All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Serigraphs : Pre 1960 item #1419594 (stock #JB02511)
Serigraph (silkscreen) print after a painting by the giant of modern art, GEORGES BRAQUE (1882-1963), 18" by 27 1/2" (25" by 34 1/2" framed), signed in the print at lower left. Braque needs little introduction, as one of the famous names of modern art, who in the early years of the century developed, along with his friend Picasso, the Cubism movement, which changed the art world forever...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : French : Pre 1960 item #1415659 (stock #JB01211)
Oil on canvas, 26" by 32" (34" by 40" framed, signed at lower right by mid century French well listed artist ABEL GERBAUD (1888-1954). This is a work in that modern School of Paris style popular at mid century. Note the title on the stretcher, "l'islandais dans le port de St. Goustain"...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1485642 (stock #3625)
L'Enfant Gallery
$15,000.00
Spanish Master Artist Alberto Boquera Muñoz, Born 1925 who was still painting in 2010, and exhibiting mainly in his native Spain This romantic work measures 32” x 24” and is oil on canvas. Signed lower left ….. He was be born in Barcelona. Munoz was a disciple of Juan Serra Mi and specialized in landscapes of his native region...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #443225 (stock #25168)
Original oil on canvas by Dorothy Eaton (American/ 1893-1968), signed l.l. "Dorothy Eaton" and dated 1957 on the back. This painting measures 25" by 30". It is in excellent untouched original condition, and is offered in a newer gallery frame. Dorothy Eaton is very well listed, with auction records over ten thousand dollars. She studied at the ASL with Kenneth Hayes Miller. Some of her works are exhibited in the Smith College Museum of Art in Northampton, MA.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1444866 (stock #1778)
From our African Collection: a Guro Mask from Guinea, circa 1960. This work measures 6.5 x 20" h, and is available for purchase. Between the Baule and the Yaure to the west, the Malinke to the north and the Bete and We to the south, the Guro people live surrounded by savannah and forest. They migrated from the north during the 16th century and number about 200,00. Guro villages have rounded houses in the northern area and rectangular houses in the southern region...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #1423431 (stock #JB03690)
Likely painted for the southern tourist trade between about 1920 and 1950 or so, is this oil on a slice of palmetto wood, roughly oval shape, approximate dimensions 10" by 13", the slab 1" thick, signed at bottom left in the image "A. Donhauser". This locale could be anywhere from Texas through Georgia, given the Spanish Moss on the tree. The palmetto slab is unusual and adds interest. An unusual item. There is a small loss on the tree trunk.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1444884 (stock #1776)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,000.00
From our African Collection: A Luba Mask from the Democratic Republic of Congo, circa 1950. 12 x 16" h, 6.5" deep. The Luba people or Baluba are an ethno-linguistic group indigenous to the south-central region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The majority of them live in this country, residing mainly in its Katanga, Kasai, and Maniema provinces. The Baluba consist of many sub-groups who speak various dialects of Luba (e.g...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1960 item #1419782 (stock #JB02710)
Drypoint on wove paper print, "La Petite Boudeuse" (translating as "the little sulk/sullen one"), 1905, pencil signed at lower right margin near the blindstamp of Edouard Sagot, Editeur, Paris, and numbered at lower left "No. 18", by famous French cubist painter and printmaker JACQUES VILLON (1875-1963). Villon, one of three brothers, (one of them the famous Marcel Duchamp), worked early on in the style of Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : French : Pre 1960 item #1385185 (stock #22500)
Original gouache with three dimensional effects on paper by Jean Signovert (France, 1919-1981). Circa 1960. Identified verso. In excellent condition. 11 1/2" by 9" painting alone, 21" by 18" framed. Jean Signovert was an important French abstract Expressionist.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1960 item #1342575 (stock #BC024CS)
Original deep etching on copper by Wendell H. Black (American, 1919-1972). First edition printed posthumously by Berkley Chappell. In original unframed condition. 17 by 23 3/8 image alone. Titled and numbered 7/25 in pencil l.l. Also signed "Wendell Black '52 by Elaine" l.r. Plate 15 in "The Lost Works of Wendell H. Black" by Henry Sayre.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1960 item #757206
Paul M. Roche, American, 1888- , Etching and Drypoint, "Spanish Dancer", image size 12 1/2 x 10 1/2 inches, pencil signed
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1420655 (stock #JB03172)
**One of a number of Venice works in my shop** Watercolor painting of a classic Venetian view including canal gondola and the famous church in the background, 4 1/2" by 7 1/2" (10" by 13 1/4" as framed without glass), signed at lower right corner "G. Romanello". This is a twentieth century work, perhaps from the 1950's, or, possibly, earlier. I do not see a listing for the name...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1417543 (stock #JB05175)
An illustration art-style color drawing (ink and watercolor) of a pipe-smoking uniformed military officer, possibly a general or other top brass, surrounded by cupids playing with military equipment such as mobile guns, a drone bomb, etc., signed with a capital W in a circle at lower right. It has been suggested to me that this could be a British military colonel (I originally thought him American)...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1452875 (stock #JB04615)
Fine, good-sized (18 1/2" by 23 1/2", 26" by 31 1/2" framed) watercolor painting of a two-masted sailing craft unfurling sails at the dock, birds circling overhead and two figures in a row boat at left, signed at lower right by noted American illustrator artist CHARLES E. PONT (1898-1971). The work is by the hand of a talented and well-documented artist. The following information was taken from a lengthy online biography...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1440736 (stock #168)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,800.00
1940s "Fall in Virginia" signed J. Sargent. 22”x27”
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1421981 (stock #JB05321)
An impressionistic watercolor painting of trees on the bank of a small lake or pond, signed at lower right by artist "M. MASAHIRO". The vintage work is very faintly painted, almost in the manner of artist Yamada Baske. The tree trunks are the most distinct features, while much of the rest of the scene is filmy, gauzy, ephemeral, foggy. An impressive little work (6 1/2" by 13", 11 3/4" by 18" in metal frame). Allow for reflections in some images...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1437201 (stock #836)
L'Enfant Gallery
$9,500.00
Janos Laszlo Aldor 1895-1944,Hungarian artist who traveled to France and Italy in the 1920s and 1930s. He mainly painted portraits of wealthy Hungarians and commissions he received. He died during service in World War II , Two Sisters is an oil on canvas measures 32x27 inches,Frame measures 36x33”
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #1440023
A vintage oil on canvas painting of a river canyon of the west or Southwest, circa 1950's, good-sized at 24" by 32" (32" by 40" in the likely original old charming frame), signed at lower right by artist Charles Crowder. I do not see a "listed" artist name that would correspond. The work much resembles that of California impressionist landscape artist James Merriam (1880-1951). Condition is excellent.