A Karl (Carl) Schultheiss numbered etching pre 1931. This is a 8-3/4" x 7-1/4" numbered, limited closed edition engraving titled "ANGERS, CATHEDRALE" by the German engraver Karl (Carl) Max Schultheiss (1885-1961). Born in Germany, he moved to the U.S. in the 1930s, where he had a 1938 exhibition of his etchings at the Art Institute of Chicago...
From our Fine Arts and Americana Collection, a ONE-OF-A-KIND MASTERPIECE crystal sculpture by Varga. People generally familiar with Varga crystal know it as a high-end manufacturer of crystal stemware: Wine glasses, goblets, champagne glasses and the like, handcrafted in Budapest Hungary by four generations of specialist engravers practicing the copper and diamond wheel technique...
From our Fine Arts and Americana Collection, an early acrylic sculpture titled "Winged Vision" from American sculptural icon Frederick Hart (1943-1999). Hart is a famed American artist and sculptor best known for his bas relief frieze at the National Cathedral in Washington DC, a 21 x 15 foot masterpiece that was 13 years in its creation. Hart is equally well known for his "Three Soldiers" bronze sculpture which is a part of the overall Vietnam Veteran's Memorial...
From our Fine Arts and Americana Collection, a large and very fine original oil painting on canvas in the Realism style, by renowned regional artist David Berger. Mr...
From our Fine Arts and Americana Collection, a fine original watercolor painting from Miraflores Peru, depicting a beguiling image of a single solitary front door. Lending itself to all sorts of interpretation, we ordinarily do not gravitate towards watercolor as an artistic medium, but this unusual piece had a certain draw to it. In terms of technical merit, it is also very well done for watercolor, especially the shadowing...
From our Fine Arts and Americana Collection, a fine pastel still life painting of a flower vase by Luis Bodes of Alhambra Spain. Executed in pretty blues, lime green, orange, grey and white, this is an elegant little painting that we had richly framed as we feel it befits the piece. Those who understand painting well, and in particular, those who appreciate the limitations of working in pastel, are familiar with the challenges in achieving a sophisticated aesthetic when working in this medium...
Joseph Pennell, American, 1857-1926, etching, "St. Paul's, New York",image size: 11 x 8 1/2 inches, 1915, cat. Wuerth-678, pencil signed lower right
Original oil painting on canvas by Eugene Szirovecz (American, 1936-2008). This painting is beautifully framed and measures 24" by 36" (painting alone). It is signed and dated l.m. It is offered in excellent condition. Szirovecz was a California artist who specialized in painting the nude. One of three works by this artist currently available. Provenance: estate of the artist.
Original oil painting on reinforced masonite panel by Vernon Fimple (American, born 1930). This painting retains its original artist-constructed frame. It is signed "V. Fimple" and dated "62" l.r. It is also titled "Masquerade" on a label which also indicates the original price of the painting ($1250). This painting measures 24" by 30" (29" by 35" in its frame). Extraordinary surrealist painting inspired by the "Garden of Earthly Delights"...
Julia Sorrell mixed media painting.
British - 20th century.
Work dated 1996.
Image - 21 1/2" x 29".
Frame - 3" wide.
Excellent original condition.
Elected to the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour (RI)
Elected to the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA)
Sampling of exhbitions -
Norfolk & Norwich Festival Open Studios 1995 - 05.
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Philip Rieff Collection...
Mitch Lyons - received a M.F.A. in ceramics from Tyler School of Art, and his B.F.A...
Auguste Marie Barreau (French, d.1922)
Young Woman in Grecian Dress
A gilt and patinated bronze statue, signed on the base and inscribed “Médaille d’Or à l’Exposition des Beaux Arts 1865” and “Acheté par l’État”.
Height: 24.5”
Born in France, Auguste Marie Barreau, was a sculptor active during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries...
"Dahilas Simples" Oil on canvas, 21 3/4" x 18 1/4”
Marcel Dyf was born in Paris on the 7th October 1899. As a youth he was influenced by the Impressionist and Post-Impressionist movements that he observed in Paris and Normandy, where he spent his holidays. He started a career in engineering but in his early twenties he decided to become an artist. He moved to Arles in Provence where he bought a studio and began zealously painting the inspirational. Dyf was self-taught as an artist...
A good, small-size 19th century Mexican retablo depicting San Jeronimo. After a spiritual revelation, the saint lived as a hermit, often flagellating himself with a scourge and beating himself with rocks. He is shown here his traditional attributes of penitence--the bloody scourge, a skull, and rocks. He is often shown with fresh self-inflicted wounds, in this case a spray of blood droplets from his chest...
Hugh Kepets architectural screen print
Entitled - MG 111
35 in an edition of 45
24" x 32"
Pencil signed and dated 1984
Professionally framed and in excellent condition
Hugh Kepets was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1946 and received Fine Arts degrees from Carnegie-Mellon University and Ohio University.
He now lives and works in New York City.
Kepets' work is included in most major corporate, numerous private and many public collectio...
A set of six graduated, hand painted copper plates that were used as mobiles. A few have light flaking. Unsigned.The largest disc measures 5-7/8", the smallest,3"
Benton Spruance lithograph
Entitled - Lot's Wife
ed. 35
c. 1948
Image - 14 1/4" x 20 1/4"
Framed
Very good condition with no problems observed
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Original collage painting (Japanese paper on stretched canvas with pigment) by "Master of Collage" Paul Horiuchi. This is a large work (48" by 42"), signed and dated "68" l.r., also titled ("Spring Awakening") on a typewritten label stapled to the artist-constructed stretcher. This work retains the original black slat frame which the artist often used. Paul Horiuchi was born in Japan in 1906. He is known as a member of the Northwest School: he settled in Seattle in 1946 and exhibited with th...
"Paris Afternoon" oil on canvas 24"x30" Charles Cobelle, born Carl Edelman (1902-1994) was a modern French master of painting, lithography and a fine muralist, who was born in Alsace-Lorraine, France. He is considered the last link to the great tradition of the Open Line School of Paris. He began his career in Paris after earning Bachelor and Master's Degrees at the University of Munich. Later he studied at the L'Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and with Marc Chagall. At Menton on the Riviera, he ...
TWO JAPANESE WOODBLOCK PRINTS COMMEMORATING FREDERICK STARR & NOSATSU.
Frederick Starr was a professor of anthropology at Chicago University who first visited Japan in 1904 and made many subsequent visits. He wrote many papers on Japanese subjects but is probably best known in Japan for his interest in pilgrimage, he dressed in traditional pilgrim’s clothing and performed the Shikoku pilgrimage in 1917 and 1921. He became fascinated with the tradition of nailing name slips (nosatu) to te...
Three 18th-century English Landscapes
Oils on paper, unsigned.
Painting size: 3” x 4.5” (Approximately)
Frame size: 7” x 8.5” (Approximately)
Justin Faivre (American)
Decline of the Windjammers
Watercolor on paper, signed and dated: “1934” and titled in pencil on the reverse.
Sheet size: 12.5” x 18.5”
Mat size: 19.5” x 25.5”
Unframed
Justin Faivre was born in Matthews, Indiana. At the age of 5, however, he moved to Portland, Oregon . As a teenager he studied at the Portland Art Gallery and took private art lessons with Howard Ellis.
In 1923 Faivre left Portland for Los Angel...
English School (ca. 1850-1870)
Two Antique English miniature watercolors with printed borders.
Frame size: 7.5" x 8.5"
"Quai de Louvre" oil on canvas 9" H X 10 3/4" W unframed J.R. Herve was born in 1887 in Langres, a town in the eastern part of France. He began his art studies in an evening school of his hometown. He went to Paris where he first continued his studies at the School of Decorative Arts and then at the Fine Arts School. He exhibited his works for the first time at the Salon of French Artists in 1910. He was one of the most important members of this group. Obtaining his teaching diploma, he started...
Stephen Parrish, American, 1846-1938, etching, "Greenwich Hospital", image size 11 3/4 x 15 7/8 inches, pencil signed
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...
Original gouache by Louis Wolchonok (American, New York, 1898-1973). This painting measures 15" by 5" (22" by 12" in its original frame). It is signed l.l. "Louis Wolchonok". Wolchonok is known as a painter, etcher, and author. He studied at the Academie Julian, at the NAD, the Cooper Union, and the Brooklyn Academy of Fine Art. Well listed, exhibited, and collected.
This note is the fourth in the series of Research Notes.
The size of sheet: 24 " L x 18 3/8", Image area size: 17 1/2" L x 12 3/4". It is very pretty Magnolia flower etching done on heavy laid paper. It is also done with embossing on magnolia flower as well as strip design above magnolia. The top blue stripe is done with applied paper. The etching done by Mary E. Davidson, Southern State American Artist. The title of "Whipped Craem". It is signed by artist, A/P edition. The condition of etching, never been framed.
The shape of etching perfectly squa...
Friedrich (Fritz) Heubner, 1896-1974, German, drypoint etching, "Portrait of a Young Woman ("Madchenkopf"), image size 12 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches, pencil signed
Jean Louis Forain, 1852-1931, French, etching, "La Lecture Du Dossierr", image size: 10 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches, 1909, cat. Guerin-53, inscribed 1st etat, pencil signed lower right
The size of Sculpture: 27 1/8" High with base. 25 7/8" High without base. Base 11" dia. 18" Long. The weight 32 Lbs. This is one of famous Frederick Remington subject, "Mountain Man". I bought this sculpture in 1989 twenty years ago. The condition of Bronze excellent, no broken part of any. The base is made with metal and painted. The base has some wear around. There are some Ryokusho(natural green patina) from age. When I purchased 20 years ago, there was already some green patina. There are so...
Maurice de Vlaminck, French, 1876-1958, etching, "Bretoncelles", image size: 6 1/2 x 10 inches, pencil signed lower right
An early 20thC oil on canvas by Rhode Island artist, Emma Lavinia Swan ( 1853-1927). This is an atypical and rare scene since Swan is noted from her floral paintings. It appears to have its original black wood frame. Signed in the lower right hand corner. The canvas measures 9" x 9"; frame 17" x 17". Listed/Davenports.
Sheila Deutsch, Phila. 20th century.
Oil on canvas.
Circa - 1930's
Reclining nudes.
24" x 30".
Unframed.
Signed on verso.
Good vintage unrestored condition.
Stephan Sedlacek, German, 1868-1936. Oil on canvas depicting two women and a man listening to the music of another man in a
rococo setting. Signed by the artist. Measures approximately 28" wide x 22" tall without frame.
Large and exceptional oil painting on board by Robert Lohman (American, 1919-2001), offered in excellent condition. This painting measures 27" by 47", painting alone and 34" by 54" in its original frame. It is signed and dated 72 l.r. Provenance: from the artist's personal collection. Robert Lohman was a sculptor and a painter. He studied at John Herron Art Institute, at Cranbrook under Carl Milles, and at Yale. He was director of Fine Arts at Cranbrook from 1947 to 1949. Lohman is well...
Antique bronze Paperweight in the form of a of a crushed fedora hat, Continental, late 19th century.
Length: 6.125”
Height: 2.25”
Albert Besnard, French, 1849-1934, Etching, "La Mere Malade", image size: 7 11/16 x 11 5/8 inches, 1891, 2nd state, ed. 1/12, cat. Delteil 90
John Stockton deMartelly, American, 1877-1947, Lithograph, "Blue Valley Fox Hunt", image size 12 3/4 x 16 7/16 in, 1936, cat: Zink-10, pencil signed, framed. According to deMartelly's son, Michael, the figure dozing beneath the tree on the left of the image is deMartelly's friend and fellow artist Thomas Hart Benton.
Jacques Callot, French, 1592-1635, Engraving, "Scenes From the New Testament", image size: 2 5/8 x 3 7/16 inches, 1635, inscribed: "Jesus adductam ad se mulierem adulteram absoluit."
Jacob Matham, European, 1571-1631, Engraving after Goltzius, "Saint Mary Magdalen Penitent", First state, image size: 10 1/8 x 7 3/8 inches, Fogg Museum provenance, J W Randall collection #1953
Nicholas Dorigny, European, 1657-1746, Engraving after Zampeire from the fresco in the church of St. Andrew della Valle at Rome, "Saint Luke", image size: 22 3/4 x 17 1/2 inches, plate size: 24 3/8 x 17 3/4 inches, Prov. JW Randal: 2528
Gerard Audran, European, 1640-1703, Engraving after Mignard, "Ego Sum Pastor Bonus", image size: 12 1/4 x 8 7/8 inches, sheet size: 18 1/2 x 12 3/4 inches, Fogg Museum provenance, Randall collection #4065
Otto Bacher, American, 1856-1909, Etching, "Sailing Toy Yachts in Central Park", image size: 7 3/16 x 9 3/4 inches, 1888, plate signed lower right
"Depart pour le pechet" Oil on canvas - 21 5/8" x 18 1/8" Yolande Ardissone was born in Normandy in 1927, of an Italian father and a Ukrainian mother. At the age of seventeen, she left for Paris to study at the “Ecole des Arts Appliques” and the “Academie de la Grande Chaumiere”. Two years later, she transfers to Ecole des Beaux-Arts and studied in the Atelier of Unterstellar.
Soon after that, she traveled to Italy , Spain , Algeria , Holland , Indonesia , Egypt , Haiti , China , T...
"Still Life" oil on canvas 16" x 20" Julius Delbos was born in London England in 1879. He was a lecturer, painter, watercolorist, engraver and teacher. He eventually moved to the United States becoming a member of the American Water Color Society, New York Water Club, American Artists Professional League, National Arts Club, Society of Graphic Arts and the Century Club. He eventually came to exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery, Washington D.C. (1930-37) and Pennsylvania Acacdemy of Fine Art (1930-36...
"Venetian Canal Scene" oil on canvas 25 1/2" x 39" Antoine Bouvard Senior was born at St. Jean-de-Bournay in L'Isere in 1870. He trained as an architect and studied art and architecture under Constant-Dufeus at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He became the Director of Architectural Services for the Seine, and was responsible for the construction of the Bourse du Travail and the Boulevard Morland in Paris. His paintings show the influence of Felix Ziem, reflecting his love of Venice in the del...
This is a copy of the 17th century portrait of Rembrandt's son Titus around 1668. The canvas has been relined and is mounted in its original stretcher. The frame is a old replacement frame. The original portrait of Titus by Rembrandt is in the Lourve. We will try to determine the age of the canvas and more information later.
This is a very large portrait of a dark headed lady in her finest clothes. It appears to be mid 1700's and more info to be added later.
This very unusual portrait of a lady appears to be dressed in the finest apparal of its day. Notice the pearls and feather hat. It is mounted in the original stretcher and appears to be a replacement frame. There is writing on the reverse of the canvas and more info to be added later.
James Francis O’Brien (American, 1917-1996)
Bethesda
Oil on canvas, signed lower left and titled on the reverse.
Painting size: 20” x 24”
Frame size: 25.5” x 29”
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A 3-1/2" long and 3-7/8" high vintage Inuit stone carving of a bird. This carving is signed by Josie Pappy E-9-861 (JOSIE PAMIUTU PAPIALUK 1918-1996). This item is in excellent vintage condition with no cracks, chips, losses, damage or repairs - some scrapes, which occur with this type of stone. All items are thoroughly and conservatively graded and all condition issues are noted; all items are secondhand and may have slight signs of gentle use. Tracked packet air post to the U.S. starts at ...
A 4" long and 2-1/2" high vintage Inuit Eskimo stone carving of a bird. This carving is signed by Josie Pappy E-9-861 (JOSIE PAMIUTU PAPIALUK 1918-1996). This item is in excellent original condition with no cracks, losses, damage or repairs other than a bit of bruising on the beak and a chip on one corner of the base. All items are thoroughly and conservatively graded and all condition issues are noted; all items are secondhand and may have slight signs of gentle use. Tracked packet shippin...
A 4-7/8" long and 2-1/4" high vintage Inuit Eskimo sopastone carving of a walrus c1950-60. This unsigned (or at least no signature still visible)carving is in fair original condition with no cracks, damage or repairs other than the loss of the two tusks, some chipping to the feet and some minor scrapes. All items are thoroughly and conservatively graded and all condition issues are noted; all items are secondhand and may have slight signs of gentle use. Surface shipping to the continental U....
This is an original, not a copy. Painted in a USA studio one finds this signed original watercolor on ink drawing portrait painting of "Carol and Victoria" based on a photo by Jim.
Title: Mama's Day. Subject: A gray, sassy kitten looking up at her mistress who is dressed in a bright red top. She is seated against a kiwi color pillow and covered with same color coverlet. The lady is purposely painted right up to upper edge for emphasis. This was painted on heavy weight, acid free, co...
Yes, this sculptural set was forged and Made in USA. There are some who frame these sculptural hand hammered pieces in a shadow box to hang on their walls. From an American studio one finds this hand fabricated hammered copper kinetic sculptural necklace, pendant and earring set with sterling silver accents, which when not worn can be displayed on a wall.
Hand hammered by this art metalwork smith and stamped with maker’s mark of: Handmade - Mimi Dee.
The metal art was sheared from...
Made in USA. All metal hand hammered in the American Modernist or Arts & Crafts metal art smith tradition, this face motif free standing 116 grams copper metal sculpture can hold a vase or can be worn as a cuff bracelet. All hammered by one set of hands from beginning to end resulting in this art work by this metal art smith and signed: HANDMADE MIMI DEE.
See Image 2: Can be displayed on a table or in a shelf to hold a small bud vase or worn as a massive cuff bracelet. 116 grams.
St...
Marci Zelmanoff - born 1942, Philadelphia.
Zelmanoff studied at the Rhode Island school of Design and received a MFA at Southern Illinois University.
Known as an painter, sculptor and silversmith.
Her primary influences were her teachers, Brent Kington and Olaf Skoogfors.
Collage measures 7 3/8" x 10".
Excellent condition
This is an original, not a copy. Ironically this: "Birches and Sunny Skies" was painted on a dark, gloomy New England day. Note the lone bird in flight. 2008 new clients, preferred repeat clients, art collectors who collect this artist's work, collectors who have left testimonial feedbacks and Trocadero dealers, all who have acquired pieces from www.mimideearwear.com have been mailed hand written, hand addressed greeting cards with a reduced print of this. Signed original image: 12"x9" WC, ...