Original color etching, engraving, and mixed media by Pierre Courtin (French, born 1921). This rare work is signed l.r. It is also titled "Reims", dated "21 octobre 1959", and numbered 4/4. The plate measures 17 1/4" by 7 1/2 " (44cm by 19cm). The framed dimensions are 26" by 15". Appears to be in excellent condition. Pierre Courtin in one of the most important master engravers of the 20th century.
1848 Watercolor Illustration Mockingbird After An 1808 By Wilson 10x13” The work is extremely fine detail on Watman paper framed size 19x16”
Turkish Lithograph “Harbor Scene 1600”modern print 16x20
Original color woodcut by Luigi Rist (USA, 1888-1959). Signed. Titled in pencil and inscribed "150 edition". Image size is approximately 11" by 9". Catalogue reference: Williams 29. Please ask for additional photos and information.
Antique Italian watercolor by acknowledged watercolor master artist GIUSEPPE SIGNORINI (1857-1932), measuring 17 1/4" by 13 1/4" (27 1/2" by 23" in elaborate gesso frame), signed at lower left "G Signorini". The work features a young gentleman and lady of nobility in a lavish classic salon interior setting complete with pillow, stringed musical instrument such as a lute, and other luxury surroundings. The paper has browned significantly and the colors appear faded...
Unknown Artist, Modernist style pastel on paper of two men reading a newspaper 24 x 20“ framed, in the style of Manfred Schwartz and the Ashcan School
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)...
An impressive oil on canvas laid on panel landscape painting, 31 1/2" by 48 1/2" in thin strip framing, signed at lower left and dated 1993 by the noted Indian environmentalist, wildlife photographer, naturalist and writer-poet, MADHAVIAH KRISHNAN (1912-1993). Extensive biographies and tributes to this prominent citizen of 20th century India are available online...
wood mask 20”x4” 2662 Sepik Valley circa 1950s Berlin Estate
In superb extra clean/fresh condition, after a circa 1964 work by the famous Surrealist SALVADOR DALI (1904-1989) a print on silk "El Arbol de la Penitencia, Purgatory, Canto XXIV", 36" by 36" as mounted to a stretcher. Some say these are scarves; I am not certain so call it printed on silk or silk-like material. Somehow this has emerged without a smudge or pulled thread; I note only the vestiges of what may have originally been horizontal folds, at center as shown...
Raphael Zalman Soyer (December 25, 1899 – November 4, 1987) was a Russian-born American painter, draftsman, and printmaker. Soyer was referred to as an American scene painter. He is identified as a Social Realist because of his interest in men and women viewed in contemporary settings which included the streets, subways, salons and artists' studios of New York City...
Impressive oil on canvas painting of a mountainous European lake landscape with historic ancient buildings reflected in the waters, signed at lower left G. PATTY. Photos of internationally famous Lake Como in northern Italy certainly resemble this scene. The uncommonly beautiful work, 26" by 32" (34" by 39" in much later, mid century frame), is painted in predominant blues, greens, and whites...
Original oil painting on paper by Andrea Pietro de Zerega (American, born in Italy, 1916-1990), framed in period frame under glass, signed and dated l.l. also signed, titled "Storming at Edgewater", monogrammed twice,and dedicated "To my good friends the Hurburts" verso. 16" by 20" painting alone, 22" by 26" with frame. Zerega studied at the Corcoran School of Art. He worked and lived in Washington DC and in Italy. Well listed, exhibited, and collected.
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 work is pastel on artist board… 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...
Original oil painting on canvas by Edgar Yaeger (USA, 1904-1997), signed and dated 1984 l.r. Also bearing gallery label from the Cincinnati Art Galleries stating the title of the work ("The Overlook"). Yaeger's work has been shown in such venues as the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Detroit Institute of Art, the Corcoran Gallery, the AIC, PAFA, etc. One of two works by this artist currently available.
Painting of various complete southwestern pottery vessels, and a broken shard of one, all seemingly floating weightless in an intentionally poorly defined space, all painted in a hyperrealist style, signed at lower right "Doyle" and dated 2005 with copyright symbol. A label on the reverse gives the artist's full name, Ed Doyle, the title, "The First Shard", and the original price, $1000. The oil on canvas on board measures 23 5/8" by 23 5/8" and 30" by 30" as framed...
Niles Repose. An original marine art acrylic painting on canvas laid on board, depicting a quiet empty beach and a vibrant luminous promising sky. Painted by a self learned American painter and signed at lower right as Mimi Dee.
Title: Niles Repose
Sight: 18" X 24"
Frame: 23 5/8" X 29 5/8" professional closed corned gold leaf gallery frame
Signed lower right as Mimi Dee. No reproductions. No prints...
Large original portrait oil painting on canvas by Harry Elsas (Heinz Hugo Erich Elsas, Brazil, born in Germany, 1925-1994). Harry Elsas' family fled Nazism in 1936. Signed L.R.