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Item Ships From: Los Angeles
Antique California “Study of a Child” Oil Painting by Wanda Neumann
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Condition: Original Vintage Condition Designer: Wanda S. Neumann Manufacturer: Wanda S. Neumann Materials: Oil On Canvas, Wood Frame Style: California Realism
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1920s American Other Vintage Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas, Wood

Itzchak Tarkay Watercolor Painting, Signed, Label
By Itzchak Tarkay 2
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful watercolor by the well known artist Tarkay, This work was purchased in a charity auction and retains label also art work measure 16x 12 inches,...
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1990s American Post-Modern Los Angeles - Paintings

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Paint

Original Arch Shaw Oil Painting of a Classic Antique Automobile
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Original Arch Shaw Oil Painting of a Classic Antique Automobile
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Late 20th Century American American Classical Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas

19th Century Oil Painting on Canvas after Francois Boucher
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This magnificent painting dates to the 19th century after the original by Francois Boucher. François Boucher was a French painter, draughtsman and et...
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19th Century European Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas

Vintage Mid-Century Modern Iver Rose Oil Painting of a Clown Soldier
By Iver Rose
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Vintage MCM Iver Rose oil painting of a clown soldier Additional information: Materials: oil paint, wood Color: Orange Period: Mid 20th Centu...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Los Angeles - Paintings

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Wood

Rully by Afsoon Thayer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful acrylic painting on a 1800s paper by contemporary artist Afsoon Thayer. Flower motif painted with Farrow and ball and gold leaf on an original 1800s Napoleon III French Rep...
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2010s American Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Plexiglass, Walnut, Paint, Paper

Abstract Acrylic on Wood Painting by Dutch Visual Artist Han Sterk, 1995
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dutch visual artist Han Sterk, owner of gallery studio "Han Sterk," is an artist whose creative output consists of both paintings and sculptures, at times figurative but more often a...
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1990s Dutch Modern Los Angeles - Paintings

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Wood, Paint

Robert Loughlin Original Drawing on Cardboard
By Robert Loughlin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Great original drawing by Robert Loughlin on cardboard. Image of 'the Brute' with cigarette facing to the right. Signed RL on the back. Water stain on bottom right. Over 20 original ...
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1980s American Vintage Los Angeles - Paintings

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Paper

Napoleone Luigi Grady (Italian, 1860-1949) Oil on Canvas "Boy with Bicorne Hat"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Napoleone Luigi Grady (Italian, 1860-1949) A Very Fine Oil on Canvas "A Young Man Bicorne Hat". The beautifully executed artwork depicting a posing young boy in full period celebrato...
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Late 19th Century Italian Napoleon III Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Hans Zatzka, Austrian Oil on Canvas Titled "Spring Love" Maiden with Cherubs"
By Hans Zatzka
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Hans Zatzka (Austrian, 1859-1945) a superb quality oil on canvas titled "Spring Love" depicting a standing young maiden holding a wicker basket filled with fresh flower as she is bei...
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1880s Austrian Belle Époque Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

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Wood, Giltwood

Pair French 18th-19th Century Chinoiserie Circle of Jean B. Pillement
By Jean-Baptiste Pillement
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine pair of French 18th-19th century whimsical rococo style chinoiserie oil on canvas, circle of Jean-Baptiste Pillement. (French, 1728-1808). One oil painting depicting an outdoor patio scene of a standing young mother, holding a fan, with her three young children playing with a horse-toy, a parrot and a cat, all surrounded by flowers, plants, trees, planters and flanked by a dragon fountain...
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Late 18th Century French Chinoiserie Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Antique California Portrait Oil Painting of Reading Girl by Wanda Neumann
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Designer: Wanda S. Neumann Manufacturer: Wanda S. Neumann Materials: Oil On Canvas, Wood Frame Style: California Realism
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1920s American Other Vintage Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood

An Antique English Oil on Canvas Depicting a noble man and women by W. Gozzard
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An Antique English Oil on Canvas Depicting a noble man and women by W. Gozzard Maker: Walter Gozzard (1888-1950).
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19th Century English Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

Franco-German 19th Century Oil on Canvas "Portrait of a Lady" in Giltwood Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine Franco-German 19th century oil on canvas "Portrait of a Lady" depicting an 18th century young beauty posing with a profile gaze and cur...
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19th Century French Louis XV Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Wood

Chinese Watercolor Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Antique Chinese watercolor painting on paper, enclosed in glass and gilt wood frame, early 20th century. Measures: height 27.5 inc...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Glass, Wood, Paper

Chinese Watercolor Painting
Chinese Watercolor Painting
$375 Sale Price
50% Off
French 19th Century Oil on Canvas "Venus Disarming Cupid" after François Boucher
By François Boucher
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A large French 19th century oil on canvas laid on board painting in the manner of François Boucher (French, 1703-1770). The oval framed canvas depicting a version of Boucher's "Venus...
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Late 19th Century French Romantic Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Plywood

"The Triumph of Bacchus" after Diego Velázquez, Signed M. De Saivin 1897
By Diego Velã¡zquez
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Triumph of Bacchus" late 19th century oil painting on canvas after Diego Velázquez. Signed and dated: M. De Saivin, 1897 Dimensions: Ca...
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1890s Spanish Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas, Wood

Ralph Albert Blakelock Original Oil Painting Evening Landscape with Moon
By Ralph Albert Blakelock
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil on Canvas Painting by Ralph Albert Blakelock. Know for his landscapes, Blakelock ((1847-1919, American), in this landscape captures lush landscape peaking beyond an open space wi...
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19th Century American Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood, Paint

A mid century modern oil painting by Åke Tügel, signed, 1949
Located in View Park, CA
“Big Sister Dance”: an oil on masonite painting by artist Åke Tügel (1925 - 2002), signed and dated, 1949. This stunning piece showcases extraordinary texture and boasts tones of bor...
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1940s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Los Angeles - Paintings

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Wood, Masonite, Paint

Eugène Galien-Laloue "Theatre du Chatelet" Watercolor and Gouache
By Eugene Galien-Laloue
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Eugène Galien-Laloue (1854-1941) "Theatre du Chatelet" watercolor and gouache on paper signed 'E Galien Laloue' lower left, within a giltwood and gesso c...
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Early 1900s French Belle Époque Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Glass, Giltwood, Paper

Journey by Afsoon Thayer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful acrylic painting on a 1800's deed by contemporary artist Afsoon Thayer. Abstract design painted with acrylics and gold leaf on an original antique vellum...
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2010s American Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Plexiglass, Walnut, Paint, Paper

Chinese Watercolor Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Antique Chinese watercolor painting on paper, enclosed in glass and gilt wood frame, early 20th century Measures: height 27.5 inch...
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Early 20th Century Chinese Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Glass, Wood, Paper

Chinese Watercolor Painting
Chinese Watercolor Painting
$375 Sale Price
50% Off
Mid Century Modern Kero Antoyan Abstract Modernist Clown Oil Painting
Located in LOS ANGELES, CA
Mid Century Modern Kero Antoyan Abstract Modernist Clown Oil Painting.
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas

Bozena Ossowski, Oil on Canvas, 2014
By Bozena Ossowski
Located in Los Angeles, CA
stunning composition 'Black and White emotions' by Bozena Ossowski, oil on canvas, signed, monogram, certificate of authenticity by artist included, unframed.
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2010s German Modern Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint

An abstract expressionist painting by Bernard Segal, mid 20th century
Located in View Park, CA
An original abstract expressionist work on paper by Bernard Segal (1907-1986), New York mid 20th century. In predominant tones of magenta, licorice, and grenadine and with slight tou...
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Mid-20th Century American Expressionist Los Angeles - Paintings

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Wood, Paint, Paper

Felix Possart Large Oil on Canvas "A Spring Alpine Journey"
By Felix Possart
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Felix Possart (German, 1837-1928) a large oil on canvas "A Spring Alpine Journey". The elongated painting depicting a mountain scene, possibly set in the Austrian or Swiss Alps, of a young man hiking in the Alps during springtime wearing Lederhosen and carrying a bucket and a water drum...
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Late 19th Century German Black Forest Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

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Giltwood, Canvas

Italian Mid-19th Century Oil on Board Representing a "Mother and Child"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An Italian mid-19th century oil on board representing a "Mother and Child". The Renaissance revival style painting in the manner of a Raphaelite Madonna and Child, of a seated young ...
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Mid-19th Century Italian Renaissance Revival Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

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Wood, Giltwood

Vintage Seascape Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage seascape painting in a minimal blonde wooden frame. Signed at lower left. Dimensions: 18.75"H x 24.75"W x 2"D (framed) Good condition, typi...
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Late 20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas, Wood, Paint

Vintage Seascape Painting
Vintage Seascape Painting
$1,280 Sale Price
20% Off
A Large Oil Painting by Frederick Arthur Bridgman ‘La Fête des Bois’, Circa 1897
By Frederick Bridgman
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Frederick Arthur Bridgman La Fête des Bois, Les Bacchantes signed F.A. Bridgman (lower left) oil on canvas Dimensions: Height: 73" Width: 150" ( 185.4cm x 381cm) La fête des bois, les bacchantes imagines a celebratory procession of flower-crowned revelers parading joyfully through the woods. Bridgman exhibited a near identical version, approximately one third of its size, at the Paris Salon of 1896, no. 311 (for illustration, see Sotheby's, February 12, 1997, lot 71). The painting certainly raised eyebrows and stirred feisty commentary when it was exhibited at London's Royal Academy. As one critic wrote in the Atheneum: Provenance Sale: American Art Association, New York, The Works of F. A. Bridgman, March 14, 1899, lot 72 William Randolph Hearst (offered, his sale, Gimbel Brothers...
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Late 19th Century Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas

Vintage Framed Oil Painting by Donald K Ryan
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Original oil painting by Donald K Ryan, original frame. Donald K Ryan’s work spans mostly from the 80s to the early 2000s. Throughout his career he was juried into more than 40 loca...
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20th Century American Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas, Paint

Beaute by Afsoon Thayer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful acrylic painting on a 1800s paper by contemporary artist Afsoon Thayer. Flower motif painted with Farrow and ball and gold leaf on an original 1800s Napoleon III French Rep...
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2010s American Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Plexiglass, Walnut, Paint, Paper

Mon Tresor by Afsoon Thayer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful acrylic painting on a 1800s paper by contemporary artist Afsoon Thayer. Flower motif painted with Farrow and ball and gold leaf on an original 1800s Napoleon III French Rep...
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2010s American Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Plexiglass, Walnut, Paint, Paper

Dis-le-moi by Afsoon Thayer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful acrylic painting on a 1800s paper by contemporary artist Afsoon Thayer. Flower motif painted with Farrow and ball and gold leaf on an original 1800s Napoleon III French Rep...
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2010s American Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Plexiglass, Walnut, Paint, Paper

Lilou by Afsoon Thayer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful acrylic painting on a 1800s paper by contemporary artist Afsoon Thayer. Flower motif painted with Farrow and ball and gold leaf on an original 1800s Napoleon III French Rep...
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2010s American Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Plexiglass, Walnut, Paint, Paper

Delphine by Afsoon Thayer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful acrylic painting on a 1800s paper by contemporary artist Afsoon Thayer. Flower motif painted with Farrow and ball and gold leaf on an original 1800s Napoleon III French Rep...
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2010s American Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Plexiglass, Walnut, Paint, Paper

Wonderful Antique Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Wonderful Antique Oil Painting. Color in photos are not accurate. The colors are wonderful
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Early 20th Century Scandinavian Modern Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas

Wonderful Antique Oil Painting
Wonderful Antique Oil Painting
$875 Sale Price
75% Off
French 19th Century Louis XV & Vernis Martin Style Giltwood Fireplace Screen
By Vernis Martin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very Fine and rare French 19th century Louis XV style giltwood carved Vernis Martin Stylefl fireplace screen. The rectangular carved giltwood panel surmounted with four circular oil paintings...
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Late 19th Century French Louis XV Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

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Wood, Giltwood

Original painting by Philip Williams Titled ABS TRACT
By Matthew Philip Williams
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Introducing the captivating "ABS TRACT" Original Oil Painting by Philip Williams, a true masterpiece that effortlessly blends colors and shapes to create a visually stunning artwork....
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

French 19th Century Old Master School Oil on Canvas Titled "Leda and The Swan"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine and large French 19th century old master school oil on canvas titled "Leda and The Swan" within a giltwood frame. Leda and the swan is a motif from Greek mythology, in which Z...
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19th Century French Renaissance Revival Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

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Giltwood, Canvas

Matteo Lovatti 19th Century Oil on Panel Young Prince's Visit
By Matteo Lovatti 1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Matteo Lovatti (Italian, b. 1861) a fine 19th century oil on panel "The Young Prince's Visit" Depicting an interior tavern scene with a jester introducing and welcoming a young Princ...
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19th Century Italian Baroque Revival Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

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Wood

Antique Italian Oil Painting of Musketeers in an Interior by Novelli
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This amusing Italian genre oil painting on canvas by Novelli depicts a gallant courtship that captures the romanticized image of musketeers. Novelli illustrates four musketeers, thre...
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19th Century European Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Canvas

Large Oil on Canvas by Andrew Shachat
By Andrew Shachat
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Large oil on canvas by Los Angeles artist Andrew Shachat. Represented by Patricia Correia Gallery, Venice, CA. Patricia Correia Gallery (PCG) was first established in Venice, Cali...
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1990s American Modern Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas

Charles Chaplin (French, 1825-1891) Portrait de la famille Gros
By Charles Chaplin
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Charles Chaplin (French, 1825-1891) Portrait de la famille Gros, placed in an ornate hand carved gilt wood frame. signed and dated 'Ch. Chaplin. 1860' (lower left) oil on canvas Dim...
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19th Century French Neoclassical Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas, Wood

Early 17th Century French Landscape Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Early 17th century French landscape painting. Unframed.
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Early 17th Century French Louis XIV Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas, Paint

Jacques Chantron 'French 1842-1918' 19th Century Oil on Canvas "Mother & Child"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine and large French 19th century oil on canvas "Mother and Child Crossing a Creek" by Alexandre Jacques Chantron (French 1842-1918). The impressive and finely executed artwork depicting a young joyous mother holding her child...
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19th Century French Romantic Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Oil Painting by Ernst Rasmussen
By Ernst Rasmussen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil painting by well listed artist Ernst Rasmussen(1912-1964) The painting is painted on canvas and dated "46". Store formerly known as ARTFUL DODGE...
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1940s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas, Wood

Oil Painting by Ernst Rasmussen
Oil Painting by Ernst Rasmussen
$960 Sale Price
40% Off
Austro Hungarian Art Deco pair of Hand Panted lithography
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Austro Hungarian hand panted litografi .Wooden frame .
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1930s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Los Angeles - Paintings

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Paint, Wood

Oil Painting by G. Svensson 1934
By G. Svensson
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Danish oil painting by G. Svensson dated April 17th 1934. Color in photos are not accurate. Colors are wonderful.
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1930s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas

Oil Painting by G. Svensson 1934
Oil Painting by G. Svensson 1934
$595 Sale Price
57% Off
French 19th Century Oil on Artist Panel "the Bather and Her Maid" After Lemoyne
By François Lemoyne
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine French 19th century oil on artist panel titled "The Bather and her Maid" after François Lemoyne (1688-1737) depicting a standing nude maiden being assisted by her maid, within an ornate giltwood and gesso carved frame, Paris, circa 1860-1870. François Lemoyne or François Le Moine or Le Moyne...
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19th Century French Greco Roman Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

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Composition

Abstract Oil Painting by William Stebbins
By William Stebbins
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Oil painting on canvas by Chicago artist, William Stebbins. The painting features bright blues and purple tones alongside warm yellow and orange tones. Signed by the artist. Dimensi...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas, Paint

A Fine Victorian Oil on Board Titled "A Lady Standing by a Sundial in the Park"
By Henry John Yeend King
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Henry John Yeend King R.B.A, R.I., R.O.I. (British, 1855-1924) "A Victorian Lady Standing by a Sundial in the Park" Oil on panel. Signed lower right: Yeend King. "YK" Sticker en ver...
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19th Century English Victorian Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

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Gesso, Wood

Wenzel Ulrik Tornøe Danish 19th Century Oil on Canvas "The Sewing Room" (Systue)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Wenzel Ulrik Tornøe (Danish, 1844-1907) A very fine and large oil on canvas titled "Systue" ("The Sewing Room"). The finely executed artwork depicting the interior of a sewing room w...
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19th Century Danish Beaux Arts Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

An original oil painting on canvas, signed, 20th century.
Located in View Park, CA
A striking original abstract painting, oil on canvas, signed by artist. Probably late 20th century. Boasting tones of marigold, phthalo green, midnight blue, aubergine, and brick, th...
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20th Century Unknown Expressionist Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas, Paint

Large & Impressive Oil on Canvas "Madonna & Child" After Murillo - V. Bianchini
By Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A Large and Impressive Early 20th Century Oil on Canvas "Madonna and Child" After Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (Spanish, 1618-1682) depicting a seated Virgin Mary with a baby Jesus Chri...
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1910s Italian Baroque Vintage Los Angeles - Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

17th Century Flemish Baroque Historical Tapestry
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A large palatial Flemish baroque historical tapestry depicting a battle scene, with soldiers to the foreground on land, the opposing army arriving by sea, with a city under siege to ...
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Late 17th Century European Baroque Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Tapestry, Wool, Silk

After Raffaello Sanzio 1483-1520 Raphael La Madonna della Seggiola Oil on Canvas
By Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fine Italian 19th century oil painting on canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520) The circular canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved gilt wood and gesso frame (all high quality gilt is original) 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 Measures: Canvas height: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Canvas width: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Painting diameter: 28 1/4 inches (71.8 cm) Frame height: 57 7/8 inches (147 cm) Frame width: 45 1/2 inches (115.6 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...
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19th Century Italian Baroque Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Wood

Karl Viktor Mayr, Austrian Oil on Canvas "An Exotic Nude Girl"
By Karl Viktor Mayr
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Karl Viktor Mayr (Austrian, 1882-1974) a very fine Austrian oil on canvas "An Exotic Nude Girl" depicting a young semi-nude woman, revealing her breast...
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Early 1900s Austrian Folk Art Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Giltwood

Perrin Architectural Rendering with Green Matte in Wood Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Architectural rendering of a Southern California ranch-style home by the artist Perrin. A watercolor rendering featuring greens and browns, with lush ...
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paper

A Large Oil/Canvas Depicting Don Gaspar Guzman Duke of Olivares Circa 1950
By Diego Velã¡zquez
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A LARGE OIL ON CANVAS OF 'DON GASPAR DE GUZMAN COUNT-DUKE OF OLIVARES, MID-20TH CENTURY, originally painted by Diego Valazquez ( 1599-1660), Provenance: Painting has been used in the Three Musketeers film and was purchased from...
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Mid-20th Century Spanish Baroque Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Canvas

19th Century Painting by Francis Philip Stephanoff of Pious Maidens
By Francis Philip Stephanoff
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful antique painting of "Pious Maidens" attributed to British Artist Francis Philip Stephanoff (1787-1860). Masterfully painted of two...
Category

1820s English Antique Los Angeles - Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint

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