Beautiful Jadeite Standing Quanyin on lotus throne holding apple green colored branch of Peaches and holding upright lotus with two devotee attendants and bamboo grove, with light celadon green jade and outer edges of moss green...
Small decorative oil on canvas of a scene in Thailand with small boats, a figure paddling one of them, two ducks, and a house on a shore, 6" by 9" (9 1/2" by 12 1/4"), signed at lower right "Sak" or "Yak". Probably tourist art, this is nicely framed and the mat is clean, making for a decorative and inexpensive Asian accent for the home.
This is a Miniature OIL PAINTING of SAND DUNES, Oil On Artist Board, the OCEAN in the Background. Signed WILLIAMS lower Right. Size 3 3/8" X 4 1/2" sight; 5" X 6" in frame. Cape Cod scene or please advise
Abstracted Figures by Ivory Coast Artist Ephrem Kouakou. Oil on Canvas. Ephrem Kouakou is one of the world’s foremost African painters. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland, and Ivory Coast, West Africa. His powerful, vivid paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC. and Fondo Del Sol Museum, Washington DC...
San Ildefonso Pueblo Pottery Iconic Vase 3.25” A beautiful piece unsigned but attributed to Tonita Roybal.
A fine Geometric abstract work in oil on canvas dating from the 1970s unsigned but framed in a primitive bamboo frame
Three Bathers II” by Cornelius McCarthy circa 1985, unsigned, gouache on paper, framed, 51” x 60”. A Certificate of Authenticity (pictured) from Adonis Art Gallery dated Aug 18, 2022 and a 61 page illustrated book accompany the work.
Bio: Cornelius McCarthy (1935-2009) was among the top painters of the male form working in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century. Trained at Goldsmiths College in the 1950's, where he came under the formative influence of Sam Rabin...
The work in Ink Brush Japanese paper, signed by the artist So-Yen
A beautiful Egyptian landscape in watercolor depicting an arid scene and people with a beautiful blue sky. The work is signed by unattributed at the moment. Measuring framed 10” x 11” see also 3552
A Fine Etching on wove paper "Fruhlingsabend" (Spring Evening) by the well regarded Art Nouveau artist, Heinrich Vogeler (1872-1942). Image size about 4 3/8" by 7 3/8", overall paper about 7 1/2" by 10 1/4". Pencil signed lower right and monogrammed in print. Rare and beautiful.
Henri Edmond Cross, French, 1856-1910. This exquisite watercolor is 18.8cm W by 13.8cm,
7 3/8" by 5 7/16". It is signed lower left H Cross and is framed in a newer frame. His watercolors sell at auction for up to $72,000. He is listed in Benezit and is in many important collections
An antique 19th-century Russian Orthodox icon depicts the most central event in Christianity, the Nativity of our Lord Christ.
The icon is finely hand-painted in bright colors and gold on gesso on a wood panel. It depicts Baby Jesus laying in the cradle in a manger wrapped in swaddling clothes, with a Bethlehem star shining from above, flanked by the Virgin Mary and St Joseph.
The upper left part is painted with three kings on horseback traveling in search of Jesus...
This note, another of the many Daniel Tretiak wrote in 2015,looks at newly emerged early works of Haku Maki.
An exceptional watercolor and gouache painting of a young girl carrying a pail, pondering the white ducks which move towards her on a tiny pond in a verdant bucolic rural landscape, a faint local church steeple in the distance the only other sign of man. This is one of the finer works by English listed artist FRED (sometimes FREDERICK) HINES (1860-1930)...
19th Century oil on canvas copper after the French master N. Lancret. Nicolas Lancret (22 January 1690 – 14 September 1743) was a French painter. Born in Paris, he was a brilliant depicter of light comedy which reflected the tastes and manners of French society during the regency of the Duke of Orleans and, later, early reign of King Louis XV.
The portrait and genre specialist Frank Markham Skipworth was born in Caistor, Lincolnshire...
Etching in dark brownish-black ink, 14 3/8" by 10 1/2" inside the mat (19 3/4" by 15 1/2" as framed), the print numbered at lower left 37/100, while additionally signed and dated there as well in the plate, while titled in the plate "Notre Dame #2" at lower right. This is likely by an artist considered Canadian, CAROLINE HELENA WILKINSON ARMINGTON (1875-1939) rather than by American CAROLINE ARMINGTON (1898-1986), though records for the two seem to be hopelessly entangled...
Oil on canvas painting of what appear to be roses or possibly peonies in a vase on a tabletop, signed with initials at extreme lower right, and measuring 15" by 12 1/2" (19 1/2" by 17" framed). At first glance this appears to be a fine old vintage work of the 19th century or even earlier, but closer inspection reveals that this is actually a late 20th century work painted in that earlier style, including the detailed drops of water on the leaves...
A highly detailed nineteenth century PENCIL DRAWING, NOT A PRINT, featuring a classic turreted castle, with numerous (approximately twenty) figures completing the scene, unframed, 7" by 9 1/8". The artist signed at lower left corner "F. Pohl", and "1846" is written on the reverse. Nearby are two blue stamps that could be collector stamps. Condition is excellent, needs a frame.