All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Sculptural : Pre 1980 item #1439068 (stock #684)
Japanese 1974 glazed earthenware pot rare glaze 4.5”x4”
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Clay : Pre 1980 item #1389657
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$795.00
Alexander Ney Russian American sculptor "White Horn Pendant" white clay sculpted pendant or object with a row of holes for wearing or mounting , This was most likely made as a pendant unsigned size nearly 4.25" by 75" . This is from a very rare group of early miniature pieces . Developing several individualistic styles in modern art, he is most famous for his unique work in terra cotta sculpture, involving heavily perforated surfaces and intriguing forms...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1980 item #1057651 (stock #MM-S)
Original THEO MEIER sanguine portrait on paper of Northern Thai woman (Kan Keo) from Chiang Mai, signed bottom right, dated 1975, Size 75 x 55 cm. (famous Swiss artist 1908-1982).
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1980 item #1415946 (stock #JB03211)
Interesting contemporary work by artist MYRA AH CHEE (1931-), featuring not only the dot style that is most commonly seen in Australian aboriginal art, but also silhouetted or painted grubs, echidna, goanna lizards, ants, ticks---the insects and small animals of the central desert region. The artist was born in 1931 to a large family in Oodnadotta, but only within the last twenty years has she become active in producing art. She works in painting, linocut, batik, silk screen and pottery...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : East European : Pre 1980 item #1420515 (stock #JB04115)
An impressionistic andscape painting of a cottage by a pond in the spring, circa 1960's or 1970's, a flowering tree providing color as geese enter a pond. The unframed work measures 16" by 20" and is signed at lower right by artist KAROLY SINKA (1934-) The style is very reminiscent of Hungarian painter Laszlo Neogrady (1896-1962) and also of Hungarian painter Dande (1911-)...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1441090 (stock #935)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,200.00
This mid 20th century unsigned work brings the fresh flowers to life frozen in time. Oil on canvas measuring 24”x24”
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1442046 (stock #430)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,000.00
Outsider arts Philadelphia Artist Julian Crump, biblical quote Mixmedia 22 x 29“...........Typically, those labeled as outsider artists have little or no contact with the mainstream art world or art institutions. In many cases, their work is discovered only after their deaths. Often, outsider art illustrates extreme mental states, unconventional ideas, or elaborate fantasy worlds...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Clay : Pre 1980 item #1389593
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$995.00
Alexander Ney Russian American contemporary sculptor "Running Tiger" mid 1970s incised brown clay with a holes under side for mounting to a base, base not included. The artist initialed this piece "N 5" in his usual incised way. Size l nearly 5" by 2.5" high. This is from a very rare group of early miniature pieces most all were initialed in this way...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1191395
This is Maki's print 71-2, which tells us it was the second print that he created in 1971.
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1420520 (stock #JB04470)
Original mixed media (appears to be gouache, and reflective silver and gold paints, on paper) drawing, the subject two figures relaxing at a summery beach, a sunfish small boat off the beach, all bordered by a decorative modernist border with innumerable artistic shapes and unexplained elements. The drawing measures 8" by 10 3/4" (13 3/4" by 18 3/4" in metal frame---glass cracked at lower left and will need to be replaced)...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1980 item #1423433 (stock #JB03771)
Oil on canvas painting of a street scene, presumably in Israel, 16" by 11 1/4" framed, signed at lower left "Moshe M.". This does not appear to be by Moshe Mokady, the best known artist with whom that name corresponds closely. Nevertheless it is a competently handled work in excellent condition.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : East European : Pre 1980 item #1415845 (stock #JB0525)
This is a beautifully painted work, oil on canvas, measuring 24" by 16" (images show as framed, but frame is now unaccounted for), signed at lower right by noted 20th century Hungarian artist Antal Janczak (1907-1985, also spelled as Janczek). The artist's works sell regularly at auction in Europe. This one probably dates to the 1960's or 1970's...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : Pre 1980 item #611713 (stock #50)
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Cape Ann Harbor Scene oil on canvas 20" x 16" unframed Russ Webster was a long time resident of Lynn Massachusetts. He worked as a commercial artist at General Electric in Lynn Massachusetts. He studied in Rockport with Wayne Morrell, Paul Strisick and especially Emile A. Gruppe, who remained a long time friend and traveling companion. His studies with Gruppe took him to Florida, Northern New England and Europe. He paints in a characteristic Cape Ann style clearly influenced by Emile A...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1420584 (stock #JB03300)
Large opaque watercolor (gouache) of the historic, now highly desirable residential neighborhood known as Corinthian Island, near downtown Tiburon, California, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, signed at lower left by artist A. Simmons, and likely created circa 1960's or 1970's. The work measures 21" by 28 1/2" inside the mat and 30" by 37" nicely framed...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Clay : Pre 1980 item #1389658
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$595.00
Alexander Ney Russian American sculptor "Brown Bee Pendant" red brown clay sculpted pendant or object with 2 top holes for wearing or mounting , This was most likely made as a pendant signed N3 size nearly 3.75" by 2.25" incised bee on a leaf this was also cast in sterling silver listed in a separate lot picture included for reference only. This is from a very rare group of early miniature pieces ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : Pre 1980 item #1416455
Art Cache
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"Two Women at the Opera" oil on canvas 19 1/4" x 24 1/8" w/o frame, 29 1/2" x 34 1/2" w/ frame. Robert Philipp, painter and etcher was born February 2nd, 1895 in New York City. He studied at the Art Students' League whith Frank Vincent DuMond and George Bridgman from 1910 to 1914. He also studied at the National Academy of Design with Volk and Maynard from 1914 to 1917. Philipp painted a wide range of subjects from genre and portraits to Paris, bars, nudes, clowns, flowers and coasts...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1453100 (stock #1568)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,800.00
The watercolor on French paper framed measuring 20x16”. An interview with Marston Dean Hodgin conducted 1998 Aug...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1423243 (stock #JB04833)
An original watercolor painting, featuring a ceramic geisha, ceramic bird, and poppies in a bowl/vase, apparently unsigned, twentieth century. The work has been faded by sunlight over the years yet remains interesting. Measurements are 9" by 8 1/2" (15 1/2" by 15" in simple wood frame, which has a piece missing at upper extreme left corner). There are reflections at top of several images. Drawing is glued to a black backing sheet at top only (not fully "laid down"). E
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1420339 (stock #JB02422)
This is a museum poster or flyer issued by the Long Beach Museum of Art in 1972, advertising an exhibition that year of the paintings of the important and still highly underrated Swiss-California modernist HANS GUSTAV BURKHARDT (1904-1994). The unframed sheet measures 24 1/4" by 18", and bears the complementary signature of the artist in blue ink at lower right just below the black area of the central image. Burkhardt was born in Switzerland and arrived in America in 1924. He attended Cooper Uni...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1980 item #1483540 (stock #3564)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,500.00
A beautiful oil on canvas work that depicts different caricatures inspired by Vincent Van Gogh, measuring 39” x 49”
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Clay : Pre 1980 item #1389687
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$895.00
Alexander Ney Russian American contemporary sculptor " Flat Bird" N4 Alexander Nay brown terracotta carved figure of a bird,mid 1970s incised brown clay with a hole at back for mounting to a base, base not included. The artist initialed this piece" N 4 "in his usual incised way. Size 4.25" by 1.75" high . This is from a very rare group of early miniature pieces most all were initialed in this way. Developing several individualistic styles in modern art, he is most famous for his unique work in t...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1422805 (stock #JB04202)
Australian aboriginal art, painted on eucalyptus bark in the traditional manner, the imagery featuring four long-necked birds and leaves, against a patterned background. The work might bear the name of the artist on the reverse, written in white chalk, but that is indecipherable. The word "Mapuru" is readable; this is a remote, pure, isolated area of northeast Arnhem Land in the tropical north of the country, about 600 km. east of Darwin. Measurements are 21" by 12 1/2". The bark has natural...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1454384 (stock #612)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,900.00
A beautiful Oil Mountain Scene by American Artist Henry Lewis
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : East European : Pre 1980 item #1415890 (stock #JB03315)
ORIGINAL work, not a print as is commonly seen, 19" by 24" as framed, signed at lower right in white by the noted Croatian or Yugoslavian naive folk painter JOVAN OBICAN (1918-1986). This is a typical painting by the artist, featuring three traditionally dressed male figures, each holding a bird of some kind. The artist was born in Cannes, France to Yugoslavian parents, and at mid century had become quite an international sensation, selling to tourists and the famous alike, from a studio in Du...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Marker : Pre 1980 item #1450465
For the true R. CRUMB fan, after/in the style of famed comic art pop culture phenomenon R. CRUMB, an original drawing and associated writings, marker on standard yellow legal paper, two sheets, each 11" by 8 1/2". The figure in the imagery is a self portrait. THIS IS NOT BY THE ARTIST HIMSELF; the imagery was skillfully copied, apparently in the late 1970's from a splash panel of 1972's "The Confessions of R. Crumb", from THE PEOPLE'S COMICS, page 43. The sheets don't look all that yellow in th...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Clay : Pre 1980 item #1389597
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$795.00
Alexander Ney Russian American contemporary sculptor "Russian Egg" clay with a hole under side for mounting to a base, base not included. The artist initialed this piece "N 3" in his usual incised way. Size l nearly 2.75"" by 1.75" high. This is from a very rare group of early miniature pieces most all were initialed in this way. Developing several individualistic styles in modern art, he is most famous for his unique work in terra cotta sculpture, involving heavily perforated surfaces and intri...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : East European : Pre 1980 item #56580
This is an OIL PAINTING by ZANDOR. Two Ballerinas apppear getting ready to perform. Approx. 2.5' X 3.5' this PAINTING was originally purchased from a BAL HARBOR, Fla. gallery in the early '70's. Label and additonal info appear on the back. Signed LR: Zandor in script. Two BEAUTIES and tastefully done.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1440797 (stock #194)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,800.00
Dawn Beachscape by Edward Raletich, framed oil on canvas. 30 x 42".
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1444477 (stock #1253)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,800.00
British Artist Ian Hooker oil on paper 24 x 29” A beautifully framed work of a landscape with a beautiful sky, Signs lower right
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Clay : Pre 1980 item #1389649
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$695.00
Alexander Ney Russian American contemporary sculptor "Brown Mask" brown clay mask in an African style 4 holes at sides for wearing or mounting , This was most likely made as a pendant signed N2 size 2.5" by 1.5" . This is from a very rare group of early miniature pieces most all were initialed in this way. Developing several individualistic styles in modern art, he is most famous for his unique work in terra cotta sculpture, involving heavily perforated surfaces and intriguing forms. Notable co...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1418041 (stock #JB01746)
This is a watercolor signed at lower right by an unrecognized artist named "Andre" or "Audre", 11 1/2" by 8 1/2" (17 1/2" by 14 1/4" as framed), the subject a young girl in pigtails viewed from behind, playing a grand piano. The overall colors are a cool mix of white, black, silvery gray, and light blue, with pink accenting in her bow. The mat and silvery frame pick up the colors nicely. I will have to research this a bit but it seems the familiar image might be taken from a Norman Rockwell p...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1441544 (stock #264)
Spanish Gulf of Roses Watercolor, Girona, Spain. Salvador Dali had a studio in Girona, which is now the Dali Theatre-Museum. Beautiful watercolor signed FETTIG measuring 8 and2 x 11“, frame size 15 x 17“
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1030395 (stock #3016)
In The Life and Works of Haku Maki I refer fairly briefly to his Big Reds and other large prints of the late 1960s and early 1970s. In this Research Note I present a more thorough compendium of this type of image and commentary. If any readers know of an image which should be in this Note, please let me know. For now please enjoy these. Poem 70-63 (Me) was acquired in 2010. Poem 71-90 ed of 108 Dance 69-2 NOTE: This is the first part of a two-part note. The second part is Note 7 B.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : Pre 1980 item #1402017 (stock #875)
A original abstract expressionist oil painting on canvas signed lower left dated 1984 and on verso by Ken Stabler. Canvas size22 x 28" overall framed size 23 x 29 presented in a gallery frame ready to hang. A beautiful detailed painting in soft pastel colors
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1290682 (stock #150327)
The Tretiak Collection
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Big Green shows 4 moving figures.A similar image is in the US in the kas frane but it is 3 moving figures. I think these were not frequent uses for Maki Poem 71-84
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1421152 (stock #JB03304)
Two fine detailed drawings on tan paper, probably mid to late 20th century, one featuring a man with drum, two children and a goat, the other a man seated next to his wife, smoking a hookah in front of a house. The pair is nicely framed and ready to hang on the wall. The piece measures 12 1/2" by 17" framed. **Allow for reflections in some images**