Arthur R. Middleton Todd, British, 1891-1966, Etching, "The Dance", image size 10 x 10 inches, pencil signed
Original vintage expressionist etching print titled "Garden of no Tomorrows" numbered9/15 signed titled circa 1964 by Sylvia T Gavurin. Printed on quality wove paper archival matted and framed in a contemporary gold frame overall size 25ʺW × 1ʺD × 19ʺH
Sylvia T Gavurin (1911 - 2002) was a Los Angeles based artist best known for her printmaking she showed in local exhibits her work is held in several private collections. In the 1940s Sylvia Gavurin was a court stenogrepher for the military...
MEDIA: Chinese oil painting
TITLE: Skull
SIZE: 32 inches x 39 inches
ARTIST: Zhang Shuang-Zhu was born in 1964 in Beijing. Now a professional artist, he graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts and Crafts in 1994. He participates in the annual Chinese Oil Painting Essence Exhibition and has held exhibitions in Hong Kong and Taiwan. His paintings have been acquired by collectors from Europe, America, Macau, Singapore, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
A nicely executed American miniature painting, on natural organic material, of a good-looking young gentleman. Although unsigned, there is no question that this work was done by Newcombe. Presented in a period stamped brass frame.
Excellent condition with no issues at all.
Sight size is 2" by 1 1/2", and the framed size is 3 3/4" by 3 1/4".
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: George W. Newcombe (1799-1845) was born in England and was working in NYC by 1829...
AMERICAN MASTER ARTIST JOHN HOWARD, “Seascape in Hampton” is a wonderful oil on panel measuring 8” x 12” in a gilded plein aire frame that measures 16” x 19” QUILLEN ESTATE
Unframed Original Serigraph (Silkscreen) by Jose Carlos Ramos (1948- )
Title: "In Dreams"
The paper size:34 1/2"x28 1/4" Image: 30"x22"
Edition No. 206/375 on photo was sold, we are shipping Edition No.211/375.
Original Serigraph on 100% arches paper, signed and numbered
Edtion size 375 plus some HC(AP) existing.
Published by Cornerstone Galleries. Printed by well known serigrapher who printed Hiro Yamagata and other famous artist in 1992...
In the style of noted California artist Ellen Burpee Farr, this is a classic late nineteenth century watercolor of the distinctive leaves and "berries" of the pepper tree commonly seen in Southern California. Signed at upper left "A.C. Hough" (or "Haugh"---I don't see a listing for either name), this is a beautiful study that is possibly not finished (the leaves and berries at lower right---could be the artist's intention, or simply unfinished---you judge)...
Glen Pizer, Washington DC artist known for his majestic portraits and surreal landscapes. This work depicts Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. William Blake inspired work
The creator Mizoguchi Yoshiharu
Mr...
A charming and well limned naive miniature portrait painting on organic wafer. The sitter is a nice-looking young man attired in a black coat with brass buttons and the lapels with blue embellishment. Hi has a white shirt and stock, a high collar, and a yellowish gray vest. Housed in a cast foliate case with a rear glazed aperture containing cross-braided plaits of hair.
Condition is excellent, with no cracks, bowing, paint loss, etc. The case condition is also excellent...
¡°The two adversaries (left)¡± and ¡°The two adversaries (right)¡± were published 5 December,1950. The carver was Maeda; the printers were Honda, Uchikawa and Onodera. Both have Paul Jacoulet¡¯s pencil signature and red Arrow seal on the lower corner. They are in excellent condition.
¡°This simple but highly symbolic pair reveals Jacoulet¡¯s feelings toward the North Koreans...
Arthur J. T. Briscoe, British, 1873-1943, "The Main Rigging". This 1928 original etching by Arthur Briscoe measures 13 3/8 x 8 3/4 inches, pencil signed and numbered, 10/75, cat: Laver 116, plate titled and dated, published by H.C. Dickins. This spectacular image was created at the height of Briscoe's popularity, depicting the dangerous and challenging daily routines aboard a seafaring vessel...
A Frederick J Waugh Oil on Canvas of Cows Grazing. Signed and dated 1891, lower right. Relined and restretched and in excellent condition. Dimensions; 16" x 20" with frame.
Frederic J. Waugh was born in Bordentown NJ in 1861 and died in Provincetown MA in 1940. He is known as an illustrator, marine, landscape and genre painter. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts with Thomas Eakins and at the Academie Julian in Paris with Boulanger and T. Robert Fleury (1888-1889)...
August-Louis Lepere
1849-1918
French
This is an original color woodblock print by French artist Auguste Lepere (1849-1918) The title of this work is: Bucolique Moderne, Modern Arcadia. It was created and printed in 1882. Printed on a medium weight wove type paper. This printing is the first state of V. The image measures 10X15 inches. Pencil signed and dated in the lower right border.
A color lithograph print, circa 1930 I believe, pencil signed at lower left margin and with printed signature in the margin at right, by the noted Israeli artist ABEL PANN (1883-1963)...
Alphonse Legros, French, 1837-1911, "Le Voyageur a l'Abri," Etching and aquatint, image size 9 3/8 x 6 1/4 inches, Bliss 83, pencil signed, l.r "A. Legros", laid watermark paper, collectors stamp.
Watercolor on paper painting of a large sailboat off a lighthouse at the coast, some industrial looking electrical towers completing the scene, 9 3/4" by 13 1/2" inside the mat, 16 1/2" by 21" framed, signed "DNadson" or similar at lower right. This is well painted by a skilled but unidentified artist. Found in Los Angeles. Condition is excellent.
A lithograph of the year 1953, pencil signed at lower right margin, by the noted 20th century American artist WILLIAM GROPPER (1897-1977). The work is presently unframed, housed inside a mat that lifts up (taped at top corners). Gropper, as the accompanying original Associated American Artists label describes, was born in New York and remained there. He studied under Robert Henri, George Bellows, and Giles. Paintings by the artist are included in American and international collections, with ...
This work is a mixed media piece in colored pencil and washes. Chris Liberti is an American artist primarily known for his oil paintings of landscapes, cityscapes and still lifes. Chris was born in Buffalo, NY, and began illustrating at an early age. He initially attended a graphic design school, and from 1993-96, he studied fine arts in oil painting at Buffalo State College, under professors Jim Phalen, Constance Payne and Richard Gubernick. The subject matter in many of Liberti’s paintings c...
Gouache and watercolor on grayish tan paper, 7" by 9 1/2" inside the present mat (14 1/2" by 17" as framed), signed at lower left by listed French academy artist PIERRE FREDERIC LEHNERT (1811-?). This is a beautifully executed poetic drawing by an artist who showed at 19th century salons in Paris. From auction records it appears that studies of shepherds and sheep were a staple of the artist's production. Condition is excellent. Signature has aged in a way that caused several of the letters ...
Born in Washburn, Missouri, Edgar Payne became one of the foremost plein-air landscape painters of California in the early 20th century. He is best known for his majestic Sierra Nevada Mountain scenes, and depicted so many Indians on horseback riding through the Sierra Nevada Mountains that a mountain lake, Lake Payne, was named for him. He painted many works "en plein air" and also did numerous sketches from which he later did studio paintings. He worked quickly and completed about one painting...
Watercolor painting titled on the mat in ink "Rockport Bay", the subject small craft in a sheltered small harbor framed by distant hills. The artist signed the drawing at lower left "Norma Page Aug. '45" and again signed, this time on the mat, at lower right. There is another word after "Page" that appears as "Douyes" or "Damyes" or similar, but I am unable to locate a listed artist by any of these names. A pleasant work showing the art colony's peaceful harbor as it looked at the end of Worl...
Watercolor on paper drawing of a young man reading a newspaper, 11 1/2" by 15 1/4", unframed with old mat still attached, signed at lower right "B. Singer". This is a work of the noted California painter BURR SINGER (1912-1992). Singer is an important California woman artist, fine oil works bringing to the upper four figures at recent auctions. Born in St. Louis, she exhibited around the country at the 1939 World's Fair in San Francisco, after studying at the Art Students League in New York and ...
From our European Collection, a beautifully painted 19th century original oil on board entitled "Portrait of a Lady, Full Length in a Black Dress, Standing in an Interior," by Austrian master Edouard Ender (1822-1883).
Ender's body of work is not especially large, with about 60 extant works known and documented. Though criticized by some in his day, he is now very highly-regarded within the 19th century portraitist and realism genre, and many of his pieces rival the genius in executio...
The paper size: The size: 23" W x 35" H (Item is Borderless, no margin.).
Unframed Original Lithograph by Artist, Charles Cobelle, (1902-1994)
The title, "Coronation"
Medium: 100% Rag content Acid Free Paper.
Condition: excellent, never been framed.
Edition number AP(Artist Proof). Signed and numbered in pencil.
Edition size 500 plus some aritist proof existing.
It was published in 1979 by The Graphic House.
We guarantee it is original lithograph. We ...
Beautiful large original vintage Italian impressionist oil painting of Naples Harbor at sunset. Oil on canvas signed lower left G. Mariani. Canvas measures 24 x 36 inches.
Artist Biography
G. Mariani (Italian, 20th C.-), came from a family of artists who had been painting the beautiful cities and surrounding country life in and around their home of Naples, Italy, for many years. His father was the well known Italian landscape & cityscape painter Mario Mariani (Italian, 1907-) and he also ha...
A fine pastel landscape depicting a modernist view of a Forrest. Signed lower left Pilar VESQUEZ,Measuring 18” x21”. Framed and matted.
A Hand Colored Lithograph by Kellogg & Thayer, circa 1850. Titled "Bobby Burns and His Highland Mary". Dimensions 12" wide x 16" high.
This round shape gold hair (acicular) crystal is 3 ¼ inches tall, 2 ¼ inches wide and 1 ½ inches thick. It depicts a group of Chinese goldfish swimming in a weed filled pond. The gold hairs (or needles) make this well painted bottle even more interesting. The artist Shi Qing studied at Zhejiang Academy of Art. In 1983, he studied under Master Wang Guan-Yu. He is well known for his paintings of landscape, birds and flowers. Recently he has produced a number of studies o...
Italian Artist Mirani, the granddaughter of the the artist Silvio Ottoviani known for his simplicity. This still life is a painting in oil of a bouquet of white roses., measuring 17” x 15”
Mary Stevenson Cassatt
1844-1926
American
This is a fine original etching by American Ex Pat, Mary Cassatt. The title is: Looking into the Hand Mirror, No. 3. It was created and printed in 1905, done in drypoint on an antique thin laid type paper, unsigned as typical of this image. The image measures 8 3/4X5 1/4 inches. This image appears in the Breeskin catalog as image number 202. Very light toning to the sheet, some imperfections in the paper from when it was produced, unobtrusive . ...
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?) ...
One of dozens of drawings by this artist that I recently acquired, (ask to see others, not shown in my shop) this is a sketch of a dockside building in New England, in brush and ink on paper, the drawing itself 13 3/4" by 16", signed at lower right and dated there '58, by California and Massachusetts listed artist DAISY MARGUERITE HUGHES (1882-1968). Hughes was born and died in Los Angeles but in between she spent much time in the Provincetown art colony on Cape Cod. Hughes exhibited widely (eve...
A signed Hyacinthe Mercier miniature portrait, painted on natural wafer. The beautifully rendered sitter is a pleasant looking woman wearing a lace bonnet with lavender and light blue bows, and a dark blue robe or gown. "Mercier 1824" in script along the right side.
The painting is in excellent condition, with some rough edges which do not show while the piece is in its period bronze frame. Sight size is 2 3/8" by 1 7/8", with a frame size of 2 3/4" by 2 1/4".
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: Mlle Hy...
A rare, finely crafted woodblock print in the Arts and Crafts style of the early 20th century, titled at lower left "Marigold", by German artist ILSE KOCH-AMBERG (1869-1934), measuring 6 1/2" by 6 1/2" in side the mat and 12 1/2" by 12" framed. The work features her monogram in the image, and is signed in pencil by the artist at lower right; in addition, the paper features a blind stamp including the word "Berlin" at lower left margin. The prints reminds greatly of the work of artist Gustave B...
Hermine David, French, 1886-1971, Drypoint etching, "Le Zoo de Vincennes", image size 8 7/8 x 6 1/2 inches, 1946, pencil signed and numbered 51/110, published by the Société des Peintres-Graveurs Français.