Catalog: Fine Art: Paintings: Oil (112)

Jasper Cropsey, N.A. Hastings on Hudson, NY, 1823-1900. This watercolor on paper is a beautiful example of his sensitive paintings It is 14" W by 9" H in a nice modern frame. It is signed lower right and comes from an important private collection. His paintings sell for up to $600,000.

Joseph Mallord William Turner,(attributed to). This oil on canvas is 8 1/8" by 12 1/2" in a 3 1/2"carved guiltwood frame. It is in excellent condition and is signed and titled verso. This artist is considered a romantasist or a impressionist precursor. He is known for landscapes, lakes, castles, ruins, ships, coast lines and his paintings command up to $1,000,000.

Max Kuehne, New York, 1880-1968. This vivid impressionist painting is an exceptional example of Max Kuehne's work. It is 15 1/2" by 20" in a 3" original period American Impressionist gold leaf frame. It is in perfect condition and is signed lower right. It came directly out of the artist's estate. Born in Halle, Germany in 1880, Max Kuehne was a colorist who created cheerful landscapes that appear to be painted spontaneously and with freshness. He studied with William Merritt Chase and Kenneth Hayes at the Chase School in New York. In 1910, he embarked on a bicycling trip, traveling through England, France, Germany, Holland and Belgium. When he returned to New York City, he set up a studio in Greenwich Village and was a student of Robert Henri from whom he learned a dark impressionist style. He also became close with such avant garde artists as Guy Pene du Bois, William Glackens, William Zorach and Maurice and Charles Prendergast, which also influenced his dark work including street scenes and docks in New York City. However, three years in Spain, and painting trips to Gloucester lightened his palette as did time in Paris where he was much influenced by the Fauves, Nabis, and decorative painters. By 1912 he was producing work that would make him known as a "colourist of great distinction" by producing "paintings full of sparkling sunlight." He became a member of the artistic community later in Rockport, Massachusetts, with Gifford Beal, Leon Kroll, Paul Manship, Edward Hopper and Jonas Lie. Many of his finest paintings done later in his career are of the busy harbors and piers of Gloucester and Rockport. His work was widely exhibited including the National Academy of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburghand hie work is in The Detroit Institute of Arts, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art. He is listed in all the major books and sells for up to $38,000.

Max Kuehne,American, NY, 1880-1968, Oil on Canvas in original frames made by artist, 24" by 30" signed lower right. This is one a pair of florals that are perfect examples of his still lives. The brush work and colors are unmatched with interesting background and with one of a kind frames made for each painting. The artist has an extensive exhibition record with works in many American and European museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Victoria & Albert Museum. His auction records are up to about $20,000.

Circle of GASPARE DIZIANI (Italian 1686-1767) Two Mythological Scenes, possibly Venus and Adonis - a pair Oil on wood panel Apparently unsigned 17.75 inches x 12 inches (45.1 x 30.5 cm)

MArsh Avery, 1932-, American, Maine. Potrait of Woman in Green, Oil on canvasboard, 17" by 13", signed Marsh Avery LL. Verso Bearing an Esther Stuttman Gallery, 13 E 75th St , NY, 21 Inventory number #1549F Dated 1954.

Julian Walbridge Rix, Peacham, Vermont, 1850-1905. this oil on canvas is 14" by 17" in a beautiful 3 1/2" 19th C frame. It is in excellent condition with one older repair, and is signed lower right. He is listed in Who was Who in American Art and hie painting go up to $15,000.

Eliot Candee Clark, American, 1883-1980. This stunning pastel is 5.5"H by 11.5"W, pencil signed LL. Frame 13" by 19. Excellent condition.

John Costigan, RI and NY, 1888-1972. This painting is oil on canvasboard, 16" by 19 7/8" in a 5" impressionist frame. It is signed and inscribed with the artist's address on the reverse. It is in very good condition and is in a French Impressionist frame. Costigan has an extensive exhibition and award record at the Corcoran Gallery. His work is in the Museum of Modern Art, Cranbrook, Boston Museum among others. He is listed in Who was Who in American Art and will be the subject of an upcoming retrospective in New York.

Emile Albert Gruppe, New York Rochester, NY, Glouster, MA, 1896-1978. This oil on canvas is a scene in the Glouster Harbor of Gill Netter Boats at a Dock. It is 18 1/4"H by 20 1/4"W in a handsome 4 1/4" period frame. ( Overall Dimensions are 26 1/2" by 28 1/2".)The painting is signed lower right Emile Gruppe and signed verso Gill Netters by Emile Gruppe. It is in very good condition. His paintings sell for up to $52,000. He has a long listing in Who was Who in American Art. He was known as an Impressionist painter and the son of Charles Gruppe. He was known for his views of fishing boats docked at Glouster and Rockport and for his Rockport village scenes. His works are in museums: LA Museum, Witte Museum, Univ Idaho, Northampton, San Antonio, New Haven, White House Washington DC among many others.

George Inness N.A.,attributed, New York, New Jersey, 1825-1894. This golden glowing American Impressionist painting, "Landscape in Monclair, NJ " by Inness is 18" by 24" in a French style frame. It is signed G. Inness lower right. It is in good condition with evidence of small craquelure which has been restored and has been relined. Inness is considered to be one of the important Impressionist Painters in the Hudson River School. His paintings sell for up to $2 million. Inness is listed in Boswell, Dawdy, Fieldings, Hughes, Mallett, Samuels, and Who was Who in American Art. As with any artist worthy of the title, George Inness is not easily summed up. Often associated with the Hudson River School, he was, in fact, aesthetically in opposition to the large, detailed canvases which characterized the work of such painters as Thomas Cole (1801-1848) and Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900), two major representative painters of that group. Others see him as a transplanted member of the French Barbizon School, more in tune with their less grandiose, more intimate landscapes of homely, domesticated scenes of rural France. Still others as the title of this exhibition* indicates see him as a visionary theorist, painting dreamy landscapes fraught with symbolic messages and meanings. And, like any artist, these and many other attempts at pigeonholing might well fit part of the man and his work.

Gustave Courbet,(attributed) French, 1819-1877. La Recolte de Pommes de Terres, The Potato Gatherers is an impressive landscape with peasants harvesting potatoes in a rocky terrain. This large oil on canvas is 29"H by 36.5"W in the original 6" period frame. It has been lined and restored. Ir is signed though a ghost signature as a result of overcleaning in the 1990's. Provenance: Purchased by Jack Sartor, Dallas Art Dealer from a gallery in Pasadena, CA ca 1958. Sold to David R Russell, Dallas, Texas for his collection in 1960.(He submitted documentation to the Frick Museum, N.Y. see copies in 1960. It was signed at that time lower left.) Resold back to Jack Sartor after that and remained in the family. Bequethed to Scott Sartor, son. Bought by present owner in about 2006. Courbet is a famous and very well regarded artist whose work can be seen in most major museums such as the Metropolitain Museum, Musee D'Orsay, Paris, as well as at least 50 smaller museums. He is listed in Benezit and many other publication and his auctions records go up to $1.644 Million.

John Grillo, Calif, 1917- California. Oil on canvas, 40"h by 36"w, framed 45"h by 41", signed lower left. Provenance: Private Midwestern Collection, Bunte Auction, Illinois, Private Collection purchased from Artist.

Claude, French, 19th C. Provenance: Private Southern Collection, Private Collection Franco/American Collection by Family descent, Purchased in France early 20th C. This beautiful impressionist painting is from the late 19th to very early 20th C. It is a view of the river in Vetheuil in France. It is from a private collection of a french family that brought the painting from France where is was purchased in the late 19th C. this is the time that Claude Monet was actively painting in the village. It is likely that this is a painting by an artist in the entourage of Claude Monet. It is in good condition and signed lower left CLAUDE.

Frank Weston Benson, Salem, Massachusetts, 1862-1951. This gorgeous outdoor scene is about 14" by 20" sighted from the front, signed, in excellent condition,& from a private collection, and no auction records.

Circle of Henri Met De Bles, 1480-1550. This wonderful early painting is oil on Wood Panel is in an 18th-19th C Frame. It is 9.75"H by 14.75"W and is 17" by 22" in the frame. It has been restored and backed with wood. Henri Met De Bles, or Henri or Herri,was called Civette (owl) in Italy, also called Master Met den Nil. Born in 1480 in Bouvignes. Died after 1550. 16th Century, Flemish School.A painter of religious compositions, animated landscapes and drawings. His life is not well known but included time Italy in 1521, Amsterdam where he was a student of Franz Mostaert, Venice, that he died in Ferare in 1550 and was in the service of the dukes of Este. The authors are not in agreement about his name. Van Mander states that he took his name because of a patch of white hair on the back of his head. Others supposed that his name was a sort of nickname. Cronendale called him Henri Bles and he himself signed a painting “Adoration of the Kings” in the museum at Munich, Henricus Blesius. Contemporary and rival Joachim Patinier certainly thought that he was his nephew, in that, in 1535 he inscribed in a guild in Anvers under the name of Henri de Patinier. In Italy he was called “Civetta” (a small Owl), because he put in his works a small owl so well disguised, that many people could not find it. including Mander. One also sees the pseudonym Hendrik Met de Bles. He composed landscapes of some parts realistic unified within a part of an ideal whole,where he searched for new atmospheric effects. he was influenced by Bouts and Breughel. It seems that he realized a single stamp: Christ carrying the cross. He is represented in many museums: Amterdam, Anvers, Bale, Berlin, Brechia, Breslau, Brussels. Cologne, Copenhagen, Dresden, La Fer, Florence, Glaz, Grenoble, Hanover, Kassel, Liverpool, London, Madrid, Milan Montreal, Moscow, Munich Wales Naples, Rome Troyes Utrecht, Vienna. His painting sell for up to $500,000.

Francoise Charles Cachoud, French, 1866-1943. This pensive and beautifully painted French Country House Scene in the moonlight is another wonderful example of Cachoud's genius with light and shadow and contrast. It is oil on canvas 23" by 28" in a period 3" frame for dimensions of 29" by 34".

Oscar Kokoschka, 1886-1980, Oil on canvas signed lower right O K. The painting is in good condition and is 20 1/8"h by 14 3/8"w in a 4.25" period frame with outer dimensions of 27 1/8"h by 21.1/8"w. It is from a private midwestern collection. He was the son of a fairly poor Czech goldsmith, was born in Pochlam, Austria and raised in Vienna, the great hothouse of modernism in economic, social and ethnic areas. By the time he was twenty-two he was labeled a "public terror". He was the "enfant terrible" of Viennese Expressionism as early as 1907. He first caused an uproar at an 1908 exhibition in Vienna; he became so controversial that he fled to Berlin in 1909. His contact with German expressionists there helped deepen his art. Kokoschka had an extraordinary life which is mirrored in his art. He changed nationalities twice; he lived in practically half the capital cities of Europe and he survived two World Wars. His early drawings are related to the nervous mannered work of Klimt and Schiele. However, Kokoschka quickly came into his own, abandoning style in order to explore the inner feelings of his sitters. He painted only people who interested him and never allowed his sitters to pose. Instead, he would have them move around and would talk to them so that he could get a sense of their feelings and personalities. In 1915, although he did not even know how to ride a horse, he enlisted in an elite cavalry unit of the Austro-Hungarian army. Eventually, having been wounded in a lung and in the head, and suffering from shell shock, he retired to Dresden to convalesce. Not surprisingly, his art took an unexpected turn: he became a master of land- and cityscapes. At the age of sixty-two, Kokoschka was still as self-assured as ever. "Though I am no great painter", he said, "I prefer my own pictures to any other. Art is dying; I am its oxygen. When Kokoshka is finished, true art will be finished." Had Kokoschka stopped painting at the beginning of World War I, his place in art history would have already been secure. But he continued well into his eighties, producing an oeuvre of considerable vigor and strength. He was a skeptic but never a pessimist; he left behind a body of work that is ultimately life-affirming and optimistic. Just before World War II he fled to London. Throughout these decades Kokoschka remained the rebellious outsider. In and out of fashion, now poor, now prosperous, he pursued the role of an embattled humanist, crusading against the conformity of modern times. Kokoschka's last years were spent in Switzerland and Austria, where he taught, painted and worked on his memoirs. In 1953, he opened a summer art school called the School of Vision in a castle overlooking Salzburg. Young artists flocked there and impassioned and tireless, he worked with two hundred students every day. Kokoschka continued to pour his thought and vision into tempestuous, vibrant paintings which he signed with the brusque "O.K." that became famous throughout the art world.As the longest-lived of the Austrian Expressionists, Kokoschka also had the most protracted influence on the development of modern art, which can be seen both in the Abstract Expressionism of the 1950s and the Neo-Expressionism of the '80s. His paintings sell for up to $2,953,180 for one of his portraits.