Antique Chinese Imperial Emperor Ancestral Painting

Stunning antique Heinrich Hans Schlimarski "Lady with Cat" painting, circa late 1800s. Pastel on board under glass and comes in its original gold gilt wo...

Wonderful original watercolor painting on paper by Austrian listed artist August Lohr. Dated and signed in the lower corner. The painting was painted in 19...

Rare cubist charcoal painting by Dorothy Sklar. Framed. Most likely dating to the 1930s or early 1940s. Dimensions: 31" x 22.25" frame 22.25" x 14 ...

Abstract mixed media painting on panel titled "Pacific #2" by Margaret Ash, circa 1950s. Retains label from Esther Bear Gallery in Santa Barbara, California.

A strong little abstract oil collage from 1980 by Richard Allen Morris. Overall frame measures 13" wide, 11" tall, 1" deep. Image size is 7" wide,...

Excellent example of a large oil on canvas abstraction by Fred Hocks from 1957. This painting was included in the 1976 retrospective at the Fine Arts Gallery in San Diego which later became the San Diego Museum of Art. No painter embodies San Diego’s early avant-garde more than Fred (Ferdinand) Hocks, a German-born painter who began visiting San Diego in the late 1920s after studies at the California School of Fine Art in San Francisco and the Art Students League in New York. Fellow painter Dan Dickey credited Hocks in 1947 with “opening up pathways for future, more enlightened generations (of artists),” and predicted that Fred Hocks would be “esteemed a master.” During the post-war years Hocks was assistant director of the San Diego School of Arts and Crafts, a private art school in La Jolla, and was instrumental in keeping affordable artist’s studios in Spanish Village. Along with modern architect Lloyd Ruocco, Fred Hocks co-founded the dynamic Allied Artists Council with Belle Baranceanu, Everett Gee Jackson, Dan Dickey and John Olsen. The well-travelled Hocks exhibited in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Pasadena, Paris, Mallorca and Guadalajara, had several one-person shows at the Art Center La Jolla/La Jolla Museum of Art and at the Fine Arts Gallery (SDMA). The San Diego Museum of Art held a major retrospective of his painting in 1976, just a few years before his death. He brought a continental element to the local art scene and is described in Bruce Kamerling’s 100 Years of Art in San Diego as “one of the most adventurous local artists…an intelligent and articulate defender of modern tendencies in art.” Local arts and architecture writer James Britton called Fred Hocks “the dean of the San Diego moderns...

Antique 19th century painting on silk depicting a Ming Dynasty Chinese emperor. Beautifully executed with great details. Hand-painted o...

Antique Chinese watercolor painting on paper, enclosed in glass and gilt wood frame, early 20th century Measures: height 27.5 inch...

Antique Chinese watercolor painting on paper, enclosed in glass and gilt wood frame, early 20th century. Measures: height 27.5 inc...

Chinese School, Four Figures Ancestral Portrait Painting, Ink on Paper, depicting four seated women, all wearing robes and three hats with one donning a diadem crown, objects includi...

A vintage French oil on canvas painting of Napoleon Bonaparte as Emperor in a hand carved original gilded wooden frame, painted by S. Chapin in good condition. The wall décor art pie...

Magnificent Chinese scroll ancestor painting showing patriarch and matriarch of a high ranking status civil official. This unusual scroll depicts the dignitary couple seated below a ...