All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Pre 1960 item #1421728 (stock #JB04967)
A rather elegant landscape painting with a modern feeling, the predominating colors subdued yet elegant grays and earth tones, signed rather illegibly with a European hand at lower right corner and dated there 53. The unframed work on canvas measures 23 1/2" by 31 1/2". Signature looks something like "Oltarini" or "Ott....." or "Ult....." but despite years of trying to figure this out I have not succeeded...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1460640
Armenian watercolor painting of the famous, sacred snow-covered mountain, Ararat, signed in Armenian at lower right. The work measures 11 1/4" by 16" (14" by 18 3/4" in gold frame). The work likely dates from about 1970 through 1980 or so. It is framed behind non-glare glass, which tends to blur detail. Condition is excellent. Armenian-speakers, please contact me if you are able to make out the name.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1910 item #1251821
A Fine Etching on wove paper "Fruhlingsabend" (Spring Evening) by the well regarded Art Nouveau artist, Heinrich Vogeler (1872-1942). Image size about 4 3/8" by 7 3/8", overall paper about 7 1/2" by 10 1/4". Pencil signed lower right and monogrammed in print. Rare and beautiful.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Contemporary item #802308
Signed artist's proof entitled "Cake Dreams"...A contemporary, award- winning artist, Leviten (1928-2014) was known for her abstract monoprints and collages. Exhibitions: RISD Museum, El Paso Museum, Dan Forth Museum and in the Institute del Arte La Paz, Mexico. Leviten was also an active member of the Providence Art Club. Frame measures 15" x 16"; print approximately 8" x 10"
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Contemporary item #1421039
An unusual item...a portion of a birthday or other festive cake on a plate, make of some kind of ceramic material, hand painted very realistically and capable of "fool the eye" (trompe l'oeil), painted in colors reminiscent of the colors used by famous contemporary artist Wayne Thiebaud. Measurements are approximately 8 1/2" across the plate, by 8" in height. The artist has hand signed her name on the bottom of the plate, in black marker...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1900 item #1216942 (stock #7656)
A By-path

Henry Hobart Nichols, Jr. (American, 1869-1962)

Watercolor on paper, signed and dated: “1897”.

Exhibited at the Third Annual Washington Water Color Club, 1898.

Illustrated in McMahan, The Artists of Washington, DC: 1796-1996, p. 158.

Provenance: from the Estate of Virgil McMahan.

A painter and illustrator, Nichols was a member of quite an artistic family...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1980 item #1440384 (stock #730)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,250.00
Abstract pastel landscape of Venezuelan rain forest. Painted circa 1980 by renowned female Venezuelan artist, Pilar Vasquez, who was very active in the 80s measuring 10 x 13“ Pastel on paper.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1990 item #1440259
A handsome poster featuring the work "Ocean Park #111" of 1978, that work appearing in an exhibition of 1989 at the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum, publicized in this poster. Measurements as framed behind Plexi, in black metal frame, are 40" by 33 1/2". The artist needs little introduction, as one of the more important American artists of the second half of the 20th century, his works bringing to the $15 million area at auction...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1970 item #1420661 (stock #JB04352)
A striking mid-century painting from Mexico, glowing with color, by the hand of listed artist JORGE EDGARDO RAMIREZ (sometimes followed by MARTINEZ), born 1940. The oil on canvas, 16 1/4" by 31 1/2" in thin strip framing, is signed at lower right and is signed again, titled and dated on the reverse. The orange, brown and tan earth colors cement its mid-century heritage. The work glows from within, possessing an almost fluorescent quality...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Contemporary item #1440721 (stock #160)
Pierce Mill Log Cabin in Snow 16”x18” oil on canvas. The work in the snow was done from life The Log cabin is on the national register i’m located in rock Creek Park in Washington DC near Pierce Mill. It is one of the oldest buildings in the city
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : German : Pre 1990 item #1063541
CHRISTOPHER M. SCALA (European 20th Century) A PAINTING, "Sailboat in Port," oil on board, signed L/R and dated 1985. 20" x 16". Framed. Images
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1800 item #1441969 (stock #279)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,100.00
Eighteenth Century Print by L. Boilly artist “Les Lunetts, delpech print c.1790, lithograph measuring 12“ x 9“, frame size 18 x 24. Louis-Léopold Boilly, Louis-Léopold Boilly ; 5 July 1761 – 4 January 1845) was a French painter and draftsman. A gifted creator of popular portrait paintings, he also produced a vast number of genre paintings vividly documenting French middle-class social life...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1970 item #1418655 (stock #JB02363)
**(TWO EXAMPLES OF THIS PARTICULAR PRINT AVAILABLE)**one of a number of Flint signed color prints in my inventory**, this is a fresh and clean example of the 1967 print "Interlude", one of an edition of only 850 examples, signed in pencil at lower right and bearing the characteristic embossed blindstamp in lower left margin, and, in the image, "F & R (Frost and Reed) and "1967" at lower left...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1920 item #1010471
Max Slevogt, German, 1868-1932, drypoint etching, "Two Tigers", image size: 4 1/8 x 5 1/2 inches, 1913, edition of 35, pencil signed. From "10 Radierte Tierstudien von Max Slevogt."
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1837 VR item #1440975 (stock #a1746)
A truly lovely and engaging portrait miniature, on natural wafer, of a beautiful young woman. The subject, attired in a green velvet dress with a black cape and a white fichu, is seated in front of an orange drapery with a view of a landscape. The framing of this gem is of fine construction, with an inner gold plated frame that is easily removable (and replaced) if a smaller overall size is desired...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Pre 2000 item #1447110 (stock #2143)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,250.00
A free form abstract lucite sculpture by Washington artist Caroline Baker, known for her use of lucite. Circa 1990
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Photographs : Pre 1920 item #1463141
A very early black and white photo of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of eastern California, signed in the plate at lower right "A. A. Forbes Photo". This is a work of the noted early photographer of the region, ANDREW ALEXANDER FORBES (1862-1921). Forbes was born in Wisconsin, showing early interest in photography. By 1885 he was in Oklahoma, taking photos of the early territorial days there. Continuing ever west with his equipment, he was in Southern California by 1890...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1900 item #1446985 (stock #2108)
A Nineteenth Century Watercolor “Merry Christmas “ by G.V.C. inscribed to William and Mrs Reiner circa 1900 measuring 18x15”