A PAIR of Mid Century drawings, consisting of concentric line patterns and overlapping forms, typical of the imagery, whether in sculpture, drawing/painting or graphics, of acclaimed Spanish modern artist AMADEO GABINO (1922-2004). Each is drawn in brown ink and measures 12 3/4" by 15 1/2" (13 3/4" by 17" in black shadowbox type framing over an inch deep). Some of the darker lines are interestingly also scored into the paper, like deep cuts...

A very well done etching by (William Nugent) measures 11x9 inch. The artist was working in the style of Pablo Picasso..this work of the classic mother and child is a beautiful example more info coming soon

Abstract Figures By American Master Artist Max Kessler 16x16”….this work represents the time the artist spent in drawing and painting from memory 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...

Amedeo Modigliani, Livorno, Italy, 1884- 1920. This beautiful Cariatide is oil pencil on tan paper, apprx 16.5"H by 11.5"W, signed upper left " a Paul Modigliani", Verso original Modigliani Studio card, Gallery Bernard card and original Description label. Condition: paper laid on cardboard, edges fraying and some fading. It is likely that this is a drawing used in Modigliani's studio and that the Paul is Paul Alexander Modigliani’s Physician.

1952 Gouache on paper in the manner of world famed Russian-French postwar modernist Abstract Painter SERGE POLIAKOFF (1900 - 1969), signed...

Contemporary Japanese limited edition etching titled “March” by Ryoko Hirone depicting a woman seated before a glass window drinking a cup of tea and staring at the city scene outside. Birds fly past, a calendar for March hangs on the wall, and her dog is beside her. Pencil-signed, titled, and numbered 10/30 in the lower margin. Paper size 28 1/2" x 21 1/2" (plate: 23 1/4" x 19 1/4"). Very good overall condition. There is some wrinkling of the heavy paper at the large margin corners...

Watercolor on heavy paper, 19" by 15 1/4" (28" by 24" as framed), the subject a California quail perched on a bleached snag in a vaguely defined, arid looking mountain landscape. The work is signed at lower right "MUGGS VAN SANT", and is not dated...

From our African Collection: Bante Middle Ivory Coast Female Figure, circa 1950s.

Sculpture shown: The Wounded Companion by Charles Humphriss, bronze. 21” high x 9” x 7”. Bio: Charles Henry Humphriss (1867-1934) was born in England but lived for many years in Pleasanton, New York with a studio in New York City. He exhibited at the Academy of Design in New York, and with the Pennsylvania Academy.*** Humphriss admired native cultures and continually strove to represent them faithfully in his work.

Driftwood Gaitherers 1940s Semi-Nude Figures 60x40 oil on canvas framed 62x42 inch by the American Artist Neidlinger….

Silvio Ottaviani is an Italian artist who was born in 1933 and travels mainly to paint on location. This work done in Monet’s garden in France measuring 20x16”

Boris Zherdin,American Cowboys,oil on canvas measuring 30x24” Biography from Papillon Gallery Boris Zherdin (b. 1950) Boris Zherdin was born in Gomel, Belorussia, in 1950. He studied stage and costume design at the Serov Institute of Fine Arts in Saint Petersburg, Russia. Perhaps influenced by his education, his paintings employ humor and read like staged theater images. At the age of 38 Zherdin immigrated to the United States, moving to Leonard, New Jersey in 1988...

PAIR of oil on gray art board panels, each 14" by 4 3/4", 20" by 10 1/2" as framed, unsigned, the subject of each a picturesque old castle perched on a prominent mountain outcrop, in each view, a bridge with tiny figures crossing a torrent in the foreground. These could be a "before and after" scene of the same view, as one bridge is of stone and obviously more substantial than the other, which is of wood...

Russian Artist Ilya Blok, Saint Petersburg 1967, watercolor gouache on paper signed lower right measuring 22 x 29“

By the noted illustrator artist RICHARD STINE (1941-) this is a print, "I am an alien creature", hand signed in pencil at lower left near the printed signature. This does not seem to be a limited edition but it is hand signed. Stine is a familiar name due to his uniquely humorous and whimsical images, which though cartoonish delve into philosophy, and, an online description writes, "love, art, freedom, isolation, desire, conflict, dreams, creativity"...

Landscape in Brittany by Henry Orne Rider (1860-1943), Framed Oil on Canvas. 29 x 24".

Original 1977 Marc Chagall (1887-1985) color lithograph "The Village", (Mourlot 917), executed for the "Le Chemin de L'Amitie" issue of Derriere Le Miroir (No. 225), 1977, in an unsigned edition of 15,000. This example came to be signed later by Chagall in pencil at lower right ("complimentary signature"), perhaps at a special gallery or printer event. The sheet measures 14 1/2" by 21", with a simple blue frame (no mat). There are condition issues...

A stimulating Original Acrylic Painting "ECSTASY" on stretched canvas by SWISS ARTIST Michael Maync. Signed and dated by the artist on the back of the canvas. No referece. Size: 27.5" x 20" inches (70 cm x 50 cm). Can be hung in any direction you like, or shipped economically, rolled up in a tube if you wish.