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Period: Early 20th Century
Cubist Portrait of Gabriele Varese (in Italian uniform), 1919
Located in Stockholm, SE
Dick Beer (b. London 1893 - d. Stockholm 1938) Portrait of Gabriele Varese (in Italian uniform), 1919 oil on canvas mounted on panel 116 x 90 cm stamp signature Exhibited: Solo exhibition, Stockholm, Nov-Dec 1917; The Royal Academy Stockholm 1973; Åmells Konsthandel – En internationell kubist, Stockholm & London 2008 Hälsinglands Museum 2011 Millesgården – Dick Beer – Impressionist & Kubist, 2012 Provenance: Within the family Beer until today Dick Beer was born in 1893 in London as Richard Beer, the youngest of five brothers. His father, John Beer (1853-1906), was a watercolourist who was born in Stockholm and had left Sweden at the age of 17. John Beer instructed his sons in drawing and painting, among other things. A number of sketchbooks bear testimony to the boys’ talent. Dick Beer’s parents died in 1906 and 1907. Barely 15 years old, Beer arrived in Sweden as an orphan. First he lived with relatives and finally he ended up at Reverend Laurell in Västergötland. Dick Beer began his artistic studies at the Althin School of Painting in Stockholm in 1908 and continued at the Royal Academy of Arts in the autumn of 1910, but in September 1912 he broke off his studies and travelled to Paris. He rented a studio and enrolled at the Colarossi and Grande Chaumière academies. In the summer of 1913, Dick Beer travelled to Pont-Aven in Bretagne in order to paint. In September the same year, he held his first solo exhibition in Stockholm which he gave the French title Exposition des tableaux de Bretagne et autour de Paris. The exhibition proved a success. Many of the paintings were executed in a light palette in a style inspired by the impressionists. In 1914, Dick Beer undertook an extensive study trip to Italy, Tunis, Morocco and Spain, which resulted in canvases overflowing with colours and light. When the French army mobilised, he volunteered and was enlisted in the French Foreign Legion. In 1915 Dick Beer sustained severe head injuries in a grenade attack, which resulted in deafness and a nervous condition that would plague him for the rest of his life. Two of his brothers died the following year, fighting for the English army. Dick Beer was hospitalised and convalesced at Château de Rochefort. Here he started painting again, in an impressionist style, a painting dominated by blue and green hues. In 1918, Dick Beer married Ruth Öhrling, a dentist, and their son John was born later in the year. During this time, Beer began experimenting with cubist painting and created several large compositions, including the painting “The Arab Café”. In the years that followed, Dick Beer was based in Paris, where he often moved house. He was instructed by André Lhote, who encouraged his students to work freely in the studio and provided them with individual critique. Beer often travelled to Bretagne or Provence. His artist friends came from all over Europe and included Amedeo Modigliani. Dick Beer exhibited fairly regularly in Paris between 1919 and 1934 and made a name for himself in French artist circles. In the summers, Ruth regularly rented a house in the countryside, often at Lake Mälaren. She kept a large house with many models and friends and there was a lot of painting and discussions. In 1933, the couple divorced but Ruth still loved Dick and continued to support him financially for the rest of his life. Dick Beer also exhibited in Sweden, albeit irregularly due to his failing health. In the 1920s and 1930s, Beer continued to pursue an expressionist painting with intense colours and unexpected perspectives, but eventually he veered towards more naturalistic forms, including a large number of nudes. He also painted several portraits of artists, politicians and writers. In 1938, Dick Beer sojourned in Arles. The budding photographer Christer Strömholm...
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Cubist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Panel

John Burroughs at Roxbury, Catskills Cabin Definitive Life Study American Artist
Located in Norwich, GB
Formally documented in The Life and Letters of John Burroughs (Vol. II, p. 168), this monumental canvas is not merely a portrait; it is a primary historical document. Painted in 1911...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Barbizon Fontainebleau region Impressionist French summer landscape with figure
Located in Norwich, GB
A wonderful view of the heartbreakingly beautiful Fontainebleau/Barbizon region, which was home to some of the greatest painters of the 19th and early 20th Century. The particular spot presented here is the river Loing at Montigny-sur-Loing, where Cezanne and Sisley loved to paint. The village is just a short walk away from Grez-sur-Loing, where John Singer Sargent, Francis Brooks Chadwick, Robert Vonnoh, Edward Simmons...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Bonneted Lady in Church, Easter Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Signature: Signed Middle Left Cover of Saturday Evening Post magazine (Easter edition), April 1905. This is one of Leyendecker's first Easter covers for the Sa...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting Sunset Extensive Loch Landscape Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sunset over the Loch by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed lower corner oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 16 x 24 inches Fine quality antique oil painting by the much admired and celebrated British artist F. E. Jamieson (1895-1950). The painting captures this beautifully romantic view of the Scottish Highlands, with an extensive view over the loch waters. F. E. Jamieson (1895-1950) We are extremely fortunate to have been handling the works of the enigmatic British artist, F. E. Jamieson since the year we began art dealing, 1989. Over this time, coupled with our love of the Scottish landscape, we have bought and sold many hundreds of his paintings, in all their various guises and subjects and are considered by many to be a leading authority on the artist and his work. We are also in the early stages of publishing the Catalogue Raisonne for this artist, of which this painting will be featured. Mr. Jamieson was largely a painter of Scottish landscapes and loch scenes. Born in 1895, Jamieson lived on the south coast of England and was contracted to a large department store to supply them with his paintings. He was an ambitious man and keen to sell more works than through just one shop. In order to do this, he started to sign his works with pseudonyms other than his own name, in order that he could sell his work to a wider audience. It worked and it is considered that Jamieson at least 15 different pseudonym names on his paintings. In addition to selling through furniture shops, Jamieson would travel door to door offering his paintings to housewives and private buyers. In our years of researching the artist, we heard one story related to us by an old customer who remembers that Jamieson started selling door...
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Victorian Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1930 s French Impressionist Oil Fishing Boats Beached in Estuary
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Fishing Boats Simone Forge 1930's French Impressionist oil on board unframed board: 13 x 16 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris Condition: overall good and sound condition...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

June Bridal Couple, Saturday Evening Post Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, June 22, 1929
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Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French school Still Life Oil painting Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Still Life from J Robert⬅️ 🟢Jacques Robert (1921–1997) was a French writer, journalist, and screenwriter. Born on June 27, 1921, in Lyon, France, he began his career in journalis...
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Tonalist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Rare Oil Painting Arab Man Bezalel School Jerusalem 1913, Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
Extremely rare work of art from the early Bezalel School of Boris Schatz in Ottoman Palestine. it depicts an Orientalist Arab Sheik in traditional Headwear. YITSKHOK LIKHTENSHTEYN ...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Oil Pastel, Oil

Emile Chaumont (1877-1927) - Summer landscape in Dordogne
Located in BELEYMAS, FR
Emile CHAUMONT (Perigueux 1877 - 1927) Summer landscape in Périgord Oil on panel H. 32 cm; L. 41 cm Signed lower left, dated 1912 Provenance: Private c...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Cape Ann Coast, Seascape/Landscape Western Massachusetts, Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
George Gustav Adomeit (American, 1879-1967) Cape Ann Coast, 1922 Oil on canvas Signed lower left 20 x 24 inches 20.5 x 24.5 inches, framed A major painter of American scene subjects...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

20th Century Spanish Seaside Village (Cadaques Catalonia), Cleveland School
Located in Beachwood, OH
Rolf Stoll (American, 1892-1978) Spanish Seaside Village (Cadaques Catalonia) Oil on canvas Signed lower right 28 x 38 inches Exhibited: The 11th Annual May Show, Cleveland Museum of Art, 1929 Rolf Stoll, a painter of figure subjects, landscapes and floral still lifes, was an important member of the Cleveland art scene during the second quarter of the century. He was also an influential teacher, as well as one of Ohio’s foremost portrait painters. Rolf Stoll was born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1892. As a boy, he attended a military academy, during which time he developed an interest in art. He received his early formal training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Stuttgart. He emigrated to the United States in 1912, settling in New York City. A decade later, after studying at the school of the National Academy of Design and supporting himself by working as a commercial artist, Stoll decided to leave New York. Upon the recommendation of Warren Pryor, one of his teachers, he decided to move to Cleveland, Ohio. After arriving in Cleveland, Rolf Stoll continued to work as a commercial artist. However, in 1926, he joined the faculty of the Cleveland School of Art, where he taught drawing. Two years later Stoll was appointed head of the school’s portrait painting department. A talented portraitist, Stoll’s sitters included industrialists, community leaders and many prominent members of Cleveland and Ohio society, as well as over twenty faculty members from Case Western Reserve University. Stoll also gave portrait classes at the John Huntington Polytechnic Institute from 1926 to 1953. In his male portraits especially, he was admired for his ability to convey the dignity of his sitter’s professional position without sacrificing individuality. As noted by one contemporary reviewer, Stoll was a “master of rich color, a searching student of human types, a forceful portrayer of all that the face reveals of the mind and the soul.” In addition to his activity as a portraitist, Rolf Stoll painted figure subjects and floral still lifes. He was also known for his views of the Ohio countryside and Canada. Stoll also painted views of Spain and depictions of Spanish peasants, inspired by an extended trip to that country (1926), during which time he was entertained by the famous Spanish portrait painter, Ignacio Zuloaga. Moving easily between oil and watercolor, Stoll worked in an direct realist style, combining his characteristic firm draftsmanship with the use of simplified forms and decorative color. Rolph Stoll was a member of the Cleveland Society of Artists, the Cleveland Print Club...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Forest Landscape" John F. Carlson, circa 1925 American Impressionist Landscape
Located in New York, NY
John F. Carlson Forest Landscape, circa 1925 Signed lower right Watercolor on paper Sight 21 x 24 1/2 inches The native Swede John Fabian Carlson became a household name in New Yor...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

1930 s French Post Impressionist Busy French Market Scene Many Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The French Market Simone Forge, 1930's French Impressionist oil on board unframed signed verso "Sim" board: 13 x 16 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris Condition: good and ...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

1900s Original French Atelier Life Drawing Posed Man Head in Hands
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Life study drawing original atelier drawing by the French artist, Jeanne Nachat (1898-1984) Nachat attended the prestigious Académie des Beaux-Arts in Pa...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Charcoal, Pencil

Rare Oil Painting Woman with Fruit Bezalel School Jerusalem Israeli Judaica
Located in Surfside, FL
YITSKHOK LIKHTENSHTEYN (ISAAC LICHTENSTEIN) (1888-1981) (Icchok, Izrael) was born in Lodz, Poland. Initially he was studying at Yehuda Pen school in Witebsk. In the same school ...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Jute, Oil

The Dolomites at Santa Cristina oil on board by Carlo Pollonera
Located in London, GB
Carlo Pollonera (1849-1923) 'Dolomites at Santa Cristina' ‍ Oil on cardboard 48.5 x 69 cm Signed and dated lower left 1921 1920's landscape painting of the Dolomite Mountains in It...
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Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Mediterranean Coastal Scene with Rural Property Trees in French Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Mediterranean Coastal Scene with Rural Property & Trees in French Countryside, by 20th Century French Artist, Jean-Pierre Vignat (Born 1913) Art measures 21 x 14.5 inches Frame me...
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French School Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French School L oeil qui ne contemple Impressionist century Cat Painting Indian
Located in Zofingen, AG
Citation : Si l'oeil ne contemple pas, l'oeil ne verra pas Animal - Closeup portrait of a cat Technique: oil, acrylic, and ink on old book pages on wooden fram...
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Tonalist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Ink, Oil, Acrylic

Young Girl Walking Thru a Winter Snow Landscape Oil Painting 1920 s
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6008 Winter Snow,a 1920's oil painting on canvas depicting the isolation and beauty of your girl walking thru a fresh fallen snow.Displayed in a gilt wood frame.Artist unknown
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Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Rockport" William Lester Stevens, North East Coastal American Landscape
Located in New York, NY
William Lester Stevens Rockport Signed lower right Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches Born on June 15, 1888, in Rockport, Massachusetts, Stevens displayed his artistic abilities from a y...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Frosty Morning" Jonas Lie, Bright, Luminous, Impressionist, Snowy Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Jonas Lie Frosty Morning, 1923 Signed lower left Oil on canvas 40 x 50 inches Provenance The artist Ainslie Galleries, New York Samuel and Ileen Campbell Wright Museum of Art, Beloi...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

“The Newspaper Boy”
Located in San Francisco, CA
The classic hard luck, independent kid, maybe 8 or 10 years old here, selling the day’s papers out on the grubby streets of early 1900s New York City. He’s paused in a quiet spot, ap...
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American Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Circus Wagons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This watercolor is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1930s Circus Wagons, 1927, watercolor on paper, signed and dated lower left, 10 x19 ¾ inches (sight), provenance includes Stary-Sheets Art Gallery (Gualala, CA); J. Ralph & Louis Stone Foundation; presented in a newer metal frame behind glazing About the Painting Millard Sheets was only twenty years old and in his third year of studies at the Chouinard Art Institute when he painted Circus Wagons. Despite his youth, Sheets was already an accomplished artist who had publicly exhibited his work and won prestigious prizes. Within several years, he would have his first solo exhibition at one of Los Angeles’ premiere galleries and become a painting instructor at his alma mater. In Circus Wagons we already see Sheets deft handling of the watercolor medium and his interest in the California Scene. In this case, Sheets captures a back lot view of a traveling circus, a subject he sometimes returned to, including in a color screen print in the collection of the National Gallery. Sheets made a career by painting what he knew and observed firsthand. This approach allowed Sheets to capture with authenticity the details of each narrative. Even with a narrowly limited palette and an economy of brushstrokes, Sheets effectively depicts the southern California scene with its strong and mysterious shadows, as well as the workers and circus animals. Seen through the hindsight of his six-decade long career, Circus Wagons offers a fascinating insight into the early development of California Scene painting which would by the mid-1930s become the best recognized style on the West Coast. About the Artist Millard Sheets was the dean of California watercolorists. His list of accomplishments is so extensive that his entry in Who was Who in American Art is over forty lines. Born in Pomona, California, Sheets became a painter at an early age, winning a prize at the Los Angeles County Fair in 1918. By the mid to late-1920s, Sheets became a regular at art exhibitions in the western part of the United States, winning several additional prizes before he reached the age of twenty-five. Sheets studied at the prestigious Chouinard Art Institute from 1925 through 1929 with Frank Tolles Chamberlin and Clarence Hinkle and had his first solo show with Los Angeles’ Dalzell Hatfield Gallery in 1929. During the 1930s, Sheets was invited to exhibit at almost every major American Museum and in many ways, his work came to represent the California watercolor school...
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American Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Watercolor

Large Early 20th Century French Post Impressionist Oil Farmyard Scene Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Rural Farmyard French Post-Impressionist artist, circa 1917 signed initials oil on canvas, unframed Canvas: 18 x 22 inches Provenance: Private collection, France Condition: very...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

French North African early 20th century Impressionist, Fishermen coming ashore
Located in Woodbury, CT
French North African early 20th-century Impressionist, Fishermen coming ashore with their daily catch. André Humbert was born in Paris on the 27th of November. He was a student of t...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Figures in a Wooded Landscape - Antique French Impressionist Symbolist Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful early 1900's French Symbolist oil on board depicting two classical figures and a goat in a wooded landscape. Striking and excellent quality work by an accomplished artis...
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Symbolist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Haystack with Resting Figures
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Scottish artist John Maclauchlan Milne, RSA, (1885-1957) is a contemporary of Scottish Colourists Peploe, Fergusson, Cadell and Hunter. Like the...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Classical Seated Female Nude , by Charles G. Bockman, Oil on Canvas Painting
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This 38 x 32 inch painting, is an oil on canvas titled 'Female Nude,' by artist Charles G. Bockmann. The painting depicts a 3/4th portrait of a nude woman wh...
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Academic Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Large Scale Persian Hunt Landscape Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-01 Large Scale Persian Hunt, circa 1920's oil painting on canvas depicting hunting scene, displayed in a wood-gesso frame.Image size 39 H X 59.5 W Arti...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Place Jean-Baptiste-Clément by Maurice Utrillo - Street scene in Paris
Located in London, GB
*PLEASE NOTE UK BUYERS WILL ONLY PAY 5% VAT ON THIS PURCHASE. Once an order is placed we will arrange the VAT of 20% to be reduced to 5% Place Jean-Baptiste-Clément by Maurice Utril...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Panel

English World War 1 military Navy or Army Military Motor Ambulance Station
Located in Woodbury, CT
Charles Allan Cooke (British, early 20th century) Military Motor Ambulance Station, World War I, ca. 1916–1918 Oil on canvas, signed and inscribed on reverse In this powerful and ra...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woman reading
Located in Genève, GE
Illegible signature Work on canvas Golden wooden frame 46.5 x 41.5 x 5.5 cm
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Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Complete Set of Stations of the Cross Oil Paintings by Völkel
Located in London, GB
Complete set of Stations of the Cross oil paintings by Völkel German, 1909 Canvas: Height 80cm, width 82cm Frame: Height 134cm, width 111c...
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Old Masters Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Vintage Portrait Portrait of Fashionable Woman Pink Shawl 1920 s French Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Woman in Pink by Robert SImon (French 1888-1961) stamped with the artists studio stamp verso inscribed label with the date 1929 oil on board, unframed Board : 16 x 13 i...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

19th century English landscape with a Mail coach and Horses on a road
Located in Woodbury, CT
J.A.Terry, A scene of the London to Exeter Mail Coach and a road in a landscape. This charming oil painting of the iconic London to Exeter mail coach, by English painter J.A. Terry ...
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Victorian Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

At the Claremont (View of the Hudson River and Palisades), Ida Sedgwick Proper
Located in New York, NY
Ida Sedgwick Proper At the Claremont (View of the Hudson River and Palisades) circa 1912 Signed lower right Oil on canvas 45 1/4 x 57 1/2 inches Exhibited New York, Heterodoxy, Malv...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Still Life with Sunflowers - Oil on Canvash by Daniel Been - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Still life with sunflowers is a beautiful oil painting realized by Daniel Been (1885-1967) Hand signed lower margin. Includes a wooden frame. 60 x 80 cm Good conditions
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Modern Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting Golden Harvest Field by the River Bank
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Aberfeldy" by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed lower corner inscribed verso oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 12 x 20 inches frame: 15 x 23.5 inches Fine quality antique oil painting by the much admired and celebrated British artist F. E. Jamieson (1895-1950). The painting is signed by Jamieson to the lower corner with one of his pseudonyms. The painting captures this beautifully romantic view of the Scottish Highlands, the whole landscape warmed by the summer sunshine as the harvest fields glow golden light on the river banks to the right. F. E. Jamieson (1895-1950) We are extremely fortunate to have been handling the works of the enigmatic British artist, F. E. Jamieson since the year we began art dealing, 1989. Over this time, coupled with our love of the Scottish landscape, we have bought and sold many hundreds of his paintings, in all their various guises and subjects and are considered by many to be a leading authority on the artist and his work. We are also in the early stages of publishing the Catalogue Raisonne for this artist, of which this painting will be featured. Mr. Jamieson was largely a painter of Scottish landscapes and loch scenes. Born in 1895, Jamieson lived on the south coast of England and was contracted to a large department store to supply them with his paintings. He was an ambitious man and keen to sell more works than through just one shop. In order to do this, he started to sign his works with pseudonyms other than his own name, in order that he could sell his work to a wider audience. It worked and it is considered that Jamieson at least 15 different pseudonym names on his paintings. In addition to selling through furniture shops, Jamieson would travel door to door offering his paintings to housewives and private buyers. In our years of researching the artist, we heard one story related to us by an old customer who remembers that Jamieson started selling door...
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Victorian Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

A Breton Interior - Impressionist Interior Oil Painting by Edouard Cortes
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed figures in interior oil on canvas circa 1910 by sought after French impressionist painter Edouard Leon Cortes. This charming and nostalgic work depicts a family enjoying dinne...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting Dunkeld River Tay Perthshire
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Dunkeld" by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950) signed lower corner inscribed verso oil painting on canvas, framed canvas: 16 x 24 inches frame: 19 x 27 inches Fine quality antiqu...
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Victorian Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

"Pigeon Hill, Rockport" Winthrop Duthie Turney, North Eastern American Landscape
Located in New York, NY
Winthrop Duthie Turney Pigeon Hill, Rockport Signed lower left Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches Exhibited New York, National Academy of Design, Artists of America, Sixth Annual Exhibition, 1949. Winthrop Duthie Turney was born in New York City and received his education at the Art Students League. He was affiliated with the Fifteen Gallery...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Düsseldorf school 1902 - Portrait of Sisterly love - German portrait
Located in Aartselaar, BE
Sweet and large oil painting "Sisterly love" signed and dated 1902 by August Algermissen The present painting depicts two sisters seated in an interior, the youngest is gleefully lo...
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Romantic Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Spanish flamenco dance oil on board painting impressionism Spain
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Joaquin Terruella Matilla (1891-1957) - Flamenco - Oil board Oil measures 35x39 cm. Frame measures 40x44 cm. Joaquim Terruella Matilla (1891 - 1957) Joaquim Terruella Matilla, neph...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Post-Impressionist Painting By Dick Beer, Stormy Weather in St.Arnoult, 1917
Located in Stockholm, SE
Dick Beer (b. London 1893 - d. Stockholm 1938) Title: Stormy Weather in St.Arnoult Dick Beer was born in London in 1893. His father, John Beer (1853-1906), was a Swedish painter from Stockholm who had a career mainly as a watercolour painter with motifs of horses from racetracks and fox hunts from the countryside. Barely fifteen years old, Dick Beer became an orphan and came to Sweden in 1907. Already in 1908-1909, he started at Althin's painting school in Stockholm. And later, at the Royal Academy of Arts from 1910-1912. His teachers were, among others, Gustaf Cederström, Oscar Björk and Alfred...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Alfred SALVIGNOL, Port of Villefranche-sur-Mer, Oil on panel, Beg. 20th C.
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Oil on panel by Alfred SAVIGNOL (1877-), Beginning of the 20th century, France. Port of Villefranche-sur-Mer (between Nice and Monaco). With frame: 68x 56 cm - 26.8x22 inches ; with...
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French School Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Wood, Oil

"The Visionary" - Abstract Expressionist Oil on Board by Hamilton Achille Wolf
By Hamilton Achille Wolf
Located in Soquel, CA
"The Visionary" - Oil on Board Abstract expressionist painting titled "The Visionary" by Hamilton Achilles Wolf (American, 1883- 1967). Shades of red consume the canvas, as a mans ...
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Abstract Expressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Illustration Board

Original Study of Rembrandt’s Portrait of an Old Woman
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th Century Study of Rembrandt’s Portrait of Old Woman Russian for Niello Engraving A wonderful study of Rembrandt’s portrait of an Old Woman used for Niello engraving by Ru...
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Old Masters Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Ink

"Yes Sir! That s Hills Brothers Coffee" Original Advertisement
Located in Fort Washington, PA
This illustration was created for the Hills Brothers Coffee company in 1929 and was used on promotional products as well as coffee cans in the ye...
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American Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Forest Landscape in Scandinavia with Silver Birch Trees by Danish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Forest Landscape in Scandinavia with Silver Birch Trees by Danish Artist, Jens Christian Bennedsen (1893-1967) Art measures 12 x 10 inches Frame measures 16 x 14 inches This charm...
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Realist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Oil

LOUIS BUISSERET 1928 Surrealist Fantasy Nude Women Landscape Horse Belgian LARGE
Located in Rancho Santa Fe, CA
Louis Buisseret (Belgian) Exhibited at the Pittsburgh International (Carnegie Institute) show of 1928 "Composition" This surrealist painting depicts nude women having a picnic in a S...
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Surrealist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique French Impressionist Self Portrait of Artist 1900 s Oil Painting canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Self Portrait of the Artist by René PIROLA (French, 1878 - 1912) stamped with artists mark oil on canvas, framed framed: 27 x 22 inches canvas: 26 x 21.5 inches Provenance: private ...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Harbor Scene with Boats Fishermen
Located in Milford, NH
A fine impressionist oil painting of a New England harbor scene with boats and fishermen by American artist Harry Aiken Vincent (1867-1933). Vincent was born in Chicago, Illinois, an...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1920 s French Charcoal Sketch of Seated Nude Lady The Artists Model
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Artists Model" French School, circa 1920's charcoal drawing on paper, unframed paper: 24.5 x 17.5 inches Condition report: The painting is in good and sound condition
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Charcoal

Saint Malo - Post Impressionist Seascape Watercolor by Maurice Prendergast
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed watercolour on paper landscape by American post impressionist painter Maurice Brazil Prendergast. The work depicts children playing on the beach in Saint Malo, France as boats sail in the blue sea and white clouds role through the sky overhead. This work has remained in the Prendergast family for 3 generations and depicts a rare view of Saint-Malo executed during Prendergast's visit to the french coastal town in 1907 Signature: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 21"x22" Unframed: 13'x14" Proveance: The collection of Charles Prendergast (1863-1948) The collection of Eugénie Prendergast-Van Kemmel (1895-1994) -wife and inheritor of the estate of Charles Prendergast The collection of Henri Van Kemmel (Lille, 1903-1963) - cousin of Eugenie Prendergast
- Madame Henri Van Kemmel Maurice Prendergast came with his family to Boston in 1861. Working in a textile store, Maurice Prendergast was at first self-taught in painting, making souvenir cards and shop signs. He went to Britain in 1886, then to Paris in 1891 and registered at the Académie Julian with Jean-Paul Laurens, Benjamin-Constant, and Charles Blanc as teachers, working also with Gustave Courtois at the Académie Colarossi. More importantly he saw the Impressionists’ paintings and the Nabis at the Galerie Durand-Ruel. He returned to the United States in 1895, settling in Winchester (Massachusetts) and went frequently to New York. In 1898 he again went to Europe where he stayed until 1900, visiting Paris, Florence, Siena, Rome, Capri, and Venice, where he spent six months. Between 1907 and the beginning of World War I he went again four times to Europe but never returned there after the war. In New York where he finally settled, with William Glackens, Robert Henri, and John Sloan among others, Prendergast was one of the members ofThe Eight, gathered by Robert Henri to counter the pervading academicism. The group exhibited in 1908 at the Macbeth Galleries and took part in the Armory Show of 1913. After that Prendergast did not exhibit again with the group. In 1914 he left Boston definitively for New York. Prendergast was in his thirties before he began to devote himself to painting. In his late beginnings he painted in the open air as the Impressionists did, mainly in watercolours with clear brushstrokes and an elegant virtuosity recalling his then admiration for James Whistler and Claude Monet. Between 1892 and 1905 he carried out two hundred monotypes, a technique of which he was the undisputed master in America at that time and which expressed the influence of Japanisme. During his stays in France he painted views of Paris, but also Brittany and Normandy. In this period, in 1896, he was chosen to illustrate My Lady Nicotine by Matthew Barrie. During his third stay in Europe, from 1898 to 1900, he painted in Paris, at Saint-Malo, and mainly in Venice, where, influenced by Vittore Carpaccio he introduced brightly coloured banners into his animated compositions. In oils he painted slowly, touching up his paintings by superimposed brushstrokes, sometimes over several years. He chose to use the divided stroke in an early period, a technique which had similarities with Post-Impressionism. After his travels in Europe and his discovery of Paul Cézanne, he evolved in the direction of the neo-Impressionism of Georges Seurat, placing little dots of colours with a knife, then of the Nabis and even later Fauvism, painting large brushed surfaces in bright colours. After 1899, his Ponte della Paglia in Venice freed itself from strict divisionism, adopting the dense composition in vertically superimposed planes of the Nabis. Like the members of the group of eight, he took his subjects from the daily life of ordinary people, in scenes in the parks or on the beaches of New England, picnics or sometimes circuses. Nevertheless the happy vision that he had of the world separated him strongly from the evolution that led his companions to paint the most miserable and populous milieus, which gave them the name of The Ashcan School. His compositions are arranged in surfaces superimposed vertically, without depth; while the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists were influenced by the layout of Japanese prints, Prendergast was inspired more by Persian miniatures. The decorative elements and the build-up of characters in crowds are placed frontally, like garlands on a tapestry, particularly as he seeks a texture effect, covered entirely by the subject without any empty spaces. His attraction to colours caused him to research all the motifs that he introduced into these compositions: umbrellas, parasols, balloons, draperies. In 1911–1912, he experimented with pastel and treated new subjects, nudes and still-lifes. After 1913, in sympathy with the Symbolists, he put nude figures and everyday characters side by side in the same composition. In his last years, and above all in the watercolours, he discarded the divided stroke and applied larger brushstrokes, similar to the technique of Henri Matisse. Fidelity to the leisurely settings and elegant grooming of the period gave his works, apart from their artistic value, a charming sociological aspect. Singular, almost marginal in his time, his paintings stand out by the density of their composition, in form and colouring, characterised by the accumulation of detail, minutiae of scenery, the serried ranks of people that animate them, the chromatic polyphony of elegance, umbrellas, parasols, and flags. He is a complete painter, particularly generous, who would never be happy to provide only samples of his art. Following Whistler and Mary Cassatt, Maurice Prendergast is one of the most interesting and original Post-Impressionist American painters, and perhaps marks exactly the boundary between the 19th and the 20th centuries. He was considered to be an ‘old master’ from 1920 on, and his works appeared in very many exhibitions of modern American painting. He had his first solo exhibition in 1897 at the Chase Gallery of Boston, where his works were noticed by Madame Montgomery Sears, who made a collection, taking the advice of Mary Cassatt. In 1915 six paintings and watercolours exhibited at the Carroll Gallery of New York established his success and drew the great collectors to him, among whom were Albert Barnes and John Quinn. Group Exhibitions 1974, Ten Americans, Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York 1976, Art of Impulse and Color, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park (Maryland) 1982, American Impressionists, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (also presented at the Musée du Petit Palais, Paris) 1999, Town and Country: American Artists, 1870–1920 (Ville et campagne: les artistes américains, 1870–1920), Musée d’Art Américain, Giverny 2002, Japonisme in America: Works on Paper, 1880–1930 (Le Japonisme en Amérique: œuvres sur papier, 1880–1930), Musée d’Art Américain/Terra Foundation for the Arts, Giverny 2007, American Impressionists: Painters of Light and the Modern Landscape, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC 2008, Coming of Age: American Art 1850–1950, Paintings from the Addison Gallery of American Art, Massachusetts, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London 2008, Portrait of a Lady: Paintings and Photographs of American Women in France 1870–1915, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Bordeaux Solo Exhibitions 1934, Maurice Prendergast Memorial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1938, Retrospective Exhibition of the Work of Maurice and Charles Prendergast, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA 1960, Maurice Prendergast, 1859–1924, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1990, Art Institute of Chicago 2009, Prendergast in Italy, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice Museum and Gallery Holdings Andover, MA (Addison Gal. of American Art): At the Shore, St. Malo No. 1 and 2 (c. 1907, watercolour and graphite on wove paper, 2 works); Along the Cove (1910–1913, oil on canvas); seven sketches of Paris (1893, oil on wood) Chicago (AI): In the Park (1918–1919) Chicago (Terra Foundation for American Art Collection): Festa del redentore (c. 1899, monotype); The Opera Cloak...
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Post-Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Edmund Pick Morino Still Life With Chicken
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Still Life With Chicken, Oil on canvas singed and dated 1923, from the Collection of Bass Museum Of Art. Canvas size 14 1/5x17 1/4 framed 21 3/8 x 23 7/8 Edmund Pick-Morino was the ...
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Expressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

1930 s Paris School Oil Painting Portrait of Belle Epoque Fashionable Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Fashionable Lady French School, early 20th century oil on canvas framed: 28 x 24 inches canvas: 22 x 19.5 inches Provenance: private collection, Paris Condition: very g...
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French School Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Pool of my Imagination"
By Charles Frederick Naegele
Located in Southampton, NY
Beautiful oil on canvas painting of a young nude woman sitting on a large rock in a enchanted grotto with two swans. The painting was executed in the 1920's and is in fine original condition. Unlined and housed in its original Stanford White hand carved wood gilt frame. Signed lower left. Provenance: Szynanski Gallery, Beverly Hills; Temple Steel Company, Chicago, Illinois; acquired from the above in 1980. Condition report: Stretcher bar mark center with corresponding light cracks. Born in Knoxville, Tennessee, as a child Naegele moved with his parents to Memphis, where by 1873 he was apprenticed to a tombstone carver at three dollars a week. He also earned money painting...
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American Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Zoar, Ohio Landscape w/ Tree, Early 20th Century Midwest Town
Located in Beachwood, OH
Adam Lehr (American, 1853-1924) Zoar Landscape Oil on board Signed lower right 20.75 x 27.75 inches 30 x 37 inches, framed Known primarily as a still-life and landscape painter, Ada...
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Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Interior with Lady Reading - Scottish Edwardian 1910 art portrait oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This superb Scottish Edwardian Impressionist interior oil painting is by noted Scottish female artist Annie Rose Laing. Painted circa 1910, the composition is the interior of a room...
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Impressionist Early 20th Century Figurative Paintings

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Oil

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