About Skippings Fine Arts
Skippings Fine Arts is run by Tamara de Poniatowska, a Cambridge University educated art historian and former expert at the Paris auction house. She has twenty years experience in buying, selling, researching and appraising art. Skippings specialises in 19th to mid 20th century pictures - impressionist, modernist, figurative and abstract - mostly with a French connection. We also occasionally present contemporary art and choice pieces of Haute Epoque sculpture and non-European art. Genuine artefacts are never lifeless: they have the power to transform and brighten ou...Read More
Featured Pieces
Figures on a Paris Bridge, the Pont Marie Seine River Plein Air Impressionist
Located in Norwich, GB
Here is the magic of Paris expressed in delicate colours. Painted out of doors on the motif on the towpath below the Pont Marie bridge which leads to the Ile Saint Louis, it perfectl...
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
A rustic chapel, natural earth tones, devotional objects and saint figures
Located in Norwich, GB
Here is your chance to have your own private chapel with devotional objets and saint figures - in the form of this lovely painting by Joseph Bergès (1878-1956).
Berges was born in th...
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1930s Pointillist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Young woman painting, the artist, 19th Century anonymous master oil painting
Located in Norwich, GB
Painted with inspiration, sensitivity and with grace, this painting depicts a young woman whose right arm is slightly stretched out. Although we cannot see her hand, she must clearly...
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1870s French School Interior Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The blue bow: a little boy with tousled hair naturalistic portrait oil painting
Located in Norwich, GB
This sweet little boy sits quietly like a well brought up child, but you can see in his eyes how much he likes to run and play. In this sensitive portrait painted in circa 1860 by Fé...
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1860s Naturalistic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cafe Society: The Smoker, male portait Closerie des Lilas, Lost Generation Paris
By John Wentworth Russell
Located in Norwich, GB
A strong portrait, and a piece of history. It was confidently sketched in 1923, during the heyday of the "Lost Generation" in Paris, at the Closerie des Lilas - Ernest Hemingway's favourite haunt and home-from-home in the City. This historical café is where Hemingway first read The Great Gatsby with his friend F. Scott Fitzgerald and where he wrote most of The Sun Also Rises...
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1920s American Modern Portrait Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Graphite
On Stage: Art Deco Diva in Red, Paris Theatre, geometric modernist decor
Located in Norwich, GB
There is a great exhibition on in Paris at the Petit Palais at the moment, entitled "Modern Paris/Le Paris de la Modernité 1905-1925" . Here is a painting that would fit into the exh...
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1920s Art Deco Interior Paintings
Materials
Jute, Oil
Medieval enthroned Virgin and Child Sedes Sapientiae acephalic granit sculpture
Located in Norwich, GB
They may be damaged and battered, but real historic objects will always give you a sense of awe. Can you sense it, looking at this ancient carved granite which depicts, as it is call...
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15th Century and Earlier Medieval Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Young Beauty American Maurice Sterne rare early 1904 signed original etching
By Maurice Sterne
Located in Norwich, GB
An extremely rare and lovely hand signed etching by American Maurice Sterne, dating from the turn of the century when the artist was working in Paris.
Maurice Sterne, born in 1877 ...
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Early 1900s American Modern Portrait Prints
Materials
Etching
Fishing by Moonlight manner of Corot: Mooonlit lake French Barbizon oil painting
By Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot
Located in Norwich, GB
Nobody quite does moonlight quite like Camille Corot. Moonlit landscapes suited the artist's discreet artist's personality and painting. As Baudelaire astutely observed: "M. Corot is...
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1860s Barbizon School Landscape Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Light on the water large colorful Impressionist landscape with Monet-like irises
Located in Norwich, GB
It is probably those irises in the foreground that always make me think of Monet's garden when I look at this landscape! Just like he Master's late work, it is so impressionist that ...
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1920s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
The Fair Skipper: boating on a mountain lake ca 1830 the Swiss Alps painting
Located in Norwich, GB
Here is an almost two hundred year old painting which is so irresistibly charming that it's crazy! You may have seen painted landscapes, portraits, genre scenes - but how many pretty...
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1830s Romantic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Carriage ride in the countryside on a summer's day c 1880 Impressionist painting
Located in Norwich, GB
A sunny but temperate summer's day in the countryside: it's the perfect time and place to go for a stroll or a ride. This fresh and idyllic composition makes us, the viewers, feel li...
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1880s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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