This painting measures 24"x36". Helen LaFrance is a self-taught, modern, contemporary artist who is 99 years of age. Her earliest known painting is a 12’x20’ mural inside of a local church that was made circa the late 40's and early 50’s and she continued to paint into the early 2000's. LaFrance’s work is represented in many notable public and private collections in this country and in Europe...

Paco Lane, is a Washington DC-based artist who has been painting in a myriad of styles for many years. This work from his Cubist years and is a large work measuring 38 x 48“. 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 visual arts...

William B. Hoyt (American, 1945 - present) - Pursuit of Happiness. Oil on canvas. Dated 1990. Size: 48 inches x 60 inches (frame size: 54.5 inches x 66.5 inches). Signed and dated in lower right. In this thought-provoking work, the acclaimed Vermont painter, William B. Hoyt, portrays a timeless challenge: the 'Pursuit of Happiness.' This is a painting on a painting...

From our Fine Arts and Americana Collection, an early Tomasz Rut original oil on canvas masterpiece titled "Celesta," widely regarded as one of his top paintings of all time.

We were fortunate to meet Tomasz in the early 1990's when he was nary as famous as he is now, and were doubly fortunate to subsequently acquire two of his early original works, both of which are now considered to be two of the best he has ever created...

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. He is noted for his bold blending of indigenous African visual sensibilities

Italian Still Life with Flowers by C.D. Mirani Oil 10” x 13” signed Italian Artist Mirani, the granddaughter of the the artist Silvio Ottoviani known for his simplicity. This still life is a painting in oil of a bouquet of flowers., measuring 13” x 10”

Oil on canvas painting of a pinkish jug and blue-green vase on a neutral background, 15 1/2" by 11 1/2" (17 1/2" by 13 3/4" framed in light wood) signed at upper left "K Petersen". The impressionist work is skillfully painted though I do not see any information on the artist. Condition is excellent---ready for display.

Oil on canvas painting, 16" by 20" (21" by 25" framed), the scene a California desert landscape, painted by the noted artist KATHI HILTON (1939-2021) in the year 1993. The artist has signed in the wet paint at lower right, and on the reverse, she wrote "To Lenore Hudson/Painted at Ebell Club/Feb. 1993/May the joy of the desert allure bloom in your heart {I believe that is what the last line reads, not certain}/Best always/Kathi Hilton"...

Original oil on paper titled "Western Hills Series #56" and signed lower right by Katherine Chang Liu, 1988. Liu an internationally renowned painter and teacher. Born in China, Liu received a full scholarship to UC Berkeley. Her work has been featured in 26 books and over 70 magazine articles. She is listed in "Who’s Who in American Art" and "Who’s Who in American Women." Her work can be found in many private and corporate art collections...

Expressionist Portrait of a Woman by Alexandra Kay, student of Ciasky, Corcoran Gallery of Art. Oil on Canvas. 34 x 29.5".

A work that is between the style of Matisse and Modigliani however not attributable to either since it is dated 1981. Oil on canvas 24”x18”

Original oil on canvas by Joan Thorne (American, born 1943) offered in excellent original condition. This painting is signed, dated (1989), and titled "Ucello" on the verso. It also bears a gallery label with the name of the artist, the title, the medium, and the size of the painting (11" by 14", 12 1/2" by 15 1/2" in its original frame). Joan Thorne is an important contemporary New York-based American artist who describes her art as "metaphysical abstraction"...

Pagliacci Enrico Caruso by Frederich August Lunsberg (1878-1928)

Beautiful oil of the Tripple Crown Race Winner Secretariat, dated 1992.

Known for his amazing liquid abstractions Nathan Motley painted in and around the Richmond Virginia area in the 1990s this work measures 30x20 inches. Acrylics on artist panel. Dated fall 1996

Acrylic on canvas painting in black, red and blue on white background, 28" by 39 1/2" as framed, signed in the lower left corner "J. Brooks". I am offering this as a bold, modern decorative painting, and NOT as a genuine work of the important American artist James D. Brooks (1906-1992). Condition is excellent and save for some wear on the cream-colored frame, this is ready for display.

Impressionist oil on canvas painting of ships in a harbor, titled on stretcher "San Francisco Bay in 1840", signed at lower right "M. McDOWD" (MARGARET EPENETER McDOWD 1894-1990). The work, 24" by 30", unframed, is masterfully painted. with excellent handling of light and color, all somewhat intentionally hazy and muted...

An oil on canvas painting promoting a South Asian or Indian movie, titled "Sangeeta". The work measures 35 1/2" by 25 1/4" in a simple black frame. It is a bit loose on the stretcher but otherwise is in good condition. Major star's name is Nigar Shyam, and there is writing in Arabic which I would imagine place this in the northern or western part of the country.