California - Wall Decorations

A gorgeous artwork - a wall sculpture - depicting a fan by Curtis Jeré, 1989. Hand-crafted entirely of brass, this pieces comes with a certificate of authentication and is one of the...

Very sensual, large original oil on canvas of a beautiful reclining red headed nude woman, by famous deceased listed Dutch artist, Leo Jansen (1930-1980). T...

A wood wall sculpture by documented California artist Richard Faralla. Exhibited and works held San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Acquired from a personal friend and student of Far...

Vintage San Francisco sign that reads "SAN FRANCISCO CITY AND COUNTY POP 793,700 ELEV 61." Dated 1997 on back. Stamped property of California on the back. Some wear to metal on front constant with age. Fun wall art...

Raoul Dufy "Venice" gouache on paper. Nice new wood frame included. Framed size: 26" x 33" Image size: 16.5" x 23.5".

Shoowa Prestige Cloth D.R.Congo, Kuba (Shoowa) People Mid 20th century Raffia, natural dyes, cut pile embroidery 61 x 53.5 cm (24″ x 21”) Provenance: Pierre Loos Collection, Bru...

A pretty oil on canvas by John Lochhead (1868-1921) a listed British artist born in 1868. The style of the painting is classic Victorian with a slightly naughty title on the back label "The Trysting Place". The piece depicts a well-dressed young woman seated on a bench in a charming bucolic garden setting with grazing sheep on a riverbank. The frame is a fine example of elaborate late 19th century carved giltwood with the label of a well-known carver and gilder...

A rare gemstone artwork in the art nouveau style modeled after Alphonse Mucha's "Spring". The painting was done on the back of glass and applied with quartz to create the iridescent background. The Goddess finely painted, delicately inlaid with natural gemstones. She wears a long mermaid...

Beautiful original print by David Weidman ED of 250, signed and numbered David Weidman's (1921-2014) work is easily recognizable and emblematic of midcentury graphic design. This is ...

Cool Los Angeles freeway sign retired from the 101 freeway. Made in the the 1980s. This freeway takes you north/ south along the entire west coast of the United States from San Diego...

Condition: Original Vintage Condition Designer: Wanda S. Neumann Manufacturer: Wanda S. Neumann Materials: Oil On Canvas, Wood Frame Style: California Realism

Sheep Tapestry designed by Studio Ahead. The tapestry is made of custom cream merino wool felt from Northern California sheep. The fluid shapes are inspired by the smooth lines of stones and pieces of driftwood found on Muir Beach...

Otto Pilny (Swiss, 1866-1936) A very fine orientalist oil on canvas "The Slave Market", depicting a desert scene with the offering of two female slaves. Signed and Dated (l/r): Otto Pilny, 1910. Canvas height: 31 1/2 inches (80 cm). Canvas width: 47 1/4 inches (120 cm). Frame height: 37 inches (94 cm). Frame width: 52 inches (132.1 cm). Previously offered at Christie's New York, 19th Century European Art, Sale 2521 on October 12, 2011, Lot 84. Latest Otto Pilny Sale: Christie's London - The Orientalist Sale including Works from the Najd Collection on 30 March 2021 - Lot 49 "Dance in the Desert" was sold for £100,800 ($138,500) There is not that much information about Otto Pilny who began his artistic education in Prague. Pilny also lived in Vienna and ended up settling in Zurich. Just like Ludwig Deutsch (1855-1935), Rudolf Ernst (1854-1932), and Carl Leopold Müller (1834-1892), Pilny was encouraged to travel abroad. During his two trips to Egypt, a favorite destination of the Austro-Hungarian school, the first one in 1889 and later en 1892, he acquired the taste of painting Orientalist scenes of Middle Eastern landscapes...

Excellent serigraph by American Op Art artist Roy Ahlgren (1927 - 2011). This piece named "Stratification" is signed, dated (1980) and numbered (74/145) by the artist in pencil. O...

A Fine Italian 19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520). The circular painted canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved two-tone gilt wood, gilt-patinated and gesso frame, which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting. Circa: 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Painting diameter: 28 inches (71.1 cm) Frame height: 55 1/8 inches (140 cm) Frame width: 46 inches (116.8 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 cm) Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...

José Luis Cuevas (1934-2017) La Maga (The Sorceress), 1972 From The Mexican Masters suite, 1972-73 Paper size: 22.5 inches (57 cm) x 30.5 inches (77.5 cm) Fram...

If Gotham City and a Pierre Cardin fever dream had a love child, it would be this stunning 1970s mixed media artwork. At a striking 48.5 x 48.5 inches, this piece is big, bold, and b...

Vintage trio of Etruscan horses made of painted resin, mounted on a steel bar, by Frederick Weinberg, circa 1950-1960. Popularized in the Mid-20th Century, the ancient Etruscan horse...

Carl Auböck Model #4329 Polished Nickel Hook. Designed in the 1950s, this versatile and minimalist midcentury wall hook is executed in choice of patinated brass, polished brass, or ...

This charming ceramic wall art by Victoria Littlejohn, crafted in the 1970s, is a striking representation of Mid-Century Modern artistry. Featuring a beautifully glazed ceramic chick...

ABOUT Ruth Leaf, Tree Forms Fugue, signed and numbered in pencil, 24/35, embossed color etching and aquatint on wove paper. CREATOR RUTH LEAF (1923-2015). DATE OF MANUFACTU...

A beautiful, hand-painted oil on canvas depicting river scene in Spring. The background is a gorgeous blush color, with the mountain rocks in rust oran...

Evelyn Ackerman Carved Redwood Panel for Panelcarve, circa 1950s. Features a bird, ram and frog in typical Ackerman style. Measures 36" wide, 12" high and 1" deep. Stamped "copyrig...

Another original 8 x 10 black-and-white photograph by world, renowned photographer, Bruce Bellas AKA Bruce of L.A. we have sold many on 1st Dibs from our personal collection of 40+ y...

A wonderful, unique and special Spanish or California Mission vintage oil Folk Art painting/tapestry/wall hanging on burlap with fringe. We have not seen anything quite like it befo...

Faces (4 Faces), 1969 Tomio Kinoshita (1923-2014), Japan Woodblock print Paper, pigment, sumi ink Image: 27 high by 18.25 inches wide (68.5 by 46.4 cm) Paper size: 28 high by 19...

For your consideration, a vintage modern last supper in the manner of Emaus or Talleres Nomasticos. Constructed with mahogany and silver plated metal with abalone. Backboard painted ...

Spectacular 19th century Japanese late Edo period six-panel byobu screen depicting Yoshitsune and Benkei, two heroes of Japanese folklore. Crafted in ink and natural color pigments on mulberry paper with thick gold leaf borders on each panel. The character Yoshitsune is seated under a blossoming cherry tree in full armor holding a fan. The warrior priest or monk Benkei is depicted kneeling on a leopard skin...

Charming pair of Dutch Victorian delft tile panels in blue and white glazed earthenware depicting a cat and a dog. The tiles are mounted to a wood pan...

ABOUT An original vintage Chinese propaganda poster, "Support Agriculture Energetically" Shanghai Xinhua Bookstore Shenyang. Bright, vivid colors. Framed with a black, metal frame ...

A vintage Mid-Century ivory color silk brocade collectable Japanese ceremonial kimono. One of a kind hand crafted. Fabulous museum quality ceremonial piece in pure silk with intricat...

A nice watercolor by the Iranian Master Yrvand Yervand Nahapetian from 1958. We just had it beautifully framed under Museum acrylic for uv protection. The painting depicts a Camel a...

Purvis Young (1943-2010) Abstract Painting, ca 1990s Includes paper attesting to this work being part of the "American Salvage Find" where numeroius work presumed to be Purvis Young...

A wonderful monochrome lithograph from famed Spanish artist Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) from his portfolio collection "Les (Mes) Dessins D'Antibes" done in 1958 consisting of 16 loose ...

Mid-20th century black dance mask, Guerrero, Mexico A nice old mask from Guererro, Mexico, used in the Tlacololero Dance of the Tlactapa and probably fr...

WOMAN’S WRAPPER (BOGOLANFINI) Mali, Bamana people First half 20th century (probably made circa 1970) Cotton (hand-spun), strip weave; painting with mud and plant dyes These textil...

Gianni Versace "le Voyage de Marco Polo" for Rosenthal. Designed in Italy by Gianni Versace for Rosenthal. "Le voyage de Marco Polo" porcelain service plate with gold decoration, bri...

Framed oil on canvas abstract painting, unsigned. Purchased from an estate in San Francisco / Bay Area. This is a very good quality painting (not a weekend type painter). Califor...

ABOUT Peruvian Cuzco School, Madonna & Child, Untitled. Oil on canvas, pre 1970. CREATOR Unsigned. DATE OF MANUFACTURE c. pre 1970. MATERIALS AND TECHNIQUES Oil on Canv...

Original mezzotint on paper entitled "The Red Dress 1980" by well known listed artist, Gatja Helgart Rothe, also known as G.H. Rothe (1935-2007). This collectible work of art has bee...

Pair of 18th century Italian Venetian Rococo painted and gilt pine wall brackets.

This is an absolutely beautiful acrylic on canvas by French artist, Pascal Magnis. A master of color, Magnis creates a canvas in which the colors and shapes appear to be jumping off the canvas. At the grand size of 9'10" x 6'9" this would ignite that drab wall! The artwork is signed in the lower right corner. Below From: Wimbledon Fine Art "Pascal Magis...

18th C. Pair Hand Carved Wood Statues Wall mount Sculpture Regal Big Cats Lions .Exceptionally detailed high quality Large pair of Wall Art lions , outst...

Rare 1950’s. Mexican Pepsi Cola Soda Pop Bottle Cap Gas Embossed Metal Sign

Fierce monumental sized lions head sculpture featuring a glazed ceramic finish. The Italian majolica is beautifully hand-crafted with intricate details and vibrant colors. The large ...

MCM Artist's Proof aquatint abstract lithograph by Jacqueline Debutler, circa 1970s. The piece is hand signed and numbered (EA 1/xx); it is in good vintage condition and is presented...

The detail of this mountainous landscape of an area that is akin to the Alps in Japan is stunning. It is a watercolor and ink depiction of Senjojiki Cirque which is at the top of the...

Set of four 19th century stunning, intricate lattice panels from Japan. Wood with naturally worn patina; traces of crackled finish. Each panel measures 35.5 inches wide and placed to...

Colorful Japanese ink and color on silk Showa painting of a pair of peacocks. Vivid colors and beautiful details with a signature and seal on right side bottom. Framed in a midcentur...

🌟 For Sale: Stunning Vintage Oil Painting - 1960s Nude Female Figure 🌟 Add a touch of timeless artistry to your space with this fantastic, large oil painting on canvas. This strik...

A rare and hard to find owl image by Vietnamese born renowned French printmaker / artist Hoi Lebadang. The print is pencil signed and noted as artist proof in French by the artist...

19th century Russian princess with tiara and elaborate jewelry portrait miniature This young woman is wearing elaborate jewelry and a golden tiara....

Huge 17th C. Regal Flemish baroque Historical tapestry Royal court Antique LA CA . The period followed Renaissance and preceded Rococo and Neoclassical styles. The movement exuberant...

A very cool large modernist ebonized wood and mixed metals (sterling, brass & copper) "Last Supper" plaque / wall sculpture by Talleres Monasticos ...

A very rare original male nude by legendary photographer Douglas of Detroit. As most of his photos and negatives were destroyed by the police in Detroit, it is very hard to find orig...

Unique vintage street sign that reads "Citizens Crime Watch Neighborhood" Green lettering on a reflective silver background. Great vintage condition.

19th century Japanese Edo period six-panel screen painted in Haboku (splashed ink) style. Depicts Four Seasons landscape scenes with two portraits of Chinese sages. One sage is trave...

Huge two piece brass brutalist torch cut metalwork tree branch and leaf wall art sculpture. The two wall art pieces were designed to be configured in ma...

Antique Tapestry Rug in Wool and Cotton 11'9x9'2 Key Details: Pile: Wool Foundation: Cotton Origin: Tapestry Design: Pictorial Approximate Age: 16th century Quality (KPI): 3...

Modern "Daybreak" artwork printed under glass, features a serene scene with a reclining woman and a standing girl set against rolling hills, a tranquil body of water, and classical a...