A fine drawing (10 1/2" by 15 1/4" inside the present mat, 18" by 21 1/2" as framed (no glass) by the well listed Czech artist MAX SVABINSKY (1873-1962), featuring cloud formations and a sliver of land below. The artist signed at lower right and dated the work 1949. The medium appears to be charcoal or soft pencil on paper, with a bit of brown color included. A Svabinsky oil painting sold for over $300,000 at auction in the Czech Republic in 2016...
Japanese Floral Study. Unsigned. Framed Print. 13 x 17.5".
A pencil sketch of Glendalough county Wicklow Ireland with a strong attribution to the British artist Edward Lear (1812-1888). Drawn with pencil on bluish heavy laid paper with ink, ink washes, touches of white gouche and faded washes of green. In 1835 Lear visited Ireland, one of his early trips as he turned from bird illustration to landscape. The party he traveled with visited Glendalough. During his life Lear saved his sketches and it was not until the 1920’s that they were available...
Troisième Position de Salut, Fencing, by J Delin, 18th century colored lithograph etching. 10 x 10". Frame Size 16.5 x 17.5".
A rather elegant pastel/mixed media drawing, anthracite gray dominating, though with other delicate color in some of the abstract forms, executed on heavy paper, (there is an interesting, pronounced texture to the surface, and some kind of a slight gloss in parts when viewed at an angle), signed at upper right "Grau 59", and "Enrique Grau" is written on the reverse, on which there are a lot of scribbles. The work measures 19 1/2" by 12 1/2"...
A group of 18 unframed pencil drawings, all landscape, signed by noted Southern California artist LEONARD SCHEU (1904-1995). The drawings are titled: Bridge Amsterdam; Roman Wall Tower of London 200 AD; Amsterdam; St. Peters, Salzburg; Amsterdam; Old House Schoenwald Germany; Quebec; Bern (Switzerland); Cathedral Door Granada; Victoria (Canada). Evidently, the artist was an avid traveler...
Original India botanical by the famous Japhur-naturalist artist Neerja featuring a native medicinal plant. The works of this 19th century community of talented Indian painters are desired for their brilliant jewel-like quality and fine detail. This botanical is a wonderful example featuring a hand colored flowering exotic plant with roots, watercolor on parchment, pink, gold,and brown tones with green leaves, artist signed "Neeraj", India. Rich burlwood frame; measuring 19 7/8 x 13 7/8 approx...
A very well done portrait study signed Gregory. Charcoal on paper
Victory Liberty Loan, "We'll Finish the Job", 1918, Edwards and Deutch Lithograph. Framed 39 x 28".
Mrs Chas. Brianspere 1919,Puppies,charcoal measuring 21x24”
Italian Drawing Giuseppe Duatto Capri Boy 15 x 12“ A really beautiful drawing framed circa 1900 or earlier
Unsigned Miniature Lithograph, English. View of country Harbor framed measuring 7x8” Image measures 3 x 4 1/2“
Original Vintage Art Nouveau Drawing of a Lady by Charles Sheldon c.1930. Presented matted and framed. Acquired with a group of art from the estate of the artist.
Charles Gates Sheldon (b. 1889 / d. 1960)
Charles Sheldon was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1894.
He spent most of his life in Springfield. In high school, he contributed to the artwork in the yearbook.
Sheldon studied at the Arts Students League. He then studied under Alphonse Mucha in Paris...
Fine old master style sepia ink drawing on paper, with some pencil underneath, 10" by 15 1/2" inside the mat, 15 1/2" by 20 1/2" in modern day frame, signed at lower right "Furstenburg", the locale identified at bottom center apparently by the artist as "View of the Rhine from Bacharach Aug 17". This could well refer to the year 1817 as the work has sufficient age. On the reverse is written in pencil "Germany $3.75"...
An attractive italian 19th Century Painting depicting 2 Figures in a Park. Good condition. Size: 21 cm. x 14 cm. unframed. Framed: 47 cm. x 36.5 cm.
This is a large drawing in what I believe to be charcoal and color pencil or chalk, 24" by 18" inside the mat, (no glass), 30 1/2" by 24 1/2" as framed, titled at bottom right "Study of Ripple", and signed there by the artist, well-known New Mexico painter WALT GONSKE (1942-)...
Original French master portrait of a woman wearing braids from a portfolio of drawings dated 1847. Displayed in a giltwood frame.
This is an original charcoal on paper portrait drawing of a young woman, 18" by 12 1/2" inside the mat (25" by 19" as framed), signed "J Floch" at lower right. His prints and drawings (see a lithograph by the artist, in my shop) are quite affordable, while paintings have brought to the $80,000 area at auction in Europe and America. Floch was born in Austria, but spent the later part of his life in the New York area. From an online biography: "Joseph Floch was born in Vienna, Austria in 1895...