Pati Bannister (Mississippi, 1929-2013) oil on board painting of a young blue-eyed girl with a flower garland in her brown hair seated in a wicker chair on the porch of a Victorian house and a grassy field intersected by a dirt pathway in the background. Signed BANNISTER and dated ’80 lower right. Housed in a […]

Pati Bannister (Mississippi, 1929-2013) oil on board painting of a young blonde blue-eyed girl with her arms crossed and a daisy garland in her hair standing in a landscape setting with an abandoned home and decaying fence in the background. Signed BANNISTER and dated ’81 lower right. Housed in a silvered carved wood frame with […]

Dixie Friend Gay (Texas, b. 1953) large acrylic on wood panel  landscape painting titled “Red Rocks” depicting a cluster of rocks foreground with desert-type foliage in the background. Signed, titled, and dated 2003 en verso. Unframed. 48″ x 48″. LITERATURE: This painting is illustrated in the catalog booklet DIXIE FRIEND GAY, 2004. A copy of the publication […]

Emile Boivin (French, 1846-1920) oil on canvas Orientalist landscape depicting figures and tents in a desert setting. Signed lower left. Housed in a silver-gilt molded frame. Old Hess Fine Arts NYC label en verso of frame. Sight: 12 1/2″ H x 17 1/2″ W. Frame – 17 1/2″ H x 22 1/2″ W. CONDITION: Overall […]

James McBey (Scottish, 1883-1959), “Portrait of Katie with Crayons,” oil on canvasboard portrait of a child resting her head on her arms atop a coloring book on a table, in an interior setting. Signed “James McBey / Tangier / July, 1956″ lower left. Housed in an ivory-painted wood frame. Sight: 15 1/2″H x 21 1/2” […]

Attributed to Antonio Ermolao Paoletti (Italian, 1834-1912) oil on canvas painting of a young Venetian boy selling arrangements of flowers on a street. Partially signed lower right (with later misattributed augmentation). Housed in an ornate giltwood frame with brass nameplate. Sight: 23 1/2″ H x 32″ W. Framed: 31″ H x 39 1/2″ W. CONDITION: […]

Victor or Viktor Tortez (French, c. 1890) oil on panel painting depicting a child wearing a Dutch-style embroidered blue cap atop long blonde hair and a large ruffle at the neck. Signed upper right “V. Tortez” Housed in an elaborate carved giltwood frame. Panel: 9 1/2″H x 7 1/4″W. Frame: 17″H x 15″W. PROVENANCE: Private […]

Continental School, 18th C., oil on canvas half-length portrait of a fashionable lady. She wears a satin or silk gown with delicate lace embellishment and smiles at the viewer while she holds a pink carnation in her left hand. Her right hand opens to display her ring finger. Likely a marriage portrait commissioned on the […]