California - Paintings

A late 19th Century hand painted mature portrait in a bone and Bronze frame with velvet backing and bronze twig like stand. An impeccable piece and lovely on the desk or shelf. A w...

19th century Japanese Edo period six-panel screen painted in Haboku (splashed ink) style. Depicts Four Seasons landscape scenes with two portraits of Chinese sages. One sage is trave...

Great pair of original drawings by Robert Loughlin on cardboard. One image of 'the Brute' with cigarette facing left and the other with the cigarette facing to the right. Great pair ...

Industrial style painting with an upward angle creates a dramatic view of skyscrapers, telephone poles and a serviceman in a lift at work. Artist signed...

A painting by Inga Uwais aka Chris Langdon (b. 1952) « Adventures of Man Love Doll #6 », oil on canvas, 2012. From the private collection of Laura Lee Stearn...

Discover an exceptional 40" x 60" oil on masonite by the renowned Mexican artist Leonardo Nierman (1932 to 2023). Titled 'Jungle,' this striking original painting exemplifies Nierman...

Teal, ochre and grey oil on canvas painting created by listed California contemporary modernist artist, KC Haxton. Painting was painted on canvas and mounted on a stretched canvas ba...

Large-scale abstract male blue nude by renowned artist Shawn Savage. Acrylic on canvas. Newly framed in a matte black floating frame.

Enchanting oil on canvas by Carl Emil Doepler, protected by a beautiful hand-carved giltwood frame with a metal label titled "Italian Renaissance Party", depicting a traditional Ital...

Original oil painting self portrait of the late Donald K Ryan. Donald K Ryan’s work spans mostly from the 80s to the early 2000s. Throughout...

A painter born in Bosnia, Berber was one of the best-known graphic artists in the world. He went on to study at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana. From 1992 until his death in Oc...

A stunning painting by Ms. Zwickler, this 1982 painting titled "No Man's Island", is very 1980s in styling and has an almost Memphis Milano feel. This colorful, vibrant post modern a...

Large oil painting on canvas still life in original wood frame, signed Lentz.

Madonna oil painting on cardboard . Wonderful patina.

A serene oil on canvas river landscape by Mary Elizabeth King (20th Century), beautifully capturing a tranquil river flowing through the woods. The artist's delicate brushwork and us...

Original 1940s Pink Flamingo Watercolor Painting on Paper Signed by Shirrell Graves. The painting features its original white wood frame with a Mirrored border, this is the frame Gra...

This a charming late 19th or early 20th century plein aire paiting by the Italian artist Attilio Simonetti (1843-1925). The painting is inscribed al dorso "San Benedetto Del Tronto S...

Vintage track and field sign from the early 1970s. Hand painted red sign with yellow lettering. Taken down from a California high school. Horizontal wo...

Outsider abstract oil painting on board signed Peter L. Sword (1939-2018). Peter was a longtime resident of San Francisco where we purchased this painting. We see online that he live...

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...

This is a fantastic original Mid-Century oil on canvas by listed New York artist Dr. Patricia Hermine Sloane (1934-2001). This large work is titled "Cat Face" and signed on...

Fantastic Mid-Century Modern oil on canvas painting by Pascal Cucaro titled "Festival". The painting depicts Asian women in colorful Kimono robes with bold, vivid colors and thick br...

Portuguese 1944 Watercolor Sunday Morning Mass.  

Pair of tiger and lion Art Deco framed paintings. Oil on panel. Beautiful carved wood frames.

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

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.

Antique oil on canvas made in Italy in the late 19th Century, depicting a lakeside view with trees all around and a fisherman on the back. It is protected by a carved giltwood frame....

A fantastic original Mid-Century Modern abstract gouache painting by famed Israeli painter/ artist Aharon Kahana. Kahana was born in Stuttgart, Germa...

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...

Here is a large painting of a female torso, prominently featuring the navel. The oil on canvas measures approximately 77.5" H x 38" W. The pastel color palette and minimalist desig...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

Poujol, Biblis changée en source (Byblis Transformed into a Spring), 1898 Artist: Poujol Nationality: French Date: 1898 Medium: Oil on canvas Signature: Signed and dated lower left...

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...

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...

Charles Melohs (American, 1908 – 1982) Desert Rider, circa 1956 Mixed media composition on canvas Signed to the lower left Inscribed to the verso Intr...

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 ...

Wonderfully mellow and vibrant still life of fruit on platter and over flowing from woven basket and on a glass compote. Executed in the style of 18th. and 19th. century still life....

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...

Traditional oil on canvas painting by John Williamson, titled 'Hudson River' and dated 1865, depicts a fisherman with cattle next to the river. Protected by a giltwood frame. Dimensi...

Abstract Mid-Century Artwork by Merv Slotnick, 1971 This Black & White Abstract by Merv Slotnick, 1971 signed and dated lower left is a captivating piece encapsulated in a chunky 19...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 fun abstract painting on a merlot background in its original walnut & gilt frame with antique glass. We have not been able to find any information on the artist, but it is signed a...

Landscape painting, oil on artist board in giltwood frame. Titled oak gulch and dated 1950.

An original abstract painting by Listed American artist Rick Orr. This's from "Edge of Town" series.

Original 1940s Mid-century vibrant Hawaiian Casablanca Lily airbrush on paper in original glass plate frame with a tropical-themed matte. This artwork captures the exotic beauty of C...

An English late 19th century portrait painting of a dog. Expressive detailed face, beautifully painted. Oil paint on a heavy wood panel. Shows some old craquelure to the varnish. ...

Bouquet of roses by Hermine David, oil on cardboard linen, signed. Framed. Hermine Lionette Cartan David (19 April 1886 in Paris – 1 December 1970 in ...

Acrylic on canvas original painting entitled "Country Bridge" by renowned Filipino artist Romeo Villalva Tabuena, cica 1970. The painting is very bright and colorful and measures an impressive 35.5" x 22.5" x 2". It is presented in its original wood frame; signed and dated in the upper right of the painting. The piece also includes a gallery sticker on the reverse from Guanajuato, Mexico. Gorgeous focal point piece of art with wonderful color and texture! #3062 Romeo Villalva Tabuena Filipino postwar Neo-realist painter and printmaker Romeo Tabuena...

Oil on Canvas by José Herrera (Spanish, 1943-). Signed and dated 1973. Original stainless steel frame. A beautiful piece.