Which color would you choose for this to “pop”? Green or orange? Oil on artist board signed lower left by the mid-century artist Iona Waite about 1960. Couldn’t resist the allusion to Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) with the reference to the oranges. 14″ x 18″ in original white-washed wooden frame, $375. Something for everyone!
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Purdy as a picture! Unsigned French oil on canvas laid down on cardboard proving that the French joined the folks across the channel with their Victorian love of flowers. Presented in later gilt frame 18″ x 22″, $395.
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This larger-than-(still)life was painted about 1930 by an unknown English artist of some merit. The dented and outsized copper vessel, white porcelain vase and oversized fruit certainly draw your attention! Housed in its original bronzed frame 28″ x 24″, this piece works perfectly for today’s kitchen or yesterday’s Arts and Crafts cottage. $425.
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Alfonso T. Toran’s (1896-1965) oil painting on masonite portrays vibrant fuchsia and violet flowers in an ornate Victorian vase. The piece is elegantly framed in a contemporary closed corner frame 16″ x 12″, blending traditional beauty with modern design and creating a stunning floral composition that bridges the past and present. Toran was born in Naples, Italy, but spent most […]
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“Vase Vert Avec Fleurs.” Tres elegant! What better way to describe this unsigned turn- of -the-century French still life? Quick conversion of an ordinary space into an extraordinary experience! Oil on canvas in period oil-gilt frame 23 x 27 circa 1900–1910. $585.
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“Nature Morte sur en Table”. 18th century Dutch realism reached a pinnacle with the still- lifes of Pieter Paul Rubens(1577-1640) Jean Chandin(1699-1779) and Jan van de Velde. The Flemish approach emphasizing abundance by depicting a diversity of fruits, flowers and dead game became the “thing”, and the European great houses, especially English ones, could not get enough for their grand […]
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“Gracefully, the white horse pranced across the table top, knocking apples here and there.” Oil on canvas, “Le Chaval Blanc,” was painted in 1944 by Manfred Schwartz(1909-1970.)Producing a varied oeuvre during his lifetime, Schwartz immigrated to New York from Lodz, Poland in 1920 and was recognized as a child progeny. Exhibiting side-by-side with Maurice Vlaminck(1876-1958), Bernard Buffet (1928-1999), Edward Hopper […]
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If a painting could sing, one might hear “A Concerto in Blue “ viewing this piece. Oil on canvas “StillLife,Fruit in Blue Compote” signed l/l “P.(Petter) Szitany”, Hungarian Impressionist who very obviously was familiar with the genius of Paul Cezanne(1839-1906.). Canvas c. 1930 in later frame 23x 27, $950.
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A simpler, gentler time. 1950. Sure, there was conflict and turmoil, it just wasn’t always in your face. “Summer Bouquet, Summer Window.” Oil on canvas by Chicago artist Louis Cohn in the best tradition of American Realism. 32 x 25 in original simple gold frame, $495.
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Ukrainian Genius: “ Still Life, Bowl of Fruit,” signed L/L “Ben Benn”(1884-1983.) Pioneer Modernist with excursions into Cubism and Abstract Expressionism, Benn was born in southwest Ukraine as a Jew under the Czarist Alexander III. He migrated with his family to the United States in 1898, and between 1904 and 1908 attended The National Academy of Design. Participating in the […]
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