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Item Ships From: Tri-State Area
KPM Porcelain Plaque of a female "Lute Player"
Located in New York, NY
A large KPM gilt framed porcelain hand painted plaque depicting a lute player in Regency style dress, in an ornately carved Florentine Giltwood frame
Late 19th century
Signed "Gree...
Category
19th Century Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Porcelain
Blonde, School of Paris Watercolor Painting by Charles Levier
By Charles Levier
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Charles Levier, French (1920 - 2003)
Title: Blonde
Year: circa 1970
Medium: Watercolor on paper, signed l.l.
Size: 16 x 11 inches
Paper Size: 25 x 19.5 in. (63.5 x 49.53 cm)
Category
1970s Expressionist Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Trumpet Player, 1960's Oil Painting by Marshall Goodman
By Marshall Goodman
Located in Long Island City, NY
Trumpet Player
Marshall Goodman, American (1916–2003)
Date: circa 1960
Oil on Canvas
Size: 30 in. x 24 in. (76.2 cm x 60.96 cm)
Frame Size: 32 x 26 inches
Category
1960s American Modern Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Fine Stiepevich Orientalist Painting of a Harem Girl with a Lute
Located in New York, NY
VINCENT G. STIEPEVICH
Russian, 1841-1910
Harem Girl with a Lute
Signed ‘VG. Stiepevich’ L/R
Oil on canvas
24 x 18 inches
Frame: 31.375 X 25.25 inches
Category
1890s Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Bazooka Ali" Double Muhammad Ali & Chanel Pop Art Acrylic Painting on Canvas
By John Stango
Located in New York, NY
A pop piece depicting Muhammed Ali with Chanel. With impasto painting, and quick brushwork we are drawn to the movement, as the artist is able to engage his viewer with contrasting h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media
$9,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Portrait of Dr. Burger, the Diet Doctor, v. 2, by Peter Max
By Peter Max
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Peter Max, German/American (1937 - )
Title: Portrait of Dr. Burger, the Diet Doctor, v. 2
Year: 1991
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas, signed upper right and signed, dated, and numb...
Category
1990s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Circa 1900 American Victorian Impressionist Painting of a Woman with a Shawl
Located in New York, NY
This is an American Victorian impressionist painting of a young lady in an orange dress and a shawl over her.
It is signed left with initials F.B.
Oil on canvas
Overall Measuremen...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Portrait of a Man, Modern Oil Painting on Glass by Josip Horvat
By Josip Horvat
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Josip Horvat, Yugoslavian (1939 - 1981)
Title: Portrait of a Man
Year: 1967
Medium: Reverse Oil painting on Glass, signed and dated l.l. ...
Category
1960s Folk Art Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Glass, Oil
Seawater in Our Veins
By Rebecca Johnson
Located in Jersey City, NJ
"Seawater In Our Veins" by Rebecca Johnson
A luminous exploration of inner light and elemental connection, Seawater In Our Veins by Rebecca Johnson radiates warmth, grace, and quiet...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Wood, Pastel, Acrylic, Canvas
"Jean-Michel Basquiat" Pop Art Mixed Media & Acrylic Painting on Canvas
By John Stango
Located in New York, NY
A pop piece depicting Jean-Michel Basquiat with impasto painting, spray paint and silkscreening. We are drawn to the movement, as the artist is able to engage his viewer with contras...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media
Saint Martin de Porres
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: Private Collection, New York, until 2022.
Martín de Porres was born in Lima in 1579, the illegitimate son of a Spanish-American father, J...
Category
Late 18th Century Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Miss Audrey Hepburn" Audrey & Tiffany & Co. Pop Art Acrylic Painting on Canvas
By John Stango
Located in New York, NY
A bold and elegant piece depicting Audrey Hepburn's Breakfast At Tiffany's juxtaposed with Tiffany & Co. in background. With impasto painting, and quick brushwork we are drawn to the...
Category
2010s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
PERIOD American Antique Civil War Portrait of Officer and His Horse
Located in New York, NY
American artist Franklin Briscoe (1844-1903) known for his hirtorical and portrait paintings, paints a Civil War piece; it is a portrait of an officer with his white horse.
The brus...
Category
Late 19th Century Hudson River School Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Wonder Woman, mosaic tile mixed media artwork
Located in Riverdale, NY
Wonder Woman by Dean Moore is created with mosaics using hand cut tiles. Mixed media, 30 x 25, framed to 32 x 26.5 It is a delightful, joyful, original artwork of this iconic Super Hero. We are thrilled to be representing this unique, creative artist.
Dean Moore is a New York City based emerging artist. Being self-taught, Dean has experimented with various mediums and finds deconstruction to be a consistent theme in his work.
Currently focusing on mosaics, Moore meticulously hand cuts ceramic tile, porcelain tile and glass into thousands of fragments—shaping and filing each piece precisely before thoughtfully positioning them together to create impactful mosaics. In the past, he used cereal boxes...
Category
2010s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Ceramic
Lipstick
By Eric Friedmann
Located in New York, NY
Eric Friedmann
Lipstick, 2018
Acrylic polymer and pigment on canvas
80 x 74 cm
International Fine Arts Consortium and IFAC Athina present Eric Friedmann in his premier solo
exhibiti...
Category
2010s Abstract Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic Polymer, Pigment
Antique Neapolitan Sea Captain Portrait Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3703 Oil on artist board
Set in a vintage wood frame
Image size 13x9.5"
Category
1940s Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Oil Painting Pensive French Maiden Late 19th Century
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3912 19th Century French female portrait
Image size 23x19.5
Category
Late 19th Century Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
St. Vincent Ferrer Preaching to the People of Salamanca
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Private Collection, New Jersey
The present painting depicts Saint Vincent Ferrer preaching from a raised pulpit to a group of seven peopl...
Category
15th Century and Earlier Renaissance Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Gala Portrait, Photorealist Oil Painting by Henry Imms
Located in Long Island City, NY
Henry Imms, American - Gala Portrait, Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower right, Size: 30 x 24 in. (76.2 x 60.96 cm), Frame Size: 35.5 x 29.5 inches
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hildebrand, Abstract figurative oil on canvas, Animal-human, soft background
By Michele Mikesell
Located in Dallas, TX
MICHELE MIKESELL
b. 1973, Alabama, USA
In 2002, Michele Mikesell earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in graphic design from Texas Women's University in Denton, TX. Mikesel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
"SAMO Actual Size" Pop Art Jean Michel Basquiat Acrylic Painting on Canvas
By John Stango
Located in New York, NY
A pop piece depicting Basquiat with impasto painting and silkscreening we are drawn to the movement, as the artist is able to engage his viewer with contrasting highlights and shadow...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Illegibly Signed Cherub Drinking Oil on Canvas
Located in Astoria, NY
French School, Cherub Drinking Wine, Oil on Canvas laid on Masonite, 19th century, indistinctly signed lower left, ornate giltwood frame. Image: 25.75" H x 21.5" W; frame: 38" H x 33...
Category
19th Century Baroque Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Masonite, Oil
HOW TO BE HAPPY - Underwater Photorealism / Female Swimmer / Large Portrait
By Eric Zener
Located in New York, NY
Original oil painting by Eric Zener.
Eric Zener (b. 1966, Astoria, OR) completed his BA in 1988 at the University of California, Santa Barbara. As an artist he has been engaged in ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Auguste Toulmouche Admiring Her Looks
By Auguste Toulmouche
Located in New York, NY
"Admiring Her Looks" by Auguste Toulmouche is a quintessential example of 19th-century academic art, emphasizing beauty and technique. Toulmouche's work often explores themes of femi...
Category
19th Century Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
1890s Life Size Impressionist Woman at Boudoir W/ off Shoulder Satin Fur Dress
Located in New York, NY
This is a 19th century life-size impressionist painting by the artist Suzanne Hurel (1876-1956). It depicts a young woman sitting in-front of her boudoir...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas
The Rattle
By Will Barnet
Located in New York, NY
Oil and charcoal on canvas, 1984. 1220x790 mm; 48x31 inches. Signed and dated in charcoal, upper right recto.
Provenance: Babcock Galleries, New York, with the label; estate of the ...
Category
1980s American Modern Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil
1908 FEMALE AMERICAN ARTIST Impressionist ASHCAN School Woman at the OPERA
By Alice Mumford Roberts Culin
Located in New York, NY
Here we have a large portrait of a woman elegantly dressed before heading to the Opera. She is seen wearing a vivid pink dress with impressive detailing, holding a fan on her hand. Fantastic RARE Painting and fresh from an estate! Has not
Gone through Auction
Alice Mumford Roberts (1875-1950) was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,. where she studied the fine arts under Joseph DeCamp, Carl Newman, and Robert Henri. She went to Europe in 1898 to study with the painter Marie Haughton. Alice Mumford lived in Spain for two years, continuing her painting studies with José Mara López Mezquita...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Agave, Oil on canvas, abstract figurative painting with cheetah woman
By Michele Mikesell
Located in Dallas, TX
MICHELE MIKESELL
b. 1973, Alabama, USA
In 2002, Michele Mikesell earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts with a minor in graphic design from Texas Women's University in Denton, TX. Mikesel...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
$7,360 Sale Price
20% Off
Striped Cap, Portrait, Figurative, Baroque, Female, Oil, Painting, Timeless
By Ray Donley
Located in Riverdale, NY
Striped Cap is a baroque inspired portrait, oil on linen, by Ray Donley. It is 24x24. It is a timeless figurative painting featuring a female figure.
For Ray Donley, the classic...
Category
Early 2000s Baroque Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
Barack Obama
Located in Rye, NY
Bret Reilly’s “Crumpled” series seamlessly intertwines the ethereal essence of Impressionism with the dreamlike distortion of surrealism, blurring the line between canvas and sculpt...
Category
2010s Kinetic Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Taxi Galaxy
By Anita Kapraljevic
Located in New York, NY
Anita Kapraljevic
Pepsi Generation
2010
Oil on canvas
150 x 119 cm
signed, titled and dated on verso
Anita Kapraljevic is born in Mostar and lives in Berlin. She studied in Nürtinge...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Portrait of a Woman" Edward Percy Moran, Early American Portrait, Bucolic
By Edward Percy Moran
Located in New York, NY
Edward Percy Moran
Portrait of a Woman
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
30 x 20 inches
Provenance:
The Madison Gallery, Atlanta
Percy Moran was the son of marine painter Edward Mo...
Category
1890s Academic Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Man with No Eyes, social justice interpretation of civil rights crime victim
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil and oil stick on canvas
Interpretation of beating and blinding of Issac Woodard sparking awareness of civil rights violations in the American south
Category
2010s Expressionist Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
"La Capelin Bleue"
By Jean-Pierre Cassigneul
Located in New York, NY
It is a perfect portrait., the background does not conflict with the portrait. Great detail by the artist instead of being sparse.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Forgotten Memories" Abstract Landscape Painting
By Ned Martin
Located in Westport, CT
Forgotten Memories weaves landscape, history, and symbolism into a richly layered visual narrative. Merging impasto brushwork with intricate collage, the artist creates a textured su...
Category
2010s Abstract Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Vintage Italian Full Length Portrait Oil Painting "The English Gentleman"
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5058 Full length oversized oil painting of an English Nobleman
Set in a rapped canvas noframe needed
Signed Robert Yarmola
Category
1980s Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Shoe repairman, colorful, character
By Stephen Basso
Located in Brooklyn, NY
*ABOUT Stephen Basso
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
29th century English, Portrait od a seated Siamese Cat
Located in Woodbury, CT
J. Foley (British, 20th Century)
Siamese Cat
Oil on canvas
Signed on the reverse
This elegant portrait captures the distinctive grace and poise of the Siamese cat, renowned for its ...
Category
1970s Realist Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"SAMO Upper View" Chanel No.5 & Jean Michel Basquiat Acrylic Painting on Canvas
By John Stango
Located in New York, NY
A pop piece depicting Basquiat with Chanel No.5. With impasto painting and silkscreening we are drawn to the movement, as the artist is able to engage his viewer with contrasting hig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$4,160 Sale Price
20% Off
Chaise 36, Minimalist, Pop Art, painting, Figurative, Pool, Female Figure, Paper
By Jeffrey Palladini
Located in Riverdale, NY
Chaise #36 by California artist Jeffrey Palladini is a minimalist figurative painting on paper and framed. It is textured Oil and Charcoal on paper. It is 22" x 30". With the white...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Charcoal, Oil, Wood Panel
Amphibian Woman, Surrealist Oil Painting by Endre Szasz
By Endre Szasz
Located in Long Island City, NY
Endre Szasz, Hungarian (1926 - 2003) - Amphibian Woman, Year: circa 1970, Medium: Oil on masonite, signed lower right, Size: 24 x 11.75 in. (60.96 x 29.85 cm), Frame Size: 38 x 2...
Category
1970s Surrealist Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Restful Moment in the Harem
By William Gale (British)
Located in New York, NY
William Gale
British
1823 - 1909
A Restful Moment
signed with artist's monogram WG lower left
oil on canvas
Unframed: 30.6 by 41cm., 12 by 16¼in.
Framed: 52 by 62cm., 20½ by 24½in.
William Gale was a talented history and genre oil painter, born in London in 1823. He won many accolades as a student at Royal Academy Schools, and travelled to Italy in 1851 and the Middle East in 1862 and 1867. Due to his many influences , Gale's paintings are in an array of styles including sentimental, biblical, mythological subjects, portraits and orientalist pictures. Examples of his work are held by the Tate, Glasgow City Art Galleries and Museums and Art Gallery of New South Wales.
William Gale was one of the many artists who, upon finishing his study at the Royal Academy Schools, set out to explore the east: namely North Africa, Algeria, Palestine and Syria. These remote countries at the crossroads of civilizations captivated his imagination, which he explored through his work.
Following in the footsteps of the great Orientalists John Frederic Lewis and Jean Leon Gerome, William Gale evokes the Eastern Woman, the bright colors and delicate textures that can be found in the East. Using pure, rich glazes and extraordinary attention to detail, he renders the luxurious, beautifully embroidered headscarf. Eastern women kindled a curiosity in almost every Orientalist artist...
Category
1890s Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
NUDE on ARMCHAIR by Paula Craioveanu Female Gaze NATURAL WOOD FRAME
By Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Nude on Armchair". Female nude seen by a female artist - " female gaze " series. Original painting. Framed in minimalist black frame, real wood. Signed. Unframed size 20x20in / 51x...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Invisible Women Ratilles
Located in New York, NY
Angels Grau is a Catalan artist who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most n...
Category
2010s Abstract Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Brave Girl 18
Located in New York, NY
Angels Grau is a Catalan artist who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most notorious wine regions in Eu...
Category
2010s Abstract Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Head of a Classical Poet (Socrates?)
By Pier Francesco Mola
Located in New York, NY
Provenance:
Possibly Antonio Amici Moretti, Rome, 1690
Roy Clyde Gardner, Union, Mississippi, 1970s until 2004; by whom given to:
Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, 2004-2010
Lit...
Category
17th Century Baroque Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
3D Portrait Painting of Woman: 'Wounds CCLII'
By Juan Miguel Palacios
Located in New York, NY
While his work has a clear figurative language, the paintings of Juan Miguel Palacios contain a strong conceptual load, where his work developed in series, has a constant wandering o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
James Childs
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This work by classically trained, Gammellian painter James Childs was gifted to fellow artist colleague Audrey Anastasi. it is a delicately observed watercolor painted on location d...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Invisible Women Vermella
Located in New York, NY
Angels Grau is a Catalan artist who spends her time between Barcelona, New York, and a small village located in the breathtaking Priorat, one of the most notorious wine regions in Europe.
This combination allows her to have the best of three worlds; it brings together the creativity and passion that her paintings demand.
"I invest time in my work. You must look at paintings on different days, with different eyes. There is a need to go back to it again and again.”
Born to a family of artists, she grew up surrounded by drawings, tapestries, and paintings that awakened a special sentiment that over time matured into her work. A graphic designer first and painter by evolution, in 2018 she decided to make the leap into becoming a full-time artist. Nothing has deterred her since.
After traveling the world and bringing up four children who are almost living their own lives, the artist feels the need to empower the role of women inspired by her own journey. “Invisible Women” is a tribute to each and every woman that fights from anonymous positions, in everyday jobs and everyday lives, to improve their family, their society, their world.
Some of her pieces are part of the personal art collections of different CEOs of fortune 100 companies. “Invisible Women” is part of a recent purchase...
Category
2010s Abstract Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
3D Portrait Painting of Woman: 'Wounds CCLIII'
By Juan Miguel Palacios
Located in New York, NY
While his work has a clear figurative language, the paintings of Juan Miguel Palacios contain a strong conceptual load, where his work developed in series, has a constant wandering o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Continental School "Mother and Child"
Located in Astoria, NY
Continental School, "Mother and Child", Oil on Canvas, illegibly signed "opapa" (?) lower right, giltwood frame. image: 29.5" H x 23.5" W; frame: 38.5" H x 32.5" W x 2.5" D. Provenan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Table by the Window
By Edmund Quincy
Located in New York, NY
Estate stamp (on back, on original stretcher): Estate of/ Edmund Quincy/ 1903-1997 ///
Category
20th Century American Realist Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Writer
By Edmund Quincy
Located in New York, NY
Signed (lower right): Quincy
Category
20th Century American Realist Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
KPM Oval Plaque depicting a Beautiful Lady in Blue Dress
By Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM)
Located in New York, NY
A Fine KPM Plaque of a beauty in an elegant blue dress. Impressed KPM and sceptre mark to the reverse.
Maker: KPM
Origin: German
Date: 19th century
Category
19th Century Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Porcelain
A Portrait of a Little Girl in a White Dress In the manner of Sorolla
Located in Brookville, NY
While the painting may be signed on the lower right side "Sorolla" it is not by the famed artist Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida. It is most likel...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
European School, Composer Portraits, 2
Located in Astoria, NY
European School, Two Portraits of 17th Century Composers, Oil on Canvas, 19th century, comprising: Richard Wagner, signed "N. Yager" to the right center and Ludiwg von Beethoven, uns...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Into Thin Air" Abstract Landscape Painting
By Ned Martin
Located in Westport, CT
In "Into Thin Air", a landscape dissolves into atmosphere, memory, and color. With richly textured layers of oil and collage, the artist constructs a fragmented vista where geometry ...
Category
2010s Abstract Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
"Jean Michel" Basquiat Colorful Pop Art Portrait Mixed Media Painting on Canvas
By Gieler
Located in New York, NY
This piece depicts famous artist, Jean-Michel Basquiat. Done with beautiful expressive colors and a distinctive street art design, this piece pops with energy and romantic beauty. It...
Category
2010s Pop Art Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic
KPM Hand Painted Porcelain Plaque Depicting Cleopatra on the Nile
By Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur (KPM)
Located in New York, NY
GERMAN PORCELAIN PLAQUE
Austrian, (1840 - 1884)
Cleopatra on the Nile
Painted plaque
7 1/4 in. x 21 in.
Category
19th Century Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Porcelain
Adolf Dehn, Haitian Scene A, signed painting, Associated American Artists, 1950s
By Adolf Arthur Dehn
Located in New York, NY
Adolf Arthur Dehn
Haitian Scene A, ca. 1951
Watercolor gouache on board
Signed on the front
Frame included: held in vintage modern frame
Measurements:
Framed:
11 inches vertical by 13 inches horizontal by .75
Painting
4.5 inches by 6 inches
Watercolor gouache, hand signed; framed with AAA Gallery label verso
Signed on the front bearing the original label on the verso of Dehn's longtime gallery, the prestigious Associated American Artists Gallery, New York City.
Provenance
Associated American Artists
Frame included: held in vintage frame with original label as provenance
Dehn, an influential artist and teacher (and author of the definitive textbook of his era on watercolor painting) joined Associated American Artists gallery in 1941. Although this painting is undated, it is likely circa early 1950s, as in 1951 Dehn won a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to travel to Haiti -- the subject of this work. It was part of a series inspired by Dehn's visit to Haiti.
Dehn, an influential artist and teacher (and author of the definitive textbook of his era on watercolor painting) joined Associated American Artists gallery in 1941. Although this painting is undated, it is likely circa early 1950s, as in 1951 Dehn won a Guggenheim Fellowship, which enabled him to travel to Haiti.
ADLOF DEHN
Adolf Dehn, American Watercolorist and Printmaker, 1895-1968
Adolf Dehn was an artist who achieved extraordinary artistic heights, but in a very particular artistic sphere - not so much in oil painting as in watercolor and lithography. Long recognized as a master by serious print collectors, he is gradually gaining recognition as a notable and influential figure in the overall history of American art.
In the 19th century, with the invention of the rotary press, which made possible enormous print runs, and the development of the popular, mass-market magazines, newspaper and magazine illustration developed into an artistic realm of its own, often surprisingly divorced from the world of museums and art exhibitions, and today remains surprisingly overlooked by most art historians. Dehn in many regards was an outgrowth of this world, although in an unusual way, since as a young man he produced most of his illustrative work not for popular magazines, such as The Saturday Evening Post, but rather for radical journals, such as The Masses or The Liberator, or artistic "little magazines" such as The Dial. This background established the foundation of his outlook, and led later to his unique and distinctive contribution to American graphic art.
If there’s a distinctive quality to his work, it was his skill in introducing unusual tonal and textural effects into his work, particularly in printmaking but also in watercolor. Jackson Pollock seems to have been one of many notable artists who were influenced by his techniques.
Early Years, 1895 - 1922
For an artist largely remembered for scenes of Vienna and Paris, Adolf Dehn’s background was a surprising one. Born in Waterville, Minnesota, on November 22, 1895, Dehn was the descendent of farmers who had emigrated from Germany and homesteaded in the region, initially in a one-room log cabin with a dirt floor. Adolf’s father, Arthur Clark Dehn, was a hunter and trapper who took pride that he had no boss but himself, and who had little use for art. Indeed, during Adolf’s boyhood the walls of his bedroom and the space under his bed were filled with the pelts of mink, muskrats and skunks that his father had killed, skinned and stretched on drying boards. It was Adolf’s mother, Emilie Haas Dehn, a faithful member of the German Lutheran Evangelical Church, who encouraged his interest in art, which became apparent early in childhood. Both parents were ardent socialists, and supporters of Eugene Debs...
Category
1950s Modern Tri-State Area - Portrait Paintings
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Board
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This Wiener Werkstätte Master Made Everything into Art
Koloman Moser smashed the conservative conventions of art and design in fin-de-siècle Vienna. On the 100th anniversary of his death, the Austrian designer is being celebrated for his radically modern creations.