Louis Bosa Paintings & Artwork for Sale | Louis Bosa Art Value Price Guide

Apr. 12, 2025
Small Painting of Fishing Scene, Louis Bosa.
Est: $400 - $800
Artist(s): Louis (Luigi) Bosa (Italian, 1905-1981) Medium: Oil on masonite. Signature(s): "Bosa", lower left. Paperwork: Attached en verso is a label from Frank J. Oehlschlaeger Gallery, Chicago. Damage: Signs of paint loss to the center, as well as minor, scattered craquelure. Scuffs to the frame. Measurement(s): 7" x 9" (board), 12 3/4" x 14 1/2" (frame). In-house shipping is available. Please see our website regarding our in-house shipping procedures.
Direct Auction Galleries, Inc.
Apr. 12, 2025
LOUIS BOSA (1905 – 1981). NUNS IN MY STUDIO.
Est: $300 - $500
Oil on canvas, 10 x 14 inches, signed lower right. Labeled on verso. Framed, 16 x 20 inches.
Casco Bay Auctions
Feb. 11, 2025
ATTR. LOUIS BOSA (1905-1981) O/B
Est: $50 - $10,000
Vintage scene of a mill with people working. Apparently unsigned Dimensions: (Frame) H 19" x W 25.75" (Sight) H 12.25" x W 19" Condition: Some soiling and rubs to frame. Not examined out of frame.
Westport Auction
Jan. 23, 2025
LOUIS BOSA, American 1905-1981, Boat Dock, oil on board, 15 3/4 x 20 in. (40 x 50.8 cm.), Frame: 24 x 28 x 1 1/2 in. (61 x 71.1 x 3.8 cm.)
Est: $800 - $1,200
LOUIS BOSA American, 1905-1981 Boat Dock oil on board signed lower left "Bosa"
Shannon's
Jan. 19, 2025
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) Italian/American, Humorous Nuns Oil on Board
Est: $200 - $400
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) Italian/American, Humorous Nuns Oil on Board. Shows a convent of five nuns in full wimples skiing down a hillside in Bosa's Social Realist-influenced style. Signed bottom right. Personal inscription on back of frame. Informative label from the Frank Oehlschlaeger Gallery on back of the board. Overall Size: 15 x 19 in. Sight Size: 7 x 11 in. #8648 Louis Bosa was born in 1905 in a small town near Venice, Italy. He showed early art talent and interest, and began to do figure paintings, using his family as models, by the age of ten. When he was fifteen years old he enrolled in Venice at the Academia delle Belle Arti, but in 1923 his family helped him emigrate to Hamilton, Canada where his brother had preceded him and was working in a steel mill. Unhappy with becoming a steel worker as his family wanted, Bosa ran away to Buffalo, New York, to live with his aunt and uncle. While there he met Theresa Krakowska, and the couple moved to New York City to pursue art together, marrying in 1926. He worked a number of odd jobs while taking night classes at the Art Students League, and his style became heavily influenced by the work of the director, the Social Realist painter John Sloan. The 1930s were very difficult for the couple, and many of his paintings reflect laboring workers and idle hobos in depressed, muted tones and striking lines. In 1938 he won the first award that brought him some attention, the John Wanamaker Prize, at an outdoor exhibition in Washington Square. He was awarded the Altman Prize at the National Academy of Design in 1939, but he was disqualified when it was discovered that he was not American-born. Throughout World War II he remained apolitical, and his style tended to eschew growing modernist influences, particularly Abstract Expressionism. His humanist ideals and humorous nature, coupled with the quirky and often irreverent subject matter he began to showcase, garnered him less attention than the more “serious” avant garde artists around him, but he remained devoted to following his own path, rather than copying his more successful peers. His first major accolades came in 1944 when he won a $1500 prize for painting from the Pepsi-Cola Company, and soon after he was designing product endorsements for Grumbacher paints. The family was finally doing well enough that Bosa could afford a summer home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where he began to explore sculpture. In 1944 he was offered a teaching position at the League, and simultaneously taught summer classes in Rockport, Massachusetts. He began exhibiting regularly at the Kleeman and Milch Galleries, and in 1951 he was offered an assignment by Life Magazine to travel to his hometown in Italy to paint the local people. In 1959 he became an instructor of painting at the Cleveland Institute of Art, and his home studio in Bucks County became an artists retreat where his pupils frequently came to learn and create in a conducive, less academic environment. In the late 1960s he began to suffer multiple health issues, developing bladder cancer and sinking into dementia by the mid 70s. He passed away at a hospital in Doylestown, Pennsylvania on October 19th, 1981, and today most of his works are in private collections throughout New England and the Midwest.
Sarasota Estate Auction
Jan. 09, 2025
Louis Bosa "Viveros" Oil on Masonite
Est: $800 - $1,200
Louis Bosa (Italian/American, 1905-1981), "Viveros" [Nurseries], Oil on Masonite, signed lower left and verso with Milch Galleries label, wood frame. Image: 17.75" H x 35.5" W; frame: 25.75" H x 43.75" W. Provenance: From a 33 East End Avenue Estate. Keywords: Painting, Oil painting, Figures, Figural group, Figurative, Village, Town, Cityscape, Landscape scene, Post-Cubist, Cubism, Abstract, WPA Artist, 20th Century Art
Auctions at Showplace
Dec. 04, 2024
LOUIS BOSA, CYCLIST, OIL ON BOARD, 1956
Est: $600 - $800
Louis Bosa (American, 1905-1981). Untitled - Cyclist with Birdcages and Umbrella - 1956, oil on board, signed and dated 'Bosa, 1956' to LR. Framed. Provenance: Private Collection of Mr and Mrs. R. Cotton Alston, III, Atlanta, GA. Approximate dimensions: h. 12", w. 16"; frame h. 18.75", w. 22.75", d. 2".
Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.
Dec. 04, 2024
LOUIS BOSA 'WINE TIME IN VENICE' OIL ON BOARD
Est: $800 - $1,200
Louis Bosa (American, 1905-1981). 'Wine Time in Venice', oil on board, signed to LL, titled verso, with Milch Galleries, NY label verso. Framed. Provenance: Private Collection of Mr and Mrs. R. Cotton Alston, III, Atlanta, GA. Approximate dimensions: h. 22", w.12", frame h. 28.5", w. 18.75", 2".
Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.
Dec. 04, 2024
LOUIS BOSA 'COSTA BRAVA, SPAIN' OIL ON BOARD
Est: $800 - $1,500
Louis Bosa (American, 1905-1981). 'Costa Brava, Spain', oil on board, signed 'Bosa' to LR, with Milch Galleries, N.Y. label, verso. Framed. Provenance: Private Collection of Mr and Mrs. R. Cotton Alston, III, Atlanta, GA. Approximate dimensions: board h. 14"; w. 24"; frame h. 23", w. 33", d.4".
Ahlers & Ogletree Inc.
Nov. 02, 2024
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) American, Oil on Canvas
Est: $1,300 - $1,600
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) American, Oil on Canvas. Untitled. Duck scene. Depicting a duck head on the ground. Signed in the lower left. Proceeds from this sale will benefit students at the Ringling College of Art & Design. Overall Size: 15 x 19 in. Sight Size: 7 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. Frame Thickness: 1 1/2 in. #8160 . Born in a small town near Venice, Italy, Louis Bosa became a genre, figure, and landscape painter who exhibited widely, and was also a much-respected art teacher. Amidst the growing trends of modernism, especially Abstract Expressionism, he kept to his own unique style of apolitical, witty character studies and subjects of humor and human pathos. For art historians, his work has been difficult to categorize, which has led to him getting less attention than many of his contemporaries, especially those who had sophisticated public-relations machines. Also, he was such a unique character---ever telling jokes and far-fetched stories---that the focus on him tended to be on his quirky personality rather than the seriousness of his art. Bosa showed early art talent and interest, and began to do figure paintings, using his family as models, by the age of ten. When he was fifteen years old, he enrolled in Venice at the Academia delle Belle Arti, and between 1923 and 1924, emigrated to Hamilton, Canada where a brother had preceded him and was working in a steel mill. However, not wanting to become a steel worker as his family was urging him to do, Louis Bosa moved to Buffalo, New York to join an aunt and uncle. There he met his future wife, Theresa Krakowska, and shortly after moved to New York City to pursue art studies. He took various odd jobs to support himself, and began to do fine-art painting regularly, fortified by his studies at the Art Students League whose Director was the Social-Realist painter John Sloan. Sloan's painting style and subject matter had an ongoing influence on Bosa. A big boost came in 1944 when he won a $1,500 prize for painting from the Pepsi-Cola Company. He also made product endorsements such as for Grumbacher paints. In 1938, he won the first award that brought him much attention, the John Wanamaker Prize at an outdoor exhibition in Washington Square. He was awarded the Altman Prize at the National Academy of Design, but that was withdrawn when it was discovered that he was not American born. In the 1930s, the Bosa purchased a dilapidated cabin, built 1730, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and the cabin, named Casa Bosa, was their summer home for many years and after retirement, their permanent home. In an addition to the original structure, Bosa created a room resembling a chapel in which he housed small sculptures that he had made and Renaissance religious sculptures that he had collected. Bosa was an instructor for many years, including at the Art Students League in New York City, the Cape Ann School at Rockport, Massachusetts, and the Cleveland Institute of Art. (Askart)
Sarasota Estate Auction
Oct. 05, 2024
French 19th Century polychromed gilt gesso carved wood Saint Rocha 1295 figure from the European Antique Saints collection of Louis Bosa, (1905-1981), religious figure sculpture. 35"H x 12"W
Est: $400 - $600
French 19th Century polychromed gilt gesso carved wood Saint Rocha 1295 figure from the European Antique Saints collection of Louis Bosa, (1905-1981), religious figure sculpture. Provenance: From the collection of Louis Bosa, a well known Pennsylvania artist. Saint Rocha, 1295, is the patron saint of dogs and dog lovers. This figure is from the 19th century and was purchased in Paris, France. These saint figures also had a dog but few are ever found together. This item requires local pickup or third party shipping. Please contact us for a list of preferred shippers.
Ripley Auctions
Sep. 21, 2024
Louis Bosa (Italian, 1905-1981) The Escape, Signed Bosa lower right, Oil on board, Verso bears Frank J. Oehlschlaeger, Sarasota, Florida
Est: $100 - $200
Louis Bosa (Italian, 1905-1981) The Escape, Signed Bosa lower right, Oil on board, Verso bears Frank J. Oehlschlaeger, Sarasota, Florida gallery label, 27" x 12" Framed-31 1/4" x 16"
Auction Gallery of the Palm Beaches
Sep. 21, 2024
Louis Bosa (American, 1905-1981) pen and ink and wash on paper
Est: $100 - $200
Man with Horse and Cart pen and ink and wash on paper, signed Bosa lower left. 6 x 10 3/4"
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Sep. 08, 2024
LOUIS BOSA (ITALIAN/AMERICAN, 1905-1981).
Est: $800 - $1,200
'Farmyard With a Hay Wagon'. Oil on board. Signed lower right. Property from an Edgewater, NJ estate. Dimensions: 17.25" h x 21.375" w. Frame: 21.50" h x 26.50" w.
Clarke Auction Gallery
Jul. 20, 2024
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) gouache on paper painting landscape with trees
Est: $300 - $450
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) gouache on paper painting landscape with trees. Signed l/r L. Bosa. Painted on both sides. 24 3/8"h x 31 3/8"w. Weight: 10 lbs
King Galleries
Jul. 07, 2024
Louis Bosa (NY,PA,Italy,1905-1981) oil painting
Est: $1,200 - $1,500
ARTIST: Louis Bosa (New York, Pennsylvania, Italian, 1905 - 1981) TITLE: Selling Fruit (titled on label) YEAR: 1953 MEDIUM: oil on canvas CONDITION: Few repaired tears. Some flaking/paint losses. Some craquelure. No visible inpaint under UV light. Minor damages to frame. ART SIZE: 14 x 20 inches / 35 x 50 cm FRAME SIZE: 21 x 27 inches / 53 x 68 cm SIGNATURE: lower left PROVENANCE: Kleemann Galleries, NY (has label on verso) NAME VARIANTS: Luigi Bosa CATEGORY: old antique vintage painting for auction sale online AD: ART WANTED: Consign, Trade In, Cash Offer SKU#: 131754 US Shipping $75 + insurance. BIOGRAPHY: Born in Codroipo, near Venice, Italy, the son of a stonemason, Bosa became a genre, figure and landscape painter who exhibited widely and was a much-respected art teacher. Art historians have apparently found his work difficult to categorize. Aged fifteen, he enrolled at the Academia delle Belle Arti, Venice. Around 1923/1924 he emigrated to Hamilton, Canada, from there to Buffalo, New York and then to New York City to pursue art studies. Bosa studied under John Sloan, of the Ashcan School, at the Art Students League. In 1938, he won the John Wanamaker Prize and he was awarded the Altman Prize at the National Academy of Design, although this was withdrawn when it was discovered that he was not American born. From 1944 to 1946, he was an instructor at the Art Students League in New York City and from 1943 to 1946, and taught at the Cape Ann School at Rockport, Massachusetts. By 1960, he was ‘Instructor of Advanced Painting’ at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He also taught at the Parsons School of Design, Syracuse University, and the University of Notre Dame. Bosa painted for the Works Progress Administration and for the Whitney Museum. In New York, he exhibited at The Kleeman Galleries and the Milch Galleries, and in 1951, he accepted an assignment from Life magazine to visit his hometown of Codroipo, Italy, a village near Venice, to paint the local people. Bosa's paintings are in many museum collections, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Whitney Museum, The Philadelphia Museum, The Toronto Art Museum and The Columbus Museum of Arts & Crafts.
Broward Auction Gallery LLC
Jun. 26, 2024
BOSA, Louis (American 1905-1981) Untitled. (At the Shore). ...
Est: $300 - $500
BOSA, Louis (American 1905-1981) Untitled. (At the Shore). 1971. Oil on Masonite. Signed lower right and signed and dated verso. 10 x 16”. Frame: 17 x 23”. Good condition. Not examined out of frame.
Potter & Potter Auctions Inc.
Jun. 01, 2024
Louis (Luigi) Bosa, Italian (1905 - 1981), landscape with crows, watercolor on paper, 11 1/2"H x 18 1/2"W(sight), 24 1/4"H x 30 1/4"W(frame)
Est: $200 - $400
Louis (Luigi) Bosa Italian, (1905 - 1981) landscape with crows watercolor on paper Signed lower right. Biography from the Archives of askART: Born in a small town near Venice, Italy, Louis Bosa became a genre, figure, and landscape painter who exhibited widely, and was also a much-respected art teacher. Amidst the growing trends of modernism, especially Abstract Expressionism, he kept to his own unique style of apolitical, witty character studies and subjects of humor and human pathos. For art historians, his work has been difficult to categorize, which has led to him getting less attention than many of his contemporaries, especially those who had sophisticated public-relations machines. Also, he was such a unique character---ever telling jokes and far-fetched stories---that the focus on him tended to be on his quirky personality rather than the seriousness of his art. Bosa showed early art talent and interest, and began to do figure paintings, using his family as models, by the age of ten. When he was fifteen years old, he enrolled in Venice at the Academia delle Belle Arti, and between 1923 and 1924, emigrated to Hamilton, Canada where a brother had preceded him and was working in a steel mill. However, not wanting to become a steel worker as his family was urging him to do, Louis Bosa moved to Buffalo, New York to join an aunt and uncle. There he met his future wife, Theresa Krakowska, and shortly after moved to New York City to pursue art studies. He took various odd jobs to support himself, and began to do fine-art painting regularly, fortified by his studies at the Art Students League whose Director was the Social-Realist painter John Sloan. Sloan's painting style and subject matter had an ongoing influence on Bosa. In 1926, Bosa and Theresa married. The couple struggled financially through the 1930s and early 1940s, and many of his paintings reflect laboring people or obvious "down and outs" wandering streets or just standing idle. A big boost came in 1944 when he won a $1500. prize for painting from the Pepsi-Cola Company. He also made product endorsements such as for Grumbacher paints. In 1938, he won the first award that brought him much attention, the John Wanamaker Prize at an outdoor exhibition in Washington Square. He was awarded the Altman Prize at the National Academy of Design, but that was withdrawn when it was discovered that he was not American born. In the 1930s, the Bosa purchased a dilapidated cabin, built 1730, in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, and the cabin, named Casa Bosa, was their summer home for many years and after retirement, their permanent home. In an addition to the original structure, Bosa created a room resembling a chapel in which he housed small sculptures that he had made and Renaissance religious sculptures that he had collected. The Bosas also did much entertaining at Casa Bosa, including students from his classes in New York and Cleveland. From 1944 to 1946, he was an instructor at the Art Students League in New York City and from 1943 to 1946, he taught at the Cape Ann School at Rockport, Massachusetts. In 1960, he was an Instructor of Advanced Painting at Cleveland Institute of Art 1959. In New York, Bosa exhibited at The Kleeman Galleries and the Milch Galleries, and in 1951, Louis Bosa accepted an assignment from Life magazine to visit his hometown of Codroipo, Italy, a village near Venice, and to do paintings of local people. He had not been there for 27 years, and townspeople there were impressed with him as a successful artist. He did more than thirty depictions of family members including his mother and father and ninety-five year old grandmother. His mother died shortly after that visit, and unable to return for her funeral, he did a painting called Procession, which had figures of people he knew would be in attendance including himself as an observer peering from a window. Louis Bosa died in Doylestown, Pennsylvania on October 19, 1981 at age 76. He had cancer of the bladder, and suffered dementia from anesthesia during surgery in 1975, which meant he did little painting the last years of his life. Sources: Cher Krause Knight, "Louis Bosa: A keen Eye and a Kind Heart", American Art Review, December 2005, p. 142-148 Collectors of American Art, Annual Bulletin, December 1947 Ed Dannenburg of New York City Peter Falk, Who Was Who in American Art
Ripley Auctions
Apr. 20, 2024
Louis Bosa Canal Scene
Est: $800 - $1,200
Louis Bosa (Italian, 1905-1981) Canal Scene Oil on board Signed Bosa, lower right
Larsen Art Auction
Feb. 10, 2024
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) sketches
Est: $200 - $400
Circus People watercolor on paper, 1955, signed Bosa lower left. 9 x 11 1/4"
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Feb. 10, 2024
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) watercolor
Est: $200 - $400
Female Nude watercolor on rice paper, 1964, signed Bosa 1964 lower right. 9 x 6''
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Feb. 10, 2024
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) acrylic on paper
Est: $300 - $600
Waterfront with Full Moon acrylic on paper, 9 3/4 x 14 1/2''
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Feb. 10, 2024
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) watercolor
Est: $300 - $600
Bucks County watercolor on paper, ca. 1940's, signed Bosa lower right. 9 x 13 1/2''
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Feb. 10, 2024
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) watercolor
Est: $150 - $250
Mexican Scene watercolor on paper, signed Louis Bosa lower right. 13 1/2 x 17"
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Feb. 04, 2024
Louis Bosa Double Sided Gouache on Paper Paintings
Est: $500 - $1,000
A pair of Louis 'Luigi' Bosa (Italian/American, 1905-1981) gouache on paper paintings presented in a double-sided frame; one side depicting a woodland scene and the other side a dead game still life with two turkey heads and a foot. Signed on front, lower right. Sight: 16" x 23"
Atlanta Auction Gallery, ltd
Nov. 11, 2023
LOUIS (LUIGI) BOSA AMERICAN 1905-1981
Est: $600 - $900
The Procession, oil on panel, 8 x 24 in (20.3 x 61 cm), framed 15 x 23 in (38.1 x 78.7 cm), signed lower left and dated 1956, PROVENANCE: J.J. Roush, 1960's Chicago by descent to family to a private collector St. Louis, MO
Trinity International Auctions & Appraisals, LLC
Nov. 03, 2023
LOUIS (LUIGI) BOSA (New York/Pennsylvania/Italy, 1905-1981), Don Quixote., Oil on board, 19.5" x 15.5" sight. Framed 23.5" x 19.5".
Est: $300 - $500
LOUIS (LUIGI) BOSA New York/Pennsylvania/Italy, 1905-1981 Don Quixote. Signed and dated lower right "Bosa 1960".
Eldred's
Oct. 21, 2023
Louis Bosa pen and ink
Est: $150 - $250
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) Study of Monks pen and ink on grey paper 16 x 13"
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Sep. 21, 2023
LOUIS BOSA Still Life with Flowers.
Est: $1,500 - $2,500
LOUIS BOSA Still Life with Flowers. Oil on canvas, 1937. 815x510 mm; 32x20 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right recto. Provenance: Private collection, New Jersey.
Swann Auction Galleries
Jul. 15, 2023
Louis Bosa (Italian, 1905-1981) H.- 14 in., W.- 24 in., Framed- H.- 20 1/2 in., W.- 30 1/2 in.
Est: $800 - $1,200
† Louis Bosa (Italian, 1905-1981) Louis Bosa (Italian, 1905-1981), "Misericordia," oil on board, signed lower left, gallery label with artist and title from "The Milch Gallery, New York" en verso, additional label with artwork information en verso, also with business card from "Halcyon House Antiques, Bay St. Louis" with artwork information attached, presented in a wood frame,
Crescent City Auction Gallery
Jun. 18, 2023
Louis (Luigi) Bosa (1905 - 1981) Oil on Canvas
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Depicting a farm on a river mark, signed and dated for 1937 at the lower right.
Locati LLC
Jun. 14, 2023
LOUIS BOSA (1905-1981) ITALIAN
Est: $500 - $1,500
THE ONLOOKER, 1952, oil painting on canvas, signed lower left, 18 ¼ x 16 ¼”, frame 27 ½ x 26 x 3 ¼”. Provenance: Kleemann Galleries, New York.
Clark's Fine Art & Auctioneers Inc.
Jun. 04, 2023
Louis (Luigi) Bosa (1905 - 1981) Double-Sided
Est: $400 - $600
Louis (Luigi) Bosa (New York, Pennsylvania / Italy, 1905 - 1981) Double-sided watercolor/gouache painting. Signed lower right. Sight Size: 14.5 x 22.5 in. Overall Framed Size: 24 x 31.5 in. Framed behind glass.
Helmuth Stone
Jun. 03, 2023
3 Louis Bosa drawings
Est: $200 - $400
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) Portraits 1 pen and ink; 1 charcoal on paper and a pen and ink sketch, 1 is signed, handling creases, various tears along edges. 19 x 12'' (largest sheet)
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Jun. 03, 2023
Louis Bosa sketches
Est: $200 - $400
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) Sketches- Self-Portrait, Winter Scene, Figural, tears around edges and toning to paper and handling creases, all unsigned. 14 7/8 x 19 3/4'' (largest sheet)
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Jun. 03, 2023
Louis Bosa watercolor and pen and ink
Est: $200 - $400
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) ''Venezia'' watercolor and pen and ink on paper, signed Bosa lower center and titled lower left, along with 4 pen and ink sketches, some light staining and handling creases. 10 7/8 x 17'' (sheet size)
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Jun. 03, 2023
Louis Bosa sketches
Est: $200 - $400
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) Sketches 4 pen and ink on paper, unsigned, vertical crease down center of 1 sketch, other creases, minor tears and abrasions throughout sketches. 12 x 18'' (largest sheet)
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Jun. 03, 2023
Louis Bosa pen and ink sketches
Est: $200 - $400
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) Sketches 4 pen and ink on paper, 1 signed Bosa on verso, good condition. 12 x 18'' (largest sheet)
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Jun. 03, 2023
Louis Bosa Erotica sketches
Est: $150 - $250
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) Erotica sketches 4 pen and ink on paper, 1 signed Bosa, good condition. 9 x 12'' (largest sheet)
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
Jun. 03, 2023
Louis Bosa watercolor
Est: $200 - $400
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) Street Scene watercolor on paper, unsigned, some handling creases and light staining. 17 x 10 1/4''
Rachel Davis Fine Arts
May. 20, 2023
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) Italian/American, W/C
Est: $400 - $800
Winter Scene, small watercolor on paper, signed lower left, framed under glass. Born in a small town near Venice, Italy, Louis Bosa became a genre, figure, and landscape painter who exhibited widely, and was also a much-respected art teacher. Amidst the growing trends of modernism, especially Abstract Expressionism, he kept to his own unique style of apolitical, witty character studies and subjects of humor and human pathos. Early on he moved to New York City to pursue his art studies. There at the Art Students League, the Director was the Social Realist painter, John Sloan. Sloan's painting style and subject matter had an ongoing influence on Bosa. Overall size: 8 3/4 x 10 1/2 in. Image size: 5 1/2 x 7 1/2 in. #3245 #54
Sarasota Estate Auction
May. 20, 2023
Louis Bosa (1905-1981) Italian/American, Oil
Est: $600 - $1,000
Titled "Forest Scene", oil painting, signed lower right. Born in a small town near Venice, Italy, Louis Bosa became a genre, figure, and landscape painter who exhibited widely, and was also a much-respected art teacher. Amidst the growing trends of modernism, especially Abstract Expressionism, he kept to his own unique style of apolitical, witty character studies and subjects of humor and human pathos. Early on he moved to New York City to pursue his art studies. There at the Art Students League, the Director was the Social Realist painter, John Sloan. Sloan's painting style and subject matter had an ongoing influence on Bosa. Overall size: 16 x 11 1/2 in. Image size: 11 x 6 1/2 in. #1149 #55
Sarasota Estate Auction
May. 20, 2023
Louis Bosa Oil, Bal Masque
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Louis Bosa (American 1905-1981) Bal Masque, oil on masonite panel, signed lower left, framed. Dimensions: 9 x 26 in. image size, 13.5 x 30.5 in. as framed. Condition: Glossy varnish layer with craquelure. No evidence of retouch under UV light.
Neue Auctions
May. 03, 2023
LOUIS BOSA (NY/PA/ITALY, 1905-1981)
Est: $250 - $350
"Seasons Greetings", a miniature watercolor of white and black children skating on a country pond, signed with the sentiment, in a two-window mat, under glass, in a gilt bullnose stick frame, OS: 10" x 7 1/2", SS (image): 4 1/4" x 5 1/4". Good condition.
Thomaston Place Auction Galleries
Feb. 19, 2023
Louis (Luigi) Bosa (1905 - 1981) Oil on Board
Est: $500 - $1,000
"The Lock", signed at the lower right.
Locati LLC
Feb. 08, 2023
Louis (Luigi) Bosa Italian/American, 1905-1981 Birthday Party
Est: $800 - $1,200
Louis (Luigi) Bosa Italian/American, 1905-1981 Birthday Party Signed Bosa (ll) Oil on Masonite 10 x 24 inches (25.4 x 61 cm) C
DOYLE Auctioneers & Appraisers
Dec. 03, 2022
Louis Bosa Oil, Wharf
Est: $1,000 - $2,000
Louis Bosa (American 1905-1981) Wharf, 1934, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, framed. Dimensions: 19.5 x 23.5 in. canvas size, 29.5 x 33.5 in. as framed. Condition: Very good, some buckling of canvas at lower right corner.
Neue Auctions
Dec. 03, 2022
Louis Bosa oil, Hunters in Bucks County, Pennsylvania
Est: $800 - $1,200
Louis Bosa (American 1905-1981) Hunters in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, oil on board, signed lower right, framed. Dimensions: 9 x 14.75 in. image size, 14.75 x 20.5 as framed. Condition: Very good with no damage or restoration.
Neue Auctions