Old Masters auctions
oil, canvas pasted on cardboard, 25.5 × 25.5 cm (light frame) Signed and dated p. d.: "Wlastimil/Hofman/ 1929"
watercolor, paper, 37 × 55 cm in light passe-partout Signed and dated p. d.: "Juliusz Kossak/1883"Exhibited: - Juliusz Kossak (1824-1899) on the 100th anniversary of his death, Historical Museum of the City of Cracow March - May 1999. Reproduced: - Kazimierz Olszanski, "Juliusz Kossak", Wroclaw 1988, il. 502. - Kazimierz Olszanski, "Juliusz Kossak," Krakow 2000, item 381, p. 196. Described: -...
Oil painting on canvas, 20th century, Italian school, depicting Two Female Nudes. Dimensions: 60x90 cm. Signed at the bottom right: Rubens Capaldo. The artwork is in good condition.
oil, cardboard, 31.5 × 48.5 cm light frame Signed and dated l. d.: "Wlastiml Hofman/1964" On the reverse, author's inscription: "Pastorale / Idyll / of my kind".
oil, cardboard, 40.5 × 49.5 cm"Jeremi Kubicki was walking in great strides. Anyone who followed the rapid development of his talent must have admired the simplicity with which this young boy was going to conquer the world. That's right on the conquest of the world. Jeremi Kubicki was not a parochial artist. He was not a provincial greatness. [...] The manifestation of talent was unmistakable....
Oil painting on canvas, 20th century, Italian school, depicting Two Faces. Dimensions: 50x70 cm. Signed at the bottom left, with an authentic autograph and date on the back: Remo Brindisi 1974. The artwork is in good condition.
GABRIEL DECKER (HUNGARY / AUSTRIA / HUNGARIAN / AUSTRIAN 1821 - 1855) - Miniature portrait of a lady
208 EUR
1852 | technique: gouache on the bone | 11 x 9 cm | signature: signed | adjusted in travel case | provenance: JUDr. Matouš Mandl (1865-1948), Czech lawyer and politician, mayor of Pilsen, art collectormore photos*In case of missing photos, please feel free to contact us.Bidders are requested to inquire about the condition of the lot prior to the auction. Any complaints will be disregarded.
oil, canvas, 55 × 46.1 cm Signed and dated p. d.: "Kisling 1951"Provenance: - Private collection, France, Paris - Private collection, Japan, Nagoya (since 1983). - Private collection, Europe - Private collection, Poland Exhibited: - "Kisling. The Shining of Montparnasse," Villa la Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, September 21, 2024 - March 30, 2025 Reproduced: - Artur Winiarski, "Kisling. The Shin...
pen, ink, lavage ink, gouache, paper glued on cardboard, 18.5 × 14 cm (light frame) Signed and dated p. d.: "JM/884"Jan Matejko is undoubtedly the most famous painter in the history of Poland. During the period of partitions, he depicted on his canvas pages the key moments of Poland's nearly one thousand year history. In doing so, he did not shy away from bold solutions - he often reached for...
watercolor, light brown paper, 30 × 51 cm in light passe-partout caption. once dated l. d.: "jFałat Ring (Silesia) 1919.""By means of appropriately tuned color patches, by way of their appropriately harmonized expression, Fałat gives not a faithful reflection, a copy, but an artistic equivalent of a motif taken from nature; the artist does not bore with telling details, but only hints and s...
oil, board, 26.5 × 54 cm Signed and dated p. d.: "JFałat 97.""There are relatively few flower studies in Fałat's oeuvre, although as early as 1897 the artist took up this motif, painting sunflowers in oil, one of the favorite subjects of artists from the circle of the Society of Polish Artists "Art". Sunflowers in various states of development were painted by Wojciech Weiss, Tadeusz Makowsk...
oil, duplicated canvas, 68 × 108 cm Signed l. d.: "J. Fałat""Hunting scenes became one of the most important subjects in Julian Fałat's work. Individually interpreted, they aroused the admiration of the public and critics. (...) Fałat's paintings enjoyed such great popularity probably because hunting and gamekeeping were an important element of Polish noble culture. The artist's hunting co...
(Other titles: Girl's head/ Girl's study) pastel, crayon, paper, 30.5 × 23.5 cm in light passe-partout Signed with bound monogram l. g.: "SW 1898"Provenance: - Kraków Bronowice, collection of Prof. Dr. Wincenty Łepkowski (1866 - 1935) professor of dentistry in Kraków, founder of the first Dental Institute of the Jagiellonian University in Poland. He was also the founder of the Association ...
Józef Szermentowski (1833 Bodzentyn - 1876 Paris), Waterside Landscape/ By the stream, 1860s.
15 425 EUR
oil, canvas pasted on cardboard, 24.5 × 28.3 cm on the reverse a stamp with a drawing of a cross and a ribbon with the inscription: "1833 |Jozef Szermentowski |1876".Exhibited: - Posthumous exhibition of Józef Szermentowski, Society for the Encouragement of Fine Arts in Warsaw in 1877. Mentioned: - "Catalogue of works of art included in the Exhibition of the Society for the Encouragement of ...
oil/paperDimensions: 18 x 31.8 cmsigned with monogram p.d.: 'MJTon the reverse, description of the work on the upper bar of the loom: 'MIECZYSŁAW TADEUSZ JANIKOWSKI (1912-1968) | LATA 30 OLEJ (PAPER) (35x25 cm)'.Conditionframed BiographyStudied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow under the direction of Prof. W. Jarocki, K. Sichulski and S. Filipkiewicz. During World War II, a soldier of Gen...
EDWARD OKUN (Varsavia 1872 - Skierniewice 1945)Allegoric scene1918Oil on canvas115 x 75 cmSigned and dated lower right: Okun, 1918. Signed and dated on the back with mention of the verse of the song written by Teofil Lenartovicz and set to music by Ignacy KomorowskiExcellent conditions, framed without glass.
Oil painting on canvas, Italian school depicting "Transformation" . Dimensions: 220x320 cm. Signed by Salvatore Testa. The artwork is in good condition. Many of the figures in the painting seem to be engaged in a battle. However, this is merely a dynamic pretext used by the artist as a contrast to what the bird on the sword represents, which is the opposite of a crude battle. It symbolizes lig...
pastel, paper pasted on cardboard, 59 × 47.5 cm (light frame) signed, dated and described at the bottom: "Ign. Witkiewicz 1927 III T.E (in circle) P + NP 1,2"Provenance: - private collection, Warsaw - Desa Unicum Auction House, auction 14.06.2018, item 15. Attached to the painting is an expert opinion dated 2025 by Dr. Anna Żakiewicz (prominent Witkacologist, curator and author of many exhib...
A painting with the image of Stefan Batory. Oil on copper sheet, silver plated. On the obverse in the corners on the left and right unrecognized punches of the artist, late 19th century. Dimensions 20 x 15 cm.
oil, panel, 73 × 58 cm Signed and dated l. d.: "Wojciech Kossak/1916". on the back stamp"On April 19, 1809, during the war with Austria, in the area of today's Raszyn municipality, a battle was fought by Polish and Saxon troops, commanded by Prince Józef Poniatowski, with a corps of Austrian troops, under the command of Archduke Ferdinand Charles d'Este. Polish losses in the Battle of Raszyn...
Oil painting on canvas, 20th century period, Italian school, depicting a Nude Woman seen from the back. Dimensions including frame: 50x60 cm. Inner frame dimensions: 30x40 cm. Signed at the bottom right and with an authenticity stamp on the back by an unidentified artist. The artwork is in good condition.
oil, canvas, 96.5 × 141 cm Signed and dated p. d.: "Jerzy Kossak 1925"Provenance: - Family collection for several decades (purchased in the 1960s, in a Krakow gallery) "Moving to conquer Russia on June 24, 1812, Napoleon Bonaparte gathered more than half a million soldiers under his orders. But the war did not go the emperor's way from the beginning. When at last, after nearly three months, t...
oil, cardboard, 34 × 50 cm Signed and dated p. d.: "Jerzy Kossak/1942"
oil on cardboard, 47.5 × 37 cm Signed and dated p. d.: "Wojciech Kossak/1925".The painting was the First Prize of Honor of the Marshal of Poland Jozef Pilsudski during the Third International Horse Competition in Warsaw in 1929. "The 1929 Warsaw Horse Competition was held under the patronage of Polish President Ignacy Moscicki, Czechoslovakian President Tomasz Masaryk, Finnish President Lauri...
oil, canvas, 70 × 52.5 cm signed at lower left edge: "J.Malczewski"on the reverse on a wrapped piece of canvas second signature: "J.Malczewski" "No one will ever stop us from being interested in the life of a brilliant man. One could say that he himself is a work of art, that his life is a poem or a novel, that he himself is a miracle" Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński , in People Alive, Helion 2015, p....
(other title: Woman in green shawl) oil, canvas, 109 × 68 cm Signed l. d.: "Kisling"Provenance: - Brooks Collection, Paris; - Charles Girard Collection, Paris (until 1926); - Walther Kuchen Collection, Cologne (1926-1945); - Collection of Oscar Ghez, Geneva (1960-1982). - Swiss industrialist prominent collector and patron of the arts. He created an outstanding collection of art by the best ar...
oil, canvas on cardboard, 30.5 × 40.5 cm (light frame) Signed l. d.: "I.Zygmuntowicz"
oil, canvas, 31 × 52 cm Signed and dated l. d.: "J. Jaroszyński 1891"
Watercolor, gouache, crayon, cardboard Dimensions: 24.5 x 34.5 cm, 35 x 44 cm (with frame) Signature p.d.: Wł.ChmielińskiOn the back the author's inscription (in ink): Warsaw | Krakowskie Przedmieście | view of the Sigismund's Column | Wł. ChmielińskiWładysław Chmieliński (1911-1979) was a painter associated with Warsaw. In 1926-1931 he studied at the Warsaw Municipal School of Decorat...
oil, canvas, 53 × 60 cm Signed l. g.: "H. Epstein""Epstein's talent, however, reveals its true scale only in his most recent canvases: still lifes, with color that is concrete, corporeal, active and acquires a purer sense, Not Courbet's color. Although the color serves him only to express the "weight" of the object being rendered, its density, its matter, it also emphasizes its plasticity. He...
oil, canvas, 70 × 56 cm Signed and dated p. d.: "Jerzy Kossak/1929""World War I broke out. Jozef Pilsudski created the Polish Legions - units of Polish volunteers - at the side of the Austrian army. The Legions were a poorly equipped army, the soldiers lacked not only armament, but sometimes even shoes. When, in August 1914, a group of riflemen from the First Brigade of the Legions showed up ...
oil, cardboard, 48 × 68 cm light frame signed and dated p. d.: "Jerzy Kossak/1938"
oil, panel, 55 × 46 cm Signed and dated p. d.: "Jerzy Kossak/1934"
gouache, paper, 15.5 × 22 cm in light frame Signed and dated p. d.: "S Jaxa/1926""Soter Jaxa-Malachowski has nourished from the earliest years of his life this fondness for the ever-changing, overpowering element of the sea. [...] Malachowski is a painter of the sea par exellence, [...]. Soter Jaxa - Malachowski should be counted among that group of our landscape painters who are the pioneers...
Huculs with horses - Karol KossakWatercolor / paper glued cardboard , signed p./d. ''Karol Kossak Tatars 1937 '' , format 21.5 X 36.5 cm.
oil, canvas, 83 × 58 cm signed p. d. with the artist's monogram: "EN 1917"On the back exhibition stickers: 1) TZSP in the Kingdom of Poland (Spring Salon 1917) with a description of the work, 2) fragmentarily preserved exhibition sticker with a description of the work with the number "34995" Provenance: - Warsaw, private collection - Warsaw, collection of the artist's family - owned by the ar...
metal, 27 × 38 cm signed: "Kisling" On the back inscription: "PALETTE KISLING"Provenance: - Atelier of Moses Kisling - Collection of Michael Kisling, grandson of the artist - collection of John Keane Exhibited: - "Kisling. The Shining of Montparnasse," Villa la Fleur, Konstancin-Jeziorna, September 21, 2024 - March 30, 2025 Reproduced: - Artur Winiarski, "Kisling. The Shining of Montparnasse,...
Oil on canvasDimensions: 54 x 65 cm, 74 x 85 cm (with frame)Signed p.d.: 'J. ZUCKER'Jakub Zucker, born in Radom, Poland in 1900 and also known as Jacques Zucker, was a prominent painter, illustrator and writer. At the age of 13, Zucker fled to Palestine and after 1913 attended the Bezalel School of Fine Arts there. In 1925 he moved to Paris, where he studied at the Academie Julian and Colaros...
watercolor, gouache, pencil, paper, 16.5 × 22.7 cm Author's inscription at bottomProvenance: - Bogdan Jakubowski collection - private collection, Poland Exhibited: - Card from a Journey, Nikifor Krynicki/ Edward Dwurnik, Warsaw, 17.05-29.05.2024 Reproduced: - "Kartka z podróży, Nikifor Krynicki/ Edward Dwurnik", (catalog), Warsaw 2024, p. 25 and cover.
Oil on canvas in a beautiful frame.Dimensions: 35 x 25 cm, 48.5 x 38.5 cm (with frame)Signature p.d.: Wł.ChmielińskiVery good condition.Rubbing in the upper part of the frame, spotted in gold. Władysław Chmieliński (1911-1979) was a painter associated with Warsaw. Between 1926 and 1931 he studied at the Warsaw Municipal School of Decorative Arts and Painting (former Drawing Class). He was...
Gouache on etching, paper.Dimensions: 38.5 x 49 cm, 55 x 65 cmSignature, p.d.: Jankiel AdlerProvenance: Private collection (Israel)Framed work, behind anti-reflective glass.Certificate of authenticityJankiel Adler (1895-1949) was a Polish-Jewish painter and printmaker, associated with the École de Paris and the European avant-garde. He was born in Tuszyn near Lodz to an Orthodox Jewish family...
Oil painting on wood panel, first half of the 20th century, Italian school, depicting a seascape at sunset. Dimensions including frame: 86x66 cm. Dimensions of the image within the frame: 70x50 cm. Anonymous artist. The work is in good condition.
Oil painting on canvas, 20th century Italian school, depicting a nude woman reading. Dimensions including frame: 92x72 cm. Dimensions of the panel: 70x50 cm. Signed at the bottom right by E. Santoro. The artwork is in good condition.
gouache, pencil/paperSize: 28 x 20 cm (in light of passe-partout)on the reverse: 'Polski Zespół Tańca' stampBiographyPainter, graphic artist, cartoonist, illustrator, theatrical, film and television stage designer, actor, columnist, satirist, educator, professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, artistic director of the State Publishing Institute, first artistic director of Polish Televis...
oil, canvas pasted on cardboard, 21 × 31.5 cmProvenance: - Collection of the artist's family Exhibited: - Mikhail Gorstkin Wywiórski - Landscapes. Between Heaven and Earth, Center Culture Zamek in Poznań, February 26-March 21, 2004. Reproduced: - M.Gołąb, "Michal Gorstkin Wywiórski- pejzaże. Between Heaven and Earth," Zamek Cultural Center in Poznan, Poznan 2004, p. 118, cat. no. 24.
pastel, light brown paper, 57 × 47 cm in light frame Sign, date and description. p. d.: "Witkacy / T.E [in peg] 1925 / NP4"Attached to the painting is an expert opinion dated 2025 by Dr. Anna Żakiewicz (prominent Witkacologist, curator and author of many exhibitions and publications about Witkacy, curator of the Witkacy collection at the National Museum in Warsaw for many years). The portrai...
Oil painting on canvas, 19th/20th century, Italian school, depicting *Stradina di campagna con bambino* (Country Road with a Child). Dimensions including frame: 33x47.5 cm. Dimensions inside the frame: 25x39.5 cm. Signed at the bottom left: Giardiello. The work is in good condition.
Oil painting on canvas, 18th century, Italian school, depicting The Pietà. Dimensions including the frame: 88x138 cm. Dimensions within the frame: 68x95 cm. By an anonymous artist. The artwork is in good condition with slight signs of wear, as shown in the attached photos. The arched frame is hand-decorated. A previous re-lining should be noted.
Oil painting on wood, 20th century period, Italian school, depicting a Portrait of a Woman. Dimensions including frame: 56x66 cm. Inner frame dimensions: 40x50 cm. Signed at the bottom right by an unidentified artist. The artwork is in good condition.
Oil painting on wood, 20th century, Italian school, depicting *Marina Napoletana* (Neapolitan Seaside). Dimensions including frame: 63x53 cm. Dimensions inside the frame: 30x40 cm. Signed at the bottom left: Fortunato Fontana. The work is in good condition.
Nude of a woman 19th century FRENCH SCHOOLBased on Charles Josuah CHAPLIN (1825-1891)Oil on canvasSigned in lower left corner: ?BleivalDimensions: 73.5 x 54 cm
Oil painting on canvas, 20th century period, Italian school, depicting a Portrait of a Woman with a Fan. Dimensions including frame: 58x78 cm. Inner frame dimensions: 50x70 cm. Anonymous artist. The artwork is in good condition.
oil, canvas, 55.5 × 132 cm Signed and dated l. d.: "Wladyslaw Szerner/ Munich 1874"."In Brandt's studio we also had the unexpected pleasure of becoming acquainted with the works of Mr. Wladyslaw Szerner. These are genre scenes, full of truth and charm; our fairgrounds, inns, popasy, caught happily from nature, which would pleasantly adorn any salon and collection would adorn." J. I. Kraszewsk...
Watercolor on paper, first half of the 20th century, Italian school, depicting *Nudo di donna allo specchio* (Nude Woman in Front of a Mirror). Dimensions including frame: 37x47 cm. Dimensions inside the frame: 23x33 cm. Signed at the bottom right by an unidentified artist. The work is in good condition.
Oil painting on canvas, 20th century, Italian school, depicting a "Female Nude." Dimensions including the frame: 59x49 cm. Internal frame dimensions: 45x35 cm. Signed at the bottom right by Di Martino (1977). The artwork is in good condition.
Stanislaw Ignacy Witkiewicz (1885 Warsaw - 1939 Jeziory in Polesia), Portrait of Anna M., 1931.
32 720 EUR
pastel, paper, dark pink (originally maroon), 64.9 × 49.7 cm Signed at the bottom right: "Witkacy (T.E + d)/1931 2/I"The painting is accompanied by an expert opinion of Witkacologist Dr. Anna Żakiewicz (curator and author of many exhibitions and publications about Witkacy, curator of Witkacy's collection at the National Museum in Warsaw) dated 2024. "Type E assumed 'any psychological interpr...
gouache, paper, 23 × 32 cm in light frame signed and dated p. d.: "S. Jaxa/1924"
Oil painting on canvas, 20th-century Italian school, depicting Venice in the manner of Canaletto. Dimensions including the frame: 97x127 cm. Inner frame dimensions: 90x120 cm. By an anonymous artist. The artwork is in good condition with slight signs of wear, as shown in the attached photos.
oil, canvas pasted on cardboard, 29 × 20 cm Signed p. d.: "M. G."Provenance: - Private collection, Poland - MatsArt Auctioneers & Appraisers Jerusalem, January 2014 - Louiza Auktion, Brussels, June and December 2012 - MatsArt Auctioneers & Appraisers, November 2008 - Jacob and Asei Furman collection, Santiago, Chile - Sotheby's auction house, Jerusalem, May 1985 Exhibited: - National ...
Watercolor on paper Dimensions: 21 x 31 cm, 37 x 48 cm (with frame) Signed p.d. 'Peske' Framed work, behind glass On the back handwritten description: Sketch given to Isabelle Grandpierre from V. Martha, great-granddaughter of painter J. Peské (1870-1949), on 06.06.1993.Jean Peske (1870-1949). He initially studied at the School of Painting of Nikolai Murashka in Kyiv, and then from 1886 to 89...
Oil painting on canvas applied to panel, 20th century, Italian school, depicting a Portrait of a Woman. Dimensions including the frame: 36x46 cm. Inner frame dimensions: 26.5x37 cm. By an anonymous artist. The artwork is in good condition.
Oil painting on canvas applied to cardboard, 20th century Italian school, depicting a landscape with a river. Dimensions: 69.5x49.5 cm. Signed at the bottom right by Giuseppe Gargiulio. The artwork is in good condition.
Oil painting on canvas, 20th century Italian school, depicting figures. Dimensions including frame: 63x73 cm. Dimensions of the panel: 50x60 cm. Signed at the bottom right by Michele Galante. The artwork is in good condition.
Oil painting on wood panel, 20th century, Neapolitan school, depicting a view of the Neapolitan coast in Posillipo with fishermen. Dimensions including frame: 65x55 cm. Dimensions of the image within the frame: 30x40 cm. It bears a trace of a signature at the bottom left by an unidentified artist. The work is in excellent condition.