All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1417662 (stock #JB03645)
Watercolor on paper drawing of deciduous trees along a creek in a peaceful eastern forest landscape, (19 1/2" by 29 1/2" and 25 1/2" by 35 1/2" framed), signed at lower left "G H Flavelle" (GEOFF H. FLAVELLE, 1868-1945, also known as George H. Flavelle). This is a clean, wall-ready work by a listed artist who hailed from Pennsylvania. Flavelle's works include landscape, woodland interiors, cottage scenes and Dutch windmill scenes. He was a china and glass painter at some times in his career...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1452241 (stock #1382)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,200.00
Possibly a work for the Russian Ballet signed “Greek” “M.E.Bickle” 1920s gouache on paper
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1490055
Watercolor on paper painting of an intensely blue-eyed young peasant girl in scarf and country clothing, 16 3/8" by 12 5/8", 23" by 19" as framed, signed lower right in Russian by the noted Russian artist Mikhail Guzhavin (1888-1931). Guzhavin was most associated with the St. Petersburg area, where he was schooled in art. Landscapes and portraits in both oil and watercolor are known. Oils have achieved to the $40,000 level at past Sotheby's sales of Russian art...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1930 item #1449583 (stock #1345)
Measures 11x15” a beautiful work, Egyptian Mosque Woodblock signed “Paris” with small sketch in pencil, hand color sketching.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Charcoal : Pre 1930 item #1417026 (stock #JB01544)
Charcoal on paper, 7 7/8" by 11 3/8" (14 1/4" by 17 7/8" as framed), not signed above the mat (not opened up), but bearing a 1968 label on the reverse from ACA American Master Gallery of La Cienega Blvd. in Los Angeles, providing the name of the artist, with the words below stating "From the estate by K Moskowitz". This is a rather typical subject for the artist, EUGENE HIGGINS (1874-1958), who is today grouped with the Ash Can school of American art of the first half of the twentieth century...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1930 item #1421963 (stock #JB04273)
A scene of an adobe with the classic protruding wooden beams, a low wall, springtime pink/white flowering trees and a split rail fence completing the composition. The work is apparently unsigned. It is laid down (glued) to Masonite panel. It shows signs of having been rolled in the past--long parallel vertical cracks in the paint, as shown in several images. Most certainly it is by a listed artist but this one is a mystery...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1930 item #1415530 (stock #JB04044)
Oil on canvas landscape with mountains and river in a steep sided canyon in winter, 8" by 12" (9 1/2" by 13 1/2" framed), signed at lower left "F. Sima" and dated there 1921. Although the name suggests an artist likely of Czech origin, this painting's stretcher and materials suggests the scene was painted in America, perhaps in the Rocky Mountains of the west. A search of the standard internet databases does not show an artist by this name, which is surprising...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1930 item #1480463
Reflets des Arts
€2,800.00
Ohara Koson (1877-1945) Snow on Willow Bridge. A woodblock print, with gofun for the snow. With gofun paste for the flying snow and extensive embossing as snow banks, two women with umbrellas cross a bridge over the river Sumidagawa in a heavy snowfall. This print illustrates the famous Yanagibashi – Willow bridge. Signed and sealed Shoson, published by Watanabe Shozaburo, circa 1940 Vertical oban: 38.6 x 26.1 cm. Showa period, 20th century. Framed.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1930 item #1422295 (stock #JB05484)
An American oil on panel painting, unsigned, likely circa 1920, unframed, featuring a landscape including a lake, some distant low mountains, and yellowing foliage in foreground suggesting autumn as the season. The piece measures 14" by 22". Surface is dirty---could really use a cleaning/varnish---and there is paint chipping along left, top, and bottom edges, as well as a small loss at left center in the foliage. Needs some TLC but the essentials are all there...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1423725 (stock #JB05613)
A beautiful, accomplished watercolor landscape painting of a gully with running water, 10 1/2" by 14 1/2" (19" by 22 1/2" in early 20th century gold frame), signed at lower left by the noted California art pioneer WILLIAM LEES JUDSON (1842-1928). The work is in unusually fresh condition, the colors true and not faded. I note a small, obviously very old water drop at extreme upper right, where the tree line meets the right edge...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1420682 (stock #JB03241)
Fine watercolor on paper drawing of a dirt road or track in a country landscape, signed at lower left by the listed American artist NEIL REID MITCHILL (sometimes misspelled as "Mitchell") 1858-1934. Mitchill was born in New York and was painting in nearby Connecticut by the 1890's, where he is credited with being the first resident artist of Westport (which went on to become a 20th century art colony of sorts)...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1418509 (stock #JB04551)
An exceptional watercolor and gouache painting of a young girl carrying a pail, pondering the white ducks which move towards her on a tiny pond in a verdant bucolic rural landscape, a faint local church steeple in the distance the only other sign of man. This is one of the finer works by English listed artist FRED (sometimes FREDERICK) HINES (1860-1930)...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Stone : Pre 1930 item #1447109 (stock #2144)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,000.00
Pair of Japanese garden pagodas each and stones Carved with removable tops that can have a candle or light installed. Measuring 39 x 16”, The other measuring 30 x 16“ early 20th century. The larger one is $3,500 and the smaller one is $2,500. Sold separately or as a pair.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Stone : Pre 1930 item #1424475
Zentner Collection
Price on Request
Beautiful Jadeite Standing Quanyin on lotus throne holding apple green colored branch of Peaches and holding upright lotus with two devotee attendants and bamboo grove, with light celadon green jade and outer edges of moss green...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1930 item #1391054
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$395.00
Eugene Higgins (American, Kansas City, Missouri 1874–1958 New York)A superb painterly impression, in dark brown ink, on buff wove paper os a lake scene with trees and a sail boat c 1910. Size 10.5" by 8.75" The print has an inscription at bottom with Higgins name , unsure if its his signature.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Charcoal : Pre 1930 item #1422917 (stock #JB04232)
Large, early charcoal drawing of a nineteenth century house in a leafy landscape, signed at lower right corner by listed American artist HIRAM HAROLD GREEN (1865-1930). 25" by 18 1/2" inside the mat, 34 1/4" by 27" framed. Green was born in upstate New York and died in Buffalo. A painter, illustrator and etcher, he became known around the Buffalo area for his birds eye views of Niagara Falls...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pastel : Pre 1930 item #1416362 (stock #JB01432)
For the collector of vintage plein air art, this is a classic drawing on tan paper executed in Italy in the year 1924 by well listed, frequently auctioned California plein air artist DANA BARTLETT (1882-1957). This drawing measures 8 1/2" by 11 1/2" inside the framing (12 3/8" by 15 1/4" as framed). It is signed in a longhand signature at lower left, and at lower right is inscribed "Venice Italy" and the date 1924 once again. An old plaque bearing the artist's name also reads "Santa Lucia Br...