MARINE

Oil on canvas signed and dated lower right “Jos. Relinger, Dec. 1891.” This Philadelphia genre artist (1852-1918) leaves very little evidence of his ability, and none of his training or background. However, his treatment of the crashing waves in this painting suggests a familiarity with the Japanese master of the wave-painters Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849). The skill of linear perspective, using […]

Small (14″ x 18″) Italian vignette of a fishing group with Venice in the distance. Unsigned oil on artist board executed circa 1930 in original gilded frame, $475. Nice dreamy period piece from our London picker.

Wonderful depiction of a moored houseboat and several skiffs on a peaceful river. Painted in 1980 by the mid-century Russian Federation Impressionist Leonty Filipovich Chaloi (1929-?) and signed/dated in Cyrillic on verso. Graduate of the Russian Academy of Art and Sculpture, he was the assistant director of the Combine of Fine Arts, Leningrad. His works are held in many museums […]

Taking a page, if not a lesson, from Henri Matisse(1869-1954), Attobelli decorated his canvas “Coast at Gargano” with pure colors, rejecting the nuances of Impressionists, and, more in favor of the Fauvists, expressed his spirit through color, abstract arabesques, flat dimensions and rhythm. He allows the viewer to infer the spiritual content of this delightful coastal scene based on his […]

Oil on canvas “Ante Meridian”, signed lower right “Bennett Schroeder Bradbury” (1914-1991) . Powerful midcentury view of the Pacific Ocean, probably Mendocino Beach area, Massachusetts born, Bradberry studied briefly at the Boston Museum of fine arts in 1929 and then joined the US Navy in 1931.Following the war, he settled in Laguna Beach and Honolulu where he developed a love […]

We complain about the snow but our friends in Denmark do not…. They just live with it! To wit.. this marvelously executed oil on canvas circa 1940 painted by Niles Hobak(1884-1954) emits a great deal of energy despite the frosty morning. Rarely found outside Copenhagen, his works command respect for careful attention to details. 27 1/2 x 21 1/2 in […]

Picasso(1881-1973) had his”Blue Period “…1901-1904. Cesare Ricciardi (1892-1973) had his “Moonlit Harbor Period” two decades later….1928-1935. Contemporaries,both used monochromatic paint in blue and gray tones. Picasso painted during a deep depression following the suicide of his friend Casagenas at the L’Hippodrome Cafe in Paris, February, 1901. Although Ricciardi’s blue works do not feel as though they were painted during such […]

OK…We surrender! By popular demand…another sailboat. Furled sails with no Moonlight this time. Rather, a midday glimpse of a calm lake somewhere in France, Midsummer. Unsigned French oil on canvas whose hand had obviously studied Monet’s ripples. Anyone recognize the bridge? 23 x 28 in original gold and silver painted frame, packing shipping and insurance included. $650,

Another “”Little cat feet” painting…Thank you Carl Sandburg(See Instagram post November 4, 2020). Who isn’t intrigued with mist and fog, early morning, on the coast? Mid century O/Masonite signed L/L “Hornaday”(Richard Hoyt, 1927-2013?)and housed in a contemporary convenienty square 25 x 25 frame, packing shipping and insurance included. Coastal memories, anyone? $450