L'Enfant Gallery - Fine Art Paintings, Asian Art, Antiques
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1950 item #1445675 (stock #1736)
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Buddha Sculpture Info & Price Pending, Chinese
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Contemporary item #1445674 (stock #1870)
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$4,500.00
Saarinen's model 61 "Grasshopper " chair was the first lounge chair he designed for Knoll in 1946. Responding to what he saw as the relaxed posture a sitter desires, he sought to support the seat, back, shoulders, and head in an organized way. His desire to simplify a form to its fewest elements resulted in the arms and legs all being connected and formed of laminated birch. This is a rare prototype example in original condition that as its original upholstery Dimensions Height: 34.75 in...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1445486 (stock #1866)
L'Enfant Gallery
$5,000.00
Ohio River branch Artist, school of Hudson river school painters, on signs beautiful landscape with Carl’s measuring 30 x 50“ circa 1860 in its original Gilded Frame. Beautiful fresh colors.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1445422 (stock #1865)
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$4,500.00
A 1950s Modernist painting done in the Abstract Style that was very contemporary at the time beautifully done in oil, still life with striped cloth measures 24 x 20 an artist Panel Canvas see also #1250 for a very similar work by another artist that was their friend
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1970 item #1445411 (stock #1862)
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$500.00
Painting on silk Indian Elephant measuring 39x49 inches in an antique gilded frame, Early 20th Century Vintage
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Charcoal : Pre 1910 item #1445407 (stock #1856)
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$7,500.00
American F. Livingstone Artist Charcoal Portrait of General Pershing 29x24 John Joseph Pershing GCB (September 13, 1860 – July 15, 1948), nicknamed "Black Jack", was a senior United States Army officer. He served most famously as the commander of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) on the Western Front in World War I, 1917–18. In addition to leading the A.E.F...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1990 item #1445356 (stock #1860)
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$2,400.00
Max Kassler, American 1905–1992 was an abstract Artist known for some of the most unusual experimental work based on the human figure He was an early student of the Picasso school of painting. This work culminated his idea of abstraction in space…. Max Kassler, American 1905–1992 was an abstract Artist known for some of the most unusual experimental work based on the human figure He was an early student of the Picasso school of painting...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1970 item #1445350 (stock #1859)
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$2,200.00
See that young Washington DC Artist dated 1970, little girl with doll, Oil on canvas Abstract
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Contemporary item #1445347 (stock #1858)
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$900.00
American minimalist artist Jacqui McBride doing painter known for her beautiful oils with minimalist colors and realistic scenes this work is a oil on canvas sunset over Newport measuring, pupil of renowned Romantic painter John Court. 6 x 12“
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1940 item #1445333 (stock #1741)
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$7,500.00
From our African Collection: An Old Base with Yoruba Spiritual Figure, the base measures 12" across x 30" h. Circa 1940. "The Yoruba people (Yoruba: Ìran Yorùbá) are an ethnic group that inhabits western Africa, mainly the countries of Nigeria, Benin, and Togo. The Yoruba constitute around 30 million people in Africa...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1950 item #1445330 (stock #1748)
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$1,250.00
From our African Collection: A Nigerian Eket Figure, circa 1950. 5 x 18". "The Eket are a people who live in this region. They are a sub-group of the Ibibio people. Eket is also the name of the main sub-language that they speak, a Benue–Congo language. Both languages are similar, but sufficiently distinct to give away the precise district the speaker originates from...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1950 item #1445328 (stock #1747)
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$1,875.00
From our African Collection: A Luba (Lubua) figure from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. 7 x 27"h. "The Lulua tribes people, also known as Bena Lulua, migrated from western Africa during the 18th century and settled in the southern part of the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire). They number 300,000 and live in small regional chiefdoms and in times of crisis elect a single common leader. The role of the village chief is to ensure juridical, political and social cohesion...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1445315 (stock #1746)
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$2,500.00
From our African Collection: A Nkondi nail figure from Congo, circa 1950. 12" x 24" h. Nkondi (plural varies minkondi, zinkondi, or ninkondi)are mystical statuettes made by the Kongo people of the Congo region. Nkondi are a subclass of minkisi that are considered aggressive. The name nkondi derives from the verb -konda, meaning "to hunt" and thus nkondi means "hunter" because they can hunt down and attack wrong-doers, witches, or enemies...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1445311 (stock #1745)
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$500.00
From our African Collection: An Ibibio Movable Jaw Mask from southeastern Nigeria. Ibibio, people of southeastern Nigeria, mainly in the Cross River state. They speak dialects of Efik-Ibibio, a language now grouped within the Benue-Congo branch of the Niger-Congo language family. The Ibibio comprise the following major divisions: Efik, Northern (Enyong), Southern (Eket), Delta (Andoni-Ibeno), Western (Anang), and Eastern (the Ibibio proper)...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1445295 (stock #1751)
L'Enfant Gallery
$750.00
From our African Collection: A Male Rhythm Pounder of the Senufo peoples, Ivory Coast Africa, circa 1960. The Senufo people, also known as Siena, Senefo, Sene, Senoufo, and Syénambélé, are a West African ethnolinguistic group...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1445288 (stock #1749)
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$750.00
From our African Collection: Ivory Coast Figure, circa 1960. Côte d’Ivoire was inhabited in the Neolithic era and possibly earlier, although the humid climate has effaced most traces of the country’s earliest civilizations. Portuguese explorers arrived in the early 1600s, and French missionaries landed near the Gold Coast (Ghana) border in 1637. European contact was limited until the 19th century, mainly due to inhospitable geography along the coastline...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1940 item #1445286 (stock #1756)
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$1,500.00
From our African Collection: An Eastern Congo Stool, circa 1950.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1950 item #1445281 (stock #1755)
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$7,500.00
From our African Collection: Salampasu Ceremonial Mask with Rafia straw, from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Circa 1950. '“The 60,000 Salampasu people live on the frontier between the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) and Angola. They maintain strong commercial and cultural relations with their southern neighbours, the Tschokwe (Chokwe) and the Lunda, to whom they pay tribute. The Salampasu are ultimately governed by a few high-ranking chiefs who are, in turn, assisted...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1445274 (stock #1754)
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$725.00
From our African Collection: A Zande figure, circa 1960. From Northeastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, 16" h. Zande, also called Azande, also spelled Asande, a people of Central Africa who speak a language of the Adamawa-Ubangi branch of the Niger-Congo language family. Extending across the Nile-Congo drainage divide, they live partly in South Sudan, partly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and partly in the Central African Republic. The regions they inhabit, savanna in the nort...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1445272 (stock #1753)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,000.00
From our African Collection: African Teke Figure from the Republic of Congo. 18" h. “The Teke people settled in a territory lying across the Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire) and Gabon. During the 15th century, they were integrated into the Tio kingdom, but attained independence in the 17th century. Today, they live in villages led by a clan elder known as the Mfumu, who answers to a hereditary land-chief called Mfumu na tzee. Their economy is mainly based...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1900 item #1445271 (stock #3220)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,500.00
African Drum Democratic Republic of the Congo, 24" long.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1960 item #1445036 (stock #1849)
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$12,000.00
Richard Hayley Lever (28 September 1875 – 6 December 1958) was an Australian-American painter, etcher, lecturer and art teacher. His work was part of the art competitions at the 1928 Summer Olympics and the 1932 Summer Olympics. Lever was born in Bowden, South Australia on 28 September 1875, the son of Albion W. Lever.[2] He excelled in painting classes at Prince Alfred College under James Ashton and on leaving school continued to study under Ashton at his Norwood art school. He was a charter ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 2000 item #1445034 (stock #1199)
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$2,500.00
Alexandre Grégoire (August 29, 1922 – July 28, 2001) was a Haitian painter who typically depicted scenes of Vodou, daily life, and historical events in the naïve style. Born in Jacmel, Grégoire was educated from 1930 to 1937 by the Christian Teaching Brothers, and then studied cabinet making at the Jacmel vocational school for two years. In 1939 he joined the army and played the tuba and saxophone in the army band. He stayed in the army until the 1950s; during the presidency of Paul Magl...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1970 item #1445033 (stock #1851)
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$5,500.00
Beautiful floral still life oil on canvas measuring 29 x 34“ circa 1970 unsigned
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1445032 (stock #1845)
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$3,500.00
Watercolor and Paper and measurin 28 x 36“ framed and matted and a beautiful presentation Frame
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 2000 item #1445030 (stock #1847)
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$11,000.00
The artist returned to Ellis Island to paint the location where he had first entered the United States in 1925. Adolf Konrad was born in Bremen, Germany in 1915; he died in 2003. The family settled in Newark, NJ and young Adolf studied at the Newark School of Fine Arts. He would later become a favorite of the Newark Museum, fondly known as the painter laureate of New Jersey’s largest city. His work was often compared to Edward Hopper’s—in fact, the two shared a New York exhibition in 1962....
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1950 item #1444974 (stock #1759)
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From our African Collection: An African Songye Mask, 11" x 24" h. The Songye people, sometimes written Songe, are a Bantu ethnic group from the central Democratic Republic of the Congo. They inhabit a vast territory between the Sankuru and Lubilash rivers west and the Lualaba River in the east, a vast group of villages can be found in present-day East Kasai province, parts of Katanga and Kivu Province.The people of Songye are divided into thirty-four conglomerate societies, each society is l...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1444971 (stock #1758)
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$1,250.00
From our African Collection: A 3 Part Dogon Wooden Sculpture from Mali, circa 1960. 24" h. The Dogon are best known for their religious traditions, their mask dances, wooden sculpture, and their architecture. Since the twentieth century, there have been significant changes in the social organisation, material culture and beliefs of the Dogon, in part because Dogon country is one of Mali's major tourist attractions The Dogon (or Kaador, Kaado) are an ethnic group indigenous to the central plat...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1444969 (stock #1757)
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$875.00
From our African Collection: African Baule Statue , circa 1960. Colon statues, a term derived from the French statues colon ("colon" is the French noun for a colonist), are a genre of wooden figurative sculpture within African art which originated during the colonial period. The statues commonly depict European colonial officials such as civil servants, doctors, soldiers or technicians or Europeanised middle-class Africans. They are often characterised by recurrent decorative motifs, such as pit...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1970 item #1444968 (stock #1763)
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$1,500.00
Danish maker MIK Pair of Carved figure all lamps 16 inches tall
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Iron : Pre 1920 item #1444964 (stock #1766)
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$1,125.00
An African Makonde Kneeling Figure, circa 1900. 1.5" w , 10" h. The Makonde are known as master carvers throughout East Africa, and their statuary can be found being sold in tourist markets and in museums alike.The name Makonde art refers to East African sculptures or, less frequently, to modern paintings created by craftspeople or artists belonging to the Makonde people of northern Mozambique and southern Tanzania, separated by the Ruvuma river. Art historians, dealers and collectors have c...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1920 item #1444963 (stock #1761)
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$1,000.00
African Baule Figure, 3" x 12"h, circa 1900. The Baule create art in several media, including wooden sculpture, gold and brass casting similar to their Asante ancestors, and mask and figure carving, which have been greatly influenced by their Senufo and Guro neighbors. The Baule belong to the Akan peoples who inhabit Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire. Three hundred years ago the Baule people migrated westward from Ghana when the Asante rose to power. The tale of how they broke away from the Asante has b...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1910 item #1444950 (stock #1840)
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$45,000.00
Attributed to the orientalist painter Karl Leopold Müller, The German painter 1834-1892. One of Mueller‘s most important compositions marketplace Cairo commission by the Austrian state on the advice of the historian, patron and government minister Rudolph Eitelberger is now in the Austrian gallery in Vienna
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1950 item #1444893 (stock #1767)
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$750.00
Nigerian Cone Figure with three horns, black and white detailing. circa 1950. 4 x 13" h.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1950 item #1444892 (stock #1762)
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$320.00
African Ivory Coast Horned Mask, 8 x 16" h.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1960 item #1444889 (stock #1765)
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$375.00
From our African Collection: Gray Guro Mask 8 x 16"h. 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. Village life is regulated by a council of elders, representing each main family, and by secret societi...