Cat with Her Kittens: Marie Yvonne Laur

Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: French Pre 1940: item #568335
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Laur, Marie Yvonne, French, 1849-1943, Cat with Kittens, oil on board. 21" by 26" in a beautiful 5" Gold Leaf frame with overall dimensions of 32" by 35". It is signed and dated and in excellent condition. Her paintings sell for up to $30,000.

Sheep & Goat in Landscape: Eugene Maes

Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe Pre 1910: item #568332
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Eugene Remy Maes, Belgian,1849-1931. This small jewel is a beautifully detailed painting in a wonderful 19th C gold leaf frame. It is signed lower left and is in good condition, oil on wood panel.

Surrealist Landscapes : Alberto Trevisan

Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: Italian Pre 1960: item #568328
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Alberto Trevisan, Italian, b. 1919, 4 paintings, Surrealist landscapes, oil on board, signed lower left.

Capri Scene in Capoli: Nicholas Briganti

Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: Europe: Italian Pre 1960: item #568325
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Nicholas P. Briganti, Italian, 1895-1989. Capri Scene at Capoli, 1957. This lovely scene of Capri is oil on board, signed lower right. It is in excellent condition framed in a lovely French Impressionist frame. He is know for Italian scenes and his painting sell for up to $10,000.

NAIVE AMERICAN WATERCOLOR OF NEW YORK CITY

Fine Art: Paintings: Watercolor Pre 1970: item #568232

CAROLYN TYSON. "East River 'City Lights.'" Watercolor on laid paper, 11 7/8" x 17 3/4" (sheet and image), a winter scene with snow falling, two boats on the river, pedestrians (or perhaps, people skating) under what appears to be a decorated tree, the spires of a church behind the tree, the church flanked by other tall buildings of varying heights, a number of trees in the park-like mid-ground, the composition in green, purple, yellow, brown and red; signed ("Carolyn Tyson") and dated ("'66") in... Click for details

DIPTYCH LANDSCAPE, 1956 BY MINNA KAREN

Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American Pre 1960: item #568230

MINNA KAREN. Untitled oil on masonite panel, a diptych, 27 7/8" x 22 3/8" (each panel measures 27 7/8" x 11"), the composition in green, gray, violet and off-white; signed ("Minna K.") in the lower left corner of the left panel and dated ("56") there. In the artist's attractive 1/4"-wide wood lattice shadow box frame, each of the two panels mounted on smaller panels and set within a recess with black-painted and off-white-painted surrounds. Slight paint loss (pieces approx. 1/8" diameter and sma... Click for details

"CIRCUS" BY NEW YORK ARTIST MINNA KAREN

Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American Pre 1960: item #568228

MINNA KAREN. "Circus." Oil on canvas, 22" x 28", the composition in yellow, reds, blues, greens, orange, flesh tones and brown; signed indistinctly, lower right, titled ("Circus") on the stretcher. In the artist's 3/8"-wide silver-painted wood frame. Six figures dominate the mid-ground, including what appear to be dancers, a clown and a youth on a woman's back; a pair of acrobats are discernible in the left background. The coloring of the figures integrates them closely with the mid-ground and b... Click for details

ASCENDING FIGURES OVER A MOONLIT CITY

Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American Pre 1950: item #568222

MINNA KAREN. "Flight." Oil on canvas, 40" x 30", the composition in blues, browns, greens, reds and off-white; signed ("Minna") lower right, signed ("M. Karen") on the stretcher and titled there ("Flight"), and with the artist's Hicksville, NY address inscribed there. Clean, narrow one-inch tear to the canvas, 2 5/8" from the left edge of the canvas, center; a slightly faded and rubbed area along the right edge of the composition, 2" from the edge of the canvas (26" long, between 1/16" wide (at ... Click for details

PROTEST ART OF THE 1940s

Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American Pre 1960: item #568200

MINNA KAREN. Untitled oil on masonite panel, 20" x 36", the composition in reds, blues, yellows, greens, orange and brown; signed indistinctly ("Minna K."), lower right. A march, apparently of protest, several figures carrying placards; a family group in the right foreground lends poignancy to the composition. Some paint loss to the outermost quarter-inch of the panel, all four sides; two small (approx. 1/4" x 1/8") areas of paint loss to the left edge of the panel; a 1/8"-wide strip of darkenin... Click for details

INTIMATE FAMILY PORTRAIT, 1940s

Fine Art: Paintings: Oil: N. America: American Pre 1950: item #568193

MINNA KAREN. Oil on canvas, 22" x 30", the composition in violet, red, blues, greens, yellow, browns and flesh tones; signed ("Minna K.") in the upper right corner. Some paint loss to the face of the male figure, the upper layer of the flesh tone (that is, the underpaint is still present and is the same tone) missing adjacent to his eye (approx. 1" x 1/2"), adjacent to his nose (approx. 3/8" x 1/4"), above his lip (minute pieces) and above his chin (minute pieces). (These losses are difficult to... Click for details