TONI BORDIGNON

Capriccio landscape painting by TONI BORDIGNON (1921-), in the Old Master style

An excellent example of Doragh's best work. The scene is believed to be New Castle, Delaware circa 1920. The painting has been professionally restored. The ...

New York City artist Eliot Candee Clark was well known for his impressionist landscapes. He was the son of painter Walter Clark. Many of his paintin...

George W. Drew 1875-1968. Excellent example of his work, housed in a period Louie XIV style frame measuring 20.5 x 24.5in. Painted in early to mid 20th century.

- Colourful, decorative, impressionistic work capturing the refreshing quality and colour refraction of light rain - The composition is beautifully balanced the houses either side of the lane, with a strong foreground and light background recreating the visual depth of the landscape - The purple, blue, green, pink, and earth tones of the palette create liveliness and softness within the work and the light tones of the water on the lane have the strong reflective quality of a water - Injecting colour and atmosphere into the interior Basil Nubel ARCA, British 1923-1981 : Village in the Rain Signed & Dated 1969 lower right, reverse canvas inscribed 1.12.69 and varnished In the original wooden box frame The reverse bearing remains of Gallery Petit, Marble Arch, London W1 Basil Nubel was a landscape painter in oil and watercolour born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, to an English mother and German father. Nubel studied at Leeds College of Art under Alfred Daniels and Maurice de Sausmarez, then at the Royal College of Art under Carel Weight, Robert Buhler...

Distant Dreams is an oil painting created using oil, acrylic, and gold leaf on canvas by British artist Charlotte Aiken. Aiken responds to her environment through her use of paint, w...

GOVERT VAN EMMERIK (1808-1882) View on the Governor’s Palace in Paramaribo, Surinam Signed and dated 1856 Oil on canvas, 70 x 90 cm In large gilt...

Abraham Johannes Romswinckel (1810-1856) Self-portrait in Indonesian landscape Inscribed Abr. Joh. Romswinckel, geb. Batavia 17 Oct. 1810, overl...

A sawah landscape, Sumatra Signed and dated 'Sonnega '54' (lower right), and annotated 'Voor Jan de Bas 1-1-1970 / R de Bas' (on the reverse) oil on canvas, 50,5x60,5 cm Provenance: - Collection Pieter de Bas (1909-1979) Mr de Bas was head of the MULO school and acting head of the HBS school in Medan. Thence by descent to the present owner. Exhibited: - Hotel de Boer, Medan 1954, where acquired by the first owner. The light I observed everywhere was of a special quality, fluorescent blue, shone from nowhere but radiated from every point, oddly with great depth and intensity. The light in an entirely different dimension came from nowhere and went nowhere shimmering with the glow of a bright blue jewel. The most important thing I discovered was of being omnipresent and able to understand everything at the same time, yes I could fathom creation completely. Auke Sonnega, born March 9, 1910 in Leeuwarden, known as the painter, primarily of young Balinese men and women. Originally raised in the reformed denomination, the parents of Auke apparently practised theosophy and their children, including Auke were taught these principles. The talent for drawing revealed itself at an early stage which in 1926 lead to a 4-year study of textile design at the Academy for Art and Craft in Amsterdam. He completed the academy in 1930 and worked in a carpet factory in Twente until 1934 and then followed in his sister Aafje’s footsteps leaving the Netherlands to go to the Dutch East Indies where in 1935 he started working as a graphic designer with an advertising bureau in Batavia. He was able to travel through Java and Bali on the motorbike that he brought with him from Europe, and was paid for his travelogue, enhanced with his own photo’s which appeared in several Dutch newspapers and magazines. In the 1930’s two Europeans, Walter Spies and Rudolf Bonnet...

Jacob Eduard Van Heemskerck Van Beest (1828-1894) “Avondgebed; Maleidische tripang visschers onder de hoge kust van Celebes” (Ev...

Paul Guiramand (French 1926-2007) Abstract painting of a house by a lake. Oil on Canvas. Expressive blues of the water and sky with greens reds, brow...