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Artist: Unknown
L
Asino, Art Magazine, Year 24, no. 29, 1915
Located in Roma, IT
L'Asino, Art Magazine, Year 24, no. 29, 1915, is an original colorful illustrated Italian magazine with a satiric political scene.
Published on Sunday 18 Luglio 1915, in 4 pages, do...
Category
1910s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Paper
Original circa 1970 Soviet propaganda poster - Cold War
Located in PARIS, FR
This original circa 1970 Soviet propaganda poster, titled Le capitaliste et le banquier ont peur de ce symbole - Paix !, was created by Sergei Vladimirovich Mikhalkov, a prominent R...
Category
1970s Unknown Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
1960
s French Portrait Jaw Dropped Man Caricature
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Character Portrait
French school, Mid 20th Century
Gouache paint on unframed paper
signed lower corner
Image : 12.5 x 9.75 inches
Superbly decorative 1960's French portrai...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
19th-century Orientalist Reclining Odalisque Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Was she a gift to the Sultan, deliciously bejeweled and enrobed in the finest embroidered silks? By this time, resigned to her fate, the once Christian Circassian girl would have bee...
Category
1880s French School Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
After Blazej Iwanowski (1889-1966) - Mid 20th Century Oil, White Roses
Located in Corsham, GB
This accomplished still life captures a bouquet of white roses arranged in a Japanese-style, floral-patterned vase set upon a rich wooden surface. The composition masterfully contras...
Category
20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Old Master Oil on Wood 17th Century Flemish Netherlands Holland
Located in Eltville am Rhein, DE
Dutch Master
17th Century
Farmer at the Well with Goats and Cows
Oil on Wood
Size: approx. 48 x 63 cm
Frame: 68 x 83 cm
Age-related condition, old restorations (see photos)
Viewing...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Vintage American Oil Painting "Montauk Fishing Fleet" 1985
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5163 Vingage American framed painting Montauk Fleet
Signed James Salmone
Image size 23x19"
Category
1980s Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$325 Sale Price
37% Off
Antique American Framed Original Vintage Abstract Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American abstract expressionist painting. OIl on canvas. Framed. Finely painted with wonderful color palette.
Category
1970s Abstract Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$636 Sale Price
20% Off
Oriental Slave Traders - Oil Painting on Canvas - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Oriental slave traders is a modern artwork realized in the 19th century.
Colored oil painting on canvas realized with superb and refined technique following all main philhellenic st...
Category
19th Century Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Watercolor - Fishing Boats
Located in Houston, TX
French watercolor of quiet fishing village in Brittany, circa 1950.
Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-size frame. Archiva...
Category
1950s Unknown Art
Materials
Watercolor
French School Late 19th Century Oil - Rounding Up the Pigs
Located in Corsham, GB
French School, oil on canvas. Signed 'Dubosi' to the lower right.
Category
Late 19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Grand Tour Sandaled Foot of an Antiquity, 19th Century Italian
Located in Beachwood, OH
Grand Tour Italian, 19th Century
Sandaled Foot of an Antiquity
Bronze
5.5 x 12 x 5 inches
Category
19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Bronze
Félix Niaut (1895-1988) - French School Mid 20th Century Oil, The Pontoon
Located in Corsham, GB
River landscape in oil. Presented in a gilt and white frame. Signed. On canvas board.
Category
20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$279 Sale Price
20% Off
Monumental Italian Rationalist Marble Sculptures of Young Athletes
Located in Rome, IT
This monumental pair of sculptures in "Bardiglio" marble represent Greek Athletes figure , on a cylindrical base . Exaltation of the male strength and beauty, inspired by the trend i...
Category
1960s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Marble
Mughal School, 18th Century Emperor Jahangir with Empress Nur Jahan
Located in Middletown, NY
Emperor Jahangir and Empress Nur Jahan exchanging lotus blossoms; a symbol of beauty, purity, honesty, rebirth, self-regeneration, and enlightenment....
Category
18th Century Rajput Unknown Art
Materials
Gold
Otto Henry Schneider Paris Carousel Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
Otto Henry Schneider: 1865-1950. Well listed American artist with auction records over $22000 who is mostly associated with southern California San Diego. He studied at Art Institute...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Contemporary American Modernist Nocturnal New York Cityscape Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Oil on canvas, 27 x 31 inches overall, 20 x 24 inches image size.
A modern urban nocturne depicting the Manhattan Bridge at night, painted with gestural brushwork and a restrained, b...
Category
2010s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hermit Crabs, German animal antique underwater crustacean engraving print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Einsiedlerkrebse'
(Hermit crabs)
German wood-engraving, circa 1895.
240mm by 155mm (sheet)
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Unknown Art
Materials
Engraving
Mid Century French Post-Impressionist Painting,
The Atlantis
Monaco Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Landscape
Signed by Édouard Righetti (1924-2001)
Inscribed Verso on back
oil/gouache painting on artist paper, beautifully painted.
very good condition
size: 16 x inches x 20 inches...
Category
Mid-19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Acrylic
20th Century Oil - Ram and Ewe
Located in Corsham, GB
A portrait of a ram and a ewe. Presented glazed in a reeded wooden frame with a gilt-effect slip and lighter wide wooden mount with a black inner edge. Unsigned. On canvas board.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$383 Sale Price
20% Off
Nicely Framed Detailed American School Antique Beach Scene Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very finely painted early 1900s American impressionist beach scene. Oil on board. Framed. Signed verso. Great colors and very well painted. Excellent ready to hang condition.
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,340 Sale Price
20% Off
1920s Century Country Creek Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Serene early 20th century landscape of a winding creek in verdant country side with a distant farmhouse in the background, by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century), c. 1920. Pre...
Category
1920s Hudson River School Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$719 Sale Price
20% Off
Expressions in Bloom: Portraits from the 20th Century III - Florentine School
Located in London, GB
'Expressions in Bloom: Portraits from the 20th Century III', oil on canvas mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings thro...
Category
1980s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
$1,311 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage American Beach Scene Monogrammed Nature Study Modernist Frame
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist beach scene oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Image size, 16L x 20H.
Category
1960s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$316 Sale Price
20% Off
Hermann Bahner (1867-1938) - Early 20th Century Oil, The Windmill
Located in Corsham, GB
This pastoral landscape painting depicts a traditional Dutch windmill set along a tree-lined country road, with figures travelling the path beneath a dramatic sky filled with billowi...
Category
20th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Antique American Cubist Landscape with Trees and Hills, Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
This 1971 oil on board landscape by Y. Melo presents an abstracted natural scene executed in a refined Cubist style. The composition flattens and segments a hillside view into interl...
Category
1970s Cubist Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853-1937), dated 1886 by Alfred Quinton
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of Johnston Forbes-Robertson (1853-1937), dated 1886
by Alfred Quinton Collins (1855-1903)
Large 19th Century English portrait of theatre actor Johnston Forbes-Robertson, ...
Category
19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large French Impressionist Nicely Framed Paris Street Scene Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early French impressionist Paris street scene oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 24H by 40L.
Category
1940s Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hart Ski Colorado Vintage Poster (c.1970), Roger Staub USA
Located in London, GB
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Category
1970s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Lithograph
Fishing port Essaouira Morocco oil on canvas painting seascape boats
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Signed Adolfo Perez
Frameless
Category
2010s Photorealist Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$478 Sale Price
20% Off
Moonlight in the Tropics
Located in San Francisco, CA
A postcard-pretty window into the tropics more than 50 years ago, on offer is an original oil painting in the style of the "Florida Highwaymen" artists. It depicts a tropical river o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Naturalistic Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Early 19th century Empire figure bronze sculpture - woman
s bust
Located in Varmo, IT
Small bronze ornament - Bust of a woman. Italy, early 19th century.
8 x 8 x h 29 cm, without base h 23 cm.
Made entirely of patinated and gilded bronze. Depicting a female figure i...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Unknown Art
Materials
Marble, Bronze
$1,435 Sale Price
33% Off
Vintage American Post Impressionist Woman and Bird Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist abstract figural oil painting of a woman and bird. Oil on canvas. Signed verso. Framed. Provenance from Fairleigh Dickinson University. Measuring: 25 by ...
Category
1980s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique Dutch School original oil painting on canvas, Genre scene, Gold Frame
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This captivating antique oil painting on canvas is a fine example of Dutch School genre art, evoking the style of the 17th-century master Adriaen van Ostade. The composition features...
Category
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$3,900 Sale Price
50% Off
Yellowstone Park - Castell Geyser - Vintage Photo - 1893
Located in Roma, IT
Yellowstone Park - Castell Geyser - September 23, 1893 - is an original vintage black and white photo realized part of a journey throughout the world ...
Category
1890s Unknown Art
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Pair of Italian "Alabaster Stone Lions" after Antonio Canova; Mid 19th Century
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Pair Recumbent Stone Lions"
after Antonio Canova (1757-1822)
Italian (possibly Florence)
Mid 19th Century
Alabaster, marble
6 x 9 x 4 inches
This is an exquisite pair of Italian alabaster lions on marble bases based on the monumental lions carved by Antonio Canova (1757-1822), the greatest Italian neoclassical sculptor. Canova sculpted the marble lions for the monumental tomb of Pope Clement XIII in St. Peter’s, Rome in 1792
Canova Lions refers to the pair of copies of lion sculptures by Antonio Canova. When Canova created the sculptures in 1792, he installed them on the tomb of Pope Clement XIII. The marble sculptures are some of the most prominent features in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. Given the intricacies of creating the original Canova lions, some artists created molds and replicated them. A good example is the pair of lion sculptures...
Category
1850s Italian School Unknown Art
Materials
Alabaster, Marble
"Near Jussy, Switzerland" by Morini Zolfanelli - Oil on wood 46x65 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on wood sold with frame
Total size with frame 54x72 cm
Signed Morini Zolfanelli, Swiss artist unknown from the gallery
Dated 1993
Category
1990s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Antique American School Modernist WPA Winter Ice Skating Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive American modernist winter landscape. Detailed and well painted skating scene. Oil on canvas. Nicely framed.
Category
1940s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,980 Sale Price
20% Off
Large 1970s Modern Sailing in Sunshine, Colorful Vintage, Abstract
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
" Sailing in Sunshine ", circa 1970s
Oil on Canvas
50" x 40"
Housed in a Slat-wood frame
Overall Size: 50 1/2" x 40 3/4"
Appears to be in very good condition.
We are looking f...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,875 Sale Price
25% Off
Rococò French painter - 18th century figure painting - Gallant scene Lancret
Located in Varmo, IT
French Rococo painter (18th century) - Gallant scene in a landscape.
63.5 x 76 cm without frame, 91 x 102.5 cm with frame.
Antique oil painting on canvas, in a carved and gilded wo...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Unknown Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$2,392 Sale Price
50% Off
Battle Scene - Painting - 18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Battle Scene is an original old masters' artwork realized in the 18th century.
Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. The artwork includes frame: 58 x 90 cm.
Category
18th Century Old Masters Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
American School Modernist Large Abstract Expressionist Original Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American modernist signed abstract oil painting. Oil on canvas. Signed. Framed. Image size, 36L x 36H.
Category
1970s Abstract Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$316 Sale Price
20% Off
Street View in Paris in the 1930s Silver Gelatin Black and White Photography
Located in Atlanta, GA
An original silver gelatin photograph capturing a timeless black and white street scene in Paris, France, circa 1930—a rare and authentic glimpse into the rhythm of a bygone era.
Fea...
Category
1930s Art Deco Unknown Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Forest Insects - Beetles, German antique chromolithograph print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Forstinsekten II Kafer'
(Forest Insects - Beetles)
German chromolithograph, circa 1895.
245mm by 155mm (sheet)
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Unknown Art
Materials
Lithograph
Vintage Modernist Still Life of Tulips, American School, Oil on Canvas, 1956
Located in Baltimore, MD
This is not your grandmother’s typical still life painting. But if she was young and hip for her time, maybe it is. Painted on stretched canvas and dated (19)56, it is only signed ...
Category
1950s American Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Vintage Big Sur Landscape -- Rocky Point
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful California seascape of Rocky Point in Big Sur, California by an unknown artist (American, 20th Century). Unsigned. Presented in a gold toned meta...
Category
1980s American Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
$399 Sale Price
20% Off
Happy Marilyn (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
Located in London, GB
Happy Marilyn (1956) - Silver Gelatin Fibre Print
(Photo by Evening Standard/Getty Images)
American film star Marilyn Monroe (1926 - 1962) outside her home at Englefield Green.
A...
Category
1950s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Black and White, Silver Gelatin
"Parisian Street Scene w Horse
Carriage" Post War Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in New York, NY
A masterful oil painting depicting a view of Paris at twilight. This piece is a pertinent example of the works produced during the 20th Century by the artist with use of beautiful co...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fabienne Verdier
Roland Garros French Open
2018-Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Verdier’s contribution to the Roland Garros poster series is highly valued for its artistic innovation and cultural fusion. The poster’s unique design and Verdier’s reputation as a l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Unknown Art
Materials
Offset
Young woman
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Category
19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$2,356
Framed 1853 Oil - Young Mother and Child
Located in Corsham, GB
An intimate genre scene depicting a young woman seated by a pillar, tenderly cradling a baby in her lap. Faintly dated and signed 'Philip' to the lower right. Well presented in a swe...
Category
Mid-19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Early 20th Century Oil Painting of Woman in Garden of Luxembourg Paris Framed
Located in Buffalo, NY
This charming oil on canvas, measuring 21 x 18 inches, depicts an elegantly dressed woman strolling through a manicured park beneath a distinctive willow tree. In the distance, a mar...
Category
1890s Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fine 1800
s French Oil Figures by Monastic Ruins Stream Bucolic Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Monastic Ruins by a Stream
French School, early 1800's
oil on canvas, framed
Framed 15 x 19 inches
Canvas : 12.5 x 16 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: very go...
Category
Early 19th Century Old Masters Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
Mediterranean Children oil on canvas painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Title: Mediterranean Children
Artist: J. Palmero
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 19.7 x 24 inches
Support: Canvas
Framing: Unframed
Period: Contemporary
Signature: Located at th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$550 Sale Price
42% Off
Fine 19th Century Oil - The Captain
Located in Corsham, GB
A distinguished 19th-century portrait of a proud captain, pictured in his naval uniform. His assured gaze meets the viewer with quiet authority, commanding attention and respect. In ...
Category
19th Century Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
"Ship and Boats" Harbor Scene Impressionist Oil Painting Style of Emile Gruppe
Located in New York, NY
A powerful scene of a harbor depicting several colorful sailing boats with rich color tones and bold brushwork. An oil on canvas impressionist painting with much attention to detail....
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Hamptons Polo Field Horse Portrait Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Very impressive mid century polo field modernist landscape. Oil on canvas. No signature found. Framed.
Category
1940s Modern Unknown Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,020 Sale Price
20% Off
Late 19th Century Cupids Forging Gold -- House of Vetti Frieze Pompeii
Located in Soquel, CA
Wonderful late 19th Century of two cupids forging gold drawn from a section of the 1st century CE cupids frieze from the triclinium or dining room from the House of the Vetti in Pomp...
Category
Late 19th Century Renaissance Unknown Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
$800 Sale Price
20% Off
Yellowstone Park - Upper Geyser Basin - Vintage Photo 1893
Located in Roma, IT
U. St. Yellowstone Park - Upper Geyser Basin - 23 September 1893 - is an original vintage b/w photo realized as part of a journey to Asia performed by...
Category
1890s Unknown Art
Materials
Paper, Photographic Paper
Large original oil painting on canvas, Venice, Italy, Signed, Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Up for sale is an original large oil painting on canvas, depicting Venice, Italy.
Signed in the lower-left corner probably Tom.
Presented in a nice wood frame.
Condition: The pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Unknown Art
Materials
Oil
$480 Sale Price
20% Off
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