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Art For Sale
Southern Cross Road Grocery Store and Gas Pump 1994
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 31.5 x 23.75 inches ( 80.01 x 60.325 cm )
Image Size: 31.5 x 23.75 inches ( 80.01 x 60.325 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling
...
Category
1990s Art
Materials
Offset
$48 Sale Price
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Contemporary Abstract Triptych Painting Black and Terracotta Gestural Expression
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Overall dimensions of the triptych: 163 cm (64.2 in) height x 429 cm (169 in) width (separation not included).
The works can be acquired individually, or as a diptych by selecting ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Pigment
Golden Gate Detail San Francisco USA monochrome limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Golden Gate Study 7, CA, USA - no. 11638 // Black and white fine art long exposure cityscape photography.
Pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Prints are made to...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
$1,152 Sale Price
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Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting Sunset River Landscape with Mountains
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Allan Water, Stirling"
by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950)
signed, lower corner
oil painting on canvas, framed
canvas: 16 x 24 inches
framed: 21.5 x 29 inches
Fine quality antiqu...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Waterside Village Scene with Boats and Church Bosham Sussex 1970s Watercolour
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Waterside Village Scene with Boats and Church Bosham Sussex 1970s Watercolour
By Tony Herbert (1927-2024)
Medium: Watercolor on board, unframed
Size: 10.5 inches (height) x 14...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Watercolor
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
Dancers
— 1930s American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Charles Turzak, 'Dancers', 1939, wood engraving, edition 100. Signed, titled, and numbered 72/100 in pencil. A fine, richly-inked impression, on off-white Japan paper, with full marg...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art Deco Art
Materials
Woodcut
Mehr Sonne fur 1924
(More Sun for 1924)— German Expressionism
By Karl Michel
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Karl Michel, 'Mehr Sonne fur 1924. Viel Gluck Wunscht Karl Michel U. Frau', woodcut, 1924, edition 20. Signed, dated, and numbered 'op. 162' and '15/20' in pencil. Signed in the image, lower left. A fine, richly-inked impression on buff wove paper, with full margins (1 1/2 to 2 3/4 inches), in very good condition. Printed by the artist. Scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
New Year's Greeting – English translation: "More Sun for 1924. Good Luck Wishes from Karl Michel and his Wife."
Image size 4 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches (118 x 121 mm); sheet size 7 3/4 x 10 inches (198 x 254 mm).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Karl Michel (1889-1984) was a noted graphic designer and expressionist printmaker during Germany's pre-Nazi Weimar Republic (1919-1933). Michel’s work was the subject of a feature article in the influential German graphic design magazine Das Plakat...
Category
1920s Expressionist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Abstract expressive floral acrylic painting on canvas "Sweet morning blooms"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
"Sweet Morning Blooms" is a vibrant floral piece by French artist Natalya Mougenot, part of her Floral series. The artwork captures an exuberant bouquet in a strikingly impressionist...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Mark Rothko Untitled (1962) Offset Print Poster, Rare 1980s Exhibition
By Mark Rothko
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 35.5 x 27.5 inches ( 90.17 x 69.85 cm )
Image Size: 24 x 22.5 inches ( 60.96 x 57.15 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: A: Mint
Additional Details: Rare exhibition poster from t...
Category
1980s Art
Materials
Offset
$60 Sale Price
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"Jeune fille a la fleur" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the drawing). Printed in 1952 by Mourlot Freres on Arches paper and published in Paris by Louis Carre in an edition of 1000 for the rare "La Figure dans L'O...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
#171, Abstract, Photography, Painting, Expressionism
Located in München, BY
Unique piece
More sizes and an Essay from Lyle Rexer about this series on request.
Joachim Schmeisser’s work rescues photography from the centuries-old straightjacket of realism to...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Pigment
Infinity Nets, 1953-1984 Limited edition print by Yayoi Kusama signed
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Hong Kong, HK
Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)
Infinity Nets, 1953–1984
Medium: Lithograph in colors on Vélin d’Arches paper
Image: 31 × 40.6 cm (12 1/4 ×...
Category
1980s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Emmanuele Brambilla
Rome, Panoramic View of Piazza Di Spagna
1999- Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 10.25 x 39.5 inches ( 26.035 x 100.33 cm )
Image Size: 6 x 35.5 inches ( 15.24 x 90.17 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: B: Very Good Condition, with signs of handling or age...
Category
1990s Art
Materials
Offset
$48 Sale Price
20% Off
Tape Collection 90 Minutes Vintage Blue - Contemporary Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
90 Minutes Vintage Blue, pop art from the Heidler & Heeps Tape Collection
The Heidler & Heeps collaborations are creative representations of Natasha Heidler and Richard Heeps’, pers...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Early Tulip, English antique red flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Tacsonia'
Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890.
Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor of Freehand ...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Untitled" Donald Judd, Black and White, Stripes, Minimalist, Abstract Art
By Donald Judd
Located in New York, NY
Donald Judd
Untitled, 1980
Signed "Judd" in pencil lower right margin and numbered
Aquatint on etching paper
Image 24 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches
Sheet 29 1/8 x 34 inches
Edition 29/150
Pro...
Category
1980s Minimalist Art
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Black Blooms - Limited Edition Large Format Floral Photography on Fine Art Paper
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
‘Black Blooms’ was photographed in London, United Kingdom, in 2024 using a 4x5 large-format Linhof camera. This black-and-white analogue photograph captures the minimalist beauty of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Art
Materials
Giclée
18th Century French Rococo Period Portrait of Women Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady
French artist, Rococo period 18th century
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 15 x 12.5 inches
canvas: 10.5 x 8.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition...
Category
Mid-18th Century Rococo Art
Materials
Oil
Dopaminum 5 - Large Format Painting, Modern Abstract Oil Painting, Color Field
Located in Salzburg, AT
About Prymon’s Exhibition Dopaminum and his paintings:
”Dopaminum” - Tomasz Prymon
Dopamine – colloquially referred to as the hormone of love and happiness. Why is this organic che...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Senza Misura - smooth, polished, abstract, contemporary, mahogany sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This modern indoor sculpture by David Chamberlain was inspired by music and is made out of mahogany wood.
The graceful curves of this contemporary solid mahogany sculpture by David Chamberlain appear in one illuminating perspective to emulate the image of a heart. Hand carved from one piece of this rare wood; the abstract form’s surface is such that the insides become the outsides creating a continuous, enigmatic, integrated form. The naturally rich grain is highly finished with a soft lustre that accentuates the form. Chamberlain’s sculptures...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Metal
The Mount Willow
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor and gouache on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 9 1/2 x 15 1/8 inches (242 x 385 mm), the full sheet. Titled in pencil on the verso. Scattered edge wear, and small losses at ...
Category
Mid-19th Century English School Art
Materials
Watercolor
Pier, Bay, Shoreline, Ireland, black and white photography, seascape, limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art Waterscape Photography. Concrete Pier in a bay on the stormy coast of Ireland.
Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Unzip The Earth GEO 3/9 - large, figurative, stainless steel, outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
"Unzip The Earth GEO" is a playful, outdoor sculptural installation consisting of a steel zipper handle and concrete brick teeth that give the illusion...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art
Materials
Stainless Steel
Henri Rousseau
Orangerie De Tuilleries
1971- Poster
By Henri Rousseau
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 25.25 x 15 inches ( 64.135 x 38.1 cm )
Image Size: 19.5 x 15.5 inches ( 49.53 x 39.37 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: D: Heavy signs of wear, Torn, Damaged. SOLD AS IS. Pri...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Offset
$36 Sale Price
20% Off
Ribeira da Janela, Portugal, black and white, fine art, photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white seascape photography. Rocky seashore with three prominent sea stacks rising from the water, cloudy sky overhead.
Archival pigment ink print, edit...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment
The Top Songbirds - Original Surrealist Figurative Portrait Painting on Canvas
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 academia setting. This presence exposed Franci...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Faust (Walpurgis Night)
Located in OPOLE, PL
Salvador Dali (1904-1989) - Faust (Walpurgis Night)
Portfolio of 11 drypoint etchings with roulette from 1969.
The edition 142/145.
Dimensions of work: 38 x 28 cm.
Hand signed.
...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching, Drypoint
Wolf Kahn
Down in the Valley
2003 Signed and Numbered Screenprint
By Wolf Kahn
Located in Brooklyn, NY
"Wolf Kahn Down in The Valley" is a serigraph that exemplifies Kahn's mastery of light and color, hallmarks of his artistic style. This piece, signed by Kahn in the lower right-hand ...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
Antique Italian Large Figurative Framed Oil Painting of a Reclining Nude Woman
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5154 Antique Italian oil painting of a reclining nude woman
Framed
Image size 24x36"
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Oil
Fiesta Photography Mexico Stamped Karol Kállay
By Karol Kallay
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Photography done for the publication Mexico/Volk und Welt Berlin 1968/stamped on the back with authors stamp.
Category
1960s Photorealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
$441 Sale Price
88% Off
"My Purple Diamond Heart" Colorful Oil Painting on Wood with White Floater Frame
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Motivated by bold color and fast brushwork, we are moved by the simplicity and thick textured oil paints in these works. Shaoul’s “My Heart Collection” is a vibrant and energetic dis...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Board, Glass
"A View from Highland Inn, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania" Charlotte Buell Coman
Located in New York, NY
Charlotte Buell Coman
A View from Highland Inn, Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, 1911
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
25 x 27 inches
Provenance
The artist
(with) Macbeth Gallery, New York...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Stillness" - Oil Painting of Nude Female Figure by Matt Talbert
By Matt Talbert
Located in Denver, CO
Matt Talbert's "Stillness" (2024) is an oil painting on linen, measuring 21 x 14 inches (53.34 x 35.56 cm). The unframed artwork features a nude female figure seated beside a window,...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
$1,750 Sale Price
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Sparrow Hawk, Bird, Watercolor Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
235
Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan,
Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Watercolor on Paper
Year: 2024
Style: Classic Art
Title: Sparrow Hawk
Size: 12 x 16 ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Sonderlust -21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract, Pop Culture, Anxiety, People
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
All of us can change the past.
We cannot take back what has happened, who we love, what we have done. Just like we cannot change our current situation. I think life is a funny thing,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Cheer
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Encaustic on panel.
It's simple; I create art because it makes me happy. I try not to overthink the process of what I’m painting and let my intuition be my guide. I love laying do...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Encaustic
$12,000
John Baldessari "Paradise" 1990 Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
John Baldessari's Paradise is a thought-provoking piece that plays with the concept of utopia and the viewer’s expectations of imagery. Known for his witty and conceptual approach, B...
Category
1990s Pop Art Art
Materials
Offset
The wedding Dress
, Large Scale French 1950s Society Portrait. Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A large scale 1950s French society portrait by Anne-Marie Joly. The painting is signed and dated bottom right. Presented in a magnificent carved wood...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Bander Bee and Trojan, a favourite Hunter and a Fox hound in a Stable Yard
By John Emms
Located in Taunton, GB
Bander Bee and Trojan, a favourite Hunter and a Fox hound in a Stable Yard
Signed and inscribed
Oil on canvas
THE SOUTHWELL COLLECTION
Everett Fine Art is excited to present this...
Category
Late 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Pastel Landscape: Impressionist Trees, Hand Drawn Lithograph, Monet Style
Located in Union City, NJ
Pastel Landscape: Impressionist Trees is an original hand drawn (not digitally or photo reproduced) limited edition lithograph by the American artis...
Category
1980s Impressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Large 20th Century French Abstract Cubist Composition Signed Oil Painting
By Jean Besnard
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cubist Composition
by Jean Besnard (1922-2007)
oil on board, unframed
signed with initials, dated
board: 27 x 26 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: good and sou...
Category
1980s Cubist Art
Materials
Oil
$1,508 Sale Price
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Untitled V
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Artist
Wisdom Uche...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,320 Sale Price
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Peony No.13 - black and white fine art botanical photography, edition 20
By Ugne Pouwell
Located in London, GB
Peony No.13
Printed on museum-grade Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta paper, each print is hand-signed by the artist on both the front and back, numbered as part of a limited edition of 2...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Giclée
"Yellow Reversed" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1970 and published by Art In America. Size: 11 1/4 x 16 3/4 inches (283 x 427 mm). This lithograph was published as a folded sheet with a cent...
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Joan Miro, The Woman and the Bird, from XXe Siecle, 1956
By Joan Miró
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and pochoir by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled La Femme et l’Oiseau (The Woman and the Bird), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie No. 6, originates from...
Category
1950s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,036 Sale Price
20% Off
The Triumph of Caesar: Plate IV
By Andrea Mantegna
Located in Middletown, NY
Andreani, Andrea (Italian, about 1558–1610), after Andrea Mantegna (Italian, 1431-1506)
Chiaroscuro woodcut in colors printed from four blocks on laid paper in dark brown, grey, and...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Ink, Handmade Paper, Laid Paper, Woodcut
Barcelona view urbanscape oil painting Spain spanish
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Josep Marfa Guarro (1928-2014) Barcelona Spain Oil
Oil on canvas glued to cardboard.
Oil measures 23x28 cm. Frameless.
Josep Marfa Guarro (1928-2014)
Josep Marfa Guarro was a Cata...
Category
1990s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Cardboard
$252 Sale Price
58% Off
Untitled Drawing
Located in Bournemouth, Dorset
George Dannatt (1915-2009)
Untitled Drawing
2005
Image: 27.5 x 18.0 cm
Mount: 40.2 x 30.0 cm
George Dannatt’s long career as a painter and sculptor ended with the artist’s death i...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Pencil, Graphite, Oil Crayon
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
Deep Red glossy ceramic balloon sculpture handmade for wall, ceiling - Large
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
This Red glossy ceramic balloon sculpture is a balloon for life and an art collectors piece. Its Vivid glossy color enhances sophisticated and cheerful space environment.
handmade in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Coating, Glaze
original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1957 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1957 Spr...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Sensory Experience - original large nude art by Paula Craioveanu 39x27.5in
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Sensory Experience", pencil and ultramarine tempera on paper, inspired by Matisse.
Part of Nude in Interior series.
Large drawing. Shipped rolled in a tube, from Florida, US.
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Artist Statement
"I started by painting interiors, being interested in space and perspective through my studies. These scenes evolved, when I added the human figure. I focused more on the human figure and its relation to the background. The human figure is more present than ever in my paintings now.
As a woman artist I’ve been preoccupied with the female form and its imagery. One of my goals was to capture the solitary moments and the nude’s relation to the surrounding space.
My interest turned from depicting the space to rendering the atmosphere and the scene as a whole, the feeling a woman adds to the environment: warmth, desire, joy, a feeling of power and control, or the opposite – sadness, despair.
Here is a collection of figurative paintings, exploring the nudes in interior spaces, seeing the nudes from my perspective, as a woman artist, considering the physical and spiritual realities of a woman’s body, in a new level of intimacy. My paintings are the opposite of objectifying a woman’s or a man’s anatomy. Painted works, featuring female nudes and a also men nudes...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Tempera, Pencil, Paper
Elwood W. Bartlett, Wisconsin Farm, about 1945, mid-century wood engraving
Located in New York, NY
Elwood Warren Bartlett is a Wisconsin native who also worked in Indiana.
Largely self taught as a printmaker, Bartlett worked in a style that once identified as his, immediately t...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Bulb of Awakening
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Bulb of Awakening" is a captivating artwork that centers around a woman adorned with an exclusive and mesmerizing hairstyle. Created by the talented artist Ekele Francis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Jammie Dodger Pocket Painting 4c, original painting, still-life
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Jammie Dodger 4c (canvas size 5x5cm) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Reflections
Located in Zofingen, AG
Light shimmers across the river’s surface, casting fleeting patterns over smooth stones beneath. The gentle motion of the water contrasts with the quiet permanence of the riverbed, c...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fauvist Still Life with Fruits and Flowers - Original Oil on Canvas, SIGNED
Located in Paris, IDF
Albert ZAVARO (1925-)
Fauvist Still Life with Fruits and Flowers, 1967
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right corner
On canvas 60 x 73 cm (c. 24 x 29 in)
PROVENANCE: Galerie Framond, Par...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mosaic like - abstract painting, landscape painting
Located in New York, NY
The painting is in a special format - horizontal, wide, and elongated.
This artwork was created using a technique reminiscent of pointillism; the painting evokes a colorful mosaic, w...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$1,680 Sale Price
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Statue, From The Labyrinth series. Landscape and Sculpture. B&W Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Labyrinth continues the exploration begun in the previous two series (Paranoia and Lullaby). Unlike the first two chapters, all the images in this series were created and post-produc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
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