A beautifully painted miniature on natural wafer of a very attractive woman. The sitter is in a white gown with lace edging, presented in a straightforward manner, unadorned with jewelry, preferring to let her natural beauty speak to the viewer.

There are no condition issues to speak of, with the darker area below her bust line intentionally painted in that manner...

Sheet Size : 25 1/2" W x 19 3/4" H
Image Size: 24" W x 17 3/4" H
Artist : Joseph Sambataro
Title: The Print Vendors
Medium: Offset Lithograph on thick art Paper.
Signed: On lower Right, Sambatro in pencil.
Edition No. : 158/750 lower left in pencil.
Publisher: R. H...

A painting of a lovely young maiden, she is depicted from the waist up in the nude, her head slightly tilted and eyes looking off to the right. She wears her long black hair up in a low bun gathered at the nape of her neck. She is smiling slightly. Skillfully painted in oil colors on canvas with frame. Signed and dated by the artist. Painted by the well known Chinese-American artist, Chen Danqing, 1984. Size of painting: 24" high x 18" wide. Size in frame: 29" high x 23" wide

Original oil painting on canvas by Lily Harmon (American, 1912-1998). Signed and dated "1943" upper right. Offered in its original House of Heydenryk frame. In excellent original condition. 22 3/4" by 17" painting alone, 29" by 23" in its frame. This painting is listed as "Miriam and Fruit" in the catalogue of "Lily Harmon. Fifty Years of Painting. A Retrospective Exhibition", page 51...

A beautiful drawing, small but very accomplished, 5 1/8" by 7 1/8" (9 1/4" by 11 1/4" framed), signed somewhat illegibly at lower left, but fully identified in old ink on the reverse as "Palais de Justice Rue de la Place du Chatelet", the artist EMILE APPAY, 1922. Note the fine details of the Sphinx at right, lamp posts, kiosks, and people dressed in period clothing...

French modernist Francoise Sylvand is both a realist and modernist. This work with its added three dimensional items depicting a construction of a roof , measuring 28” x 40” in acrylic on panel. He is well known in France and exhibited mainly in Europe and Australia

A strongly painted portrait miniature of a gentleman, rendered in watercolor on organic wafer. The sitter is a good-looking chap with blue eyes and fulsome sideburns, attired in a black jacket and cravat, a white collar and ruffled shirt, and a gold chain. He is identified by engraving on the reverse of the case as J.A. Reed...

Original oil painting on panel by Henry Kallem (American, 1912-1985), circa 1965. 16" by 12" painting alone. This painting bears on the verso an identification label stating: "Monhegan Series (Sunrise Sunset)/ 1965/ Estate Inventory on File: Boston Art Club." Henry Kallem was known as a painter and a printmaker. Originally from Philadelphia, he studied with his father Morris Kallem, himself a known painter. Henry's brother is the sculptor Herbert Kallem...

Beautiful abstract and painting of Galileo., oil on canvas 48x32” dated 1983, unframed

Woman with Scooter by Anne Lane. Oil on Canvas. 24x24". Frame Size 29x29”. 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 intensity of her paintings reflect her 10 years spent working as an artist under the desert sun of New Mexico. Her vibrant style,resonant with color and baroque in detail,swoons its delight over her canvases...

Original etching on copper by Wendell H. Black (American, 1919-1972), first edition, printed posthumously by Berkley Chappell. In excellent original condition, titled and numbered 9/25 l.l. and signed and dated l.r. Also signed and inscribed "imp" by Berkley Chappell. cf: "The Lost Prints of Wendell H. Black" by Henry Sayre.

Abstract Circles by Anne Lane. Oil on Canvas. 24 x 24". Frame Size 27 x 27".

A wonderfully done naïve portrait of an older woman identified on the reverse as Almira Coolidge of Boston. The 3/4 length depiction shows the sitter holding a handkerchief and wearing a lace trimmed white bonnet, white lace fichu, and a red scarf over a black puff-sleeve dress with gold buttons. The background is nicely done in a striated and shaded blue-gray...

Antique, 18th century, Greek Orthodox icon triptych, finely hand painted on wood panels. The center panel, with a niche carved as a raised arch, depicts finely hand-painted the Mother Of God, "HODEGETRIA," with silver painted nimbate and two Angels holding the Virgin's Crown of the Queen of Heaven, flanked by Greek letters "MP OY," an abbreviation of the Greek "Mater Theos" (the Mother of God).

The Theotokos is dressed in an embroidered maroon veil and holds Jesus with her left arm...

William Lee Hankey, European, 1869-1952, "Marie of the Fields", Drypoint etching, image size: 7 7/8 x 4 7/8 inches, ed 100, 1919, printed on wove paper, pencil signed with artist's blindstamp. This image is considered one of the artist's finest work.

The three porcelain plates by Kim Ki Chang aka Unbo (1913 - 2001) that we offer here on our website are the only ceramics by the revered master that we have seen offered for sale. They were all acquired from the same collection and are sublime examples of his unique style. This one is on a tall attached porcelain pedestal...

Pastel drawing of a path among trees at day's end, 9 1/2" by 5 3/4" (13" by 9" framed), signed at lower right by artist E. W. Rost, or possibly E. Vyrost (Vyrost is a Czech surname). The work has a Tonalist or Barbizon feeling. There is an American artist Rost but with different initials, and that artist created mostly etchings. Condition of the drawing is excellent, though the frame has considerable wear, especially at bottom and left.

From our European Collection, a very fine oil on canvas by British painter William Robert Symonds, signed and dated 1875. Symonds, who lived from 1851-1934, was a genre painter known for touching scenes of people and animals, and most often of small children in random snapshots of everyday life, where he captured well their innocence and curious musings. His works are carried by several UK- based institutions, most notably the Colchester and Ipswich museums, and in his day, he was often exhibit...