20th Century Still-life Paintings

Floral Still Life, oil on board. Unsigned. (Provenance: Studio Sale, George Weissbort).

A strong modernist oil painting depicted in 1936 by Russian-American painter Ben Benn. With a highly recognizable modern style, fast brush stroke and expressive use of color, shape, ...

A charming miniature still life painting, depicting fruits in a basket, along with flowers in a vase, a cup of tea, and a book. It feels ...

Henri Charles Manguin (French, 1874-1949) Still life with a pitcher of flowers and a platter of fruit on a table Oil on canvas laid on Masonite Canvas: 20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 61.0 cm...

Label verso from Wally Findlay Galleries. unframed 57.25X44.25 with frame 60.75X48 Michel-Henry was born in Langres in 1928 and has shown strong passion for drawing since his chil...

Pink Roses by Fanch Lel ( French School) Oil painting on canvas, board, unframed Board: 16 x 13 inches Condition: The painting is in good condition, with minor signs of handling at ...

Sunflower Bouquet signed by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 11.75 x 9.5 inches Gouache painting on cardboard, unframed Inscribed verso Condition: The painting is in good condition,...

'Un Bouquet de Fleurs', oil on board, by Anna Costa (circa 1970s). In addition to her many landscapes, Costa painted many still lifes, mostly bouquets of flowers as subject. In this ...

Very finely painted realist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 20H by 23L.

Vintage American still life painting. Oil on canvas. Framed in a period wood frame. Measuring: 23 by 17 inches overall and 19 by 13 inches painting alone. Excellent condition, ready...

Hildegard Rath, (1909-1994) painter, author, teacher, and lecturer, Born in Wurttemberg, Germany, in the Black Forest region of Germany. Hildegard Rath became a painter of landscape, portraits, still lifes, and marine subjects and also a muralist. Her father was a bank president, her mother a sculptor, writer, and illustrator of children's books. At the age of 15, Miss Rath painted her first portrait in oil as a birthday present for her father and thereafter every opportunity for study was given to her. She went to art school at the Atelier House in Stuttgart, Germany and at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Berlin. She studied with Lotte Laserstein...

Oil on canvas painting of a still life with white vase by the American artist Margaret Fulton Spencer.Signed middle bottom. Titled verso. In original condition; unlined. The painting is housed in a art nouveau reproduction frame. Overall 27.25 by 23.25 inches. Biography forMargaret Spencer The niece of painters Thomas Alexander...

Still Life signed by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 10.5 x 9 inches Dated 95 Double sided Oil painting on board, unframed Condition: The painting is in good condition, with minor s...

A striking still life arrangement of sardines and a lemon on a plate, accompanied by a bottle and knife positioned on a table. The composition employs an unusual aerial perspective, ...

An original watercolor by American artist Thomas Aquinas Daly. This work comes housed in an archival frame presentation.

A beautiful 1950's French cubist oil on canvas depicting a studio still life with artist's palette, brushes and bowl of cherries by Béatrice Appia. Rar...

A delightful still life study depicting fruits and a knife arranged on a pink tablecloth. Signed and dated to the upper left. On canvas.

Antique American modernist flower still life oil painting by Samuel Brecher (1897 - 1982). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 28 by 30 inches overall and 22 by 24 inches painti...

This classical still life painting depicts an elegant arrangement of fresh fruit including grapes, apples, and a half peeled lemon, displayed in and around a white ceramic bowl. Sign...

A set of four fine hand painted botanical watercolour studies on silk by La Roche Laffitte. The works are signed bottom right and titled below three of the watercolours in Latin and ...

This painting is a still-life composition featuring an arrangement of books and other objects on a table. The focal point is an open book, its pages splayed out as if it was recently...

Unusual still life oil painting on wood in a gold coloured frame, signed and dated by the artist, Georges Guingegault in 1972. Interior scene of items on a bed. Here, an old jewel ...

Mid Century Floral Still-Life in Oil on Canvas-Wrapped Illustration Board Classic mid century floral still-life with impasto in warm, autumn colors by Frances Christensen American, ...

English School, early 1900's oil painting on wood panel, unframed inscribed verso measures: 7 x 9.5 inches condition report: some surface scuffs and marks from previous storage provenance: from a private collection here in England A delightful small sketch...

Claude Venard, French (1913 - 1999) - Nature morte au vase, Year: 1970, Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower right, Size: 29.5 x 29.5 in. (74.93 x 74.93 cm), Frame Size: 35.5 x 35...

Josef Jungwirth (Austrian, 1869-1950) Sclien, 1921 Oil on wood panel 19 x 16 1/8 in. Framed: 21 3/4 x 18 3/4 x 7/8 in. Signed, dated, and inscribed lower right: J. Jungwirth, Sclien,...

Antique American abstract oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang and en...

Large Naturalist oil on board still life of poppies in a jar by Eduard Bauer-Bredt. The painting is signed and dated bottom left and signed, titled and with exhibition number to the back board. Presented in a deep patinated custom frame. A magnificent, lovely bright, cheery and impactful floral still life. Bauer-Bredt has used brush and knife to create a wonderful atmospheric rendition of freshly picked poppies in a large ceramic jar. The pinks and reds of the flowers sing against the more subtle taupe hues of the jar and the green of the foliage. A really lovely composition beautifully rendered in the tradition of Edouard Manet, Fantin Lantour and Leon Dabo. The artist Eduard Bauer-Bredt began his artistic studies in Ansbach. He became a pupil of the Orientalist painter Ferdinand Max Bredt...

Signed oil on canvas still life circa 1920 by English impressionist painter Dorothea Sharp. The stunning piece depicts a beige ceramic vase filled with summer flowers of lilies and d...

Vintage Still Life Oil Painting by W. Adam C.1970 Original oil on canvas Dimensions 20" wide x 24" high The frame measures 27.25" wi...

Artist/ School: Suzanne Dinkés (French, 1895 - 1984) Medium: oil on canvas, unframed Size : 10 x 9 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: The painting is in overall...

French Expressionist by Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) watercolour on artist paper, unframed painting : 16.75 x 15 inches provenance: artists estate, France condition: very good and ...

Floral Still Life signed by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) size: 22 x 15 inches oil painting on board, unframed condition: the painting is in very good condition. It has previously been...

Title: Abstract Still Life with Pink and Orange Vases - Contemporary Oil Painting Artist: Roland Pichard Signed: Bottom right Medium: Oil on oi...

A pretty, mixed floral bouquet fills the canvas with joyful colour in this still-life painting by Pat Service. The Canadian artist explored the traditional art form in the 1990’s but...

The Rural Landscape By British painter JB.Holmes, 20th Century Oil Painting on board, unframed. Board size: 18 x 11 inch Soft colours portray an idyllic country road. Painted straig...

6048 French oversized rosed filled boquet Set in an ornate frame. Image size 23,5x29.5"

Still Life of Flowers Carlo Cherubini (Italian 1897-1978) signed oil on canvas, framed framed: 23 x 29 inches canvas: 18 x 24 inches Provenance: private collection Condition: very g...

Title: Still Life with Lemons Fruit Boxes and Green Leaves French Modernist Gouache Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 19.25 x 23 inches (height ...

This lovely British Post Impressionist still life oil painting is by artist Peter Field. Painted circa 1955 on canvas it is a still life of lemons and pears in a bowl...

This still life painting features an intimate domestic scene with carefully arranged tableware including plates, glasses and bottles all positioned near a window that reveals a glimp...

Vivid mid century still life of glass pitchers and apples by listed artist Jon Blanchette (American, 1908-1987), c.1965. Signed "Jon Blanchette" lower right corner. Oil on artist boa...

Botanical watercolour and gouache on paper circa 1920 by French fauvist painter Raoul Dufy. The work depicts flowers in red and butterflies in blues, yellows, black and white. This work was executed by Dufy as a fabric design. Dimensions: Framed: 17"x27" Unframed: 10"x20" Provenance: Private collection of works by Raoul Dufy for Bianchini Ferier Bianchini Ferrier Collection - Christie's London - July 2001 SF Fall Show Raoul Dufy was one of a family of nine children, including five sisters and a younger brother, Jean Dufy, also destined to become a painter. Their father was an accountant in the employ of a major company in Le Havre. The Dufy family was musically gifted: his father was an organist, as was his brother Léon, and his youngest brother Gaston was an accomplished flautist who later worked as a music critic in Paris. Raoul Dufy's studies were interrupted at the age of 14, when he had to contribute to the family income. He took a job with an importer of Brazilian coffee, but still found time from 1892 to attend evening courses in drawing and composition at the local college of fine arts under Charles Marie Lhullier, former teacher of Othon Friesz and Georges Braque. He spent his free time in museums, admiring the paintings of Eugène Boudin in Le Havre and The Justice of Trajan in Rouen. A municipal scholarship enabled him to leave for Paris in 1900, where he lodged initially with Othon Friesz. He was accepted by the École des Beaux-Arts, where he studied under Léon Bonnat, whose innate conservatism prompted Dufy to remark later that it was 'good to be at the Beaux-Arts providing one knew one could leave'. And leave he did, four years later, embarking with friends and fellow students on the rounds of the major Paris galleries - Ambroise Vollard, Durand-Ruel, Eugène Blot and Berheim-Jeune. For Dufy and his contemporaries, Impressionism represented a rejection of sterile academism in favour of the open-air canvases of Manet, the light and bright colours of the Impressionists, and, beyond them, the daringly innovative work of Gauguin and Van Gogh, Seurat, Cézanne, Toulouse-Lautrec and others. Dufy was an out-and-out individualist, however, and was not tempted to imitate any of these artists. He produced, between 1935 and 1937, Fée Electricité (Spirit of Electricity), the emblem for the French utilities company Electricité de France (EDF). Dufy visited the USA for the first time in 1937, as a member of the Carnegie Prize jury. In 1940, the outbreak of war (and his increasingly rheumatic condition) persuaded him to settle in Nice. When he eventually returned to Paris 10 years later, his rheumatism had become so debilitating that he immediately left for Boston to follow a course of pioneering anti-cortisone treatment. He continued working, however, spending time first in Harvard and then in New York City before moving to the drier climate of Tucson, Arizona. The cortisone treatment was by and large unsuccessful, although he did recover the use of his fingers. He returned to Paris in 1951 and decided to settle in Forcalquier, where the climate was more clement. Within a short time, however, he was wheelchair-bound. He died in Forcalquier in March 1953 and was buried in Cimiez. Between 1895 and 1898, Raoul Dufy painted watercolours of landscapes near his native Le Havre and around Honfleur and Falaise. By the turn of the century, however, he was already painting certain subjects that were to become hallmarks of his work - flag-decked Parisian cityscapes, Normandy beaches teeming with visitors, regattas and the like, including one of his better-known early works, Landing Stage at Ste-Adresse. By 1905-1906 Friesz, Braque, Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Van Dongen and Rouault were described collectively as Fauves (the wild beasts). What they had in common was a desire to innovate, but they felt constrained nonetheless to meet formally to set out the guiding principles of what promised to be a new 'movement'. Dufy quickly established that those principles were acceptable; moreover, he was most impressed by one particular painting by Henri Matisse ( Luxury, Calm and Voluptuousness) which, to Dufy, embodied both novelty and a sense of artistic freedom. Dufy promptly aligned himself with the Fauves. Together with Albert Marquet in particular, he spent his time travelling the Normandy coast and painting views similar...

Signed fauvist oil on canvas landscape circa 1910 by French painter Louis Valtat. This stunning piece depicts a view of Bagatelle Park in the north of France in summer when all of th...

Isabelle Graham Reese (1927-2005). Floral Still Life, ca. 1950s. Oil on canvas measuring 12 x 16 inches; 17.5 x 21.5 inches framed. Signed lower...

Berthoud Prize - 1957 Maurice Redard (1922–1987) A Swiss painter active in Geneva, Maurice Redard developed a body of work focused on the representation of everyday objects and spac...

Classical Still Life of Flowers by the Miguel Canals Studio, Spain oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 23.5 x 18 inches Provenance: Private collection Condition: very good condition Fo...

This vibrant modernist still life centres on a porcelain tureen, surrounded by a lively arrangement of fruits including apples, oranges, and figs. Executed with confident, clean brus...

Oil on canvas realized by Franco Marzilli (1934-2010) in 1970s. Hand signed lower right. Very good condition. Franco Marzilli was born in Rome in 1934. He received his first artis...

Fruit Still Life by Laure Noetzin-Azam (French 1929-2024) pupil of André LHOTE oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 24 x 24 inches Provenance: all the paintings we have by this artist hav...

Autumn flowers. 1992, oil on cardboard, 65x50 cm Still life with pink asters in green jug Olgerts Jaunarajs (1907-2003) He was so-called legend of ...

Artist: Elisabeth Hahn (German 1924-2021), Elisabeth Hahn was born in Dortmund, Germany, where she began her artistic studies. In 1953, she moved to Paris. She continued her studie...

Story of the wooden horse (The Trojan Horse entering Troy) Percy Tarrant (1855 - 1934) British oil on board, unframed 4.5 x 5.75 inches inscribed in penc...

Artist/ School: Rob de Haan, Dutch b. 1943, signed lower corner. Title: The Waterlily Pond Medium: acrylic painting on board, framed. Size: fram...

Marcel DYF 1899 - 1985 This piece has been confirmed by Claudine Dyf This work is registered in the Marcel Dyf Archive under N° ID 5158 Picture Size: 29 x 36" (72 x 92cm) Outside F...

Oil on canvas realized by Franco Marzilli (1934-2010) in 1970s. Hand signed lower right. Very good condition. Franco Marzilli was born in Rome in 1934. He received his first artis...

Late 20th Century Floral Still Life by Rafael Duran Title: Eucalyptus and Flowers Original oil on canvas Canvas dimensions 36" wide x 29" high The frame measures 44" wide x 36.5...

Title: Still Life with Garlic Strawberries and Blue Vase French Modernist Gouache Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 24 x 19.5 inches (height x w...

William Thomas Wood 1877-1958, was an English landscape and still life painter who studied at the Regent Street School of Art and then in Italy. He was known for painting still lifes...

Signed post impressionist oil on canvas landscape by French painter Lucien Levy-Dhurmer. The piece depicts the gardens of a Moorish Palace at evening. Painted in largely blues, there are some flowering trees in the front of the work below a much larger bare tree. Beyond that the palace sits below a starry sky. Mr. Jumeau-Lafond believes the work was likely painted in Morocco but he also stated that Dhurmer often used imagination to construct settings for his ideas. Signature: Signed lower left Dimensions: Framed: 39"x31" Unframed: 32"x24" Provenance: Private collection - France The authenticity of this work has been confirmed by Jean-David Jumeau-Lafond A certificate of authenticity from Mr. Jumeau-Lafond is available upon request Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer did not follow the conventional route for education in fine arts but was nevertheless a pupil of the painters Raphaël Collin, Vio and Wallet. He was an ornamental painter in an earthenware factory in Golfe-Juan from 1887 to 1895, which influenced his use of pastel. He travelled to Italy in 1895. Around 1902 he painted the portraits of Rodenbach, Pierre Loti and Marguerite Moreno. Although he had not been instructed by Puvis de Chavannes or Gustave Moreau, he seemed to have much in common with those visionary 'painters of the soul' who had been exhibiting at the Salon de la Rose-Croix for several years: Edmond Aman-Jean, Louis Welden Hawkins, Henri Martin, Charles Maurin and Alphonse Osbert. Following the example of some of these artists, Lévy-Dhurmer admired Italian Renaissance art, evidence of which can be seen in pastels such as Woman with a Medal, Medusa, Circes and Florence. His translation of the Symbolist themes in the scores of Beethoven ( Appassionata), Fauré or Debussy into different hues made him seem like a visionary, but his aesthetic seems to have changed to some extent after 1900, when his landscape painting became more prominent. In fact, only his presentation and style changed. He continued to suggest feelings, interpretations and emotions but without relying on any traditional allegories. He became involved in the Intimist movement, along with Ernest Laurent, Charles Cottet, Henri le Sidaner and René Ménard, whose pastels presaged the Classicism of the 1930s. He exhibited at the Salon des Artistes Français in Paris from 1882. From 1906 he was associated with the Salon de la Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. He showed his works in individual exhibitions, notably in 1896 at the Galerie Georges Petit in Paris, which was a very successful exhibition and earned him admiration in artistic and literary circles alike. Several decades later the exhibition Around Lévy-Dhurmer ( Autour de Lévy-Dhurmer) at the Galeries du Grand Palais in Paris in 1973 revealed a tendency in art which had been largely unknown until then and which remained on the margins of the great innovative movements of the 20th century, but which was nonetheless of a quality which could not be ignored. Lévy-Dhurmer obtained a distinction from the Salon des Artistes Français in 1896 and a bronze medal at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris. He became a Chevalier of the Légion d'Honneur in 1902. Museum and Gallery Holdings Bayonne (Mus. Basque): Portrait of Pierre Loti (1896, pastel) Brest (MBA): Circes Detroit (AI): Vase with Dragonflies (1890, earthenware with iridescent glaze) Mulhouse: Harvest New York (Metropolitan Mus. of Art): Flower Pot (c. 1893, earthenware with metallic glaze) Paris (Mus. d'Orsay): Portrait of Georges Rodenbach (c. 1895, pastel on paper); The Woman with a Medal (1896, pastel on paper on card); The Lost Explorer...