Berkshires - Figurative Paintings

Paul Renard French, 1941-1997 Winter in Paris Oil on canvas 18 by 24 in, w/ frame 25 ⅛ by 31 ¼ in Signed "P. Renard" lower right The art of Paul Renard, who was born in 1941, can b...

Paul Charles Chocarne-Moreau French, 1855-1931 Man Walking with His Dog Oil on canvas 13 by 18 in, w/ frame 18 ½ by 23 ½ in Signed lower left Inventory Number: 01651 Chocarne-More...

Jacques Deveau French, born 1937 Paris, La Belle Epoque Oil on Canvas 24 by 36 in, w/ frame 33 by 45 in Provenance: Private Collection Massachusetts Inventory Number: 01485 Jacqu...

Caroline Helena Armington Canadian, 1875-1939 Walk Along the Water Oil on canvas 8 ½ by 10 ¾ in, w/ frame 15 by 17 in Signed "Caroline Armington 1921" lower right Inventory Number:...

Luis Graner y Arrufi Spanish, 1863-1929 The Glow Oil on board 26 ½ by 33 in, w/ frame 35 by 43 ¼ in Signed and dated 23 lower left Luis Graner y Arrufi was born in Barcelona in 186...

Dutch School Netherlands, 17th Century Skating Scene Oil on board 15 ⅛ X 19 ¾ in. w/ frame 23 X 26 in. Unsigned Inventory Number: 02056 An excellent example of Dutch school painti...

Cesar Villacres Ecuador, 1880–1941 Market Day Oil on Canvas 16 by 20 in. w/ frame 22 by 25 ⅝ in. Signed lower right This painting depicts a busy Parisian market. Cesar Villacres wa...

Daniel Fisher British, 19th Century Waiting for the Catch of the Day Oil on canvas 39 by 29 in. W/frame 48 ½ by 38 ½ in. Signed & dated 1882 Inventory Number: 02072 Daniel exh...

Andre Planson French, 1898-1981 Boat Launch Oil on canvas 23 ½ by 32 in, w/ frame 32 ⅛ by 40 in Signed lower right, dated 1963 verso Inventory Number: 01829

John Edward Costigan, N.A. American, 1888-1972 Woman and Child Oil on canvas Signed ‘J.E. Costigan N.A.’ lower left 24 by 30 in. W/frame 32 by 38 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...

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...

Cesar Villacres Ecuador, 1880–1941 Rue de Seine, Paris Oil on canvas 16 X 20 in. w/ frame 21 ¾ X 25 ¾ in. Signed lower right Cesar Villacres was an Ecuadorian artist that worked in...

Georges d'Espagnat French, 1870 - 1950 Les Vendanges Signed gdE (lower left)  Oil on canvas 67 by 43 in. W/frame 71 by 47 in. Born at Melun on 14th August 1870, Georges d’Espagnat...

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...

George Botti Italian, 1923-2003 Balloon Man Oil on canvas 36 by 36 in. W/frame 42 by 42 in. Signed lower right Barrel Item number: 01864 George Bott...

Jean-Yves Commere French, 1920-1986 Lounging by the Water Oil on canvas 13 by 21 ⅝ in, w/ frame 20 ⅜ by 29 ⅛ in Signed lower left In 1938 he enters the school of Beaux arts in Pari...

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...

Charles Fournier French, 1803-1854 Steamboat on the River Oil on canvas 18 by 25 ¾ in, w/ frame 28 ¾ by 37 in Signed lower right Inventory Number: 01512

Samuel David Landau American, 1895-1979 Country Road Oil on board 12 by 15 ¾ in, w/ frame 18 by 22 in Signed lower right Samuel David Landau was born in Warsaw, Poland, and emigrat...

Dietz Edzard German, 1893-1963 Au Circus Oil on canvas 22 by 31 in. W/frame 32 by 41 in. Signed lower right Dietz Edzard was born in Bremen in 1893 Germany. He traveled extensive...

Jacques Deveau French, born 1937 The Beach at Trouville Oil on canvas 24 by 36 in, w/ frame 32 ½ by 44 ½ in Signed "J. Deveau" lower right Inventory Number: 01482 Jacques Deveau i...

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...

Walter Blackman American, 1847-1928 Young Beauty Oil on canvas 20 by 16 in. W/frame 32 by 28 in. Studied under Gerome, Paris Exhibited: Society of America...

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-Émile Jacque French, 1813-1894 Shepherdess and Sheep in the Stable Oil on canvas 21 ¼ by 25 ¾ in, w/ frame 26 by 30 ¾ in Signed lower left Charles Jacque was among the firs...

Suzanne Eisendieck French, 1908-1998 Ballet D'enfants Oil on canvas 36 by 29 ½ in. W/frame 44 by 37 ½ in. Signed lower right Item number: 01647 She was born in Danzig (now Gdan...

Pal Fried Hungarian-American, 1893-1976 Night In the City Oil on canvas 30 X 24 in. w/ frame 36 ¼ X 30 ¼ in. Signed "Fried Pal" lower right Pal was born in Budapest and studied at ...

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...

Merio Ameglio Italian, 1897-1970 Paris in the Snow Oil on canvas 18 ¼ by 21 ⅝ in, w/ frame 23 ¼ by 26 ¾ in Signed "Merio Ameglio" lower left Merio noted impressionist painter prima...

Alexandre Marie Guillemin French, 1817-1880 Scene de Chasse Oil on Panel 9 by 12in. w/frame 17 ½ by 20 ½in. Signed lower right He studied with Baron Gros. He exhibited at the Salo...

Jean Richard Goubie French, 1842-1899 A Travers Bois Oil on canvas 25 ½ by 39 ¾ in. W/frame 30 ½ by 45 in. Circa 1892 Jean Richard Goubie was bo...

Denes Holesch Hungarian, 1910-1983 The Violinist Oil on board 26 ½ by 22 in. W/frame 33 by 28 ½ in. Denes Holesch (Denes de Holesch) was born in 1910...

Alphonse Jongers French, 1872 – Danseuses Orientales Oil on canvas 36 by 28 ½ in, w/ frame 45 ½ by 37 ¼ in Signed & dated 98 Jongers studied at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Pari...

Renato Guttuso Italian 1911-1987 Father & Child Oil on canvas 30 ½ by 19 in. W/frame 31 ½ in. by 20 in. Signed verso "Guttuso" Signed lower center "Guttuso" Dated 1966 Titled vers...

Marie Antoinette Boullard-Deve French, 1890-1970 Segovie Oil on canvas 29 by 21 ½ in. W/frame 39 by 31 ½ in. Signed lower left and titled and dated 1951 on the back Marie was born...

John Edward Costigan American, 1888-1972 Bathers Oil on canvas 20 by 24 in, w/ frame 26 by 30 in Signed "J.E. Costigan N.A." lower left John Costigan was born of Irish-American par...

Georges D'espagnat French, 1870 - 1950 Le Piège à Oiseaux Signed gdE (lower right) Oil on canvas 66 3/4 by 48 1/2 in. W/frame 70 ¾ by 52 ½ in. Born at Melun on 14th August 1870, G...

Esther Williams American, 1907-1967 Playing By the Fountain Oil on canvas 40 by 50 in, w/ frame 48 ⅛ by 58 in Signed lower left Inventory Number: 01808 Exhibited: Boston Museum of...

Walt Francis Kuhn American, 1877-1949 At the Flower Market Oil on Canvas 15 by 18 in, w/ frame 22 ½ by 25 ½ in Signed lower right A painter and major organizer of the Armory Show, ...

Pal Fried, Hungarian/American, 1893-1976 Mona Lisa Oil on canvas 30 by 24 in.W/frame 38 by 32 in. Signed lower left Pal was born in Budapest and studied at the Hungarian Academie ...

Henry Dele Coeuillerie American, 1864-1932 The Three Kings Oil on canvas Signed & dated lower right 30 by 36 in. W/frame 35 ½ by 41 ½ in. Provenance...

Charles Blondin French, 1913-1991 Panthéon Market Oil on canvas 10 ¾ X 13 ⅞ in. w/ frame 15 ½ X 18 ½ in. Signed lower right Inventory Number: 02135 A "School of Paris" artist duri...

Oil on canvas

Charles Blondin French, Mid 20th Century Painter on the Square Oil on canvas 15 by 18 in, w/ frame 18 ½ by 21 ½ in Signed lower left Inventory Number: 01478 A "School of Paris" ar...

oil & flashe on canvas

oil on canvas

George Botti Italian, 1923-2003 Family in a Park Oil on canvas 36 by 36 in. W/frame 42 by 42 in. Signed lower right Barrel Item number: 01863 George ...

Flash Flood oil on canvas

oil on canvas

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...

Marcel Dyf French, 1899-1985 Djeuner Champtre Oil on canvas 23 ½ by 28 ¾ in. W/frame 31 ½ by 36 ¾ in. Signed lower left Marcel Dyf (Marcel Dreyfus) was born in Paris on October 7,...

oil on paper

Dennis Ainsley American, 1880-1952 Village by the Sea Oil on canvas 24 ⅛ by 30 in, w/ frame 31 ⅜ by 37 ⅜ in Signed lower right Dennis Ainsley was born in Illinois, the child of Iri...

Frank Leslie Fairchild American, 1893-1978 Parade Day in Paris Oil on canvas 40 X 30 in. w/ frame 50 ½ X 40 ¾ in. Signed lower left Frank Leslie Fairchild was a pianist, writer and...

Michelle Michaux French, b. 1927 Portrait of a Woman in Black Oil on canvas 15 by 18 in, w/ frame 23 ¾ by 27 in Signed lower right Born in Paris in 1927, she studied with Monsieur ...

Dennis Ainsley American, 1880-1952 Market Day Oil on canvas 24 by 30 in, w/ frame 30 ½ by 36 ½ in Signed lower left Inventory Number: 01369 Dennis Ainsley was born in Illinois, th...

Adrian Allinson British, 1890-1959 Winter in the Neighborhood Oil on canvas 31 by 41 in, w/ frame 37 ¼ by 47 in Signed "Allinson" lower left Adrian A...

Frédéric François Menguy French,1927-2007 Apres le Bain Oil on canvas 25 ½ by 36 ¼, w/ frame 35 by 45 ½ in Signed and dated 1964 lower right Provenance: Wally Findlay Galleries, Pa...

Arthur George Collins American, b.1866 Biskra Algeria Oil on canvas Signed and dated Biskra, 1893 26 ½ by 32 ½ in. W/frame 32 ½ by 38 ½ in. Arthur studied at the Julien Academy, P...