All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Woodcuts : Pre 1960 item #1462652 (stock #331)
SALVADOR DALI, "PURGATORY 22", from the series "The Divine Comedy" ORIGINAL INDIVIDUAL MAT-SLEEVE COLOR WOOD ENGRAVING ON BFK RIVES PAPER with 'Les heures claires" Watermark Hand-Signed in Purple Pencil by Salvador Dali Numbered 150/150, in Purple Pencil, by the author The following information taken from the Official Catalog of Graphic Works of SALVADOR DALI is given for the purpose of confirming the authenticity of this piece...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1960 item #1462650 (stock #330)
SALVADOR DALI "CARING FOR A SURREALIST WATCH" from the "Memories of Surrealism" Suite ORIGINAL INTAGLIO - Photoliths of Original Goaches with Collage on Arches Paper In accordance with "The Official Catalog of the Graphic Works of SALVADOR DALI", by Albert Field, page 68 (Photo #11) Hand Signed in Pencil by Salvador Dali Numbered: F 143/175, in Pencil, by author The information provided here is taken from the Official Catalog of Graphic Works of SALVADOR DALI is given for ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1970 item #1462631
Watercolor on paper, signed at lower right with the distinctive signature of California artist EMIL KOSA, JR. (1903-1968). The work is not dated but likely would have been created in the 1950's or 1960's. Kosa was a prominent member of the California Scene artists. Born in Paris to a Czech father who was also an artist, Emil Jr. received art training in Prague and subsequently in Los Angeles and Paris in the late 1920's, studying with Pierre Laurens and Frantisek Kupka...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Tempera : Pre 1950 item #1462602
A very early original work, 1948, by famous California-based Pop Art master WAYNE THIEBAUD (1920-2021): a caricature of a man, seen in profile, executed in a cartoonish style, in grays, white and black. The piece (14 1/2" by 12" within the mat) is signed by the artist at lower left center, and dated nearby. There is a horizontal fold as shown, and some discoloration of the paper at right, along the fold...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1900 item #1462539 (stock #1017)
An original antique French Art Nouveau bronze statue of a glamorous woman c.1905. Bronze mounted to a marble base signed on verso with the stamp medallion of Original Bronzes Society Paris France. Dimensions 3.5ʺW × 3ʺD × 7.5ʺH Georges Van der Straeten was a Belle Epoque sculptor born in Ghent, Belgium, on December 21, 1856. He studied under the Neo-Baroque sculptor Jef Lambeaux (1852-1908). In 1883, at the twenty-seven years old, Van der Straeten moved to Paris...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1990 item #1462508
An original, vintage 1987 poster for the National Gallery of Art's 1987-1988 exhibition of the works of famed American modernist artist GEORGIA O'KEEFFE (1887-1986). The offset poster measures 40" by 25 1/2" as framed. Condition is very good, with only a slight damp stain at lower right margin area. O'Keeffe is today one of the most popular American artists. Her modernist works of New York and the American Southwest can bring many millions of dollars at auction...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1462507
A small watercolor and ink drawing of the famous old Brulatour courtyard, 520 Royal Street in the New Orleans Vieux Carre (French Quarter), signed at lower right and dated there '51 (and titled/signed/dated again on the reverse backing) by New Orleans artist E. ALVA EDWARDS. Internet research suggests but cannot confirm that this be a work by one EDWIN ALVA EDWARDS JR. (1914-1988) of the Baton Rouge area. The clean piece measures 9 1/2" by 7 1/2" as framed...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1970 item #1462464 (stock #4140)

Mario Avati framed mezzotint in cubist style

1960

France

Image 10" x 13"

Frame - 18" x 22"

Pencil signed and numbered #4 out of a small edition of only 15

Excellent condition

Avati - Mario Avati, printmaker and book illustrator, was born in Monaco on May 27, 1921.

The artist studied at the École des Arts Decoratifs in Nice and the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris.

He created etchings...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1800 item #1462395 (stock #a1813)
A fine portrait miniature attributed to John Downman, although Charles Hayter is a secondary possibility. Simply attired in a white gown, and with powdered hair, the sitter is shown with a pensive and somewhat downcast expression. Presented in a gold frame, the glazed reverse having a plaited hair border and a hairwork wheat-sheaf with seed pearls on opalescent glass...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1800 item #1462386 (stock #a1835)
A fine miniature by Charles Dixon, signed "CD" and dated 1750. The subject is a gentleman with his hair tied back, wearing a blue coat, red waistcoat, and black stock. Presented in a gilt metal mount with bracelet clasp, measuring 1 3/8" by 1 1/8".

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Information about Charles Dixon (fl 1748 - 1798) appears to be quite sparse, and there is not even certainty that his first name was Charles since those pieces he signed were done so with "CD"...

All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1990 item #1462365 (stock #2750)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,500.00
A beautiful Persian Design Story Rug Silk & Wool Blend 60x65 inch possibly made in India
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1980 item #1462364 (stock #2749)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,200.00
French Vietnamese Artist Jean Volang “Still Life With Anemones Vert” Beautiful lithograph measuring 30”x24” “Still Life with Anemones Vert”, Jean Volang, Lithograph, 30” x 24”. Jean Volang (1921-2003) was born in Vietnam and began his painting at an early age. He was tought by a French born artist who encouraged him to paint in France and to move to Paris...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1910 item #1462345
Louis Auguste Mathieu Legrand 1863-1951 French This is a drypoint etching by French artist Louis Legrand. The title is : English Bar, from his Album Les Bars, published by Pellet in Paris in 1909. This impression is from the first state of three with the Remarque of a Woman in Profile. The image measures 9 3/4X5 5/8 inches. Hand signed in pencil, printed on a Japon type paper. Numbered as 1/30.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1920 item #1462344
This is an original pencil signed etching by British artist Sir Frank Short.  The title is: A Lane in Arundel, it was created and printed in 1907.  The image measures 8 1/8X10 inches.  A rich impression.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1462342 (stock #2745)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,400.00
In the nineteenth century traveler to Europe wanted to buy souvenirs of their journey on the grand tour as it was called.. this painting done circa 1850 depicting a Swiss landscape in the Jura region of Switzerland
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1970 item #1462335 (stock #2744)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,500.00
Beautiful vintage JFK silver painted bust with the Presidents famous quotation “Ask not what your country can do for you…” done circa 1965 when silver paint was used as a metaphor for modern, as was used by NASA and artist such as Andy Warhol. Measuring 12” height
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1800 item #1462332 (stock #1016)
A beautiful rare antique French Gilt Bronze Dore bust of a young woman by Jean-Baptiste Greuze Paris circa 1799. Dor'e or bronze finish signed on reverse on a marble base. Dimensions 4ʺW × 2.5ʺD × 6.5ʺH in good antique condition minor imperfections commensurate of age. Biography; An 18th-century artist of melodramatic genre, morality lessons, female figures and portraits whose subjects included Mozart and Benjamin Franklin, Jean-Baptiste Greuze was born in the Burgundy region of France...
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 : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1462309 (stock #2742)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,000.00
The Lucien Crump Art Gallery and Education Center closed its doors for the final time Friday after 40 years of serving Philadelphia as the first to feature works by African-American artists. The gallery’s namesake, who had a long career as an artist and educator, passed away at age 71 in 2006. In the last days of the gallery’s opening, an announcement of the change caused neighbors and art lovers alike to pause and share their memories. “Since people have seen the closing sign in the windo...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Contemporary item #1462306 (stock #2741)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,500.00
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 noted for his bold blending of indigenous African visual sensibilities and folk motifs with Western creative techniques. Born in 1962 in the Ivory Coast villa...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1462291 (stock #1017)
In the late 1970s, ceramics became an important concentration for Maki’s artistic creations. As ceramic objects are central to Japanese culture, he didn’t have to look far for inspiration. He did many fine examples and the texture of each item is always striking. This tan bowl was created in 1979. Collection 19 was number 12 of 205 and it measures 9.5inW x 10.5inH. It is embossed and in good condition.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1970 item #1462290 (stock #1019)
Poem 68-40—strongly related to Poem 69-13 which is posted below on this site—is an old embossed print. Created in 1968, a year before its “cousin,” it is similarly in excellent condition. Poem 68-40 measures 11 3/8in W x 15in H and is number 29 of an edition of 72.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Engravings : Pre 1837 VR item #1462282
A set of FOUR framed circa 1836 engravings of exotic Australian birds, with hand coloring, by EDWARD LEAR (1812-1888). Lear was an English artist, illustrator, author, and poet, renowned today primarily for his literary nonsense, in poetry and prose, and especially his limericks, a form that he popularized. As a highly talented watercolorist, and a widely traveled figure, for his day, he created now-prized works featuring the Mediterranean region and the Holy Land. The birds depicted here are...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1970 item #1462270 (stock #2733)
73”x54” Rare Tapestry More information Coming
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1900 item #1462267 (stock #2731)
L'Enfant Gallery
$9,000.00
William Baptiste Baird was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1847, but as an adult, he moved to Paris to perfect his painting technique. In Paris, Baird studied under Adolphe Yvan, and exhibited extensively at the Paris Salon from 1872 until 1899. Baird was a painter of farm animals, rural subjects, and small animals. In 1872, he exhibited in a formal gallery in Paris, and was represented there through 1899, during which time the gallery became the Salon des Artistes Français in 1881. Baird wor...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Charcoal : Pre 1980 item #1462243 (stock #04328)
The Size of Drawing: :18" W x 24" H
The Title: Reflection in Window.
Artist: Edward Kawanabe
Medium: Charcoal and conte on texture manila color drawing paper.
Signed by Artist : E Kawanabe, on lower right.
The year of Work: 10/4/1978.
The condition of Drawing: Excellent. Unframed.
This is drawing done in reflection on the window at drawing
class room. It captured inside drawing room as well as otherside
building and windows. The pencil sharpner i...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Contemporary item #1462199
A small, unframed oil on canvas landscape in a painterly hand, 8" by 10", signed at lower left with what appears as "Round" or similar. Found in Los Angeles, probably by a local talented impressionist painter. This being a standard size, you should be able to easily locate a flattering frame of your choice.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1800 item #1462194 (stock #a1836)
A nicely done late 18th century miniature of a woman wearing a blue dress and white fichu, her powdered hair with an interwoven white ribbon. Presented in a gilt bracelet clasp mount. Excellent condition with an overall size of 1 3/8" by 1 1/8".
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pastel : Pre 1980 item #1462173 (stock #04324)
The Size of Painting :22" W x 15" H
The Title: Boy and No.17.
Artist: Edward Kawanabe
Medium: Pastel on Paper, unframed.
Signed by artist : E Kawanabe. on lower left.
The year of Work: 1978.
The condition of Painting: Excellent.
This is very interesting pastel drawing done On black drawing paper.
Artist used black background space
very wisely to express space.
The subject of pastel painting subject
is also interesting.
The boy and...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1980 item #1462142 (stock #04322)
The Size of Painting :22" W x 15" H
The Title: Still Life.
Artist: Edward Kawanabe
Medium: Pastel on Heavy Paper. Unframed.
Signed by artist : E. Kawanabe. on lower right
The year of Work: 1978.
The condition of Painting: Excellent.
Fine Color coordination and good composition.
The price including US Priority/insured.
We ship in heavy tube.

Edward Kawanabe (1947 - )
He was born in Kyoto, Japan in 1947 which was the ancient capital ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1980 item #1462052 (stock #04326)
The Size of Painting :24" W x 18 7/8" H
The Title: Maple Tree.
Artist: Edward Kawanabe
Medium: Tempera on Paper.
Signed by artist : Eiichi K. .on lower right
The year of Work: September 1978.
The condition of Painting: Excellent.
Please note there is a couple of pin holes on
Very fresh and brilliant colors.
Upper left and upper right for holding on the wall.
This is beautifully and immaculately painted of Maple
tree and leaves in detail ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : French : Pre 1900 item #1462042
A French oil on canvas painting of a flirting couple, the male dressed as a pierrot clown, she in an elegant ornate dress, the work signed at lower left with what appears as "Jos. Bellet". The work could possibly be by JEAN PIERRE JOSEPH ALFRED BELLET DU POISAT (1823-1883), but further research may be required to confirm the artist. Measurements are 13" by 9 3/4" (20 1/2" by 16 3/4" in old gold frame). The painting likely dates to about 1880 and is soiled and darkened in keeping with its grea...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1940 item #1462035 (stock #1923)
L'Enfant Gallery
$7,000.00
Alexandra Kay American Master Artist “Spanish Maiden Oil 46”x30” Kay was a student at the Corcoran School Of Art in the 1930s and exhibited there under Cikovsky
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1950 item #1461997 (stock #1015)
A original vintage oil painting of a Beautiful Girl with Flowers oil on canvas panel by Adrian Lamb. Signed lower left and presented in a contemporary gallery frame. The artist panel measures 8 x 10" overall framed size 15 x 18". Adrian Lamb (1901-1988) was born in New York City, where in the mid-1920s he studied at the Art Students League under Frank Vincent DuMond and George Bridgman. After attending the Académie Julien in Paris in 1929, he went on to travel and work in England, France, S...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 2000 item #1461966
Oil on Masonite painting of the famed church of Santa Prisca in Taxco, Mexico, signed lower right in blue by the well listed California artist FILASTRO MOTTOLA (1915-2008). The work measures 24" by 18" (31" by 24 1/2" framed). The church with its Churrigueresque decorations dating to the 17th century is famous and a frequent subject of artists. Mottola was born in northern New Jersey and moved to Southern California as a child in 1922. He studied in New York City with Harvey Dunn. After the...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1930 item #1461951
A striking black and white lithograph, 10 1/2" by 16 1/2" inside the mat, 14 3/4" by 20 3/4" simply framed, the subject matter a landscape with trees and structures, the imagery artistically distorted in a Cubist fractured style, pencil signed at upper left "Wheelock" by the artist and dated there '29. The handling is reminiscent of Andrew Dasburg, Howard Cook, and some other modernists working in New Mexico. The artist is Massachusetts-born WARREN WHEELOCK (1880-1960). Wheelock served in the...