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Item Ships From: Missouri
Bean Picking, New Jersey, 1890
By Frederick Rondel
Located in Missouri, MO
Bean Picking, New Jersey, 1890 By. Frederick Rondel (1826-1892) Signed Lower Right Unframed: 21.5" x 35.5" Framed: 32" x 46" Frederick Rondel, born in Paris in 1826, came to America...
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19th Century French School Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Flight Into Egypt
Located in Missouri, MO
Flight Into Egypt by Louis Carl Hvasta (1913-1993) Unframed: 24" x 36" Framed: 31.25" x 43" Signed and Dated Lower Left Frame was hand made by the ar...
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20th Century American Impressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Sharing Bon-Bons
By Victor Gabriel Gilbert
Located in Missouri, MO
Early 20th Century Oil Painting by Victor Gilbert. Canvas dimensions 14.75 x 18 inches. Framed dimensions 22 x 25 inches. Born Paris, France 1847; Died 1933 Victor Gilbert's natural ability as an artist was recognized early, but his family lacked the financial resources to send the young man to the École des Beaux-Arts. Rather than enrolling in the École, Gilbert was apprenticed to Eugene Adam as an artisan painter and decorator. His only formal education was evening classes with Pierre Levasseur at the École de la ville de Paris. Perhaps it was his early immersion into la vie quotidienne that formed the basis for his later choices of subject matter for his art, that of the markets and streets of Paris. Despite his lack of formal training, Gilbert's admissions to the Paris Salons of 1873 and 1874 were very well received by audiences and critics alike; at this time he was supported by the dealer Paul Martin, who was an important proponent of the Impressionist movement. Gilbert emerged in the early 1880s as the primary Realist painter to record the French marketplace...
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Early 20th Century French School Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Reading Lesson
By Bernard Pothast
Located in Missouri, MO
Bernard Pothast "The Reading Lesson" Oil on Canvas Signed Lower Right 25 x 30 inches 30.5 x 35.5 inches framed Born in Belgium, Bernard Pothast travel...
Category

Late 19th Century Dutch School Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

DONDA Shirt
By Bipolar Holiday
Located in Missouri, MO
Signed, Dated, Titled Verso BIO: Daniel Jefferson AKA "Bipolar Holiday" is a self-taught street artist. A native of St. Louis, he grew up in North St. Louis County in the cities of Normandy and Hazelwood. By the age of 3, he was drawing and painting alongside his father and together they shared studios and collaborations into his mid-20s. His father grew up in Tupelo, Mississippi and his mother in St. Louis. Expounding on his family history, Holiday speaks of his Quaker and Native American ancestry - along with his father, who is black, and his mother who is white - as forming his multiracial identity and upbringing. He expresses “not always fitting in,” - being neither “this nor that” - and residing on the margins between the social constructs of race. This emotional state is reflected in his artistic output. He cautions us to see that, while the subject matter of his work is not always a direct depiction of his experience of race, his existence as a person of color propels him and bears directly on his artistic focus and choice of materials, along with the application and gesture in each work. Anger and sadness are part of it – also love, joy, pride and humility. The artist often signs his work with a mark inspired by the ancient Egyptian Eye of Horas – a symbol of power, protection, and health. Throughout his career, Bipolar Holiday has been both a solo practitioner and a collaborator. Tagging as King Dee and later Melo, he worked variously in the St. Louis area from the mid- 1990s to early 2000s. In the 1990s, he painted with the then St. Louis-based graffiti artist Nick Miller and his crew. Choice spots ranged from free standing concrete walls on abandoned property to temporary fencing along construction sites. The artist's compositions contained expressive line and figural elements – human faces, eyes – and the ethereal and allegorical – angel, devil motifs, etc. Later, he moved his artistic focus to a more studio-based form starting in the early 2000s. Holiday had his first show alongside his father’s work at Urbis-Orbis Gallery in downtown St. Louis in 2003. Coming full circle, he occasionally works in a few items of collage or spontaneous marks made by his daughter during her early childhood. Bipolar Holiday has exhibited his work both locally and globally including St. Louis, New York, Grand Rapids and Antwerp. In 2019, he was featured in a four-page spread of JMG Lifestyle Magazine and a large-scale work whet to the Isabis Art Expo in 2019. St. Louis Magazine listed “Bipolar Holiday: Kyoto Girls” when the Walker-Cunningham Fine Art pop-up exhibit was named to the A-List in July 2020. Holiday's work can be found in numerous private and public collections. He lives in St. Louis City...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Forgive Them Nigo
By Bipolar Holiday
Located in Missouri, MO
Signed, Dated, Titled Verso BIO: Daniel Jefferson AKA "Bipolar Holiday" is a self-taught street artist. A native of St. Louis, he grew up in North St. Louis County in the cities of Normandy and Hazelwood. By the age of 3, he was drawing and painting alongside his father and together they shared studios and collaborations into his mid-20s. His father grew up in Tupelo, Mississippi and his mother in St. Louis. Expounding on his family history, Holiday speaks of his Quaker and Native American ancestry - along with his father, who is black, and his mother who is white - as forming his multiracial identity and upbringing. He expresses “not always fitting in,” - being neither “this nor that” - and residing on the margins between the social constructs of race. This emotional state is reflected in his artistic output. He cautions us to see that, while the subject matter of his work is not always a direct depiction of his experience of race, his existence as a person of color propels him and bears directly on his artistic focus and choice of materials, along with the application and gesture in each work. Anger and sadness are part of it – also love, joy, pride and humility. The artist often signs his work with a mark inspired by the ancient Egyptian Eye of Horas – a symbol of power, protection, and health. Throughout his career, Bipolar Holiday has been both a solo practitioner and a collaborator. Tagging as King Dee and later Melo, he worked variously in the St. Louis area from the mid- 1990s to early 2000s. In the 1990s, he painted with the then St. Louis-based graffiti artist Nick Miller and his crew. Choice spots ranged from free standing concrete walls on abandoned property to temporary fencing along construction sites. The artist's compositions contained expressive line and figural elements – human faces, eyes – and the ethereal and allegorical – angel, devil motifs, etc. Later, he moved his artistic focus to a more studio-based form starting in the early 2000s. Holiday had his first show alongside his father’s work at Urbis-Orbis Gallery in downtown St. Louis in 2003. Coming full circle, he occasionally works in a few items of collage or spontaneous marks made by his daughter during her early childhood. Bipolar Holiday has exhibited his work both locally and globally including St. Louis, New York, Grand Rapids and Antwerp. In 2019, he was featured in a four-page spread of JMG Lifestyle Magazine and a large-scale work whet to the Isabis Art Expo in 2019. St. Louis Magazine listed “Bipolar Holiday: Kyoto Girls” when the Walker-Cunningham Fine Art pop-up exhibit was named to the A-List in July 2020. Holiday's work can be found in numerous private and public collections. He lives in St. Louis City...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Wise Man Say
By Bipolar Holiday
Located in Missouri, MO
Signed, Dated, Titled Verso BIO: Daniel Jefferson AKA "Bipolar Holiday" is a self-taught street artist. A native of St. Louis, he grew up in North St. Louis County in the cities of Normandy and Hazelwood. By the age of 3, he was drawing and painting alongside his father and together they shared studios and collaborations into his mid-20s. His father grew up in Tupelo, Mississippi and his mother in St. Louis. Expounding on his family history, Holiday speaks of his Quaker and Native American ancestry - along with his father, who is black, and his mother who is white - as forming his multiracial identity and upbringing. He expresses “not always fitting in,” - being neither “this nor that” - and residing on the margins between the social constructs of race. This emotional state is reflected in his artistic output. He cautions us to see that, while the subject matter of his work is not always a direct depiction of his experience of race, his existence as a person of color propels him and bears directly on his artistic focus and choice of materials, along with the application and gesture in each work. Anger and sadness are part of it – also love, joy, pride and humility. The artist often signs his work with a mark inspired by the ancient Egyptian Eye of Horas – a symbol of power, protection, and health. Throughout his career, Bipolar Holiday has been both a solo practitioner and a collaborator. Tagging as King Dee and later Melo, he worked variously in the St. Louis area from the mid- 1990s to early 2000s. In the 1990s, he painted with the then St. Louis-based graffiti artist Nick Miller and his crew. Choice spots ranged from free standing concrete walls on abandoned property to temporary fencing along construction sites. The artist's compositions contained expressive line and figural elements – human faces, eyes – and the ethereal and allegorical – angel, devil motifs, etc. Later, he moved his artistic focus to a more studio-based form starting in the early 2000s. Holiday had his first show alongside his father’s work at Urbis-Orbis Gallery in downtown St. Louis in 2003. Coming full circle, he occasionally works in a few items of collage or spontaneous marks made by his daughter during her early childhood. Bipolar Holiday has exhibited his work both locally and globally including St. Louis, New York, Grand Rapids and Antwerp. In 2019, he was featured in a four-page spread of JMG Lifestyle Magazine and a large-scale work whet to the Isabis Art Expo in 2019. St. Louis Magazine listed “Bipolar Holiday: Kyoto Girls” when the Walker-Cunningham Fine Art pop-up exhibit was named to the A-List in July 2020. Holiday's work can be found in numerous private and public collections. He lives in St. Louis City...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Avenue de Friedland, L’Arc de Triomphe
By Édouard Leon Cortès
Located in Missouri, MO
Framed Size: 21 x 26 inches *This work has been authenticated by Nicole Verdier Provenance: Johnson Gallery, Chicago IL, circa 1967/1968 Cortès was born in Lagny, France on April 26, 1882. During his early lifetime, Paris was the center of the art world. Artist from across the globe traveled there to study and paint it's beautiful countryside and cities; views of Paris, or as it became known 'the City of Lights', were in great demand by both collectors and tourists. Édouard Cortès, along with other artists like Eugene Galien-Laloue (1854-1941), Luigi Loir (1845-1916) and Jean Beraud (1849-1936) answered their call. Specializing in Paris street scenes, each of these artists captured the city during its heyday and continued with these scenes well into the 20th century.Édouard was the son of Antonio Cortès - the Spanish Court painter - who was himself the son of the artisan André Cortès...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Readying for Play
Located in Missouri, MO
Framed Size: 25.5 x 23 inches Joseph Gyselinckx was born in 1817. He was a genre painter in Antwerp. The artist was a student of F. de Brakeleer. He had two paintings included in ...
Category

Late 19th Century Realist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Will You Gay Marry Me
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ryan Wilks Will You Gay Marry Me Acrylic, oil, holy water, india ink, neon UV paint Year: 2021 Size: 28 x 20 in. Signed and dated by hand COA provided T...
Category

2010s Contemporary Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, India Ink, Acrylic

Cry Me a Puddle
Located in Kansas City, MO
Ryan Wilks Cry Me a Puddle Acrylic, india ink, holy water, neon UV paint, on paper Year: 2021 Size: 28 x 20 in. Signed and dated by hand COA provided The...
Category

2010s Contemporary Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, India Ink, Acrylic

My Venus de Willendorf
By Heather Farrell
Located in Kansas City, MO
Heather Farrell Title : My Venus de Willendorf Materials : Mixed media on canvas Date : 2020 Dimensions : 4' x 4' Description : I was inspired by the ongoing racial inequalities and racism plaguing America. I have been interested in the history we are taught from a young age and what this history is geared toward accomplishing and for whom. I find it interesting who dictates what history is important and what can be commodified and taken for one group's benefit over another. The Venus is an important historical and artistic discovery and I use it as a symbol for the capturing of a culture, an idea or a virtue for one group's gain over another. I also use plastic Hawaiian lei as the capturing rope because lei have more recently been used as a very touristy, sometimes cheapened symbol for American excess and materialism. After all, the American government...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

XOX
By Heather Farrell
Located in Kansas City, MO
Heather Farrell Title : XOX Materials : Mixed media on canvas Date : 2020 Dimensions : 3' x 3' (36 x 36 in.) Description : I view imagery and the symbolism of snakes as a rebirth, a ...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Flora and Fauna
By Heather Farrell
Located in Kansas City, MO
Heather Farrell Title : Flora and Fauna Materials : Mixed media on canvas Date : 2020 Dimensions : 3' x 4' (36 x 48 in.) Description : I view imagery a...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Royal Palms
By Heather Farrell
Located in Kansas City, MO
Heather Farrell Title : Royal Palms Materials : Acrylic on canvas Date : 2019 Dimensions : 4' x 5'. (48 x 60 in.) Signed, COA provided Heather Farrell wor...
Category

2010s Surrealist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Everything is Stardust: Trees, Ropes and Tigers
By Heather Farrell
Located in Kansas City, MO
Heather Farrell Title : Everything is Stardust: Trees, Ropes and Tigers Materials : Acrylic on canvas Date : 2019 Dimensions : 5' x 6' (60 x 72 in.) Signed, COA provided Heather Fa...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

They Battle For Beauty But They Already Are
By Heather Farrell
Located in Kansas City, MO
Heather Farrell Title : They Battle For Beauty But They Already Are Materials : Mixed media including Swarovski crystals on birch board Date : 2020 Dimensions : 24" round Description...
Category

2010s Contemporary Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Birch, Mixed Media

I Blame Eve
By Heather Farrell
Located in Kansas City, MO
Heather Farrell Title : I Blame Eve Materials : Acrylic on birch board Date : 2020 Dimensions : 3' x 4' (36 x 48 in.) Description : Animals and humans often acting the same - same ki...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Birch, Acrylic

Presenting the Bouquet
By Edmund Adler
Located in Missouri, MO
Canvas Size: approx. 22 x 27 inches Framed Size: approx. 29 x 34 inches Edmund Adler (Austrian) 1876-1965 Known for his naturalness in color and expression, the artist Edmund...
Category

Early 20th Century Realist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

In Close Pursuit
Located in Missouri, MO
Site Size: 20 x 15 inches Framed Size: 28.5 x 24 inches Donald Spaulding's artistic talents were recognized early. Encouraged by his high school teachers to pursue formal art traini...
Category

1990s American Realist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Illustration Board

Mother and Children
By Bernard De Hoog
Located in Missouri, MO
Bernard DeHoog (1867-1943) "Mother and Children" Oil on Canvas Signed Lower Left Site Size: approx. 32.5 x 39.5 inches Framed Size: approx. 39 x ...
Category

Late 19th Century Realist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Les Quais et le Louvre
By Antoine Blanchard
Located in Missouri, MO
Antoine Blanchard "Le Quais et la Louvre" Oil on Canvas Signed Canvas Size: 13 x 18 inches Framed Size: 22.5 x 27.5 inches Antoine Blanchard French (1910-1...
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Shelter
By Xavier Bueno 1
Located in Missouri, MO
Xavier Bueno (Active Spain/Italy, 1891-1979) "Shelter" Oil on Canvas Signed Upper Left Framed Size: approx. 38 x 30 inches Site Size: approx. 35 x 28 inc...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Men at the Seattle Public Market" (Two Figures)
By Mark Tobey
Located in Missouri, MO
Mark Tobey "Men at the Seattle Public Market" (Two Figures) 1958 Ink and Tempera on Silk Signed and Dated Lower Left *This is a rare and important work. See attached images with book...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Silk, Ink, Tempera

Tending the Garden
By Robert Elton Tindall
Located in Missouri, MO
Robert Elton Tindall (1913-1983) "Tending the Garden" (Girl with a Hoe) c. 1940 Egg Tempera with Resin Oil Glazes on Panel Signed Lower Left Site: 10 x 9 inches Framed: 15 x 14 inch...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Egg Tempera, Wood Panel

Face and Chinese Calligraphy
By Huang Gang
Located in Missouri, MO
Huang Gang (b. 1961) "Face with Chinese Calligraphy" Mixed Media including Gold Gilding, Decoupage, Oil on Panel approx 23.5 x 23.5 inches Huang Gang 黄钢 Hu...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

In the Boudoir
By Delphin Enjolras
Located in Missouri, MO
Delphin Enjolras "In the Boudoir" Oil on Canvas Signed Lower Left Canvas: approx 29 x 22 inches Framed: approx. 37 x 30 inches Renowned as a portraitist of the upper echelons of s...
Category

Early 20th Century Academic Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Breton Chores
Located in Missouri, MO
Clement Nye Swift "Breton Chores" 1870 Oil on Canvas Signed and Dated Lower Right Canvas Size: approx 27 x18 inches Framed Size: approx 34 x 35 inches Provenance: Private Midwes...
Category

1870s Victorian Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Lovely Reflection
By Auguste Toulmouche
Located in Missouri, MO
Auguste Toulmouche (1829-1890) "A Lovely Reflection" 1874 Oil on Panel Signed and Dated Lower Left Site Size: approx 17 x 14 inches Framed SIze: approx. 27.5 x 24 inches Provenan...
Category

1870s Victorian Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

In the Study
By Hans Hamza
Located in Missouri, MO
Hans Hamza (Austrian 1879-1945) In the Study Oil on Panel Signed Site Size: approx. 8 x 6 inches Framed Size: approx. 14 x 12 inches
Category

Late 19th Century Victorian Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Still Life with Chess
By Daniel Brennan
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title: Still Life with Chess Materials : Oil on Canvas Date : 1960's Dimensions : 42 1/2 x 31 in. In the late 1960's, Daniel Brennan had a day job loading boxcars for Railway Express. During nights, he would go to a coffee house (Lawrence Gallery and Coffee House, at 43rd and Main St., KCMO), to sit and draw before heading home to paint. The gallery owners, Anne and Sidney Lawrence...
Category

1960s Expressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Oil

A Place in the Sun
By Carl Ivar Gilbert
Located in Missouri, MO
Carl Iver Gilbert (1882-1959) "A Place in the Sun" Oil on Canvas Signed Image: 10 x 12 inches Framed Size: 15 x 18.5 inches Carl Ivar Gilbert was a...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

La Lecture
By Pierre Duteurtre
Located in Missouri, MO
Pierre Eugene Duteurtre (1911-1989) "La Lecture" c. 1960 Oil on Canvas Signed Canvas Size: 18 x 22 inches Framed Size: approx 26.5 x 30.5 inch...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Le Panier de Fleurs, L'Arc de Triomphe
By Francois Gerome
Located in Missouri, MO
Francois Gerome (b. 1895) "Le Panier de Fleurs, L'Arc de Triomphe" c. 1950 Oil on Canvas Signed "F. Gerome" Lower Right Canvas Size: 20 x 24 inches Framed Size: approx. 26 1/2 x 30 ...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Boulevard de la Madaleine sous la Neige
By Antoine Blanchard
Located in Missouri, MO
Antoine Blanchard "Boulevard de la Madeleine sous la Neige" Oil on Canvas Signed Canvas Size: 13 x 18 inches Framed Size: approx 18 x 23 inches Antoine Blanchard French (1910-1988)
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Quai de Louvre
By Antoine Blanchard
Located in Missouri, MO
Antoine Blanchard "Quai de Louvre" Oil on Canvas Signed Canvas Size: approx 13 x 18 Framed Size: approx. 22 x 26
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Blind Peanut Vendor
By Cecil Crosley Bell
Located in Missouri, MO
Cecil C. Bell "The Blind Peanut Vendor" 1958 Oil on Panel Signed; Titled & Dated Verso Panel Size: approx. 14 x 18 inches Framed Size: approx 21.25 x 25.25 inches Cecil Bell was b...
Category

1950s American Modern Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

The White Dress
By Francois Gerome
Located in Missouri, MO
Francois Gerome "The White Dress" c. 1940s/50 Oil on Canvas approx. 10 x 8 inches approx. 16 x 13 inches framed FRANCOIS GEROME French, 1895 Francois Ger...
Category

1940s Impressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Épanouissement
By Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM)
Located in Missouri, MO
KPM Porcelain After Angelo Asti (French, 1847-1903) "Épanouissement" c. 1900 With Original Gold Gilded Frame Image Size: approx. 6 x 4 inches Framed Size: approx. 9 x 6 inches Eve...
Category

Late 19th Century Victorian Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Porcelain, Oil

Queen Louise
By Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM)
Located in Missouri, MO
KPM Porcelain "Queen Louise" c. late 19th century Original Hand-Painted Porcelain Signed "R. Dittrich" Since 250 years, the royal sceptre brand stands fo...
Category

Late 19th Century Victorian Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Porcelain, Oil

Marguerite
By Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM)
Located in Missouri, MO
Marguerite Hand Painted Porcelain w/crown stamp #107 Signed "Wagner" Original Gilded Florentine Frame approx 6 x 4 inches /approx 14 x 8 inches framed Since 250 years, the royal sc...
Category

Late 19th Century Victorian Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Porcelain, Oil

Napoleon
By Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres
Located in Missouri, MO
Sevres 19th C. Original Hand Painted Porcelain Signed "G Poitevin" approx 9 x 5 inches/15 x 12 framed The vast and diverse production of the Sèvres factory in the nineteenth century resists easy characterization, and its history during this period reflects many of the changes affecting French society in the years between 1800 and 1900. Among the remarkable accomplishments of the factory was the ability to stay continuously in the forefront of European ceramic production despite the myriad changes in technology, taste, and patronage that occurred during this tumultuous century. The factory, which had been founded in the town of Vincennes in 1740 and then reestablished in larger quarters at Sèvres in 1756, became the preeminent porcelain manufacturer in Europe in the second half of the eighteenth century. Louis XV had been an early investor in the fledgling ceramic enterprise and became its sole owner in 1759. However, due to the upheavals of the French Revolution, its financial position at the beginning of the nineteenth century was extremely precarious. No longer a royal enterprise, the factory also had lost much of its clientele, and its funding reflected the ruinous state of the French economy. However, the appointment in 1800 of Alexandre Brongniart (1770–1847) as the administrator of the factory marked a profound shift in its fortunes. Trained as both an engineer and a scientist, Brongniart was both brilliant and immensely capable, and he brought all of his prodigious talents to the running of the troubled porcelain factory. He directed the Sèvres factory as administrator until his death in 1847, and during those five decades influenced every aspect of its organization and production. Much of the factory’s old, undecorated stock was immediately sold off, and new forms—largely in the fashionable, more severe Neoclassical style—were designed to replace out-of-date models. The composition for hard-paste porcelain was improved, and the production of soft paste, for which the factory had been famous in the previous century, was abandoned in 1804. New enamels colors were devised, and Brongniart oversaw the development of a new type of kiln that was both more efficient and cost-effective. Much of the factory’s output during Brongniart’s first decade reflected the prevailing Empire taste, which favored extensive gilding, rich border designs, and elaborate figural scenes (56.29.1–.8). Backgrounds simulating marble or a variety of hardstones were employed with greater frequency (1987.224); the new range of enamel colors developed under Brongniart made it easier to achieve these imitation surfaces, and it is thought that his interest in mineralogy provided the impetus for this type of decoration. For objects produced in sets, such as dinner, tea, and coffee services, and even garnitures of vases, Brongniart preferred decorative schemes that linked the objects in terms of subject matter as well as stylistically. Dinner services were given coherence by the use of an overall theme, in addition to shared border patterns and ground colors. One of the best examples of this can be found in the “Service des Départements,” which was conceived by Brongniart in 1824 (2002.57). Each of the plates in the service was decorated with a famous topographical view of the département (administrative unit) of France that it represented, and its border was painted with small cameo portraits of figures from the region, as well as symbols of the major arts, industries, and products of the area. This same type of thematic unity is found on a coffee service produced in 1836 (1986.281.1ab–4). All of the pieces of the service are decorated with scenes depicting the cultivation of cacao, from which chocolate is made, or various stages in the preparation of chocolate as a beverage. The compositions were conceived and executed by Jean Charles Develly, a painter at Sèvres who was responsible for many of the most ambitious dinner services produced at the factory during Brongniart’s tenure. The range of objects produced in the first half of the nineteenth century was enormous, as were the types of decoration that they employed. A recent exhibition catalogue devoted to Brongniart’s years at Sèvres indicates that ninety-two new designs for vases were introduced, as were eighty-nine different cup models, and the types of objects produced by the factory included every sort of form required by a dinner or dessert service, coffee and tea wares, decorative objects such as vases, and functional objects such as water jugs, basins, and toiletry articles. A new form rarely replaced an older one; the range of production simply increased. The same was true with types of decoration, as the factory was working in a wide variety of styles at any given time. From the earliest years of the Sèvres factory, its painters had copied not only contemporary compositions but also prints and paintings from earlier periods. However, under Brongniart, the factory sought to copy famous paintings with the specific intention of recording the “true” appearance of works increasingly perceived to be fragile. Works by a wide variety of artists were copied, but those by Raphael were especially popular. Raphael’s stature is reflected in a vase of 1834 in which a cameo-style portrait of the artist decorates the primary reserve, while on the back an artist’s palette is encircled by the names Titian, Poussin, and Rubens (1978.373). Just as works by earlier artists were copied, so too were decorative techniques of previous centuries. The interlace patterns of so-called Saint-Porchaire ceramic ware of the sixteenth century served as the inspiration for the decoration on a cup of 1837 (2003.153). The form of the cup itself derives from Renaissance silver forms made in Italy and France. However, the palette of vibrant reds, greens, blues, and yellows contrasts markedly with the muted browns and off whites of Saint-Porchaire wares and reflects the reinterpretation of historical styles that was characteristic of so much of nineteenth-century decorative arts. Interest in the Gothic style emerged early in Brongniart’s tenure at Sèvres and remained popular for much of the nineteenth century. Strict adherence to Gothic motifs was rarely observed, however, and the Gothic style was more evoked than faithfully copied. This tendency is reflected in a pair of vases (1992.23.1) for which the model was designated vase gothique Fragonard (named after the vase’s designer, Alexandre Evariste Fragonard [1780–1850]. The Gothic elements lie more in the painted decoration than in the form itself, and the style of the painting reflects a Renaissance technique rather than a medieval one. The palette of grays and whites on a blue ground instantly recalls the enamel-on-copper wares produced in Limoges, France, in the sixteenth century, and its use on these vases indicates the willingness to freely mix artistic styles and techniques of different periods in order to achieve new aesthetic effects. The eclecticism and historicism that characterized so much of the production during Brongniart’s tenure continued after his death in 1847. The factory’s output reflected an ongoing desire for technical innovation as well as a wide embrace of diverse decorative styles that were employed simultaneously. A tea and coffee service of 1855–61 (69.193.1–.11) embodies the selective borrowing of forms and motifs that is found so frequently in Sèvres production of the middle decades of the nineteenth century. The shapes used for the different components of the service evoke both China and the Near East, an obvious allusion to the origins of the two beverages. The openwork decoration refers directly to Chinese ceramics made in this technique, and the decoration employs a variety of Chinese emblems. However, the palette of pink and gold, entirely European in character, serves to neutralize the Asian aspects of the service. Perhaps the only thread that can be said to run through much Sèvres production of the nineteenth century is the proclivity to borrow freely from various historical styles and then to either reinterpret these styles or combine them in unprecedented ways. A standing cup of 1879 (1990.238a,b) draws upon silver cups of the Renaissance for its form, but in this instance the size of the porcelain cup dwarfs any of its metal prototypes. Its style of decoration derives from Limoges painted enamels of the sixteenth century, but the prominent use of gilding throughout reflects its wholly nineteenth-century character. This cup was presented by the French government to one of the first-prize winners at the 1878 Exposition Universelle. It was with the advent of the Art Nouveau style at the very end of the nineteenth century that historicism lost its grip at Sèvres, and indeed throughout the decorative arts, and forms inspired by nature and often characterized by asymmetry become dominant. This reliance upon natural forms is fully evident in a coffee service of 1900–1904 (1988.287.1a,b). The designer, Léon Kann...
Category

Late 19th Century Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Porcelain, Oil

Ruth
By Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM)
Located in Missouri, MO
KPM Porcelain "Ruth" c. 1900 Original hand-painted KPM Porcelain In Original Gilded Florentine Frame 7 x 4 (16 x 9 framed) Since 250 years, the royal sceptre brand stands for finest...
Category

Late 19th Century Victorian Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Porcelain, Oil

Queen Louise
By Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM)
Located in Missouri, MO
KPM Porcelain "Queen Louise" c. 1900 Original hand-painted KPM Porcelain approx. 14 x 11 inches approx. 21 x 15 inches framed Since 250 years, the royal ...
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Late 19th Century Victorian Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Porcelain, Oil

Old High Country Woman
By Roy Andersen
Located in Missouri, MO
Roy Andersen (b. 1930) "Old High Country Woman" Oil on Canvas 12 x 16 inches 21.5 x 25 inches framed Known as a western painter, Roy Andersen did paintings of Crow, Cheyenne, and Apache Indians. He began his career living in Chicago and New York and working as an illustrator. He did numerous covers for Time Magazine including portraits of Albert Einstein and Prince Fahd. He also did illustrations for National Geographic magazine, and did a stamp series on Dogs and American Horses, and in 1984 and 1985, won Stamp of the Year Award. As a muralist, he has filled commissions for the National Park Service, the Royal Saudi Naval Headquarters, and the E.E. Fogelson Vistor Center at Pecos National Monument in New Mexico. To pursue his talent for painting, Roy Anderson went West, living in Arizona and settling in Cave Creek. In 1990, he was voted official artist for Scottsdale's Parada del Sol, the "world's largest" horse-drawn parade commemorating the Old West. Andersen grew up on an apple farm in New Hampshire and learned about Indian customs from his many hours spent at the Chicago Museum of Natural History. He is meticulous about being historically accurate in his paintings. Of him it was written: "There are no 'happy accidents' in an Andersen painting. He has a knowledge of his subject that is attained only through extensive research. You will not find an Apache medicine bag...
Category

Late 20th Century American Impressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Figurative Abstract
By Ernest Tino Trova
Located in Missouri, MO
Ernest Tino Trova "Figurative Abstract" 1965 Oil on Canvas approx 17 x 12.5 inches Signed and Dated Lower Right Known for his Falling Man series in abstract figural sculpture, he cr...
Category

1960s American Modern Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Franco-Prussian Battle Scene
By Wilfrid Constant Beauquesne
Located in Missouri, MO
Wilfrid Constant Beauquesne (1847 - 1913) "Franco-Prussian Battle Scene" c. 1900 Oil on Canvas Signed Lower Right Site Size: approx 22 x 28 inches Framed Size: approx 35 x 40 inches French artistry was deeply influenced by three wars during the 19th century and, accordingly, the artistic imagination was not lost upon the public. "Patriotism comes to the aid of battle painters," a contemporary remarked, "presenting them with a sympathetic public already fascinated by the subject." After the brief Franco-Prussian conflict of 1870, French painters were particularly anxious to retrieve national pride by presenting works which reflected their own national heroism versus enemy brutality. Known for his scenic depictions of this war, Wilfried Beauquesne, a native of Rennes, France, was undoubtedly influenced in his selection of subjects by his instructors at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. Vernet-Lecomte and Horace Vernet were both well known military artists. Vernet had actually lived and worked during the period of Napoleonic conflicts - being awarded the Legion of Honor by the Emperor's own hand. Beauquesne exhibited regularly at the annual Paris Salon between 1887 and 1899, as well as throughout Europe. In 1890, illustrating the fortunes of life, The Art Amateur ran the following item in its "Gossip Column:" "A queer story comes to me from Paris. A commission agent made a bargain with a poor painter, living out at Saint-Maude, to paint military subjects for him, at two francs an hour. The agent changed the signature to that of Gaubault, and sold the pictures to various dealers. On day, by chance, the poor painter came to Paris, went to the Salon, and was astonished to see one of his pictures there. He look at the catalogue, and found the name of the artist and the address of the dealer where he was to be found, The poor artist went to the dealer and introduced himself saying, "I am Gaubault." "Most happy to make your acquaintance," replied the dealer. "Your pictures sell very well, and I have been wanting to see you for the last six years." "But my name is not Gaubault, it is Beauquesne." Explanations followed. The dishonest commission agent disappeared; and Beauquesne restored his real signature on the pictures, which had made his pseudonym almost famous...
Category

Late 19th Century Impressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Haywagon
By James Edwin Meadows
Located in Missouri, MO
James Edwin Meadows (British 1828-1888) "The Haywagon" 1866 Oil on Canvas Site: 24 x 40 inches Framed: 30 x 46 inches approx. A London landscape painter, James Edwin Meadows was the...
Category

Late 19th Century Land Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Winter Wood
By Joseph Orr
Located in Missouri, MO
Joseph Orr "Winter Wood" Acrylic on Canvas 18 x 24 28 x 34 framed Joseph Orr, from Missouri, has been painting professionally since 1972. He paints much o...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Painting People in the Sun
By Hendrikji Kuehne and Beat Klein
Located in Kansas City, MO
Hendrikji Kuehne and Beat Klein Title: Painting People in the Sun Medium: Collaged from Art Postcards Size: 19.75” x 27.5” Year: 2012 Selected Exhibitions: 2018 Graf & Schelble Galerie, Basel "abBild" Sherry Leedy Contemporary Arts, Kansas City/USA: Places to remember Musée jurassien des Arts, Moutier: Une heure dans le Jura (Sticker Book Project) 2017 The Garden of the Zodiac Gallery Omaha/ NE USA "Where do you wanna go from here?" (solo show) Deiglan Art Gallery, Gilfélagið, Akureyri: Temporary Environment (solo presentation) Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Karthause Ittingen, Warth: Menschenbilder (group show) 2016 2016 Graf & Schelble Galerie, Basel "Schauplätze" (solo show) Helvetia Art Foyer, Basel "Assemblage Bricolage Collage" (group show) Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen, Warth: "Im Rausch – Zwischen Höhenflug und Absturz" (group show) ZAGREUS PROJEKT, Koch/Kunst/Galerie, Berlin: FOOD raDESIGN-2016, überbeitet und angewandt (installation) 2015 Dr. M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery, St. John’s University, New York: Vices Peculiar To These Eclectics: Contemporary Collage (group show) Pavel Zoubok...
Category

2010s Contemporary Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Postcard

Painting a Vanishing Point
By Hendrikji Kuehne and Beat Klein
Located in Kansas City, MO
Hendrikji Kuehne and Beat Klein Title: Painting a Vanishing Point Medium: Collaged from Art Postcards Size: 19.75” x 27.5 Year: 2009 Selected Exhibitions: 2018 Graf & Schelble Galerie, Basel "abBild" Sherry Leedy Contemporary Arts, Kansas City/USA: Places to remember Musée jurassien des Arts, Moutier: Une heure dans le Jura (Sticker Book Project) 2017 The Garden of the Zodiac Gallery Omaha/ NE USA "Where do you wanna go from here?" (solo show) Deiglan Art Gallery, Gilfélagið, Akureyri: Temporary Environment (solo presentation) Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Karthause Ittingen, Warth: Menschenbilder (group show) 2016 2016 Graf & Schelble Galerie, Basel "Schauplätze" (solo show) Helvetia Art Foyer, Basel "Assemblage Bricolage Collage" (group show) Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen, Warth: "Im Rausch – Zwischen Höhenflug und Absturz" (group show) ZAGREUS PROJEKT, Koch/Kunst/Galerie, Berlin: FOOD raDESIGN-2016, überbeitet und angewandt (installation) 2015 Dr. M.T. Geoffrey Yeh Art Gallery, St. John’s University, New York: Vices Peculiar To These Eclectics: Contemporary Collage (group show) Pavel Zoubok...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Postcard

The Cellist
By Ferdinand Victor Leon Roybet
Located in Missouri, MO
Ferdinand V.L. Roybet (1840-1920) "The Cellist" c. 1880s Oil on Panel Site: 20 x 14 inches Framed Size: 28 x 14 inches Ferdinand Roybet is considere...
Category

1880s Realist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Morning Reflection
By Hans Amis
Located in Missouri, MO
Hans Amis (AKA An He) "Morning Reflection" Oil on Canvas 30 x 40 inches, site 38 x 48 inches framed An He was born in Guangzhou, China into an artistic family. He was drawn to the...
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1990s Impressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Central Park Autumn
By Paul Cornoyer
Located in Missouri, MO
Paul Cornoyer “Central Park Autumn” c. 1910 Oil on Canvas Framed Size: approx 29 x 35 inches Canvas Size: approx 22 x 26.5 inches Provenance: The Artist to Private Collection, St. Louis thence by Descent Conservation report: Excellent condition. On original canvas, not relined. No in-painting. Paul Cornoyer was born in 1864 in St. Louis, Missouri. He studied there at the School of Fine Arts in 1881. His first works were in a Barbizon mode, and his first exhibit was in 1887. In 1889, he went to Paris for further training, studying at the Academie Julien, and returned to St. Louis in 1894. By the early 1890s, his work was more lyrical and Tonal, and he applied this style to subjects such as cityscapes and landscapes. In 1894, he painted a mural depicting the birth of St. Louis for the Planters Hotel in that city. His activities during the next six years were not particularly profitable, however, and the whereabouts of his St. Louis paintings are scarcely known. One exception is the triptych, A View of Saint Louis, with its strong urban realism. It shows the Eads Bridge...
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1910s American Impressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Blowing Bubbles
By Edmund Adler
Located in Missouri, MO
Edmund Adler (Rode) "Blowing Bubbles" Oil on Canvas 22 x 27 inches 32 x 37 inches framed Signed Lower Right Edmund Adler (Austrian) 1876-1965 Kno...
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1920s Realist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Conundrum in the Kitchen
By Frank Hyde
Located in Missouri, MO
Frank Hyde (British 1849-1937) "A Conundrum in the Kitchen" c. 1900 Oil on Canvas Signed Lower Left Image: 37.5 x 57.5 inches Framed: 44 x 64.5 inches From the Maidstone Museum, UK: Hyde was born in Surrey in 1849 and spent a large amount of time in London during his youth. His father had been in the army but retired to live the life of a gentleman upon inheriting the family seat, Hyde End Manor in Berkshire. Hyde, however, would later inherit and sell the Manor. As a young man, Hyde trained as an artist at the Royal Academy, London, and his subsequent career revealed striking artistic versatility. His subjects varied from the portrayal of real, dramatic events to comic characters commissioned by the card manufacturer Raphael Tuck. Starting out as a 1st Lieutenant in the Royal Engineers, Hyde moved on to begin his career as a war artist during the Franco-Prussian war of 1870-71, producing drawings for ‘The Graphic’, an illustrated weekly publication. Hyde married Constance Mary Louise Felgate in 1876, but she died less than a year later. While he travelled extensively throughout his life after Constance’s, death Hyde purchased a villa in Capri where he met Rosina Ferrara, whom he used as a model, and John Singer Sargent, with whom he shared a studio. Hyde is perhaps best known for his paintings of Capri...
Category

1890s Realist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

White and Blue
By Nicola Simbari
Located in Missouri, MO
Canvas Size: approx 32 x 39 inches Framed Size: approx. 37 x 45 inches Nicola Simbari is a painter of semi-abstract impressionist works. He is a colorist who favors brilliant tones...
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Blumenstilleben No. 401
By Anton Henning
Located in Kansas City, MO
Title: Blumenstilleben No. 401 Year: 2009 Medium: Oil on Canvas Size: 100 x 70 cm (39 3/8 x 27 1/2 inches)
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Impressionist Missouri - Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

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