All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1970 item #1422816 (stock #JB04452)
A very interesting and scarce double-page color lithograph print by the famous Spanish artist, JOAN MIRO (1893-1983), published in 1961 in "Derriere Le Miroir", measurements inside the mat 14 1/2" x 21", 21" by 27" as framed in metal frame. The perfect, classic addition to your contemporary interior. Condition seems to be very good overall, I note just a little browning, probably from tape residue showing from the reverse side, at very top and even less at very bottom...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1421048 (stock #JB04141)
A pair of framed watercolors, each signed by the artist, GEORGIA LEE, circa mid 1960's, the subject being familiar scenes of San Francisco: one, a pink hillside Mediterranean-style mansion most likely in the city's tony Pacific Heights section, (possibly on Divisadero, or Broderick or Fillmore); the other a downtown view towards the Ferry Building and the Embarcadero Freeway, (which was built in 1959---thereby helping us to date the works)...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1970 item #1470092 (stock #2946)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,200.00
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. This is part of the collection we have at the gallery. Automatic drawing was pioneered by the English artist Austin Osman Spare who wrote a chapter, Automatic Drawing as a Means to Art, in his book, The Book of Pleasure (1913
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1178747
A Fine Watercolor by the Listed French Artist, Jean Claude Imbert (1919-1993). Measures about 13 1/2" by 30", overall frame about 16 1/4" by 32 1/2".
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1063327 (stock #FA25)
Framed watercolor painting by Latin American artist of a village scene, signed “M. Figueras” (?).
CONDITION: The photo was taken with the glass, so there is some reflection in the photo.
MEASUREMENTS: Size: 14 ¾ x 18 ½ inches frame included.

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All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1416129 (stock #JB01138)
Watercolor on paper of shrimp trawlers in a harbor, 18" by 24" and about 3" of mat and frame on a side, signed at lower left "R. Hal Burriss". This is a clean, fresh watercolor by a noted American artist associated with Florida and Louisiana. The work reminds a bit of that of Rolland Golden, a popular New Orleans, Louisiana artist who often worked in watercolor, depicting similar subject matter...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1970 item #1481222 (stock #3462)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,000.00
A magnificent oil on canvas color block study circa 1970, done in the time of then Abstract Expressionist period of Art. Unsigned measuring 59” x 41” Please see #3463 for a matching artwork
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pen : Pre 1970 item #1423156 (stock #JB04649)
A modernist line drawing of a man in thin marker or ink, unsigned, the artist unknown, detail of the face especially indicative of the skill of the artist. The work probably dates to about 1970. Size 7 1/2" by 4" inside the mat, and 10 1/4" by 6 3/4" in silvery wood frame. Condition is excellent. Word "Al" written in pencil on reverse side. There are reflections in the images.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1970 item #888417
Friedrich (Fritz) Heubner, 1896-1974, German, drypoint etching, "Portrait of a Young Woman ("Madchenkopf"), image size 12 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches, pencil signed
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1420648 (stock #JB05101)
A watercolor painting of a tall pagoda, 20 1/2" by 11" (24 3/4" by 15" framed), signed at lower right by artist JI WON CHANG and dated 1968. This being a common Chinese name, it is difficult to tie this work to a particular artist, and there are no apparent auction records under this name. Nevertheless we see a competently created work, in a difficult to master medium; consider the complex fleshing-out of the tower's detail...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1970 item #1303430 (stock #21726)
Original oil painting on canvas by Jan De Ruth (American, born in Czechosloviakia, 1922-1991) mid-century, in excellent original condition, original gallery frame still bearing a label from the Harbor Gallery in Long Island stating the name of the artist, the title of the piece, the medium, and the original price. Signed "Jan De Ruth" lower left. 24 1/2" by 21 1/2" in frame, 16" by 13" painting alone. Jan de Ruth is a well listed American artist...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1970 item #1461432 (stock #2599)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,500.00
Abstract Male Figure Oil and Pastel Signed “Luke ‘62” Measuring 28”x23” the work depicts possibly a magician standing
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1421741 (stock #JB05249)
A watercolor on paper of people conversing and socializing in a square or city street, the sheet 15" by 11", the drawing 12 1/2" by 8 1/2" (22 1/2" by 18" in newish gold framing), the work indecipherably signed in red below the linen mat. The signature looks like "Arnold Balg(xxxxx)" or any number of variations of that, but to date I have been unable to tie this to a listed artist...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1441060 (stock #738)
L'Enfant Gallery
$10,000.00
“The French Riviera Nice Coast Line” Watercolor on French paper 11x14 inches,signed Bio: Martha Walter (1875-1976), the American impressionist artist, was a student of William Merritt Chase. Martha was born in 1875 in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She attended High School in her hometown, later continued her education at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts under William Merritt Chase...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1970 item #930557 (stock #2993)
Daniel Simhon Fine Art
Price on Request
Original oil painting on reinforced masonite panel by Vernon Fimple (American, born 1930). This painting retains its original artist-constructed frame. It is signed "V. Fimple" and dated "62" l.r. It is also titled "Masquerade" on a label which also indicates the original price of the painting ($1250). This painting measures 24" by 30" (29" by 35" in its frame). Extraordinary surrealist painting inspired by the "Garden of Earthly Delights"...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1418240 (stock #JB02224)
Watercolor on paper painting of flowers in a short vase in a dish, a piece of fruit and a small book nearby, 11" by 15" inside the mat, 19 3/4" by 24" as framed, signed at lower right by the artist and dated there 1970. I do not see a lot of biographical information on the artist, but he did apparently work in a modernistic style, as Paul Klee or Lionel Feininger inspired semi-abstract or abstract works have appeared at auction in Germany...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1416678 (stock #JB05138)
A watercolor landscape of a barn and other outbuildings in a landscape, signed at lower right in pencil by well listed, Pennsylvania artist and illustrator RANULPH BYE (1916-2003). The watercolor measures 10 1/4" by 13 1/4" inside the present mat (16" by 19" in the present sky-blue metal frame). Bye was born in Princeton, New Jersey and received art training in Philadelphia and New York...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #995377 (stock #6332)
A George S. Culley watercolour painting of the Credit River, Ontario, Canada. This unframed 15-3/4" x 11-1/4" watercolour on paper is by George S. Culley (Canadian, 1905-1988) depicting a sluice gate on the Credit River in Melville, Ontario, Canada. This painting is in excellent original condition with no foxing, staining, bends, tears, losses, damage or repairs. It is signed G.S...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Acrylic : Pre 1970 item #1374871
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$6,500.00
Eric de Kolb surrealist painting depicting a large puffer fish among a sea of nymphs , acrylic on Masonite, signed lower right. 16 H X 18.5" W. frame: 20" X 23 good condition could use a cleaning.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pastel : Pre 1970 item #1415992 (stock #JB03561)
If one conducts an internet search for the English twentieth century artist Bettina Shaw-Lawrence, one finds her name mingled with some of England's modern art greats, (and literature notables, as well), she knew Lucian Freud, Cedric Morris, David Kentish, the Surrealist poet David Gascoyne.......and studied with the likes of Fernand Leger and Ossip Zadkine. The artist passed away in Italy in 2018 at the age of 97, and her art is seemingly ignored by the auction world, but, as part of the East ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : Canadian : Pre 1970 item #1417461 (stock #JB01803)
Oil on canvas laid on board, 10 1/4" by 13 1/4" (16" by 19" as framed), the subject snow-streaked brown foothills of the Rocky Mountains in early spring, the main range of the mountains in the distance, signed at lower right in ink "J.D. TURNER", titled on the reverse "Near Cochrane/April 1970/JD Turner". This is a beautiful work by the noted Alberta painter JOHN DAVENALL TURNER (1900-1980). Turner, according to the long bio on the sheet attached to the reverse side, was born in England and wa...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : Canadian : Pre 1970 item #1418582 (stock #JB05526)
An impressionistic palette knife painting of dramatic, high, already snow-streaked mountains in peak autumn season, signed in the paint at lower left "W HARISCH". This 14 1/2" by 19 1/2" work (18" by 23" as framed) is by listed Canadian artist WILLIAM HARISCH (1914-1967). Harisch painted in a style that appears clearly European, and indeed works of his native country (one titled "Heidelberg") have come to market. Information is scant but he appears to have been in Canada at least by 1950 and ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1970 item #1440780 (stock #178)
Boulevard Brussels London by artist Perry Menkarn, frames print 7 x 9“ frame size 13 x 14“
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1420573 (stock #JB03189)
Offered is a PAIR of unframed watercolor on heavy paper paintings, each in turn with a simpler work or study on the reverse side, each signed by Southern California listed artist KEN DECKER (1926-1994). Decker, according to printed information on the sleeve (these 11 1/4" by 15" works are not framed), was born in St. Louis, and after growing up in Southern California and military service in the Pacific, studied at the Portland School of Art in Oregon. Decker worked as an illustrator and then...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1970 item #1418844 (stock #JB04924)
An example of the 1969 lithograph print, titled variously as "Mascara", ("Mask"), numbered in lower left margin 73/250 and pencil signed at lower right, by the famous Mexican 20th century muralist artist DAVID ALFARO SIQUEIROS (1896-1974). This lithograph was printed by Mourlot in Paris. Siqueiros is considered one of the three giants of Mexican twentieth century art, alongside Diego Rivera and Jose Clemente Orozco. He was a social realist artist, always concerned with the lot of the Mexican com...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1970 item #1208775 (stock #3024)
Q R T U V W X Y (*) Z Poem T is a distant Predecessor of image 10 Most if not all the prints in this series were sold through Red Lantern Gallery in Kyoto. missing J K L M N O - other than G and S. U is clearly a predecessor of Poem 59-55
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : Canadian : Pre 1970 item #1488265
A beautifully painted work in oil on panel, featuring a snowy landscape with buildings and foreground pond, 24" by 32" (32" by 44 1/2" as framed), circa 1960's, signed lower right by the noted Canadian impressionist artist Tom Roberts (also known as Thomas Keith Roberts), 1909-1998. An original label on the reverse gives the title as "Late Winter---Bowmanville Mill". Bowmanville is a town east of Toronto in Ontario, Canada. Painting is in excellent vintage condition; cleaning/varnish would be...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1970 item #1420451 (stock #JB03161)
Original lithograph print, 13 1/2" by 10" inside the innermost of three mats, 21 1/4" by 17 1/2" as framed, the title "Le Ballet: Daphnis et Chloe", printed by Atelier Mourlot, 1969, in an edition of 10,000, as included in Drawings and Watercolors for The Ballet by Jacques Lassaigne, published in 1969 by Tudor Publishing. This is classic Chagall imagery, poetic and dream-like. Note the pipe-playing goat at lower left. All photos were taken through the non-glare glass, which should be discard...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1422679 (stock #JB04474)
Watercolor and gouache impressionist painting of the Dead Sea in Israel, signed in pencil at lower right in modern Hebrew script as "Hana Bar(-on)" or "Chana Bar(-on) and dated there 1970. Below that in Hebrew is written "iam hamelach" (Dead Sea). I am not able to read Hebrew but was able to show this to a Hebrew reader. The work measures 13 1/2" by 19 1/4", and is presently unframed. It can be shipped between boards or in the plastic poster box in which it is presently loosely housed. Ther...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1970 item #668510 (stock #973)

Organic bronze sculpture

Klaus Ihlenfeld

9 1/2" long x 4 1/2" wide x 9" tall

c.1960s

Excellent condition

Klaus was Harry Bertoia's best friend and first hand man in his studio

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Acrylic : Pre 1970 item #1400051
what pdx
$1,895.00
Lorenzo Padilla Diaz Cuban - French Artist well listed artist from Cuba living in Montparnasse France. A oil on canvas of a jolly man smoking wearing a hat signed and dated 69 ll and inscription on back. Seems to be the original frame. Size sight approx 19.5" by 15.5" frame 24" by 22" . Full information on this important artist can be found on his foundation site ... fondationlorenzopadilla.org he also has a museum in Cuba housing his work.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1970 item #1481490
Stunning Original Bronze Sculpture, Male Figure Nude Jumping, with superb greenish patina mounted on a stone base, by UKRAINIAN Sculptor MAXIMILIAN DELIUS, Born 1958. He studied sculpture in Lviv. Signed and numbered, with foundry mark, Ed. 14/100. Size: 39 cm x 30 cm x 9 cm. (15 1/4" x 12" x 3 1/2")
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1440674 (stock #957)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,400.00
Notre Dame watercolor 16 x 13". Frame Size 24 x 21". Parisian Artist
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Sculptural : Pre 1970 item #1445785 (stock #1891)
L'Enfant Gallery
$16,000.00
Felipe Castaneda b.1933 Mexico, Mother & Child Bronze 16 inch high, 10 1/2 inches deep, and 7.5 inches wide. Edition of 3;beautiful patina on a wood base. Signed lower right side dated 1969
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Pre 1970 item #1416672 (stock #JB04553)
Large charcoal and white gouache on heavy paper drawing, 50" by 32 1/2", (54 1/2" by 37" framed), signed at lower left, and bearing on reverse writing and original label from exhibition at the prestigious Salon des Independants, Paris, 1969. The work is by Russian-born, French artist GENIA HADJI-MINACHE (1907-1972). The auction record does not seem to show a comparable work by the artist, who was known for her book illustrations. She was born in St. Petersburg and after the Russian Revolution...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Acrylic : Pre 1970 item #1441630 (stock #588)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,200.00
Abstract Silver Painting by Kathleen Hyland-Nesvig. Acrylic on Canvas. 32 x 48". Kathleens work has been seen and is featured in many embassies around the world including the state department. She’s an active artist still working with a very unique free style of painting.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1970 item #1404777 (stock #3A154A)
Japanese Etching by "Norikane Hiroto",(1949 - ) "Shiragawago" signed by pencil and numbered "121/500" by artist, frame size - 9" x 6 1/2", image size - 3 3/4" x 5 1/2", beautiful historical World Heritage Site "Shiragawako" farm house with thick forest mountain behind, framed by Kanda Gallery (B-O-Q) in double mats and rounded corner black wooden frame, the condition is in excellent condition.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Pre 1970 item #1420180 (stock #JB03002)
Impressionist oil on wood panel painting of coastal islands and a religious shrine perched on a scenic rise, 13 3/4" by 16 3/4" as framed, signed in Greek at lower right. This work has some age, dating perhaps to mid-century. The surface is a bit soiled and the frame has some wear at top corners as seen. A Greek speaker has seen the signature and advises me it reads "Kaitatze" in English, or similar.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1970 item #1033449
The image on the left was done in 1970 the other in 1971. The image at the left looks like 2 or 3 quick brush strokes. It is very delicate. It can mean clothing. The image at the right is heavy, many brush strokes, a complicated kanji. It can mean depression. It is Poem 71-14.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1423258 (stock #JB04799)
This is an unsigned, unframed, double-sided watercolor on heavy watercolor paper, 14 1/2" by 10 1/4", one side featuring a partially nude woman with arms behind her head, a decorative flowered textile of some sort covering the lower portion of her body; the other side features an outdoor amphitheater nighttime performance---perhaps, it has been suggested, the Hollywood Bowl. The vintage piece was acquired from a large collection of art that came from the estate of Brooks Pettus (1918-2003). Tho...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1423158 (stock #JB04241)
Original finely detailed gouache and watercolor on board painting (no glass) of two warring ships, the 38-gun frigate HMS Macedonian of the Royal Navy, and the 44-gun better protected USS United States, as they appeared in the epic battle of October 25, 1812. The Macedonian surrendered to the Americans, making her the second warship to surrender to the US during that war. The painting, signed at lower right by artist Gordon Bracher and dated 1965, might be after a Thomas Birch painting. Compa...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1462311 (stock #2743)
L'Enfant Gallery
$5,500.00
AMERICAN, 1909-1981 Henry Martin Gasser was an American painter in every sense. From his working-class industrial town, he sought out the greatest artists in the area in order to study from them and found inspiration in his backyard. Through persistence and a spirit of originality, Gasser turned humble scenes of urban American life in the mid-twentieth century into extraordinary works of art that were widely praised by the art world. After achieving fame for his paintings, he extended his reach...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1970 item #1313978 (stock #4353)
An interesting and inventive sculpture of a performing elephant balancing upon a ball whilst supporting an acrobat with his trunk. The sculpture is solid bronze and cast in the lost wax technique, cire perdue. This method is able to faithfully reproduce all of the quirky textures that the artist has chosen. The sculpture is mounted on a white marble base and is, as far as I can see, unsigned.

Approximately 33cm high. Fine original condition. The weight is 3478 gm.

Please...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : British : Pre 1970 item #1422586 (stock #JB03970)
By the recently deceased celebrated modern English artist ALFRED DANIELS (1924-2015) this is a 25" by 30" oil on canvas, unframed, titled on an original label of the artist "Going to Church/Hvar--Yugoslavia", signed at lower right and dated 1961. The scene is a church situated on a small rise by the sea, its blindingly white tower and red tile roof contrasting with a violet sky, and the dark green trees of the Adriatic coast. Hvar is part of present-day Croatia, on an island in the Adriatic no...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1970 item #1063243
Isaac Friedlander, Latvian-American, 1890-1968, etching, "Over the Village," image size 11 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches, titled and signed in pencil, framed.
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1970 item #1421325 (stock #JB05502)
Drawing in watercolor and pencil of a figure staring out at the viewer, 23" by 18" inside the mat (33" by 26" framed), signed at lower right by noted mid 20th century California artist ROGER KUNTZ (1926-1975). I believe this would be a female figure with short hair. She is drawn skillfully in pencil, and finished out with a gray-green watercolor wash. There is a South Bend, Indiana framer's label that likely dates to the 1960's. Kuntz was born in Texas and moved around California as a youth, a...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1970 item #1419011 (stock #JB01262)
If you admire the work of Norman Rockwell, and millions do, as evidenced by spectacular auction records over $30 million, but you cannot quite afford that-----yet, would love to own something that Rockwell touched, then consider this beautiful print, (**ONE OF TWO SIMILAR PRINTS I HAVE CURRENTLY IN MY SHOP**), the title being "Springtime in Stockbridge", measuring 16 1/2" by 32". The original was painted for LOOK magazine and this poster was issued in 1971 by Cowles Communications, Inc. Rockwell...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1970 item #1416365 (stock #JB01054)
This is a circa mid 20th century still life lithograph of a pineapple, pomegranate and other fruit, signed in brown ink at lower right and numbered 41/90 at lower left by noted School of Paris artist ROGER CHAPELAIN-MIDY (1904-1992). The artist's works bring into the five figures at auction in the US and Europe, and the still life is his specialty. This print measures 12 5/8" by 9 3/4" (20 5/8" by 17 3/4" as framed). Condition: small abrasion above the pineapple and a few other very small i...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1421261 (stock #JB04842)
A PAIR of Mid Century watercolor paintings of central Paris (guaranteed original work, not prints), one featuring the Arc de Triomphe and environs "(L'Etoile"), the other a peaceful view of the quai along the Seine River. Each work is signed at lower right "Van Lod". Other similar works by this artist are seen but his/her identity is something of a mystery. The drawings measure 16" by 20 1/2" inside the mat and 24 1/2" by 28" as framed. Note the charming old green 1950's style bus in one of t...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Pre 1970 item #1448541 (stock #1446)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,200.00
A beautifully carved Southeast Asian Buddha head sculpture fine detail century on a wooden plinth 9.5” sculpture is 5.5”
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1417517 (stock #JB01748)
Sold as a PAIR, are watercolors of the tourist district of New Orleans by listed artist N. LUCKOW. Each measures 5 3/4" by 7 3/4" (11 3/4" by 12 3/4" as framed). One is titled on the mat "In the VIeux Carre", the other simply "In the French Quarter". One is in excellent condition with glass, the other has no glass and as a result of that the mat has become torn at lower left and at lower right. However because of the title the artist has written on that mat, you might want to carefully prese...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1970 item #1438211 (stock #033)
Caricature of Martin Heflin by Allen Stone. Heflin was a famed political operative in Washington DC during the 1940s and 50s. He is the brother of movie star Van Heflin and was a poker playing buddy of FDR.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1459579 (stock #2250)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,400.00
aron Berkman was born in Hartford, Connecticut. From 1916 to 1918 he attended the Connecticut League of Art Students, founded by Charles Noel Flagg, Connecticut's official portrait painter.[1] He attended the Hartford Art School from 1919 to 1921, alongside his fellow student and lifelong friend, Milton Avery.[2] He studied on scholarship at the Museum Art School of Boston from 1921 to 1924, then traveled through Europe for two years (1924–25). He spent time in France, Italy, Spain, Holland an...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1420058 (stock #JB02886)
Watercolor on paper, 12" by 17", unframed (white mat only, in protective sleeve), executed in a modernist style reminiscent of famous Swiss artist Paul Klee, the scene including three figures and several Old World style stone towers and other suggested architecture depicted in an almost cubist manner, signed at lower right and dated there "62" by the listed Swiss artist ROMOLO ESPOSITO (1913-1991). This work is hard to describe but easy to appreciate. I see little information on the artist, wh...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1422516 (stock #JB03476)
Watercolor painting of some age, 13" by 10 1/2" (22" by 18" framed), the subject simply a tree, but, that subject is handled very beautifully, and the work is signed at lower right by artist Paula Day (on whom I find no information). The interpretation of light and color belies the hand of a talented artist. Judging from the framing materials this dates no later than the mid 1960's and likely earlier. I recommend a new mat only; the frame can be retained.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1970 item #1422720 (stock #JB03956)
A print I first thought could be Pennsylvania Dutch imagery, but which now appears to be of some European origin, perhaps the Appenzell area of Switzerland, or elsewhere in Europe. A Google search reveals that the imagery is actually used on the cover of a Spanish reader book, so perhaps this is a Spanish origin. Measurements are 17" by 13 1/2" framed. Condition is very good, with just some overall age toning of the paper and some light rumpling at bottom margin. Would work well in a folky s...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1970 item #1424870 (stock #JB02823)
THREE circa 1960's gouache on heavy paper abstract drawings, unframed, each 24" by 18", each signed at lower right "Greene". The works definitely seem to have some age as the reverse side of the paper is brown and vintage. I cannot connect these to any particular artist so offer them as decorative mid-century works. Condition is excellent, with just one edge nick on one drawing. Each is in a protective-only plastic poster box. The group of three as a set should enhance any modern, contempor...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1970 item #1341653 (stock #BC006CS)
Original oversize etching by Wendell H. Black (American, 1919-1972), first edition, printed posthumously by Berkley Chappell. In excellent original unframed condition. Titled and numbered 7/25 l.l. Signed and dated '61 l.r. 23 1/2" by 35 1/4", image alone. For information regarding the works of Wendell H. Black currently offered on this website please contact us, or check "The Lost Prints of Wendell H. Black" by Henry Sayre.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1417560 (stock #JB04400)
This is a fine painting of the Christmas season flowering plant, the poinsettia, in ink, watercolor and gouache, 13 3/4" by 11", in simple metal framing, no mat, signed at lower left and inscribed to a friend there "with love to David and deepest feelings of appreciation", by the important American artist ABRAHAM RATTNER (1893-1978). Rattner was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. During World War I he was a camouflage artist, serving in some of the major battles of the war. Between 1920 and 1940...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1970 item #1438308 (stock #901)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,800.00
Snowscape by Weiss. 1965. Water Color 21 x 28". Frame Size 34 x 38".