Paintings

Édouard Léon Cortes (France, 1882-1969) also known as 'the Parisian Poet of Painting', was a French post-impressionist artist of French and Spanish descent. He was known primarily for his Paris cityscapes portrayed in different weather conditions. 

ID#: ART006

Édouard Cortes - 'Café de la Paix, Place de l'Opéra - Oil on Canvas - 33.0 cm x 45.7 cm (13'' x 18'')

Total Frame dimension : 53.3 cm x 71.1 cm (21'' x 28'') 

Signed lower right : 'EDOUARD CORTES'

Provenance confirmed by Christies (David Klein) in 2008

Frederic Marlett Bell-Smith (Canadian 1846 - 1923).

ID#: ART005

Medium: Oil

Material: Board

Dimensions: 6" x 8.5"

Goodridge Roberts - 'Still Life in Blue'

ID#: ART002

Medium: Oil

Material: Masonite

Dimensions: 15" x 18"

William Goodridge Roberts (1904–1974) was a Canadian painter known for his landscape paintings and unassuming still lifes and interiors. Roberts studied at the École des Beaux-Arts de Montréal and at the Art Students League of New York. From 1933 to 1936 was the resident artist at Queen's University. In 1938 Roberts joined the Eastern Group of Painters, and in 1939 he exhibited at the New York World's Fair. He taught at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts from 1940 to 1952. During the period from 1943 to 1945 he was an official war artist for the Royal Canadian Air Force.

 ID#: ART007

Goodridge Roberts - Still Life - Oil on Canvas - 53.3 cm x 66.0 cm (21'' x 26'')

Total Frame dimension : 72.4 cm x 86.4 cm (28-1/2'' x 34'') 

Signed lower right : 'G. Roberts'

Provenance : Dominion Gallery 1949

Harold Beament - 'Snow in the Suburbs'

ID#: ART004

Medium: Oil

Material: Board

Dimensions: 21" x 18"

Henry H. Parker - 'Bray on the Thames' (English 1858 - 1930)

ID#: ART021

Medium: Oil

Material: Canvas 

Dimensions: 30" x 20" 

Johannes Hermanus Barend Koekkoek  – Oil on Board 1840-1912

ID#: ART003

Dimensions:  image size – 8-1/2″ x 5-1/2″ in frame 16-1/2″ x 14″

He was a Dutch artist known for landscape and cityscape scenes.  The son of artist Hermanus Koekkoek, brother of Willem Koekkoek, and nephew of Barend Cornelis Koekkoek. His grandfather was the painter Johannes Hermanus Koekkoek.  

Jan Bulas was a versatile Polish artist creating works in painting and monumental art, carving, designing fabric as well as some poetry.

This piece features a beautiful still life with flowers, bowl and vase on a unique table. The antique frame is in great condition with a few minor surface cracks.

ID#: ART008

Media : Oil on canvas

Image size : 26' x 21.5'

Frame size : 33' x 29.5'

Jean Jacques Henner’s Red Haired Girl .  Signature in the top right corner.

Materials:  Signed oil on canvas.

Dimensions:  Canvas measuring 7 x 12-1/2 inches in a beautiful vintage gold toned frame 13 x 18 x 2-1/2 inches.

ID#: ART009

“Jean-Jacques Henner (15 March 1829 – 23 July 1905) was a French painter, noted for his use of painting techniques like sfumato and chiaroscuro in painting nudes, religious subjects, and portraits.

Born at Bernwiller (Alsace). He began his studies in art as a pupil of Michel-Martin Drolling and François-Édouard Picot. In 1848, he entered the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, and took the Prix de Rome with a painting of Adam and Eve finding the Body of Abel in 1858. In Rome, he was guided byFlandrin, and painted four pictures for the gallery at Colmar among other works.

He first exhibited Bather Asleep at the Salon in 1863 and subsequently contributed Chaste Susanna (1865), now in the Musée d’Orsay. Other noted works include: Byblis turned into a Spring (1867); The Magdalene (1878); Portrait of M. Hayem (1878); Christ Entombed (1879); Saint Jerome (1881); Herodias(1887); A Study (1891); Christ in His Shroud and a Portrait of Carolus-Duran (1896); a Portrait of Mlle Fouquier (1897); and The Dream (1900).

The Levite of the Tribe of Ephraim (1898) was awarded a first-class medal. Among other professional distinctions, Henner also took a Grand Prix for painting at the Paris Exposition Universelle of 1900. He was made Chevalier of the Legion of Honour in 1873, Officer in 1878, and Commander in 1889. In 1889, he succeeded Cabanel in the Institut de France.

Henner died at the age of 76 in Paris.”

Artist biography from Wikipedia:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Henner

John Geoffrey Caruthers Little's (1928-) ''Rue Plessis towards Logan, Montreal' 1972, signature bottom right

ID#: ART011

Signed Oil on Canvas, 1972

Dimensions: 12'' x 16'' in a vintage wood frame. Frame size : 19'' x 23''

John Little is a Fauvist style Canadian Painter born in 1928. His style was known for preserving Montreal's most beautiful areas on canvas before they were transformed by modernisation campaigns.

John Geoffrey Caruthers Little's (1928-) ''Rue Des Récollets'', Signature bottom right corner

ID#: ART012

The scene depicts an overcast winter day in the heart of Montreal's Old Port District at the corner of Rue des Récollets and Rue Ste Hélène. The view remains virtual untouched to this day with the exception of an unsightly 8 story apartment complex peering over the building at the end of the street.

Signed Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: 12'' x 16'' in a gold coloured contoured vintage wood frame. Frame size : 18'' x 22''

John Little is a Fauvist style Canadian Painter born in 1928. His style was known for preserving Montreal's most beautiful areas on canvas before they were transformed by modernisation campaigns.

John Geoffrey Caruthers Little's (1928-) ''Rue Plessis towards Logan, Montreal' 1977, signature bottom right

ID#: ART013

Signed Oil on Canvas, 1977

Dimensions: 16'' x 24'' in a gold coloured contoured vintage wood frame. Frame size : 20'' x 26''

John Little is a Fauvist style Canadian Painter born in 1928. His style was known for preserving Montreal's most beautiful areas on canvas before they were transformed by modernisation campaigns.