A contemporary painting of the famed "Winter Palace" of St. Petersburg, Russia, oil on canvas, 9" by 11 1/2" (12" by 14 1/2" in complementary charcoal black framing with gold liner), signed illegibly presumably in Russian at lower right. The green-blue facade is the trademark of one of the world's most famous buildings, which served as the official residence of the Russian Emperors from 1732 to 1917. Per Wikipedia information: as of 2021 the palace and its precincts form the Hermitage Museum...
Two Cubist-Abstract Figures by American artist Max Kassler (1905-1992). Signed Lower Left. Oil on Canvas. 34 x 24". 35.5 x 25.5" Frame Size. A very beautiful work from the 1950s signed Max Kassler oil on canvas Artist panel,signed on back. The work is reminiscent of Abstract Expressionist Artist….. 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...
Male Chinese Ancestor Print. Unsigned Gouache Print. 9 x 6". Frame Size 12 x 8".
Female Chinese Ancestor Portrait. Unsigned Gouache Print. 9 x 6". Frame Size 12 x 8".
Portrait of a Woman in Black and White Oil. signed lower right by Martin Ocana. Oil on Canvas, 1970.
22 x 18". Frame Size 31.5 x 28".
Japanese Silk Painting- Shogun and Geisha. Framed Silk Painting. 14 x 40"
Procession by Nicola Simbari. Oil on Canvas. 6.5 x 20". Frame Size 11.5 x 25". This piece and one more in our collection, is from his early career
"Portrait of Young People", an artists proof by Raphael Soyer. 1960s. Sketch. 20 x 16". Frame Size 27 x 23".
Raphael Soyer was a Russian-born American artist known for his Social-Realist paintings of daily life in New York. His painterly yet detailed descriptions of people and places, make him among the most important American scene painters of his generation...
Seated Geisha Writing in a Black Frame. Unsigned. Acrylic on paper. 24 x 17. Frame Size 26 x 19".
Abstract Still Life by local Washington D.C. artist Paco Lane. Signed L.R. Framed Oil on Canvas. Frame Size 27 x 31".
Lane received his BA in Painting and Printmaking from Virginia Commonwealth University (1993).
Evening Lakescape by David Gallegos. Framed Water Color. 28 x 40". Frame Size 31 x 44".
Born in 1954, David Gallegos’ work has been featured in Architectural Digest, Smithsonian, and displayed in a number of prominent museums and galleries, including SFMOMA, Stanford University Art Museum, University Gallery in Chicago, Legion of Honor in San Francisco, and the Hobart Gallery in Santa Barbara to name a few. Moreover, his artworks hang in a great number of private and corporate collections...
Portrait of a Woman Fresco Fragment by Charles Gilbert. Oil on panel. 15 x 10". Gold Frame Size 22 x 18" Charles GILBERT “Fresco Fragment” o/panel 15 x 10, 22x18.
It can be presumed this fragment is a small piece of a previously larger mural. Fresco is a technique of mural painting executed upon freshly laid lime plaster...
A seascape painting signed by K.F. (1871). Oil on Canvas. 10x14". Frame Size 17x20”.
"Le Vieux Mors" by American artist Frank Myers Boggs (1855-1926). Oil on canvas panel. 14 x 21". Frame Size 25 x 31". Frank Myers Boggs, known as Frank Boggs, born December 6, 1855 in Springfield (Ohio), died August 8, 1926 in Meudon (Hauts-de-Seine), is a French painter and engraver of American origin. Frank Myers Boggs is a student of Jean-Léon Gérôme at the School of Fine Arts in Paris...
An oil on canvas painting of a classic old sailing ship on the ocean off the coast, (possibly the Southern California coast around San Diego----think Richard Henry Dana's 1840 book "Two Years Before the Mast"). The painting measures"14" by 18" (19" by 22 1/2" in attractive probably original circa 1920 frame with very interesting eucalyptus leaf design), and is signed at lower right by the noted California painter ANGEL ESPOY (1879-1963)...
A fine circa late 19th century watercolor painting of one of the famous narrow canals of Venice, Italy, the canal offset by sun-washed buildings, signed at lower right by listed Italian artist LUIGI LANZA (1860-1913). The work measures 7" by 11 1/2" inside the mat and 13 1/2" by 17 1/2" simply framed. A circa late 1940's to mid 1950's gallery label from Chicago remains affixed to the backing. The piece is very clean and fresh-appearing...
Japanese 1974 glazed earthenware pot rare glaze 4.5”x4”
St. Marks Square by Jacques Zucker. 1930. Oil on Canvas. 6 x 8". Frame Size 11 x 12".
Jacques Zucker was born in 1900 in Radom, Poland. He was a notably famous Jewish American artist mostly known for his expressionist figure paintings. In his young years he traveled to Palestine to study fine arts at the Bezalel Art School in Jerusalem. In 1917 he joined the British Royal Fuesiliers under the leadership of General Allenby to liberate Palestine from the Turks. After the first World War he set...