All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1417526 (stock #JB04863)
This is an original 1924 etching, from the series of 55 etchings by the artist, in the book "Dingo", published that year by Ambroise Vollard Editeur. The edition was 350. "Dingo" featured dogs and their unique habits and characteristics. This image is adorable, and accurately illustrates how dogs interact with one another---the black dog at left lifting his right paw, the white sheep dogs on their guard, sniffing out the newcomer to their territory...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #982298
Arthur Heintzelman, American, 1891-1965, etching, "Planche Aux Cinq Croquis", 1925, edition 100, image size: 4 1/8 x 5 5/8 inches, pencil signed
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1453450 (stock #3244)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,100.00
Born in Germany. Known for etchings and prints of Germany and Bohemia with incredible details
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1930 item #1470170
William Schwartz 1896-1977 American This is a fine original lithograph by American artist William S. Schwartz. The title is: Portrait of the Artist's Wife and her Grandfather. THis lithograph was created and printed in 1929. The image measures 21 1/4X16 5/8 inches. Hand signed in pencil lower left and also signed within the plate. William S. Schwartz was born in Smorgon, Russia, February 23, 1896...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1424905
Sir William Russell Flint 1880-1969 British This is an original drypoint etching by British artist William Russell Flint. The title is Aragonese String Makers, it was created and printed in 1930. It is editioned as impression number XXVII... The image measures 9 1/2X14 3/4 inches. Printed on an early laid type paper, R.G. 1820. The image is signed in sepia ink lower right border. A very rich inking with extensive use of plate tone in the sky and land. A beautiful impression...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Pre 1930 item #380342
20th century ABSTRACT IMPRESSIONISM. Oil on board. Gilt frame. Signature at l.r. somewhat illegible... 8 1/2" x 20 1/2" sight; 10" x 22" framed
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1450410
Leonard Russell Squirrell 1893-1979 British This is an oriignal aquatint etching by British artist Leonard R. Squirrell, this etching was created and printed in 1924 in an edition of 75 signed proofs. The image measures 11X16 1/4 inches. Pencil signed by the artist in pencil lower right border. Fine use of highlight and shadow making a dramatic composition. Printed on a medium weight wove type paper. A rare image only found in Museums.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #752404
Arthur Heintzelman, American, 1891-1965, Etching, "Scene de Music Hall", 1929, Edition of 100, image size: 9 1/2X11 1/4 inches, Cat. Bpl 153, pencil signed
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1440994
Troy Kinney 1871-1938 American This is one of the most important works by American artist Troy Kinney (1871-1938) This artist was best known for his studies of Ballet and Modern Dance. The title of this work is: Lopokova and Nijinski in Les Sylphides. It was created and printed in 1916, This hand colored etchings is numbered as 76/82. The image measures 12 1/8X9 7/8 inches. The etching is hand signed in pencil lower left border...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #970181
Jean Louis Forain, French, 1852-1931, etching with drypoint, "Croquis de Femme Nue, La Tete Contre L'Oreiller", image size 11 1/2 x 13 3/16 inches, first plate (Guerin 69), pencil signed and titled
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1492191
David Muirhead Bone 1876-1953 Scottish "This is one of the most famous prints from the British Etching Revival" This image is titled: A Spanish Good Friday,created and printed in 1925 by British artist David Muirhead Bone. This pencil signed drypoint measures 12 5/8X8 inches, printed on a laid type sheet with deckeled edges. Numbered as XXVII lower left corner. The image depicts the solemn festival at the end of Passion Week. Ref. Campbell Dodgson 412 .
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1418251 (stock #JB02941)
Etching or aquatint in colors, 18 1/2" by 23" (28" by 31 1/2" as framed), titled at lower left margin "Les Vieux (???)" and signed at lower right margin by the noted French artist PAUL EMAIL LECOMTE (1877-1950). Lecomte was born to an artist father and an art-nourishing environment. After attending the Ecole des Beaux-Arts and study under Fernande Cormon, he went to work for the government...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1422569 (stock #JB04120)
Etching on paper, 1923, measuring 9" by 13" (15" by 18 3/4" framed---no glass), titled "La Lagune--Venise" in pencil in lower right margin, signed in pencil at lower left margin and numbered there 80 from an edition of 100, by the important artist EDGAR CHAHINE (1874-1947). The influence of Whistler's similar graphic works and drawings featuring Venice is very obvious, what with the big sky and tiny silhouettes of the buildings on the horizon far away...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1930 item #1485432 (stock #3619)
L'Enfant Gallery
$5,200.00
Frank Thayer Merrill (December 14, 1848 – October 12, 1936)[2] was an American artist and illustrator. He is best known for his drawings for the first illustrated edition of Louisa May Alcott's novel Little Women, published in 1880. Over a five-decade career, he illustrated a wide variety of works for adults and children. Frank Thayer Merrill was born on December 14, 1848, to George William Merrill (1824–1879) and Sarah Rose Merrill (née Alden, 1822–1895) in Roxbury, Massachusetts...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1115304
Joseph Pennell, American, 1857-1926, "Hudson Avenue Foundations," etching, image size 8 13/16 x 11 7/8 inches, Wuerth 807, printed on Arches wove paper, plate signed "JPennell 1923" pencil signed "J Pennell" l.c., private plate, etched for the Brooklyn Edison Co.
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)...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1930 item #1458269 (stock #1473)
L'Enfant Gallery
$8,500.00
Frederick Coffay Yohn (February 8, 1875 – June 6, 1933), often recognized only by his initials, F. C. Yohn, was an artist and magazine illustrator. Yohn's work appeared in publications including Scribner's Magazine, Harper's Magazine, and Collier's Weekly. Books he illustrated included Jack London's A Daughter of the Snows, Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Dawn of a To-morrow and Henry Cabot Lodge's Story of the American Revolution...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1059251
Joseph Simpson, British, 1879-1939, etching, "Lucy in Galloway," image size 11 7/8 x 8 1/2 inches, 1927, edition of 75, pencil signed. Provenance: The Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #953287
Martin Hardie, American, 1875-1952, etching, "Bathers", image size: 8X10 3/4 inches,1922,pencil signed
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1306491
Arthur J. T. Briscoe, British, 1873-1943, "Drydock". This 1928 marine etching by the British printmaker Arthur Briscoe measures 12 1/8 x 8 7/8 inches, hand signed in ink and editioned as 7/75. Briscoe studied at the Slade Art School and the Academy Julian in Paris and then spent the rest of his time sailing, becoming one of the most prominent British marine artists of the 20th century. He owned his own three ton cutter which he used to sail around the Essex coast. Also crewing on a Polish ship, ...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1930 item #899790 (stock #OSS22)
Original nude drawings (one drawing on each side of the sheet) by Henri George Keller (American, 1869-1949), on grey tone wove paper, one of the drawings (the color charcoal sitting nude) signed with his distinctive signature l.l.. These drawings are well framed, with a window showing the second drawing verso. Henri George Keller was a very influential American artist (he counted among his students Charles Burchfield, Paul Travis, and Frank Wilcox.) He is listed in all the usual databases. W...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Spanish : Pre 1930 item #1449479
A beautifully painted 1927 oil on canvas of flowering plants in ceramic pots on a small terrace or deck, signed at lower left with what appears as "Yos. Bell" followed by "Mallorca 1927". This would have been painted during the optimistic years between the wars, on Spain's Balearic Islands. The unframed piece measures 26 1/2" by 31 1/2". An online search for an artist name that matches this has been unsuccessful; perhaps I am misreading it. There is a very small puncture at bottom center, ea...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1930 item #1437034 (stock #790)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,500.00
A Townscape by Sam Pratt. Oil on Canvas. 4" x 5". Frame Size 5" x 7"
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1930 item #1449580 (stock #1342)
L'Enfant Gallery
$8,000.00
North African Prince Study In Oil Early 20th Century Circa 1908., beautiful work measuring 24 x 29” with a ornate frame in Gold leaf.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1424901
Troy Kinney 1871-1938 American This is an original etching by American artist Troy Kinney. The title of this work is: "The Rehearsal", it was created and printed in 1929. The subject is the Rehearsal of the Gavrilov Ballet Troupe, with Mr. Anesander Gavrilov and Miss Geraldine Spencer. This etching is pencil signed and inscribed," with best wishes to my friend Dr. Conrad Bevens...? The image measures 8 1/2X11 3/4 inches. Printed on a medium weight wove type paper.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1447201
Tavik F. Simon 1877-1942 Czech This soft ground etching and aquatint was created by Austrian artist Tavik F. Simon. It is titled: Les Halles Et L' Eglise Saint Eustache, Paris. A fine view of Notre Dame and the street life of Paris. This etching was created and printed in 1926 and is described as an artist Proof in the Novak Catalog, numbered as: 1926AP3. The image measures 13 1/4X15 inches. Pencil signed lower right and has an edition number of 16. In an early Frame with French matting.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1487308
Robin Tanner 1904-1988 British This is a fine early etching by British artist Robin Tanner. The title is: The Gamekeepers Cottage, it was created and printed in 1928 in an edition of 50, this impression is numbered as XXV. The image measures 6 7/8X8 3/4 inches. The subject was thought to be made at Annie Bryant's old cottage in Kington Langley; at Rose Cottage, Corsham, the home of Heather Spackman, his future wife, and at the family house of the Spackmans. This etching was reprinted in...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1490154
Elyse Ashe Lord 1900-1971 British This is a fine original hand colored etching by British artist Elyse Lord. The title is: Fantasy in Blue, created and printed circa 1925. This image is pencil signed and numbered as 39/75. The image measures 13 3/4X10 1/4 inches. Printed on a thin Japan type sheet.
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Sculptural : Pre 1930 item #1450775
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$3,995.00
1918-1925 Rare Cubist dore bronze of a standing nude cubist woman with her hands to her face . Signed AP Made in France stamp From Meuble Installer Decore Paris by A. Petit co owner and designer of D.I.M. Paris. The location is now the Hotel Cloaisse Paris. This wonderful bronze on a beautiful black and butterscotch marble base is 3.75" tall or 4.75" including the base. There are 3 very similar pieces sold in the past, a near matching "male nude" figure sold at Bonham's London lot #373 on ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1417515
A fine color soft-ground etching and aquatint by the noted, prolific Czech master artist TAVIK FRANTISEK SIMON (1877-1942), featuring the famous and much-loved "bouquiniste" bookstalls along the Seine in Paris, Notre Dame in the mid background. The original sheet measures 15 7/8" by 20 1/8". The print is signed in pencil at lower right by the artist and bears number "329" in the lower left margin. According to the catalogue raisonne of the artist's graphic work, this work, titled "Quai Saint Mic...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1930 item #1459847 (stock #2442)
L'Enfant Gallery
$38,000.00
Art Deco bronze urn: $44,000, reduced to $38,000 This Art Deco bronze figurative planter (jardiniere), circa 1920, measures 55" in height, 36" across (elbow to elbow), 18" deep.  caste bronze, 150-250 lb. This work was the combined effort of two French sculptors; Pierre Lenoir and Marcel Guillard (1896 - 1932). It is believed two castes of this sculpted urn were made.  Pierre Lenoir (1879 - 1953) was a French sculptor and medallist and was one of the Breton sculptors born in the 1880s ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1421734 (stock #JB03185)
Aquatint on paper laid on board, 1924, "Le Village d'Herouville", 18 3/4 " by 24" inside the mat, and 26 1/4" by 31" framed, after an original by the famous and important French modern artist MAURICE de VLAMINCK (1876-1958), adopted for reproduction by equally noted artist Jacques Villon (11875-1963). Vlaminck is known as a Fauvist and later simply as an expressionist. At auctions, his works in oil bring from the low hundreds of thousands of dollars to the low millions. He was a formidable prese...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1490159
John Sloan 1871-1951 American This is an original etching by American Ash Can School artist John Sloan. The title is: Boys Sledding, it was created and printed in 1920 in an edition of 100. This impression is hand signed in pencil, titled and annotated a "100 Proofs in the lower border. The image mesures 5 1/4X6 15/16 inches. Printed on a medium weight wove type sheet, with tack holes where the artist held the sheet down to dry. Very fine condition.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1930 item #1444478 (stock #1788)
From our African Collection: Cameroon Grasslands Bronze Mask, circa 1900. The Cameroon Grasslands is a large cultural area, which is inhabited by a large number of related peoples. These peoples can be divided into three smaller subgroups: Bamilike, Bamum, and Bamenda Tikar. Within these complexes there are numerous smaller ethnic groups, which are loosely affiliated with one another and share many historical and political similarities while retaining separate identities. All members of this ...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1930 item #1425098
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A rare series of 5 miniature Vintage Bronze Buddhas subduing Mara, Amulet size, each about 1" high.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1416666 (stock #JB05454)
Pencil signed (with the cypher) etching, 1928, the titel "Old St. Michael's, Charleston". The artist is noted American artist ALFRED HEBER HUTTY (1877-1954). Hutty was born in Michigan and as a youth lived in Kansas City and St. Louis, where he attended art school. In 1907 he moved to Woodstock, New York, where, along with George Bellows, he founded the Woodstock art colony, with which he was associated until the end of his life. In 1919 he went to Charleston, South Carolina in search of a mil...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #982279
Arthur Heintzelman, American, 1891-1965, etching, "Cafe Montmartrois", BPL 114, plate destroyed, Characters from French art culture of 1925; Scene features Heintzelman, left, bending over table, the Parisian model, Kiki who appears in Planche aux Cinq Croquis. To her right, Fredie, subject in Fredie du Cafe "Le Lapin Agile" and of Le Poete regarded by Heintzelman as the last of the great Montartre singers, Young man with the guitar is Fredie's son.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pastel : Pre 1930 item #1420910 (stock #JB04217)
A fine landscape drawing in pastel by a skilled hand, Swiss-born artist MAXIM (MAXIMILIAN) SEIBOLD. The drawing measures 9 1/4" by 12 1/2" (13 1/4" by 16 1/2" in attractive probably original old gold framing---very light wear). Seibold was a competent and talented artist, very active around the year 1920, who seems to have left behind little biographical information. Born in Switzerland, he evidently came to America at least by the 'teens, as drawings of Florida and elsewhere are known. More...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1471546
Dorsey Potter Tyson 1891-1969 American This is a very fine original hand colored drypoint etching by American artist Dorsey Potter Tyson. The title is: Dragon Boat Festival, this etching was created and printed in 1929 in an edition of 100, this one is numbered as 42/100. This pencil signed etching measures an image of 11 7/8X9 7/8 inches. It is nicely framed in an orientalist frame with french matting.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #999630
Samuel Chamberlain, American, 1895-1975, etching, "Amalfi", image size: 7 x 7 inches, numbered 88/100, 1925, cat. Chamberlain and Kingsland-8, pencil signed lower right, framed.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1930 item #1400058
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$11,995.00
Austrian cold painted bronze figures, attributed to Franz Bergman or Anton Chotka . A pair of rare Chinese Mandarin Court figures one man one woman the woman serving tea from a well done pot and cup she has had her hair bun reattached at its base not noticable, the man lost his attachments and a finger other wise in great condition. well cast and painted with lots of gold and very elaborate bases with greek key and shield design. 14 INCHES TALL BY 4 1/2" BY 4 1/2" Vienna bronze cold paint fig...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1222467
Sir Francis Dodd, British (1874-1949), "Charles March Gere," This drypoint etching of the English landscape painter, Charles March Gere, c. 1927, measures 12 x 10 1/4 inches and is pencil signed on the lower right margin. Francis Dodd was born in Wales and trained at the Glasgow School of Art winning the Haldane Scholarship in 1893 enabling him to travel and study in France, Italy and Spain. During WWI he became a portrait war artist producing more than 30 portraits of senior officers. After the...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1346417
James McBey, Scottish, 1883-1959. Etching from his Venice series of etchings. Done in 1925. Number 21 out of the edition of 80, this etching appears in the Hardie catalog as image number 250. The image measures 7 1/8 x 15 3/4 inches. J Whatman watermark laid-type paper. Collector's annotations in pencil at the lower edge of the sheet.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1930 item #1426600
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$1,145.00
Fine Tibetan antique bronze figure with traces of red orange paint. The sculpture shows Vajradhara ( Manjushri), in his tantric aspect in embrace with his consort, Shakti, in a position of sexual union known as Yab-Yum literally Father-Mother in Tibetan and Maithuna in Sanscrit. Size H 4.5" d 2.5" w just under 4"
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1930 item #1451213
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$18,500.00
c1910s French Mixed Metal Cubist Nude female- Cello. A fabulous bronze nude female cubist statue with lines of a darker almost copper trim throughout. The sculpture was probably made with a original wax figure then a higher melt point metal strips were embedded to the wax body leaving an exposed strip to catch the wet plaster mold then set into a wet plaster bath the strips embedded into the walls of the plaster mold the wax melted out leaving the stripes , once the bronze was hand poured the st...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1930 item #1386740
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$3,500.00
Signed Japanese Meiji Bronze Hawk Okimono on Rockery base, highest quality sculpting with details to every feather . The hawk is holding down another bird and 2 of its feathers lay on the base stand of the sculpture. The hawk was sculpted separately from the rockery and it was completely hand worked and then applied to the main sculpture. One unique thing about this piece is that the hawk was cast as one piece when most all other hawk or eagle sculptures were cast with detachable wings for ease ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1355386
Arthur Heintzelman, American, 1891-1965, "La Femme à la Mêche Tombante," drypoint etching, 8½ x 11-3/8 inches on 16 1/2 x 13 3/4 inch laid type paper. C. 1929. Editioned in pencil in the lower left, signed in the lower right. Edition of 75. The subject is the artist's wife, Katherine Sloman Heintzelman. Catalog: Smith 142.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1447199
Tavik F. Simon 1877-1942 Czech This is an original soft ground etching and aquatint by Austrian artist Tavik F. Simon. The scene is: The Kiosks on the Grand Boulevards, in Paris. This etching was created and printed in 1926 in an edition of 200, published by G. Petit, Paris. The image appears in the Novak catalog as image number N.123. The image measures 13 3/4X16 3/4 inches. This etching is in the early frame with french matting. Pencil signed lower right and numbered 6 of the edition
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1930 item #1386679
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$595.00
19th C Continental Gilt Bronze pair of Woodsman and Wife , probably Dutch extremely detailed pair of gilt bronzes notice the patching and repair to their clothing . The couple looks lovingly at each other while working. The figures were cast in 2 pieces each and assembled and mounted to a slate like bases. Very heavy pieces. Size approximately 12"
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Pre 1930 item #87205
This is an OIL on BOARD PAINTING of a YOUNG LADY at the PIANO. Sight size is 12 3/4" X 18 3/4". From a Virginia Estate... Jessen Aage was a SCANDINAVIAN PAINTER; date this work circa second 1/4 of the 20th Century. This One Grows on the Viewer.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1930 item #1340300
A very rare lithograph by the British artist Edmund Blampied measuring 17 1/2 x 14 inches, pencil signed and numbered 3/3. Edmund Blampied was a very successful artist and illustrator in early 20th century Britain. He illustrated many books and magazines, but is best known for his remarkable skills as a printmaker. He was an important figure in the 'British Etching Revival' of the early 20th century, and was elected to the Royal Society of Painter-Etchers and Engravers in 1920.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1930 item #1302562
Very well crafted patinated bronze figure of matador. Depicting figures of a bull and matador, from late 19th/early 20th century, marked "Masier". Raised on a 1.25" marble base, figure height is 8 inches with length of 11 inches, no condition issues noted.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1010458
George Soper, British, 1870-1942, etching and drypoint, "Wood Gatherers", image size: 7 7/8 x 10 1/4 inches, 1921, ed. of 54, Beetles 249 VIII/VIII, pencil signed.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1930 item #1340176
This 1921 original etching by the British artist, Ernest Lumsden, measures 14 3/8 x 8 1/2 inches, pencil signed, dated in the plate, 1921. Rotherhithe, meaning "a mariner's haven", in southeast London, was the first place that docks were constructed for the convenience of the Londoners.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Bronze : Pre 1930 item #1455614 (stock #962)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,800.00
Bronze Nude circa 1920 measuring 13.5” height 7x6” base. Alfredo Pina (1883-1969) a student of Auguste Rodin, was an artist and sculptor of Italian origin. He created portrait busts of Beethoven and Wagner and others. His famous bust of Victor Hugo is located in the Metropolitan Museum in New York. He was born in 1883 in Milan. The second largest city in Italy was also the workplace of the famous artist Leonardo da Vinci. He studied in Milan at the Accademia di Brera. …. The life of Ale...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1930 item #1442407 (stock #795)
L'Enfant Gallery
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"First Thaw," a scene of Woodstock Mountain, New York, by Norwegian-American Artist Jonas Lie, oil on canvas 30 x 48". Lie was born in Moss, in Østfold county, Norway. His father Sverre Lie (1841–92) was a Norwegian civil engineer and his mother Helen Augusta Steele (1853–1906) was an American from Hartford, Connecticut. He was named for his father's cousin (and brother-in-law), the famous Norwegian author Jonas Lie, who had married his father's sister Thomasine. Following his father...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1930 item #1342350
This Warren Davis etching measures 7 7/8 x 6 inches, pencil signed, label from Kleemann-Thorman Galleries, New York included, c.1928. This delicately rendered etching is a great example of Davis's images of graceful female nudes, many of which were used for Vanity Fair and Life magazines in the very early 1900s.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Photographs : Pre 1930 item #1423080 (stock #JB04280)
Original old photo of the imposing Palace of Fine Arts building in the Marina section of San Francisco, the photo originally in a brown tone, enhanced tastefully with light blue tints. The building was erected for the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, and the complex is all that remains of the construction undertaken for that event. Today it and the park-like grounds remain a graceful and familiar part of the San Francisco urban landscape. The photo is in what app...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1420330 (stock #JB03130)
This is the 1928 (issue date) work "L'Eglise de Limours", dated and signed 1922 in the plate at lower left, after a painting by French School of Paris master artist MAURICE UTRILLO (1883-1955), with the graphic art assistance of also important master artist Jacques Villon. The work, unframed, and measuring 19 1/2" by 11 1/4" presently, is one of the very collectable "Chalcographie du Louvre" impressions. This notation appears at extreme bottom, and the names of Utrillo and Villon also appear ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Photographs : Pre 1930 item #1420913 (stock #JB05162)
Sepia-toned photograph of coconut palms in Hawaii, seemingly in a rice paddy type setting, framed apparently circa 1930 give or take a few years (there being an original old framer/art supply label from Pacific Picture Framing at 1050 Nuuanu St., ("below the hotel"), Honolulu, T.H. (Territory of Hawaii). This would appear to be a downtown Honolulu address, perhaps known today as Nuuanu AVENUE. The exact age of the photo is hard to determine. It is in excellent condition. Measurements are 7 1...