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François Gall (French, 1912–1987).This painting is offered in a giltwood frame.

Ballerine Paris Opera

Jan Pawlowski (American, b. 1949).This painting is offered in a gilt frame.

Field of Irises

Simka Simkhovitch (Russian-American, 1893–1949).Presented in a giltwood frame.

Naomi Seated

Sophie Von Hellerman (German, b. 1975).This painting is offered unframed.

Mark My Words

Emile Sabouraud (French, 1900-1996).This work is offered framed.

Mon Atelier (50 rue Vercingetorix XIV/a Paris)

Etienne Adolphe Piot (French, 1850–1910)This work is offered in a Louis XV-style custom-made frame by A.P.F Munn Master Framemakers. Piot studied under Parisian artist Leon Cogniet, who instilled in the young man a love for the human form. As a painter, or perhaps more appropriately, a painter of the female face, Piot was unrivaled. His subjects were painted against a dark background which emphasized the mood created by the subject’s facial expressions. Not merely portraits, his paintings were homages to feminine beauty. Piot also painted children—this at a time when childhood imagery was becoming very popular. During the early part of his career, Piot exhibited primarily the female portraits of his patrons, only later exhibiting works outside of portraiture, which have been highly praised. He was a member of the Société des Artistes Francais. His work is part of the collections at the Brooklyn Museum, in New York, and at the Rouen Museum, in France.

Young Woman with Roses

Eugene Gustavovitch Berman (Russian, 1899 - 1972)This work is offered framed and matted

Three Medusas

Eugene Lawrence Vail (American, 1857 - 1934).This work is offered in a modern frame with gold leaf finish

St. Moritz, A Sunny Corner

Olive Parker Black (American, 1868–1948)This work is offered in a giltwood frame with leaf tip carving at corners

Winter Landscape

Harry Leslie Hoffman (American, 1871–1964).This work is offered in a giltwood frame.

Bermuda Landscape

Frank Edwin Scott ( American, 1863–1929).This work is offered in a giltwood frame.

Parisian Nocturne 

Nicholas Alden Brooks (American, 1840–1950)This work is offered in a neoclassical-style 19th-century giltwood frame.

Still Life with Pink Ewer & Sheet Music

Lawton Parker (American 1868–1954)This work is offered in a Regence-style carved giltwood frame.

Sunlit Landscape

William McKillop (British, 1860–1909)This work is offered in a gold leaf frame with low-relief carved spandrels.

Young Lady Sitting

James Aponovich (American, b. 1948).This painting is offered in a painted wood frame.

Still Life with Slides

Al Held (American, 1928-2005).This work is offered unframed.

Untitled

John Ross Key (American, 1837–1920)This work is offered in a fluted giltwood frame with shell carved corners Key was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, but was raised in Washington, D.C. by his famous grandfather, Francis Scott, who penned the lyrics to the U.S. national anthem. Key began his art career relatively late—he did not receive his formal training until 1873, when he traveled to Europe to study in Munich, Germany and Paris, France. His early training (~1857 to 1865) was as a draftsman with the United States Coast Survey, the oldest scientific organization in the United States. The Survey hired only the best scientists and naturalists, and Key served with artists James McNeill Whistler and Gilbert Munge, who made engravings of the features of the eastern United States seaboard. His employment with the Survey brought him off the coastline of Charleston, South Carolina, in 1863, where he witnessed and documented the siege of that city during the American Civil War. Following the war, Key moved to New York City for a brief stay. By 1867, he was in Baltimore, Maryland, and then in 1869, he was sent to California by Lois Prang (the Boston lithographer) to paint a series of landscapes that included the Golden Gate Bridge, Yosemite, the giant sequoia trees and Lake Tahoe. When Key returned from his studies abroad in 1875, he worked in Chicago, St. Louis, New York and Baltimore and finally in Boston, where he opened a studio. Key moved to Washington, D.C. in 1908 and stayed there until 1917, at which point he moved to Baltimore until his death in 1920. Key exhibited at the National Academy of Design, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, The Boston Athenaeum, Mechanics Institute (San Francisco), The Boston Art Club, Corcoran Gallery and the Society of Independent Artists.

A Country Garden 

Frederick Stone Batcheller (American, 1837–1889)This work is offered in a carved giltwood Regence-style frame. Batcheller was born in the fledgling industrial city of Providence, Rhode Island. As Providence was growing into a major industrial center, Batcheller, along with fellow artists (George Whitaker, Edward Bannister, James Lewin, John Arnold, Charles Stetson, Thomas Robinson and Marcus Waterman), were molding it into an eastern cultural center. Together they formed The Group of 1855 to promote art and culture in Providence. Known primarily for his beautifully detailed still-lifes, he had begun his career as a sculptor, having apprenticed as a youth with Providence marble cutters Tingley Brothers. His foray into painting apparently coincided with the inception of The Group of 1855. He was known for his “moodiness” and during periods of melancholy, he would confine himself to his studio with his violin, not unlike the fictional sleuth Sherlock Holmes. This quirk led his friend George Whitaker to call him “the “Romantic.” His mood swings did not hamper his art, but perhaps even enhanced it—his still-lifes are among the best of those produced during that time. Batcheller, with Sydney Burleigh and George Whitaker, among others, was a founder of the Providence Art Club in 1880, the nation's second-oldest art club, only after the Salmagundi Club in New York City. He exhibited his still-lifes there, in addition to some of his landscapes. A skilled artist and well respected by his contemporaries, Batcheller never attained the same level of recognition as his friends. Nonetheless, his paintings are treasures waiting to be rediscovered by those with a discerning eye.

Haystacks with Pumpkins

John Ellsworth Weis (American, 1892–1962)This work is offered in a fluted giltwood frame Cincinnati artist John Weis was born in Powell County, Indiana. While John was young, the family moved first to Higginsport, Ohio, and later to Norwood, Ohio. At the age of 14, his father died, and to help support his family and his art study, he worked at various jobs, including a sign painter, soda fountain jerk and an electric coil winder, while attending night classes at the Cincinnati Academy. He was eventually able to enroll full-time, and in 1917 was offered a faculty position. A Cincinnati newspaper said of Weis in 1917, that he “is more at home in the painting of snow than in any other field.” Although Weis is best known for his impressionist landscapes, he was also an accomplished portraitist and painted local luminaires. During World War I, Weis had served with the One Hundred and Fifty-Ninth Artillery unit in France. After the war, he returned to teach at the Academy, but was determined to return to France to paint its scenic coasts and picturesque villages. In the summer of 1921, Weis, along with student John Myers, fulfilled his dream and left for a three-month sojourn in France, exhibiting at the Paris Salon. Upon their return to Cincinnati, his work was exhibited at the Art Museum in 1921 and 1923. Weis also traveled widely in the United States, including Taos, New Mexico; Woodstock, New York; Rockport, Gloucester and Provincetown, Massachusetts; and Booth Bay Harbor, Maine. In 1957, he retired from the Academy after 38 years. Weis was a member of the Cincinnati Art Club (president, 1927–1928) and Cincinnati MacDowell Club. He exhibited at the Cincinnati Art Club; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Annual (1925, 1926, 1927, 1930, 1933); Art Institute of Chicago (1926, 1928, 1930); and Corcoran Gallery biennial (1928, 1932).

Easter

Charles Henry Eaton (American, 1850–1901)This work is offered in a 19th-century Neoclassical giltwood frame with Greek key carving and husk garland ornament. Charles Henry (Harry) Eaton was born in Akron, Ohio, but the Eaton family moved to Cleveland and finally to Detroit, Michigan. Largely self-taught, Eaton studied briefly with John Mix Stanley in Detroit. He had received an inheritance after the death of his father in 1869, which he poorly invested, and this is speculated to be the reason he formed a partnership with another student of Stanley’s, portraitist James F. Maxfield, in 1874. He remained in Detroit as a landscape painter until 1878, at which time he moved to Holly, Michigan. In 1880, another move found him in Chicago, Illinois, where he remained until 1882. Exploring other opportunities, Eaton moved to New York City, which was to be his home base for nearly 10 years. He never severed his ties with Detroit, having sent artwork to the Detroit Art Loan Exhibition in 1883. In fact, he visited Detroit every summer to sketch, and completed paintings from his sketches in his New York studio. He is known to have painted along the Detroit River, near Monroe, along Shiawassee River, also in Michigan, and Conesus Creek and Conesus Lake (westernmost Fingerlake), New York. Eaton made one last move to Leonia, New Jersey, in the 1890s. His painting style is reminiscent of the French Barbizon School. “Last Days of Summer” marvelously captures this lower-toned style. Eaton exhibited widely, including Exposition Universelle; World’s Columbian Exposition; American Water Color Society; Boston Art Club, Brooklyn Art Association; Lotos Club; National Academy of Design and the Western Art Association. Eaton was a member of the Salmagundi Club, the Boston Art Club, the Detroit Artists Association, the Western Art Association and the American Art Association. Eaton was elected to the National Academy of Design (1893), and was President at the time of his death in 1901. He was Secretary of the American Watercolor Society for 14 years and was President at the time of his death. Eaton exhibited at the Boston Art Club (1887, silver); American Art Association (1888, gold); American Watercolor Society (1898, Evans Prize); Philadelphia Art Club (1900, gold); Exposition Universelle, (Paris, 1889); World’s Columbian Exposition (Chicago, 1893); The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Apple Orchard

Franklin Edward Morris (American, 1938–2009)This work is offered in a beveleld giltwood frame with art nouveau-style carvings. Morris lived in Mansfield, Ohio, but was active in New York, Maine, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C. as well. As a youth, Morris spent some time in the western United States and western panoramas and mountain paintings comprised his earliest works. He was largely self-taught, but with natural skill, a keen eye and under the influence of early 20th century American Impressionism, Morris produced many wonderful paintings, including the gardens at Kingwood Center in Mansfield; the Krohn Conservatory in Cincinnati (OH); the steel mills along the Ohio River and snowy New York City street scenes. Morris exhibited at the Vixsebose Gallery (Cleveland, OH); Cincinnati Art Galleries; Cooley Gallery (Old Lyme, CT); Griffith Gallery (Pittsburg, PA); and Swain Galleries (Morristown, NJ).

Sunny Day Ogunquit, Maine

George Cochran Lambdin (American, 1830–1896)This work is offered in a beveled giltwood frame George Cochran Lambdin, the son of famous portraitist James Reid Lambdin, was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He learned about art and painting from his father and his father’s circle of artist friends. In 1838, his family moved to Philadelphia, where he lived until his death. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts. As typical of many American artists of the time, he traveled to Europe to further develop his skills, and studied in Munich, Paris and Rome. During his lifetime, Lambdin was known for his skill in depicting sentimental genre subjects; however, it is his paintings of roses from his own garden for which he is best known. He also painted portraits of many Philadelphia women, which usually included roses whose hues matched the complexion of the subject. During the Civil War, Lambdin depicted the sentimental and psychological aspects of warfare rather than battles scenes as was typical. Many of of his paintings of flowers, especially roses, were printed as chromolithographs. Lambdin exhibited at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the 1867 Paris Universal Exposition. He was elected to the National Academy of Design in 1868.

The Little Helper

Jean Baptiste Louis Gros (French, 1793–1870)This work is offered in a carved giltwood Régence-style frame

Rive du Tage près de son embouchure

Port de Lisbonne 

Thomas Linnell (British, 1826–1905)This work is offered in a carved giltwood Louis XV-style frame with rocaille ornament.

At the Crossroads

Henry Pember Smith (American, 1854–1907).This work is offered in a giltwood frame.

Mid-Day at Venice 

Henri Pierre Picou (French, 1824-1895)Offered in a gilded and carved wood frame with applied ornament

Love Taken Prisoner

Estevam Coelho (Brazilian, 20th century).This work is offered unframed. A substantial mid-century figurative oil showing a trio of musicians playing guitar, drum and banjo, and singing against an Aegean blue background; a bright and rhythmic painting with all the color and rhythm of samba.

Músicos no Carnaval (Musicians in the Carnival)

Emory Ladanyi (Hungarian-American, 1902–1986).This work is offered unframed. Born in Hungary, Emory Ladanyi first attended the University of Budapest Medical School. During his medical residency in Berlin, he was especially influenced by the works of Edvard Munch, forerunner of German Expressionism. During a second residency in Vienna, he was also exposed to the works of Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele and Kokoschka who were influential in his further development. In 1929, Ladanyi arrived in New York and began to practice medicine, which enabled him to continue painting. Outside of his professional work, he moved exclusively in the avant-garde artistic circles of New York City, becoming close friends with the composer Edgard Varese, the poet Kenneth Patchen and the writers Anais Nin and Henry Miller. After Pearl Harbor, Ladanyi volunteered for service in the US Army and was commissioned as a captain in the Medical Corps. During the duration of the war, he gave up his medical practice and, in 1945, he resumed both his medical practice and painting. He exhibited widely and with success, including in Budapest, Berlin, New York, Chicago and the Massachusetts Museum of Art. This painting is accompanied by a first edition of the hardcover book titled Ladanyi, published by Abaris Books, Inc. (1977), in which this work is illustrated on p.132.

Passacaglia (The Dance)

Dorothy Ebenstein&nbsp;(American).This work is offered unframed. A substantial Expressionist figural oil showing a group of figures at a masked ball, engaged in a dynamic inter-relationship. Ebenstein has accomplished a boldly composed work painted with bravura alla prima brushwork in strong primary colors.

Seduction

Leonebel Jacobs (American, 1883–1967).This work is offered in a giltwood frame. Writer, sculptor, teacher and portrait painter Leonebel Jacobs first studied under Brush and Charles Hawthorne at the University of Oregon. A well-traveled artist, Jacobs lived and painted in China, Hawaii, New York City and Los Angeles. She was a member of the American Watercolor Society, the American Federation of Arts, the Municipal Art Commission of New York, the National Association of Women Artists, the New York Watercolor Club and the Pen &amp; Brush Club. Jacobs spent her early years in the Foreign Colony in Peking, China, as a portrait artist to nobles and visiting foreigners, including Rabindranath Tagore. Notably, Jacobs painted several portraits of the Emperor and Empress after they fled to Tianjin when Christian general Feng Yu-Hsiang came to power. Additionally, Jacobs's paintings include Hawaiian notables, former First Ladies Grace Coolidge and Lou Henry Hoover, Sir John Lavery, Mrs. William B. Meloney, Dr. Frances Carter Wood and Gutzon Borglum among others. Jacobs exhibited widely and with success, including in Paris, New York City and Boston, and in 1937, she authored "Portraits of Thirty Authors."

Self Portrait with Orchids

Janice Haefner (American, 1919-2002).This work is offered unframed. This life-time member of the Pacific Art League lived in Los Altos, Palo Alto and Carmel where she painted and exhibited with success for over fifty years. A substantial figural oil showing a dramatic frontal view of a young man dressed in the costume of the stock member of the Commedia dell'arte. The artist offers us a bold, forward perspective on this traditional theatrical character that successive art movements over the centuries have adapted in different ways to fill their evolving needs. The Symbolists saw Pierrot as a lonely fellow-sufferer, crucified upon the rood of soulful sensitivity, his only friend the distant moon; the Modernists converted him into a Whistlerian subject for canvases devoted to form and color and line. Over time, Pierrot has become an alter-ego of the artist, specifically of the famously alienated artist, and caustic observer, of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Pierrot's often frustrated pursuit of Columbine, coupled with his never-to-be-vanquished unworldly naïveté—have conspired to lift him out of the circumscribed world of the Commedia dell'arte and into the larger realm of myth inhabited by Everyman.

Blue Pierrot

Francesco Vinea (Italian, 1845–1902).This work is offered in a giltwood frame. A delicately painted and character-filled study of a grey-haired Franciscan monk, shown playing the guitar and directly engaging the viewer with a candid and humorous gaze. Displayed in a substantial and period gilt-gesso and carved wood frame. Francesco Vinea first studied at the Academy of Fine Arts of Florence, but had to interrupt his studies due to his poverty. He spent some time traveling and working as a photographer's assistant and as a designer of illustrated magazines before returning to Florence to study under professor Enrico Pollastrini, the notable Italian figural and history painter. Vinea was not inclined to the erudite historical or literary paintings, or earnest depictions of natural scenes, favored by some academic contemporaries. He preferred imaginative, often raffish or coquettish, but always elegant depictions of characters in costume. These paintings proved popular in England and France, and Vinea was soon making a comfortable living. His studio on Boulevard Prince Eugene in Florence is depicted as a treasurehouse of exotic items and eclectic furniture, with Gubernatis describing Vinea's studio as his greatest work of art. The ceiling was painted in tempera with Olympic gods, in allegory to the fine arts, and his collection of collectible and bijou items haphazardly displayed. Vinea's canvases, like the genre paintings of Meissonier, are well-designed witticisms, smiling color, interiors full of life and of panache and levity. We are pleased to offer a psychologically penetrating study of a witty and erudite member of this storied monastic order.

Franciscan Monk Playing Guitar

Carel Dake II (Dutch-American, 1881–1946).This work is offered unframed. A substantial, early 20th-century oil showing an elegant impressionist view of the Hagia Sophia Mosque from the water with a lateen-sailed fishing boat moored and several figures at the edge of the water. A lyrical and evocative Orientalist landscape painted with sensitivity and bravura brushwork. Carel Lodewijk Dake II first studied with his father Carl Dake I, a professor at the Royal Academy of Amsterdam, where he subsequently painted for many years. He also traveled and painted throughout the East and the Orient, exhibiting widely and with success, including at the 1910 Universal Exposition in Brussels. The artist is well-listed in relevant art-biographical reference works, including in Benezit's definitive Dictionnaire des Peintures.

The Hagia Sophia Mosque

Jose Ventosa Domenech (Spanish, 1897–1982).This work is offered unframed. A substantial oil painting showing a view of the island of Majorca with ancient olive groves and mountain cliffs bathed in warm evening light beneath clouded blue skies. A large and rare study of the island by this noted Spanish landscape painter. José Ventosa Doménech was born in Barcelona and subsequently studied at the San Jorge School of Fine Arts (1911). He later took a long study trip to Brussels where he studied Vanguard painting before returning to Barcelona to study under the Realist, Martí Alsina. In 1922, Ventosa met Eliseu Meifren and Domingo Soler in Ripoll. From 1924, Ventosa exhibited with success in Barcelona. A member of the "Nou ambient," over the course of a long career, Ventosa exhibited both with the group and, with success, as a solo artist in Europe and South America, including in Mexico ("Manifestation of Catalan Art," 1937), Palma de Mallorca (Galería Costa, 1947) and the Port d'Andratx.

Olive Groves, Mallorca

Horace Hammond (British, 1879–1966).This work is offered unframed. A luminously painted, bucolic view of harvest time in England with the lilac of the evening casting a soft light over the contented horses and loaded hay cart, as the harvesters come to the end of their day's labors. Son of the noted landscape painter, Robert John Hammond, Horace Hammond was born and raised in Warwickshire. In 1927, he moved, first to Worcestershire and then to London. Over the course of a long and successful career, Hammond exhibited widely, including at the Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and at London's Royal Academy, among numerous other locations. A well-listed painter, illustrator and lithographer, Horace Hammond exhibited from 1902–1939, but is best known for his landscape work of the 1920s–30s.

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François Gall

Jan Pawlowski

Simka Simkhovitch

Sophie Von Hellerman

Emile Sabouraud

Etienne Adolphe Piot

Eugene Berman

Eugene Lawrence Vail

Olive Parker Black

Harry Leslie Hoffman

Frank Edwin Scott

Nicholas Alden Brooks

Lawton Parker

William McKillop

James Aponovich

Al Held

John Ross Key

Frederick Stone Batcheller

John Ellsworth Weis

Charles Henry Eaton

Franklin Edward Morris

George Cochran Lambdin

Jean Baptiste Louis (Baron Gros) Gros

Jean Baptiste Louis (Baron Gros) Gros

Thomas Linnell

Henry Pember Smith

Henri Pierre Picou

Estevam Coelho

Emory Ladanyi

Dorothy Ebenstein

Leonebel Jacobs

Janice Haefner

Francesco Vinea

Carel Dake II

Jose Ventosa Domenech

Horace Hammond