Tableaux

13 Feb
Flowers with insects

French school circa 1820 Watercolor on vellum 39 X 51 cm stretched by the edges on a thick cardboard 45 X 55 cm mounted nailed in a restoration period frame with very beautiful gilding a little rough 47 X 61 cm. If the medium, vellum in the proper sense, in other words tanned and thinned

09 Jan
Portrait of Rwandan

J. Willems Belgian school circa 1930. Oil on canvas mounted on panel 61 X 50 cm, mounted in a beautiful exotic wood frame adorned with silver rods 73 X 63 cm.  A small accident on the left shoulder deserves cleaning. This portrait full of nobility of a man proudly wearing traditional dress and especially this

09 Jan
The Factory

French school 19th “Landscape at the factory” French school circa 1820/30, oil on canvas 24.5 X 33 cm, mounted by a Marie-Louise in a somewhat hilly restoration frame 38 X 46 cm. “In its original condition”, the work has been cut and folded on the right and upper sides, and presents old restorations This landscape,

09 Jan
Near Constantinople

Achille Fouquier 1817 – 1895 Pencil drawing heightened with watercolor 11 X 18 cm approximately, signed with the monogram and dated May 27, 1853, framed by a Marie-Louise surrounded by a line 25, 5 X 34 cm. This drawing shows us figures dressed in the oriental style resting under the trees on the banks of

07 Dec
Birch wood

Russian school circa 1900 Oil on panel 58 X 31 cm mounted in a large damaged golden frame 81 X 54 cm. Signature or monogram lower left made illegible by a paint chip. Photos are powerless to capture impasto and contrasts.  My research led me to the late works of Isaac Lévitan (1860-1900). Without claiming

07 Dec
Hills landscape

André Beaudin 1895-1979 Colored pencils 20 X 26 cm, signed with the stamp of the workshop and dated November 23, 1949, mounted by a bevelled Marie-Louise in a light wood frame 32 X 38 cm. Some interlayers dirt. When I saw this drawing at a well-known antique dealer in the Place de Pau, how many

10 Oct
Young italian shepherd

Pifferaro Circa 1880. Oil on canvas mounted on panel 69 X 55 cm, mounted in a golden frame a little broken and veiled 79 X 66 cm. Originally painted in a simulated oval, probably on a rectangular canvas, a “restorer” preferred to cut it out and put it on a panel on the back of

02 Oct
On the banks of the Nile

Gotthar Adolf Werner 1837 – 1903 Oil on canvas 75 X 125 cm mounted in a carved and gilded wooden frame 90 X 138 cm (wear and tear and gilding). Very beautiful restoration due to the Lafouresse workshop, signed and dated 1883 on the back. This large painting is not only powerfully decorative, it is

28 Apr
The women’s table

Mauro Corda né en 1960 “La tablée des femmes”, drawing in gray and red wash over feather strokes on 60 X 78 cm paper mounted in a sober wooden frame that suits him 63 X 82 cm. Signed Corda and dated 1981. Maintained at the back by a plywood board which is crumpled and of

10 Apr
Soweto South Africa

Egerton Wood 1926- Here, this oil on canvas 35 X 46 cm, dated 1973, is mounted in a wooden frame 52 X 62 cm. It is amusing to note that when an artist group works in a given place, they influence each other by immersing themselves in the place, forming what Art History calls “School


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