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This black and white full body vintage original photograph features Marilyn Monroe posed in a bathing suit and heels. -- One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebri...

CHARMING Antique English Jacobean Oak Barley Twist Sideboard, Cabinet, Server or Buffet c.1920-1930s Barley twist legs with beautiful o...

French Majolica Daisy Marcel Guillot Vallauris, circa 1950. 8.2 inches diameter.

Yellow Majolica Rope Pitcher Saint Clement, Circa 1950.

CHARMING Antique English Oak Jacobean Barley Twist Plate Dresser, Sideboard, Hutch Cabinet, Server or Buffet circa 1920s These pieces, commonly known as "Welsh dressers" were a necessity of the 19th and early 20th century English kitchen...

French Majolica starfish oyster plate signed Digoin Sarreguemines, Circa 1920.

Mid century, painted, iron frame slipper chair recently upholstered in a faux shearling. The frame shows mild signs of age and wear including scratches and some loss of paint that we...

Single bergère armchair from France in the Louis XVI style. This piece has a hand-carved beech wood frame with original ‘trianon’ gray paint an...

Charles and Ray Eames designed low lounge armshell with X-base. Original zinc base, original screws, Original boot glides. Early transitional parchment fiberglass shell with large sh...

19th Century Majolica Bamboo & leaves Cache Pot Sarreguemines signed Sarreguemines Majolica circa 1870.

Buffet from France in the Louis XVI style. This piece is made of mahogany that has been ebonized and finished with a lustrous French polish of museum-quality. There are four doors th...

GORGEOUS and RARE Antique French Country Oak Cabinet with Double Doors Over Chest of 4 Drawers~~ c.1920s This is a SUPERB example of an antique classic French Country oak cabinet ov...

Italian Modern Mirror Inspired By Fontana Arte. Italian Fontana Arte Inspired Beveled Glass Mirror. Shapely Italian mid century Fontana Arte inspired beveled mirror. This lovely vint...

French Majolica grapes basket tureen signed Sarreguemines, circa 1920.

French Mid-Century Wicker Duck.

A walnut cabinet with inlayed doors, marble top and large brass glides. Designed by Edward Wormley for Dunbar.

Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 25 x 30 Frame Size: 34 x 39 Medium: Oil on Canvas Circa 1950 "Lazy Day Blues" Texas Bluebonnet Biography Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) Porfirio Salinas was a self-taught artist who painted landscapes of Central Texas with an emphasis on the vast bluebonnet fields that grow there in the springtime. Born in 1910 in Bastrop, Texas, he attended public schools in San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art School, Jose Arpa, as well as landscape painter, Robert Wood. Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets". Salinas served in the military from 1943 to 1945. Although he was assigned to Fort Sam Houston, he was allowed to live at home. At the fort, Colonel Telesphor Gottchalk assigned him to paint murals for the officer's lounge and various other projects, and Salinas continued to be able to paint during his entire conscripted period. Even before he achieved notoriety among galleries, dealers, and museums, Salinas was widely followed and appreciated by many Texans, including former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who may be considered responsible for launching Salinas popularity beyond the boundaries of Texas. In 1973, Texas capital, Austin, honored Salinas for having "done much to bring the culture of Mexico and Texas closer together with his paintings". Salinas died in April 1973 in San Antonio, Texas. From the years of the Great Depression through President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society of the 1960s, Texan Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) remained one of the Lone Star State's most popular artists. Today, his works remain popular with Texas collectors and those who love landscapes of the beautiful "Hill Country" that lies in the center of the state. One of the first Mexican American painters to become widely recognized for his art, Salinas was a favorite of President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, as well as of Sam Rayburn, the longest-serving Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Texas Governor John Connelly. In fact, President Johnson was so enamored with his Salinas paintings that the artist will forever be associated with America's first Texas-born President. Works by Porfirio Salinas is in a number of museum collections, grace the halls of the Texas State Capitol and the Governor's Mansion in Austin, and are included in virtually every major private collection of Early Texas Art. Porfirio Salinas was born on November 6, 1910, near the small town of Bastrop, Texas, about thirty miles from Austin. His father, Porfirio G. Salinas (1881-1967), and his mother, Clara G. Chavez, struggled to make a hardscrabble living as tenant farmers, but eventually were forced to give up farming. The family moved to San Antonio, where Salinas' father was able to get a job working as a laborer for the railroad, but the scenic area around Bastrop, with its pine trees and the wide expanse of the Rio Grande River, would forever remain a touchstone for the artist. For the rest of his life, Salinas and his brothers went back frequently to visit their grandmother in her little farmhouse. When in Bastrop, Porfirio painted on the banks of the Rio Grande or in the groves of pine trees. The Salinas family was close-knit, and Porfirio was the middle child of five children, so he had an older brother and sister as well as a younger brother and sister. His mother was a native of Mexico, so throughout his childhood the family made the long drive to Mexico to visit Clara Salinas' family. As a child growing up in the bi-lingual section of San Antonio, Salinas drew and painted incessantly and by the time he was ten, he was already producing work that was mature enough to sell to his schoolteachers. Many years later in an article in the New York Times he was described as a "boy whose textbooks were seldom opened and whose sketchbook was never closed." Instead of studying, the young artist spent his spare time watching artists paint in and around San Antonio. As an aspiring painter, Salinas was fortunate to grow up in the historic city, which had the most active art scene in Texas. It was his exposure to older, professional painters that encouraged the precocious young painter to leave school early in order to help his family and pursue a career as a professional artist, despite his father's inability to see art as a career with any future for his son. When Salinas was about fifteen he came to know the artist Robert W. Wood (1889-1979). He met Wood while he was employed in an art supply store and he soon began to work as an assistant to the English-born painter, who had moved from Portland to San Antonio in 1924. Although the diminutive Englishman was already an established professional artist, he did not have a great deal of formal art training and so he was then studying with the academically trained Spanish painter Jose Arpa (1858-1952) in order to augment his knowledge and give his work a more polished look. Salinas was an eager young man, and while working in Wood's downtown San Antonio studio he learned to stretch canvases, frame paintings and to sketch in larger compositions from small plein-air studies for the English artist. He began to accompany Wood and Arpa to the hills outside San Antonio, where they painted small Plein-air studies of fields of blue lupin - the state flower, the famous "Bluebonnets" of Texas - in the springtime and scenes of the gnarled Red Oaks as they changed color in the fall. He was soon assisting Wood in the tedious work of painting the tiny blue flowers that collectors wanted to see in the landscapes they purchased of central Texas. According to a 1972 newspaper story, "Legend has it that one day in the 1920s artist Robert Wood decided he could not bear to paint another bluebonnet in one of his landscapes. He hired young Porfirio Salinas to paint them in for him at five dollars a painting." Whether this story is accurate or apocryphal isn't clear, but the ambitious and independent young Salinas wasn't destined to be anyone's assistant for very long. The formative event of Porfirio Salinas' teenage years was the Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibitions, a Roaring-Twenties dream of the eccentric oilman Edgar B. Davis (1873-1951). These competitive shows of paintings of wildflowers and Texas life were mounted in San Antonio from 1927 to 1929. Held at the newly opened Witte Museum each spring, the exhibition featured large cash prizes donated by the philanthropic Davis, which were an inducement for artists to travel from all over the United States to paint in the Hill Country of Texas. The "Davis Competitions," as they were known, helped to cement San Antonio's reputation as an art center, a legacy that remains with the "River City" today. The shows generated a great deal of excitement in the area, helping to make celebrities of the some of the artists who had already settled there and encouraging others to make San Antonio their home. Over the three years that the wildflower competitions were held, more than 300 paintings were exhibited, and many thousands of viewers saw the paintings at the Witte Museum and on tours throughout the state and in New York. Each year Davis would generously purchase the winning paintings and then donate them to the San Antonio Art League. Young Porfirio Salinas would have been able to not only watch his two mentors - Robert W. Wood and Jose Arpa - paint the works that they entered in the Davis Competitions, he would have been able to see Arpa take several of the major prizes, receiving the judge's accolades for "Verbena," "Cactus Flower" and "Picking Cotton," works that are still on view at the San Antonio Art League Museum today. Unfortunately, Davis eventually put his donations to work in other charitable endeavors, bringing to an end the wildflower events, but only after they inspired Salinas and other young painters and had helped to make wildflower paintings the most sought-after subject for traditionalist Texas collectors. In 1930, when he was only twenty, Salinas hung out a shingle and began to paint professionally, augmenting the sales of his easel paintings with what little business he could garner by painting signs for local concerns. It was a struggle for the young artist to make a living, as the effects of the Great Depression were settling in. His early works are very similar to those of Robert Wood's, both in subject matter and treatment. Salinas did small paintings of Bluebonnets for the tourists who visited San Antonio to see the famous Alamo as well as paintings of the Texas missions...

Tiffany Favrile Arabian lamp. Art Nouveau, circa 1910 Tiffany Arabian lamp has blown glass shade and base. Shade is decorated with a green iride...

Majolica strawberries plate signed Sarreguemines Majolica, circa 1870. Geometric pattern on the border.

Mid-Century Italian Majolica Fruits Finial Topiary.

A chaise lounge designed by Edward Wormley for Dunbar. Ash base with rosewood feet. Fully restored and upholstered in Holly Hunt / Pebble Beach / Natural fabric.

Mid-Century rectangular dish with handle by Robert Picault Vallauris. Robert Picault (1919 - 2000) was born in Vincennes, Paris and studied a...

Black and white glamour portrait of actress Audrey Hepburn posed smiling in a gown, walking poodles on leashes. Audrey Hepburn was a British actress. Hepburn had a successful career...

Charles and Ray Eames realized their dream to create a single-shell form over 80 years ago by making their molded chairs of fiberglass. When the environmental risks of that material became known, the Eames Molded...

Patek Philippe & Co. 18K Gold Open Face Pocket Watch - Manual movement. 18K Yellow Gold Case, monogrammed. Signed Patek Philippe & Co. ( 44 mm ). Gold with Arabic numerals; sub dial...

French Majolica duck tureen circa 1950.

A set of four mahogany tables designed by Frank Lloyd Wright for Henredon.

Large French Majolica oyster plate signed TN Bavent, circa 1920. Vibrant emerauld green colors. Diameter / 10.5 inches. Rustic style.

This candid black and white capture features Audrey Hepburn, star of "Sabrina", candid on the set, posed against a large studio light. Film and fashion icon Audrey Hepburn was a Bri...

Rare French Majolica Pineapple Basket Box Sarreguemines, circa 1890. Height / 6 inches , Diameter / 3.8 inches.

Set of 12 French Faience oysters plates & 1 platter signed Cabare circa 1950. Decor of birds and flowers platter 15.5 inches , 12 plates 9.5 inches diameter.

David Adickes (Born 1927) Houston Artist Image Size: 10.5 x 13.5 Frame Size: 24 x 26.5 Medium: Lithograph or Etching 7 of 10 "Des Hommes" Biography David Adickes (1927 - present) Houston Artist Adickes spent most of his professional life teaching, painting, and creating small bronzes. Now mainly known as a creator of giant sculpture, A commission for Houston's Performing Art Center in 1982 marks the beginning of his giant sculpture design. After the 36-foot tall cellist called the Virtuoso in a cubist style, he created a number of abstract works, including a giant cornet for the jazz stage at the 1984 World's Fair in New Orleans, Louisiana. Sculptor David Adickes is known for a major project titled Presidents Park in Williamsburg, Virginia, where he created 42 portraits bust of American presidents. Each sculpture is twenty feet tall, and their size was the subject of much protest and controversy. However, a court ruling allowed them to stay. President of Texas, followed by his 42 statue tribute to United States Presidents. Adickes has degrees in mathematics and physics which serve him well in the engineering of his works. Working on a giant sculpture series which includes the Beatles, and he hopes to end with a 280-foot tall cowboy statue...

Mid-Century French Majolica shell catchall.

Majolica pear plate signed Sarreguemines, circa 1920.   

14 Karat yellow gold bangle with opal center stone and opal accents. This charming bracelet is from the 1950's.

A rare 'Sleep-o-Matic' sofa / daybed designed by Marco Zanuso for Arflex, 1951. The sofa seat pulls forward and levels out to allow for a sleeping surface. Fully restored and reupho...

Pair Of Italian Modern Sculptural Lounge Chairs Attributed To Paolo Buffa. This unusual pair of Italian Brutalist style mid cen...

Rare set of 8 Majolica oysters plates and platter signed Marcel Guillot, circa 1950. Very rare color. platter 16.5 inches , 8 plates 9.5 inches diameter.

Set of eight chairs from England signed by Leslie Dandy for G-Plan. They have strong teak frames finished in a lustrous French polish with original velvet upholstery in great conditi...

Small French Mid-Century Majolica Pink Flower Plate Charolles. 7 inches diameter.

A lovely pair of vintage Italian giltwood and gesso wall brackets or shelves from Florence, Italy, circa 1950. These stylish brackets have a hand carved scrolling acanthus leaf desig...

Small Mid-Century Majolica Blackberries Tureen.

Majolica gooseberry plate signed Sarreguemines Majolica, circa 1870. Geometric pattern on the border.

“Chiffonier” French cabinet in the Louis XVI style. The solid hand carved cherry wood chest features five dovetailed drawers, a traditional peg construction, tapered legs and decorat...

- Vintage item - Collectible costume jewelry piece from the mid-century - 7.5" circumference (fits most wrists) - 1.25" width - Gold tone - Covered in layers of faux turquoise a...

Rare Oyster Plate signed Robert Picault. Robert Picault (1919 - 2000) was born in Vincennes, Paris and studied at the School of Applied Arts in Paris. After the war he spent a short ...

Blue & white Geometrical Pitcher or Bottle signed Robert Picault circa 1950. Robert Picault (1919 - 2000) was born in Vincennes, Paris and studied at the School of Applied Arts in Pa...

L'Eventail (Anaïs) also called The Fan. 1921. Etching. Fletcher 22. Final state. 6 3/8 x 4 7/16 (sheet 11 1/2 x 9 1/4). Edition 76. An extremely rich, tonal impression printed on cr...

Royal Copenhagen Porcelain Cherry Blossom Vase.

Chest of drawers from France in the Louis XVI style. This piece is made of solid wood construction, primarily walnut. There are two dovetailed drawers, each adorned with solid brass ...

19th Century Flemish Cabinet ~ Confiturier features tailored lines accentuated by the top surface which is surrounded by flared out, then flared in molding for a dominant presence. ...

Henry Woon Charcoal Female Nude 2 c. 1950's Charcoal on Strathmore Charcoal Paper 25"x19 1/2"Unframed Signed in ink H Woon lower right His large portfolio of charcoal drawings was ...

Blue toned serigraph of a carousel with horses. The work is signed and numbered by the artist. It is not framed but comes with a white matte. Artist Biography: Barbara Maples...

A finely crafted antique Italian Pietra Dura mosaic in the style of Richard Blow featuring an intricately designed butterfly in a beautiful gilded frame.

Pair of mid century nightstands featuring cork fronts Pair of walnut vintage nightstands or side tables with metal hairpin legs in the style of Paul Frankl. Featuring circular recessed bakelite pulls and cork facings. One with three drawers and the other features one top drawer and a pull down cabinet...

A lovely pair of vintage Italian giltwood and gesso wall brackets or shelves from Florence, Italy, circa 1950. These stylish brackets have a hand carved scrolling feathers design and...

Mid-century oil pastel abstract incorporating a vast array of color and unique shapes by artist D. Wargon, circa 1950. Signed lower right. Original artwork on paper displayed on a...

HANDSOME Antique English Trunk, Chest, Blanket Box, Coffer, or Coffee Table with Lift-Top Storage~~HIGHLY CARVED~~c. 1900-1920s SPECTACULAR gothic design with iron strap hinges~~ Carved linen...

1 Teak Daybed Børge Mogensen Soborg Møbler Model 136 Rare Danish modern teak daybed with upholstered cushion and side pillows designed by...

A pair of lounge chairs designed by Edward Wormley for Dunbar with sculptural mahogany bases. Fully restored and upholstered in Dedar / Gimel / Ardoise fabric.