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Art For Sale
David Burdeny - Red Leaves, Paris, France, Photography 2018, Printed After
Located in Stamford, CT
All available sizes
editions for each size of this photograph:
21” x 21" Edition of 7
32” x 32" Edition of 7
44” x 44” Edition of 10
59" x 59" Edition of 5
While the spaces th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Family Time at the Coast
Located in Atlanta, GA
J. C. Morey is a Spanish artist from the province of Alicante. He was born into a family of artists and connected to the art world since the 60s, which gave him the opportunity from...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$1,000 Sale Price
60% Off
Vintage American School Signed Watercolor 80s Dance Party Scene Framed Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school modernist interior dance party painting. Watercolor and on paper. Signed. Framed. Measuring 12" x 21" framed and 11" x 20" painting alone.
Category
1980s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Paper, Watercolor
Yearning 3/9 - male, nude, figurative, statuette, bronze sculpture
By W.W. Hung
Located in Bloomfield, ON
At once expressive and elegant, William Hung creates dynamic sculptures that explore the human condition. With this intimate piece, cast in a rich bronze, an athlete balances on one ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Missing, 50x50cm, 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Missing -2018
50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival Print, based on an original Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2016-458.
No...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Original Spring Triptych-British Awarded Artist-Abstract British Contemporary
Located in London, GB
Spring Triptych belongs to two interconnected projects begun in 2024 — Spring Duet and The Weaver Series — where Shizico Yi explores abstraction through the expanded formats of diptych and triptych.
Although abstract in form, all three paintings were created en plein air, in situ, capturing both the landscape surrounding her studio and the interior space itself across the unfolding months of spring.
Each canvas functions like an individual musical note. Together, the three form a visual harmony — a quiet concert of rhythm, colour, and movement.
This triptych is part of Shizico’s long-running Memory Landscape Project (initiated in 2015), an expansive body of work spanning painting, sculpture, installation, and abstraction. Across this project, she moves fluidly between impressionism, expressionism, and abstract language, allowing memory and presence to shape form.
In Spring Triptych, Shizico focuses on a restrained, luminous palette of soft greens, creamy whites, and pink-apricot tones, evoking the fragile early spring light of Northern Europe. The works hold a sense of emergence — of quiet awakening — where colour breathes gently across the canvas.
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About the artist:
Dr. Shizico Yi is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across painting, installation, and film. Her practice explores themes of loss, repetition, the everyday, and the formation of memory, weaving personal narratives into broader social and human contexts. Drawing on a background in design and film, Yi’s work moves fluidly between mediums, allowing lived experience, place, and time to shape each project.
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 is grounded in both rigorous research and embodied making.
Alongside her studio practice, Yi works en plein air from spring through autumn, returning to studio-based work during the winter months. This cyclical approach allows seasonality, landscape, and environment to inform the scale, materiality, and emotional tenor of her work.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in the UK, South Korea, and Italy, and is held in private collections across the United States, Canada, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and the United Kingdom.
In addition to her visual art practice, Yi is an award-winning filmmaker. She was the Winner of the Women Filmmakers: Best Shorts Competition in Los Angeles (2013) and has served as a guest jury member for the 14th–16th Annual New York City Independent Film Festival (2022–2024). She is also the founder and curator of no barking aRt...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Brutalist Architecture Painting of Industrial Building, Flamingo Pink Sky, Paper
Located in Barcelona, ES
This beautiful painting by Nacho Reina is a formidable example of the interplay between form and color forms as the central axis of his work, where he starts from architectural shape...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Steel, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A ballerina balances en pointe on a rust-red steel girder suspended high above a pastel-hued cityscape. The image contrasts delicate grace with industrial stren...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art
Materials
Oil
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
Impressionistic Farm Landscape Oil Painting Michael Budden Sky Cloud Study
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Afternoon Sky is an oil on panel painting just completed in the studio. The painting exudes the rich qualities of oil paint with bright strong color, a variety of lost and found edge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
BANNED limited edition print
By Karyn Mannix
Located in East Hampton, NY
Banned Book Series. A definite "conversation" piece of art.
This is the only limited edition print in the Book Stack Series, which contains 24 different themed stacks.
BANNED is in a...
Category
2010s New Media Art
Materials
Archival Paper
$360 Sale Price
20% Off
Landscape 141 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
Large 1970
s French Modernist Landscape Oil Painting Green Brown Block Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Modernist School, 1977
indistinctly signed oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 32 x 24 inches
Provenance: private collection, Paris
Condition: a few surface marks but sound and i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Controversy - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Controversy - 2018
20x25cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2018-1096.
Not ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Radha Shooting II (Long Way Home) - Polaroid, Pop-art, Contemporary, analog
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Radha Shooting II (Long Way Home) - 1999
published in 'Stranger than Paradise'
128x126cm
Sold out edition of 5, Artist proof 2/2,
Analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
The Vanguard Series Nr. XIII: A Collection of Postwar European Abstractions
By STM
Located in London, GB
"The Vanguard Series Nr. XIII: A Collection of Postwar European Abstractions", oil on board, by STM (circa 1950s–70s). A compelling body of work emerging from the forgotten studios a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Plage de la Remigeasse, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A woman in a white shirt over a black bikini strolls along a wooden boardwalk. Tall grasses sway on both sides, with lush greenery rising to the left. The scene...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Original-Sunset Song-British Awarded Artist-Impressionism-Plein Air evening oil
Located in London, GB
Sunset Song Series stands as one of the most iconic works featured in the upcoming Summer Exhibition UK, 2025—a rare and luminous collection of latest artworks we’re thrilled to pres...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Art
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Cadaques oil painting spanish seascape mediterranean art
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Rafael Durán Benet (Barcelona, 1931–2015)
Title: Cadaqués
Medium: Oil on canvas-board
Size: 46 × 55 cm (18.1 × 21.6 in)
Signature: Signed lower right R. Durán
Inscription: Titled Cad...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Surrealist Dream : Couple of Roosters - Original lithograph (Spies #p. 438)
By Max Ernst
Located in Paris, IDF
Max Ernst (1891-1976)
Surrealist Dream : Couple of Roosters, 1970
Original color lithograph
Printed signature in the plate
On Arches vellum 33.5 × 61 cm (c. 13 x 24 in)
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Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Signpost In St. Moritz, Switzerland, Estate Edition, Mid-Century Modern Photo
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This early 1960s landscape photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a signpost indicating various ski slopes and toboggan tracks in the resort of St Moritz,...
Category
1960s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
NATURE - Flock of Birds - Facsimile, Ltd /450
By M.C. Escher
Located in Paris, IDF
M.C. ESCHER (1898-1972)
Flock of Birds, 2008
Facsimile after the original woodcut from 1938
Unsigned
Numbered / 450 copies (the number you can see can be different)
On vellum 45 x 3...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Color
Hand painted Artist Proof-Magnolias-Weaver Series-British Awarded Artist #2 of 3
Located in London, GB
This stunning Artist's Proof is an one-off, oil hand-painted and gilded by the artist , signed at front and on the back label too; each proof is 80% hand painted and gold gilded by S...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Dahlias" by Gary Bukovnik (Flowers, Still life, Watercolor, Paint, Print)
Located in New York, NY
This image features a colorful arrangement of pink, red and purple flowers by American artist, Gary Bukovnik. Bukovnik is an internationally acclaimed painter and printmaker who prim...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
$1,120 Sale Price
20% Off
River View
— Mid-Century American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon 'River View, color serigraph, 1942, edition 50, Ryan 159. Signed in pencil in the image, lower right. Titled, dated, and annotated '9 COLORS – 50 PRINTS' in the screen,...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Vintage American Impressionist Landscape Signed Lake Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 17 by 20 inches overall, and 12 by 16 painting alone. Handsomely framed in wide moder...
Category
1950s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
"Parisian Street Scene" Post-Impressionist Oil Painting on Canvas with Figures
Located in New York, NY
In this piece, the artist depicts his subject in an impressionistic way, capturing the busy streets of Paris from the 20th Century with much life. The artist mostly used oil with a p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, 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
Contemporary impressionist expressive floral painting paper "Roses in light"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This expressive and vibrant floral painting of roses, created by the contemporary French artist Natalya Mougenot, is a dynamic representation of nature’s energy. Born in Kazakhstan i...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Huge French Contemporary Modernist Abstract Oil Painting Blue Girl in Deckchair
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Composition of A Girl Lying On A Deck Chair
by Jacqueline VERDET (French, 1931-2023)
signed
oil painting on canvas, in wooden frame with the bottom part of frame missing
siz...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Serpentine - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Serpentine - 2018
40x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2018-1095.
Not...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Milton H. Greene - Alfred Hitchcock, American Airlines, 1959, Printed After
Located in Stamford, CT
Available Sizes:
24" x 24" $3,000.00 Edition of 15
30" x 30" $4,000.00 Edition of 20
45" x 45" $8,500.00 Edition of 7
Printing is done on Exhibition Photo Baryta 310gsm paper.
...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Totem Naples" Black Outline Bunny on Multicolor Silver Background Oil Painting
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a gestural figure of a black bunny on a Multicolor and silver background with thick use o...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel, Mixed Media
Vintage American Modernist Interior Still Life Cubist Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist still life oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Handsomely framed in modernist wood molding. Excellent condition, ready to hang and enjoy.
Category
1940s Cubist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Diving Lesson
Located in New York, NY
THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for additional information.
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Jessica Brilli (Sayville, NY 1977) has been drawing and painting sin...
Category
2010s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Ana - Original Figurative Fine Art photo, Sensual woman in bed the sun in eyes
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
A sexy topless woman in bed hiding her face from the sun
This is an original signed archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm paper by Scottish artist Ian Sander...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, ...
Jhelum River in Kashmir, 1961 - Luxury Watercraft Indian Natural Landscape
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Jhelum River in Kashmir, 1961 - Luxury Sailing Watercraft by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Digital C-Type print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
“Amber Light” — Hyperrealistic Seascape Oil Painting of Sunset Ocean Wave.
Located in Zofingen, AG
«Amber Light» is a fleeting and rare moment when the sea glows from within, filled with warm golden light. A wave sparkles like a drop of amber, inviting us into the slow, quiet rhy...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Venus on the Water
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-2738a Oil on artist board
Displayed in a vintage gilt wood frame
Image size 11x15"
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Oil
$279 Sale Price
38% Off
"Wanderer 17" Collaged Papers with Pastel, Acrylic and Graphite on Wood
By Seth Clark
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece, titled "Wanderer 17" is an original artwork by Seth Clark as part of his newest solo exhibition, "Passing Through". made of collage, charcoal, pastel, acrylic, and graphi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood, Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Acrylic, Graphite
Farm Landscape, Zoar, Ohio, Early 20th Century
Located in Beachwood, OH
August Frederick Biehle (1885-1979)
Farm Landscape, Zoar, c. 1923
Gouache, litho crayon and graphite on paper
Signed lower right
14 x 19 inches
17 x 23 inches, framed
A versatile pa...
Category
1920s American Modern Art
Materials
Crayon, Gouache, Graphite
Exposures (Deluxe Edition) Monograph Hand Signed, Numbered #1 by Andy Warhol COA
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol
Deluxe Collectors' Edition of Exposures (Hand Signed and Numbered), 1979
Hardcover Monograph in leather with gilt edge and stamped in gilt.
Hand signed by Andy Warhol on...
Category
1970s Pop Art Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite, Lithograph, Offset
Peas in a Pod Painting 3c, original painting, still-life
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Peas in Pod 3c (canvas size 7x5cm) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Doll - Polaroid, Contemporary, Women, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Doll - 2017 -
20x20cm,
Edition 4/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Digital C-print, based on an original Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2017-128.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
A Still Life of Flowers
By Henry Livens
Located in St. Albans, GB
Henry John Livens
An antique painting.
Framed oil on canvas.
Signed by the artist
Canvas Size: 20 x 24" (51 x 61cm)
Framed Size: 27 x 31" (37 x 77cm)
This stunning British Victorian...
Category
1890s Victorian Art
Materials
Oil
Beverly Hills Hotel, 1957 - Sunset Boulevard Hollywood California Landscape
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Beverly Hills Hotel, 1957 - Sunset Boulevard Hollywood California Landscape by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped C-Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
Be...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Gerhard Richter, 1025 Colors (1025 Farben)
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This exhibition poster for "Image after Image" at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, held from February 4 to May 29, 2005, was originally printed by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter K...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
California Impressionist OilPainting The Cliffs Trabuca Canyon Aaron Kilpatrick
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Aaron E. Kilpatrick
Landscape painter. Born in St Thomas, Canada on April 7, 1872. Kilpatrick was educated in the public schools of Winnipeg and moved to the U.S. in 1892. By 1907 he...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Contemporary abstract expressionist floral watercolor painting "Loving bloom"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary, vibrant abstract expressionist floral painting, executed with the touch of Impressionism and the intensity of Fauvism, was created by French artist Natalya Mougeno...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Fashionista 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Cintra and Frenetic Diptych. Mixed media Abstract painting on Canvas
By Alec Franco
Located in Miami Beach, FL
" The work resists framing in concepts, it overflows the contours and borders of the rational. It is through the presence of color, combined with an abstraction at times with express...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Frozen Landscape, minimalist plant photography monochrome limited edition print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Frozen Landscape Study 2, Austria - no. 21349
Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed wi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
CENTAUR with ARCH - original large art by Paula Craioveanu - New Mythology
Located in Forest Hills, NY
Centaur with Arch
100x70cm / 30x27in
ink, graphite, tempera on paper
large size, shipped rolled in a tube directly from the artist's studio
Antiquity is an endless inspiration res...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Ink, Tempera, Pencil
"Untitled" Friedel Dzubas, Pastel Colors, Intense Red, Color Field, Unique Work
Located in New York, NY
Friedel Dzubas
Untitled, 1981
Hand-painted monotype on pulp paper
30 1/4 x 24 3/4 inches
A noted figure in the New York School, Friedel Dzubas was associated with the Color Field p...
Category
1980s Color-Field Art
Materials
Acrylic, Handmade Paper, Monotype
Wikiva Basin, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This oil painting captures the quiet beauty of a Florida marsh. Palm trees and billowing clouds add depth and balance to the composition. Artist Kent Sullivan u...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Portrait of a Russian nun
Located in PARIS, FR
Portrait of a Russian Nun
Oil on canvas
40.7 x 32.5 cm
(68 x 61.5 cm with frame)
Numbered 701 lower left
Wihtout signature
Category
Mid-19th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Urban Curves and Forms, Abstract Photogram Cyanotype in Blue Tones and White
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted unique cyanotype that takes its inspiration from the mid-century modern shapes.
It's made by layering paper cutouts and different exposures using uv-...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Emulsion, Watercolor, Monotype, Paper
1940
s French Signed Oil Expressionist Landscape Riverside Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Riverside Scene
By Alex Levrat, French 1941
signed & dated oil on board, framed
Framed: 15 x 18 inches
Board : 13 x 16 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: very g...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Intervals
Located in Zofingen, AG
The painting Intervals is created in oil using the technique of impulsive gesture, where free movement merges with carefully considered layering. Here, each stratum of paint is more ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large 20th Century British Signed Oil Atmospheric Misty Lake Landscape
Bridge
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Old Stone Bridge
British School, second half 20th century
indistinctly signed
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 27.5 x 40 inches
canvas: 24 x 36 inches
Provenance: private collecti...
Category
Late 20th Century English School Art
Materials
Oil
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