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Impressionist Paintings

IMPRESSIONIST STYLE

Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.

The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.

Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.

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Style: Impressionist
Mid to Late 19th Century Portrait of an Elegant Young Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
Superb Mid to Late 19th Century Portrait of an Elegant Young Woman The sitter is an elegant young woman in her finest dress and jewelry. Original oil on canvas. Dimensions 22" x 27...
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Mid-19th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

20th century Venetian view of the Grand Canal, by the bridge Ponte degli Scalzi
Located in Woodbury, CT
This vibrant and atmospheric Venetian scene by Luigi Lanza captures the timeless allure of Venice’s Grand Canal. Lanza, celebrated for his ability to render the play of light on wate...
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1910s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique American Modernist Pear Still Life Framed Original Fine Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Incredible early American modernist still life oil painting. Housed in a great antique giltwood frame. Oil on board.
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1950s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

“ Summer morning in Bergen” Original cityscape .Landscape painting
Located in Oslo, NO
This artwork captures the vibrant charm of a coastal town, with an array of colorful buildings lining the waterfront. The architectural design of the houses, each in varied hues like...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Lovely California Landscape Painting by listed artist John Thomas Nolf, ca 1920s
Located in Baltimore, MD
John Thomas Nolf was born in Allentown, Pa. in 1872. He had his academic studies in Chicago at the Art Institute. He exhibited often at the Institute,...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

French Impressionist Regatta Scene with Colourful Sails and Seaside Village
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Regatta Scene with Colourful Sails and Seaside Village By Fanch Lel Signed: Yes Size: 18 x 21.5 inches (height x width) Oil painting on cardboard, unframe...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

"Forest Snow" George Gardner Symons, Snowy Winter Landscape, Pennsylvania
Located in New York, NY
George Gardner Symons Forest Snow, circa 1920s Signed lower right Oil on canvas laid on board 30 x 36 inches Provenance Estate of Jean Stanton, Neenah, Wisconsin A landscape and m...
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1920s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Antique Masterful Frame American Winter Impressionist Snowy Landscape Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted winter impressionist landscape by Allen Dean Cochran (1888 - 1971). Oil on canvas. Housed in a spectacular, period, gold giltwood frame. Signed.
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1910s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Cattle in Farm Landscape - American Impressionist art landscape oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This stunning Impressionist farm landscape oil painting is by one of the leading American Impressionist artists, William Samuel Horton. Horton moved to England in1918 and travelled e...
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1910s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Antique Fine Framed French Impressionist Street Scene Paris Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique French impressionist Paris street scene signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a gold giltwood impression...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

"Provincetown Harbor" Colin Scott, New England, Sailboats, Harbor Scene
Located in New York, NY
Colin Scott Provincetown Harbor Signed lower right Oil on board 15 x 20 inches
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1910s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Signed French Impressionist Oil Painting Horses Pulling Cart at Sunset
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Close of Day by Paul Flaubert (1928-1994) signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 18.5 x 22 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound condition ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Blick aufs Meer, Impressionist Oil Painting by Gaston Sebire
Located in Long Island City, NY
Blick aufs Meer Gaston Sebire, French (1920–2001) Oil on Canvas, signed lower right Size: 36 x 28 in. (91.44 x 71.12 cm) Frame Size: 44 x 36.5 inches Provenance: Wally Findlay Gallery
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1980s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Óleo sobre tela - Horizonte de montaña
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Firmado por el artista en la parte inferior Estado de conservación bueno La obra se presenta sin enmarcar Medidas obra: 82 cm altura x 94 cm ancho. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

“A Lady in Black, 1894” French Impressionist Portrait Pastel on Canvas Signed
Located in Yardley, PA
“A Lady in Black, 1894” by Paul-Marie Lapierre Renouard (1854-1940) This exceptional pastel portrait of an elegant woman in black is among the artist’s finest works. A close examina...
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1890s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Pastel

"Wasatch Range, Utah" James Taylor Harwood, Western Landscape, Mormon LDS
By James Taylor Harwood
Located in New York, NY
James Taylor Harwood Wasatch Range, Utah Inscribed "Wasatch Range, Utah" on the stretcher Oil on canvas 16 x 31 inches Provenance Blanche M. Swan Private Collection James Taylor Ha...
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1910s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Charles Movalli Impressionist Harbor Scene with Sailboats, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Rockport, MA
This atmospheric harbor scene by Charles Movalli depicts Honfleur Harbor in Normandy, France, a storied coastal port long celebrated by Impressionist painters for its luminous light ...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Acrylic

Antique European Impressionist Street Scene Framed Original Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique European impressionist street scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 18 by 25 inches overall, and 13 by 20 painting alone. In excellent original cond...
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1920s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Red Door at Venice Cathedral Italy Oil Painting Framed American Artist
Located in Houston, TX
Red Door is an American Impressionist painting by Stuart Fullerton. The artist is known for his landscape and cityscape paintings in the Impressionistic style. Red Door is painted ...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

"Amidst Spring" By Suchitra Bhosle, Impressionist Still-Life Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Suchitra Bhosle's "Amidst Spring" is an original, handmade impressionist oil painting that depicts a portrait of a young woman, dressed in a white gown and walking into a flower fiel...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Inner Garden No.1 — Artichokes
Located in Zofingen, AG
Series: Between Light and Silence — Botanical Whispers. In “Inner Garden No.1 — Artichokes”, a quiet dialogue unfolds between structure and breath: the architectural precision of the...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

William Dalglish (United Kingdom 1860-1909) Antique 19c. O/C painting Landscape
Located in Palm Coast, FL
19th‑Century Original Oil Painting by William Dalglish (1860–1909) Nomads by the Coast – Tranquil Landscape Scene Up for sale is an original 19th‑century oil painting on canvas by W...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

1940 s Fashion Illustration - Lady In Dashing Green Ball Dress
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Very stylish, unique and original 1940's fashion design by French illustrator Geneviève Thomas. The painting, executed in gouache and pencil. The sketch is original, vintage and me...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Gouache

Bathing in the Forest
Located in St. Albans, GB
Victor Gilbert 1847 - 1933, French Oil on Panel A magnificent work by Victor Gilbert and one for all collectors. This is a rare and important example on a grand scale that is scarcely seen. Artist's very rarely painted on beautiful mahogany panels as large as this as they were too expensive and very hard to buy. The fact that Gilbert did this highlights the significance of this work. Panel Size: 45 x 26" (114 x 66cm) Outside Frame Size: 52 x 33" (132 x 84cm) Free Shipping Victor Gilbert’s natural ability as an artist was recognized early, but his family lacked the financial resources to send the young man to the École des Beaux-Arts. Rather than enrolling in the École, Gilbert was apprenticed to Eugene Adam as an artisan painter and decorator. His only formal education was evening classes with Pierre Levasseur at the École de la Ville de Paris. Perhaps it was his early immersion into la vie quotidienne that formed the basis for his later choices of subject matter for his art, that of the markets and streets of Paris. Despite his lack of formal training, Gilbert’s admissions to the Paris Salons of 1873 and 1874 were very well received by audiences and critics alike; at this time he was supported by the dealer Paul Martin, who was an important proponent of the Impressionist movement. Gilbert emerged in the early 1880s as the primary Realist painter to record the French marketplace...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Antoniou Signed Original Oil Painting Seascape, Coastal Scene Framed Vintage Art
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Original Signed Oil Painting by Antoniou – Mediterranean Coastal Scene Vintage Framed Artwork Sailboats, Mountains, Palm Trees & Coastal Cottage This vibrant original oil painting ...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Acrylic

French Impressionist Oil Painting Coastal Path with Majestic Cliffs
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Coastal Path by Georges Bordonave (French contemporary) oil painting on canvas, unframed canvas: 20 x 26 inches condition: very good provenance: from a large private collection of th...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of a Pekingese Dog Charming Antique English Watercolour Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Pekingese Dog English artist, late 19th century Watercolour drawing on board, unframed drawing: 7.25 x 5 inches Provenance: Private collection, UK Condition: This paint...
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

Landscape Oil Painting Michael Budden Dressed in Garnett Washington Monument
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Dressed In Garnett Washington Monument oil/panel 14 x 11 unframed signed LL Dressed In Garnett Washington Monument is an oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contempora...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Chamonix, le Mont Blanc
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Florent Chade (French, 1896-1985) Title: Chamonix, le Mont Blanc Year: Circa 1950 Medium: Oil on canvas board board size: 15 x 18.25 inches Sig...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

French Impressionist Floral Still life of Flower Bouquet in a Blue Glass Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Floral Still Life signed and dated 94' by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 11 x 9 inches Oil painting on board, unframed Condition: The painting is in good condition, with minor sign...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

1987 American Artist Mase Lucas Painting on Canvas Portrait of a Nostalgic Woman
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an original vintage acrylic mixed-media painting on canvas painting Titled " Nostalgic Woman on a Divan" By American Artist Mase Lucas. Mase Lucas has been a studio artist ...
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20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Cedar Haven
Located in Atlanta, GA
Aruna Rao is a Florida-based painter specializing in luminous coastal landscapes in oils. Her work captures the interplay of light, color, and atmosphere, evoking a sense of place an...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Linen, Oil

19 cent or earlier Signed Antique Original Oil Painting on canvas, Genre Scene
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is a fabulous antique 19th-century or even earlier original oil painting on canvas depicting an interior scene with a seated female nude queen w...
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Mid-19th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Antique American School Tropical Ocean Cove Hawaiian Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted American impressionist tropical beach landscape. Oil on board. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a period wood molding. Excellent condition, re...
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1950s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Rainy parisian afternoon
Located in Zofingen, AG
Rainy parisian afternoon Acr. on canvas painting. Size of painting - 25cm x 25cm , Cloudy Parisian afternoon. A bush with flowers, cool shadows and an unusual atmosphere of mystery o...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Acrylic

L Arc de Triomphe - Le Soir - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Edouard Cortes
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas board figures in cityscape circa 1940 by sought after French impressionist painter Edouard Cortes. The work depicts an autumnal scene of the the Arc de Triomphe,...
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1940s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Ballerina
Located in Riga, LV
Laimonis Bubieris (1934-2012) Ballerina, canvas/oil, 85x77 cm
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1980s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Ballerina
Ballerina
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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 Paintings

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Oil, Board

Piece of Garden, Original Oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original oil Painting, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2016 Subject: Piece of Garden SIZE: 23" x 43" x 3/4''inch Unframed, Stretched on the wood...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

New York City Brooklyn Bridge Freedom Tower Oil Painting by Michael Budden
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Mystical Evening Freedom Tower oil/canvas 18 x 14 unframed, 23.5 x 19.5 framed Mystical Evening, Freedom Tower, NYC, is an oil painting on canvas by award winning contemporary artist...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Traditional English Thatched Cottage by River with Swans Listed British Artist
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The River Cottage by Clive Madgwick (1934–2005) signed & dated 1980's oil on canvas, framed in an elaborate swept frame framed: 18 x 23 inches canvas: 13 x 17.5 inches Provenance: pr...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

French Post Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Holywell, GB
Robert FALCUCCI (1900-1989) “Bouquet” A pleasing impressionistic depiction of a bouquet of flowers painted using vibrant colours and with great gusto by Robert Falcucci. Floral pai...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

CRAZY LOVE
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original painting by artist Daria Kusto. Acrylic on Canvas. The magic flow reality... Painting rolled in a sturdy tube. Shipping from Spain, safely and promptly. In the style of art...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"Nude in the Studio" Impressionistic Oil Painting on Board of a Nude Woman
Located in New York, NY
A depiction of a young nude woman seated laid back and posing. A romantic air is felt throughout this piece with a dreamy atmosphere and lush colors. She has dark brown hair, wears d...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Board

Summer Grove Landscape Impressionism Original oil Painting Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Eduard Matevosyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Panel Year: 2025 Style: Impressionism, Title: Summer Grove, Size: 37.5" x 25.5...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Ochre Hill, Landscape Impressionism, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2023, Style: Impressionism, Subject: Ochre Hill Size: 23" x 36" x 0...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Valley Landscape Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Linen Year: 2025 Style: Impressionism, Title: Valley, Size: 11.5" x 21" x 0.8'' i...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

19th century Impressionist Elegant figures in a Paris or London Park landscape
Located in Woodbury, CT
Alberto Ludovici Jr. Italian / Anglo-European School, late 19th century Elegant Figures in a Parisian (or London) Park Oil on panel Signed lower right Circa 1890 A refined and atmo...
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1890s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

Summer Trees Landscape Impressionism Original oil Painting Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Eduard Matevosyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Panel Year: 2025 Style: Impressionism, Title: Summer Trees, Size: 37.5" x 25.5...
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2010s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil, Wood Panel

1890 s French Impressionist Oil Painting Studio Portrait of a Nude Lady Model
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Studio Model French Impressionist artist, circa 1890's oil on canvas: 27.5 x 16.5 inches provenance: private collection, France condition: very good and sound condition
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Late 19th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

"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 Paintings

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Oil

1969 Listed Italian Artist Araldo Ariano Large Oil Painting, Genre Scene, 1969
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is an original oil painting on canvas by Listed Italian Artist Araldo Ariano (XX century). The painting depicts a picturesque scene set in a historic European town, char...
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Impressionistic Seascape Nocturne Painting Michael Budden Moonlight Sailing II
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Moonrise Sailing II oil/panel 6 x 8 image unframed, 11.63 x 9.63 framed Moonrise Sailing II is an oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Radiance in the Quiet, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Ivory flowers rise softly from a moody backdrop, while a burst of vibrant orange commands attention. This piece balances boldness and grace, proving that even i...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Paintings

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Oil

Moonlit Reflections, Heyst-sur-Mer. Painted 1884
Located in Stockholm, SE
Elias Erdtman (Sweden, 1863–1945) Moonlit Reflections, Heyst-sur-Mer oil on canvas laid on board signed E. Erdman och daterad -84 unframed: 29 x 18.5 cm (11.4 x 7.3 inches) framed:...
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1880s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Board

Vintage American Impressionist New York Cityscape Signed Modern Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Nicely painted mid century impressionist cityscape oil painting by Kamil Kubik (1930 - 2011) . Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Nice view of the Empire State Building!
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1960s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Johann Berthelsen Signed UN Building Winter Impressionist New York Street Scene
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist view of New York City oil painting by Johann Berthelsen (1883 - 1972). Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 12H by 16L.
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1950s Impressionist Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

OLD MASTER COPY Signed Vincent " Cypress Trees " Oil Painting 20th Century GGF
Located in Ferndown, GB
OLD MASTER COPY Signed Vincent " Cypress Trees " Oil Painting 20th Century GGF NEW COLLECTION Of RARE PIECES OF ART Here we have a unique and rare piece of Art signed Good Detai...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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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 Paintings

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British Impressionist Watercolor of a Countryside Hamlet Beneath Rolling Hills
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of a Countryside Hamlet Beneath Rolling Hills By Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed Dimensions: ...
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Early 2000s Impressionist Paintings

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Watercolor

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