Catalog: Fine Art: Paintings (28)

A Chinese painting of a dramatic lingbi scholar's rock surrounded in mist by the artist Li Yong (b. 1966). Painted in ink on paper. Large painting in round format. Signed.

Dimensions: Size of paper: 53 3/4" high x 54" wide. Size of art: 43 1/4" diameter

A Chinese scroll painting of a dramatic scholar's rock surrounded by mist by the artist Li Yong (b. 1966). Painted in ink on paper. Large painting with signature and two seals. Age: Dated 2014

Dimensions: Size of scroll: 72" high x 39" wide (42 1/2" including rollers). Size of art: 37 1/2" high x 37 1/2" wide

El Veterano (The Veteran) by Mexican artist Rafael Coronel (1932-2019). Painting in oil on paper.
Rafael Coronel is one of the leading artist of the New Expressionism movement in Mexican Art. He studied in Mexico City and in Europe. His wife, Ruth was the daughter of Diego Rivera and Lupe Marin. Coronel has exhibited throughout Mexico as well as internationally, receiving awards in Japan, Brazil and Mexico. The Rafael Coronel Museum in the province of Zacatecas, Mexico houses his works...

Los Primos (The Cousins) by Mexican artist Rafael Coronel (1932-2019). Painting in oil on paper. Deep purple and blue tones.
Rafael Coronel is one of the leading artist of the New Expressionism movement in Mexican Art. He studied in Mexico City and in Europe. His wife, Ruth was the daughter of Diego Rivera and Lupe Marin. Coronel has exhibited throughout Mexico as well as internationally, receiving awards in Japan, Brazil and Mexico...

Signed, titled, and dated. Neatly gold framed late work of California Native, John Saccaro (1913-1981) attract oil painting. Signed Saccaro/1980. BayArea native John Saccaro was a major contributor to the San Francisco school of Abstract Expressionism. After studying at the California School of Fine Arts in San Francisco in 1954, he began a teaching career at UCLA where he further developed his signature style...

"Flowers on a Blue Table" , small oil painting by Henrietta Berk (1919-1990).

An American artist who specialized in expressive oil paintings in vibrant colors using bold brush strokes. She graduated from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1959 where she studied with Richard Diebenkorn and became a part of the Bay Area Figurative Movement...

Henrietta Berk (1919-1990) was an American artist who specialized in expressive oil paintings of landscape and figures in vibrant colors using bold brush strokes. She graduated from California College of Arts and Crafts in 1959 where she studied with Richard Diebenkorn and became a part of the Bay Area Figurative Movement. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout California including the San Francisco Museum of Art, Oakland Art Museum, and de Young Museum...

An antique Japanese two panel screen painting (byobu) of the battle between the two historical figures Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Benkei.
Minamoto no Yoshitsune (born Ushiwakamaru c.1159) was raised in a monastery near in Kyoto. His incredible skill as a warrior emerged when he was very young. In the scene depicted here, he famously defeats the great warrior-monk, Benkei (Saito Musashibo Benkei). The young Ushiwakamaru easily leaps over the larger warrior...

Antique Japanese full six panel painted screen depicting a flock of cranes resting a gold leaf backdrop. Bordered with silk and simple black lacquer wood frame. Touches a red pigment adorns each of the cranes crown, black wing tips feathers fade to white. Some are seen resting as are grooming and enjoying the social rest. Across the six panels are 100 Japanese cranes.

In Japan the crane is viewed as a national treasure...

Japanese two panel painted byobu (screen) depicting a winters evening with resting pair of mandarin ducks siting amongst the late blooming roses at waters edge. A pair of song birds sitting within the white hydrangeas...

Japanese two panel screen depicting a family of horses. Painted with a simple flowing style of sumi ink on paper. Bordered in original aged gold leaf and black lacquered frame.
The horse has always been considered the sacred mount of the kami, Japanese gods. During the Nara period (710-794), the practice of shinme, consisting in offering a horse as a votive offering to a shrine to serve as a divine mount, spread...

Antique Two panel Japanese byobu screen depicting the first frost at waters edge. Japanese herons and mandarin ducks contently rest and foliage with a light dusting of snow screen depicted on the late white plumb blossom tree. Three ducks rest and warm themselves beneath the near barren tree. A pair of Japanese herons are seem amoungst the water with sprouted bamboo and flowering water lilly. In Japan the white heron is known to be able to move between three elements air, earth and water. T...

A Chinese scroll painting of a dramatic scholar's rock surrounded by mist by the artist Li Yong (b. 1966). Painted in ink and light colors on paper. Large painting with signature and seal in the center of one of the rock's openings.

Dimensions: Size of scroll: 87" high x 38" wide. Size of art: 47 1/2" high x 36 3/4" wide

A landscape painting of towering rock formations surrounded by mist by the artist Li Yong (b. 1966). Painted in ink and light colors on paper. Extensive calligraphy and 8 seals.

Dimensions: 25 1/8" high x 14 7/8" wide

An original painting by Mayumi Oda depicting a goddess holding an infant in one harm and a branch with pomegranates in the other. On her knee is a sleeping child. Painted in black ink on paper and signed in pencil along with a title "Hariti" and "for Yvonn and Bill". Hārītī (in Japanese, Kishi-mojin) was once an ogress but was shown a better path by the Buddha. She is known as a protector of children and women in childbirth.

Dimensions: paper size: 17 1/8" high x 11" wide. Size ...

Chinese scroll painting by Huang Zhou of two ladies writing on a black board. They are beautifully dressed in traditional garb.
Huang Zhou was born in 1925 in Hebei Province. He is famous for his naturalistic paintings of people and animals. After his schooling, he ventured deep into the border areas of China to paint the ethnic minorities there. The Muslim ladies in this painting are from Kashgar prefecture, southwest of Xinjiang. Huang Zhou's work has been praised by Chairman Mao an...

Chinese fan painting of two cats by the artist Xu Beihong. The cats, one with eyes wide, the other asleep, crouch on a rock under a leafy branch. Xu Beihong (1895-1953) was born in rural Yixing, Jiangsu Province. His father was a private school teacher and Xu began painting at the age of 9. He traveled to Tokyo to study art, returning to China to start teaching at Peking University Arts School. Throughout his lifetime he traveled extensively, studied, taught and exhibited throughout Eur...

Chinese painting of a beautiful lady with a fan by Zhang Da-Qian (Chang Dai-chien) the famous 20th century artist, 张爰 Zhang Yuan (1899-1983). Painted in ink and light colors on paper. A beauty in a white dress leans demurely on a rock, a fan resting on her chin. One of the best-known and most prodigious Chinese artists of the twentieth century. Originally known as a traditionalist painter, by the 1960s he was also renowned as a modern impressionist and expressionist painter. When he was y...