Abstract Impasto Landscape by Nigerian artist NM
Pencil drawing on paper by the important Russian-American artist DAVID BURLIUK (1882-1967), purchased out of a Berkshires estate in Massachusetts. The drawing measures 14 1/2" by 8 3/4" (21" by 14" framed), the lady in soft pencil and the ear study at right in blue colored pencil...
“Male Nudes”
Pastels on paper, 24” x 20” framed, 16.5” x 12” unframed
Miguel Valdesberea has studied at Havana’s San Mejandro Academy of Fine Arts and was invited to further his studies at San Fernando School of Fine Arts and Prado Museum in Madrid, Spain. Throughout his 20 year career, Mr. Valdesberea painted in Spain, Italy, England, South America, and the United States...
A beautiful work unsigned from the 1960s measuring 22x18” oil on canvas. Geometric patterns on a dark background
Still Life Italian Artist C. D. Mirani oil on canvas Italian Artist Mirani, the granddaughter of the the artist Silvio Ottoviani known for his simplicity. This still life is a painting in oil of a bouquet of flowers and bowl of fruit., measuring 17” x 15”
"Dahilas Simples" Oil on canvas, 21 3/4" x 18 1/4”
Marcel Dyf was born in Paris on the 7th October 1899. As a youth he was influenced by the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movements that he observed in Paris and Normandy, where he spent his holidays. He started a career in engineering but in his early twenties he decided to become an artist. He moved to Arles in Provence where he bought a studio and began zealously painting the inspirational. Dyf was self-taught as an artist...
In 1976 Haku Maki did his eight-volume San Mon Ban--a total of 96 different embossed images. These included many items Maki had just used, would use soon and used later. I first show images of two prints like those in San Mon Ban but slightly larger. Then two images of insects in San Mon Ban and then 4 images of insects long hidden in my archives--even to me. These might all be called Maki Lite...
Bernard Boutet De Monvel
1881-1949
French
This is a fine color aquatint by French artist Bernard Boutet de Monvel .. It is titled Fillette a L'Ombrelle, created and printed in 1910. The image measures 10 3/4X6 7/8 inches. Signed in block letters in pencil lower right border. Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet. Numbered as 3/10.
Length: 5.4 cm (2.2 in)
Width: 4 cm (1.6 in)
Depth: 1 cm (0.4 in)
Weight: 31.7 gm (1.13 oz)
Fine Chinese green jade Guan Yin pendant; documentation available; very good condition
Oil on canvasboard painting of gulls flying above the waves, the stern of a boat at left, 12" by 16", (17" by 21 1/2" framed), signed in ink on reverse ("Painted by Edith Fite"/XXX Magee 1951"). The scene reminds of how hungry gulls loyally follow the back end of a fishing boat. I have not located information on the artist. The painting could well benefit from a cleaning after about 70 years.
A superb miniature portrait painting by Giovanni Battista Gigola. The sitter, shown in 3/4 length, is a young man attired in a green coat with brass buttons, posed in front of a cloud filled blue sky. Unframed, and in superb condition, with no cracks, bowing, paint loss, or restoration. This fine example of Gigola's work measures 2 1/2" by 2".
Note: Giovanni Battista Gigola (1767 - 1841) is a highly esteemed Italian artist, best known for his miniature portraits on ivory...
Internationally acclaimed artist Bruce Onobrakpeya (b. 1932 ) produced this expressionistic image of a black fishes during one of his earlier periods of artistic expression in 1963. The serigraph depicts gold fish swimming in a pond or lake expressing, perhaps, the beauties of African natural life. Onobrakpeya has a wide following, including Prince Phillip of the United Kingdom from whom Nigeria, Onobrakpeya's native country, gained independence in 1960...
A “Portrait of Ilona Massey is an oil on canvas work measuring 47” x 38” by a Hungarian Artist named Lazlo. Ilona Massey was the sister of the Canadian born actor Raymond Massey 1893-1983
(Berlin Estate). Dale Haven Loy was born in Los Angeles and began her art training at U.C.L.A. She received her M.F.A. degree from the American University in Washington, DC where she currently resides.
Loy's paintings have been exhibited widely in galleries, museums, traveling exhibitions and public spaces in the United States and abroad...
Fine Watercolor Painting Cross Country Skier illustration, possibly for Utah or Colorado sporting ad campagne . Signed G Driard dated 1998 near perfect condition bright color and good edges 15.5" 22.5"
Spanish Gulf of Roses Watercolor, Girona, Spain. Salvador Dali had a studio in Girona, which is now the Dali Theatre-Museum.
Beautiful watercolor signed FETTIG measuring 8 and2 x 11“, frame size 15 x 17“
Decorative botanical copper engraving print from 1806, after the famed English botanical artist SYDENHAM EDWARDS (1768-1819), measuring " by " as framed. Sydenham was the son of a Welsh schoolmaster, and went on to become one of the principal artists for Curtis's Botanical Magazine late in the 18th and early in the 19th century. After 1815 he went on to publish The Botanical Register. The present example is surrounded by an ornate mat...
Wooden Buddha Figure, Shan State Burma, 19th Century, with nice quality gilding,
backside has cavity where relics were kept,
size: H.50cm x W.18cm x D. 15cm, mounted,
unusual specimen