About Skippings Fine Arts
Skippings Fine Arts is run by Tamara de Poniatowska, a Cambridge University educated art historian and former expert at the Paris auction house. She has twenty years experience in buying, selling, researching and appraising art. Skippings specialises in 19th to mid 20th century pictures - impressionist, modernist, figurative and abstract - mostly with a French connection. We also occasionally present contemporary art and choice pieces of Haute Epoque sculpture and non-European art. Genuine artefacts are never lifeless: they have the power to transform and brighten ou...Read More
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Featured Pieces
Girls and Ponies: naive surrealist outsider Alice in Wonderland style painting
Located in Norwich, GB
Step into a dreamlike pastoral paradise with this enchanting mid-century oil on canvas by French artist Denise Collet. Titled "Girls and Ponies," this work is a masterclass in the Ar...
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1980s Outsider Art Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Don Quichotte: abstracted modernist composition, luminous stained glass effect
Located in Norwich, GB
In this significant 1971 work, Oosterlynck moves beyond pure abstraction to pay homage to the literary legend of Don Quixote. The composition is a sophisticated "deconstruction" of t...
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1970s Modern Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
John Burroughs at Roxbury, Catskills Cabin Definitive Life Study American Artist
Located in Norwich, GB
Formally documented in The Life and Letters of John Burroughs (Vol. II, p. 168), this monumental canvas is not merely a portrait; it is a primary historical document. Painted in 1911...
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1910s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Passing Clouds, Before The Storm: A Dramatic Belle Époque Landscape
By Paul Leon Felix Schmitt
Located in Norwich, GB
This striking oil landscape is dominated by a vast, cinematic sky, rendered with the rapid, "plein air" brushwork that defined the late 19th-century French school. Rather than a stat...
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1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Riders, the autumn meet: equestrian oil by famed French aristocrat and horseman
Located in Norwich, GB
A rare 19th-century oil by the aristocratic painter and distinguished collector, Count Charles Gaston Esmangart de Bournonville de Saint-Maurice. It depicts an equestrian gathering ...
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1880s Impressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Art School Model: A Jeweller
s Nude Echoing Bernard Buffet’s Post-War Aesthetic
Located in Norwich, GB
Staunch and utterly absorbed, the Art School Model is seized in a moment of confident detachment, posing not for the students, but for posterity.
Here is a remarkable and historicall...
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Mid-20th Century French School Nude Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Visionary Vaudou Surrealism Large Contemporary Haitian Painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A mesmerising acrylic on canvas by the world-renowned contemporary Haitian master, Franz Zephirin. Celebrated for his highly original style, Zephirin is a key figure in modern Caribb...
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1990s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Mystical Portrait, Universal Woman Haitian School of Beauty Caribean painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A captivating oil painting by the Haitian master, Albert Desmangles. This piece is a wonderful example of his work within the highly sought-after School of Beauty art movement, which...
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1980s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil, Acrylic
Taurus, A Characterful Guardian: Unique Hand-Modelled Bull Animalier Sculpture
Located in Norwich, GB
This striking, characterful bull is a wonderful, early, and truly unique piece by the Russian/French sculptor Joseph Constant (1892-1969). Dating from the 1940s, this animal subject ...
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1940s Art Deco Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Beautiful May, Boston, 1936: intimate art deco modernistportrait of young woman
By Mariette Lydis
Located in Norwich, GB
A rare and captivating original portrait drawing by Mariette Lydis, executed during her important 1936 journey to America.
This work showcases Lydis’s mastery of line, colour, and p...
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1930s Art Deco Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Chalk, Watercolor, Graphite
Mid-Century Modern Paris: A View of the Seine
Located in Norwich, GB
Experience the romance and abstraction of 1950s Paris through this striking original mixed media drawing by the acclaimed American Modernist, Frederick E. Conway (1900–1973).
This c...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache
Jean Marais, Cocteau
s Muse, Master of Stage Design: Curtain for Sleeping Beauty
By Jean Marais
Located in Norwich, GB
Jean Marais (1913–1998) is immortalised as the face of French cinema's golden age—the hero of Beauty and the Beast, the swashbuckler of Le Bossu, and the muse of Jean Cocteau. Yet, t...
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Mid-20th Century French School Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Gouache
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