All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1930 item #1474769 (stock #3112)
L'Enfant Gallery
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Artist Edmund Hodgson Smart did this portrait while the president was still living and passed while it was being finished. The portrait is one of two done. The other being in the White House Measuring framed 67” x 45”
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1930 item #1421008 (stock #JB03371)
Old oil on canvas painting of light violet colored flowers in a yellow ceramic vessel, 13 1/2" by 17" (16 1/2" by 20" framed), signed at lower right corner with what appears as "M. Lagenbrucke" or similar, and dated adjacent 1924. I have looked for an artist by this name and to date have not found any information. He/she was talented and created an attractive work...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1930 item #1391047
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$295.00
Qajar Miniature Watercolor of Lovers on a terrace with mountains in the background. The watercolor is painted in oval and seems at one time had a fitted matt. The painting is in good condition . The painting has gold leaf paint for her skirt and cuffs as well as silver leaf paint on the horizontal terrace railing . Size of oval is 5" by 3.5" page 9.25" almost 6.75"
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1930 item #1391829
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$345.00
Qajar Miniature Watercolor of Soldiers Sword fighting the figures are also named in Farsi . The watercolor is painted in oval and seems at one time had a fitted matt. it is in good condition . The figures fighting in a mountainous desert , the gray tones are silver paint with a lot of metallic sheen in person . Size of oval is 5" by 3.5" page 9.25" almost 6.75"
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : British : Pre 1930 item #1422887 (stock #JB03628)
Oil on wood panel still life painting of ceramic vessels, plate, kettle, and candlestick, all arranged on a tabletop, apparently unsigned, but on the reverse of the panel is a "Royal Exhibition" 1930 label, and there is a James Bourlet shipping label as well. The work measures 20" by 24" (27 1/2" by 31 1/2" framed). This beautifully impressionistic work is likely by a listed artist but I am stymied by the lack of a signature...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1930 item #1478318 (stock #3383)
L'Enfant Gallery
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DRAMATIC OIL ON CANVAS RENDERING OF A CAVALRY SABER DUEL DURING STUART'S RIDE" BY WILLIAM B. T. TREGO...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1930 item #1452007 (stock #1202)
L'Enfant Gallery
$4,500.00
Kay Robertson South Carolina artist 19th century Still Life Floral Study in oil on canvas 25x20, frames size 33x27”
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1930 item #1341209
This c.1925 etching by William Meyerowitz measures 7 7/8 x 9 7/8 inches, plate and pencil signed, framed. Meyerowitz studied at the National Academy of Design in NY and is best known for his development of producing etchings in color. His work is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; Carnegie Institute; National Academy of Design; Harvard University and the Library of Congress.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1457243
An early (early 20th century) unframed watercolor of the brick buildings of San Francisco's Chinatown, unsigned, 11 1/2" by 7 1/2", from the collection of a longtime San Francisco art dealer. The work includes a number of figures in traditional Chinese clothing, along with the ornamental grillwork of some balconies overlooking the street in these post-Gold Rush buildings. The artist could be any number of listed artists, or perhaps, a talented amateur. There is light foxing in the sky.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1451466
This is one of the rarely encountered works of Latvian-born artist FREDERICK (FRIEDRICH) A. LEEKNEY (1880-1939), signed at lower left, where he wrote "Laguna Beach 1923". The piece, measuring 14 1/2" by 10 1/2" (23" by 19" framed), features grasses at the sand's edge. This would have been painted around the time that the Laguna Beach art colony was at its classical peak, when the town was a magnet to artists of all sorts...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1930 item #1419973 (stock #JB03768)
**(One of several pencil signed prints by the artist in my shop)**Photolithograph print published by Frost and Reed, 1929, from the original painting by Sir Alfred Munnings, 25 1/2" by 23 1/2" framed, boldly PENCIL SIGNED at lower right margin by the highly important sporting art master, and quite famous English painter of all equestrian subjects, SIR ALFRED J. MUNNINGS (1878-1959)...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Clay : Pre 1930 item #1476007 (stock #3255)
L'Enfant Gallery
$25,000.00
Nineteenth Century Bust of Abraham Lincoln in Plaster 34” x 24” signed Raffeallo Gironi
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pastel : Pre 1930 item #1416134 (stock #JB0851)
Pastel on paper laid on thick paperboard, 22" by 18", unframed, signed at lower left and dated 1921 by the artist, DAVID COMBA ADAMSON (1859-1926). In this drawing the artist shows his skill with the pastel medium. This is a sensitive portrait of an attractive young lady against an interesting striped pattern background, a red rose before her. There is no indication as to who she might have been (no writing/labels on reverse)...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1419162 (stock #JB03366)
Watercolor on paper drawing of a gentle coastal beach backed by small sand dunes, (14" by 29 1/2" and 22 1/2" by 36 1/2" framed), signed at lower left "G H Flavelle" (GEORGE H. FLAVELLE, born 1868), This is a clean, wall-ready work by a listed artist who hailed from Pennsylvania. Flavelle's works include landscape, woodland interiors, cottage scenes and Dutch windmill scenes. He was a china and glass painter at some times in his career...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1458254 (stock #1465)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,500.00
Irish artist M. C. Abigail, active 1920s, this is a illustration study possibly in watercolor gouache of two exotic birds. Signed lower right and framed in a beautiful gilded gold frame.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1459775 (stock #2430)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,000.00
French Artist Marcel Bloch 1884-1978 “TheMeeting ” Gouache 24x27”…the artist is know for these beautiful works in oval. This work is dated 1920
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #691826 (stock #1024)

Victor David Hecht, b. Paris, lived in NYC, 1873 - 1931.

Studied - Académie Julian-Student, Art Students League of New York.

Exhibited - Pa. Academy, Art Institute of Chicago, Society of Independent Artists, National Academy of Design, Corcoran Gallery etc.

This early modernist watercolor is pencil signed and dated 1926.

Image measures - 10 1/2" x 15".

Condition - very good

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1419413 (stock #JB02489)
Old watercolor on paper painting, a study of trees by a lake, the artist likely American, circa 1920's, 13 1/4" by 8 1/2" inside the old mat, possibly signed at extreme lower right corner but it is indecipherable. There are old framer's instructions on the reverse side. The work was found framed and the frame is possibly available to the purchaser at no extra charge, but it is worn and tired. A fresh framing job will do wonders for this fine old watercolor painting.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1417662 (stock #JB03645)
Watercolor on paper drawing of deciduous trees along a creek in a peaceful eastern forest landscape, (19 1/2" by 29 1/2" and 25 1/2" by 35 1/2" framed), signed at lower left "G H Flavelle" (GEOFF H. FLAVELLE, 1868-1945, also known as George H. Flavelle). This is a clean, wall-ready work by a listed artist who hailed from Pennsylvania. Flavelle's works include landscape, woodland interiors, cottage scenes and Dutch windmill scenes. He was a china and glass painter at some times in his career...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1452241 (stock #1382)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,200.00
Possibly a work for the Russian Ballet signed “Greek” “M.E.Bickle” 1920s gouache on paper
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1490055
Watercolor on paper painting of an intensely blue-eyed young peasant girl in scarf and country clothing, 16 3/8" by 12 5/8", 23" by 19" as framed, signed lower right in Russian by the noted Russian artist Mikhail Guzhavin (1888-1931). Guzhavin was most associated with the St. Petersburg area, where he was schooled in art. Landscapes and portraits in both oil and watercolor are known. Oils have achieved to the $40,000 level at past Sotheby's sales of Russian art...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1930 item #1449583 (stock #1345)
Measures 11x15” a beautiful work, Egyptian Mosque Woodblock signed “Paris” with small sketch in pencil, hand color sketching.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Charcoal : Pre 1930 item #1417026 (stock #JB01544)
Charcoal on paper, 7 7/8" by 11 3/8" (14 1/4" by 17 7/8" as framed), not signed above the mat (not opened up), but bearing a 1968 label on the reverse from ACA American Master Gallery of La Cienega Blvd. in Los Angeles, providing the name of the artist, with the words below stating "From the estate by K Moskowitz". This is a rather typical subject for the artist, EUGENE HIGGINS (1874-1958), who is today grouped with the Ash Can school of American art of the first half of the twentieth century...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1930 item #1421963 (stock #JB04273)
A scene of an adobe with the classic protruding wooden beams, a low wall, springtime pink/white flowering trees and a split rail fence completing the composition...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pre 1930 item #1415530 (stock #JB04044)
Oil on canvas landscape with mountains and river in a steep sided canyon in winter, 8" by 12" (9 1/2" by 13 1/2" framed), signed at lower left "F. Sima" and dated there 1921. Although the name suggests an artist likely of Czech origin, this painting's stretcher and materials suggests the scene was painted in America, perhaps in the Rocky Mountains of the west. A search of the standard internet databases does not show an artist by this name, which is surprising. The work is beautifully painted...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1930 item #1480463
Reflets des Arts
€2,800.00
Ohara Koson (1877-1945) Snow on Willow Bridge. A woodblock print, with gofun for the snow. With gofun paste for the flying snow and extensive embossing as snow banks, two women with umbrellas cross a bridge over the river Sumidagawa in a heavy snowfall. This print illustrates the famous Yanagibashi – Willow bridge. Signed and sealed Shoson, published by Watanabe Shozaburo, circa 1940 Vertical oban: 38.6 x 26.1 cm. Showa period, 20th century. Framed.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1930 item #1422295 (stock #JB05484)
An American oil on panel painting, unsigned, likely circa 1920, unframed, featuring a landscape including a lake, some distant low mountains, and yellowing foliage in foreground suggesting autumn as the season. The piece measures 14" by 22". Surface is dirty---could really use a cleaning/varnish---and there is paint chipping along left, top, and bottom edges, as well as a small loss at left center in the foliage. Needs some TLC but the essentials are all there. On reverse is written "(May?) ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1423725 (stock #JB05613)
A beautiful, accomplished watercolor landscape painting of a gully with running water, 10 1/2" by 14 1/2" (19" by 22 1/2" in early 20th century gold frame), signed at lower left by the noted California art pioneer WILLIAM LEES JUDSON (1842-1928). The work is in unusually fresh condition, the colors true and not faded. I note a small, obviously very old water drop at extreme upper right, where the tree line meets the right edge. Viewing out of the frame revealed no further information such as ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1420682 (stock #JB03241)
Fine watercolor on paper drawing of a dirt road or track in a country landscape, signed at lower left by the listed American artist NEIL REID MITCHILL (sometimes misspelled as "Mitchell") 1858-1934. Mitchill was born in New York and was painting in nearby Connecticut by the 1890's, where he is credited with being the first resident artist of Westport (which went on to become a 20th century art colony of sorts). Mitchill exhibited at the National Academy, Art Institute of Chicago, Pennsylvania ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1418509 (stock #JB04551)
An exceptional watercolor and gouache painting of a young girl carrying a pail, pondering the white ducks which move towards her on a tiny pond in a verdant bucolic rural landscape, a faint local church steeple in the distance the only other sign of man. This is one of the finer works by English listed artist FRED (sometimes FREDERICK) HINES (1860-1930). Hines specialized in rural scenes with figures; forests, lakes and ponds, and cottages populate his rural 19th century idyllic world, now lar...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Stone : Pre 1930 item #1447109 (stock #2144)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,000.00
Pair of Japanese garden pagodas each and stones Carved with removable tops that can have a candle or light installed. Measuring 39 x 16”, The other measuring 30 x 16“ early 20th century. The larger one is $3,500 and the smaller one is $2,500. Sold separately or as a pair.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Stone : Pre 1930 item #1424475
Zentner Collection
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Beautiful Jadeite Standing Quanyin on lotus throne holding apple green colored branch of Peaches and holding upright lotus with two devotee attendants and bamboo grove, with light celadon green jade and outer edges of moss green.
In Chinese Buddhism, Guan Yin is synonymous with the Bodhisattva Avalokitesvara, the pinnacle of mercy, compassion, kindness and love. (Bodhisattva- being of bodhi or enlightenment, one who has earned to leave the world of suffering and is destined to become a...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1930 item #1391054
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$395.00
Eugene Higgins (American, Kansas City, Missouri 1874–1958 New York)A superb painterly impression, in dark brown ink, on buff wove paper os a lake scene with trees and a sail boat c 1910. Size 10.5" by 8.75" The print has an inscription at bottom with Higgins name , unsure if its his signature.
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Charcoal : Pre 1930 item #1422917 (stock #JB04232)
Large, early charcoal drawing of a nineteenth century house in a leafy landscape, signed at lower right corner by listed American artist HIRAM HAROLD GREEN (1865-1930). 25" by 18 1/2" inside the mat, 34 1/4" by 27" framed. Green was born in upstate New York and died in Buffalo. A painter, illustrator and etcher, he became known around the Buffalo area for his birds eye views of Niagara Falls. Green worked for the US government during World War I, creating patriotic posters, and early in the ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Pastel : Pre 1930 item #1416362 (stock #JB01432)
For the collector of vintage plein air art, this is a classic drawing on tan paper executed in Italy in the year 1924 by well listed, frequently auctioned California plein air artist DANA BARTLETT (1882-1957). This drawing measures 8 1/2" by 11 1/2" inside the framing (12 3/8" by 15 1/4" as framed). It is signed in a longhand signature at lower left, and at lower right is inscribed "Venice Italy" and the date 1924 once again. An old plaque bearing the artist's name also reads "Santa Lucia Br...