A nicely painted miniature portrait, on natural wafer, of a fashionably attired gentleman. The sitter is wearing a white shirt and stock, a black coat with velvet lapels, and a gray vest with black polka dots. Presented in a period, and possibly original, ebonized frame.

No cracks, chips, restoration or other condition issues. Sight size is 2 1/2" by 1 3/4", and the frame size is 4 3/8" by 3 3/8".

Pastel on paper drawing of a rocky coastline with sailing craft offshore, apparently unsigned, 9 1/4" by 23", (16 3/4" by 31" as framed), circa 1900. The style of the drawing is reminiscent of that of American artists like Alfred Thompson Bricher (1837-1908). The popular and common pastel art of William Chandler also comes to mind. The work needs a new mat and the old acidic wood backing is best replaced. Otherwise for its age this work is in excellent condition.

Unsigned Watercolor. "Lugger beating to Windsward. Fresh Breeze". c 1800. 4 x". Frame Size 17 x 20".

One of an edition of only 50, a scarce to rare lithograph of the year 1912, "The Jungle", signed and titled at lower right margin in pencil by the important American etcher, illustrator, critic, author and teacher JOSEPH PENNELL (1857-1926). The print measures 20" by 23" and the frame is about an inch wide on a side...

Black ink, red watercolor and white gouache drawing, unsigned, 22 1/2" by 15", unsigned, the figure playing a mandolin or lute, wearing poofy medieval-style pantaloons, and sporting a Dali-esque moustache. The drawing definitely has some age, maybe circa mid century. The camera somewhat overstates the color difference between top (more brownish) and bottom (less browned) half; I can't explain the variation...

James MacDougle Hart 1828-1901 American, Hudson River School This is an original oil on canvas painting by American 19th century painter, James Mcdougal Hart. This work is titled: A Bit of Cherry Valley. It is signed lower left "J.M Hart" It came to us in a period gilt frame with the brass name plate. The painting itself measures 17X21 inches, the overall frame measures 24X29 inches. Influenced by his older brother, William M...

Pastel, chalk, and charcoal on a dark taupe paper, this drawing of a nude woman is strikingly beautiful and sensual. The frame measures 17" x 21" and the sight size of the image is 9" x 11", and it is double matted with a creamy yellow and brighter white mat, with a mahogany colored wood frame. Unsigned, it was attributed to Arthur Bowen Davies by a previous owner who owned several from this era, and one other was signed...

An original drawing of a standing cowboy, executed on thin tracing-style paper, with estate stamp at lower right of noted Arizona artist CURTIS WINGATE (1926-1982). The drawing, 18" by 9" inside the current mat, is very sketchy, as if perhaps a very preliminary study for a finished watercolor or painting. Wingate was born in Dennison, Texas and spent most of his life in Arizona after moving there from California...

This is a late 19th century American painting by an anonymous artist, from the heart of the Victorian age. It measures 16" by 24" on the original stretchers (21 1/4" by 30" including the frame and probably original red velvet liner)...

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...

Geometric Abstraction Oil by Ivory Coast Painter Ephreme Kouakou , large oil on canvas 50x40 inch Abstracted Figures by Ivory Coast Artist Ephrem Kouakou. Oil on Canvas. Ephrem Kouakou is one of the world’s foremost African painters. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland, and Ivory Coast, West Africa. His powerful, vivid paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC...

INDIAN NINETEENTH DANCING SHIVA BRONZE SCULPTURE measuring 12” in height. Most likely from the South of India

Scenes From Arabian Nights Mid-19th Century Watercolor Is a beautiful work on paper 20x22 inches FRENCH ARTIST UNKNOWN

This is an unusually bright, saturated-color example of the MARC CHAGALL (1887-1985) lithograph "Romeo and Juliet", printed by Mourlot. This is a well known image by Chagall, created in 1964 for the ceiling of the Opera Garnier in Paris. Charles Sorlier in association with the famous lithography house Mourlot adapted this image from Chagall's sketches for the project and printed this. Measurements are 24 3/4" by 38 3/4". The total edition was 5,000 examples...

An oil on fine weave canvas featuring a Mediterranean-looking coastal village, 12 1/2" by 19 1/2" (18" by 25" as framed), signed at lower right by the noted Armenian artist VARTAN MAHOKIAN (also known as Wartan MAKHOKIAN, or combinations thereof), born in Trabzon on present-day northeast Turkey's Black Sea coast in 1869, died in 1937 in Nice, France. The painting shows two small sailing craft, one towing a dinghy, off of a whitewashed fishing village...

Impressionist painting of a small brook in a landscape, bordered by trees, the season perhaps early spring, suggested by the white ground-hugging flowers in the foreground. The unsigned work, on board, measures 19" by 14 1/2" (21 3/4" by 17" in attractive gold frame). The artist could be American, or European...there is old pencil notation on the reverse in American handwriting referring to varnish type. The work was recently cleaned and two hairline horizontal scratches were attended to...

Watercolor on paper drawing of a homey mid 19th century interior in America or England, measuring 9 1/8" by 11 5/8" as simply framed, the work signed "Sketch/Walter Richards" at lower right in white. This was probably preliminary art for a more finished drawing or painting by this well known freelance illustrator. The drawing contains a lot of detail for its modest size: five figures are about to eat soup from a cauldron at midday...

From our African Collection: Ivory Coast Figure, circa 1960. Côte d’Ivoire was inhabited in the Neolithic era and possibly earlier, although the humid climate has effaced most traces of the country’s earliest civilizations. Portuguese explorers arrived in the early 1600s, and French missionaries landed near the Gold Coast (Ghana) border in 1637. European contact was limited until the 19th century, mainly due to inhospitable geography along the coastline. Akan peoples fleeing the Asant...

William Lionel Wyllie, British, 1851-1931, "Sugar Boats off Greenwich". This lovely atmospheric image by William Wyllie measures 4 7/8 x 12 7/8 inches, pencil signed on the l.l. and created c. 1920. This is a view of Greenich from the Isle of Dogs with a view of the Royal Navel Academy on the left with the domes of the Royal Observatory high in the background. Wyllie was a well known marine painter and printmaker, studying at the Heatherley School of Fine Art and then at the at the Royal Academy...

A black and white photograph, titled in marker at lower left "Bill Graham and the Jefferson Airplane 1967", marker signed at lower right margin by the noted American late 20th century photographer MARK JAMES POWERS (ca. 1945-2014). The photograph was taken in Toronto, Canada. Powers traveled California and much of the rest of the United States, especially the South and West, from the mid 1960's through the mid 1970's, taking color and black and white images that document the times in most impr...

W.J. Rudje Indonesian Artist silk painting Masterpiece “Signed and Ubud” 36x20”

Banka Maruyama (Japanese, 1867-1942)

A Bamboo Grove

Watercolor on paper, signed.

Sheet Size: 20.5” x 13.5”
Sight Size: 19” x 13”
Frame Size: 25.75” x 19.5”

Banka Maruyama was a Japanese watercolor artist whose work spanned the Meiji, Taishō and Shōwa periods. Today, his work can be found in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

Walter Neal artist 1997 dated acrylic painting with geometric background and figures measuring 24 x 36” titled “The Hunt”

Oil Painting signed Yates 1940s, framed 18x24”,

Qajar Miniature Paintings on hide or velum in hand made plaster and gilt frames of fine quality. The paintings appear to be pre Mogul style , the images appear to teach people how to live and conduct daily life. There are 4 matching framed sets and each one has minute images throughout . Size sight is 6" by 8" and each frame is 15.5" by 21.25"

Large colored etching, posthumous printing, after the circa 1914 original print of the famous Austrian landmark on the Danube west of Vienna, the 18th century-built Melk Abbey (sometimes called Melk Monastery), signed in pencil at lower center by the son of the artist, Robert (the actual signature is preceded by "nl" which indicates Nachlass, or Studio, of the artist). The image is by the well-known painter and printmaker LUIGI KASIMIR (1881-1962). The 18" by 23" work (28" by 32 1/2" framed) i...

Oil on paper measuring 30”x20” framed and matted 35”x26” Abstract African Masks by Ivory Coast artist Ephrem Kouakou, Oil on Canvas, 50 x 60" Ephrem Kouakou is one of the world’s foremost African painters. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland, and Ivory Coast, West Africa. His powerful, vivid paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC. and Fondo Del Sol Museum, Washington DC. He is not...

A highly decorative and good-sized painting on canvas of a vintage motorcycle, painted in a Pop Art style. The work is unsigned and probably dates to the past twenty years. It was painted by a competent artist with training. Unframed, the work measures 30" by 30". Will add an interesting twist to your contemporary interior. Very clean and wall-ready.

Japanese etching by "Norikane Hiroto", (1949- ), frame size - 9" x 6 1/2", image size - 3 3/4" x 5 1/2", signed and numbered "119/500" in lower area with double cut mat and rounded corner black wooden frame, frame work done by Kanda's B.O.Q Gallery in Japan. The condition is in beautiful condition. Artist history written in the back.

An etching on paper, 7 1/4" by 5 1/4" inside the mat, 12 1/2" by 9 3/4" framed, signed at lower right in pencil by well-known New Orleans artist EUGENE F. LOVING (1908-1971). The print is titled at lower left, "Bourbon Street Patio", and bears the artist's notation "Ed/100" at lower center. Loving was a familiar figure on the New Orleans art scene for decades, painting and executing prints as well. A teacher as well, he was something of a father figure of sorts to other artists in the region. Th...

Jackson Lee Nesbitt 1913-2008 American Regionalist This is a fine regionalist etching by American artist Jackson Lee Nesbitt. The title is: Evening in March, it was created and printed in 1942. The image measures 11 3/4X8 5/16 inches. Hand signed and titled in pencil. Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet.

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...

An impressive very modern, complex watercolor and gouache painting on paper, 14 3/4" by 20" inside the mat, 26 1/4" by 30 3/4" in gold framing, signed at lower right by the noted artist JACOB LANDAU (1917-2001). The top portion of the piece contains words or word fragments, such as "WHAT NEXT" and "BIG"; lower portion seems to be a grouping of human faces and figures, some distorted, one appearing to beat a drum; perhaps this is a demonstration for a cause. The artist was born in Philadelphia a...

Ingatz Marcel Gaugengigl, American, 1855-1932, Etching on Japan Paper, "The Violinist", 1900, image size 6 7/8X4 1/2", pencil signed

Watercolor on paper landscape typical of California, dirt tracks wandering through a sunny dry mountainous landscape, signed at lower left by listed California artist JOSEPH P. FREY (1892-1977). The work, measuring 6 3/4" by 9 3/4" inside the gold mat, and 14 3/4" by 17 3/4" in its old framing (no glass), probably is an earlier work of the artist, judging from the signature style. The work is affixed to a board at top edge; a tiny edge tear extends from backing slightly into the image area to r...

Armenian watercolor painting of the famous, sacred snow-covered mountain, Ararat, signed in Armenian at lower right. The work measures 11 1/4" by 16" (14" by 18 3/4" in gold frame). The work likely dates from about 1970 through 1980 or so. It is framed behind non-glare glass, which tends to blur detail. Condition is excellent. Armenian-speakers, please contact me if you are able to make out the name.

Double-page with woodcuts from popes, kings and famous people of the second half of the 10th century AD.
As part of the world’s sixth age, the chapter deals with the origins and formation of the German Empire.
The Nuremberg Chronicle was published in 1493 by Anton Koberger in an edition of 2000 copies.
Beautiful late Gothic style. The fold paper sheet covers the pages 178/179 and 181/182. Thread stitching marks.
Nuremberg, Latin edition, 1493 AD
Woodcut on la...

Modernist table top still life with fruit and blossoming tulips on a tilted table , Oil on Canvas, 24 x 30". Frame Size 30 x 36". The artist was inspired by Artist Thomas Hart Benton He was also featured in an exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art around 1936 and won a prize at that exhibit

Original English late 18th century oil on paper decorative design panel attributed to Robert Adam or his studio circa 1780 comes from the collection of Maurice Rosenblatt 40x50 inches

A fine 8-1/4" tall Canadian Puvirnituq Nunavik (Northern Quebec) native stone sculpture by "Eli" E-91328. Made by Eli Akiru Quissa (1914-84), this carving is dated 1966 and it depicts a hunter with a seal. This item is in very good condition with no chips, cracks, losses, damage or repairs other than some minor surface abrasions and scratches. All items are thoroughly and conservatively graded and all condition issues are noted; all items are vintage or antique and may have slight signs of g...

Abstract Figures by Nathan Motley, heavy abstract impasto figures. Framed Oil on Panel. Motley is an outsider artist of Richmond, Virginia.

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...

A quaint work of a harbor scene in oil measuring 20x24”

Gold framed original pastel painting of King RAMA V,Thailand, signed and dated by artist Yuth Suripong bottom left, Buddhist Year 2543. Excellent condition. Size: 52 cm. x 45 cm. framed

Leon Bakst Ballet Russe Artist Daphnes & Chloe “Darcon” watercolor 11x9” éon Bakst (Russian: Леон (Лев) Николаевич Бакст, Leon (Lev) Nikolaevich Bakst) – born as Leyb-Khaim Izrailevich (later Samoylovich) Rosenberg, Лейб-Хаим Израилевич (Самойлович) Розенберг (27 January (8 February) 1866[1][2] – 28 December 1924) was a Russian painter and scene and costume designer of Belarusian origin. He was a member of the Sergei Diaghi...

Nigerian Abstract Oil signed ROLA 2003, 40 x 48“, Frame measures 43 x 49“

An unusual and difficult to photograph trio: two heavy copper etching plates and one tin or zinc lithograph plate, the latter signed clearly Emil Kosa Jr., and one of the copper plates signed with reverse-etched conjoined initials that spell out EK and probably also "Jr". All were acquired by me at the same time, so, I believe it likely that all three are by the hand of the noted California artist EMIL KOSA, JR. (1903-1968). The lithograph plate shows an image of an indian chief or perhaps A...

Oil on canvas painting of a Native American on horseback in the great American West during the late autumn months, 16" by 8", (26" by 18" as framed), signed at lower left corner with the signature and device of contemporary artist ART KOBER. Note the attention to detail that extends to even the beaded bag and every blade of grass. Kober, who maintains a website, is a noted contemporary western American artist who appeared in the pages of Art of the West magazine as far back as 1989. Largely s...

Oil on canvas measuring 8x12” and framed in it’s original frame. Artist Robert Watson (1923-2004) has explored a surreal, mysterious world inhabited by lonely figures. According to a 1997 San Francisco article in Today’s New Herald “his paintings hang in museums and galleries worldwide and grace numerous private collections - including that of Paramount Pictures, in the estates of Clark Gable and Ed Sullivan, and in collections belonging to the late Duchess of Windsor and Vincent Pric...

A fine detailed engraved scene of a Arab Fortress, possibly North Africa signed E. pieroth, circa 1880s

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Late 1800s

12.5 "tall 24" wide 2.5" deep, mounted on an ebonized wood base

A vintage, old, pastel on paper drawing of old steep-roofed houses in a mountain landscape, 10 1/2" by 15 1/2" (14 1/2" by 19" as framed, no glass), signed at lower right corner with initials that appear as "SHC.". The work probably dates to the 1920's or 1930's, judging from the style, and framing materials. The old paper has browned heavily and one can see a ghost image of the drawing on the reverse side. This should be re-framed with non-acidic materials, and room should be left for a prop...

A Fine Korean Orchid/Rock (石蘭) scroll painting by 의제(毅齋), 허백련 ((許百鍊 1891∼1977): Korea Ink stroke with orchid flowers and rock painted on Paper, with description on the upper right and signed with red square seal, 의제(毅齋), it’s in good condition but having some area creased, it measures 39cm x 124.5cm painting only. 52cm x 182.5cm overall.

An unusually attractive example of the work of artist Anders Gittelson (1921-2003), better known by his brush name "GISSON" or "ANDRE GISSON". This oil on canvas, measuring 24" by 20" (33" by 28 1/2" as ornately framed) features a lovely nude seen from the back, fixing her hair as she prepares to enter the water, the dominating hues various shades of blue, all bathed in the white suffused light commonly seen in the artist's works. The painting reminds in some ways of the work of Renoir. Gisson...

Martha Walter 1875-1976 Watercolor Market Scene measures 8 x 8“, frame size 19 x 19“ on fine paper 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. During her time there she was awarded the Charles Toppan Prize (1902) and...

Jean Louis Forain, French, 1852-1931, etching, "Le Noeud de Cravate", image size 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in, from CROQUIS PARISIENS, 1880, possibly a later printing (Faxon, 20), pencil signed

Beach Scene Watercolor Signed N.Gordon 10x14” circa 1920s Beautiful work framed

Large and complex abstract drawing, possibly in oil stick or oil pastel, 27 1/2" by 18 1/2" (37" by 24 1/2" as framed), signed at lower right "Zohar" and dated there "12/89". This is a fairly common Israeli name and there are listed artists by this name but the style and signature do not seem to match up with them, so I am offering this as a great abstract that is sure to please from the decorative standpoint. It will be shipped without glass as the sheet is too large to send without risk of b...

A vintage still life oil painting, unframed, 30" by 24", signed twice at lower right (one, very faint) by listed Southern California artist BERTHA TOWNSEND COLER (1865-1948). Coler was born in Ohio and studied with Robert Henri and William Merritt Chase in New York City. By 1928 she had moved to Santa Monica, California and for the next two decades was a prolific painter in watercolor and oil, concentrating on portraits and still life, with some landscapes in the mix. Coler was a member of W...

Shigeki Kuroda - modern Japanese printmaker

Presented - etching with aquatint entitled - Twilight

Image measures 7" x 11 1/2"

Framed

Measurement with frame 17 1/4" x 21 1/4"

Signed and numbered in pencil

Excellent condition