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"Catskill Mountains" Georgina Klitgaard, Country Landscape Modernist Hills
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
viewers attracted to the unsteady ground between twentieth-century realism and expressionism.
Georgina
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Washington Square Park" Georgina Klitgaard, People in Cityscape Modernist Scene
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
viewers attracted to the unsteady ground between twentieth-century realism and expressionism.
Georgina
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Oil Painting Klezmer Wedding Rabbis Judaica WPA Jewish Art William Gropper
By William Gropper
Located in Surfside, FL
experience.
Early on, Gropper displayed an extraordinary, natural skill for art. By 1912, he was already
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Truck Gardens" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Country Landscape With Train
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
viewers attracted to the unsteady ground between twentieth-century realism and expressionism.
Georgina
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Fodder Stacks, Bearsville" Georgina Klitgaard, Modernist Country Landscape
By Georgina Klitgaard
Located in New York, NY
viewers attracted to the unsteady ground between twentieth-century realism and expressionism.
Georgina
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Neo Expressionist Surreal Oil Painting Robert Vernet Bonfort Deaf Artist
By Robert Vernet-Bonfort
Located in Surfside, FL
Robert Vernet-Bonfort (French, 1934-2017)
LA VIEILLE MAISON
Oil painting on canvas
Hand signed
Category
20th Century Neo-Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
English Signed Elinor Jones 1908 Oil on Canvas Still-Life Painting in Gilt Frame
Located in Atlanta, GA
An English oil on canvas still-life painting from the early 20th century, by Elinor Jones and set
Category
Early 20th Century English Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood, Paint
Large Oil Painting Circus Scene Clowns Rediscovered NY Artist Jonah Kinigstein
By Jonah Kinigstein
Located in Surfside, FL
vapidity, pretension and inanity of 20th-century modern art, from institutions like MoMA to gallerists like
Category
20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Circus Jumpers #2 (Equestrians) mixed media painting by Jon Corbino
By Jon Corbino
Located in Hudson, NY
. Thematically and technically, he was influenced in his early days by the works of DeIacroix and 17century
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
1920 Cesare Ciani Credited Italian Macchiaiolo Portrait Painting
By Cesare Ciani
Located in Roma, IT
the early 20th century had focused on rural and popular subjects.
These themes were also in keeping
Category
1920s Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Tigers Animal Paradise Tropical Jungle Painting Surrealist Art Gustavo Novoa
By Gustavo Novoa
Located in Surfside, FL
early 1960¹s selling oil painting, watercolors and crayon drawings on the streets of Paris, France
Category
20th Century Contemporary Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Large Trompe L
oeil Oil Painting Rene Chavelle Belgian Photo Realist Peppers
Located in Surfside, FL
Monumental Hyper Realist Still Life Painting Of Peppers,
Hand Signed
Oil on canvas
48 x 48 in, 58
Category
20th Century Pop Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Europa and the Bull, 20th Century British Graphite Drawing, Signed
Located in London, GB
early 1930s he moved to Stroud where he was befriended by Charles March Gere who, along with Moody’s
Category
20th Century English School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Graphite
Randall Vernon Davey 1927 Colorado Mountain Landscape Oil Painting, Western Art
By Randall Davey
Located in Denver, CO
This early 20th-century oil painting by esteemed American artist Randall Vernon Davey (1887–1964
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Misty marshland painting with golden dawn, serene reflections, and soft hues
Located in Preston, GB
Misty marshland painting with golden dawn, serene reflections, and soft hues by 20th Century
Category
20th Century English School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$1,584 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Judaica Oil Painting Rabbi Rediscovered NY Artist Simchat Torah
By Jonah Kinigstein
Located in Surfside, FL
20th-century modern art, from institutions like MoMA to gallerists like Ilona Sonnabend to critics like
Category
20th Century Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Young Peasants at Rest oil on board painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
.
ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Adrián de Unzueta (Mexico, 1865 – first half of the 20th century) was a distinguished
Category
1890s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$1,776 Sale Price
37% Off
Man with a Book
by Jean Laudy, 1877 – 1956, Dutch - Belgian Painter
By Jean Laudy
Located in Knokke, BE
transitioned from impressionism to realism. His subjects spanned human figures, still lifes, nudes, interiors
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Painting of Mother and Infant by Bernard de Hoog (Dutch, 1866-1943)
By Bernard De Hoog
Located in Shippensburg, PA
excellence and realism of the Hague School and deeply admired the old masters, copying works of Pieter de
Category
Early 20th Century Dutch Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint
1955 British oil painting of an apple orchard by John Gilbey Bowles, in green
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
-century painting. He exhibited widely in the UK from the 1950s through the 1980s and was known for his
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lords of the Sky oil painting by Julio De Diego
By Julio de Diego
Located in Hudson, NY
me, but I went my own way, good, bad or indifferent.” [1] His independence manifested early in life
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Magic War - Surreal Disney Characters, Highly Detailed Original Painting
By Oliver Hazard Benson
Located in Chicago, IL
, especially the movements of the late 19th and early 20th century. Hazard is also inspired by Surrealism and
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Three Drinks, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
the composition. Shuxing draws influence from 20th-century European realism.About the
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Paysage du Viviers, French Post-Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in London, GB
south of France in the early 20th century. He died in 1944, at which time his paintings were put away
Category
Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Coastal Modernist Seascape Framed Figural River Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Charming early 20th-century impressionist oil on panel depicting a sunlit coastal scene. Two seated
Category
1920s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed Henry Crowther English Oil on Canvas Painting of a Saint Bernard Dog
Located in Atlanta, GA
early 20th century and known for his dog portraits, brings a sense of life and personality to this
Category
Early 20th Century English Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
French school Landscape a taste of Provence Signed oil painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
the painting:
Bio Yves Gonec:
Yves Gonec was a French painter active during the mid-20th century
Category
1930s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Seymour Remenick Still Life Table Scape Oil Painting with Bottle and Fruit
By Seymour Remenick
Located in Surfside, FL
; Philadelphia, PA. Oil on canvas painting Folk Singers and musicians.Seymour Remenick (1923-1999), was born in
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique American Modernist Barn Landscape Framed Regional Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
, Poor was active in the Woodstock art colony and exhibited widely during the early-to-mid 20th century
Category
1940s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sheba Raven Cloak, Hatshepsut - Original Painting of Egyptian Goddess Figure
By Oliver Hazard Benson
Located in Chicago, IL
Taoism and European occultism, especially the movements of the late 19th and early 20th century. Hazard
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Erik Hoppe. Painting of "Wilders Plads", Copenhagen
Located in Kastrup, DK
Erik Hoppe (Danish painter) 1896-1968.
Painting depicting "Wilder's Plads", in Copenhagen, 1936
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Modern Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Amlodi
s Nightmare, - Highly Detailed Surrealist, Original Painting on Panel
By Oliver Hazard Benson
Located in Chicago, IL
occultism, especially the movements of the late 19th and early 20th century. Hazard is also inspired by
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Plein Air American Oil Painting Rainstorm Signed Original Modern Impressionist
Located in Buffalo, NY
nknown Artist (Signed “Kaufman”)
Untitled (Pastoral Horizon), mid-20th century
Oil on board
Framed
Category
1920s American Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Israeli Oil Painting Ruth Schloss Child, Doll, Wagon, Kibbutz Social Realist Art
By Ruth Schloss
Located in Surfside, FL
-level as egalitarian, socialist view via social realism style painting and drawing.
Schloss became
Category
Mid-20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-20th Century Soviet Ukraine Three Generations Of Steel Worker Framed Drawing
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Mid-20th Century 1950s/1960s Soviet Ukraine - Khrushchev & Brezhnev Era.
Three Generations Of Steel
Category
Mid-20th Century Futurist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
Mage Love Flower - Surreal Symbolism in Highly Detailed Original Painting
By Oliver Hazard Benson
Located in Chicago, IL
influenced by Taoism and European occultism, especially the movements of the late 19th and early 20th century
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Stone House in Salardú oil painting spanish landscape Spain
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
20th century. He studied at the Escola de la Llotja in Barcelona and later at the Reial Acadèmia de
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
$592 Sale Price
37% Off
After the Storm, Naturalistic Oil Painting on Canvas, Signed, 1917
Located in Stockholm, SE
—likely in an art lottery, a common practice in the early 20th century.
Not much is known of Hjalmar
Category
1910s Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Robert K. White “Frisco Reverie" Large 4-Foot Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Miami, FL
hallmark of White’s narrative-driven realism.
The title references the St. Louis–San Francisco Railway
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Carl Rabus “Brussels Harbor Scene” 1937 – Vintage European Maritime Painting
Located in Denver, CO
light and movement. His modernist yet romantic approach merges traditional maritime realism with early
Category
1930s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Charles Ragland Bunnell 1940 Surrealist Oil Painting of Man with Eye Orb
By Charles Ragland Bunnell
Located in Denver, CO
example of his surrealist vision during the mid-20th century. Painted in 1940, the composition features a
Category
1940s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Beatrice Adams (British, 1876-1958) Antique Oil Painting, Portrait of a Lady
Located in Palm Coast, FL
visible age-related patina and fine surface texture consistent with early 20th-century oil painting. No
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Beautiful 1920s Autumn Themed Painting with Pumpkins
Haystacks, Joseph Tomanek
By Joseph Tomanek
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago, a city with a vibrant artistic community during the early to mid-20th century. Chicago was known
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Woman in profile with fan oil on board painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
: Contemporary Realism, Surrealism, Figurative Painting
Academic Background: School of Fine Arts of San Carlos
Category
Early 2000s Romantic Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$592 Sale Price
50% Off
Oil Painting Interior Scene Chair w Chinese Rug Joseph Solman American Art WPA
By Joseph Solman
Located in Surfside, FL
, art historian Meyer Schapiro and critic Harold Rosenberg, were still partial to Social Realism. But
Category
20th Century Modern Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Soldiers Flirting in the Park oil on canvas painting spanish modernism
By Ricard Opisso Sala
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
recognizable illustrators and chroniclers of early 20th-century Barcelona. Known for his humorous, theatrical
Category
1940s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$14,211 Sale Price
20% Off
French Mod Surrealist Commedia dell
arte Circus Scene Oil Painting J.P. Serrier
By Jean Pierre Serrier
Located in Surfside, FL
Jean Pierre Serrier (French, 1934-1989)
Oil on canvas painting depicting four figures
Hand signed
Category
Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Caravansary at Shiraz" Antique orientalist Black
White Oil Painting on Board
Located in Jacksonville, FL
Musée d’Orsay in Paris exhibits a vast collection of 19th and early 20th-century art, including works by
Category
19th Century Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Danubia, Symbolic Painting of Two Headed Goddess Female Nude, Green Sepia Tones
By Oliver Hazard Benson
Located in Chicago, IL
European occultism, especially the movements of the late 19th and early 20th century. Hazard is also
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
"Pioneer Family" WPA American Modernism Plaster Maquette Realism 20th Century
By William Zorach
Located in New York, NY
"Pioneer Family," 23 1/2 x 16 1/4 x 10 3/4 inPlaster. c. 1927. Unsigned. Realism
The Smithsonian
Category
1920s American Modern Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
20th century lithograph realism figurative female print female subject signed
By Maximilien Luce
Located in Milwaukee, WI
– 1941) was a prolific French Neo-impressionist artist, known for his paintings, illustrations
Category
Early 1900s Victorian Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Framed Belgian Luminist Oil Painting Le Petit Jardinier With Potted Geraniums
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
figures of late 19th and early 20th century Belgian art.
© Big Sky Fine Art
“Le Petit Jardinier” (1887
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Circle of Pietro Cavallini - St. Bartholomew - 14th century Fresco
Located in Bruxelles, BE
.
Historical Context:
For much of the 20th century, no paintings by Cavallini were thought to survive, and his
Category
Antique 15th Century and Earlier Italian Medieval Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Plaster
Modernist Still Life, Jewish Polish Woman Artist Regina Mundlak Judaica Interior
By Regina Mundlak
Located in Surfside, FL
demonstrated a similar inclination to realism as in her drawing, the themes of her paintings also remaining the
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Unforgotten (oil painting monochrome vintage couple hat portrait earth tones
By Rudolf Kosow
Located in Quebec, Quebec
, nostalgia, early 20th century, naturalist, illustration, woman, memory, longing, grey art
Category
2010s Tonalist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Return of the Goddess - Original Painting of Surreal, Symbolic Goddess Figure
By Oliver Hazard Benson
Located in Chicago, IL
, especially the movements of the late 19th and early 20th century. Hazard is also inspired by Surrealism and
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Nude Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Fifth Avenue Manhattan New York City Panoramic Painting by Contemporary Artist
By Angela Wakefield
Located in Preston, GB
its initial early 20th century profile – a place to visit, be seen at, and to take part in.
Once
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel, Panel, Varnish, Gesso, Board, Paint, Wood
Angela WakefieldFifth Avenue Manhattan New York City Panoramic Painting by Contemporary Artist, 2015
$38,239 Sale Price
20% Off
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