Catalog: Fine Art (2325)

African Luba Bone Nude Female Figure from the Democratic Republic of the Congo Lega peoples, circa 1940. Measures 10" tall. This possibly unique female figure in the corpus of Luba sculpture offers significant insights into the culture and worldview of the Congolese communities from whence it came...

African Lega Bone Figure from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, circa 1940. Measures 12" tall. The Lega peoples live on the southeastern edge of the central African rainforests of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. From the mid to late 1800s, the Lega and adjacent peoples were raided for the Indian Ocean trade in slaves and ivory. In 1885, the Lega were brought into the Congo Free State, which became the Belgian Congo in 1908...

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...

Portrait of T. Donaldson Strangeways, by artist Thomas Hastings, 1778-1864, Oil on Canvas 58 x 37". painter, draughtsman, watercolour artist and etcher of landscapes, topographical views, marine subjects and coast scenes. Born Thomas Barnett; changed his surname to Hastings in 1812, under which name he exhibited and published after this date. Officer in the British Army 1795-1811, Captain from 1799. Customs Officer from 1819...

From our African Collection: African Baule Colon Statue Pair, circa 1960. olon 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...

African Yoruba Beaded Vessel, measuring 4"d, 12" h. The arts of the Yoruba are as numerous as their deities, and many objects are placed on shrines to honor the gods and the ancestors. Beautiful sculpture abounds in wood and brass and the occasional terracotta. Varied masking traditions have resulted in a great diversity of mask forms...

From our African Collection: a Red Guro Mask from Guinea, circa 1970. This work measures 7 x 17' 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...

From our African Collection: a Guro Mask from Guinea, circa 1970. This work measures 6 x 18" 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...

From our African Collection: A Lwena Ceremonial Mask from Zambia, circa 1950 9 x 16" h . The Lwena people, also spelled Lovale,Luvale, Balovale, Lubale, as well as Lwena or Luena in Angola, are a Bantu ethnic group found in northwestern Zambia and southeastern Angola. They are closely related to the Lunda and Ndembu to the northeast, but they also share cultural similarities to the Kaonde to the east, and to the Chokwe and Luchazi, important groups of eastern Angola...

French school of David, portrait of an aristocratic woman measuring 31 x 27“ oil on canvas, Jacques-Louis David (French: [ʒaklwi david]; 30 August 1748 – 29 December 1825) was a French painter in the Neoclassical style, considered to be the preeminent painter of the era...

From our African Collection: Ngere Mask (also called Guéré or Wè, and Kran in Liberia), from South West Ivory Coast, Liberia. 7" x 12" h.

From our African Collection: a Guro Mask from Guinea, circa 1960...

Measuring 37” x 15” the sculpture is A beautiful mesmerizing piece of gilded artistry. Like most former (and present) capitals of Burma, Mandalay was founded on the wishes of the ruler of the day. On 13 February 1857, King Mindon founded a new royal capital at the foot of Mandalay Hill, ostensibly to fulfill a prophecy on the founding of a metropolis of Buddhism in that exact place on the occasion of the 2,400th jubilee of Buddhism.[10] King Mindon is the founder of Mandalay royal capit...

Hans Müller was born in 1873. He was a sculptor, and the son of Francis Xavier. Muller studied at the School of Applied Arts and Academy in Vienna under Edmund von Hellmer and Karl Ludwig August Kuehne. He worked from 1900 to 1905 in the studio of Friedrich Christoph Hausmann Frankfurt am Main. Since 1909, he has been a member of the Viennese artists cooperative.

Measuring 31 inches high by 14 inches deep by 14 inches wide made of exotic pinewood Sculpture depicting the God of plenty one of the immortal of Japan

Francis Hopkinson Smith, 1838-1915, was born in Baltimore Maryland the descendent of a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the first president of the Pennsylvania Academy of fine arts. He had a successful career as a naval engineer, working on such projects as the Statue of Liberty and the race rock lighthouse off Block Island. By the 1880s Smith gave up engineering to pursue art in writing among other pursuits. Smith was self taught and quickly achieve great skill and pastel charcoal...

A large scale Lithograph Landscape depicting a wooded scene with a River running towards a beautiful sunset. 19th century gilded ornate frame. Measuring 36x48”

Viacheslav SADOVOI Still Life floral oil on canvas in a gilded frame.. the artist is Ukrainian and paints in the style of Vincent Van Gogh with heavy impasto and pastel colors.

Ukrainian painter Viacheslav SADOVOI Still Life floral in oil measuring 14x11” in a carved gold frame

Fernand Guinier 1906-1972 Monte Saint Michel 12x16” Watercolor in a beautiful baroque goldleaf Frame. The artist was well known in the Montmartre area of Paris.

A Beautiful oil on tin, measuring 14 x 10“ of the Madonna and Child,Mexico. Eighteenth Century.

Fresco like work on canvas,oil on canvas, mixed with sand and gesso.. After an early Christian religious scene circa 400 ad, depicting a Saint and an Angel. measuring 41x50 inches….The Painting was done by a group of monks who were also Artist as a gift to the person who was a large benefactor of their church restoration in the 1970s .. the church was located near Lake Cuomo, Italy

Unsigned Abstract Expressionist oil on canvas circa 1965, New York School. Incredible work with fabulous impasto work, in its original gold Lattice frame.

A beautiful orientalist style portrait of an Arab Tribesman is measuring 32”x22” oil By Franz SEDLACEK,an Austrian Orientalist Artist. (21 January 1891 – 1945) was an Austrian painter who belonged to the tradition known as "New Objectivity" ("neue Sachlichkeit"), an artistic movement similar to Magical Realism. At the end of the Second World War he "disappeared" as a soldier of the Wehrmacht near Toruń, Poland. He was declared missing on February 1, 1945 and pronounced dead in 1972.

Peter Colasante, director of L’Enfant Gallery, has represented John Court since 1974, owns much of his work and has sponsored several exhibitions of his work since 1970's including in Washington DC and Palm Beach, Florida. Bio: John Court (1948 - ) is a portraitist and landscape painter. Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Court grew up in Maryland and Virginia. He began painting at age 11 and attended Cornell University, where he studied painting with Norman Daly, Kenneth Evett, and Gillian Pederson...

Azorean Coastline view from the sea, oil. Peter Colasante, director of L’Enfant Gallery, has represented John Court since 1974, owns much of his work and has sponsored several exhibitions of his work since 1970's including in Washington DC and Palm Beach, Florida. Bio: John Court (1948 - ) is a portraitist and landscape painter. Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Court grew up in Maryland and Virginia. He began painting at age 11 and attended Cornell University, where he studied painting with Nor...

British Artist Thomas Hunt 1854-1929, this scene depicts the Scottish highlands done around 1880. Although born in Skipton, Lancashire, Thomas Hunt, who studied at Leeds and at Glasgow School of Art, and later in Paris, lived a great part of his life in Glasgow. From 1881 he exhibited at many of the principal UK galleries, showing some 22 works at the Royal Academy, 64 at the Royal Scottish Academy, 129 at the Royal Scottish Society of Painters in Watercolours, 88 at the Royal Society of Painte...

Paul Berthon (Paul Emile Berthon, 15 March 1872 in Villefranche-sur-Saône – 15 February 1910 in Paris) was a French artist who produced primarily posters and lithographs.[1] Berthon's work is in the style of Art Nouveau, much like his contemporary Alphonse Mucha. Berthon studied as a painter in Villefranche-sur-Saône before moving to Paris. He later enrolled at the Ecole Normale d'Enseignement de Dessin and received lessons in painting from Luc-Olivier Merson and lessons in decorative arts f...

Peter Colasante, director of L’Enfant Gallery, has represented John Court since 1974, owns much of his work and has sponsored several exhibitions of his work since 1970's including in Washington DC and Palm Beach, Florida. Bio: John Court (1948 - ) is a portraitist and landscape painter. Born in Annapolis, Maryland, Court grew up in Maryland and Virginia. He began painting at age 11 and attended Cornell University, where he studied painting with Norman Daly, Kenneth Evett, and Gillian Pederson...

Abstracted Figures by Ivory Coast Artist Ephrem Kouakou. Oil on Canvas 50x40” Ephrem Kouakou is one of the world’s foremost African painters. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland, and Ivory Coast, West Africa. His powerful, vivid paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC. and Fondo Del Sol Museum, Washington DC. He is noted for his bold blending of indigenous African visual sensibilities and fo....

Anne Lane is a Washington a D.C. Artist from the lane family of artist, known for brilliant works and beautiful portraits of men and women. Her collection is many places around the world including museums and public spaces This work is a beautiful piece with heavy impasto and beautiful red colors….. Anne Lane studied art at George Mason University in Virginia, completed her education at Saint Patrick’s college, Ireland, where she studied theology and philosophy. The tonal and contemplated in...

Paco Lane Master Artist cubist portrait 30x26”Paco Lane, is a Washington DC-based artist who has been painting in a myriad of styles for many years and is part of the Lane family of renown artist. This is from his cubist period and is a rare work to come up for sale Paco Jacques Lane was born on October 24, 1969 in Virginia just outside of Wash- ington DC. From an early childhood Paco was encouraged The artist in Greenwich CT, 2003. and allowed great freedom to pursue a natural interest ...

Paco Lane Master Artist Oil ” Paco Lane, is a Washington DC-based artist who has been painting in a myriad of styles for many years and is part of the Lane family of renown artist. This is from his cubist period and is a rare work to come up for sale

Paco Lane Master Artist Oil 30x24” Paco Lane, is a Washington DC-based artist who has been painting in a myriad of styles for many years and is part of the Lane family of renown artist. This is from his cubist period and is a rare work to come up for sale Paco Jacques Lane was born on October 24, 1969 in Virginia just outside of Wash- ington DC. From an early childhood Paco was encouraged The artist in Greenwich CT, 2003. and allowed great freedom to pursue a natural interest in the visu...

English Marine painter known for brilliant paintings of ships and seascapes. Painted oil on canvas measuring 32x42” in its original gold frame

18th Century Oil on Copper Dutch Stable Scene A beautiful oil on copper painting, European,depicting a village scene 18th Century of a stable. Extremely fine quality Circa 1700- 1800. measuring 16x23”,frame size 24x30” on reverse are several stamps from the Royal Dutch Museum Framed in a mid-nineteenth century gold leafed carved frame.

Hungarian early 20th century Modernist oil on canvas measuring 29x34 inch depicting a meadow with horses in the countryside

Beautiful watercolor by the Washington DC Artist Henry Olson dated 1958 smack dab in the middle of Washington Art Society. He belonged to the Society of Washington Artists, Washington Watercolor Club, Washington Art Club, and the American Association of University Professors. During his tenure he was an active member and served as the President of the Washington Watercolor Club for two different terms, first in the 50s and later in the 70s. Olson was born in Canton, Ohio, studied at Columbu...

Mr Gironés came to America in 1998 and had his first one-man show of the United States in November of that year, After the success of his first show, the Spaniards decided to return the following April to paint the gardens investors in and around the Washington area PRICE FIRM

M. J. Colton ARCHER “Washer Women” Oil 33x27” Beautiful oil on canvas work painted in the 1940s

27x22” Oil on canvas with a handmade frame Outside artist Julien Lucien Crump,Philadelphia 1934-2006 I AM WHAT I AM “ 30”x40 acrylic on panel from the Philadelphia Inquirer the following, The Lucien Crump Art Gallery and Education Center closed its doors for the final time Friday after 40 years of serving Philadelphia as the first to feature works by African-American artists. The gallery’s namesake, who had a long career as an artist and educator, passed away at age 71 in 2006. In the la...

American Artist Stephen Krueger oil on canvas titled VINYARD measuring 27 x 35“ framed

From our African Collection: An African Mitsogo Doll from Gabon, circa 1950. The Mitsogo or Tsogo are an ethno-cultural group from the highlands of Gabon. They reside mainly in Ngounié Province to the north and east of Mouila. Numbering around 13,000, they speak the Tsogo language. In the late 19th and early 20th century they were known for their fierce resistance to the French.There are about 13,000 Mitsogo people who speak the Tsogo language. They reside mainly in Ngounié Province in sou...

Sometimes called the Mayor of Tyson Street, Edward "Eddie" Rosenfeld (1906-1983) was a Baltimore based artist, whose works are owned by the JMM, Baltimore Museum of Art, Phillips Collection and American University Gallery (both in Washington, DC). His artistic style has been classified as "expressionistic" and "alive with gutsy realism." Mr. Rosenfeld was called "The Mayor of Tyson Street" because he began the regentrification process in Mt. Vernon in 1945.

From our African Collection: Fante Akuaba Doll, circa 1960. Akua'ba (sometimes spelled Akwaba or Akuba) are wooden ritual fertility dolls from Southern Ghana and nearby areas. The best known akua'ba are those of the Fanti people, “Fanti Dolls” whose akua'ba have large, disc-like heads. Other tribes in the West Africa region (f.ex. Kru and Igbo people) have their own distinctive style of akua'ba. Traditionally, these dolls are carried on the back of young women either hoping to conceiv...

From our African Collection: Fante Akuaba Doll, circa 1960. Akua'ba (sometimes spelled Akwaba or Akuba) are wooden ritual fertility dolls from Southern Ghana and nearby areas. The best known akua'ba are those of the Fanti people, “Fanti Dolls” whose akua'ba have large, disc-like heads. Other tribes in the West Africa region (f.ex. Kru and Igbo people) have their own distinctive style of akua'ba. Traditionally, these dolls are carried on the back of young women either hoping to conceiv...

From our African Collection: African Dan Figure with Beads & Child, circa 1950 The Dan world view holds that everything can be divided into two separate and clear categories. The primary dichotomy is between village and bush, in other words, things that have been controlled by man and things that have not. Crossing over the dividing line is dangerous business, and whenever it is done, whether to clear new fields or simply crossing the forest, the bush spirits must be appeased. In order to tak...

From our African Collection: Bante Middle Ivory Coast Female Figure, circa 1950s.

From our African Collection: Cameroon Grasslands Bronze Mask, circa 1900. The Cameroon Grasslands is a large cultural area, which is inhabited by a large number of related peoples. These peoples can be divided into three smaller subgroups: Bamilike, Bamum, and Bamenda Tikar. Within these complexes there are numerous smaller ethnic groups, which are loosely affiliated with one another and share many historical and political similarities while retaining separate identities. All members of this ...

British Artist Ian Hooker oil on paper 24 x 29” A beautifully framed work of a landscape with a beautiful sky, Signs lower right

From our African Collection: African Akan Seated Figure from Ghana The Akans consider themselves one nation. Akan means first, foremost, indicating the enlightened and civilized. While traditionally matrilineal, they are also united philosophically through 12 patrilineal spirit groups called the Ntoro or egya-bosom. The Akan are a meta-ethnicity living in the countries of present-day Ghana and Ivory Coast. The Akan language (also known as Twi/Fante) are a group of dialects within the Cent...

From our African Collection: A Kenyan Woman Figure from East Africa, circa 1980

28 x 34“ Watercolor on Paper with gouache highlights by Adele Giles Who is known for her fabulous Watercolors of New England

From our African Collection: an African Ewe Figure from Eastern Ghana from the mid 20th century. The Ewe are one of Ghana's five main ethnic groups (United States Jan. 2002) and reside mainly in the southeast region of the country (Ethnologue July 2002) but also inhabit the southern half of Togo (Ewe Culture 2002). According to an article by professor D.E.K. Amenumey, the Ewe people originally came from Ketu, a Yoruba area in modern day Benin, but were eventually forced to migrate eastward as...

Bonner Bentley Oil on Canvas Still Life Abstract 33x27” dated 1957 Beautiful work that is from a master Painter

From our African Collection: This "Ikenga" Southeast Nigerian Shrine Figure is from the Early to mid 20th century. A characteristic of all Ikenga Shrine Figures are their exaggerated bull horns. The basic form of an ikenga is a human figure with horns symbolizing power, sometimes reduced to only a head with horns on a base.

Abstracted Figures by Ivory Coast Artist Ephrem Kouakou. Oil on Canvas. Ephrem Kouakou is one of the world’s foremost African painters. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland, and Ivory Coast, West Africa. His powerful, vivid paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC. and Fondo Del Sol Museum, Washington DC. He is noted for his bold blending of indigenous African visual sensibilities and fo...

From our African Collection: Democratic Republic of the Congo Figure, circa 1960s

Germany 1930s period Lithograph “Modernist Workers” 27x39” Greater German Reich[h] from 1943 to 1945, was the German state between 1933 and 1945, when Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party controlled the country which they transformed into a dictatorship. Under Hitler's rule, Germany quickly became a totalitarian state where nearly all aspects of life were controlled by the government. The Third Reich,[i] meaning "Third Realm" or "Third Empire", alluded to the Nazis' conceit that Nazi Germany wa...

Early 20th century Italian Etching of the Colosseum 36 x 22” A beautiful fine Engraved Etching of the Colosseum in Rome Italy measuring 36 x 22“ and a beautiful married and finished Frame, made for propaganda for the Modern Italy