El Veterano (The Veteran) by Mexican artist Rafael Coronel (1932-2019). Painting in oil on paper.
Rafael Coronel is one of the leading artist of the New Expressionism movement in Mexican Art. He studied in Mexico City and in Europe. His wife, Ruth was the daughter of Diego Rivera and Lupe Marin. Coronel has exhibited throughout Mexico as well as internationally, receiving awards in Japan, Brazil and Mexico. The Rafael Coronel Museum in the province of Zacatecas, Mexico houses his works...
Contemporary Japanese Rhinoceros (kabutomushi) horned beetle. Hand molded high grade leather over resign form. Highly detailed, supple leather.
Artist specializing in making one example of all types of insects.
Contemporary Japanese
Dimensions: 7 1/2" wide x 4 1/2" high x 14" deep
American regionalist painter Robert Walker (1920 - 1990) painted this study of 3 pears as a watercolor on heavy paper. The seeming simplicity of this work belies a great power of observation and sensitivity of even the most mundane.
This work was done in 1949, during the early years of Walker's career who was born in Alameda, California. His works often soar on the simplicity which made 20th century American justly famous...
A nicely executed good-sized pastel drawing, 19" by 23" (24" by 28" framed), the subject a fast-looking high-end sailboat off a coastline, manned by a number of figures. I would estimate the age as circa 1960's or 1970's. Framed behind detail-dulling non-glare glass, which was common during those years. Frame shows wear, drawing is in excellent condition. Signature "Mather" is at lower left.
An elegant Portrait of an 18th Century American woman, dressed in the fashion of Queen Anne. Part of the Brookins family. Measuring 35” x 29” framed
A wonderful portrait of Saint Jerome done in oil, probably circa 1900. Well painted and framed, the work is unsigned
An unusual oil and mixed media sculpture and painting of a sailing ship, circa 1920
Nineteenth Century Italian Genre Painting, Peasant Woman, Oil 11” x 9” Framed original. Part of the 19th century world tour souvenirs bought
A very fine partial nude of a peasant, done for tourist of the world tour of the 19th century, oil on panel, measuring 11” x 9”
A beautiful Early Nineteenth Century Etching of a Landscape, Framed 12” x 14” Hirsh Collection
A beautiful English Seventeenth Century Etching “Townscape” Framed 12” x 17”
Max Kassler, American 1905–1992 was an abstract Artist known for some of the most unusual experimental work based on the human figure He was an early student of the Picasso school of painting. This work culminated his idea of abstraction in space. This is part of the collection we have at the gallery. Automatic drawing was pioneered by the English artist Austin Osman Spare who wrote a chapter, Automatic Drawing as a Means to Art, in his book, The Book of Pleasure (1913)...
French impressionist artist Eugène Baudoin 1842-1893, a beautiful Nineteenth Century Seascape Oil 24” x 30”
An American watercolor titled “ The Henry B Hyde Entering The Golden Gate” Watercolor 20” x 24”
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Combination of incomplete Japanese Ichimatsu doll made of ‘toso’ (type of wood composition) and a synthetic resin ball. Showa period, 20th century. Doll: 22.8 x 12 x 7.5 cm (8.97 x 4.72 x 2.95in), Ball: 8.5 cm (3.34in)...
Original etching by Alfred Hutty (USA, SC, 1877-1954). This work is titled "St. Michael's in Sunlight" and dates from 1933. Signed in pencil l.r. and with the snail cypher. In excellent condition. Provenance: Childs Gallery Boston.
Original etching by Alfred Hutty (USA, SC, 1877-1954). This work is titled "My Doorway on Tradd Street" or "Stairway, 46 Tradd Street". Signed in pencil by the artist and with the snail cypher. In excellent condition. Provenance: Childs Gallery Boston.
An early example of American portraiture done circa 1840 depicting a woman dressed in fine clothes holding a letter with a red wax seal