All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pastel : Pre 1930 item #1420910 (stock #JB04217)
A fine landscape drawing in pastel by a skilled hand, Swiss-born artist MAXIM (MAXIMILIAN) SEIBOLD. The drawing measures 9 1/4" by 12 1/2" (13 1/4" by 16 1/2" in attractive probably original old gold framing---very light wear). Seibold was a competent and talented artist, very active around the year 1920, who seems to have left behind little biographical information. Born in Switzerland, he evidently came to America at least by the 'teens, as drawings of Florida and elsewhere are known...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : German : Pre 1930 item #1402188 (stock #22631)
Original pastel on paper by Margarete Schneider-Reichel (Germany, 1891-1944). Signed and titled "Die Liebenden" verso. Also initialed and dated 1924 l.r. Margarete Schneider-Reichel is a very controversial artist who studied with Alfred Kubin and Franz Von Stuck.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1466959
William Walcot 1874-1943 British This is a fine drypoint etching by British artist William Walcot. This image of the Brooklyn Bridge was done in his series of 5 etchings of New York City published in 1923 as a portfolio. This etching is hand signed in pencil in the lower border. The image measures 8 1/4X9 3/4 inches. Nicely Framed with archival materials.
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 : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1930 item #1459847 (stock #2442)
L'Enfant Gallery
$38,000.00
Art Deco bronze urn: $44,000, reduced to $38,000 This Art Deco bronze figurative planter (jardiniere), circa 1920, measures 55" in height, 36" across (elbow to elbow), 18" deep.  caste bronze, 150-250 lb. This work was the combined effort of two French sculptors; Pierre Lenoir and Marcel Guillard (1896 - 1932)...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1440394
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$125.00
Frederick H Swoffer, British School, early 20th century pair of prints of boys "La Guaira" plate signed on both F.H.S /25 one pencil signed below etching plate mark. Both matted. sight 5" by 6.5"
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 : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1930 item #1474457 (stock #3083)
L'Enfant Gallery
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An elegant and important portrait by American Master Artist Howard Chandler Christy 1872-1952, of his second wife, Nancy Christy, done as a wedding gift. THE WORK IS OIL ON CANVAS ,FRAMED AND MEASURING 96 inches by 48 inches American artist and illustrator...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1930 item #1436108 (stock #519)
L'Enfant Gallery
$8,500.00
Beautiful winter snowscape by New England artist Albert Van Nesse Greene, 1887-1971 of Chester Springs, Pennsylvania Greene was a member of the New Hope School of painting and a Washington DC artist. This work dates from the1920s and is in remarkably superb condition with fresh and bright colors. It measures 24”x28” Frame size measures 29 x 33“
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1059250
Joseph Simpson, British, 1879-1939, etching, "Betty," image size 12 x 9 7/8 inches, 1927, edition of 75, pencil signed. Provenance: The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1930 item #1450926 (stock #1607)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,500.00
Mary Janko Norwegian artist Springtime in the Fjords, Norway measuring 30x26”oil on canvas in a beautiful silver vintage frame painted in the 1930s. Janko was a modernist painter
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1178028
William Lee Hankey, British, 1869-1952, The Bridge at Corfe Castle," etching, image size 6 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches, pencil signed l.l., plate initialed l.l., artist blindstamp l.r., very rare image, number one of 12 impressions, small repair in the image.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1930 item #962108
Arthur Bowen Davies, American, 1862-1928, transfer lithograph, "On Willow Brook", 11 1/2 x 18 inches, ed. 25, 1924, only state, printed by George C. Miller, alternatively titled "Spring Dance", cat. Czestochowski-211, pencil signed lower right
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1930 item #1478318 (stock #3383)
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DRAMATIC OIL ON CANVAS RENDERING OF A CAVALRY SABER DUEL DURING STUART'S RIDE" BY WILLIAM B. T. TREGO...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1930 item #1455778
An old oil on canvas laid on board painting of the northern San Francisco waterfront around Fort Mason, along with a panoramic view to Angel Island and Marin County beyond, unframed, 11" by 14", signed at lower right "Whited". There is only one listed artist with the last name, an (Elva) Viola Whited of Texas, which internet search reveals likely birth/death dates of 1902-1983. This could be our artist or could be someone totally unrelated...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1419375 (stock #JB03461)
Found in Connecticut, this beautifully drawn still life features poinsettia in a blue and white vase, other props including a Greek or Russian icon, a book and a plate, the work signed at lower right by artist Charlotte Newton. There is an askart listing for an artist of that name, born in Missouri in 1839, a resident of Los Angeles by 1880, who passed away in 1914...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1930 item #1419974 (stock #JB05036)
A rarely seen print, featuring the familiar, landmark high bridge over the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena, California, by the well-known California plein air impressionist artist BENJAMIN CHAMBERS BROWN (1865-1942). The lithograph is in rich brown ink on watermarked paper (an "A" with eagle). The sheet measures roughly 13" by 16" (margins irregularly cut, though more than ample) and the printed image 9 3/4" by 13". The print is not pencil signed...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1930 item #1419422 (stock #JB02456)
Oil on canvas painting of a forest, 18" by 18", in its original oak frame 22" by 22", signed at lower right in red "MOORE" and dated there 1927 or 1924. The painting is a beautiful example of American impressionism of the early 20th century, with some really lovely colors hiding under the grime of nearly 90 years. The artist was obviously a talent to be reckoned with, though with the common last name it is difficult to attribute this to any particular Moore...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #749964
William Lee Hankey,1869-1952 British, "Difficult Times", etching, image size 8 1/2X7 inches, pencil signed and artists blindstamp
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #752343
Leon Louis Dolice, American, 1892-1960, Etching with Aquatint, "New York Monument at Night", 1924, image size 10 3/8 x 7 1/4 inches, pencil signed and dedicated
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #936721 (stock #6261)
A Karl (Carl) Schultheiss numbered etching pre 1931. This is a 8-3/4" x 7-1/4" numbered, limited closed edition engraving titled "ANGERS, CATHEDRALE" by the German engraver Karl (Carl) Max Schultheiss (1885-1961). Born in Germany, he moved to the U.S. in the 1930s, where he had a 1938 exhibition of his etchings at the Art Institute of Chicago...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Pre 1930 item #380342
20th century ABSTRACT IMPRESSIONISM. Oil on board. Gilt frame. Signature at l.r. somewhat illegible... 8 1/2" x 20 1/2" sight; 10" x 22" framed
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1930 item #1442112 (stock #363)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,800.00
Mountains of the Holy Cross by William Henry Holmes, original Gouache. Frame Size 13 x 15. William Henry Holmes (December 1, 1846 – April 20, 1933) — known as W.H. Holmes — was an American explorer, anthropologist, archaeologist, artist, scientific illustrator, cartographer, mountain climber, geologist and museum curator and director. n 1871, he went to Washington, D.C., to study art under Theodore Kaufmann...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1930 item #1453013 (stock #1548)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,800.00
Town scape of Ancona Italy done in the 1930s the work reminds one of the studies Pierre Bonnard did of the 1920s. The work is signed M. Arniguat
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1930 item #1460908 (stock #2532)
L'Enfant Gallery
$7,500.00
Expressionist Nude Study/Portrait of a Woman by Alexandra Kay, student of Cikovsky, Corcoran Gallery of Art. Probably one of the artist finest and largest works done… From the Cochran school of art where it was exhibited in the 1930s this oil which is unsigned shows the first black model of the school. Done in oil , more information coming soon…..
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #766760
Frank Benson, American, 1862-1951, Etching, "Red Heads No. 2", image size: 7 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches, published state, 1923, Ordeman 226
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1470173
George Elbert Burr 1859-1939 American This is a fine original etching and drypoint by American artist of the Southwest, George Elbert Burr. The title is Evening, Arizona. It was created and printed in 1930, hand signed in pencil lower left corner of the border. The image measures 5X7 inches. Alternate title is: Apache Trail.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #976712
Andre, Dunoyer de Segonzac, French, 1884-1974, etching, "Foire de Chaville", image size: 3 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches, ed. 2.45, pencil signed.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1368877
Tavik F. Simon, Czech, 1877-1942, "Notre Dame de Paris in the Morning", colored etching, plate measures 12 5/8 x 15 inches on 18 1/2 x 19 1/2 inch wove type paper. C. 1928. Catalog: Novak 483, Baker 266. Edition of 350. Published by the Societe de Graveurs Modernes, Paris. Pencil editioned in the lower left, signed in the lower right. Plate monogrammed in the bottom center. Numbered 227. An atmospheric print with lovely, muted colors. T. F. Simon was born in Bohemia, now the Czech Republic. He s...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1930 item #1417451 (stock #JB01455)
Lithograph on paper, the sheet 20" by 14 3/4" (24" by 20" as framed), in black with blue color especially at bottom, not signed in pencil nor in the plate, by important French 20th century woman artist MARIE LAURENCIN (1885-1956). On the reverse is written in pencil in French handwriting "M. Laurencin/j. fille au chien/lith. orig." ("young girl with dog/original lithograph"). The image is typical of the work of this noted artist. I take from a website on the artist: "Born on October 31, 1883...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1930 item #1320340
Impressive French cast bronze image of Napoleon wearing a hat, long coat and boots, carrying a sword, with "A. C. Harron A2372" to the base and a stamp reading "Bronze Garanti Au Titre L.V. Deposee." Approx. 20 by 7 inches, 50.7 by 17.9 cm, no condition issues noted.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1286878
Arthur J. T. Briscoe, British, 1873-1943, "Furling the Foresail". This etching by Arthur Briscoe measures 7 7/8 x 11 7/8 inches. Ink signed and numbered on cream laid paper, 1924. Cat: Hurst-85. Framed. Briscoe is known as one of the finest marine etcher of the 20th. century. He owned his own three ton cutter which he used to sail around the Essex coast. Also crewing on a Polish ship, he sketched every aspect of life on the boat. He studied at the Slade Art School and the Academy Julian in Paris...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Photographs : Pre 1930 item #1451186
Artistic, soft-focus photograph of two sailing vessels, titled in pencil at left margin "Gray Dawn", and signed at lower right margin by the noted Nova Scotia, Canada photographer WALLACE R. MacASKILL (1887-1956). This well-known image, in the Pictorialist tradition in which MacAskill was taught, dates to the year 1921. It is in soft-focus, an impressionist technique which values atmosphere over realistic accuracy. Note three white spots at upper left. MacAskill is considered Nova Scotia's be...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : German : Pre 1930 item #1421825 (stock #JB05399)
Oil on canvas on board, 18" by 27", unframed, signed at lower left by artist OSWALD SCHLOMBS (1876-1926), and titled in pencil on reverse "Herbst" ("autumn", in German). The artist though listed is not well known, though obviously talented. This painting has scattered paint loss, showing as white areas in the photos, and apparently some chemical darkening of the pigment, as at very top the observer will note how the paint that had at one point been hidden by a frame is a lighter blue than the ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1417563 (stock #JB01892)
This is a beautifully executed work, watercolor and gouache on paper, 14 1/2" by 20 1/2" (21" by 27" as framed), signed at lower right by the noted English artist WILFRED KNOX (1884-1966). Knox is known for his marine art, such as clipper ships, but also for scenes around the British Isles and the luminous Venetian and Mediterranean coastal scenes with shipping and maritime subject matter as seen in this example. From perusing the auction records, it appears his work is often mixed up with tha...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1325715
Jules Pascin, French, 1885-1930, "Le Music-Hall". This 1926 lithograph by Jules Pascin measures 10 x 12 3/4 inches, pencil signed in an edition of 35, cat: Hemin 7. Part of the edition was destroyed in the 1945 bombing of Royan. Pascin became a symbol of the Montparnasse artistic community creating mainly watercolors and prints. Drawing upon his surroundings, his subjects included nudes and portraiture of many of his friends. Influenced by Fauvism and Cezanne he exhibited 12 of his works at the ...