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Medium: Oil
1930 s French Cubist Signed Oil Nude Lady
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: by Henri Van Der Beck (French 1886-1956), signed Medium: oil on canvas, unframed Painting: 18 x 15 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: The p...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Oil Paintings

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Oil

French Village in Winter, Impressionist Oil Painting by Jacques Pergel
Located in Long Island City, NY
French Village in Winter by Jacques Pergel, French (1924–2023) Date: 1965 Oil on Canvas, signed lower left Size: 24 x 36 in. (60.96 x 91.44 cm)
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1960s Modern Oil Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Young Boy with Donkey, William Weintraub
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: William Weintraub (1926) Title: Young Boy with Donkey Year: 1962 Medium: Oil on board Size: 33 x 25.5 inches Condition: Excellent Inscription: Signed and dated by the artist ...
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1960s Impressionist Oil Paintings

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Oil, Board

Contemporary Minimalistic Figurative Acrylic Painting on Canvas Light Colour
Located in Vilnius, Vilniaus apskr.
The series of works Utopia of TOLINA features paintings and drawings inspired by the imagination of the artist’s five-year-old son, who created a constantly shifting city — a refuge ...
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2010s Contemporary Oil Paintings

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Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Lady with Pearl Necklace
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5111 Lady with pearl necklace by Lynn Lemay Custom wood frame Image size 23.5x19.5"
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1990s Oil Paintings

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Oil

Madonna Holy family Tisi 16/17th Century Paint Oil on canvas Old master Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Benvenuto Tisi, il Garofalo (Garofalo, Rovigo 1476 - Ferrara 1559) workshop/follower Madonna with Child and Saint Joseph Oil on canvas 125 x 90 cm - In frame 143 x 109 cm. I...
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16th Century Old Masters Oil Paintings

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Oil

“Antique history 2” Original contemporary painting . Large , vertical.
Located in Oslo, NO
This artwork presents a mesmerizing fusion of abstract expressionism and classical portraiture. A ghostly visage emerges from a vibrant tapestry of colors and textures, blending soft...
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2010s Contemporary Oil Paintings

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Oil

Beauty For Ashes -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Woman Fashion
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Shipped in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by Certificate of Authent...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Primative South American Market Square Figurative Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6080 Colorful Primative painting of a market square with people shopping. Signed lower left
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1980s Oil Paintings

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Oil

Reclining Nude , Fauve Figural, SFAA, Carmel, LACMA, Louvre, Paris
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Painted by Victor di Gesu (American, 1914-1988) circa 1955, and with Di Gesu estate stamp verso. Winner of the Prix Othon Friesz, Victor di Gesu first attended the Los Angeles Art C...
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1950s Oil Paintings

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Paper, Oil

Contemporary Bold Brushstrokes: Blue and Black on Grey Abstract Art Oil Painting
Located in Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
A striking abstract oil painting on canvas by contemporary artist Jean Soyer. Measuring 31.5 x 31.5 inches (80 x 80 cm), this artwork features bold, sweeping brushstrokes in vibrant ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Early 20th Century Oregon Coast Seascape
Located in Soquel, CA
Bright, vibrant expressionist oil painting of Oregon coast and crashing surf by Lida Allen Macklin (American, 1872 - 1960), painted 1937. Signed lower rig...
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1930s American Impressionist Oil Paintings

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Oil, Board

19th Century Oil - Tavern Scene
Located in Corsham, GB
This intimate genre painting depicts figures gathered around a table in a dimly lit shelter, rendered with warm, earthy tones. The work is presented in an ornate gilt frame featuring...
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19th Century Oil Paintings

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Oil

Children holding pails with chickens by a duck pond cottage in Rural England
Located in Preston, GB
Children holding pails with chickens by a duck pond & cottage in the English Countryside by British Artist, Les Parson entitled 'Arm in Arm'. Art measures...
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1980s Realist Oil Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Impressionist view of people in St. Marks Square in Venice
Located in Woodbury, CT
Wonderful Impressionist view of St. Marks Square, Venice. Pam Masco was an American from Massachusetts, and a graduate of the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts (1976). She was married to the English artist John Heseltine. Her work is in well-known private and corporate collections and has been shown at the Royal Society of British Artists, the Royal Watercolour Society and other London Galleries as well as in the Provinces. She travelled throughout the U.S.A. and Europe and painted American and European subjects, portraits, landscape and figure compositions, still life and interiors. From 1978 she was involved in drawing, painting, technical painting courses, watercolour and graphic design. She illustrated for major British and American publishers until 1988. Authors include Bruce Chatwin...
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Early 2000s American Impressionist Oil Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

PALM HOUSE
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Emerging young artist with a very personal and recognizable style. Without a doubt he will have a long journey and a great progression in her artistic career. Acrylic on canvas Ship...
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2010s Post-Modern Oil Paintings

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Acrylic, Oil, Permanent Marker

PALM HOUSE
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19th century oil Highland Scottish sheep in a Highland Lock Landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
19th century Scottish Highland Sheep in a landscape. Signed lower left A Scottish 19th century Highland landscape painting featuring Highland sheep by Vincent Collier offers more th...
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1890s Victorian Oil Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Mural Study for "History of Water" American Scene Modernism Social Realism WPA
Located in New York, NY
Mural Study for "History of Water" American Scene Modernism Social Realism WPA Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889-1975) "Water Story" (Study for The History of Water) Tempera and o...
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1930s American Modern Oil Paintings

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Oil, Egg Tempera, Board

"Gift of Rain" COWBOYS WESTERN SAGUARO CACTUS DESERT SCENE G. Harvey (1933-2017)
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 30 x 24 Frame Size: 44 x 38 Medium: Oil on canvas “ Gift Of Rain “ G. Harvey (G...
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1990s Impressionist Oil Paintings

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Oil

Hunt Slonem "Marlyne" Bunny
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Marlyne Date: 2025 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5" Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso Edition:...
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2010s Contemporary Oil Paintings

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Oil

Golden Daydream - British Victorian Pre-Raphaelite art portrait oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This stunning British Victorian Pre-Raphaelite Royal Academy exhibited oil painting is by note female Suffragette artist Emily Mary Osborn. Painted in 1877 it was exhibited at the RA...
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1870s Pre-Raphaelite Oil Paintings

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Oil

Vintage California Moonlit Sea Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3457 Moonlit Sea Painting ,oil on canvas displayed in a pale blue wood frame.Signed by E.Mc Cormick April 1966.Image size 15 H x 19 W. Excellent condition ,wear on the frame
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1960s Oil Paintings

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Oil

Antique American Hudson River School Cows Grazing Signed Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible early American Hudson River School landscape painting by William Hart (1823 - 1894). Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Measuring 15 by 17 inches overall and image size, 1...
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1870s Hudson River School Oil Paintings

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Oil, Board

Portrait of Lady Mary Robinson (1757-1800), 18th Century
By Joshua Reynolds
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of Lady Mary Robinson (1757-1800), 18th Century circle of Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) Large 18th Century portrait of Lady Mary Robinson, oil on canvas. Excellent quali...
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18th Century Oil Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th Century English still life of Strawberries, Melon, Peaches, gooseberries
Located in Woodbury, CT
Edward Ladell (English, 1821–1886) Still Life of Fruit, oil on panel, signed and dated 1862 This richly detailed still life by Edward Ladell is a superb early example of the artist’...
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1860s Victorian Oil Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

18th Century French Portrait of Mysterious Man Oil on Canvas for restoration
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Gentleman French School, 18th century oil on canvas, unframed canvas : 25 x 20 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: the painting is in sound conditi...
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18th Century Old Masters Oil Paintings

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Oil

"Feeding the Fish"
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Feeding the Fish" is an original oil painting by Contemporary realist Megan Eisenberg about snorkeling in the beautiful tropical water of the Cayman I...
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2010s Contemporary Oil Paintings

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Oil

Vintage Mid Century Abstract Still Life Framed Wine Bottle Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century abstract wine bottle still life oil painting. Great color and composition. Framed. Signed.
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1960s Abstract Oil Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

An Angel Playing The Mandolin, 17th Century after the fresco by MELOZZO DA FORLI
Located in Blackwater, GB
An Angel Playing The Mandolin, 17th Century after the fresco by MELOZZO DA FORLI (1438-1494) Large 17th/18th Century Italian Old Master of depicting an Angel playing the mandolin, ...
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17th Century Oil Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

River Landscape - 19th Century Antique Belgian Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A very beautiful signed and dated 1875 oil on panel depicting a river landscape, by Belgian artist Vital de Gronckel. Excellent quality early impressionist work, presented in an orn...
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1870s Impressionist Oil Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Antique American Fluffy Pomeranian Dog Portrait Wide Gold Frame Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible signed early American dog portrait painting. Oil on board. Signed. Housed in a period gold giltwood frame.
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1870s Realist Oil Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Desert Bloom, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A thickly textured palette knife painting of an old saguaro cactus standing against a blooming spring desert backdrop. "This painting was inspired by the incredible Joshua Tree National Park in Southern California," shares artist Lisa Elley. "It's where the Colorado and Mojave Deserts collide with amazing vistas and dazzling flowers."


About the Artist
Working almost exclusively with a palette knife, Lisa Elley maneuvers her artistic blade with an uncanny fluidity. Why paint only with the knife? She says, "when I paint with a brush, which I do occasionally, I tend to focus on the detail. With a palette knife I can't focus on the detail too much, so my paintings are looser, and more gestural, with bigger sweeps and strokes." This technique is called wet-on-wet. And it seems to be quite popular, as she has been bestowed the title "Knife Queen" by her facebook fans. Fun fact: Lisa's high school art teacher told her to study harder at math, as a career in art was "impossible."


Words that describe this painting: desert, Mojave, flowers, floral, spring, cactus, sun, mountains, sky, landscape, California, Joshua Tree, impressionism, landscape, western, representational, oil painting, purple


Desert Bloom...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Oil Paintings

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Oil

Antique Black American Modern Artist Framed Interior Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible early American modernist portrait by Stephen H Booker (1933 - 2016). Oil on canvas. Signed verso. Finely framed. Measuring 24 by 28 inches overall and 16 by 20 paintin...
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1940s Modern Oil Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Fine Victorian 1890 s Signed Scottish Oil Painting Farmers Daughter in Meadow
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Farmers Daughter" by Charles Martin Hardie RSA (1858-1916) *see notes below signed with initials and dated '84, oil on canvas: 20 x 16 inches framd: 26 x 22 inches Provenance: ...
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1890s Victorian Oil Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Vale of the Conwy - 19th Century Oil Painting Large Landscape of North Wales
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Vale of the Conwy’ by Samuel Lines (1778-1863). Academy Fine Paintings is fully conversant with the latest US Government import duties and the legal exemptions under the US Consti...
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Early 19th Century English School Oil Paintings

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Oil

20th Century French Modernist Oil Painting Cubist Figure Grey Black and Blue
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Cubist Figure in Grey.Black and Blue colors by Laure Noetzin-Azam (French 1929-2024) pupil of André LHOTE oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 25.5 x 19.5 inches Provenance:...
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Mid-20th Century Cubist Oil Paintings

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Oil

Hudson River School, Luminism Oil Painting After Thomas Moran Venice Boats
By (after) Thomas Moran
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
After Thomas Moran Harbor, Venice oil/canvas board signed LL 15.75 x 20 unframed, 24 x 28 framed Good original as purchased condition in what looks to be a period frame? Possibly or...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Oil Paintings

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Oil

Morning in the Tropics
By Frederic Edwin Church
Located in Milwaukee, WI
According to the catalogue raisonne of Church's work, the artist only produced one painting titled Morning in the Tropics (1858). This painting currently resides at the Walters Art M...
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Late 19th Century Hudson River School Oil Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Tripod - Playful Long-Limbed Cat Painting, Contemporary Figurative Art
Located in Dallas, TX
“Tripod” showcases Michele Mikesell’s beautifully strange, endearing take on animal portraiture. Painted in oil on board and presented in a 6x6 inch wooden floater frame, this tall, ...
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2010s Contemporary Oil Paintings

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Oil, Board

Portrait of a Girl Holding Wool - British Edwardian female portrait oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This beautiful British Edwardian portrait oil painting is by noted and much exhibited female artist Maud Marion Wear. Wear trained at the Royal Academy Schools in London for five yea...
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Early 1900s Pre-Raphaelite Oil Paintings

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Oil

"Orange on Blue" (2024) by Devin Michael Roberts, Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Devin Michael Roberts' (US based) "Orange on Blue" is an oil painting depicting a cloudy shore with a bright orange sunset shining through the clouds. Artist bio/statement: Devin Mi...
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2010s Oil Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Pink Moon
Located in Atlanta, GA
Greg's witty and charming oil painting on aluminum comes framed in a floater frame which adds 1.75 inches all the way around. "Greg Decker is a visionary painter. His work epitomize...
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2010s Contemporary Oil Paintings

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Metal

Conductor with Orchestra, Figurative Oil Painting by William Harnden
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: William Harnden, American (1920 - 1983) Title: Conductor with Orchestra Medium: Oil on Masonite, signed Image Size: 15.5 x 19 inches Frame Size: 18 x 21 inches
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1950s American Modern Oil Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Antique American Impressionist Framed Coastal Seascape Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist signed coastal seascape oil painting. Oil on canvasboard. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 14 by 18 inches overall, and 12 by 16 painting alone. In excelle...
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1940s Modern Oil Paintings

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Oil

Italian Artist Fortuny Antique 19th c. oil painting on canvas, Genre scene
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is an original antique 19th-century oil painting on canvas depicting a scene in the interior of a house with a male figure dressed in a traditional hooded robe seated at ...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Oil Paintings

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Oil

The Garden in Summer , Tsar Nicholas II, Queen Elizabeth II, Russian Imperial
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'The Garden in Summer' by Olga Alexandrovna. Tsar Nicholas II, Queen Elizabeth II, Russian Imperial ---- Signed lower right, 'Olga' for Her Imperial Highness, Olga Alexandrovna, Gr...
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1930s Impressionist Oil Paintings

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Oil, Board

Berkeley House
Located in Dallas, TX
"In the world of still life and landscape, conceptual events meet one another – the structural meets the narrative, the small stands in the space of the large, and color has a chance...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Erich Kruger (1897 - 1978) Floral Still life
Located in San Francisco, CA
Erich Kruger (1897-1978) Floral Still life Oil on canvas Pink poppies + Hydrangeas 23.5 x 331.5 unframed, 37.5.x 25.5 framed
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20th Century Oil Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Young Girl with a Jug by Léon Gérard Crépy (Lille 1872 – 1944) French
Located in Knokke, BE
Léon Gérard Crépy Lille 1872 – 1944 French Painter 'Young Girl with a Jug' Signature: signed top left 'LG. Crepy' Medium: oil on canvas Dimensions: image size 46,5 x 38,5 cm, frame...
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Early 20th Century Realist Oil Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Lazy Days Blues" TEXAS BLUEBONNETS, NICE LARGER SIZE LANDSCAPE CIRCA 1950
Located in San Antonio, TX
Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) San Antonio Artist Image Size: 25 x 30 Frame Size: 34 x 39 Medium: Oil on Canvas Circa 1950 "Lazy Day Blues" Texas Bluebonnet Biography Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) Porfirio Salinas was a self-taught artist who painted landscapes of Central Texas with an emphasis on the vast bluebonnet fields that grow there in the springtime. Born in 1910 in Bastrop, Texas, he attended public schools in San Antonio. He also observed works in progress by the director of the San Antonio Art School, Jose Arpa, as well as landscape painter, Robert Wood. Wood is said to have paid Salinas five dollars a picture to paint bluebonnets because "he hated to paint bluebonnets". Salinas served in the military from 1943 to 1945. Although he was assigned to Fort Sam Houston, he was allowed to live at home. At the fort, Colonel Telesphor Gottchalk assigned him to paint murals for the officer's lounge and various other projects, and Salinas continued to be able to paint during his entire conscripted period. Even before he achieved notoriety among galleries, dealers, and museums, Salinas was widely followed and appreciated by many Texans, including former President Lyndon B. Johnson, who may be considered responsible for launching Salinas popularity beyond the boundaries of Texas. In 1973, Texas capital, Austin, honored Salinas for having "done much to bring the culture of Mexico and Texas closer together with his paintings". Salinas died in April 1973 in San Antonio, Texas. From the years of the Great Depression through President Lyndon Johnson's Great Society of the 1960s, Texan Porfirio Salinas (1910-1973) remained one of the Lone Star State's most popular artists. Today, his works remain popular with Texas collectors and those who love landscapes of the beautiful "Hill Country" that lies in the center of the state. One of the first Mexican American painters to become widely recognized for his art, Salinas was a favorite of President Lyndon Johnson and his wife, Lady Bird Johnson, as well as of Sam Rayburn, the longest-serving Speaker of the House of Representatives, and Texas Governor John Connelly. In fact, President Johnson was so enamored with his Salinas paintings that the artist will forever be associated with America's first Texas-born President. Works by Porfirio Salinas is in a number of museum collections, grace the halls of the Texas State Capitol and the Governor's Mansion in Austin, and are included in virtually every major private collection of Early Texas Art. Porfirio Salinas was born on November 6, 1910, near the small town of Bastrop, Texas, about thirty miles from Austin. His father, Porfirio G. Salinas (1881-1967), and his mother, Clara G. Chavez, struggled to make a hardscrabble living as tenant farmers, but eventually were forced to give up farming. The family moved to San Antonio, where Salinas' father was able to get a job working as a laborer for the railroad, but the scenic area around Bastrop, with its pine trees and the wide expanse of the Rio Grande River, would forever remain a touchstone for the artist. For the rest of his life, Salinas and his brothers went back frequently to visit their grandmother in her little farmhouse. When in Bastrop, Porfirio painted on the banks of the Rio Grande or in the groves of pine trees. The Salinas family was close-knit, and Porfirio was the middle child of five children, so he had an older brother and sister as well as a younger brother and sister. His mother was a native of Mexico, so throughout his childhood the family made the long drive to Mexico to visit Clara Salinas' family. As a child growing up in the bi-lingual section of San Antonio, Salinas drew and painted incessantly and by the time he was ten, he was already producing work that was mature enough to sell to his schoolteachers. Many years later in an article in the New York Times he was described as a "boy whose textbooks were seldom opened and whose sketchbook was never closed." Instead of studying, the young artist spent his spare time watching artists paint in and around San Antonio. As an aspiring painter, Salinas was fortunate to grow up in the historic city, which had the most active art scene in Texas. It was his exposure to older, professional painters that encouraged the precocious young painter to leave school early in order to help his family and pursue a career as a professional artist, despite his father's inability to see art as a career with any future for his son. When Salinas was about fifteen he came to know the artist Robert W. Wood (1889-1979). He met Wood while he was employed in an art supply store and he soon began to work as an assistant to the English-born painter, who had moved from Portland to San Antonio in 1924. Although the diminutive Englishman was already an established professional artist, he did not have a great deal of formal art training and so he was then studying with the academically trained Spanish painter Jose Arpa (1858-1952) in order to augment his knowledge and give his work a more polished look. Salinas was an eager young man, and while working in Wood's downtown San Antonio studio he learned to stretch canvases, frame paintings and to sketch in larger compositions from small plein-air studies for the English artist. He began to accompany Wood and Arpa to the hills outside San Antonio, where they painted small Plein-air studies of fields of blue lupin - the state flower, the famous "Bluebonnets" of Texas - in the springtime and scenes of the gnarled Red Oaks as they changed color in the fall. He was soon assisting Wood in the tedious work of painting the tiny blue flowers that collectors wanted to see in the landscapes they purchased of central Texas. According to a 1972 newspaper story, "Legend has it that one day in the 1920s artist Robert Wood decided he could not bear to paint another bluebonnet in one of his landscapes. He hired young Porfirio Salinas to paint them in for him at five dollars a painting." Whether this story is accurate or apocryphal isn't clear, but the ambitious and independent young Salinas wasn't destined to be anyone's assistant for very long. The formative event of Porfirio Salinas' teenage years was the Texas Wildflower Competitive Exhibitions, a Roaring-Twenties dream of the eccentric oilman Edgar B. Davis (1873-1951). These competitive shows of paintings of wildflowers and Texas life were mounted in San Antonio from 1927 to 1929. Held at the newly opened Witte Museum each spring, the exhibition featured large cash prizes donated by the philanthropic Davis, which were an inducement for artists to travel from all over the United States to paint in the Hill Country of Texas. The "Davis Competitions," as they were known, helped to cement San Antonio's reputation as an art center, a legacy that remains with the "River City" today. The shows generated a great deal of excitement in the area, helping to make celebrities of the some of the artists who had already settled there and encouraging others to make San Antonio their home. Over the three years that the wildflower competitions were held, more than 300 paintings were exhibited, and many thousands of viewers saw the paintings at the Witte Museum and on tours throughout the state and in New York. Each year Davis would generously purchase the winning paintings and then donate them to the San Antonio Art League. Young Porfirio Salinas would have been able to not only watch his two mentors - Robert W. Wood and Jose Arpa - paint the works that they entered in the Davis Competitions, he would have been able to see Arpa take several of the major prizes, receiving the judge's accolades for "Verbena," "Cactus Flower" and "Picking Cotton," works that are still on view at the San Antonio Art League Museum today. Unfortunately, Davis eventually put his donations to work in other charitable endeavors, bringing to an end the wildflower events, but only after they inspired Salinas and other young painters and had helped to make wildflower paintings the most sought-after subject for traditionalist Texas collectors. In 1930, when he was only twenty, Salinas hung out a shingle and began to paint professionally, augmenting the sales of his easel paintings with what little business he could garner by painting signs for local concerns. It was a struggle for the young artist to make a living, as the effects of the Great Depression were settling in. His early works are very similar to those of Robert Wood's, both in subject matter and treatment. Salinas did small paintings of Bluebonnets for the tourists who visited San Antonio to see the famous Alamo as well as paintings of the Texas missions...
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1950s Impressionist Oil Paintings

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Oil

Hieber - 1918 Oil, Bathers in the Forest
Located in Corsham, GB
Painted in a style reminiscent of the Expressionists and Post-Impressionists, this scene depicts three nude women bathing in a forest. The work is painted on a textured fibrous mater...
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Early 20th Century Oil Paintings

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Oil

Bohemian French painter - Early 20th century figure painting - Nude female
Located in Varmo, IT
French Bohemian painter (early 20th century) - Female nude. 100 x 70 cm without frame, 109 x 79 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a gilded wooden frame (some cracks...
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1920s Art Nouveau Oil Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Artist s Family Portrait - British American Impressionist art oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This stunning British American Impressionist portrait oil on canvas painting is by Sir James Jebusa Shannon circa 1905. The painting is of the artist and his wife Florence and daught...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Oil Paintings

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Oil

"Flowers on the beach" Original floral painting. Small vertical home decor
Located in Oslo, NO
I poured my soul into this canvas, capturing the raw beauty of nature's dance between flora and sea. My brushstrokes sing with the rhythm of the waves, and the vivid blossoms echo li...
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2010s Post-Impressionist Oil Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

An Undershot Watermill - 19th Century Victorian Oil Painting of North Wales
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘An Undershot Mill, North Wales’ by William E. Harris (1854-1934). The painting is signed by the artist and presented in a newly commissioned bespoke gold metal leaf frame. Academy ...
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Late 19th Century English School Oil Paintings

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Oil

Landscape River Zuccarelli 18th Century Paint Oil on canvas Old master Italy Art
By Francesco Zuccarelli (Pitigliano 1702 - Florence 1788)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Francesco Zuccarelli (Pitigliano 1702 - Florence 1788), circle of Landscape with river and resting shepherds First half of the 18th century   oil painting on canvas cm. 60 x 93, wit...
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18th Century Old Masters Oil Paintings

Materials

Oil

Red Abstract OiI Compostion by Lee Reynolds
Located in Pasadena, CA
Modern Abstract Year: 1960-1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower right Size: Abstract oil on canvas by Lee Reynolds was a popular artist in the 1960s known for oversized, color...
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1960s Abstract Oil Paintings

Materials

Oil

17th Century Large Italian Old Master Oil Christ and the Penitent Canaanite
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
17th Century Italian School Christ and the Canaanite Woman oil on canvas, framed Framed: 30.5 x 35 inches in an antique gilt 'hollow' fra...
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17th Century Old Masters Oil Paintings

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Oil

Flash Forward
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This piece was all about exploring the relationship between the figure and the curvilinear shapes swirling around her, says Sumner Crenshaw. They surround her...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Oil Paintings

Materials

Oil

Its Not Me Its You
Located in Nottingham, GB
Original, oil on canvas. Beautifully painted bright red canvas by James McQueen with full provenance. This incredible painting would make a wonderful statement piece for a feature ...
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2010s Pop Art Oil Paintings

Materials

Oil

Oil paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Oil paintings available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add paintings created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, red and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Hunt Slonem, Vahe Yeremyan, Cindy Shaoul, and Richard Szkutnik. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Abstract, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Oil paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available

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