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Hold On
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
;visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints
Category
1970s Outsider Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Physician
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
;visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints
Category
1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pointing From
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
;visionary seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints
Category
1990s Surrealist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rose
By Darius Yektai
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
feeling of texture the work demonstrates is both successful and unusual in traditional still life painting
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Resin
$7,000
Montmartre and Scare Coeur: the Diderot Sculpture in Square d
Auvers
By Paul de Frick
Located in Norwich, GB
adding unusual poetic detail to his paintings, and this can very much be observed in our little oil on
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Mountain Stream
By Susan G. Scott
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Romantic, colorful and gestural painting of a stream in the woods. Scott is using an unusual
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Paper
Early 19th Century Oil - The Worldly Woman
Located in Corsham, GB
of the slip. The unusual size of the painting and frame with the ornate quality of the molding and
Category
Early 19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Tek
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and
Category
1970s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Illustration Board, Oil
$1,500
Kairoi No 5
By Scott Pattinson
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Large scale horizontal painting, with unusual color juxtapositions of blue, purple, yellow and
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
At the Table in a French Restaurant
Located in London, GB
scene depicted in this colourful painting takes the unusual perspective of the diner seated across from
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
"Sunset" by Adriaenssens Fernand, Antwerp 1859 – 1944, Belgian Painter, Signed
Located in Knokke, BE
frame is original of the time and was specially made for this painting in unusual size.
Biography
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Paris - La Madeleine- Impressionist Oil, Figures in Cityscape - Jules Rene Herve
By Jules René Hervé
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
. Invariably his work is signed both on the recto and verso and it is most unusual to find a painting that is
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
The Conversation - Post Impressionist Oil, Figures in Interior by Jules R Herve
By Jules René Hervé
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Adler. As early as 1910, his work was shown in Paris Salons where his paintings were described as
Category
1940s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Danseuse a sa Toilette - Post Impressionist Oil, Figure in Interior by J R Herve
By Jules René Hervé
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
on the recto and verso and it is most unusual to find a painting that is NOT signed on the back. His
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Unusual Thuya Wood Ivory Mounted Box with Original Watercolor Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
An unusual English thuya wood cedar lined box with ivory edges, the lid , an original watercolor
Category
Vintage 1920s English Art Deco Decorative Boxes
Dans le jardin - Impressionist Oil, Garden Landscape by Jules Rene Herve
By Jules René Hervé
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
verso and it is most unusual to find a painting that is NOT signed on the back. His work was not copied
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Saskatchewan
By Judith Berry
Located in Montreal, Quebec
vistas are folded and unfurled in unusual arrangements; in these paintings, idyllic hills are comprised
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Printemps
Located in Los Angeles, CA
throughout her style was unique. She used a dry brush technique that gives her paintings an unusual, almost
Category
1920s Art Deco Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Upper Sacramento River, California" (Large Antique Landscape, Renowned Artist)
Located in New Orleans, LA
unobtrusive inpainting, not unusual for a painting of its age. Proudly presented by Guy Lyman Fine Art, New
Category
1880s Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Gentleman in Armour and Holding a Baton, Manor House Provenence
Located in London, GB
family, noblemen and scholars). This approach to creating a composition is not unusual.
The painting
Category
17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"ROLLING HILLS" LARGE PIECE 40" x 48" ORIGINALLY FROM HIS DAUGHTERS COLLECTION
By Birger Sandzen
Located in San Antonio, TX
painting is unusual in its thick and heavy
application of impasto in bold and bright color combinations
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"FLINT HILLS" 49 x 57 FRAME ORIGINALLY FROM HIS DAUGHTER
S COLLECTION
By Birger Sandzen
Located in San Antonio, TX
.
Sandzén's style of painting is unusual in its thick and heavy
application of impasto in bold and bright
Category
1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Jean-Roger Lafitte (1922-2005) - Contemporary Oil, Blue Hydrangeas
Located in Corsham, GB
A pretty, floral still life on canvas board with an unusual undulating textured weave. The painting
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nude on panel painted over gold leaf signed huggins
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A really unusual and quite well rendered painting on board depicting a nude woman in midair. It
Category
Vintage 1970s American Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Modernist Portrait
Located in Petaluma, CA
throughout, her style was unique. She used a dry brush technique that gives her paintings an unusual, almost
Category
Early 20th Century French Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$17,500
19th Century Whaling Panorama, circa 1890
Located in Nantucket, MA
whalemen. The painting is unusual in having both an American Bark and a Dutch Ship, so much activity in
Category
Antique Late 19th Century American Folk Art Paintings
Materials
Canvas
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - 1989 Oil, The Double Cucumber
By George Weissbort
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine 20th Century still life, executed with sensitivity and finesse. The painting shows an
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
George Weissbort (1928-2013) - 1989 Oil, The Double Cucumber
By George Weissbort
Located in Corsham, GB
A fine 20th Century still life, executed with sensitivity and finesse. The painting shows an
Category
20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
A Set of Four Chinese Watercolours of Sea shells.
Located in Downingtown, PA
The watercolour and gouache paintings on pith paper depict selections of sea shells- an unusual
Category
Antique 19th Century Chinese Paintings
Flakes
By Valton Tyler
Located in Dallas, TX
seems the right word for describing his vivid, unusual and technically refined paintings, prints and
Category
1980s Surrealist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
$1,800
Whimsical Oil on Wood Man Smoking a Cigar by Jeanne Lorioz
By Jeanne Lorioz
Located in Palm Springs, CA
smoking a cigar. It is an acrylic on wood mounted in an wood frame. This painting is unusual as Lorioz
Category
1990s French Paintings
Large floral still life by French artist Georges Marchou (1898 - 1984)
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Vintage oil painting floral display with a statue on a table. This distinctive painting is quite
Category
20th Century Fauvist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century Chinese Export Butterfly
Insect Pith Watercolor
Located in Atlanta, GA
Canton China, circa 1830.
A great and unusual pith watercolor painting of butterflies and insects
Category
Antique 19th Century Chinese Chinese Export Paintings and Screens
Materials
Silk, Giltwood, Paper
Japanese Old "Heart Kokoro" Hand Painted Scroll, Signed
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, an unusual and attractive hand painting on paper scroll of a calligraphy Heart -Kokoro Hear
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese Old "Heart Kokoro" Hand Painted Scroll, Signed
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, an unusual and attractive hand painting on paper scroll of a calligraphy Heart -Kokoro Hear
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japan Old Japanese Tea Scroll "Refreshing Tea" Hand Painted Scroll, Signed
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, an unusual and attractive hand painting on paper scroll of a calligraphy work of art
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Old Japan Scroll "Buddha
s Way"
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, an unusual and attractive hand painting on paper scroll of a calligraphy work of art, kanji
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japan Old Japanese Tea Scroll "Buddha
s Way" Busshin Hand Painted Scroll, Signed
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, an unusual and attractive hand painting on paper scroll of a calligraphy work of art, kanji
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
Japanese "Net Fishermen" Old Animated Hand-Painted Scroll
Located in South Burlington, VT
inches wide and 48 inches length.
Inviting and unusual subject matter, this painting is skillfully and
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Paintings and Screens
Materials
Paper
J. Forlay - 1859 Watercolour, The Swoon of the Virgin
Located in Corsham, GB
A striking and unusual monochrome watercolour painting of the Swoon of the Virgin at the
Category
19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Old Cedars in the Rockies
By Birger Sandzen
Located in Missouri, MO
Art Institute.
Sandzén's style of painting is unusual in its thick and heavy application of impasto
Category
20th Century Land Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor
Pair of Red Lacquer Cabinets with Wucai Folk Painting
Located in Chicago, IL
Pair of cabinets lacquered in red with unusual provincial style folk wucai paintings of birds and
Category
Antique 19th Century Cabinets
Large and Impressive Water Lily "Painting" Assembled from Leather Panels
Located in New York, NY
Unusual and impressive "painting" of a beautiful water lily. The piece is assembled from leather
Category
Vintage 1970s American Decorative Art
Large Oil on Canvas Painting Titled L
asie by William Skilling
By William Skilling
Located in Palm Beach, FL
An unusual naive oil on canvas painting with a sensual and sultry feeling, offering an illusion of
Category
20th Century American Folk Art Decorative Art
Antique Japanese Meiji Period Satsuma Vase by Hozan
By Hozan
Located in Newark, England
unusual painting with a vast mountainous landscape filled with trees, pagoda buildings, figures and a
Category
Antique Late 19th Century Japanese Meiji Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware, Pottery
Sevrin Roesen Still Life Painting Still Life with Fruit on a Platter, American
By Severin Roesen
Located in Downingtown, PA
. Also, the inclusion of a tomato in both paintings is an unusual element, suggesting further that the
Category
Antique Mid-19th Century American American Classical Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
"Dancer" David Hare, Male Nude, Figurative Sculpture, Mid-Century Surrealist
By David Hare
Located in New York, NY
his renown as a sculptor, the ever-restless Hare took the unusual step of switching to painting. “It
Category
1950s Abstract Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Japan Old Heart "Kokoro" Hand-Painted Scroll, Signed
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, an unusual and attractive hand painting on paper scroll of a calligraphy Heart -Kokoro
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Paper
Japan Old Calligraphy "Harmony" Hand-Painted Scroll, Signed
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, an unusual and attractive hand painting on paper scroll of the calligraphy symbol
-Harmony
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Furniture
Materials
Paper
Japan Old Japanese Tea Scroll "LONG COMPATABILITY" Hand Painted Scroll, Signed
Located in South Burlington, VT
Japan, an unusual and attractive hand painting on paper scroll of a calligraphy work of art
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Sculptures and Carvings
Materials
Paper
18th Century Swedish Folk Art Cupboard
Located in Kramfors, SE
unusual decorative painting from the late 1700s. Working lock and key. The cabinet is in two pieces.
Category
Antique Late 18th Century Swedish Folk Art Cupboards
Materials
Pine
c.1852-1870 Napoleon III Tilt-Top Parlor Table
Located in BENSENVILLE, IL
gilding and painting throughout. It's unusual that is has a scalloped top and matching painted base with
Category
Antique 19th Century French Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables
Materials
Giltwood
William
Mary Floral Marquetry Chest of Drawers, England, circa 1700
Located in Kinderhook, NY
inlay and reverse with unusual original faux-marbre painting. A stunning piece at an exceptional price
Category
Antique 18th Century and Earlier English William and Mary Commodes and C...
Materials
Brass
Art Deco Walnut and Chinoiserie Cocktail Cabinet
Located in London, GB
patterns, this also has unusual and very beautiful chinoiserie paintings on the four panelled corner, each
Category
Vintage 1930s English Art Deco Cabinets
Materials
Walnut
Japan Old CHA Tea Hand-Painted Scroll, Signed
Located in South Burlington, VT
From our recent Japanese Acquisitions Travels.
Japan, an unusual and attractive hand painting on
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Showa Ceramics
Materials
Paper
Counrty French Grain Painted Wing Chair
Located in Hudson, NY
A very unusual chair for its grain painting and scale.The chair from the mid 19th century is very
Category
Early 20th Century French Wingback Chairs
Materials
Wood, Paint, Fabric
Italian Murano Silver Foil Sculptural Biomorphic Painterly Glass Bowl
By Murano 5
Located in North Miami, FL
. The one small red streak makes the bowl so unusual.
It resembles a painting by Helen Frankenthaler in
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Glass
Materials
Glass
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