u/Iamthetophergopher

I am assuming this might be a mass produced MCM oil painting, but wanted to get thoughts. Sig says Nansen. Found some hits online of other paintings with similar signatures

This was posted on a local online marketplace and I like the look but I know that mid-century mass produced oil art like this is everywhere and one thing to look out for is last name only sigs.

a current ebay listing

another eBay link

There are a couple others. All similar styles of painting (coastal or village scenes with similar line work), none of this exact one.

Any insight is helpful but definitely skeptical this isn't anything more than mass produced "world market art" from the 60-70s.

Thanks!

Edit: found this on worthpoint and a few others. Definitely seems like it might be mass production

u/Iamthetophergopher — 1 day ago
▲ 131 r/bookhaul

Another day another thrift haul. A couple signed firsts and a bunch of mass market paperback first prints

The vintage paperbacks are all first printing for Dell (not first overall obviously, except for Cachalot which is a first printing.) Vonnegut is a second printing. Gaiman and Green books are signed first/firsts. Majumdar is also a first/first (unsigned)

u/Iamthetophergopher — 2 days ago
▲ 105 r/bookhaul

New spot, nice haul

I was in a different part of town since the last haul for my wife's OB appointment and after I took lunch to hit a few spots in a new part of town. Excited most for the Faulkner, vintage Signets, Krakauer, McEwan, and White Teeth. I've read Song of Achilles, ATWI80D, and Choke but didn't own them. I read Hamnet and loved (and was crushed by) it, excited to have found three of her other works in great shape in one shop. Rushdie should be interesting, and Robert Frost will go in my 3.5yo’s burgeoning bookshelf (alongside a bunch of goosebumps, snicketts, illustrated classics, Calvin and hobbes and bunch of other stuff) for when he switches rooms.

u/Iamthetophergopher — 6 days ago
▲ 100 r/bookhaul

Ignore the Japanese-pressed CDs, they were from a variety of previous thrifts from before I joined this exciting sub

u/Iamthetophergopher — 12 days ago

Most of the hardcovers at first edition, first prints, not that it particularly matters for these books but is part of the fun when hunting. Norwegian Wood is a favorite of mine but I just have a generic mass production copy so having the trade paperback in the collection is wonderful. The Sherlock Holmes collection is pre-barcode, I think 1967? I'll have to double check.

u/Iamthetophergopher — 15 days ago