Japanese contemporary sculpture of a large Beetle, intricately detailed in leather and metal.
Dates Modern Contemporary
Size H 2 3/4" x W 10 1/2" x D 8"
Original color etching, engraving, and mixed media by Pierre Courtin (French, born 1921). This rare work is signed l.r. It is also titled "Reims", dated "21 octobre 1959", and numbered 4/4. The plate measures 17 1/4" by 7 1/2 " (44cm by 19cm). The framed dimensions are 26" by 15". Appears to be in excellent condition. Pierre Courtin in one of the most important master engravers of the 20th century.
Fine old painting of a young woman in a most distinctive red-striped dress, signed at lower right by American artist REVINGTON ARTHUR (1908-1986). This painting has composition, a great palette and blond light, and a modernist feel. It stands in contrast to much of his work, which was executed in rather dark colors. The artist was a student of George Luks, Arshile Gorky, and Kimon Nicolaides...
** PAIR** American 19th century oil on board landscape paintings in Hudson River style, each signed at lower right by listed artist FRANKLIN JAY LEWIS (1838-1910). The feathery trees, color scheme and general handling are in the tradition of the Hudson River School of the eastern states, but these scenes may in fact have been painted in California. The artist was born in Wells, Vermont, and crossed the continent at great effort in 1868, arriving in San Jose, California to begin a new life...
Original oil painting on paper by Andrea Pietro de Zerega (American, born in Italy, 1916-1990), framed in period frame under glass, signed and dated l.l. also signed, titled "Storming at Edgewater", monogrammed twice,and dedicated "To my good friends the Hurburts" verso. 16" by 20" painting alone, 22" by 26" with frame. Zerega studied at the Corcoran School of Art. He worked and lived in Washington DC and in Italy. Well listed, exhibited, and collected.
Richard Luney's paintings and prints of wildlife (generally African) have been popular since the 1970's. Luney, a Vietnam veteran, was already exhibiting by 1974 at Lord & Taylor Gallery in New York, according to a newspaper account of the time. The artist described his style as "contemporary surrealism". California-born, he would go to Lion Country Safari to study the animals, so as to paint the animals with greater accuracy...
Signed original landscape oil painting on stretched canvas in a very limited tonalist palette of three pigments plus white; depicting a minimalist serene scene with a broken luminous space within a dark blue sky and patches of marsh water in the mid and foreground...
Painting of various complete southwestern pottery vessels, and a broken shard of one, all seemingly floating weightless in an intentionally poorly defined space, all painted in a hyperrealist style, signed at lower right "Doyle" and dated 2005 with copyright symbol. A label on the reverse gives the artist's full name, Ed Doyle, the title, "The First Shard", and the original price, $1000. The oil on canvas on board measures 23 5/8" by 23 5/8" and 30" by 30" as framed...
wood mask 20”x4” 2662 Sepik Valley circa 1950s Berlin Estate
1848 Watercolor Illustration Mockingbird After An 1808 By Wilson 10x13” The work is extremely fine detail on Watman paper framed size 19x16”
Robert Shaw was a contemporary of Howard Pyle and J.D. Chalfont.
- He is best known for his Delaware scenes and did not exhibit widely outside Wilmington and seems to have had little interest in exhibiting nationally. He did, however, show in the Delaware Building at the World's Columbian Exposition and also at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1890.
This work is dated 1909
Max Kassler Totems Abstract Oil Painting , framed size 16x20 inches 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. This work culminated his idea of abstraction in space...
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...
Black and white original photo of ballerinas, variously titled "Ballerinas in a Dressing Room", or "Ballerinas Backstage, American Ballet Theater in New York", 1937, by the noted American photographer ALFRED EISENSTAEDT (1898-1995). The photo was likely printed much later (many of Eisenstaedt's images were re-printed years after they were originally created). The photo was acquired at the 2016 sale of property of Charlton and Lydia Heston, held at their notable home on Coldwater Canyon...
A fine pastel landscape depicting a modernist view of a Forrest. Signed lower left Pilar VESQUEZ,Measuring 18” x21”. Framed and matted.
The SUYDAM House Built by Elie FERT on bushwhack Lane about 1700, a company of Hessians in the revolution says on the selvage. A rare work
Northern Italian Mountainscape watercolor
Susan H.BRADLEY,measuring 10x13”, in a plein aire gilded frame18x21”……Bradley born in Boston,Mass studied with AbbottThayer (1849-1921) and was a member of several prestigious watercolor societies.
An oil on canvasboard of a Victorian era house in all its splendor, the work titled on reverse "The Lennox House" (along with its' $50 original price), and signed at lower right, by well listed California artist WILFRID TAYLOR MILLS (1912-1988). The work, on canvasboard, measures 20" by 16" (29 1/2" by 25 1/2" as framed). Mills was born in California...