All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1980 item #1427413
A small circa 1960's or 1970's painting on canvasboard, 14" by 10", unframed, the subject a brown vase with yellow decoration set on a blue surface, a green grain-painted background setting off the orange-yellow flowers and two cattails. The work is signed at lower right I Y Dobrinsky...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1437066 (stock #813)
L'Enfant Gallery
$9,500.00
"Blonde at Desk" by Anne Lane. Oil on Canvas. 36" x 48". Frame Size 41" x 51". Done in oil on canvas 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...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1471651 (stock #1005)
Dragons—or at least the kanji for them—featured often in Haku Maki’s work. Work 73-12A –black kanji on white—came out first in 1973 and was followed quickly by a black dragon on red (which follows this one on this site). It measures 11.5inW x 15.25inH, is 16 of an edition of 103, and is in good condition
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1463077 (stock #2622)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,800.00
A beautiful Modernist Color Block Study Painting In Oil 24”x 48”…. More information coming soon Berlin Estate
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1980 item #1057651 (stock #MM-S)
Original THEO MEIER sanguine portrait on paper of Northern Thai woman (Kan Keo) from Chiang Mai, signed bottom right, dated 1975, Size 75 x 55 cm. (famous Swiss artist 1908-1982).
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1454401 (stock #632)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,500.00
American Painter CLYFFORD STROHL Maine Landscape 24x30” Mr STROHL born New York,1893, was a passion, a painter who worked in the Lake George area immigrating from Germany. We decided to go to Maine in the 1920s and paint their he died in 1964 Born in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in 1893, a d was a pupil of Jules Dieudonne, and of Orlando G. Wells. He was also a student of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine arts...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1461910 (stock #1025)
Through his career, Haku Maki did a wide array of Chinese characters used in the Japanese language as well (kanji). The large prints that Daniel Tretiak called Big Reds were such kanji. Among Maki’s depictions were black kanji on white backgrounds, some stark, some playful, some easily decipherable, others with which he took great liberties. The artistic possibilities that kanji offered were a fascination of his. This broad-brushed embossed print, Poem 72-55, was done in 1972...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1441090 (stock #935)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,200.00
This mid 20th century unsigned work brings the fresh flowers to life frozen in time. Oil on canvas measuring 24”x24”
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1980 item #1424256 (stock #JB03335)
Fine pencil drawing, possibly illustrator art, of a traditional old doorway in New England or elsewhere in the east, 10 1/2" by 7 1/2" inside the mat, 17" by 13 1/2" framed. There are a few listed artists by this name Don Browne (possibly "Browne"----there might be a fainter version underneath) but I don't believe this to be by one of them, though the work is competently executed. The drawing is in clean, fine condition.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1420584 (stock #JB03300)
Large opaque watercolor (gouache) of the historic, now highly desirable residential neighborhood known as Corinthian Island, near downtown Tiburon, California, across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco, signed at lower left by artist A. Simmons, and likely created circa 1960's or 1970's. The work measures 21" by 28 1/2" inside the mat and 30" by 37" nicely framed...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1980 item #1419490 (stock #JB02033)
Original pencil figural drawing, 15" by 9" plus a gray mat, unframed, signed at lower right "K. Delaney" and dated there 1979. I do not know who the artist might have been but he or she certainly had a talent as a draftsperson. The condition is generally good save for modest paper browning and there is tape residue on the reverse from clumsy attachment to the mat. Fit a frame on this and you'll have a pleasant, nicely executed drawing.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1453100 (stock #1568)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,800.00
The watercolor on French paper framed measuring 20x16”. An interview with Marston Dean Hodgin conducted 1998 Aug. 25, by Robert Brown, for the Archives of American Art, in Hodgin's home, North Truro, Mass...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1423243 (stock #JB04833)
An original watercolor painting, featuring a ceramic geisha, ceramic bird, and poppies in a bowl/vase, apparently unsigned, twentieth century. The work has been faded by sunlight over the years yet remains interesting. Measurements are 9" by 8 1/2" (15 1/2" by 15" in simple wood frame, which has a piece missing at upper extreme left corner). There are reflections at top of several images. Drawing is glued to a black backing sheet at top only (not fully "laid down"). E
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Sculptural : Pre 1980 item #1439068 (stock #684)
Japanese 1974 glazed earthenware pot rare glaze 4.5”x4”
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1459774 (stock #2429)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,000.00
Mario Russo (1925-2000) was an Italian painter known for his unique style and innovative approach to art. Born in Naples, Italy, Russo received his formal art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, where he studied painting and sculpture...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1980 item #1419672 (stock #JB02603)
Oil on canvas painting of a desert southwestern landscape complete with saguaro cactus, unframed, 16" by 20", signed at lower right "Robert Perkins". I do not see a listing by this name so offer the painting on its decorative values. It is in fair condition, with soiling, stretcher bar show-through/uneven canvas, and two very small punctures at sky on right in a cloud at a few inches above the signature. If you like the painting you could hang it as-is, or you could invest money to fix it up.
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...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Engravings : Pre 1980 item #1043485
Leo Meissner, American, 1895-1977, wood engraving, "Hannah," image size 10 x 8 inches, numbered "Trial Proof 10," signed in pencil.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1437235 (stock #854)
L'Enfant Gallery
$2,400.00
A beautiful colorful Still Life by he artist Brut, 1980s, oil on.canvas 24”x18”, frame size measures 30x24 inches
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1420906 (stock #JB04971)
A vintage, 1972 re-issue of the Maurits Cornelius Escher print "Metamorphose" (1939-40), possibly a posthumous or commemorative printing, as its date coincides with the year of Escher's death. The publisher is given at far right margin as G. W. Breughel, and this was printed in Holland. Measurements are an unusual 8 3/4" by 41" in the narrow black metal frame (presently no glass). The work has been laid on foamboard...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1980 item #1423314 (stock #JB04105)
Oil on Masonite painting of a high desert of the Southwest, 8" by 9 3/4", unframed, signed in red with initials at lower left. Probably dates to the 1960's or 1970's. Put an eight by ten inch frame on it and you will have a very nice little landscape for your wall.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1980 item #1418203 (stock #JB03723)
Oil on masonite still life painting, 24" by 18" (33" by 26" framed), signed at lower left by California artist CLARETTA ELLIS WHITE (c. 1915-2002). This is a briskly painted work by an artist who was quite active in the Southern California art scene at mid century. An unusually detailed and complete website, evidently created by relatives, gives a complete history of her active life. The artist was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma into a cultured family...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1418041 (stock #JB01746)
This is a watercolor signed at lower right by an unrecognized artist named "Andre" or "Audre", 11 1/2" by 8 1/2" (17 1/2" by 14 1/4" as framed), the subject a young girl in pigtails viewed from behind, playing a grand piano. The overall colors are a cool mix of white, black, silvery gray, and light blue, with pink accenting in her bow. The mat and silvery frame pick up the colors nicely. I will have to research this a bit but it seems the familiar image might be taken from a Norman Rockwell p...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1440262
A striking mixed media work, featuring the whitewashed architecture and Mediterranean light of the island of Djerba, Tunisia, highlighted by an electric blue paint, signed at lower center, dated 1979. There is also extensive writing in modern Hebrew. Measurements are 22" by 30 3/4" (27 3/4" by 36 1/2" in metal framing). The artist is YGAEL TUMARKIN (1933-2021), a well-known, prolific Israeli artist who works in sculpture and painting. Prices for his works have exceeded $25,000 at auction. Tum...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1441544 (stock #264)
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“
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1419985 (stock #JB02420)
Dramatic linocut print, the sheet 13" by 20", unframed, numbered at lower left 6/12 and pencil signed at lower right and dated there 1971, the "HB" blind stamp adjacent, by the important and still highly underrated Swiss-California modernist HANS GUSTAV BURKHARDT (1904-1994). The subject is somewhat uncertain; perhaps a look at a catalogue raisonne of the artist's graphic works would provide the title, but skulls and other references to death seem to predominate, and the ink is black. At lower l...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1163152 (stock #3046)
In late 2011, I received several Maki prints of 1981. These all have leather-like surfaces. I thought this was a phenomenon of that year. I was wrong. Maki actually used this surface in 1971 for a few Persimmon prints and then not again until 1981. I show here copies from my Maki archives. When we filed those images a long time ago, they were not clear enough, are still not. But I think they are with that leather-like finish. Any views most gratefully received. My images are from catalo...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1457158 (stock #2378)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,000.00
Robert Morey know as the designer of the Seal of the United States Marshall service was not only a painter but a personal friend of President Kennedy and his brother Robert Kennedy. This work is a impressionist style of a corner of his studio.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1980 item #1422808 (stock #JB04211)
This is a fine pencil drawing of a Victorian style wood home, 16" by 11 1/2" (24 3/4" by 18 3/4" framed), signed at lower right "David" and dated there '73. One is reminded of Edward Hopper's haunted, lonely dune houses or even the infamous back-lot Bates Motel house from the movie "Psycho" where Anthony Perkins did his thing. Condition is excellent. Found in San Francisco, the city where many treasured gingerbread houses of Victorian times still stand.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1980 item #1462731 (stock #04331)
The Size of Drawing Image and paper: :24" W x 18" H
The Title: Garden Tools
Artist: Edward Kawanabe
Medium: Black Artist Drawing Pencil on paper.
Signed by Artist : E Kawanabe on lower Left.
The year of Work: 1978.
The condition of Drawing: Excellent.
Since the work of Drawing is 44 years old,
the paper has some age color showing on back
but not on surface because the pencil work finely covered.
This is unique pencil drawing in 1978.
A...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1229238 (stock #3026)
This is Daniel Tretiak's note about Maki huge print Poem-Woman, which is a horizontal print that measures 3ft x 6ft. His note is in the photos that are a part of this entry. Here he described photos that he was presenting along with his note. He said: Frame 8 is the same image but done with a yellow sun and purple moon. It is 33/50. This suggests many of the first 33 and then some were done this way; then Maki did not use these colors. I do not own this print. The paper has the same wavy con...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Engravings : Pre 1980 item #1452605 (stock #1393)
William Hogarth FRSA (/ˈhoʊɡɑːrθ/; 10 November 1697 – 26 October 1764) was an 20th century Impression. English painter, printmaker, pictorial satirist, social critic, and editorial cartoonist. His work ranges from realistic portraiture to comic strip-like series of pictures called "modern moral subjects",[2] and he is perhaps best known for his series A Harlot's Progress, A Rake's Progress and Marriage A-la-Mode. Knowledge of his work is so pervasive that satirical political illustration...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1420833 (stock #JB05119)
An unframed miniature painting featuring amazingly detailed ink and watercolor scenes of 17th or 18th Venice, the sheet 10" by 8", signed at bottom margin by listed French illustrator artist JEAN GRADASSI (1907-1989). Condition is excellent. Many hours of work went into creating this work, which approaches medieval manuscripts and book of hours paintings in its detail. "Jean Gradassi" is written on the reverse; without that aid I might not have been able to identify the artist from the signatu...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1420634 (stock #JB04669)
A gallery poster of the year 1977 promoting a Fifth Avenue exhibition at the Robert Miller Gallery, for Pop Artist LARRY RIVERS (1923-2002). The colorful and complex image is signed by Rivers with felt marker at lower right and numbered 46/100. Larry Rivers, born in the Bronx of Ukrainian Jewish parentage, is considered a major figure of the second generation of the New York School. According to the Wikipedia listing, he is considered by many art scholars to be the "Godfather" or "Grandfather...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1376366 (stock #3043)
This short note looks at print 75-29, a beautifully painted kanji for wine.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1480300 (stock #3450)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,000.00
(1906-1983), oil on canvas, 24” x 18”, framed. “When Matisse came to America and was asked by Mr Philips (of The Philips Collection) who he wanted to meet, and he replied; Manfred Schwarz and Edward Rosenfeld” so says Peter Colasante. Provenance: Peter discovered Edward through a great friend and expert John Swanner. Peter explains how he acquired Rosenfeld’s work: “John frequently visited Howard Street in Baltimore. In the 1970’s there were still 30 small shops with dealers. Th...