All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Engravings : Pre 1960 item #1341544 (stock #BC001CS)
Original engraving on copper by Wendell H. Black (American, 1919-1972), first edition of 25 printed posthumously by Berkley Chappell, and signed by Elaine Black the artist's wife. In excellent unframed condition. Titled in pencil l.l. and numbered 7/25. Signed and dated in pencil l.r. :Wendell Black '54 by Elaine. Also signed by Berkley Chappell and marked "imp". 7 3/4 by 13 1/2 image alone. For information regarding this artist and this print please see "The Lost Prints of Wendell H...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 2000 item #26664 (stock #1014D)
Chinese brush painting by Nie Ou. A well known female artist in China, she was born in 1948. She graduated from the Central Art Academy School in Beijing and has received several awards. Her work is shown worldwide. This is one of seven pictures we have. It is mounted on silk brocade. The entire area is 19 inches by 29 inches; the picture size is 13 inches by 18 inches.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1990 item #1422146 (stock #JB03950)
Oil on canvas painting of a young woman seen in 3/4 view, signed at upper left (incised) Dan A Griggs and dated there '90. The work measures 10 1/2" by 8" (16" by 14" framed). I opened the backing to see if there was any more information on the talented artist but was stymied by the foamboard being partially affixed to the canvas. The framer's stamp, very faint, is from Alamagordo in southern New Mexico. Note the beautiful, skilled handling of the light, the composition, and paint...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1960 item #1423162 (stock #JB03955)
A PAIR of elegant paintings on panels, oil and gold leaf on board with some possibly chalky gouache in the white horses, each 11 1/2" by 15 1/2", (framed however in different frames, one gold, 18" by 22", the other black, 19" by 23"), the subjects rather mural-like, one unsigned, the other signed at lower right, by the notable American intra-war artist and illustrator PORTER WOODRUFF (1894-1959)...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1950 item #1421826 (stock #JB04302)
A fine example of California plein air art by listed woman artist MARY MAISON (1886-1954), unframed, 16" by 20", signed at lower right. The work is painted directly on wood panel. Image is of a high mountain, like Mt. San Jacinto or Mt. San Gorgonio near Palm Springs, seen in early spring when snow remains on the summits as the desert blooms far below. The former Mary Cox was born in Bethlehem, PA and studied art in Paris and Philadelphia...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Photographs : Pre 1990 item #1423006 (stock #JB03971)
Original gelatin silver print photograph, 16 5/8" by 15 1/2" (28 1/2" by 22" framed), titled on reverse label of the artist "Morris Broderson/Los Angeles, California/February 5, 1985", pencil signed in the mount by the noted, acclaimed American contemporary photographer, MARIANA COOK (1955-). Broderson (1928-2011) was a congenitally deaf California artist, who overcame his handicap to achieve wide recognition in the visual arts...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1800 item #1481881 (stock #3507)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,800.00
This work is framed and measuring 23” x 18”. Title: The Right Reverend Father in God, Dr. Benjamin Hoadly, Lord Bishop of Winchester, Prelate of the Most Noble Order of the Garter, 1743 Engraver: Bernard Baron (French, Paris 1696–1762 London) Artist: After William Hogarth (British, London 1697–1764 London) Sitter: Benjamin Hoadly (British, 1676–1761) Date: 1743 Medium: Engraving Dimensions: sheet: 16 7/16 x 11 3/8 in. (41.8 x 28.9 cm)
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1930 item #1416054 (stock #JB01059)
This is an oil on canvas painting (measuring 7 3/4" by 9 3/4", plus very thin simple wood frame), laid down on a board, by the noted Northern California artist JOHN HENRY RAMM (1879-1948). It is titled on the reverse in the artist's own distinctive handwriting "Looking Down Bush Street" and initialed and dated 1930 (not signed on front, but, this is definitely the artist's way of signing; I have handled a number of his works in the past)...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1900 item #1324850 (stock #TBD00209)
One of 12 lithographs published by Ackermann London, in 1840/41 as part of a portfolio, “12 Views in the Interior of Guiana.” The original sketches were made by John Morrison who accompanied Sir Robert Hermann Schomburgk on the exploration into what would become British Guiana. The sketches were developed by Charles Bentley into the drawings that were the basis for the lithographs...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1920 item #1046190 (stock #2479)
King Art
Sold
Ralph Albert Blakelock,N.A. New York & California, 1847-1919. This stunning jewel like painting by Blakelock is typical of his better paintings. It is 8"W by 10"H in a 5" 19th C original frame. It is signed lower right (black lites well) and has an old auction sticker verso. It comes from an important private collection in Raleigh, VA.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1920 item #1448534 (stock #1442)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,800.00
Artist signed H.R.RICHARD 1915, Flower Seller 22x16” Beautiful framed work
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Contemporary item #1475574 (stock #3130)
ROBIN SUTLIFF WASHINGTON DC ARTIST “Dreamcatcher” 36” x 36” Inches,… Mixed Media with Resin on canvas., .from our recent exhibition of Ms. Robin Sutliff works,….Robin has been an artist most of her life using Acrylic and Resin in a variety of mediums. Robin masterfully uses rich colors and textures in her work, to evoke the joyful essence of nature
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Contemporary item #1448199 (stock #2316)
A beautiful abstract work by the Italian painter Lino Prebianca, born in Rome and and mainly studied at the University of Fine Arts, Rome. He has exhibited mainly in Europe Italian born Palm Beach artist was a Bohemian artist and trained architect who painted frescoes on the ceilings of the Chesterfield Hotel dining room and murals as well...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Pre 1940 item #1095913 (stock #2526)
King Art
$60,000.00
Frantesek Kupka, 1871-1957, Opocno. Bohemia, Czech, and died in France. This stunning early mordernist painting is an early and an extremely fine example of Kupka's painting. It is approximately 17"H by 13"w in a 4" frame. It is signed clearly lower right and the entire painting and signature under black light looks good with no in painting. Kupka attended the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Prague at 17 years old and the Beaux Arts in Vienna. He moved to Paris in 1895 and also won the Prix de Rome...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Metal : Pre 1900 item #1467162 (stock #2893)
LIEBERICH, Nikolai, (Russian, 1828-1883): Standing Bear in Landscape, Bronze, Incised plaque reads "Standing Bear (Killed by Emperor Alexander II near the Village of Lisino in 1865)", signed, 24” x 16”. Colonel Nikolai Lieberich (1828-1883) was one of the first Russian artists to make the move from rigid academism to naturalism in sculpture...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 2000 item #1483539 (stock #3562)
L'Enfant Gallery
$5,500.00
io Russo Italian | 1925 - 2000 Mario Russo was an Italian painter who was born in 1925. Mario Russo's work has been offered at auction multiple times, His was a close friend and taught art to Fellini This is a work done in his studio Our gallery holds a fine collection of his work. Please see our other listings This work titled “Amanti nei parco del Henry Morrison Flagler Museum 1989 This work from 1986 is one of his most important paintings THIS WORK MEASURES 36” x 44” oil on panel, f...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1950 item #1086469 (stock #39B78-152)
Abraham Rosenthal (Russian/American, 1886-1963) oil on artist board painting of Rockport Harbor. Size: 16 inches x 20 inches. Abraham Rosenthal was a Russian born, American painter who lived in New York and Rockport, Massachusetts. He studied at the Art Students League, Cooper's Union, and was a student of Emile A. Gruppe. He was a member of the Rockport Art Association. Condition is excellent; offered in a gilt wood frame. Signed lower right.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 2000 item #1420856 (stock #JB03797)
Original drawing in ink and gold paint on white paper, 6 1/2" by 6" (18 1/2" by 16" in tasteful silver leaf framing, with Plexiglas), signed at lower right and dated at lower left 10 V 93 by the noted American graphic artist and painter JAYME ODGERS (1939-). The image appears to be of an abstracted face. Odgers was instrumental in the late 1970's revamping of California design. He was involved in creating poster images for the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games. The Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt Na...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : Pre 1990 item #1365430 (stock #A-WD1)
Ancient East
$695.00
DESCRIPTION: A delightful portrait of a girl in a hat by Gabrielle Denton, a well known New Mexico folk art painter from Las Cruces, NM. In this simplistic but expressive study, a girl with soulful blue eyes stares directly at the viewer while wearing a large yellow hat with flower. Original gouache, artist signed lower right, well matted and framed in copper-umber hues. DIMENSIONS: Actual painting is 12 ¾” x 12 ¾”. Frame dimensions are 26" x 26."
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Engravings : Pre 1800 item #1458722
For your high-end traditional interior, an impressive beautifully framed mid 18th century hand colored copper engraving of a species of duck, by the noted German artist known for his ornithological artwork, JOHANN MICHAEL SELIGMANN (1720-1762). Seligmann in his work "Sammlung verschiedener ausländischer und seltener Vögel" ("Collection of various foreign and rare birds") of 1749, which included plates based on works of pioneering natural history artists Mark Catesby (1683-1749) and George Edw...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Pre 1900 item #1477166 (stock #3205)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,000.00
Porcelain Sculpture measuring 20” x 12”……..Marie François Sadi Carnot (French: [maʁi fʁɑ̃swa sadi kaʁno]; 11 August 1837 – 25 June 1894) was a French statesman, who served as the President of France from 1887 until his assassination in 1894. His presidency was marked by a series of poorly handled crises, according to David Bell. General Boulanger's rapid rise and failed attempt to march on the Elysee in 1889 posed the first serious threat to the Republic during President Carno...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1950 item #1419555 (stock #JB02310)
One of dozens of drawings by this artist that I recently acquired, (ask to see others, not shown in my shop) not many in color, this is a fine image in crayon on paper, 11 1/4" by 15" in the oak frame without mat, signed at lower left by California and Massachusetts listed artist DAISY MARGUERITE HUGHES (1882-1968). Hughes was born and died in Los Angeles but in between she spent much time in the Provincetown art colony on Cape Cod. Considering the subject matter of this drawing, I would think i...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1980 item #1427709
A very colorful and whimsical MCM or "Retro" painting of doll-like figures appearing as a hybrid between clowns and Raggedy Ann dolls, by the noted California-based painter at mid century, PAUL BLAINE HENRIE (1932-1999). This circa 1960's or 1970's oil or acrylic on canvas measures 18" by 24" (23" by 29" framed). Condition is excellent, the original goldish frame a bit dusty and dulled by age. Signed at lower center and appears to be dated there "66". Henrie was born in Tampa, Florida and by...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Sculptural : Pre 1800 item #1492213
A superb 19th Century Terracotta HEAD OF FAUN signed by famed artist CLAUDE MICHEL CLODION, (1793-1814), France. Size: 14.5 x 10.5 x 7 cm.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1930 item #1459172
Lovis Corinth 1858-1925 German This is a fine original lithograph by German artist Lovis Corinth. The title Tal Grund (The Valley) from the series Vorfruhling im Gebirge (early spring in the Mountains). It was published by Euphorion Verlag, Berlin in 1922 in an edition of 125 impressions. This was part of a series of 5 lithographs. The image measures 12 3/4X17 inches. Printed on a medium weight wove type paper.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1940 item #1333134 (stock #TBD00213)
Mason Wells American 1906-1984 large watercolor on paper of a figure of a woman walking on the deck of a passenger liner with the funnel and other parts of the vessel. Painted over pencil. On the back is written, “MASON WELLS/ maybe/ S.S. Berengaria/ when Student at/ Harvard.” Sight size 20 ¾ by 13 ¾ inches. Frame 28 by 20 ¾ inches.

Condition. Excellent. Frame has minor knocks. New acid free backing.

Old framing label shows it was framed in San Francisco. S.S. Berengaria was the...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 2000 item #1420598 (stock #JB05088)
An ORIGINAL PAINTING on canvas, 20" by 38" (30" by 48" framed), the subject a panoramic view of a quaint coastal cliffside village complete with tidy white church and homes. Signed at lower right by noted native-California artist NICKY BOEHME, the work is not titled, but the scene depicted is the much-loved small town about 150 miles north of San Francisco, Mendocino, in the county by the same name (which is north of Sonoma County). Mendocino is renowned for its poetic peaceful setting, clean ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1990 item #1441632 (stock #579)
Abstract Bird by New York artist Max Kassler (1903-1993). Oil on Canvas Board, framed. 15 x 10". 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 i...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1900 item #1443844 (stock #1122)
Japanese Woodblock “Kabuki” signed measures 15x10 Inches
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1930 item #1480466
Reflets des Arts
€2,800.00
Japanese print YUHAN Ito (1867 – 1942) Itsukushima Shrine at Miyajima. Woodblock print with ink and color on paper. Vertical ôban. Around 1910. A good model published by Nishinomiya. Framed.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1940 item #1120972 (stock #493)
An original oil painting on board by Cecil C. Bell signed lower center and on reverse. Measuring 22 x 30 inches. The painting of a New York nocturne featuring a Westside cowboy of the The New York central line. West Side Cowboys were employed by the City to ride in front of street-level freight trains and wave pedestrians out of the way. This was the City’s stopgap measure to stop the carnage on what was known as “Death Avenue.” The Cowboys were phased out after the High Line was built, ra...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Contemporary item #1424078 (stock #40H67-148)
Eric Tobin winter painting - Late Afternoon Stillness, Johnson, Vermont. Oil on canvas. Size: 12 in. x 16 in. Offered in a silvered wood frame. Signed in lower right and signed and dated 2017 on the reverse. Snow covered fields looking towards Mount Mansfield, in Johnson, VT. Eric Tobin is a contemporary Vermont landscape artist. He resides in the northern part of the state, in Johnson. Tobin was greatly influenced by another Vermont painter, Thomas Curtin, whom Tobin knew from his childhood a...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Contemporary item #1443805 (stock #1137)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,000.00
Carlo Rezzonico Italian Clowns oil on canvas fresco style measuring 13x18”
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1990 item #1437731 (stock #859)
L'Enfant Gallery
$8,000.00
"Woman in Red"by Anne Lane, New Orleans. Oil on Canvas. 48x30” ….. Anne Lane studied art at George Mason University in Virginia, completed her education at Saint Patrick’s college, Ireland, where she studied theology and philosophy. The tonal and contemplated intensity of her paintings reflect her 10 years spent working as an artist under the desert sun of New Mexico. Her vibrant style,resonant with color and baroque in detail,swoons its delight over her canvases. The subjects and themes o...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1940 item #1479761
Yasuo Kuniyoshi 1889-1953 Japanese-American, Arts Students League N.Y. This is a fine original lithograph on Chine applique by American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi. The title Before the Act, was created and printed in 1932 in an edition of only 40. Pencil signed and dated, printed by Grant Arnold, Woodstock. The image measrues 13 1/4X9 3/4 inches. Very fine condition. This image appears in the Davis catalog as image number 54.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1950 item #1437883 (stock #723)
L'Enfant Gallery
$11,000.00
Martha Walter watercolor Middle Eastern Scene, Moroccan , 10”x12, Frame size 21”x22” Bio: Martha Walter (1875-1976), the American impressionist artist, was a student of William Merritt Chase. Martha was born in 1875 in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended High School in her hometown, later continued her education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under William Merritt Chase. During her time there she was awarded the Charles Toppan Prize (1902) and a Cresson ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Woodcuts : Pre 1960 item #48288 (stock #2056)
¡°The two adversaries (left)¡± and ¡°The two adversaries (right)¡± were published 5 December,1950. The carver was Maeda; the printers were Honda, Uchikawa and Onodera. Both have Paul Jacoulet¡¯s pencil signature and red Arrow seal on the lower corner. They are in excellent condition. ¡°This simple but highly symbolic pair reveals Jacoulet's feelings toward the North Koreans. In his public dedication to President Truman, the artist expressed ¡°gratitude for aid given so promptl...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 2000 item #1443853 (stock #1130)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,800.00
Dominican Republic Artist RASCAL signed and framed A bad boy, Rascal was caught creating graffiti too many times, when a judge finally told him enough was enough and encouraged him to paint in earnest. Rascal responded with urban art, full of color and stories of his life. Each painting had meaning special to him and explained the joys of his life, his defeats in love lost and his life in the city. Art that was unlike anyone else’s, his...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 2000 item #1484358 (stock #3595)
L'Enfant Gallery
$18,000.00
AMERICAN IMPRESSIONIST JOSEPH DAWLEY 1936-2008 “COWBOY ON THE TRAIL” Oil on canvas 14” x 20” Artist Biography: Joseph William Dawley (1936-2008) was born in Nashville, Arkansas and raised in Dallas, Texas. He received his B.A. from SMU where some of his art hangs today. He married and moved to NJ working for the Newark Evening News retouching photos and sidelining as a political cartoonist. He spent time studying at the Art Students League in NYC and in 1968 he decided to devote all his ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1950 item #1460018 (stock #2479)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,600.00
A beautiful Korean watercolor on paper layered on silk, depicting a pair of birds in flight measuring 47x27” circa 1980 by Master Artist JAE KO Born in 1961, Korean artist Jae Ko attended the Tokyo art school and received a BA from the Wako University in Japan and a MFA from the Maryland Institute of Art in Baltimore, USA. She currently lives and works in Maryland, USA. Jae Ko creates a new visual language with elegant spirals and ribbon installations that can take on monumental proporti...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1920 item #1419866 (stock #JB02732)
Old early 20th century painting of a thin line of trees bordering a waterway, executed in a lovely impressionist palette with excellent handling of light, 17 1/2" by 21" as framed, signed in red at lower right corner "Chatterton". Though found in Ogunquit, Maine, in an art colony area where the well known American artist Clarence Chatterton was known to have painted, the signature does not resemble that of Chatterton, who was a student of Edward Hopper. I am unsure if this might be by a relati...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1900 item #1477531 (stock #FA120)
This exquisite piece of art is an antique 19th-century French miniature portrait of one of the most iconic historical figures, Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. The portrait is painted on an oval convex porcelain panel, adding elegance to the piece. The painting is a true masterpiece, with fine details that showcase the artist's skill. Napoleon is depicted wearing his favorite Colonel Chasseurs Cheval de la Garde Imperial uniform, complete with gold epaulets and a white waistcoat. The uniform design i...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1900 item #720172 (stock #0714)
This original etching is by Francisco de Goya. It is titled, "The Little Prisoner:" (Le Petit Prisonier). In Spanish title is, 'Tan Bárbara la Seguridad como el Delito': (The imprisonment is as barbarous as the crime). It captures and symbolizes Goya's ideas about the human condition and suffering: a poor soul, quite grim. It was first issued in Gazette des Beaux-Arts, vol. XXII, Paris, 1867. It is pre-framed. That actually etching measures 110mm x 85mm (approximately 4 1/8" x 3 1/8". It come...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1940 item #1437635 (stock #163)
"Winter Landscape with Grazing Cows" by Ernest Fiene. 1939. Framed Print. 18 x 17".
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : Pre 1980 item #1257700 (stock #138)
"Parisian Street Scene1" oil on canvas 24" x 12" unframed, 29" x 17" framed. Andre Gisson was born with the name Anders Gittleson, in Brooklyn, New York but lived in Westport, Connecticut for most of his life. He traveled extensively and studied throughout Europe and the Far East. Mr. Gittleson was a leading American realist painter. He graduated from the Pratt Institute and was a Captain in the Army during WWII. Over 4 decades his one man shows extended from New York, Washington, Texas, and Cal...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1980 item #953356
Lawrence Kupferman, American, 1909-1982, etching, "Victorian House", image size: 13 7/8 x 9 5/8 inches, pencil signed
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1950 item #1442241 (stock #709)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,800.00
LEANDER M. CHURBUCK (1861-1940) fine watercolor painting "Rockport" by noted Massachusetts artist LEANDER M. CHURBUCK (1861-1940) fine watercolor painting "Rockport" by noted Massachusetts artist Beautiful watercolor by the artist Leander CHURBACK 6x8” This is a very, very fine watercolor of a desirable and popular subject by a listed, well recognized artist who hailed from Falmouth, Massachusetts. Churbuck painted in both watercolor and oil, and most known works seem to be country lands...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1980 item #1416040 (stock #JB0689)
Interesting, graphically arresting, colorful original lithograph from 1978, 27" by 19 1/2" inside the mat, protected in simple metal frame and plexiglas (not assembled currently), of a 1978 exhibition at the Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo in Madrid. The upper quarter contains most of the print, the middle is the colorful area, and at bottom in large print is the word "MIRO". At extreme lower right in small print is the name of the printer, La Poligrafia, S.A., in Barcelona, and the 1978 d...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1837 VR item #1024450 (stock #a1177)
A beautifully limned miniature portrait painting by Elkanah Tisdale. The sitter, though unknown, is a handsome young man dressed in a black coat. The painting measures 3" by 2", and is in superb condition, with no chips, cracks, bowing, paint loss, or restoration. It is housed in a later metal case.

Few miniatures by Tisdale are known to exist, and with very rare exception, are, as is the case here, unsigned.

Tisdale was born in CT around 1771, then moved to and worked in NYC from 1794 to ...

All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1920 item #1479759
Joseph Pennell 1857-1926 American This is an original pencil signed lithograph by American artist Joseph Pennell. He traveled down to Panama in 1912 to record the building of the Canal. He created a series of lithographic images from that trip. This image is titled: Steam Shovel in the Cut at Bas Obispo , created and printed in 1912. The image measures 16 7/8X22 1/4 inches, printed on a Fabiano watermarked laid type paper. The overall sheet size is 25 1/2X20 1/2 inches.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1980 item #1416443 (stock #JB03046)
By the listed South African modern artist STANLEY NKOSI (1945-1988) is this PAIR of charcoal on paper drawings celebrating the nobility of manual laborers, identically framed in silvery metal, the drawings measuring 22 1/2" by 17 1/2", both signed at bottom and dated there "73". Nkosi was an interesting figure. Born in Natal he moved to Dukathole near Germiston in the Transvaal (now Gauteng). In 1962 he moved to Johannesburg and studied briefly with established artist Cecil Skotnes, and for ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Photographs : Pre 1910 item #637156 (stock #875)

Machine Age industrial photograph - Circa - 1900.

Image - 10" x 13 1/4".

Condition - very good, crisp, slight toning.

All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1970 item #1271523 (stock #141111)
In 1970 the famous collector of Japanese art Felix Juda commissioned Haku Maki to produce at least 3 different sets of cards for greeting and thanks. Here we show three. The 4th image may have been one such card or a small print. I have owned it for many years and am still studying it. The ones done for Juda varied in attractiveness. The green one is vintage Maki: good design, good color, and good composition. It is only 5”x 5” but packs a wallop. It shows the kanji for Stone (pronounced T...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1837 VR item #1146944 (stock #a1282)
A stunning miniature portrait painting, watercolor on natural organic material, of a beautiful young girl with hazel eyes. The artist has painted the sitter with a background of clouds against a blue sky, often thought to denote that the piece was done as a mourning keepsake.

The condition of the painting is excellent, with no chips, cracks, bowing, or restoration. This little gem is housed in its original cast bronze brooch, with a mother-of-pearl backing. The sight size is 1 5/8" by 1...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Contemporary item #1452720 (stock #1518)
Ephrem Kouakou is one of the world’s foremost African painters. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland, and Ivory Coast, West Africa. His powerful, vivid paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC. and Fondo Del Sol Museum, Washington DC. He is noted for his bold blending of indigenous African visual sensibilities
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1970 item #1415928 (stock #JB03473)
Oil on canvas painting, 12" by 20", unframed, signed at lower right by the well known Australian impressionist, HAYWARD VEAL (1913-1968). This is a vigorously painted landscape in greens and browns, enlivened by bold Key Lime bright light green daubs at top. Veal's works appear frequently at auctions of Australian art, where they can bring to the $5,000 area and above. He is known for his highly impressionistic landscapes and still life, with portraiture rounding out his body of work. Some p...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1930 item #1476398 (stock #1035)
An original vintage circa 1930 oil painting a portrait of the Sailing Ship "The Canton Packet" by Harry Hambro Howe. Oil on canvas measuring 16 x 20" signed lower right titled and inscribed on the verso information about the ship. Presented in the original antique frame. Written on verso: "A famous ship which preceded the true clipper ships she was built at Boston in 1841 was commanded by Captain John Land and proved very fast. Her success set the builders New York, Boston and Portsmouth to...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1960 item #1422929 (stock #JB03999)
An image of Mohatma Gandhi after the original 1965 now scarce, low-edition serigraph print by Shahn, , reproduced here on a magazine page, and signed and inscribed in faded ballpoint pen at lower left by the well-known American Social Realist artist, BEN SHAHN (1898-1969). The work was acquired in 2010 from the estate of a relative of Alice and Theodore Himelstein of Marina del Rey, California, along with several original prints signed by Shahn. The Himelsteins, originally of New York, were pe...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1837 VR item #1477530 (stock #FA123)
An antique, early 19th-century, circa 1804 A.D. French Napoleonic miniature portrait, finely hand-painted with a fine brush in watercolor and gouache on a natural wafer. This miniature is contemporary with the Napoleonic period and depicts young Napoleon Bonaparte as the First Consul of The French Republic.

The painting is a masterful display of the artist's exceptional skills. It features a highly intricate and realistic portrayal of Napoleon, with every detail of his face, attire, and ac...

All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Stone : Contemporary item #1466289 (stock #2865)
(Consignment). For the past 22 years, Massimo Righini has sculpted “STORIES IN STONE” and has exhibited them primarily in the Washington, DC, area at l’Enfant Galerie. His sculptures can be found in some 30 private collections in Italy, France, the UK, and the US. Pronoun: He Full Bio: ARTISTIC DEVELOPMENT The curriculum of the “Liceo Classico” in Italy included heavy doses of philosophy, mythology and history of art, and Righini’s family had a long tradition of involvement ...