Woman with a Lyre
Oil on Panel, signed and retaining a paper label on the reverse
Painting: 14.5" x 8.5"
Frame: 20.5" x 15"
Jose Rico y Cejudo was born n Seville, Spain on March 27, 1864. He was the student of M. Ussel and J. Garcia Ramos at the School of Fine Arts in Seville. Eduardo Cano also played a role in the education of Cejudo as Cejudo would often pay visits to the artist'a studio. In 1888 he received a scholarshi...
Lady in Renaissance Dress
Oil on Panel, retaining exhibition label on reverse
Painting Size: 12.5" x 9.5"
Frame Size: 18.5" x 15.5"
This portrait is very much in the Pre-Raphaelite manner and shows the influence of such artists as Burne-Jones and Rossetti; the young woman having a somewhat mournful visage, strong chin and Roman nose, her red hair drawn back in a chignon and garlanded with pearls while she is garbed in a Renaissan...
River Landscape in Spring
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right
Painting Size: 23.5”” x 18.25”
Frame Size: 29.75 ” x 24.25”
A painter of landscapes and architecture, Begas-Parmentier was the wife of artist d’Adalbert Begas. She studied with the landscape painter Emil Jakob Schindler and the etcher Wilhelm Unger. At the age of 22 she began to exhibit scenes of rural Austria at the Künstlerhaus . Around...
Young Beauty with Flowers
Oil on panel, signed.
Painting size: 14” x 18”
Frame size: 18.75” x 22.75”
American or English School, late 19th Century
Ink wash and gouache on toned paper, retaining a partial inscription on the reverse: “original sketch...de San Filippo”.
Sight size: 9.5” x 13.5”
Frame size: 19.75” x 23.75”
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Belisario Gioja (Italian, 1829-1906)
Watercolor on paper, signed and located “Roma.”
Provenance: Tilden-Thurber, Providence, Rhode Island.
Sight size: 20” x 13.5”
Frame size: 31” x 22.5”
Born in Rome in 1829, Belisario Gioja was a painter of Italian genre subject. He died on July 10, 1906. His son, Edoardo Gioja, also became a successful genre painter. Both exhibited in galleries and museums in Rome, Florence, Paris and ...
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Paris Canal Scene
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right
Painting: 18" x 21.5"
Frame: 22.5" x 26"
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Oliver Foss was born in Hanover, Germany to a father who was a professor of philosophy and of graphic arts, which mea...
Ernst Hawlicek (Austrian, 1888-1938)
Watercolor and gouache on paper, signed lower left.
Painting size: 20.75" x 14.25"
Frame size: 28.75" x 22.25"
$11,500
The Art Critics
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower right, located “Meran” and dated “1906"
Painting Size: 39.5” x 31.75”
Frame Size: 48.25 ” x 40”
A painter of historical, genre and allegorical scenes, Leeke studied at the Munich Academy under Johann Herterich and with the Hungarian genre and landscape painter Alexander von Wagner. Around 1889, Leeke was commissioned by Siegried Wagner, son of Richard Wagner to paint...
Oil on Oak Panel, unsigned, early 19th Century.
Painting: 17.5" x 11"
Frame: 22" x 16"
Saint Mark’s Basilica, Venice
Watercolor on paper, signed lower right
Sight Size: 7.75" x 11.5"
Frame Size: 12.75" x 17"
Tapié was an art critic, musician, sculptor, curator, theorist, and author as well as an artist. He was an influential practitioner of tachism, the European equivalent to abstract expressionism in the United States. Tapié established himself in the art world from the 1940’s to th...
Nocturne (ou Le Flirt)
[Merrill Chase, no. 63]*
Aquatint with etching in colors, circa 1906, on wove paper, signed in pencil in the image lower left. From the edition of about 100, with minor staining in the margins, not examined out of the frame.
Image Size: 13.5" x 17.5"
Frame Size: 24" x 27.5"
Robbe was a painter of genre scenes, a watercolorist, p...
Louis Courtin (French, 19th/20th century)
Oil on canvas, signed lower left and titled on the reverse.
Painting size: 18.25” x 21.75”
Frame size: 21.5” x 25.5”
The royal Château at Amboise is a château located in Amboise, in the Indre-et-Loire département of the Loire Valley in France. Confiscated by the monarchy in the 15th century, it became a favoured royal residence and was extensively rebuilt. King Charles VIII...
Mischevious Terriers
Oil on canvas, signed.
Provenance: From the Estate of Celebrity Clarivoyant Jean Dixon.
Painting size: 24” x 20”
Frame size: 31” x 35.5”
Goerge Armfield, known as George Armfield Smith until 1840, flourished from 1840-1875, as a London painter of dogs, especially terriers chasing birds, cats or mice. Armfield also painted landscapes, dead game, birds and other wild animals. His small ...
Girl Pursued by Her Lover
Oil on paper, painted in the round, signed indistinctly.
Frame Diameter: 16”
The young girl, being pursued by her hiding lover, is a direct reference to Jean-Honoré Fragonard’s The Pursuit in his Pursuit of Love series created for Mme. du Barry in the late eighteenth century. The young girl’s outstretched arms, arabesque leg, and flowing skirts are in the same position in each painting....
Aimé Barraud (Swiss 1902-1954)
Trompe L’oeil of Grapes
Oil-on-canvas, signed lower left
Painting: 18” x 13”
Frame: 22 ½” x 17 ¼”
Barraud was a painter of still lifes, flowers, portraits and landscapes. Charles, Aurèle, François and Aimé were four brothers who were artists, sons of an engraver of watchplates. In 1928 and 1929 Aimé exhibited two paintings at the Salon des Indépendants (Paris). Barraud was also an associate at the Soci...
Squally Day
Oil-on-panel; signed lower left
See Brook-Hart, British 19th Century Marine Painting (Appendix) for a detailed discussion of this artist.
Frame size: 18.5" x 21"
Cat on a Brick Wall
Oil on board, signed and dated: “1904”.
Painting size: 7.5” x 5”
Frame size: 11.25” x 8.75”
Born in 1847 in Dusseldorf, Germany, he was a student to his father, noted genre painter Heirich Mücke. Additionally, he worked under the direction of W. Sohn. Today, his work can be found in the Düsseldorf Museum.
Sources:
Benezit, E. Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinate...