California - Wall Decorations

Circular rattan wall self, circa 1950. This rare rattan wall shelf features unique five strand stack rattan frame made with cut-out sections that hold two mahogany shelves. 1960s, ...

A Gothic Revival style engraved brass rubbing, English or Continental, from the 19th Century. This is a beautiful piece with two figures who are dressed in elaborate clothing reserve...

Fine 19th century portrait miniature of a man with a yellow V-neck collar A wonderful antique oil portrait of a distinguished gentleman. Dim...

Jan Loman (Bolsward, 1919-2006) Lithograph, Artist proof, signed, 1994 On mat-board Measure: Height 9" Width 12" Jan Loman was born in Bolsward in 1918 and passe...

This is a charming painting of a cherub with an arm extending forward, perhaps hold out a bouquet of flowers. The painting dates to the mid-18th century and is probably cut from a larger painting. The putti is well-framed in a French a gold leafed neoclassical-style. Considering the quality of this painting, and although not signed, the painting was most probably painted by a recognized Italian 18th century artist.

A captivating exploration of depth and dimension, this abstract textural painting by Michael Allen is a striking statement of modern artistry. Executed on a wood panel, the compositi...

A gorgeous and beautifully textured mezzotint print in the style of fellow Japanese artists Wako Ito, Hamanishi Katsunori, Tomoe Yokoi, Kaoru Saito, and Yozo Hamaguchi. The print is pencil signed (Noriko?), titled ("Crab Apple...

Original large abstract painting by American listed artist Rick Orr. This is an acrylic on board, with a gold leaf wood frame. Measurements: 53.25” Wide, 29.25” High. 1.25” Deep.

Bar designed by Billy Joe McCarroll and David Gillespe and produced by Forms and Surfaces, Inc., Santa Barbara, California. The bar features a B...

Wonderful and darkly intriguing original artwork by renowned American Modernist artist and California artist benefactor Millard Sheets (1907-1989) featuring wartime boats caught in stormy seas. Very evocative and certainly quite relevant to the time it was created taken in the context of the war. The work is hand pencil signed and dated (1942) by Sheets on the mat just below the artwork. Provenance: Property from the estate of Millard Sheets. Would be a great addition to any collectors of his work or Mid-Century Modern artist or an eye-catching stand-alone accent artwork in about any setting. Sheets many awards include: Watson F. Blair Purchase Prize, Chicago Art Institute (1938) Philadelphia Watercolor Club Prize (1939) Dana Watercolor Medal, Pennsylvania Academy of fine Arts (1943) Drawing Prize, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1946) Gold Brush Award, Artists Guild of Chicago, Award of the Year (1951) Honorary Doctor of Laws, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana (1964) His works can be found in numerous permanent collections, public settings, and international museums including: The Museum of Modern Art, New York Scripps College, CA The White House (Washington, DC) The San Diego Museum The Los Angeles Public Library...

Original letterpress print of 1862 Manet etching of Charles Baudelaire by French artist Édouard Manet (1832-1883). Nicely matted and framed, print meas...

A very fine German KPM porcelain plaque depicting a beauty floating ecstatically above a bed of flowers. Signed: Knys Impressed KPM and sceptre mark. Circa 1900 Dimensions: ...

Carl Auböck Model #4327 polished brass hook. Designed in the 1950s, this versatile and minimalist Viennese hook is executed in polished brass by Werkstätte Carl Auböck, Austria. Pro...

I have owned this Patrick Nagel original silkscreen “Seated Man” since it was released in 1981. I was in fashion college then and Patrick and hi...

Beautiful original print by David Weidman ED of 250, signed and numbered David Weidman's (1921-2014) work is easily recognizable and emblematic of midcentury graphic design. This is ...

Countryside children from the late 19th century playing and attacked by geese on a farm. 19th century style oil on canvas style painting. Stretched on a piece of wood frame. Left sid...

Wall Sculpture 1960s Mexican Modern Wall Art Abstract Sculpture with Figures crafted in Bronze and Glass. 13 3/4" H x 33 1/2" x 1 1/2" D, Art 29 3/8" x 9 5/8" H Original Unrestored V...

Extremely rare California ‘Slow Children' playing sign. Entire sign is embossed with an old-time child wearing knickerbocker trousers. From the early 1900s. Great piece of history. P...

Abstract Modern Cubist Oil on Canvas artist signed C Martin Tschaen 1988 39.5 x 39.5 x 1 d Colors of orange, green and yellow geometric shapes. In the style ...

Pencil Drawing on Paper by the Bolivian Surrealist artist, Benjamin Mendoza y Amor Flores (1935 - 2014), untitled of a Man laying on his back holding a large fish on top of him and b...

Charles Edouard Edmond Delort (French, 1841-1895) oil on canvas "Game for the Cardinal", depicting a seated cardinal behind an ornate French Louis XV roll-top Bureau du Roi, after the model by Jean-François Oeben currently at Versailles, a young boy delivering a game bird as a gift, all inside an ornately paneled and upholstered wall room with parquet floors and centred with a white bear skin rug...

Wonderful vintage mosaic wall sculpture designed by California artist Max E. Neufeldt in the United States. Rarely can you find such a unique work ...

A really beautiful brutalist inspired gold leaf, acrylics and oils painting on board by designer/artist George Machado. Titled “Faith & Hope”. This painting has a great linen and han...

Sven Lukin: Silkscreen #2 Released by Pace Gallery in NY 1969 Limited Edition

Magritte by Jacques Meuris 1988 1st Edition. First American Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 233pp 393 illustrations. Blue boards in dust jacket. Translat...

An evocative oil on canvas in the Art Deco style depicting a view from a window, signed and dated 1929 in the lower center of the picture. Claes-Thobois was born in 1883 and studied ...

ABOUT An original vintage Chinese propaganda poster, "Determined to Take Roots in the Countryside". "Tempering red hearts in the vast world, striking roots in the countryside without...

Fanny Sugars (British, 1856-1933) A Charming Victorian Era Oil on Canvas Depicting a Portrait of Standing Young Girl Wearing a Bonnet, within a later giltwood frame. Signed and Dated: 'Fanny Sugars / 1881' (lower right). Museums: Lancaster City Museums Miss Dalton, possibly Alzira Eloise Dalton (1889–1983) c. 1904 by Fanny Sugars (1856–1933) Lancaster Maritime Museum Miss Dalton, possibly Alzira Eloise Dalton (1889–1983) by Fanny Sugars (1856–1933) Manchester Art Gallery My Mother by Fanny Sugars (1856–1933) Fanny Sugars (1856–1933) Is recorded in Union List of Artist Names - Getty Research Fanny Sugers (1856–1933) is recorded as having exhibited at The Royal Academy Of Art in London, 1903. Exhibition No. 1160 - Portrait of a Lady. Article from Woman, Art and Money in Late Victorian and Edwardian England - The Hustle and the Scramable: Fanny Sugars was a ‘well-known Manchester artist’ who had been the only artist out of forty-one nominees to be elected to the Manchester Academy membership in 1897. ‘Women’s Doings’, Hearth and Home, 11 March 1897, 722. 64 ‘Women’s Doings’, Hearth and Home, 29 March 1900, 883. 65 Cherry, Painting Women, 70. 66 Arthur Fish, Henrietta Rae...

Pair of lithographs by listed artist Robert Inman, 20th century One "California Series", two "Osaka Series". Beautiful lithographs. Dimensions:...

This oil on canvas embodies the vibrant spirit of English Abstract Expressionism, reminiscent of Hans Hofmann's push and pull technique. It displays an energetic composition of sunse...

ABOUT An original vintage Chinese propaganda poster, "Persist in Physical Labor for Continuous Revolution". Bright, vivid colors. Framed with a black, metal frame and acrylic. Not a...

20th Century bark cloth painting, Mbuti (Efe) people, Ituri Forest, D. R. Congo A painted barkcloth from the Efe people in the Ituri forest of no...

Original 1938 Frank Macintosh "Fruit Harvest" Lithograph menu cover beautifully framed in a black frame with white matting. Frank McIntosh was born in Portland, Oregon in 1901. He moved to San Francisco to study art, where he graduated from the California School of Fine Arts. After briefly opening a studio in San Francisco, he moved to New York and later Paris to continue his studies. McIntosh established himself as an illustrator, designing numerous Art Deco-style covers for the American Asia magazine...

Vintage Printed Tarot Card by David Mario Palladini, c 1967 L'Empereur We love this colorful vintage printed Tarot Card c 1967 by artist David Mario Palladini (1946 - 2019). It was...

Set of 3 brass furniture pediments in the shape of wreaths. Made in France in the early 20th century.

This amazing piece comes from a vintage multi-million dollar Rancho Mirage, CA estate. This piece was hung on the wall in a specially designed Italian brass hardware (INCLUDED) in th...

This wall decoration set is distinguished by a crackle gold 18 Karat overlay. The high glaze finish enhances this sculptural display from gifted California designer Larry Lubow. Ther...

Betty Woodman (American, 1930–2018). Silk chiffon textile with hand rolled edges. After the "Deco Lake Shore," 2002. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, © Betty Woodman textile...

This etching by Leonard Baskin (1922 - 2000) in entitled"Yom Kippur", ed. 16/150, numbered in pencil lower left. The etching is dated 1978. ***Leonard Baskin (August 15, 1922 – June...

A very rare nicely framed original lithograph by Georges Braque for Galerie Maeght, circa 1950s.

Graciela Rodo Boulanger " Peacock For Sophie" Pencil Signed and Numbered Lithograph 1979. GRACIELA RODO BOULANGER (Bolivia born 1935). Child in a tree with a peacock below. Pencil si...

This French wood wall panel artfully carves the form of a nude woman in a diver’s pose, blending sensuous artistry with naturalistic elements. The organic lines and the addition of k...

Charming pair of Dutch Victorian delft tile panels in blue and white glazed earthenware depicting a cat and a dog. The tiles are mounted to a wood pan...

A fine Italian 19th century oil painting on canvas "La Madonna della Seggiola" after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino 1483-1520) The circular canvas depicting a seated Madonna holding an infant Jesus Christ next to a child Saint John the Baptist, all within a massive carved gilt wood and gesso frame (all high quality gilt is original) which is identical to the frame on Raphael's original artwork. This painting is a 19th Century copy of Raphael's Madonna della Seggiola painted in 1514 and currently exhibited and part of the permanent collection at the Palazzo Pitti, Galleria Palatina, Florence, Italy. The bodies of the Virgin, Christ, and the boy Baptist fill the whole picture. The tender, natural looking embrace of the Mother and Child, and the harmonious grouping of the figures in the round, have made this one of Raphael's most popular Madonnas. The isolated chair leg is reminiscent of papal furniture, which has led to the assumption that Leo X himself commissioned the painting, circa 1890-1900. Subject: Religious painting Measures: Canvas height: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Canvas width: 29 1/4 inches (74.3 cm) Painting diameter: 28 1/4 inches (71.8 cm) Frame height: 57 7/8 inches (147 cm) Frame width: 45 1/2 inches (115.6 cm) Frame depth: 5 1/8 inches (13 cm).   Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino (Italian, March 28 or April 6, 1483 - April 6, 1520), known as Raphael, was an Italian painter and architect of the High Renaissance. His work is admired for its clarity of form, ease of composition, and visual achievement of the Neoplatonic ideal of human grandeur. Together with Michelangelo and Leonardo da Vinci, he forms the traditional trinity of great masters of that period. Raphael was enormously productive, running an unusually large workshop and, despite his death at 37, leaving a large body of work. Many of his works are found in the Vatican Palace, where the frescoed Raphael Rooms were the central, and the largest, work of his career. The best known work is The School of Athens in the Vatican Stanza della Segnatura. After his early years in Rome much of his work was executed by his workshop from his drawings, with considerable loss of quality. He was extremely influential in his lifetime, though outside Rome his work was mostly known from his collaborative printmaking. After his death, the influence of his great rival Michelangelo was more widespread until the 18th and 19th centuries, when Raphael's more serene and harmonious qualities were again regarded as the highest models. His career falls naturally into three phases and three styles, first described by Giorgio Vasari: his early years in Umbria, then a period of about four years (1504–1508) absorbing the artistic traditions of Florence, followed by his last hectic and triumphant twelve years in Rome, working for two Popes and their close associates. Raphael was born in the small but artistically significant central Italian city of Urbino in the Marche region, where his father Giovanni Santi was court painter to the Duke. The reputation of the court had been established by Federico III da Montefeltro, a highly successful condottiere who had been created Duke of Urbino by the Pope - Urbino formed part of the Papal States - and who died the year before Raphael was born. The emphasis of Federico's court was rather more literary than artistic, but Giovanni Santi was a poet of sorts as well as a painter, and had written a rhymed chronicle of the life of Federico, and both wrote the texts and produced the decor for masque-like court entertainments. His poem to Federico shows him as keen to show awareness of the most advanced North Italian painters, and Early Netherlandish artists as well. In the very small court of Urbino he was probably more integrated into the central circle of the ruling family than most court painters. Federico was succeeded by his son Guidobaldo da Montefeltro, who married Elisabetta Gonzaga, daughter of the ruler of Mantua, the most brilliant of the smaller Italian courts for both music and the visual arts. Under them, the court continued as a centre for literary culture. Growing up in the circle of this small court gave Raphael the excellent manners and social skills stressed by Vasari. Court life in Urbino at just after this period was to become set as the model of the virtues of the Italian humanist court through Baldassare Castiglione's depiction of it in his classic work The Book of the Courtier, published in 1528. Castiglione moved to Urbino in 1504, when Raphael was no longer based there but frequently visited, and they became good friends. He became close to other regular visitors to the court: Pietro Bibbiena and Pietro Bembo, both later cardinals, were already becoming well known as writers, and would be in Rome during Raphael's period there. Raphael mixed easily in the highest circles throughout his life, one of the factors that tended to give a misleading impression of effortlessness to his career. He did not receive a full humanistic education however; it is unclear how easily he read Latin. Early Life and Works His mother Màgia died in 1491 when Raphael was eight, followed on August 1, 1494 by his father, who had already remarried. Raphael was thus orphaned at eleven; his formal guardian became his only paternal uncle Bartolomeo, a priest, who subsequently engaged in litigation with his stepmother. He probably continued to live with his stepmother when not staying as an apprentice with a master. He had already shown talent, according to Vasari, who says that Raphael had been "a great help to his father". A self-portrait drawing from his teenage years shows his precocity. His father's workshop continued and, probably together with his stepmother, Raphael evidently played a part in managing it from a very early age. In Urbino, he came into contact with the works of Paolo Uccello, previously the court painter (d. 1475), and Luca Signorelli, who until 1498 was based in nearby Città di Castello. According to Vasari, his father placed him in the workshop of the Umbrian master Pietro Perugino as an apprentice "despite the tears of his mother". The evidence of an apprenticeship comes only from Vasari and another source, and has been disputed—eight was very early for an apprenticeship to begin. An alternative theory is that he received at least some training from Timoteo Viti, who acted as court painter in Urbino from 1495.Most modern historians agree that Raphael at least worked as an assistant to Perugino from around 1500; the influence of Perugino on Raphael's early work is very clear: "probably no other pupil of genius has ever absorbed so much of his master's teaching as Raphael did", according to Wölfflin. Vasari wrote that it was impossible to distinguish between their hands at this period, but many modern art historians claim to do better and detect his hand in specific areas of works by Perugino or his workshop. Apart from stylistic closeness, their techniques are very similar as well, for example having paint applied thickly, using an oil varnish medium, in shadows and darker garments, but very thinly on flesh areas. An excess of resin in the varnish often causes cracking of areas of paint in the works of both masters. The Perugino workshop was active in both Perugia and Florence, perhaps maintaining two permanent branches. Raphael is described as a "master", that is to say fully trained, in December 1500. His first documented work was the Baronci altarpiece for the church of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino in Città di Castello, a town halfway between Perugia and Urbino. Evangelista da Pian di Meleto, who had worked for his father, was also named in the commission. It was commissioned in 1500 and finished in 1501; now only some cut sections and a preparatory drawing remain. In the following years he painted works for other churches there, including the Mond Crucifixion (about 1503) and the Brera Wedding of the Virgin (1504), and for Perugia, such as the Oddi Altarpiece. He very probably also visited Florence in this period. These are large works, some in fresco, where Raphael confidently marshals his compositions in the somewhat static style of Perugino. He also painted many small and exquisite cabinet paintings in these years, probably mostly for the connoisseurs in the Urbino court, like the Three Graces and St. Michael, and he began to paint Madonnas and portraits. In 1502 he went to Siena at the invitation of another pupil of Perugino, Pinturicchio, "being a friend of Raphael and knowing him to be a draughtsman of the highest quality" to help with the cartoons, and very likely the designs, for a fresco series in the Piccolomini Library in Siena Cathedral. He was evidently already much in demand even at this early stage in his career. Influence of Florence Raphael led a "nomadic" life, working in various centres in Northern Italy, but spent a good deal of time in Florence, perhaps from about 1504. Although there is traditional reference to a "Florentine period...

This piece is absolutely stunning. At 48" x 48" this geometric painting is evocative of a green geometric jungle, with deep emerald and malachite greens and a heavily pigmented and m...

19th century French painted paper and mother of pearl fan, shadow-box framed antique ladies fan, made of mother of pearl with a hand embellished re...

Nicely detailed. Made of Gesso and giltwood. Hand carved and hand painted.

An original French lithographic advertising poster for Cafe Paul Fouquet, circa 1925-1930. Now archivally framed and glazed with UV resistant plexiglass. Provenance: Sarah Stocking, ...

A monumental 19th century French hand carved white marble architectural bas-relief depicting two floating cherubs / cupids supporting a cartouche. The cartouche centered by a detaile...

Pair of 18th century Italian Venetian Rococo painted and gilt pine wall brackets.

A lovely oil on line titled “Claire” by Natalie Frank. It was painted in Slade London in the Summer of 1999. It has a nice gold frame. Canvas size is 28x36 inches. Frame size is giv...

Incredible vintage hand-painted screen panels designed by Robert Crowder in the United States, circa 1960s. These screen panels have a design that takes us back to the typical gardens of ancient Japan, which fell in love with the eye and spread peace to visitors. It features six rectangular panels with a white background, which simulates an elegant oil painting...

Handcrafted Ken Edwards ceramic plate Tonala Mexico Folk Art Pottery. Vintage Ken Edwards Mexican ceramic birds and flowers from Tonala Pottery. ...

Large and impressive 1950s abstract oil painting by Monte This really is a magnificent abstract painting. It's large size will make this the centerpiece of most interiors. Beau...

Félix Vallotton French Poster by Les Maîtres de l’Affiche: Ah! la Pé . . . la Pé . . . la Pépinierè!!!. Lithographie # Plate 119 from the original stone lithograph circa 1898. Framed...

José Luis Cuevas (1934-2017) La Maga (The Sorceress), 1972 From The Mexican Masters suite, 1972-73 Paper size: 22.5 inches (57 cm) x 30.5 inches (77.5 cm) Fram...

The new American cottage: Innovations in small-scale Residential Architecture (New American Architecture) Synopsis: Small-scale architectural masterpieces are showcased in this beaut...

Carl Auböck Model #4086 nickel hook. Designed in the 1950s, this versatile and Minimalist Viennese hook is executed in brushed nickel by Werkstätte Carl Auböck, Austria. Produced b...

Beautiful acrylic painting on a 1800s paper by contemporary artist Afsoon Thayer. Flower motif painted with Farrow and ball and gold leaf on an original 1800s Napoleon III French Rep...

A unique contemporary framed painting... no real subject matter, but wonderfully colorful and a very nice decorative piece for a grouping or to stand alone. The piece has not been re...