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Art For Sale
Star Chart. Antique Astronomy celestial print
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Colour lithograph, 1890. 210mm by 285mm (sheet). From W Peck's 'A Handbook and Atlas of Astronomy', 1890. Sir William Peck FRSE FRAS (1862 – 1925) was a Scottish astronomer and scien...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Art
Materials
Lithograph
San Marco, Venice, Street Art, monochrome photograph, limited edition cityscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white photography. Outdoor café in front of a historic building with arched windows, a few pigeons and a man walking by.
Archival pigment ink print as ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
There There
Located in New York, NY
Sila Sehrazat Yucel is a talented artist based in Istanbul. Her background in landscape and interior architecture shapes her creative vision. With experience as an art director in ci...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
19th Century Italian Miniature Painting The Madonna
Child, Signed original
By J. Canava
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Madonna & Child
by J. Canava, Italian late 19th century
miniature painting on ceramic, framed within velvet inset and frame
image measures 3.2...
Category
Late 19th Century Renaissance Art
Materials
Gouache
Foss, Waterfall, Mountain Stream, Iceland, landspace, photography, limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9.
All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Baryta.
Each print is st...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment
Love Rat
By Banksy
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Banksy
Title: Love Rat
Medium: Screenprint in colors
Date: 2004
Edition: 18/600
Framed Size: 26 1/2" x 20 1/2"
Sheet Size: 19 3/16" x 13 1/2"
Image Size: 13 7/8" x 11 7/8"
Si...
Category
Early 2000s Street Art Art
Materials
Screen
$50,000
Lovers, San Francisco.
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Fisher Ross. Untitled, ca. 1975-80. Gelatin Silver print, sheet measures 8 x 10 inches; 17 x 21 inches framed. Artist studio stamp on verso. Excellent cond...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Field of Wild Poppies
, American Impressionist, Woman Artist, Horticultural Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Jane Chenoweth' for Jane Chenoweth (American, 20th century).
Oil botanical showing a field of vermilion poppies with white and gold daisies contrasted against ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vacation Reading, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A young boy lies sprawled on a couch, fully absorbed in a comic book. His relaxed pose conveys a sense of calm and quiet. The scene captures the simple pleasure...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Roses √4
Located in Zofingen, AG
Gorgeous roses are embraced by hydrangeas.
The classic blue vase looks fresh against the beige background.
The dark blue background creates contrast. This is what I love most: the br...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Sea Waves, Seascape Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2021
Style: Impressionism,
Subject: Sea Waves,
Size: 30" x 45" x 1'...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century Abstract Nude Oil on Canvas Painting by Edith Ferullo
By Edith E. Ferullo
Located in Atlanta, GA
Original Mid-Century oil on canvas composition by American Artist Edith E. Ferullo (1928 - 2008). The painting features a thick textured abstract nude subject. The brutalist artwork ...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Gouache
Vintage American School Western Seascape Fauvist Modern Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school fauvist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a giltwood molding. Excellent condition, read...
Category
1940s Fauvist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Abandoned Pier, Ireland, black and white photograph, limited edition seascape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white waterscape photography. An old abandoned wooden dock extending into a calm body of water under a cloudy sky.
Archival pigment ink print, edition ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper, Archival Ink
Two horses. Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting, Colorful, Dynamic, Polish art
By Monika Rossa
Located in Warsaw, PL
Abstract painting by Polish artist living in USA Monika Rossa. Painting depicts two horses running, it is in warm colors. The background is abstract and it is dynamic.
MONIKA ROSSA ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid-19th Century Vanitas Academic Life Study Male Nude Carrying A Skull
Located in Sutton Poyntz, Dorset
Alb. Muller.
German Mid 19th Century.
Vanitas - Academic Life Study Of A Male Nude Carrying A Skull.
Red Chalk On Paper.
Signed Lower Right.
Paper size 23.8 inches x 16.9 inches ( 60...
Category
Mid-19th Century Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Chalk
Winter Forest Landscape - Antique Oil Painting by 19th Century American Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Winter Forest Landscape - Antique Oil Painting by 19th Century American Artist, Clara Davis Inness (1874-1932)
Art measures 20 x 16 inches
Frame measures 22.25 x 18.25 inches
Oil o...
Category
1920s American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Abstract, Turquoise and Gray
, Paris, Picasso, Andre L
Hote, Guernica, Benezit
By Dora Maar
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'Abstract, Turquoise and Gray' by Dora Maar.
Paris, Picasso, Andre L'Hote, Guernica, Benezit
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Signed verso with artist monogram 'DM' for Dora Maar (Argentine-French, 1907-1997)...
Category
1930s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dynamic Tension 3 - Original Geometric Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mexican artist Heny Steinberg’s mid-century modern inspired abstract artworks invite us to travel from the map to the localized event. She is suggesting that the spatial memory guid...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Lucio Fontana Untitled (Gold Concetto Spaziale)
Located in Washington , DC, DC
Exceptional gold foil Concetto Spaziale produced in 1962 for a rare official Lucio Fontana artist monograph during his lifetime, published by famed art book publisher Harry N. Abrams...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Foil
Laurel Forest - mystic Tree - large scale photo - color image - limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Laurel Forest Study 5, Portugal - no. 21283
Pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. Prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuehle Photo Rag Baryta. Each pr...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Oxyacantha rosea superba, antique botanical pink flower engraving
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Engraving with original hand-colouring. 1834. 230mm by 155mm. From Paxton's 'Magazine of botany and register of flowering plants' by Sir Joseph Paxton.
Category
Mid-19th Century Naturalistic Art
Materials
Engraving
Caress, 1951 - Original lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Françoise GILOT (1921)
Caress, 1951
Original lithograph
On Marais vellum 28 x 22.5 cm (c. 11 x 9 inches)
REFERENCES : Catalog raisonne "Stone Echoes, Original Prints by Francoise G...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
French Expressionist Abstract Original Painting Artists Studio Provenance
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Expressionist Composition
by Jacques COULAIS (1955-2011)
gouache painting on paper/ card
unframed: 12.75 x 9.75 inches
condition: excellent
provenance: all the paintings we ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Detail Red Onion- 21st Century Contemporary Hyperrealistic Still-life Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Adriana van Zoest
Detail Red Onion
31 x 31 cm Framed 42 x 42 cm ( Frame is included in price)
Oil paint on wood panel (2024)
Various subjects
Adriana van Zoest's paintings are not e...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Original
United Behind the Service Star
antique World War One vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original poster: United Behind The Service Star ; Great vibrant colors. Linen backed. All the various support organizations that backed up the soldiers and war relief during World War One. A-, B+ condition. Paper tear from the bottom about 10" professionally laid down. No paper loss.
A large blue star appears over the flags, and below the image reads "United Behind the Service Star". The poster features American soldiers carrying the flags of seven major service organizations: the YMCA, the National Catholic War Council, the Jewish Welfare Board, the Salvation Army, War Camp Community Service, the American Library Association, and the YWCA. These organizations were instrumental in providing various forms of support, such as food, medical care, and morale-boosting services, both to soldiers and civilians.
If you have ever looked to have a 'supreme' version of this great war poster...
Category
1910s American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
156.04.11, Torsi series by Klaus Kampert - Black and White nude photography
Located in Paris, FR
156.04.11 is a limited-edition black
white photograph by contemporary artist Klaus Kampert from the series entitled Torsi. In this series the model is stripped of identity. The...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Woman surrealism oil on canvas painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Canvas size 81x100 cm.
Frame size 94x113 cm.
Alvar Suñol Alvar Suñol Munoz-Ramos, commonly known as Alvar, was born in 1935 in Montgat, Spain, a Catalan fishing village on the Medit...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$11,913 Sale Price
50% Off
Signed French Impressionist Oil Painting Horses Pulling Cart at Sunset
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Close of Day
by Paul Flaubert (1928-1994)
signed oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 18.5 x 22 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good and sound condition ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Mid-Century 29977-30 #16 Nude Portrait Silver Gelatin Print by Bruce Weber
By Bruce Weber
Located in New York, NY
This exquisite silver gelatin print by celebrated American photographer Bruce Weber showcases the artist's signature mastery of light, shadow, and form. Titled "29977-30 #16 Nude Por...
Category
1990s Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Portrait of Elegant Couple
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Beautiful ca. 1970's portrait by American artist, Vito Tomasello. Oil on masonite panel measures 10 x 12 inches. Signed and dated lower right.
A lifetime NYC resident, Tomasello ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
$650 Sale Price
45% Off
Stop and Go, Dubai Marina, Night, black and white photography, landscape print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - B&W nighttime cityscape of a downtown with tall skyscrapers, a harbor and boat docks. Light trails from moving boats on the water.
Archival pigment ink print, ed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Framed Mid 20th Century Oil - A Crystal Wine Glass
Mandarins
Located in Corsham, GB
A vibrant still life painting depicting fresh mandarins, both whole and segmented, displayed on an ornate white and blue plate alongside an elegant crystal wine glass and silver and ...
Category
20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
"Terra Rosa Nude" by Mark Bradley Schwartz, Original Oil Painting, Female Nude
Located in Denver, CO
"Terra Rosa Nude" by Mark Bradley Schwartz is an original oil on canvas depicting the nude back of a female model with with graceful curves.
A native of Illinois, He began his professional life as a graphic designer and art director in St. Louis, Missouri and later moved to Southern California to further his design career. Although Schwartz’s career was successful, he wanted to pursue work of a more personally fulfilling nature.
To reach these new goals Schwartz first attended life drawing classes at Associates in Art, in Sherman Oaks, California. He later studied at the California Art Institute in Westlake Village, California, where he received extensive training in drawing and painting the human figure from life. While studying with famed illustrator Glen Orbik...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flowers (Pink, Red, Purple Hues - Pop Art) (~65% OFF LIST PRICE, LIMITED TIME)
By Jurgen Kuhl
Located in Kansas City, MO
Jürgen Kuhl
Flowers (Pink, Red, Purple Hues - Pop Art)
2010-2020
Color Silkscreen
Size: 32.8 × 32.8 inches
Unsigned
COA Provided
About Jurgen Kuhl:
In Cologne, the city of art ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art
Materials
Screen
Peony - 21st Century contemporary Hyper realistic oil painting of a peony flower
By JP Marsman
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Jean Paul Marsman (Dutch artist)
Peony
20 x 20 cm (framed, included in price 23 x 23 cm)
Oil paint on wood
Craftsmanship: The work is painted so realistically that everything seems...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Poetic Coastal Abstract Wall Waves Seascape Sculpture with Foam and Enamel
By Vera Vizzi
Located in FISTERRA, ES
L’Ordine delle Onde (The Order of the Waves) is a textural sculpture by Vera Vizzi, part of her ongoing exploration of contemporary coastal art. Crafted from foam clay, acrylic, plas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Enamel
$1,191 Sale Price
20% Off
Summer - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 23.5" x 15"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater nude photograph of a beautiful young woman diving in a red pool. Ripples and sunbeams are painting mysterious pattern on her perfect breasts.
Original gallery quality...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Row of six Cherry Trees, black and white panorama photograph, landscape, limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art panorama landscape photography. Avenue of cherry trees at sunset with exciting clouds, Weinviertel, Austria. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Digital Pigment, Archival Pigment
Rhodotorulic Acid. Woodcut in colors. Signed.
By Damien Hirst
Located in Paris, FR
HIRST Damien (1965 - )
Rhodotorulic Acid. Woodcut in colors. Signed.
Provenance : DTR Modern Gallery, New York.
About Damien Hirst (Artist)
British artist Damien Hirst is widely considered the enfant terrible of contemporary art. He is the most prominent of the so-called Young British Artists, or YBAs, a group, largely composed of Hirst’s classmates at Goldsmiths, in London, that began exhibiting together in warehouses and factories after 1988 and is known for the use of unconventional materials and “shock tactics.”
In the 1990s, Hirst said, “I can’t wait to get into a position to make really bad art and get away with it.” And indeed, he is notorious for piquing critics and baffling the public with such pieces as his signature glass vitrines containing dead sheep or sharks in formaldehyde, and his diamond-encrusted skull, For the Love of God.
Working primarily in sculpture, Hirst takes after French modernist master Marcel Duchamp in his use of ready-made objects and materials, which he combines to ironic effect. He often creates in series, as with The Cure (Violet) and The Cure (Turquoise), both from 2014, which are among several pill paintings...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper
“Paris”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas painting of a Parisian street scene done in post impressionist style by the Portuguese artist, Hilario Roberto. Street scene complete with iconic Parisian flo...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$850 Sale Price
46% Off
Carriage to the Church by Benjamin II Vautier - Graphite on paper - 20x15 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Benjamin II Vautier (1895–1974) was a Swiss-born artist, known for his contributions to both painting and graphic art. He was born into a family with artistic roots, as the son of Ot...
Category
Mid-20th Century Academic Art
Materials
Paper, Graphite
French School Late 19th Century Oil - Bounty of the Sea
Located in Corsham, GB
An impressive late 19th-century oil painting depicting a freshly caught bounty of lobster, fish, and oysters straight from the sea. This still life is well presented in a simple wood...
Category
Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil
A Colorful, 1930s Summer Harbor Scene of Saugatuck, Michigan by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A colorful , blustery painting of a summer harbor in Saugatuck, Michigan by famed Chicago Modern artist, Francis Chapin. Dating circa 1935, oil on Masonite, the painting depicts a v...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Masonite
Pablo Picasso, The Little Bullfight, from XXe Siecle, 1958
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph by Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), titled La Petite Corrida (The Little Bullfight), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, XXe Annee, N° 10 (double) Mars 195...
Category
1950s Cubist Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,996 Sale Price
20% Off
Tranquil Puzzle 4
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Lynn Sanders is an artist excited by beauty: architecture, foliage, landscapes, seascapes, interiors. She finds palettes and shapes in her environment and propels them into her work,...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Acrylic
Mid Century French Linear Geometric Abstract Drawing in Black Ink on Paper
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Linear Geometric Abstract Drawing in Black Ink on Paper
by Serge Guerin (b. 1916), French
Ink on artists paper, unframed
Size: 25.75 (height) x 19.75 (width...
Category
20th Century Abstract Geometric Art
Materials
Ink
British Impressionist Watercolor of a Hilltop House and Outhouse with Wildflower
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of a Hilltop House and Outhouse with Wildflowers
By Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023)
Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed
Dimension...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Portrait of Jane Seymour (1508-1537) Second Wife of King Henry VIII 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait of Jane Seymour (1508-1537) Second Wife of King Henry VIII , 17th Century
English School
Large 17th Century English Court portrait of Jane Seymour (1508-1537), Queen of En...
Category
17th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$5,972 Sale Price
25% Off
Still life with mask oil on canvas painting cubism
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Bernat Sanjuan Tarre (1915-1979) - Still life with mask - Oil on canvas
Oil measurements 50x65 cm.
Frame measurements 71x86 cm.
Category
1970s Cubist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,143 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Traditional English Summer River Landscape Oil Painting Harvest
Picnic
By Don Vaughan
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Summertime Harvest
by Don Vaughan (British, 20th century)
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 25 x 35.5 inches
canvas : 20 x 30 inches
Provenance: private collection, Surrey, Englan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
French Watercolor of "La Grosse Cloche, Bordeaux" with Architectural Detailing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of "La Grosse Cloche, Bordeaux" with Architectural Detailing
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper,...
Category
Late 20th Century French School Art
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
Edward Hopper
Apartment Houses
2010- Offset Lithograph
By Edward Hopper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 13.75 x 17 inches ( 34.925 x 43.18 cm )
Image Size: 13.75 x 17 inches ( 34.925 x 43.18 cm )
Framed: Yes
Frame Size: H: 14.75 x W: 18 x D: .75 in.
Condition: A: Mint
...
Category
2010s Art
Materials
Offset
$119 Sale Price
20% Off
Black Rocks, Iceland - minimalist - mono photograph - seascape - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography.
Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 15.
All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Scandinavian Female Nude Bathers at the Pond 1965
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
3804 Fantasy oil painting nude bathers
Category
1960s Art
Materials
Oil
Provence Vineyard Village Landscape Post-Impressionist Signed 1962 Painting
By Louis Bellon
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Provence Landscape, Panoramic View of a Riverside Vineyard Village
by Louis Bellon (French 1908-1998)
Signed lower right, dated 62 (1962)
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
meas...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Valley South of Junction City, Kansas - Realistic Landscape Oil Painting
By Jeff Aeling
Located in Chicago, IL
Aeling frequently depicts landscapes at moments when atmosphere dominates the ground, a fascination born from his time living in the West, where storms roll in across unbroken horizo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Chinese Stone Sculpture of Bhudda in Tang And Wei Dynasties In Style Abhayamudrā
Located in Roma, IT
An impressive stone sculpture of Buddha In the style of the Tang and Wei Dynasties hand carved. The figure of Bhudda, in mudra Abhayamudrā carved in standing position as a teacher wi...
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Art
Materials
Stone
Lady Sitting in Interior Reading Book Window Overlooking Provence Landscape, oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: French School, 20th century, signed Loiseau
Title: Lady reclining in interior setting, window overlooking Provencal landscape beyond.
Medium: oil on canvas, unfram...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
British Impressionist Watercolor of Rural Farmstead and Horse Riders
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of Rural Farmstead and Horse Riders
by Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023)
Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed
Dimensions: 11.25 x 15...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Art
Materials
Watercolor
$450 Sale Price
20% Off
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