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Art For Sale
Impressionistic Cityscape Nocturne Oil Painting Michael Budden American Flags
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Evening On Dover Street
16 x 20 unframed and 23.75 x 27.75 framed
signed LL
Evening On Dover Street is an oil painting on panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Antique man nude oil painting 1920
s portrait of a man in a thong impressionist
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Captivating antique man in a thong signed and dated impressionist oil painting on canvas. Atmospheric vintage almost nude portrait oil painting of a man standing. A man stands in a ...
Category
1920s French School Art
Materials
Oil
Pink Room
By Ulas
Merve
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Merve Türkan and Ulaş Kesebir, are a self taught photography duo based in London. They have been working professionally since 2014 and in the end of the 2020 they ...
Category
2010s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Andy Warhol
Heart (Open Candy Box)
1993 Vintage Pop Art
By Andy Warhol
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Heart (Open Candy Box) is an offset lithograph from a portfolio of five Andy Warhol prints published by te Neues, now long out of print and increasingly sought after by collectors. I...
Category
1990s Pop Art Art
Materials
Offset
Shotgun, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A man and his dog drive through a vast, open landscape. There’s a zero percent chance their trip won’t involve beef jerky. This sun-drenched scene captures ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art
Materials
Oil
The Outfit - Original Colorful Floral Figurative Feminine Surrealist Framed Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The figurative surrealistic paintings of Carlos Gamez de Francisco are heavily influenced by his Cuban upbringing in a Russian-governed academic setting. This presence exposed Franci...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Hand-Painted Artist Proof-Summer Night-British Awarded Artist-One Off large size
Located in London, GB
This stunning Artist's Proof is an one-off, hand-painted by the artist Shizico , signed at front and on the back label too; the proof is 90% hand painted with original oil paint by S...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Art
Materials
Gesso, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Giclée
Blood and Milk VIII - underwater nude photograph
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This dramatic underwater nude photograph of a young woman transforms the aquatic environment into a canvas of intense crimson and coral tones. The com...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
$2,240 Sale Price
20% Off
Fig Fruit. Horizontal oil painting, still-life.
Located in Oslo, NO
This small Still Life is horizontally composed with dark juicy fig fruits delicately contrasting to the white drapery they are resting on. Light shadow covers one half of fruit, lett...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
California Landscape, Near Carmel Ocean
Tree View, Cleveland Woman Artist
By May Ames
Located in Beachwood, OH
May Lydia Ames (American, 1863-1943)
Near Carmel, Calif., 1932
Oil on board
Signed and dated lower left, signed and titled verso
14 x 20 inches
18.5 x 24.5 inches, framed
May Ames w...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Fishy, Fishy, Fish, Goldfish breeding, Lucky charm, Vietnam mono photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Fishy, Fishy, Fish, Study 1, Vietnam - no. 21364
Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on H...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Nature Morte aux Poissons - 19th Century Antique Belgian Fish Fishing Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A superb 19th century Belgian oil on panel still life depicting three fish hanging against a wood background.
The work is indistinctly signed upper right and retains a Brussels gal...
Category
19th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
K
, Hockney
s Alphabet, David Hockney and Stephen Spender, Lithograph, 1991
Located in Manchester, GB
David Hockney, 'K' from 'Hockney's Alphabet', 1991
Edition of 250
Free delivery within the UK
From the special edition of Hockney's Alphabet, published in 1991, and signed on the ...
Category
1990s Abstract Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Loblolly Cove" Impressionist Sea Scape with Waves Crashing Oil Painting Framed
By John Terelak
Located in New York, NY
A truly masterful depiction of waves crashing by the rocks at Loblolly Cover in Rockport Massachusetts. The scene of Seagulls flying through the water as the waves crash create a stu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"White Barn", Contemporary Landscape, Blue, Green, Red, Purple, Oil Painting
By Marcia Wise
Located in Franklin, MA
Marcia Wise’s “White Barn” is a 10 x 14 inch contemporary palette knife oil painting on archival art-board from her barn series highlighting textured, dominant blues and greens with ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Seaside Promenade with Deckchairs Summer Crowd and Ocean View Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Seaside Promenade with Deckchairs Summer Crowd and Ocean View Watercolour Painting
By Tony Herbert (1927-2024)
Signed: Lower right
Medium: Watercolor on artists paper
Size: 11...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Watercolor
lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the watercolor sketch). Printed in 1955 at the Mourlot Freres atelier, this composition is from George Braque's Intimate Sketchbooks (Carnets Intimes). Braq...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
A Day of Discovery, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Onelio Marrero captures a father and son discussing artwork in a gallery at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He loves visiting museums as much for the pat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Cliffs, Dorset
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on watercolor paper, 9 3/4 x 12 1/4 inches (248 x 311 mm), the full sheet. Scattered light toning, especially at the sheet edges. Minor, light area of clustered brown spot...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Art
Materials
Watercolor
"City Life at The Grands Boulevards" Post-Impressionist Parisian Street Scene
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Te Pencke. Pencke was a Parisian painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. His work is...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sea Cliffs Panorama, Faroe Islands, monochrome large photography limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Sea Cliffs Panorama Study 1, Faroe Islands - no. 21355 // Black and white long exposure seascape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. Prints are...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Topiary I - x large format photograph of ornamental shaped tree
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
from a series of photographic observances capturing the antics of urban gardening and striking art of topiaries' green minimalism
Topiary I by Frank Schott
59.5 x 59.5 inches (1...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Madonna - Photograph by Lee Friedlander - 1980s
Located in Roma, IT
Vintage b/w photograph realized by Lee Friedlander in 1980s.
Copyright and provenance: Playboy.
Excellent condition.
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
$3,449 Sale Price
20% Off
Bicentennial Independence Celebration
Benjamin Franklin, Saturday Evening Post
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Norman Rockwell' (American, 1894-1978) and inscribed, lower left, with number and limitation '200/200'.
Originally created for the May 29, 1926 edition of the S...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Rear Window View, Purple Pastel Tones, Mauve Hue Abstract Diptych, Aurora Print
Located in Barcelona, ES
Cyd Fontaine (Lausanne, 1992) is a contemporary artist renowned for her captivating use of dreamy atmospheric gradients, which has helped her carve a distinctive niche in the world o...
Category
2010s Op Art Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Making The Darkness Conscious, joan mitchell, de Kooning, expressionism, color
Located in Jönköping, SE
This painting is part of a new series I began in the fall of 2025 titled Contemplation and Introspection. In this series I am exploring the profound relationship between nature and t...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Linen, Acrylic
Landscape 145 by Jean Krille - Oil on Masonite 100x100 cm
By Jean Krille
Located in Geneva, CH
Jean Krillé’s paintings are known for their expressive use of color and dynamic, abstract forms, blending realism with abstraction in his depictions of nature. His landscapes often f...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Modern fine art nature sea beach photo on matte premium paper "Yellow buoys"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
"Yellow buoys" (2025)
Medium: Archival pigment print on premium matte photo paper
Dimensions: 20 x 27 cm / 7.8 x 10.6 inches (unframed)
Edition: Limited Edition of 50
Signed on the b...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
I remember the sweetness of life - Dreamy soft atmospheric waterfall painting
Located in Silverthorne, CO
A moment in time and nature, "I remember the sweetness of life" is the latest in my water series, and exploration of dawn in the wild, the sweetness of the light and foamy water as i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Making Camp
Located in Columbia, MO
Thomas Hart Benton (American, 1889 - 1975) was a painter, muralist, and printmaker whose sinuous, rhythmic style came to define the Regionalist movement. His paintings and lithograph...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Fall in the Mountain Valley
Located in North Clarendon, VT
Beautiful American School impressionist piece, unsigned, oil on board. Likely 1920-1940. Painted by a talented artist with wonderful composition and brushwork. 10" x 14" sight, 16.2...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Peony No.11 - analogue black and white floral photography, limited edition 10
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
Peony No.11 printed on archival Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta fine art paper, this limited edition piece measures 100 x 125 cm and is part of an exclusive series of 10 prints, each han...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Art
Materials
Giclée
PaperLandscape, Paint and collage on Cotton Canvas, Ready to Hang Made in Italy
Located in Agrigento, AG
PaperLandscape
Mixed-media painting on Cotton Canvas
One of a kind artwork
Size: 80x80 cm
Ready to hang
Signed certificate of authenticity
Style: Abstract, Minimalist
Marilina Mar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Cotton Canvas, Oil
White
Pink Roses in Brown Vase Still Life Mid Century French Impressionist Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Suzanne Dinkés (French, 1895 - 1984)
Medium: signed and dated 46'
oil on board, unframed
Size : 16 x 13 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: The p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Fun Loving Criminals II by BATIK- Supersize Signed Limited Edition
By BATIK
Located in London, GB
Fun Loving Criminals II
By BATIK- Signed Limited Edition
Archival pigment pop art print of infamous criminal arrest mugshots of Fifty Cent, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Snoop Dog, ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Between earth and time, Oil on canvas, Abstract Landscape, Expressionism art
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
About the artist:
Sophie Dumont is a French contemporary painter known for her rich, layered oil paintings that blend abstraction and symbolism. Born in Paris in 1964, she has lived ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil
New Stories
Located in Zofingen, AG
From the City Stories series, New Stories portrays the quiet poetry of urban encounters. Figures gather around a café beneath a bright awning, some pausing in conversation, others si...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
“Fall Landscape”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original oil on canvas board painting of a fall landscape by the American artist, Arthur Mitchell. Signed lower left by the artist. Circa 1890. Condition is very good. The paintin...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
Original Diptych-Spring Duet-British Awarded Artist-Abstract UK Contemporary
Located in London, GB
Spring Duet is part of Shizico Yi’s ongoing exploration of the diptych format—a project that began in 2024. Painted en plein air, every canvas captures both the landscape outside her studio and the intimate interior surrounding it. This duality unfolds across two paintings, creating a visual dialogue that shifts and harmonises like a musical duet.
The work belongs to Shizico’s long-running Memory Landscape Series (est. 2015), in which she moves fluidly between mediums—installation, sculpture, painting—and across visual languages from impressionism and expressionism into abstraction.
In this spring chapter, she turns to the gentle hues of the Northern European early spring: soft greens, creamy whites, pink-apricot light—tones that hold the tender, awakening atmosphere of the season. Each canvas functions like a musical note; together, the pair forms a coherent visual phrase. Their relationship is harmonious yet flexible, offering multiple ways of living with the work in your home.
-Artist's Lifetime Warranty for the original artwork
Details
Diptych (set of 2 paintings)
Medium: oil, acrylic, mixed media on canvas
Size: • Each canvas: 50 × 39.5 cm
• Total combined size: 50 × 79 × 1.5 cm (Unframed measurements)
-Versatile Display: The diptych may be hung:
• Side by side as a traditional diptych set
• Separated across different walls to create visual punctuation and subtle connection between spaces
This flexibility allows the work to adapt to a variety of homes and interior styles.
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About the artist:
Dr. Shizico Yi is a London-based artist working across installation, film, and painting. Her practice explores themes of loss, repetition, the everyday, and the significance of memory. Drawing on a background in design and film, she creates works that weave personal experience into wider social and human narratives. Yi holds a PhD in Fine Art from the University of East London (2017), an MFA, and a BA in Womenswear from the University of the Arts London.
Her practice also includes plein air painting from spring to autumn and studio-based work in winter, allowing place and season to inform the energy, scale, and materiality of her pieces.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in the UK, Korea, and Italy, and is held in private collections across the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and the UK.
Notably, Shizico Yi secured the title of Winner of the Women Film Makers: Best Shorts Competition in 2013 in Los Angeles, USA. She also serves as a guest jury member at the 14th-16th Annual New York City Independent Film Festival from 2022 to 2024 and is a curator and founder of no barking aRt...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
August Sunset Impressionism Seascape Framed Water Texas Artist Marine Dawn $700
Located in Houston, TX
August Sunset Impressionism Seascape Framed Water Texas Artist Marine Dawn $950 Framed 11" x 13". Is part of newly released small works from V....Vaughan's collection of recent travels. V....Vaughan painted each of these on location "en plein air" It has an Impressionistic Style as seen in many of Virginia Vaughan's paintings.
V....Vaughan is know for her animal, Texas missions Italy, France and Gulf Coast paintings...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Fenêtres de Paris by Libby Bothway
Located in Coltishall, GB
Libby Bothway's detailed and captivating pen illustration, captures the essence of iconic Parisian architecture. The monochrome drawing vividly showcases three adjoining classical Pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Cadaques Spain oil on canvas painting seascape
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Title: Cadaqués
Artist: Ramon Pichot Soler (1924–1996)
Technique: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 54 x 65 cm (approx. 21.3 x 25.6 inches)
Signature: Signed in the lower right corner
Condit...
Category
1980s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,437 Sale Price
40% Off
Seaside Serenade - Minimalism, Art Deco, Abstract, Bold, Invest, Colorful, Joy
By Karnish Art
Located in Pretoria, Gauteng
Title: Seaside Serenade
Minimalism, Art Deco, Abstract, Bold, Invest, Colorful, Joy
This series connects to that around as well as that within.
Solitude takes the viewer to that ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
1900
s French Impressionist Watercolor Portrait Lady Overlooking Balcony Garden
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Garden View
French School, early 20th century
signed with initials lower corner
watercolour painting on artist paper, framed
Glass covering
framed: 13 x 10.5 inches
board: 10 x 8...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Drifting Harmony I - Original Minimalist Blue Landscape Mountains Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The organic aesthetic and textures of Peter Kuttner’s original boho minimalist artworks are the result of patient layering and unique uses of media. Through a combination of collage ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Circa 1960 Original lithograph Vincent Van Gogh’s: the Portrait du Père Tanguy
Located in PARIS, FR
This stunning original lithograph from around 1960 presents one of Vincent Van Gogh’s most iconic compositions: the Portrait du Père Tanguy, originally painted in 1887. The piece off...
Category
1960s Art
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
A Summer Night. Ukraine
Located in Zofingen, AG
A contemplative scene of a woman and a black cat observing devastation beyond the window — burning homes against a twilight sky. The untouched dinner table becomes a silent witness t...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Robert Rauschenberg Signed Lithograph
Located in New York, NY
Robert Rauschenberg
American (1925-2008)
Untitled, for ROCI
offset color lithograph, signed and dated lower right "Rauschenberg 84"
25 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. (sheet)
Framed: 31 1/4 x 29 x...
Category
1980s Post-Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Take Me With You" (contemporary, white, black, floral, painting, antique linen)
Located in Paris, IDF
TAKE ME WITH YOU
2024
Paris, France
Canvas composition is divided in half, with the upper potion focused on a floral bouquet, and the bottom half left unfinished other than a subtl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Linen, Oil, Acrylic
Gold Flora Shadows Magnolia - Metallic Botanical Cyanotype Painting Flowers 2023
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary botanical cyanotype painting in watercolor, gouache, India ink, gold pigments and tea-toned cyanotype on cotton watercolor paper, meticulously detailed flowers a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pigment, Tea
Psyche by Franck K - Stainless steel sculpture, outdoor, reflections, painted
Located in Paris, FR
Psyche is a unique mirror-polished stainless steel sculpture on a concrete base by contemporary artist Franck K, dimensions including the base are 300 × 170 × 80 cm (118.1 × 66.9 × 3...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Concrete, Stainless Steel
"Parisian Grands Boulevards" Post-Impressionist Street Scene Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Salvadore Demone. Deomne was a Parisian painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. This...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Village Provençal " Pointillistic Colorful Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A large Mid-20th Century oil painting depicting a beautiful landscape on a sunny day of the Village Provençal in France. This piece has a strong presence with bold brushwork and heav...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pointillist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
You Are My Home - Colorful Textural Floral Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
With a contemporary perspective on still-life painting and inspired by paintings created by old masters, German artist Katharina Husslein paints in a representational manner to captu...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Threading Horizons 4
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landscapes with oil on canvas or panel.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Marc Chagall "Le peintre et son double (Derriere le Miroir 246)" lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Chagall, Marc
Title: Le peintre et son double (Derriere le Miroir 246)
Series: Derriere le Miroir
Date: 1981
Medium: Lithograph (double page, folded in center)
Unframed ...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
French Harbour Scene Oil Painting of Boats and Waterfront at La Croisic
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Harbour Scene Oil Painting of Boats and Waterfront at La Croisic
By Fanch Lel
Signed: Yes
Size: 15.25 x 18 inches (height x width)
Oil painting on board, unframed
Condi...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
The Three Skunks of WWII, Carved Wooden Figures of Hitler, Mussolini
Tojo
Located in Beachwood, OH
Three Skunks of WWII
c. 1940s
Carved and painted wood
Unsigned
8 x 10 in. h. each
These skunks are depicted as Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, and Hideki Tojo.
Condition: There ...
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
Spanish Landscape with Farmhouse oil painting Spain
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Title: Spanish Landscape with Farmhouse
Artist: Rafael Duran Benet (Barcelona, 1931–2015)
Technique: Oil on canvas board
Dimensions: 13 x 16.1 in
Signature: Signed "R. Duran" in ...
Category
1970s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
$455 Sale Price
36% Off
African Victorian by Tamary Kudita - Portrait photography, African women, flower
Located in Paris, FR
African Victorian is a limited-edition photograph (Digital Print on Baryta Fine Art paper) by contemporary artist Tamary Kudita.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions:
*84 x 62 cm (33.1 × 24.5 in), edition of 20 copies
*119 x 89 cm (46.9 × 35.1 in), edition of 20 copies
All prints are signed and numbered.
Framing options available.
This photograph is the first in the African Victorian series. It references Rembrandt’s 1634 painting Saskia as Flora, which portrays the artist’s wife, Saskia van Uylenburgh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital
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