Martin Peterson, American, 1866-1956, Etching, "Shortening the Sail", image size: 8 x 9 3/4", pencil signed
Very rare hand carved Baroque Church Putto (Cherub), wood with traces of gilding and polychrome paint, made for corner/angle where 2 walls join. Wood shows 2 cracks, toes of right foot are missing because of age, otherwise in good overall condition. Size: H. 12" x W. 9" x D. 8" Unique collector's item!
Nicolas Mignard, French, 1606-1668, "Odysseus and the Sirens". Etching by Nicolas Mignard after the frescoes of Annibale Carracci depicting scenes from Homer's Odyssey. Plate size 10 1/4 x 17 3/4, published by Pierre Mariette in 1637, with lettering in Latin below the image. Printed on a very early watermarked laid type paper.
Oil on board impressionist oil painting of architecture on dramatic coastal mountains, signed at lower right in red "A. Dickert" and titled there "Camogli". The coastal town renowned for its views is popular with tourists visiting the Liguria coast around Genoa. The work measures 13 1/4" by 10 1/4" (21" by 18" in its original black wood frame). The artist was born in 1878 but there appears to be little biographical information...
David Muirhead Bone, Scottish, 1876-1953, "The Piazza- Glasgow Exhibition," Etching, image size 4 1/2 x 6 7/8 inches, 1901, Dodgson 101, edition of about 90, plate signed l.l. "Muirhead Bone". the published edition of 90 proofs was not pencil signed.
This is an American painting from the first half of the 20th century, the subject gulls in flight. The unsigned oil on canvas measures 24" by 36", plus 2 1/2" of interesting Deco style weathered black painted wood frame on a side. I purchased this in Miami some years back, thinking the work bore considerable resemblance to the Florida-period works of JANE PETERSON (1876-1965), a major American artist who painted in South Florida for some time...
Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand, French, 1863-1951, "Sous les Figuires (Beneath the Fig Trees)". A romantic original etching by Louis Legrand, image size 12 1/4 x 18 1/4 inches, 1895, edition of 50, state V/V, cat: Arwas-102, pencil signed and numbered. Louis Legrand was an important artist of 'La Belle Epoch' in France of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He specialized in etchings of the women of Paris, from the wealthy elite to dancers and prostitutes...
Pierre Bonnard, French, 1867-1947, etching from the series "The Life of Saint Monique", "La Vie de Sainte Monique", image size: 6 7/8 x 4 5/8 inches, 1930, monogram in plate
Joseph Hirsch, American, 1910-1981, Lithograph, "Conference at the Bench", 1946, image size: 13 3/4X9",Edition of 250, published by Associated American Artists, Printed by George Miller, pencil signed
John Austin Sands Monks, American, 1850-1917, "Herd Returning Home". This is an atmospheric original etching of a herd of sheep by American artist John Austin Sands Monks. Image size 11 x 16 1/2 inches, c. 1880s, shepherd's crook remarque in the lower right corner, pencil signed. A rich impression with beautiful plate tone and ample margins on Japan paper.
Arthur Heintzelman, American, 1891-1965, "La Femme à la Mêche Tombante," drypoint etching, 8½ x 11-3/8 inches on 16 1/2 x 13 3/4 inch laid type paper. C. 1929. Editioned in pencil in the lower left, signed in the lower right. Edition of 75. The subject is the artist's wife, Katherine Sloman Heintzelman. Catalog: Smith 142.
Original lithograph print, 13 1/2" by 10" inside the innermost of three mats, 21 1/4" by 17 1/2" as framed, the title "Le Ballet: Daphnis et Chloe", printed by Atelier Mourlot, 1969, in an edition of 10,000, as included in Drawings and Watercolors for The Ballet by Jacques Lassaigne, published in 1969 by Tudor Publishing. This is classic Chagall imagery, poetic and dream-like. Note the pipe-playing goat at lower left...
George O. Pop Hart, American, 1868-1933, "the Mule Car," Lithograph, image size 9 1/2 x 13 inches, 1928, pencil signed l.r. "Pop Hart".
Sir Francis Seymour Haden, British, 1818-1910, etching and drypoint on copper, "Dusty Millers", image size: 5 1/2 x 8 5/16 inches, dated 1877, state V/V, cat. Schneiderman-172, pencil signed lower right. One of Haden's intrestes apart from being a surgeon and printmaker was firshing...
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.
Oil on masonite, circa late 1940's or early 1950's, 16 1/2" by 23 1/2" (22" by 31 1/2" as framed), signed at lower left by Pittsburgh artist PERRY DAVIS. This is a beautifully painted work by an obviously talented artist, although I have not to date found a listing on him. There's a label on the reverse of the Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, 37th Annual Exhibition with the title, and artist's address. The painting has a strong WPA feeling to it...
Wonderful old oil painting on board of two hunting dog puppies quizzically studying a frog. Signed "Ida Graham" in lower left corner, in frame it measures 12" x 14", sight size 9" x 11".
Louis Orr
1879-1961
American
This is a rare early Louis Orr etching done while he was living in France. The title is: Hillside, Avignon France. It was created and printed in 1911 in an edition of 40 impressions. The image measures 8 7/8X 11 3/4 inches. Pencil signed lower right border. A fine study in shadows and highlights. This etching appears to be in the original frame, but in fine condition...