All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Serigraphs : Pre 1960 item #1419594 (stock #JB02511)
Serigraph (silkscreen) print after a painting by the giant of modern art, GEORGES BRAQUE (1882-1963), 18" by 27 1/2" (25" by 34 1/2" framed), signed in the print at lower left. Braque needs little introduction, as one of the famous names of modern art, who in the early years of the century developed, along with his friend Picasso, the Cubism movement, which changed the art world forever...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1485642 (stock #3625)
L'Enfant Gallery
$15,000.00
Spanish Master Artist Alberto Boquera Muñoz, Born 1925 who was still painting in 2010, and exhibiting mainly in his native Spain This romantic work measures 32” x 24” and is oil on canvas. Signed lower left ….. He was be born in Barcelona. Munoz was a disciple of Juan Serra Mi and specialized in landscapes of his native region...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1960 item #1342055 (stock #BC018CS)
Original intaglio by Wendell H. Black (American, 1919-1972), first edition posthumously printed by Berkley Chappell. In excellent original condition. 16 by 23 1/2. Titled and marked a/p l.l. Also signed "Wendell H. Black '52 by Elaine" l.r. Also inscribed bottom right of the sheet: "Berk Chappell-imp". Provenance available.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1960 item #1419782 (stock #JB02710)
Drypoint on wove paper print, "La Petite Boudeuse" (translating as "the little sulk/sullen one"), 1905, pencil signed at lower right margin near the blindstamp of Edouard Sagot, Editeur, Paris, and numbered at lower left "No. 18", by famous French cubist painter and printmaker JACQUES VILLON (1875-1963). Villon, one of three brothers, (one of them the famous Marcel Duchamp), worked early on in the style of Degas and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #1423431 (stock #JB03690)
Likely painted for the southern tourist trade between about 1920 and 1950 or so, is this oil on a slice of palmetto wood, roughly oval shape, approximate dimensions 10" by 13", the slab 1" thick, signed at bottom left in the image "A. Donhauser". This locale could be anywhere from Texas through Georgia, given the Spanish Moss on the tree. The palmetto slab is unusual and adds interest. An unusual item. There is a small loss on the tree trunk.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1444866 (stock #1778)
From our African Collection: a Guro Mask from Guinea, circa 1960. This work measures 6.5 x 20" h, and is available for purchase. Between the Baule and the Yaure to the west, the Malinke to the north and the Bete and We to the south, the Guro people live surrounded by savannah and forest. They migrated from the north during the 16th century and number about 200,00. Guro villages have rounded houses in the northern area and rectangular houses in the southern region...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1487348 (stock #3687)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,000.00
NIGERIAN EKOI MASTERWORK SCULPTURE IN WOOD 7”, mounted to a lucite stand…… Ekoi people, also known as Ejagham, are an ethnic group in southeastern Nigeria and extending eastward into the southwest region of Cameroon. They speak the Ejagham language. Other Ekoi languages are spoken by related groups, including the Etung, some groups in Ikom (such as Ofutop, Akparabong and Nde), some groups in Ogoja (Ishibori and Bansarra), Ufia, and Yakö...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : French : Pre 1960 item #1147868 (stock #21335)
Original watercolor/gouache on paper by Hans Kleiss (1901-1973), depicting a smiling Berber man from Morocco. Circa 1940-1950. Image size: 26cm by 20cm. Signed l.l. Hans Kleiss was an Orientalist/ Africanist painter, illustrator, and caricaturist. He was the husband of Orientalist painter Yvonne Kleiss/Herzig. They both lived for long periods of time in North Africa (Morocco and Algeria). They settled together in Sidi Slimane (Morocco) in the early fifties before returning to France...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1420655 (stock #JB03172)
**One of a number of Venice works in my shop** Watercolor painting of a classic Venetian view including canal gondola and the famous church in the background, 4 1/2" by 7 1/2" (10" by 13 1/4" as framed without glass), signed at lower right corner "G. Romanello". This is a twentieth century work, perhaps from the 1950's, or, possibly, earlier. I do not see a listing for the name...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #1185388 (stock #8130)
Cement Truck, Bethesda

James Francis O’Brien (American, 1917-1996)

Oil on canvas, signed, located and inscribed on the reverse.

Painting size: 25” x 20”
Frame size: 30” x 25”

** Please Note - This painting came directly from the Estate of Mr. O’Brien. For other examples, type “O’Brien” into the search box...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : French : Pre 1960 item #1419606 (stock #JB02540)
Oil on canvas landscape painting of a traditional home at the edge of a pond in mid summer, 20 1/2" by 17 1/4" (24 1/2" by 21" framed in older gold interesting frame), signed at lower right corner J. D. Prenne or possibly J.De Prenne. I do not see a listing for that name as spelled but will continue to search. The painting is very nicely executed and pleasing to the eye; it's a very relaxing and calming view...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1417543 (stock #JB05175)
An illustration art-style color drawing (ink and watercolor) of a pipe-smoking uniformed military officer, possibly a general or other top brass, surrounded by cupids playing with military equipment such as mobile guns, a drone bomb, etc., signed with a capital W in a circle at lower right. It has been suggested to me that this could be a British military colonel (I originally thought him American)...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #55656
This OIL ON CANVAS was Painted by Washington, DC area Artist: Lewis Barbour. This Still life has IRISES and other FLOWERS in a Vase. Unframed the size is 20" x 24 1/2". Signed lower right and dated 1952
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1452875 (stock #JB04615)
Fine, good-sized (18 1/2" by 23 1/2", 26" by 31 1/2" framed) watercolor painting of a two-masted sailing craft unfurling sails at the dock, birds circling overhead and two figures in a row boat at left, signed at lower right by noted American illustrator artist CHARLES E. PONT (1898-1971)...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1444884 (stock #1776)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,000.00
From our African Collection: A Luba Mask from the Democratic Republic of Congo, circa 1950. 12 x 16" h, 6.5" deep. The Luba people or Baluba are an ethno-linguistic group indigenous to the south-central region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The majority of them live in this country, residing mainly in its Katanga, Kasai, and Maniema provinces. The Baluba consist of many sub-groups who speak various dialects of Luba (e.g. Luba-Kasai, Luba-Katanga) or other languages, such as Swahili...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #1415518 (stock #JB04053)
A striking modernist work titled "Fantasia" and dated 1952, by Tucson Fine Arts Association member BESS WEST. The work , oil on canvasboard (18" by 14", and 18 1/2" by 22 1/2" in apparently original frame) is signed at lower right "B. WEST" and on reverse appears the title, artist name and date, and an original card from the Seventh Annual Independent Open Show in Tucson in 1953. The imagery features such icons of the Southwest as a saguaro cactus, cow skull, five-pointed stars, a western styl...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1440736 (stock #168)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,800.00
1940s "Fall in Virginia" signed J. Sargent. 22”x27”
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1421981 (stock #JB05321)
An impressionistic watercolor painting of trees on the bank of a small lake or pond, signed at lower right by artist "M. MASAHIRO". The vintage work is very faintly painted, almost in the manner of artist Yamada Baske. The tree trunks are the most distinct features, while much of the rest of the scene is filmy, gauzy, ephemeral, foggy. An impressive little work (6 1/2" by 13", 11 3/4" by 18" in metal frame). Allow for reflections in some images. Due to the fuzziness of the imagery itself, t...