All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1940 item #1422790 (stock #JB04203)
For the den or man cave of the fly fisherman, here is a rustic painting on plywood panel of a trout leaping to catch what appears to be a large yellow moth or butterfly flitting just above the water's surface. The painting is actually titled "Butterfly" at bottom center. At right corner is the name of the artist, W. L. Mohl or Mahl, and "White Pine Pk. 1939". There is a "White Pine Peak" in both Utah and Nevada. This was found in Fresno, in central California...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1950 item #1094886 (stock #2550)

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All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1800 item #1460756 (stock #2525)
L'Enfant Gallery
$11,000.00
A magnificent European,(Spain or Portugal) carved wood and polychrome sculpture of Saint Ursula with applied gold leaf., sitting in the original 18th century altar done with a oval top with carved flowers and at the top a putti.measuring 58” height, 34” width. The sculpture of the Saint, removable and measures 26” height
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1900 item #1194032
Stephen Parrish, American, 1846-1938, "On the Annisquam, 1880," Etching, image size 5 x 8 7/8 inches, 1880, Schneider #39, plate signed l.l. "S. Parrish" and "39" l.r.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : French : Pre 1990 item #1419504 (stock #JB02107)
In the style of Philippe Noyer, or possibly Charles Levier or Bernard Buffet, is this unsigned circa 1960's oil on canvas painting, 20" by 16" (28" by 24" framed), the subject a girl, lost in thought, seated on a chair in one of those intimate Parisian attic bedrooms with skylight, the walls covered with a decorative wallpaper, a vase, mirror, and toiletries on the dressing table completing the scene...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1970 item #1424155 (stock #JB03677)
PAIR of oil on canvas paintings, each 6 3/4" by 6 3/4" as framed, both signed "Verne", the subjects both still lifes of flowers in table top vessels. These are works by one GLADYS MARIE BAXTER DUCKWORTH (1904-1981). Often the works are erroneously misattributed by online sellers as being by a "Verne Lucinda McCann Gillespie", but Edan Hughes in his dictionary of artists in California has set the record straight...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1920 item #1376063 (stock #10937)
Benson Bond Moore (American 1882-1974)

"A Maryland Brook in Autumn"

Oil on Masonite, signed l.r. and titled on the reverse.

Painting: 18" x 14"
Frame:24.5" x 21"

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Provenance: The Estate of a Toms River Collector

Benson Bond Moore, painter, etcher and teacher was born in Washington, DC...

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1930 item #1415844 (stock #JB01816)
Watercolor on paper, 11" by 14 1/4" (19" by 22" as framed). signed at lower left "L. M. Churbuck" and below that "Rockport". This is a very, very fine watercolor of a desirable and popular subject by a listed, well recognized artist who hailed from Falmouth, Massachusetts. Churbuck painted in both watercolor and oil, and most known works seem to be country landscapes in New England or views of coastal towns such as Marblehead and Rockport...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1910 item #1189017 (stock #6866)
A 19thC V. Loria Italy signed fishing boat watercolour. This Vincenzo Loria (Salerno, Italy 1849-1939) 23" x 12" unframed watercolour on (cardstock) board depicts a Neapolitan fishing boat on the water. An excellent painting for its play of light and detail, it is signed V. LORIA NAPOLI in the lower left corner...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Italian : Pre 1990 item #1419165 (stock #JB02247)
Oil on canvas,unframed, 18" by 22", signed at lower right by listed French- Italian modern and contemporary artist NINO GIUFFRIDA (1924-), the subject a pair of harlequins, one dressed in blue, the other in red, in a dreamy landscape with houses, trees, and a small beach on the sea, a point of land and trees on the far horizon...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Italian : Pre 1800 item #1421059 (stock #JB05298)
An oil on canvas painting, 36 1/4" by 26", (44 1/2" by 34" framed), relined circa mid 20th century, no apparent signature present, nor attribution available. The weave of the canvas suggests a work pre-dating the 19th century. The painting is reminiscent of Italian Renaissance imagery and strongly suggestive of Italian origin.. I acquired the work at an estate sale held at the Los Angeles home of E! Entertainment, Comcast CEO, and most recently NBC Broadcasting Chairman, Ted Harbert...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1910 item #1419546 (stock #JB02222)
Samuel Colman (1832-1920, sometimes misspelled as "Coleman") is today regarded as an important American artist of the nineteenth century, some of his works selling into the six figures at major auction. A traveler, he strayed far from his New England roots, taking in exotic locales in the Mediterranean, continental Europe, Mexico, and, notably, the American West. After training under Asher B...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1970 item #1345362 (stock #3038)
This research note looks at rarely seen Maki prints including early ones like Work Mu 2, done in 1961, and Symbol 2 from 1957.
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Mobiles : Pre 1990 item #1475645 (stock #08373)
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$250.00


FLYING BIRD WITH WHEEL

Old Japanese mechanical toy as amateur wooden handicraft from Showa period, 20th century. When wheeled back and forward tightly, head shaking and wings flapping but as barely and awkwardly and just lovely. (So, more like a decorative object than practical movable toy, please.) approx. W 27.5 x D 18 x H 19cm (10.82 x 7.08 x 7.48in)...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pre 1930 item #1428204
A pencil drawing of a female nude, unframed, the sheet 17" by 13 3/4", signed with the artist's initials in his hand at lower left corner. This subject is likely famed dancer Isadora Duncan, to whom Walkowitz was introduced in Paris around 1920. He executed it is estimated some 5,000 drawings and watercolors of her, as he was fascinated with the fluidity of her movement and never tired of trying to capture it. Walkowitz was born in Siberia to Jewish parents and came to the United States as a ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Contemporary item #1437914 (stock #453)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,000.00
Ephreme Kouakou oil 40”x50” triple figures Ephrem Kouakou is one of the world’s foremost African painters. He currently resides in Baltimore, Maryland, and Ivory Coast, West Africa. His powerful, vivid paintings are in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, Washington DC. and Fondo Del Sol Museum, Washington DC. He is noted for his bold blending of indigenous African visual sensibilities and folk motifs with Western creative t...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1940 item #1416012
A large watercolor on heavy watercolor paper, 22 1/2" by 32 1/2", unframed, the subject a classic landscape of northern New Mexico, with adobes and distant mountains prominent. The work is discretely signed at lower right edge area, and dated there 1938. The artist, FRODE DANN (1892-1984), was born in Denmark and educated in art at the Royal Academy. After a time in art restoration, he moved to the United States in 1926, there to begin a long career as painter, writer, art critic, and teacher...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1837 VR item #1146944 (stock #a1282)
A stunning miniature portrait painting, watercolor on natural organic material, of a beautiful young girl with hazel eyes. The artist has painted the sitter with a background of clouds against a blue sky, often thought to denote that the piece was done as a mourning keepsake.

The condition of the painting is excellent, with no chips, cracks, bowing, or restoration. This little gem is housed in its original cast bronze brooch, with a mother-of-pearl backing. The sight size is 1 5/8" by 1...

All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Wood : Pre 1970 item #1444878 (stock #1773)
From our African Collection: a Red Guro Mask from Guinea, circa 1970. This work measures 7 x 17' h, and is available for purchase. Between the Baule and the Yaure to the west, the Malinke to the north and the Bete and We to the south, the Guro people live surrounded by savannah and forest. They migrated from the north during the 16th century and number about 200,00. Guro villages have rounded houses in the northern area and rectangular houses in the southern region. Village life is regulated by ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1970 item #1471655 (stock #997)
Haku Maki in 1968 did a group of prints depicting animals from Asia’s Zodiac, which has an animal for each year in a 12-year cycle. Maki called this series of prints Animal Song. This one is Animal Song 申, the character for the Year of the Monkey. The print is square, measuring 17 1/8 in W x 17 1/8in H, and is in excellent condition.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1419239 (stock #JB03309)
Small contemporary watercolor painting of traditional adobe buildings in New Mexico, a kiva oven in foreground, signed at lower left by Santa Clara Pueblo artist ROSALDA SPECKLED ROCK, wife of Paul Speckled Rock of local pottery making fame. This little work measures 5" by 7" in inexpensive black plastic framing. The artist is mentioned online as associated with a gallery studio offering her husband's pottery pieces, in northern New Mexico. I found this in Connecticut....no doubt, a souvenir ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Acrylic : Contemporary item #1449485
A masterful Original Acrylic and Pen Painting with stunning irredescent Gold/Copper accents/sheen, depicting Lotus Blossoms and Leaves. Artist R. Seed Sa-ardwaree. Size: 18.5" x 14" (47 cm x 35.5 cm.). Very nicely framed under glass and ready to hang!
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1960 item #1022440 (stock #2429 *)

Svetozar "Toza" Radakovich best known for modernist jewelry and sculpture in collaboration with his wife Ruth in California

Both artisans were classically trained in drawing and painting

This work dates from a short period in the early 1950's when Toza was living in France

Image measures - 9" x 12"

With frame - 19 1/2" x 22 1/2"

In very good vintage condition

Original frame

All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Contemporary item #1456813
A contemporary lushly impressionistic painting of canvas of garden delphiniums, 30" by 24" (37" by 31" in goldish/silvery framing), signed in the paint at lower left "KRISTIANSEN COE". This is a work by Norwegian-born JORUNN KRISTIANSEN COE, a noted painter and also known as Miss Norway of 1959, and the longtime wife of actor Barry Coe (1934-2019). Coe's works are offered online as high as $2,400, including possibly this very same painting. The imagery has been commercially used for stationer...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1900 item #1296392
A Chinese export carved dragon frame with miniature portrait, late 19th century period. Of scalloped oval form carved in deep relief with four dragons. Containing a hand-painted portrait of a young beauty. Overall height of item is 6 inches with length of 5 inches, measurements of portrait is 3.5 x 2.75 inches. Condition Report; Miniature portrait in good condition, frame sustain a couple of age cracks.
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : French : Contemporary item #1416453
Oil on quality canvas painting of a body of water glimpsed through trees in a foggy, veiled atmosphere, titled on reverse "On the Train to Paris 2003", and signed there by what appears as "Lantin Gunison" or similar. The title captures beautifully a particular scene that would appear only very momentarily on a long train ride, never to be seen again. Surprisingly, given the quality of the work, I am unable to locate an artist by that name or similar (though, I may be misreading the signature). ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1416222 (stock #JB04476)
Impressionist watercolor on textured paper painting of a landscape with houses and trees, signed in ballpoint pen in Hebrew script at lower left and dated there 1972 by listed Israeli artist ZIPORA KOVELMAN (1936-). The work is nicely crafted by an obviously talented hand. There is not a lot of biographical information on her but works in oil and watercolor appear with some frequency at auction in Israel. This measures 7 1/2" by 11 1/2" inside the mat and 14 3/4" by 18 1/2" in a pleasing brig...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Etchings : Pre 1930 item #1441309 (stock #302)
Luigi Kasimir, Etching 13x8 inches, frame size 18x14” Kashmir was born in 1881 at Pettau, today Ptuj, Slovenia, then a part of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He inherited his talent from his ancestors; his grandfather was a painter and a poet, and his father an officer in the Habsburg army, who later became a professional painter. Kashmir attended the Vienna Academy of Art where he studied under Wilhelm Unger, who introduced him to the technique of the coloured etching, and also to his futu...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1960 item #1421383 (stock #JB03258)
Oil on canvasboard circa 1960 painting of a variety of flowers in a ceramic yellow vase artistically placed on a textile with another ceramic vessel nearby, signed at lower left "Betty Way". The work, which measures 24" by 18", also bears a label on the reverse with the artist's name and address in Springfield, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. To date I have not located a known artist by this name. A Betty Way of Harrisburg, PA was a newspaper circulation manager. There might well be ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1214726 (stock #130819a)
In 1976 Haku Maki did his eight-volume San Mon Ban--a total of 96 different embossed images. These included many items Maki had just used, would use soon and used later. I first show images of two prints like those in San Mon Ban but slightly larger. Then two images of insects in San Mon Ban and then 4 images of insects long hidden in my archives--even to me. These might all be called Maki Lite. The two shown here are Insect 2 Fleas; Insect 3 ants There is also a simple Insect and an...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Miniatures : Pre 1920 item #1051867
Introduction: Beatrice d'Este (June 29, 1475 - January 2, 1497) belongs to the best class of Renaissance women, and was one of the culture influences of the age; to a great extent, her patronage and good taste are responsible for the splendour of the Castello of Milan, the Certosa of Pavia, and many other famous buildings in Lombardy. A fresco with her portrait faces da Vinci's Last Supper in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan. She is a central character in E. L. Konigsburg...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : East European : Pre 1900 item #1490539 (stock #R186)
This is an antique 19th-century Russian oil painting on a metal panel, possibly iron. The painting is titled “Russian Peasant Conversation at the Front of the Cottage.” It portrays a scene where two Russian peasants converse at the front of a lodge. Two boys are also present in the painting, attentively listening to the conversation. The attire of the peasants is typical of Russian clothing.

We are selling two paintings with the same theme, both painted by the same artist. Although the...

All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1990 item #1418461 (stock #JB02156)
This is a work which reflects the skills of not one, but two, highly talented European artists. A large original oil painting of 1894 by famed French painter HENRI TOULOUSE-LAUTREC (1864-1901) was titled "Au Salon de la Rue des Moulins"; it showed a brothel scene in Paris with the Madame and her eager charges. Long after that artist's death, in fact decades later, it was decided to employ the talented Egyptian-French artist and lithographer LAURENT MARCEL SALINAS (1913-2010) to create a limite...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : British : Pre 1900 item #1385886 (stock #BNJfarm)
June Hastings
$2,000.00
Circa 1880, oil on canvas of 3 Shire horses in English countryside signed G. Melville. Melville was a 19th c artist and painter of English rustic scenes. Both the fame and painting are in excellent antique condition, measuring site size 29" x 35.5", framed 36" x 42.5".
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1950 item #754637
Charles Wheeler Locke, American, 1899-1953, Lithograph, "Tramp Steamer", AAA, image size: 9 1/4X12 1/4", pencil signed
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1446188 (stock #2054)
Beautiful print depicting the Empress of Austria Elizabeth Funeral Lithograph 25x28