An antique chinese painting

Fine etching, of desirable subject matter, titled at lower left margin "Marble Game", signed at lower right margin and numbered there 15/40 by the noted American artist WILLIAM WOLFSON (1894-1966). This is a wonderful image of boys playing their very basic game in the middle of a gritty urban street, by an artist who is generally grouped with the Ashcan School of social realism of the early part of the 20th century...

A good maritime oil on canvass painting of a fishing sloop in a turbulent sea. Signed "IR Lowd" at lower right. The stretcher is pencil signed "Fishermen in a Winter Sea/Winter Rig/Flat Roof". The canvas is an older, probably original giltwood frame. Found in Maine.

Ca. 1920. Condition: fine condition; no repairs; a 1/4" area of flaked paint. Canvas Size: 12-1/2" x 14-1/2". Framed Size: 14" x 16".

Pastel on paper drawing of desert mountains and cacti, 17" by 23" (24" by 30" framed), signed at lower right in pencil and dated there 1922 by listed southwestern American woman artist BETH MacLAFFERTY BLAKE (1901-1993). This would have been among the earlier works of an artist who was born in Berkeley, California and went on to become a well regarded talent in the Southwest. Blake was a pupil of Perham Nahl, Ray Boynton, Hans Hofmann, Chiura Obata, Karl Neuhaus and Millard Sheets...

Winter Landscape by Sven Rasmussen Swendsen. Oil on Canvas. 14 x 20. Frame Size 20 x 26". Swendsen (March 21, 1864 – September 6, 1945) was a Norwegian American impressionist artist. Swendsen is most known for his rural scenes, marine views, and snowy landscapes of Norway. In 1881, he immigrated to America and settled in Chicago, Illinois. Swendsen had studied with Norwegian painter and engraver Fritz Thaulow. Swendsen also studied with Edward F...

Still life of lilies by Hannah C Groves, circa. 1920’s, signed lower right, oil on canvas, 35" x 34”, framed. Bio: Hannah Cutler Groves (1868-1952) was an American portrait, miniature, history, landscape and still life painter. Groves was born in Camden, NJ in 1868, the daughter of Harman E. Baugh of Merchantville, NJ...

Town scape of Ancona Italy done in the 1930s the work reminds one of the studies Pierre Bonnard did of the 1920s. The work is signed M. Arniguat

William Lee Hankey, 1869-1952 British, "The Birthday", etching and drypoint, image size 9 1/4X9 inches, pencil signed, artists blindstamp

Original ink drawing on brown paper circa 1921 by Isidor Ascheim (German-born Israeli artist, 1891-1968). Well framed. Signed l.r. Also identified by two labels from Denenberg Fine Art, Boston, verso. 17" by 13" work alone, 20" by 16" in frame. Isidor Ascheim is an important Israeli artist who studied in Breslau with Otto Mueller and Fryederyk Pautsch. He emigrated to Israel in 1939. His works are in the collections of a number of museums.

Warren Davis, American, 1865-1928, "The Squirrel". A beautiful original etching by Warren Davis, this image measures 7 3/4 x 5 7/8 inches, pencil signed. Warren Davis studied at the Art Students League in New York and became known for his etchings of idealized female figures, many of which were used on the covers of Vanity Fair and Life magazines. Later in his career Davis exhibited in Europe and the United States including the Pennsylvania Academy and the Salmagundi Club...

Luigi Kasimir, Etching 13x8 inches, frame size 18x14” Kashmir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter...

Louis Icart 1888-1950 French THis is a fine color aquatint etching by French artist Louis Icart. The title is: La robe de chine,( The Silk Robe) created and printed in 1926, published by Les Graveurs Modernes, 194 rue de Rivoli, Paris. The image measures 15X18 1/4 inches. Hand signed in pencil lower right also with the windmill blindstamp and copyright information in the upper left corner. Very rich color remains, nice condition..This image appears in the Holland catalog as number 276.

An oil on board painting of flowers in a green vase against a tan/brown background, signed at lower left with monogram of a capital "B" in a circle. The oil, 12" by 9" and 16 1/2" by 13 1/2" framed, was beautifully painted by an unknown hand. For a number of years I have attempted to learn the identity of the artist, so far without success. The board size and handwriting on reverse suggest the artist was American...

Something of a frustrating, mystery painting.......oil on canvas, 36" by 23 1/2" (44" by 31 1/2" framed), apparently unsigned, probably American but could also be European, the subject a view onto a small inner courtyard or air shaft, seen through an interior doorway. The work certainly exhibits a modernist touch in some spiky passages in the vegetation, and the choice of red/orange color contrasting with the other more somber tones...

Still Life with Fruit by Harris. (1929) Framed Oil on Canvas. 22 x 30". Frame Size 28 x 36". Former artwork of the Corcoran Collection.

Georges d'Espagnat born August 14, 1870 in Melun and died April 17, 1950 in Paris is a French painter, illustrator and engraver. Woman with a straw hat measuring 25 x 25“, frame size 33 x 33“ signed upper right. Biography In 1888, Georges d'Espagnat entered the School of Decorative Arts and the School of Fine Arts in Paris...

Arthur J. T. Briscoe, British, 1873-1943, "Casting Her Off". This 1927 marine etching by the British printmaker Arthur Briscoe measures 9 7/8 x 15 7/8 inches, hand signed in inked and editioned as 58/75. Briscoe studied at the Slade Art School and the Academy Julian in Paris and then spent the rest of his time sailing, becoming one of the most prominent British marine artists of the 20th century. He owned his own three ton cutter which he used to sail around the Essex coast...

A Beautiful and fascinating Nude portrait of Kiki de Montparnasse a French model,done in the 1920s In a beautiful gilded carved frame. Alice Ernestine Prin (2 October 1901 – 29 April 1953), nicknamed the Queen of Montparnasse, and often known as Kiki de Montparnasse, was a French artist's model, literary muse, nightclub singer, actress, memoirist and painter. She flourished in, and helped define, the liberated culture of Paris in the 1920s. A painter in her own right, in 1927 Prin had a sol...