This is an unusually bright, saturated-color example of the MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985) lithograph "Romeo and Juliet", printed by Mourlot. This is a well known image by Chagall, created in 1964 for the ceiling of the Opera Garnier in Paris. Charles Sorlier in association with the famous lithography house Mourlot adapted this image from Chagall's sketches for the project and printed this. Measurements are 24 3/4" by 38 3/4". The total edition was 5,000 examples...
Oil on canvas scene of two white swans in a small lake or pond in a rural area, 24" by 16" (29" by 21" in wide newer frame), signed in red "W W Caffyn" at lower right and dated there "96". This is a work by the noted British artist WALTER WALLOR CAFFYN (1845-1898), who exhibited at the Royal Academy. His paintings tend to be rural scenes of Sussex, Kent and Yorkshire. Caffyn's (mostly large) major works have exceeded $20,000 at auction in London...
An Offering Before Captain Cook, in the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii)
Plate 60 for Voyage to the Pacific Ocean 1776-1780, recording the Third Voyage of Captain Cook.
Medium: Engraving
Year: published in 1790
Size: Plate mark: 8.5 x 14.25 inches. Sheet: 9.5 x 15.25 inches
Description: Landscape engraved by S. Middiman, figures engraved by J. Hall. Drawing by John Webber
**PAIR** of fine engravings, each 15 1/4" by 22 3/4", (24" by 30 1/2" as framed), from the famous series "The Voyage of Life", mid 19th century, after the series of four paintings of that title by the major American artist and founder of the Hudson River School, THOMAS COLE (1801-1848). All four images from the series are composed of imaginary scenes and are filled with allegory and symbolism...
Eighteenth Century Portrait Drawing Unsigned In Conté Crayon 16x13” of a young woman done circa 1790-1820
Original oil painting on panel by famed classical realist artist D. Jeffrey Mims (USA, North Carolina, born 1954). This painting measures 14" by 12" in its frame (10" by 8" painting alone). Signed lower right and dated 1982. Framed by Coffey and Thompson, Inc and the Annex Gallery in Charlotte NC in the eighties. In excellent condition.
By the contemporary Japanese artist HIROMICHI YAMAGATA (1948-). this can be described as a collage of tissue like paper on which is drawn in pencil and blue ink an abstract, almost biomorphic decorative design, charcoal used to create a smudged background, then the paper was affixed around the edges to a white canvas background. It is signed at lower right "Yamagata" and dated there 2007...
A fascinating work by American Artist James R. Austin who is known for his rural scene. This piece is oil on canvas measuring 20x24”
A civil war era lithograph showing views of Washington DC including a partial built Washington Monument The lithograph measuring 24” x 30”
Multi jpgs and Multi Activities in this OIL On CANVAS with the PARIS STREET SCENE. Top Left reads: BOULEVARD/ Des/ ARTIST/ CAFE. At the Left are People Seated at Tables in Formal Attire in front of the CAFE on an Idealistic Tree lined Street; a Poster displayed on the wall and a KIOSK behind. Central to the PAINTING is the LADY with PARASOL Beautifully dressed; there is a touch of Pink seen on this Parasol. Right side of the Work shows the HORSE DRAWN CARRIAGE and a 1920's Automobile...
This is a very Attractive OIL PAINTING, OIL On CANVAS by the Artist:
CARL BUCK. This work is dated 1935. Size is 20.5" X 26" Framed;
sight size 15.75" X 20" both approx. The Canvas has been relined and is in Excellent Condition. From a Maryland Estate of Fine Items.
A well~listed Artist.
A fine portrait miniature by William Charles Ross, executed in watercolor on natural organic material. The subject, a gentleman with receding brown hair and blue eyes, is fashionably attired in a brown jacket, white collar, black vest, shirt, and ascot, which sports a turquoise and gold stickpin...
A fine cold-painted Vienna bronze eagle of the highest quality and unusually large size. The painted decoration is wonderfully complex and detailed. The bronze is marked "Austria" under the tail feathers. We have seen this exact bronze with Franz Xavier Bergmann marks.
Origin: Austria, ca. 1900. Condition: excellent, only the faintest paint nicks are the tips of a few features and beak. Dimensions: 9-1/4" x 6-1/2" x 5-1/4" high.
By a National Academician and painting companion of Emil Kosa, here is a large watercolor (21" by 26 1/2"-----28" by 34" as framed) painting of an old style Southern California large wood dwelling structure, signed at lower right by noted artist GEORGE GIBSON (1904-2001). The old house with straggling palm outside certainly resembles some of the picturesque old structures near downtown Los Angeles that were so often the subject of Kosa's works...
An extremely well painted miniature portrait of a very handsome young man. The sitter is dressed in the traditional black coat and cravat, white shirt with a high stiff collar, and a stickpin. The portrait, on natural organic wafer, is housed in a 14K or higher gold case with a glazed rear aperture showing a lock of hair. Condition of the miniature and case are excellent, with no issues at all. Sight size is 2 1/8" by 1 3/4", and the locket size is 2 1/4" by 1 7/8".
A naïve miniature watercolor on wafer painting of a gentleman with a piercing gaze and a neatly trimmed beard. Set against a darkish green background, he is wearing a black jacket, vest, and tie with a stickpin. In a cast foliate case with a coil of plaited hair in the glazed window on the reverse.
Condition is excellent, with no issues. Sight size is 2 1/8" by 1 3/4", and the overall size is 2 3/8" by 2".
Lithograph on paper print of 1897/98, titled "Kraniche" in German, commonly known as "Cranes" or "Swans" in English, the sheet with margins 10 1/4" by 14", unframed, signed in pencil at lower left margin. This is a fine early color lithograph by the noted German artist WALTER LEISTIKOW (1865-1908). Leistikow's talent was nourished at an early age, He studied at the Royal Academy in Berlin, and by 1890 was himself an art professor at the Berlin Art and Craft School...
A well painted miniature portrait on natural organic material of a sea captain, identified on the reverse as "Phillip…MHK Captain". The miniature is in very good condition, with no cracks, chips, bowing, or restoration. The period lacquered frame is missing its cover glass, easy enough to replace. Sight size is 2 7/8" by 2 3/8", and the frame size is 5 1/8" by 4 3/8".