All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1970 item #1482723 (stock #0257)
PAPUA NEW GUINEA STANDING ANCESTRAL WOOD SCULPTURE 19” Possibly from the East Sepik people. The figure painted with its original features and patina
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1970 item #1331148
Dan Tretiak wrote about a print he didn't own and simply described it here: sad stuff.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1970 item #1444468 (stock #1793)
From our African Collection: Democratic Republic of the Congo Figure, circa 1960s
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Sculptural : Pre 1970 item #1445845 (stock #1373)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,800.00
A beautiful and rare sculpture in plaster by the American Artist Max Kassler measuring 17 inches high by 12 inches wide by 8 inches deep on a wooden base Max Kassler, American 1905–1992 was an abstract Artist known for some of the most unusual experimental work based on the human figure He was an early student of the Picasso school of painting. This work culminated his idea of abstraction in space. This is part of the collection we have at the gallery...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1970 item #1417574 (stock #JB04214)
Impressionist seascape oil painting on canvas board, 8" by 10" (13 1/2" by 15 1/2" framed) signed at lower right by Colorado artist ALFRED JAMES WANDS (1904-1998). On the reverse in pencil is written "Artist---Alfred Wands/2065 Ivanhoe St./Denver 7 Colo.". The work likely dates to the 1950's. Wands was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He attended the Cleveland Art Institute, then went to Europe for studies in Brussels and Munich...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1970 item #1422239 (stock #JB04859)
A Mediterranean landscape painting, oil on board, 13" by 19" (19 1/2" by 25 1/2" framed) signed at lower right "ELBAZ" and above that, the same name in Hebrew script. This could be a work by listed artist ANDRE ELBAZ (1934-) but I am unable to confirm that. The listed Elbaz painted works in Morocco and some have brought large sums at auction there...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1970 item #1477817 (stock #3309)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,500.00
Marcel Vertès (born Marcell Vértes, 10 August 1895 – 31 October 1961) was a French costume designer and illustrator of Hungarian-Jewish origins.He won two Academy Awards (Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design) for his work on the 1952 film Moulin Rouge. He was a good friend of Pierre Bonnard and would meet for art talks in the south of France where they also would see Picasso and Matisse...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1970 item #1423091 (stock #JB04287)
Original etching "Autumn", featuring a woman with cornucopia hat, surrounded by cherubs presumably after the harvest, 1970, signed in the plate at lower left center by the famous Surrealist artist SALVADOR DALI (1904-1989). This example is printed in sanguine. Albert Fields in his catalog raisonne said that this was an edition of 1,000; Michler says 5,000...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1970 item #1396174 (stock #3044)
Daniel Tretiak chose to number this note 32, with no explanation of why there were no other notes between 28 and this one. In this note he focused on Poem J, a 1966 print that had just emerged (in 2019).
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1416363 (stock #JB01617)
Gouache on paper, 19" by 12" (29" by 22" as nicely framed in complementary silver and gray), the subject "Iceland Poppies" written in pencil at lower left in addition to the artist's signature and what looks to be "61" as the date of execution--it's very small and hard to read. This is a rather typical example of the work of the noted California artist, JOAN IRVING (BRANDT) 1916-1995. It is very impressionistic and spontaneous and sure in execution, and in very fresh, excellent condition...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1970 item #1446994 (stock #2113)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,400.00
A vibrant floral study in watercolor measuring 25x25.5 inches by American Artist Elva Cope Garrett.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1970 item #990405 (stock #210032)
Daniel Simhon Fine Art
Priced Individually.
Complete 1967 portfolio of 25 soft ground etchings with aquatint by Jack Levine (American, Boston, born 1915). This work is complete--portfolio case plus all original material, including the 25 soft ground etchings individually pencil signed by the artist and numbered 37/100. Published in 1967 by Touchstone Publishers on handmade BFK Rives wove paper. This portfolio was inspired by the "Dreigroschen Oper" film by Pabst, after the play by Bertold Brecht (The Threepenny Opera)...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1970 item #1431887
This is a color print after an original drawing of a young indigenous girl of about 3 looking directly at the viewer, the work signed in the print at lower left, and in ballpoint pen by hand at lower right, by the Canadian master artist NICHOLAS DE GRANDMAISON (1892-1978). The piece measures 11 3/4" by 9 1/2" inside the mat (17 1/2" by 13 1/2" as framed in classic oak, with decorative devices in each corner)...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : Canadian : Pre 1970 item #1488265
A beautifully painted work in oil on panel, featuring a snowy landscape with buildings and foreground pond, 24" by 32" (32" by 44 1/2" as framed), circa 1960's, signed lower right by the noted Canadian impressionist artist Tom Roberts (also known as Thomas Keith Roberts), 1909-1998. An original label on the reverse gives the title as "Late Winter---Bowmanville Mill". Bowmanville is a town east of Toronto in Ontario, Canada...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1970 item #1483541 (stock #3565)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,000.00
New Orleans Abstract Artist Leonard Flettrich, 1916-1970… oil on canvas depicting a man holding a child. His work was shown at the New Orleans Museum of Art and is a native of Louisiana. This work measures 44” x 32”
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1300442
what pdx
$199.00
Attributed to OLIVE MALSTROM CARL (American 1903 - 1988) A watercolor, double sided each scene is of a red farm house or Barn from different views. On one side the signature was covered over . Classic example of the artist style. Size 15 3/4" by 19 3/4"
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Pre 1970 item #1424254 (stock #JB02948)
PAIR of decorative oil on board paintings executed circa 1970, in the classical style of the 17th or 18th century, each 6 3/4" by 5" (12" by 10" in the frames), each signed "H. Muriel". The paintings are affordable and will nicely fill that small wall in need of some art. Frames have the slightest of wear, the paintings are in excellent shape.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1419502 (stock #JB02087)
Watercolor on heavy watercolor paper, 10 1/2" by 14 1/4" inside the mat, 19" by 22" as framed, not signed, the subject a coconut palm at left, with a schooner-type sailboat in the distance beyond a narrow spit of land, a white gull overhead. The work probably dates to the 1950's or early 1960's...