All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1960 item #1420577 (stock #JB02952)
Watercolor and gouache drawing of fruits in a bowl, a brass candle stick, knife and flask, 14" by 10", 21" by 15 3/4" as framed, apparently unsigned. This is an accomplished drawing in fine condition by an elusive artist about which there seems to be little to know, FREDERICK MILLSON. This and two other works by him came out of a San Fernando Valley estate (the others listed here)...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1980 item #1468472
A large, impressive drawing on paper, 26" by 42" (30" by 46" in strip framing), the subject "on the range"---cowboys and their cattle on the range in a beautiful, luminous, "Marlboro Man" landscape. The artist signed at lower right and dated the piece 1979. I believe the media used are gouache, pastel, and maybe color pencil, which he was known to employ...basically, a "mixed media" drawing, and very large for a drawing...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Relief : Pre 1920 item #1441555 (stock #504)
L'Enfant Gallery
$6,000.00
President H. Hoover, Belgian Sculptor Godefroid Devreese (1861-1941), 1920, A Bronze Wall Rondel Plaque Mounted on a Wood Base, measure 20 x 20"
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 : Mixed Media : Pre 1970 item #1417030 (stock #JB03088)
Australian "bark" painting, the painting itself (not including the panel to which it is mounted) measuring 25 1/2" by 11 1/2", bearing reverse label showing this to be a work of the well-known artist and respected tribal elder ENGLAND BANGALA (1925-2001). The handwritten label shows his age as 42, so this would have been created in 1967 or thereabouts. The label gives Bangala's tribe and tells the story of what we see: "The families have been hunting & caught a bream & 2 snakes ...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1940 item #1415419 (stock #JB01317)
This is a scarce, even rare work in watercolor, pencil and, I believe, gouache, 17 5/8" by 11 1/4" (24 1/2" by 18 3/4" as framed) signed at lower right and dated there 1937 by painter and sculptor Angelina Beloff (1884-1969). The scene is inscribed "Jalapa"---corresponding to the colonial highlands city in southeastern Mexico on the main road between Mexico City and the coastal city of Vera Cruz...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1800 item #1418485 (stock #JB05369)
A beautiful antique Old Master drawing with great patina, the subject a bridge over a Venice canal, with figures and fascinating detail, unsigned, in the style of Guardi. Francesco Guardi (1712-1793) is the most famous practitioner in the style, but Giacomo (1764-1835) accounts for his share of the production of such works, the so-called "Vedute" popular with tourists of the time...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Contemporary item #87624 (stock #3028)
Bamboo Grove
$175.00
This hand carved rock crystal snuff bottle is 2 ½ inches tall, 1 ¼ inches wide and 1 inch thick. It depicts a bird resting on a small branch of a gourd plant. The snuff bottle is well hollowed and polished. It has a cone shaped agate top. The crystal has natural grains and impurities.
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Sculptural : Pre 1930 item #1444455 (stock #3279)
Important Maquette Figure in Porcelain G.M.Q. STEINMETZ 1923 use for a painting as a model measuring 9 inches tall. Please also see our other works by the same artist
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 2000 item #1451184
A watercolor and gouache painting of colorfully attired drummer musicians standing on the street, titled at bottom "Candombe Uruguay". The 8 3/4" by 13 1/2" work (plus about one inch interesting hand-made border) addresses the traditional drummers seen in Montevideo barrios, the history of the tradition going back to the 18th century, when slaves from Africa arrived in Uruguay...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1960 item #1419558 (stock #JB02338)
Monotype on paper (where the artist "draws" the image on a sheet of glass, after which the glass plate is very carefully pressed against paper in order to produce an image), 5 3/8" by 7 7/8" (the image), the unframed sheet 7 3/4" by 9 1/2", signed in pencil at lower right margin by listed American artist MARION GRAY TRAVER (1892-1964). This a landscape in perhaps early spring or late fall, with muted pastel colors making for a harmonious and pleasing image...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1950 item #1481694 (stock #3488)
ANTONIO SIGNED INK SKETCH STUDY FROM A HAITIAN ARTIST MEASURING 16” x 12” HIRSH
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1900 item #1488494 (stock #D250)
An outstanding antique Mother of Pearl icon, 18th century Palestine. The icon has a warm golden tone and is finely hand-carved in high relief. It depicts a marriage ceremony between the Virgin Mary and Saint Joseph, with a richly attired high priest clasping the hands of Mary and Joseph. Joseph is depicted as placing the ring of betrothal on the finger of Our Lady. The icon comes with an elaborately hand-carved gilt wood Baroque style frame...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 2000 item #24828 (stock #3002)
MEDIA: Overlay Glass Snuff Bottle SIZE: H: 2 ¾ inches
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Contemporary item #1417245 (stock #JB02030)
Signed at lower right "PURWADI" and dated just above it 1998, this is a 17" by 14 1/4" work on heavy paper or paper laid on heavy paper, unframed, the subject two Asian women identically dressed, viewed from behind, carrying a heavy load on their heads. This Indonesian contemporary work is by the young, new generation artist DIYANO PURWADI (1971-). Purwadi was born in East Java and schooled there in art. By 1993 he was in Bali, where he now works from the art center town, Ubud...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Contemporary item #1475570 (stock #3128)
L'Enfant Gallery
$3,500.00
ROBIN SUTLIFF, LOCAL DC ARTIST, “Terra Cotta ” Mixed Media 36” x 24” Inches,….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
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Pre 1950 item #1416291 (stock #JB01492)
This is a work in gouache, tempera or casein, 17 1/2" by 23 1/2" inside the mat liner (30" by 36" as nicely framed), signed at lower right in white "Liberte". JEAN LIBERTE (1896-1965) was an artist noted in reference works as early as the 1940's...
All Items : Fine Art : Mixed Media : Sculptural : Pre 1900 item #1445786 (stock #1892)
L'Enfant Gallery
$29,000.00
(Consignment). Milanese marble sculpture of a Bedouin Princess signed and dated 1881 by Carlos Vessina, White Carrera marble measuring 29.5 inches tall, 20 inch width, 8 inch deep