oil on canvas 28 by 40 in. W/frame 38 by 50 in. Dubbed the Dean of Chicago Painters in the 1930s, 40s and 50s, Francis Chapin painte...

Gabriel Godard French, Born 1933 Volleyball Oil on canvas 31 ½ by 31 ½ in, w/ frame 33 ¾ by 33 ¾ in Signed & dated 1962 Provenance: David Findlay Galleries New York Private Collect...

Germaine Verna French, 1900-1975 Lounging Nude Oil on canvas 24 ¼ by 36 ¼ in, w/ frame 31 ¼ by 43 in Signed "Verna 67" lower left Inventory Number: 01484 During the early 1920's t...

John Edward Costigan American, 1888-1972 Bathing Group Oil on canvas board 12 by 16 in, w/ frame 19 by 23 in Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left John Costigan was born of Irish-...

Attributed to Eva Gonzalès French, 1849-1883 Woman Sitting for Tea Oil on canvas 29 ½ by 40 ¼ in, w/ frame 37 by 48 in Signed lower right Eva Gonzalès was born in Paris into the fa...

Emory Ladanyi Hungarian, 1902-1986 Thunderous Mixed Media on Canvas Signed Lower Right Inscribed & titled on Verso 40 by 48 in. W/frame 42 by 50 in. Born November 8, 1902 in Kecskemet, Hungary, the child of Mihaly and Maria Ladanyi, Emory Ladanyi moved with his family to Eger, a town famous for its good wine. He studied at the High School of Science and Art. At fifteen, he discovered anatomy in a textbook and began to consider a career in medicine, and was accepted into the Medical School of The University of Budapest to become a medical student. He received his doctoral degree in 1927 and did his residency in dermatology in the largest hospital in Berlin, then one of the most prominent dematology centers of Europe. In Berlin, he was especially impressed by the works of Edvard Munch, forerunner of German Expressionism, who exerted a lasting influence on his work. Following medical residency in Vienna, he was also impressed by the works of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Kokoschka. In 1928 he returned to Budapest to continue postgraduate studies, also advancing his art education. His many friends were among the avant-garde poets and writers of that time. In March 1929, he arrived in New York. June of that year, he passed the medical boards, and in September received his license to practice medice in the State of New York. Outside of the medical profession which enabled him the livelihood to continue to paint, he moved exclusively in avant-garde circles of New York City. He was a close friend of the composer Edgar Varese. Others of his circle were poet Kenneth Patchen...

Otto Eichinger Austrian, 1922 – 2004 Still Life with Peaches Oil on panel 10 ¼ by 12 ¾ in, w/ frame 17 ¼ by 19 ¾ in Signed lower right Otto Eichinger was born in 1922 in Vienna, Au...

Andre Gisson French, 1928-2003 Mother & Children in a Meadow Oil on canvas 12 by 16 in. w/ frame 18 ⅝ by 22 ⅝ in. Signed "Gisson" lower left Although most modern references cla...

Justus Von Huysum Amsterdam, 1659-1716 Floral Still Life Oil on canvas 59 by 45 in. W//frame 65 ½ by 51 ½ in. Signed lower left Justus van Huysum ...

John Edward Costigan, N.A. American, 1888-1972 Bathers Oil on canvas Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left 20 by 24 in. W/frame 26 by 30 in. John Costigan was born of Irish-American parents in Providence, Rhode Island, February 29, 1888. He was a cousin of the noted American showman, George M. Cohan, whose parents brought the young Costigan to New York City and was instrumental in starting him on a career in the visual arts. They were less successful in encouraging him to pursue formal studies at the Art Students League (where, however, he later taught) than in exposing him to the commercial art world through the job they had gotten him with the New York lithographing firm that made their theatrical posters. At the H. C. Miner Lithographing Company, Costigan worked his way up from his entry job as a pressroom helper, through various apprenticeships, to the position of sketch artist. In the latter capacity he was an uncredited designer of posters for the Ziegfeld Follies and for numerous silent films. Meanwhile, he had supplemented his very meager formal studies in the fine arts with a self-teaching discipline that led to his first professional recognition in 1920 with the receipt of prizes for an oil painting and watercolor in separate New York exhibitions. A year earlier, Costigan had wed professional model Ida Blessin, with whom he established residence and began raising a family in the sleepy little rural New York hamlet of Orangeburg, the setting for the many idyllic farm landscapes and wood interiors with which he was to become identified in a career that would span half a century. John Costigan’s first national recognition came in 1922 with his winning of the coveted Peterson Purchase prize of the Art Institute of Chicago for an oil on canvas, “Sheep at the Brook.” It marked the start of an unbroken winning streak that would gain him at least one important prize per year for the remainder of the decade. The nation’s art journalists and critics began to take notice, making him the recurring subject of newspaper features and magazine articles. The eminent author and critic Edgar Holger Cahill was just a fledgling reporter when he wrote his first feature, “John Costigan Carries the Flame,” for Shadowland Magazine in 1922. Costigan had his first one-man show of paintings at the Rehn Gallery on New York’s 5th Avenue in November, 1924, to be followed less than three years later by another at the Art Institute of Chicago. In addition, Costigan’s work has been—and continues to be included, side-by-side with that of some of America’s most high-profile artists, in museum and gallery exhibitions throughout the country. His renown had peaked in the early 1930s, by which time his work had been honored with nearly every major award then being bestowed in the fine arts and had been acquired for the permanent collections of several prestigious American museums, including New York’s Metropolitan (which only recently, in 1997, deaccessioned his “Wood Interior,” acquired in 1934). Although Costigan’s celebrity had ebbed by the late 1930s, the Smithsonian Institution saw fit in 1937 to host an exhibition exclusively of his etchings. And, in 1941, the Corcoran Gallery (also Washington, D.C.) similarly honored him for his watercolors. (Another Washington institution, the Library of Congress, today includes 22 Costigan etchings and lithographs in its permanent print collection.) During World War II, Costigan returned briefly to illustrating, mainly for Bluebook, a men’s pulp adventure magazine. A gradual revival of interest in his more serious work began at the end of the war, culminating in 1968 with the mounting of a 50-year Costigan retrospective at the Paine Art Center and Arboretum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Oils, watercolors and prints were borrowed from museums and private collections throughout the country, and the exhibition was subsequently toured nationally by the Smithsonian Institution. John Costigan died of pneumonia in Nyack, NY, August 5, 1972, just months after receiving his final prestigious award —the Benjamin West Clinedinst Medal of the Artist’s Fellowship, Inc., presented in general recognition of his “...achievement of exceptional artistic merit...” in the various media he had mastered in the course of his career. This painting depicts one of the artist's favorite themes --the farm family bathing...

Thomas Edwin Mostyn British, 1864-1930 A Walk Through the Forest Oil on canvas 20 by 27 in, w/ frame 28 by 35 in Signed "Mostyn" lower right He was a figure painter, portrait paint...

Einar William Bogh Danish, 1877-1938 Farm in Autumn Oil on canvas 16 by 18 in, w/ frame 22 ⅝ by 24 ¾ in Signed lower right Painter in Esbonderup and Copenhagen, studied at the Kris...

Albert Andre French, 1869-1954 La Table dans l’Arbre Oil on canvas 14 ¼ by 38 in, w/ frame 28 ¼ by 51 ¾ in Signed lower right Inventory Number: 01382 A Post-Impressionist artist a...

David Murray British, 1849-1933 At the Edge of the Forest Oil on Board 12 by 18 in, w/ frame 17 by 23 in Signed lower left Inventory Number: 01457 Sir David Murray RA (29 January ...

Francois Gerome French, 1895 Parisian Lady with a Poodle Oil on canvas 9 by 12 in, w/ frame 15 by 18 in Signed lower left Francois Gerome was born in Budapest in 1895. He attended ...

Vincenzo Fioravanti Italian, 20th Century Paris Opera House Oil on board 18 by 24 in, w/ frame 25 ¼ by 31 ¼ in signed lower right

Andre Lanskoy Russian, 1902-1976 Abstract Composition Pastel and tempera on paper 18 ¼ by 25 ¾ in, w/ frame 26 by 33 ½ in Signed lower right Inventory Number: 01777 Andre Lanskoy ...

Jean Even French, 1910-1986 Boats in the Harbor Oil on Canvas 21 ¼ by 25 ¾ in, w/ frame 29 ¾ by 34 in Signed Even lower right

René-Xavier Prinet French, 1861-1946 La Plage de Cabourg Oil on canvas 18 by 31 in, w/ frame 25 ¼ by 38 ¾ in Signed lower right Coming from a family of notable Franche-Comté (Prinet notaries from Luxeuil-les-Bains), René-Xavier Prinet is the son of Henry Prinet (born in 1824), imperial prosecutor in Vitry -the-François, and the brother of Gaston Prinet, diplomat. Appointed to Paris, Henry Prinet lives with his family on rue Bonaparte just a stone's throw from the Ecole des Beaux - Arts, to which René - Xavier seemed destined. His father, an amateur painter (a Madonna with Child is kept in the church of Suaucourt, Haute-Saone), is willing that his son acquires an artistic training and he makes him receive the advice of the painter Louis Charles Timbal, strong employee for decorations of the churches of Paris. By his maternal grandmother, René-Xavier Prinet is related to the painters of the Court Hubert Drouais (1699-1767) and François-Hubert Drouais (1727-1775). Around 1880, he began his education as a painter by being admitted into the studio of the painter Jean-Léon Gérôme. He stayed with the master until 1885. He then became associated with the Frankish painters Georges and Lucien Griveau, Antonio de La Gandara, classmates at the Beaux-Arts, Louis-Auguste Giradot, Felix Desgranges and Jules-Alexis Muenier. At the same time, he studies at the Julian Academy. His picture Jesus Child is his first painting accepted at the Salon of French Artists in 1885. He exhibited at this Salon until 1889. At that time he became associated with a group of young painters called the Black Band : Lucien Simon, André Dauchez, René Ménard and Charles Cottet. He became a professor at the Beaux-Arts in Paris, where he created and directed the first workshop for women artists. In 1891, he received an order from the State for the decoration of the Palace of the Legion of Honor: The Four Seasons. His sketches are accepted. The same year, he exhibited in Paris at the Durand-Ruel gallery with Albert Besnard , Jules-Alexis Muenier and Henri Fantin-Latour. One of his most famous works, The Kreutzer Sonata, is exhibited in 1901 at the exhibition "Contemporary French Art" in Stuttgart where it is sold to the Prince Regent of Bavaria . The year 1904 sees the creation, with Lucien Simon and Antoine Bourdelle , of the workshops of the Académie de la Grande Chaumière. In 1909, he illustrated Rene Boylesve's Young Girl. In 1913, he was named secretary of the National Society of Fine Arts. He travels to the United States as a jury member at the Carnegie Institute exhibition in Pittsburgh. His paintings The Cavaliers and Interior dining room are presented on this occasion. He frequented the Sundays of Besnard, rue Guillaume-Tell. Prinet painted the reception of Albert Besnard at the Academy of Fine Arts in 1912. In 1916, he painted the painter Felix Desgranges in his family room in Luxeuil with the Australian artist Bessie Davidson...

Paul Savigny French, 1858-1916 Martigues, France Oil on canvas 25 ½ by 36 ½ in, w/ frame 31 ½ by 42 ½ in Signed lower right

Christian Zacho Danish, 1843-1913 Deer in the Pasture Oil on canvas 16 ½ by 24 ½ in, w/ frame 25 by 32 ¾ in Signed lower right Zacho studied at the Academy of Beaux- Arts in Copenh...

Charles Levier French, 1920-2004 La Plage a Girolato Oil on Canvas 30 by 40 in, w/ frame 38 ⅝ by 49 in Signed lower left, titled verso Charles Levier was born in 1920 from a French...

Calogero Scibetta Italian, 1898-1931 Mission Exterior Oil on canvas 31 ½ by 31 ½ in, w/ frame 32 ⅝ by 32 ¾ in Signed "C. Scibetta 29" lower left Calogero "Charlie" Salvatore Scibet...

Charles Levier French, 1920-2004 La Rue Solitaire Oil on canvas 36 X 24 in. w/ frame 45 ½ X 33 ½ in. Signed lower right Inventory Number: 01747 Charles Levier was born in 1920 fro...

Harry A. Neyland American, 1877-1958 Rocks on the Shore Oil on canvas 26 by 32 in, w/ frame 34 ½ by 40 ½ in Signed lower left Harry A. Neyland — painter, sculptor, illustrator, and...

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Antoine Blanchard French, 1910-1988 La Madeleine, Paris Oil on Canvas 24 by 36 in, w/ frame 30 ½ by 43 in Item Number: 01508 Antoine Blanchard is the pseudonym under which the Fre...

Susan Ricker Knox American, 1874-1959 Lady in a Sun Hat Oil on canvas 28 by 36 in, w/ frame 36 by 44 in Signed upper left Susan was born in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, Susan Knox ex...

Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange French, 1877–1958 Still Life on a Windowsill Oil on canvas 28 ¾ by 36 ¼ in, w/ frame 38 ¼ by 45 ½ in Signed lower right Jeanne Selmersheim-Desgrange (1...