Frederick Lester Sexton [1889-1975]
American painter
The three churches on the New Haven Green, 1931
Oil on canvas
20 x 24 inches
Signed and dated lower right : ’31 / Frederick Lester Sexton’.

Esteban Lisa (1895-1983)
Spanish / Argentine
Composicion [Composition], 1953
Oil on board
9 x 11-1/2 inches
Signed at lower right and dated : ‘LiLA / 6 – 9 – 1953’.

Excellent original condition
Outside dimensions of the frame 12 x 14 inches
Original frame

Esteban Lisa was born in Hinojosa de San Vicente (Toledo, Spain) on August 8, 1895.

At the age of twelve he emigrated to Argentina to live with his paternal uncles. He worked as a dishwasher, then as a messenger and later as a librarian at the Central Post Office in Buenos Aires. At the same time he completed his primary education. He entered the Beato Angélico School of Art, where he studied with Fray Guillermo Butler. He worked as a painting teacher at the School for Adults, located at Serrano 900 (Buenos Aires), and joined the Argentine Teachers’ Association. He married the Doctor of Philosophy and Letters, Josefina Pierini.

He developed his pictorial production almost uninterruptedly from the 1930s until 1978, an activity that he complemented with his studies in philosophy and science. He was always accompanied by a mystical conception of life and art, and abstraction was the visual medium he chose to communicate it.

He was not interested in pursuing a career as an artist-painter, as he perceived that his role within society would be to contribute to the spiritual development of human beings through teaching painting techniques. He thus carefully preserved his work for new generations.

His little book Kant, Einstein and Picasso, published in 1956, which he circulated among friends and cultural institutions, would underline his major preferences. His literary production includes 14 written and published books, among which are “Four-Dimensional Psychophysical Theory” and “Plato’s Theory of Worldview and Vision”.

Lisa had an extensive personal library consisting of more than 900 books on philosophy, Eastern religions and art, which is currently located at the headquarters of the Esteban Lisa Foundation.

In 1955, the year she retired from her official teaching job, Lisa founded – with the support of her students – her own center called “The Four Dimensions School of Modern Art”, located at Rivadavia 1966, Buenos Aires. Later, at Alsina 1535, her “Institute for Research on the Theory of Worldview” operated.

Between 1956 and 1979, Lisa gave numerous lectures in Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Paraná, Gualeguay and Azul on his Theory of Worldview, his way of linking aesthetic experiences, ethics and modern science.

He traveled to Spain to reunite with his family in 1981.

He died in Buenos Aires on June 19, 1983.

Gregoire Calvet [1871-1928]
French sculptor
The ancient soul, ca.1900
Bronze
27 x 18 x12 inches

Excellent condition with original patina.

Wiener Werkstätte [1903-1932]
Vienna pottery
Viennese Modernist vase, ca.1910-15
Clay
13 inches off 14 inches that is widest part
Base: 5 x 4-1/2 inches
Signed.

Extremely rare early large piece.  Fantastic colors glaze and modernist artwork.

Please note 2 small chips on the top of one side.
Rest of the pieces in great condition

Frank Waller [1842-1923]
American painter
Exotic village with tribesmen, ca.1870
Oil on canvas
6 x 10 inches

Excellent condition, unframed.

Frank Waller (1842-1923)was an American architect, and landscape painter.From 1857 to 1861, he attended the New York Free Academy where he studied commercial art. During the 1860s, he was employed in that capacity and painted in his spare time. In 1870, he began exhibiting at the NAD That same year, he undertook a study trip to Europe and spent some time in Rome,

He returned to New York in 1871, but left again, the very next year, to visit Egypt and developed a lifelong interest in the area.

Always seeking to improve himself, he continued his studies and  participated in the founding of the ASL in New York ,several art schools in Europe to report on their methods, and serving in various administrative capacities through the 1880s.He also exhibited frequently, at the Brooklyn Art Association and the PAFA

After 1885, he worked as an architect and joined the Architecture of league of New York  of his designs were for country homes, but he also helped design the First National Bank .He also travelled, producing small oil sketches of the places he visited around the world .

In 1895, he went to live in Morristown, New Jersey. After 1902, he gave up architecture and turned to landscape painting, which he would pursue until his death in 1923.

Pietro Melandri [1885-1969]
Italian potter
Sea-creature vase with lobster handles, ca.1930
Clay
11 x 9 inches

Fantastic artwork and glaze with applied handles.
Condition is excellent, no repairs, no restoration.

Edward Lamson Henry [1841-1919]
American still-life painter
Trompe l’oeil still-life pipes and matches, 1885
Oil on panel
5 x 7-1/4 inches
Signed and dated lower right.

Framed 11″ x 13″.
Painting is in excellent condition.
Original frame, has had minor restoration.

Jacques Marin [1877-1950]
Belgian art deco sculptor
Bronze dancer, ca.1920.
Bronze on marble base
22 inches tall from bottom of base
Base is 5 x 4 inches

please note photos base is missing one ornament and bronze needs to be reattached to base

[unattributed]
French school genre
Women at the table, ca.1880
Oil on canvas
12 x 19 inches
Signed lower right.

Outside dimensions of Antique frame 23 x 29 inches.

Stanislas Victor Edouard Lépine [1835-1892]
French Romantic landscape painter
Boats along the river, ca.1870s
Oil on canvas
15-3/4 x 21-3/4 inches
Excellent condition, antique frame.
Stanislas Victor Édouard Lépine was the pupil of Corot in Paris between 1860 and 1875. He made his debut at the Salon de Paris in 1859. The Impressionists recognised his talent and invited him to participate in their exhibition of 1874.

Lépine spent his life painting in the Valley of the Seine, from Paris to its estuary, and specialised in the paintings of river banks, showing their lively activity and poetry. If he learnt from his master his beautiful simplicity in the art of experiencing sincere emotions and knowing how to communicate them simply, he also looked closely at Jongkind and discovered how to depict the depth of the skies and the limpidity of the water. Lépine is one of those masters of French landscape in the 19th century who prepared the way for the Impressionists, and began to educate the eye of the public towards a more balanced vision of nature.

His works are in Museum and Galleries all over the world