Dick van Luyn in Paris (1920s)
Dick van Luyn (1896-1981) was a Dutch painter and graphic artist known for his etchings and linocut printmaking. After collecting some of his linocut prints this Paris etching of great charm was...
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Giovanni Antonio de Sacchis (1484 - 1539)(also known as Il Pordenone) A drawing of a climbing nude woman seen on the back was reattributed to this innovative sixteenth-century painter. Stylishly it is...
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Claude Loewer(La Chaux de Fonds 1917 - 2006 Montmollin Sw.) This abstract pastel water colour painting was offered as attributed to Claude Loewer and was acquired, inexpensively, simply because I...
View ArticleHugo Gellert
Hugo Gellert (Budapest 1892 - 1985 New York)American illustrator, and socialist activist. These 2 charming gouache paintings recently showed up and drew my attention: on first sight, they could be...
View ArticleMystery dragon print
Are you curious who created this unique 1928 print and what it represents ?Visit: Das Haus der Frau https://www.dashausderfrau.nl/schmitt-helene.htmlThe home of Germany's first generation of women...
View ArticleArtificial Intelligence and the fishing woman
Jacques (Karel Maximilian Jacob) Comte de Lalaing(London 4/14-11-1858 - 10-10-1917 Brussels)was a Belgian sculptor and aristocrate mainly known for his many (animal) sculptures in the public space of...
View ArticleA mystery and mystic print......
Johanna Goerke-Cassirer (b. 1942) Contemporary Berlin painter and graphic artist It took me also some time to "see the image" of the jazz players in Kandinsky's abstract woodblock print. And I am...
View ArticleLillsjönäsgårt
A stone's throw from Abrahamsberg metro station, we find a remnant of rural Bromma. Nestled in greenery, at the end of a lime tree avenue, is Lillsjönäs farm. A place with traces of the past.The main...
View ArticlePuzzle: Jaxman ?
Elizabeth Jaxman or ? (....better suggestions)Charming coloured ink portrait of a reading girl. I have no idea about the artist, Jaxman (what I read) as a family name is highly unlikely. Several other...
View ArticleFernand Lambert 1
Fernand Alexis Lambert (1868-1934/35)was a not very well known French landscape painter and critic. He was born in Lyon, studied in Paris under Bougereau and is known by half a dozen really nice...
View ArticleFernand Lambert 2: La Laitière
La LaitièreRecently this large drawing was discovered and rescued after being dismissed by its former owners. I think, as best as I can, the signature may read "Fernand Lambert 1903". But it could...
View ArticleUnknown Lill Tschudi ?
"Unbekannte" Lill Tschudi ?Last summer this print popped up in an internet auction. It had stayed unrecognised and unwanted by any impulsive buyer, serious collector or commercial dealer: there's no...
View ArticleLill Tschudi: 1944
Sooner than expected the question of attribution was solved by my American collecting friend and print expert Tom Clemens in Boston who's friend Ben Weiss, curator of Boston Museum of Arts, identified...
View ArticlePont Neuf
Le Pont Neuf (Paris)This etching was found recently. The location is a well known, iconic and famous one: the oldest stone bridges of Paris connecting the western tip Isle-de-la-Cité with 2 sets of...
View ArticleAlfred Möllner: "a kind of Nolde"
Alfred Möllner (born Hildesheim 1930 - ?)"Meer mit roten Wolken"If you ever dreamed to have and to hang an Emil Nolde (1867-1956) painting, and are not financially solid enough to transfer 7.3 Million...
View ArticleHans Schütz 1906
FRÜHZEIT des Modernen HolzschnittsThis winter print was exhibited in the winter of 2014-15 in Städistche Wessenberg-Gallerie in Konstanz in an exhibition showing 60 winter woodblock prints from the...
View ArticleTea ceremony ?
Help requested I have no idea who created this print. Nor any clue to what we see: a tea ceremony ?(23 x 47 cm.) It is a thoroughly Japanese (Chinese, Korean ?) in subject, in style and character but...
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Rembrandt - Rembrandt(?) - Ferdinand Bol Finding Moses Moses, who (this is a heartbreaking story) was set afloat in a basket by his mother Jocabed (Jochebed) in river Nile, as ordered by the Pharaoh to...
View ArticleAbraham de Verwer.
Abraham de Verwer (1585-1650)(and the Dutch panorama) was a Dutch painter and contemporary of Rembrandt (1606-1669) also working in Amsterdam. This very Dutch river view fac-simile water colour...
View ArticleMediterrane Küste 1959: Artist Identification
Mediterrane Küste (40 x 54 cm.) 1959The artist who created this lovely large abstracted Mediterranean woodblock (Farbholzschnitt) landscape was never properly identified: Karl......? '59. So it...
View ArticleJo Smit IJsselmonde
'"Winter op't eiland IJsselmonde"Johannes (Jo) Smit (Beverwijk 1902 - ?) I stumbled over this woodblock print in the archives of an online auction site. It was sold 5 years ago in 2019. The artist,...
View ArticleNice tits
Joan Francois Obbes (1869 - 1963)This exceptional foster family, a junkshop find, and more lovely tits and other common and not so common garden birds by this long lived naval cartographer and...
View ArticleLouis Christiaan Kalff
Louis Christiaan Kalff (1897 - 1976)Besides being Joan Frances Obbes' (before posting) son-in-law (Louis married his oldest daughter) he was a Dutch architect, designer and artist who dedicated his...
View ArticleNot Modigliaini (ID request)
This quality framed and matted reproduction (24 x33 cm) was found when I bought a nice wooden frame in a Dutch charity shop. Curious as alway I tried to find the artist/maker. The signature is more or...
View ArticleLillsjonasgard Stockholm
Who created these water colours ?Titled in Dutch: "De keuken" (the kitchen) and "Strijken" (ironing). (Found and acquired in an auction in 2024). Lillsjonasgard (Lillsjönäs) Liljenäs gård, a former...
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