Abstracted Figures by Ivory Coast Artist Ephrem Kouakou. Oil on Canvas. 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...
Riding Tiger by Ephrem Kouakou. Oil on Canvas. 48 x 40"
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...
African Princess by Ephrem Kouakou. Oil on Canvas. 48 x 40" Abstracted Figures by Ivory Coast Artist Ephrem Kouakou. Oil on Canvas. 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...
Abstract Figure Trio by Ephrem Kouakou. Oil on Canvas. 40 x 48"
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...
Framed Drypoint Still Life signed by David Hanna, Sight Size 29x 19, Frame Size 38” x 28”
William David Hanna was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on August 31st, 1941. The youngest of twelve children in a working-class home on the city’s North Side, Hanna demonstrated an unusual interest in antiques and historical sites as a child and spent much of his free time sketching...
Abstract Figures with Chickens by Ephrem Kouakou, Oil on Canvas, 48 x 40"
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...
Claude Charles Buck, Santa Cruz, California, 1890-1974. This stunning jewel is Claude Buck at his usual dreamy best. It is oil on board of a beautiful nude with long flowing red hair sitting outside in a dreamy landscape. It is 7" H by 6" W. It is oil on board and initialed "CB" His painting go for up to $25,000 and he is listed in Davenport and Who was Who in American Art.
Geometric Man and Birds by Ephrem Kouakou, Oil on Canvas, 48 x 40".
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...
Franco-Italian Sculptor Amedeo Gennarelli 1881-1943, “Ecstasy” Bronze , 17” ….
Amedeo Gennarelli was a French/Italian sculptor. He was born in 1881 in Naples, Italy, but emigrated to Paris in 1913 and worked there until 1930, exhibiting at numerous Salons of the Societe des Artistes Francais. He is known for his work in the art deco style and for his depictions of the female nude, working in bronze, terra-cotta and wood. He died in Paris in 1943.
Original Albrecht Dürer woodblock print "The Flight into Egypt", from: The Life of the Virgin (B. 89; M., Holl. 201; S.M.S. 179) woodcut, circa 1504, This impression on laid paper with a Fleur de Lis watermark (Meder 122) it is an original 16th century print after the Italian edition with narrow margins with a 1 cm repaired tear top left otherwise in very good condition B. 11¾ x 8 5/16 in. (299 x 211 mm.) S. 11 7/8 x 8 5/16 in...
From our European Collection, a fine late 19th-early 20th century carved marble bust of Madame Recamier, modeled after the original by Joseph Chinard circa 1801-02, which was previously on display at the Getty Center Los Angeles, where the museum description read as follows:
"Coyly looking down, Madame Recamier holds a veil across her chest. The sheath both demurely conceals and reveals her breasts...
Oil on Canvas. 48 x 40" 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 West.
A Magnificent Handmade Copper and zinc Metal weathervane made into the shape of a galloping horse by Harris & Company, Boston. Mounted on a custom wooden plinth The weathervane measuring 19 inch in height by 32 inches in length. The stand measures H: 3”, L; 33”, D; 8”
Anne Lane studied art at George Mason University in Virginia, completed her education at Saint Patrick’s college, Ireland, where she studied theology and philosophy. The tonal and contemplated intensity of her paintings reflect her 10 years spent working as an artist under the desert sun of New Mexico. Her vibrant style,resonant with color and baroque in detail,swoons its delight over her canvases. The subjects and themes of her art, reflect her fascination with people, particularly the phycho...
Glenn is known for his colorful Abstract Work in vivid brushwork, “Harbor New York”, sign lower left is the oil on canvas measuring 24 x 30“ frame size 32 x 37“ Glenn Pizer American Master Artist is known for his visit colors in masterful compositions, and has been painting for over 30 years. He is originally from the Washington DC area. His work is modern and cubist in respect to his use of jagged lines reminiscent of Clifford Still.
“Lithograph VII”, Joan Miro, circa 1972, unsigned. “JOAN MIRO original lithograph VII” is printed on the reverse as pictured. There is a fold down center, typical of high class art portfolio printing of the 1960s and 1970s. There is no edition number. The work is framed, frame size 24.5” x 18.5”.
Bio:Joan Miró i Ferrà (1893 – 1983), known as Joan Miró was a Spanish painter, sculptor and ceramicist born in Barcelona, Spain. Miró's style was influenced in varying degrees by ...
George A. Renouard (American, 1884-1954) noted painter, printer and graphic artist. His career spanned more than forty years, between the years of 1914 until his death in 1954.Born in Rochester, NY and later moved to New York City. He studied at the Pratt Institute & Erasmus Hall in Brooklyn, also at the Art Students League, NYC under John Sloan and Mahonri Young. Renouard lived & maintained a studio on the Lower East Side of New York. Renouard's father became well known for his invention of a t...
Antique Japanese Scroll of Two Quails amidst chrysanthemum flowers, painted with a delicate painterly touch. Signed and sealed by Tosa Mitsuoki (光起) (1617-1691). In 1654, Mitsuoki won back the position of edokoro-azukari for the family, which enabled him to revive the school.Mitsuoki rejuvenated the traditional Tosa style by introducing elements from Chinese painting. He is particularly noted for his elegant paintings of quail, as for example, the Chrysanthemum and Quail screens which he...
Landscape in Brittany by Henry Orne Rider (1860-1943), Framed Oil on Canvas. 29 x 24".
Hipployte Camille Delpy,1842-1910 French Artist. Oil landscape titled “Coin De Villerville” 1887 measuring 10.25 x 15.75 inches oil on panel in an Rocco gold leaf frame measuring 18x23 inch
About the Artist (from Wikipedia)
He came from a moderately wealthy family from Joigny, in the Burgundy region of France. His son, Henry Jacques Delpy [fr] (1877-1957), also became a painter, as did a cousin on his father's side, Lucien-Victor Delpy [fr] (1898-1967).
Delpy studied with Charles-Fran...
DC ARTIST ROBIN SUTLIFF “Mother and Child” 48” x 48” Inches,… Mixed Media with Resin on canvas., .from our recent exhibition of Ms. Robin Sutliff works,….Robin has been an artist most of her life using Acrylic and Resin in a variety of mediums. Robin masterfully uses rich colors and textures in her work, to evoke the joyful essence of nature
“A WINDOW IN PARIS”BY DC ARTIST ROBIN SUTLIFF 36” x 36” Inches,… Mixed Media with Resin on canvas., .from our recent exhibition of Ms. Robin Sutliff works,….Robin has been an artist most of her life using Acrylic and Resin in a variety of mediums. Robin masterfully uses rich colors and textures in her work, to evoke the joyful essence of nature
A painting of a lovely young maiden, she is depicted from the waist up in the nude, her head slightly tilted and eyes looking off to the right. She wears her long black hair up in a low bun gathered at the nape of her neck. She is smiling slightly. Skillfully painted in oil colors on canvas with frame. Signed and dated by the artist. Painted by the well known Chinese-American artist, Chen Danqing, 1984.
Size of painting: 24" high x 18" wide. Size in frame: 29" high x 23" wide
John Willenbecher, Macungie, PA, B.1936,active in New York City, Labyrinth 17.BII.72. Acrylic on masonite. Titled LL, signed LR. Bearing Sachs Gallery label en verso. Dated 1972. Arched top 48" x 36". His paintings sell for up to $5250.
Studied: Brown Univ. (B.A., 1958); New York Univ. Inst. Fine Arts, 1958-61. Exhibited: Mixed Media & Pop Art, Albright-Knox Art Gal., Buffalo, 1963; Paintings & Constructions of the 60s, RISD, Providence, 1964; WMAA, 1964-66; Kunst-Lucht-Kunst, Stedelijk Mus....
A beautiful Persian Isfahan Noin Silk and Wool Circular Carpet 78” diameter
1980s
DUFRESNE, CHARLES| (1876-1938 French) "Baigneurs", framed watercolor, approximate image size 9 1/2" x 9", frame 15" x 15", signed lower left under frame. CONDITION: Good.
This work has been in serval exhibits and was also at the Kennedy galleries, ELIHU VEDDER was an American who worked in Egypt this work was done in 1890 and it’s titled scenes of Egypt 9 1/2 x 16“…….. Elihu Vedder (February 26, 1836 – January 29, 1923) was an American symbolist painter, book illustrator, and poet, born in New York City.[1] He is best known for his fifty-five illustrations for Edward FitzGerald's translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (deluxe edition, published by ...
David Cox Original oil painting 1844 signed lower right titled on reverse Manorbier Castle South Wales. Oil on board measuring approx. 30 x 40 inches. Biography
David Cox was an English landscape painter, one of the most important members of the Birmingham School of landscape artists and an early precursor of impressionism.
An extremely fine watercolor and gouache on organic substrate miniature portrait done by Henry Benbridge, painted in his crisp, realistic style. The sitter is attired in a blue coat and a white ruffled shirt and collar, the fabrics of which are carefully and richly depicted, a characteristic of Benbridge's work. The surround to the painting is gold, while the original case, with a pin on the reverse, is gold filled.
Both the painting and the case are in excellent condition. The sight size of t...
A superb pair of miniature portrait paintings done by Joseph Dunkerley. Labels on the reverse of each case identify the sitters as Joseph Packwood and Denise Wright Packwood, and are dated 1780.
Mrs. Packwood is wearing a large white hat with a blue ribbon and accents, a light blue gown with flowers embroidered on it and with dark lace edging at the bodice. Her husband is wearing a blue jacket and waistcoat, and a white cravat.
Excellent and scarce examples, and in fine condition. The gold...
Abstract Painting by Carol Chase 30x40 inches, framed 48x37”. Chase is known for her great abstract works and limited pallet. Carol Chase was born in in Kansas City Kansas, in 1947 she attended the Kansas City Art Institute and later, Albany state college.
Fresco like work on canvas,oil on canvas, mixed with sand and gesso.. After an early Christian religious scene circa 400 ad, depicting a Saint and an Angel. measuring 41x50 inches….The Painting was done by a group of monks who were also Artist as a gift to the person who was a large benefactor of their church restoration in the 1970s .. the church was located near Lake Cuomo, Italy
A Beautiful early California impressionist oil painting of the Santa Clara Valley San Jose and Mt. Hamilton in the distance. By Charles Henry Harmon oil on canvas signed lower right and dated 1914. A panoramic painting with California oak trees and lupine and poppy wild flowers in the fore ground looking out the Mt. Hamilton and the Bay area hills in the distance. Canvas measures 12" x 40" overall framed size 18 x 46".
A wonderful early painting of what is now considered silicon valley.
C...
This incredible Clovis point, found on the Little Missouri River in Nevada County, Arkansas in 1928, is made from highly translucent novaculite of which only a few are known to exist. I had it authenticated at a forensic laboratory in Santa Fe New Mexico. The COA is included. The point is 3 1/2" long, 1" wide or 8.98 cm in length, 2.4 cm in width and 6.2 mm thick. The flaking on it is exquisite. There is no damage on it anywhere, a true G-10. There is no modern rechipping or restoration. It has ...
A fine original oil on canvas by Alexis Podchernikoff of Mt. Tamalpais from Mill valley California. A beautiful scene with lupine wildflowers and cows in the distance. Signed lower left and on reverse dated 1915. In excellent all original condition in the original art nouveau frame the painting measures approx. 20 x 30 inches. A fine example of this artists work.
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Landscape painter,BIOGRAPHY
Landscape painter, Alexis Matthew Podchernikoff was born in Vladimir, Russia in 1886...
Bonner Bentley Oil on Canvas Still Life Abstract 33x27” dated 1957 Beautiful work that is from a master Painter
Mr Gironés came to America in 1998 and had his first one-man show of the United States in November of that year, After the success of his first show, the Spaniards decided to return the following April to paint the gardens investors in and around the Washington area
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Abstract African Masks by Ivory Coast artist Ephrem Kouakou, Oil on Canvas, 50 x 60" 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 an...
Paco Lane Master Artist cubist portrait 30x26”Paco Lane, is a Washington DC-based artist who has been painting in a myriad of styles for many years and is part of the Lane family of renown artist. This is from his cubist period and is a rare work to come up for sale
Paco Jacques Lane was
born on October 24, 1969 in Virginia just outside of Wash-
ington DC. From an early childhood Paco was encouraged
The artist in Greenwich CT, 2003.
and allowed great freedom to pursue a natural interest ...
Kathleens work has been seen and is featured in many embassies around the world including the state department. She’s an active artist still working with a very unique free style of painting
This work is oil pastel on paper measuring 38 x 32“ signed lower left part of the Floral series by the artist
Paco Lane Master Artist Oil 30x24” Paco Lane, is a Washington DC-based artist who has been painting in a myriad of styles for many years and is part of the Lane family of renown artist.
This is from his cubist period and is a rare work to come up for sale
Paco Jacques Lane was
born on October 24, 1969 in Virginia just outside of Wash-
ington DC. From an early childhood Paco was encouraged
The artist in Greenwich CT, 2003.
and allowed great freedom to pursue a natural interest in the visu...
A beautiful abstract work by the Italian painter Lino Prebianca, born in Rome and and mainly studied at the University of Fine Arts, Rome. He has exhibited mainly in Europe Italian born Palm Beach artist was a Bohemian artist and trained architect who painted frescoes on the ceilings of the Chesterfield Hotel dining room and murals as well. His technique includes using a spray gun to paint and other unique methods of applying paint to the canvas to achieve the most abstraction possible includi...
This is a very early work by mr Levier, oil on canvas in a beautiful contemporary linen lined frame measuring 14.5” x 30”
Bio: Charles Levier (1920-2003) was born in Corsica to a French father and an American mother. At 17 he attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. During World War II Levier served in the French Army in North Africa, later becoming Liaison Officer with the U.S. Office of Strategic Services.
Levier’s work is considered Cubist in style...
Powerfully carved with slightly smiling lips, broad nose, incised almond-shaped eyes, elongated earlobes and ridged eyebrows.
His hairdress arranged into a cylindrical coiffure secured with a decorated tiara knocked in the back.
A splendid large head of the Creator, Powerfully Carved with a great character.
Estimate Value: $8 000 - $12 000
Measurements: Height - 35 cm (13 3/4 In), Width 24 cm (6 1/2 In)
Provenance: A Private Collection , property of a Singaporian ...
A fantastic Clarissa Peters (Mrs. Mose B. Russell) mourning painting of a baby and toddler. Peters chose a simple palette of white and bluish-gray to emphasize the ethereal and ephemeral nature of the painting, reserving the use of colors to the hair, lips, and eyes of the subjects. Known for painting children, Peters' mourning paintings are scarce, and double mourning portraits are exponentially rarer yet.
Adding to the importance of this piece is the velvet lined gutta percha case, which h...
Winter Landscape Oil on canvas by Fred Wagner 24" L x 36"W. overall framed size 27 x 33. Signed lower right. Wagner exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy over 35 times from 1906-1940, winning prizes in 1914 and 1922. Wagner exhibited at the Carnegie 14 times from 1898 - 1925. He showed two works at the Armory Show, and exhibited 11 times at the Corcoran between 1907 - 1935. He had a special exhibit of 100 pastels, at the Corcoran in April 1924. Wagner exhibited at the National Academy of Desi...
A mixed media work done on paper and well framed measuring 27x30 inches. Berlin Estate ……. Jacob Kainen (December 7, 1909 – March 19, 2001) was an American painter and printmaker. He is also known as an art historian, writing books on John Baptist Jackson (US Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1962) and the etchings of Canaletto (Smithsonian Press, Washington, DC, 1967).
Jacob Kainen was born in Waterbury, Connecticut, in 1909. As the second of three sons born to Russian immigra...
Artist Robert Watson (1923-2004) has explored a surreal, mysterious world inhabited by lonely figures. According to a 1997 San Francisco article in Today’s New Herald “his paintings hang in museums and galleries worldwide and grace numerous private collections - including that of Paramount Pictures, in the estates of Clark Gable and Ed Sullivan, and in collections belonging to the late Duchess of Windsor and Vincent Price.”
Ray Bradbury was a great admirer of Watson’s work and, in 1958,...
Originally from Puerto Rico , Rascal’s work can be seen throughout the islands of the Caribbean as well as the US A bad boy, Rascal was caught creating graffiti too many times, when a judge finally told him enough was enough and encouraged him to paint in earnest. Rascal responded with urban art, full of color and stories of his life. Each painting had meaning special to him and explained the joys of his life, his defeats in love lost and his life in the city. Art that was unlike anyone else...
Originally conceived as part of a figural group for a larger commission, Charity depicts the doting love of a mother for her two children. Paul Dubois ( 1829 - 1905 ) originally exhibited it at the Salon of 1877. The famed Barbedienne foundry reproduced smaller versions for interior decoration. This particular version is 18", signed Paul Dubois, and stamped with the Foundry mark.
Condition is very good with slight wear of patina to high points such as knee and nose. This exceptional bronze is...
A beautifully done Horace Hone portrait, painted on natural wafer, signed and dated "HH 1782" on the right. The sitter might well be Mary, Viscountess Dillon, as she bears a great resemblance to another portrait Hone did of her. Whether this is the case or not, the subject of this miniature is a striking blue-eyed woman, with a coquettish mien to her. Her hair is styled elaborately, her eyes are shadowed with blue, and she is wearing a very low-cut blue gown trimmed with white edging over a prom...
Russian Icon . 18th Century. 17th Century Crucifix. 17" x 13".
Finnish Artist Arthur Heickell 1873-1958 “ Religious Still Life” Measuring 20” x 16” oil on canvas, framed.
A beautiful painting by Washington, DC Artist Glenn Pizer, known for his brilliant watercolors and unique style portraits. This work depicting a town or cityscape in France, painted in the early 2000’s. The painting is oil on canvas measuring 28” x 22” and framed in a gold leaf baroque frame that measures about 37” x 32”
The following is from his website,
Glenn Pizer's work centers around the suggestion of a narrative, a film-like situation that entices the viewers into playing and...
Raphael Soyer, N.A., NY 1899-1987.
This charming portrait of a nude black haired woman with upturned arms is oil on canvas. It is about 8" by 10" in a lovely newer frame. It was in the private collection of a prominent North Carolina Art Dealer.
A.E. Sterner American Master Painter Women Study 1927
A very important and Art Deco Figure study of five women. Watercolor measuring 33x26 inches Albert Sterner
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Albert Edward Sterner
Born
London, England
Died
New York, New York
born London, England 1863-died New York City 1946
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Painter, printmaker and illustrator. While serving on staff positions at Century Magazine, Harper’s and Life, Sterner gained critic...
Boscoe Holder (16 July 1921 – 21 April 2007), born Arthur Aldwyn Holder in Arima, Trinidad and Tobago, was Trinidad and Tobago's leading contemporary painter, who also had a celebrated international career spanning six decades as a designer and visual artist, dancer, choreographer and musician. Living in London, England, during the 1950s and 1960s, Boscoe Holder has been credited with introducing limbo dancing and steel-pan playing to Britain,[1][2] performing on British television and radio, ...
A Beautiful and important historic original oil painting by Leland Curtis from the Antarctica Expedition of 1939 - 40. The scene is of Adelaide Island at Marguerite Bay. Oil on canvas signed lower right and noted from the Antarctic Exp. A historical and beautiful painting.
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Born in Denver, CO on Aug. 7, 1897, Curtis was a resident of Seattle before moving to Los Angeles in 1914. He was inspired to become an artist by his teacher Rob Wagner at Manual Arts High School. After wor...
(Consignment). For the past 22 years, Massimo Righini has sculpted “STORIES IN STONE” and has exhibited them primarily in the Washington, DC, area at l’Enfant Galerie. His sculptures can be found in some 30 private collections in Italy, France, the UK, and the US.
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The curriculum of the “Liceo Classico” in Italy included heavy doses of philosophy, mythology and history of art, and Righini’s family had a long tradition of involvement ...
A majestic sculpture of an Indian Goddess in bronzed porcelain 20th century measuring 43 inches high