All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1980 item #1419401 (stock #JB03078)
Oil on canvas impressionist painting of flowers in a vase on a tabletop with porcelain tea set, a window at left providing a view to a more distant landscape beyond, 24 1/2" by 20 1/2" in narrow wood frame. The painting is signed at lower right and dated 4/80 (April 1980) by Southern California artist JAMES DE LOYE (1949-). A website describes the artist and his background and provides images of a number of reproductions of his work...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1422655 (stock #JB03486)
Watercolor painting of a harbor scene in New England, 12 3/4" by 18 3/4" inside the mat, 20 1/4" by 26 1/4" in silvery metal framing, signed at lower left in red "J. Stephenson" and dated there '77. This is likely a scene of Maine or Massachusetts, judging from the lobster traps at left on the dock. The artist does not seem to be listed but I have seen other similar works by this hand while traveling in New England...
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Marker : Pre 1980 item #1450465
For the true R. CRUMB fan, after/in the style of famed comic art pop culture phenomenon R. CRUMB, an original drawing and associated writings, marker on standard yellow legal paper, two sheets, each 11" by 8 1/2". The figure in the imagery is a self portrait. THIS IS NOT BY THE ARTIST HIMSELF; the imagery was skillfully copied, apparently in the late 1970's from a splash panel of 1972's "The Confessions of R. Crumb", from THE PEOPLE'S COMICS, page 43...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1461118
A rare print by surrealist print maker Ozaku Seishi, professor emeritus from Tama Art University. He is best known for small edition prints, usually up to 30 copies, limitless experimentation with printing techniques and surrealist, often graphic imagery resembling distorted reality ¬neither quite explicit nor quite horror, but rendering a fairly dark version of dreams. This aquatint is from a 1974 portfolio titled “World of Children” (子どもの世界), which consisted of 30 aquatints...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1980 item #636889 (stock #2720)
Original acrylic painting on canvas mounted on board by Richard Hennessy (American, born 1941). This painting is offered in excellent condition. It measures 8.5" by 29" in its slender custom brass frame. It is signed Hennessy l.r and dated 75. It is also signed, dated (21 July 75), and titled "The Cave of Ali Baba" on the reverse. Hennessy is an abstract painter active in New York who has been a participant in the resurgence of Abstraction in the last few decades...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1980 item #1292877
Claude Weisbach, French, 1927-, "The Amateur's Visit". A fine modernist color lithograph, image size 20 5/8 x 29 1/4 inches, 1973, pencil signed and titled, with a blindstamp in French designating this impression an artist proof apart from the published edition.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Serigraphs : Pre 1980 item #1490918
By the noted Northwest artist Elton Bennett (1910-1974), a circa early 1970's serigraph print, "Hurrying Feet", featuring sandpipers on the shore, a coastal forest in the background, a luminous light typical of the artist's works filtering over it all. Bennett learned serigraphy at the Portland Museum of Art school in the 1950's. A native of the Olympic Peninsula, the artist was a keen observer of all things Northwest...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Clay : Pre 1980 item #1389591
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$650.00
Alexander Nay brown terracotta carved figure of a bird,mid 1970s incised brown clay with a hole at back for mounting to a base, base not included. The artist initialed this piece" N 4 "in his usual incised way. Size l 3.75" by 1.5" high there is a slight chip to one edge of its beak as seen in pictures. This is from a very rare group of early miniature pieces most all were initialed in this way...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1421587 (stock #JB04739)
Watercolor on paper painting of the the pyramids of Giza, including graceful date palms towering over a neighboring oasis village. A camel, a donkey and several small figures complete the picturesque scene, which is signed at lower left by listed artist DAVID VASSILIOU. Vassiliou's biography is not extensive but he was evidently a prolific painter at mid century, most works featuring Egypt, Greece and the Mediterranean region...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1980 item #1477061 (stock #11035P)
The title, " Music Man".
Unframed Original Lithograph by Artist, Charles Cobelle, (1902-1994)
The paper size: 23" W x 35" H (Borderless sheet) .
Medium: 100% Rag content Acid Free Paper.
Condition: excellent, never been framed.
Edition number . AP(Artist Proof) edtion, Artist signed in pencil.
Edition size 500 plus some aritist proofs existing...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1462309 (stock #2742)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,000.00
The Lucien Crump Art Gallery and Education Center closed its doors for the final time Friday after 40 years of serving Philadelphia as the first to feature works by African-American artists. The gallery’s namesake, who had a long career as an artist and educator, passed away at age 71 in 2006. In the last days of the gallery’s opening, an announcement of the change caused neighbors and art lovers alike to pause and share their memories...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1420339 (stock #JB02422)
This is a museum poster or flyer issued by the Long Beach Museum of Art in 1972, advertising an exhibition that year of the paintings of the important and still highly underrated Swiss-California modernist HANS GUSTAV BURKHARDT (1904-1994). The unframed sheet measures 24 1/4" by 18", and bears the complementary signature of the artist in blue ink at lower right just below the black area of the central image. Burkhardt was born in Switzerland and arrived in America in 1924. He attended Cooper Uni...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1448743
A beautifully executed mixed media drawing of famous Spirit Island, one of the most photographed places in the Canadian Rockies, at Maligne Lake in Jasper National Park, Alberta, signed at lower right by talented artist Don Slote and dated there 4/1972. The work, primarily in pastel, with some pencil, measures 12" by 15" (19 1/2" by 22 1/2" framed). Condition of frame and art is excellent and fresh, belying its fifty years. Compare to online images of beautiful Maligne Lake and Spirit Island,...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1980 item #1417550 (stock #JB04858)
A large clean lithograph print in the advanced naive style of acclaimed Jewish artist SHALOM OF SAFED (SHALOM MOSKOWITZ), 1895-1980. The imagery is colorful and comprehensive, featuring blue sky with clouds, architecture, figures, animals, and interiors, along with embedded messages in Hebrew. The Hassidic artist was a watchmaker by trade, and only late in life turned to his artistic talents. His original paintings have brought into five figures. He lived in Safed in the Galilee Hills for mos...
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Clay : Pre 1980 item #1389644
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$795.00
Alexander Ney Russian American contemporary sculptor " Man in a Suit ". Unique piece sculpted in brown clay of a standing man in a suit with a tie c 1970s. The figure has some black clay in the recessed areas from being used as a model to make multiples. Signed N1 in his usual incised way. Size h 5" by 1.5" . This is from a very rare group of early miniature pieces most all were initialed in this way. Developing several individualistic styles in modern art, he is most famous for his unique work ...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1980 item #1418117 (stock #JB02646)
Pencil signed at lower right, numbered 201/250 at lower left, is this circa 1975 modern print by the noted listed Israeli-born (Haifa), French artist who also worked in America, NISSAN ENGEL (1931-). The work measures 20" by 15" in its silvery metallic framing. The colors do not seem to be faded, though there is rippling in the paper visible in most of the margins, likely from exposure to a damp environment. There is no mold however. Engel is known for his mixed media technique, including co...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1464253 (stock #2814)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,800.00
Mr Chase was a Chicago area painter who was known as a landscape painter of the city of Chicago. He later traveled and painted with other artist known as California Impressionist. Measuring 8” x 10” this work is done in oil on panel and framed in a beautiful gold leaf baroque frame measuring 18.5”x 20”
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1423413 (stock #JB05095)
A watercolor painting of a steep hillside with trees, several structures filling the lower portion of the composition, unsigned, 13 1/2" by 10 1/2" (24 3/4" by 20 1/2" in the dark simulated wood framing. The painting does have some age and would likely be by a listed artist. Mat got wet at some point at bottom and will need to be replaced. Art itself is in excellent condition, the colors fresh. There is a water stain on the reverse side of the paper, unrelated to the mat situation; but there...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1422342 (stock #JB05474)
A large watercolor on paper on panel painting of a classical mountain landscape, dated in Chinese 1980 at upper left (and likely signed there, I cannot read calligraphy), the work measuring 32" by 22 1/2" (the entire panel 40 1/2" by 30 1/2" with metal frame, loose/no glass). The artist was obviously familiar with centuries of Chinese classical landscapes. There is light wear in several places but nothing serious. The work is loose within the frame and can be shipped with or without it.
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1443782 (stock #1147)
#1147 W. Frehling lithograph, measuring 20x23” In a beautiful hand carved gold f
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Europe : Italian : Pre 1980 item #1239605 (stock #2943)
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Oil on canvas by Lucio Ranucci - Italian, b. 1924.

Musicians at a fair on a bus or cart

Vibrant colors

Measures appx. 23 1/4" x 36".

Framed - 27" X 39"

Condition - very good original.

All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Pre 1980 item #1473339 (stock #993)
What fun this print is—a swirl of kanji virtually unreadable but a delight to the eye. 79-9 was done in 1979 and measures 9.25in W x 10.75in H. The print is in excellent condition.
All Items : Fine Art : Sculpture : Clay : Pre 1980 item #1389657
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$795.00
Alexander Ney Russian American sculptor "White Horn Pendant" white clay sculpted pendant or object with a row of holes for wearing or mounting , This was most likely made as a pendant unsigned size nearly 4.25" by 75" . This is from a very rare group of early miniature pieces . Developing several individualistic styles in modern art, he is most famous for his unique work in terra cotta sculpture, involving heavily perforated surfaces and intriguing forms. Notable collections of Ney’s sculpture...
All Items : Fine Art : Prints : Lithographs : Pre 1980 item #1423252 (stock #JB05058)
Original 1977 Marc Chagall (1887-1985) color lithograph "The Village", (Mourlot 917), executed for the "Le Chemin de L'Amitie" issue of Derriere Le Miroir (No. 225), 1977, in an unsigned edition of 15,000. This example came to be signed later by Chagall in pencil at lower right ("complimentary signature"), perhaps at a special gallery or printer event. The sheet measures 14 1/2" by 21", with a simple blue frame (no mat). There are condition issues. Evidently this became wet at one time, and t...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1488203
An excellent example of the watercolor work by the noted New Orleans artist NESTOR FRUGE (1916-2011), 14 1/2" by 10 3/4" (20 1/2" by 16 3/4" framed), featuring the famous and often-painted Brulatour Courtyard in New Orleans. Fruge painted mostly watercolors and was a familiar and beloved part of the Jackson Square tourist scene in New Orleans for decades. He painted mainly French Quarter scenes but also on occasion works such as bayou swamp landscape. Fruge's art traveled home with innumerable t...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1421152 (stock #JB03304)
Two fine detailed drawings on tan paper, probably mid to late 20th century, one featuring a man with drum, two children and a goat, the other a man seated next to his wife, smoking a hookah in front of a house. The pair is nicely framed and ready to hang on the wall. The piece measures 12 1/2" by 17" framed. **Allow for reflections in some images**
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1418455 (stock #JB02079)
This is a relatively earlier (1976 or before) work of the noted Bermudian artist ALFRED BIRDSEY (1912-1996). Birdsey was a familiar figure in Bermuda for decades, a prolific artist, the works of whom traveled with tourists when they returned from holidays. This would account for the wide distribution of his distinctive work. Today his daughter continues the family tradition, with similar looking paintings being sold to visitors. Birdsey worked in gouache or possibly oil or acrylic on paper. Som...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : N. America : American : Pre 1980 item #1422128 (stock #JB04939)
An impressionist oil on canvas painting of an old late 19th century American church in a western city, as snowcapped mountains loom at right, signed at lower right corner "Crossen '75". This might be by a listed artist, Michigan-born Preston McCrossen (1894-1981), who worked in New Mexico. amd California. I have googled brick churches in western cities to try to identify the subject. There is a church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, in Denver, Colorado, that bears a considerable resemblance, but...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1420558 (stock #JB04355)
A beautifully executed original watercolor painting of Sacre Coeur church and surrounding street in Montmartre district of Paris, titled at lower right "Paris Place St. Pierre" and signed at lower left by artist "G. Meraut". There does not seem to be information on this artist but the talent is obvious. Certainly he or she was familiar with Maurice Utrillo and his famous renderings of this special part of Paris. The work measures 10 1/2" by 15 1/2" inside the mat and 19" by 24" in wood frame ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1459774 (stock #2429)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,000.00
Mario Russo (1925-2000) was an Italian painter known for his unique style and innovative approach to art. Born in Naples, Italy, Russo received his formal art education at the Academy of Fine Arts in Naples, where he studied painting and sculpture. He quickly gained recognition for his bold use of color and dynamic compositions. Russo exhibited his works in galleries and museums around the world, including the Venice Biennale, the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna in Rome, and the Institute ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1438290 (stock #582)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,000.00
New England Fall Scene with Lobster Boat by Leon Phinney. Water Color. 14 x 22". Frame Size 21 x 30".
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Sculptural : Pre 1980 item #1439068 (stock #684)
Japanese 1974 glazed earthenware pot rare glaze 4.5”x4”
All Items : Fine Art : Drawings : Pencil : Pre 1980 item #1145830 (stock #fd79)
E & M Perez
$135.00
By noted South African artist, Otto Klar (born in Austria, 1908-1994), this drawing depicts a group of huts, some figures, and hills in the background. In a simple wood frame, it measures 10 3/4" by 12 5/8" (sight size 6" by 8"), and is inscribed on the back, "Christmas South Africa, 1977, Gift from Otto Klar, Dec 2nd". In pencil, on buff colored paper, frame and double matting are clearly original, and the drawing appears to be in excellent condition. Otto Klar was born in Austria, attended ...
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Pre 1980 item #1441576 (stock #538)
L'Enfant Gallery
$1,800.00
Springtime Farm, by gable dated July 19 71 24 x 30“ oil on canvas
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Oil : Asia : Pre 1980 item #1416065 (stock #JB05588)
A large oil on canvas painting of a traditional horse-drawn cart of the Philippines, painted in a striking modernist interpretation, signed at lower right by noted contemporary Filipino artist ROGER SAN MIGUEL (1940-). The works measures 24" by 36" and 31" by 43" in its original blue mid-century frame bearing label from the House of Frames, Angeles City, Philippines (about 80 miles northwest of Manila near the old Clark Air Base). The framing suggests an early date for this work, perhaps 1970....
All Items : Fine Art : Paintings : Watercolor : Pre 1980 item #1415597 (stock #JB04071)
From the hand of pioneering modernist painter and printmaker GEORGE CONSTANT (1892-1978), a large (28" by 19 1/2" inside the mat, 36" by 27" framed) watercolor painting of white, pink and purple lilacs in a vase, signed at lower right by the artist. This is a striking work with a pronounced modern approach to still life. The background is essentially featureless, the vase outlines very simple, and then there is the beautiful curve at bottom, more suggestive of an artist palette than a table to...