Expressionist Nude Study/Portrait of a Woman by Alexandra Kay, student of Cikovsky, Corcoran Gallery of Art. Probably one of the artist finest and largest works done… From the Cochran school of art where it was exhibited in the 1930s this oil which is unsigned shows the first black model of the school. Done in oil , more information coming soon…..

This work is oil on canvas 11 x 14 inches and frames 17 x 20 inches Artist Robert Watson (1923-2004) has explored a surreal, mysterious world inhabited by lonely figures...

Many artists in the 19 century travel to exotic Italy in the 1880s and 1870s as the John Singer Sargent. Cormens was one of those Artist. This work is of a Neapolitan beauty wearing gold jewelry possibly by the Italian craftsman Fortunato Pio Castellani. Hugh Cormens was an English artist with ties to the United States and exhibited in Europe

An original Acrylic Painting "EMERALD CAVE" by SWISS ARTIST Michael Maync, signed and dated on the back of the stretched canvas. No reference. Size: 80 cm x 60 cm. Can be shipped economically, rolled up in a tube.

A. WOLFFEROT Flemish Village Boat Scene o/copper 12x16” Set in a beautiful village, people are boating and merrymaking on a Saturday summer day.

Ukrainian Impressionist Anatolia Silia, “Springtime, Sunny Day”This work is signed and dated by the artist. Oil on canvas, measuring 24” x 18” , framed in a 19th century gold leafed carved frame that measures 33” x 27”. More information coming soon…

Kathleen’s work has been shown in the US department of State as well as many embassies around the world. She is known for her sumptuous Expressionist abstraction work. Kathleen said she had a vision to paint as a young girl and her parents bought her a paint box while she was recovering from an illness. She later studied in France Kathleen Hyland-Nesvig was born in Carroll, lowa, in 1941...

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...

Ferdinand Leeke (German 1859-1923)

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Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right, located “Meran” and dated “1906"

Painting Size: 39.5” x 31.75”
Frame Size: 48.25 ” x 40”

A painter of historical, genre and allegorical scenes, Leeke studied at the Munich Academy under Johann Herterich and with the Hungarian genre and landscape painter Alexander von Wagner...

Froylan Ojeda was born in 1932 in Veracruz. Ojeda, who possessed his own style since his beginnings in the study of art, developed fundamental qualities in the work of painter in both technique and subject matter. At the age of thirteen he was already enrolled in the National School of Plastic Arts, showing his teachers intuition to imitate and reinvent nature...

Claude Grosperrin (1939-1977) was a French Impressionist who painted during the middle of the 20th century. His interest in lithography began during his studies at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in the atelier of Brianchon. There he developed a love of the process, and soon his work caught on in local galleries. After some one-man exhibits in London and New York, Grosperrin received international attention...

An unsigned Cretan eighteenth century oil on panel painting depicting the Crucifixion, more information coming soon

Frank Vining Smith (1879 - July 30, 1967) was an American marine painter who specialized in sailing ships. Smith previously studied alongside Philip Hale, Frank Benson, and Edmund C. Tarbell at the Boston Museum School. He also attended Central Ontario Design School in Toronto and the Art Students League in New York City. After working for newspapers as an illustrator, he quit his job and devoted his time to painting naval scenes...

From our European Collection, a very fine original oil on canvas by German master Hermann Werner entitled "Playing with the Kittens," signed and dated 1868 on lower left. Hermann Werner (1816-1905) was active in the Dusseldorf and Berlin art circles mainly in the middle to late 1800's...

Renaissance Portrait of a Man by John Court, 1970. Attributed to Velasquez. 30 x 25". Frame Size 37 x 32". 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...

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...

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...