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Art For Sale
Pop of Color For Your Wall - Impasto Thick Paint Abstract Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Impasto-painted strokes of bright colors are the framework of artist Shiri Phillips’ abstract artworks. Her paintings are flooded with texture through the layering of acrylic paint i...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
After Storm, 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: 2023
Style: Impressionism,
Subject: After Storm,
Size: 29" x 44.5" ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Emily Mason, ex-Lehman Brothers Art Collection, unique, signed painting, Framed
By Emily Mason
Located in New York, NY
Emily Mason
So Slight a Film (from the Lehman Brothers art collection), 1978
Oil on paper Abstract Expressionist painting
Signed and dated 'Emily Mason '78' bottom right in pencil
Fr...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Graphite
Inner library, Original Textured Abstract Library, Oil Paint, Contemporary
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Abstract bookshelf oil painting by French contemporary artist Sophie Dumont, Inner Library explores the silent architecture of memory and thought. Known for her poetic compositions a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil
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
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
Pocket Damson - original realism still life fruit - contemporary art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Dani Humberstone’s Pocket Damson reveals the artist’s mastery o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cabinet of Curiosities - Contemporary salvaged wood found objects Sculpture
Located in DE
Lesley Hilling is a self-taught English artist known for her intricate constructions made entirely from salvaged wood and found objects. Her work reflects a deep connection to the pa...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood, Found Objects
Ocean blue - abstract painting, made in blue color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcohol ink in blue color on Yupo paper. The work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (gold or black) with a styrene face on a mat bo...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
$304 Sale Price
20% Off
North African Town - Mid 20th Century French Orientalist Figures Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful 1940's French oil on board by Rosette Chicotot depicting figures in a North African town, possibly Marrakech.
The work is signed lower left and presented in a silvered f...
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Oil
Weekending - Polaroid, Women, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Weekending - 2020
20x20cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2020-933.
Not...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Female Nude, New York City, Black and White Photograph in Studio, Alabaster Nude
Located in New york, NY
Shot on film, this is a 14" x 11" a black-and-white contemporary gelatin silver print of a female nude with symmetrical proportions, suggesting a Greek sculpture. A feminine and stat...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin, Photographic Film, Photographic Paper
I Love…
Located in Bristol, GB
4 colour screenprint on Somerset Tub Sized Satin White 410gsm
Edition 117 of 125
76 x 60 cm (29.9 x 23.6 in)
Signed, numbered and dated on the back
Mint. Minor imperfections may appe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
Goldfish, Cubist Still Life Signed Lithograph by Andre Minaux
By Andre Minaux
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Andre Minaux, French (1923 - 1986)
Title: Goldfish
Year: circa 1979
Medium: Lithograph on Arches Paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 120
Image Size: 21 x 26 inches ...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Viktor Kobylianski Abstract Composition Rose Tones Mixed Media on Canvas Large
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
At Escat Gallery we are committed to maintaining the highest standards of trust and professionalism for our collectors. Every artwork in our collection comes with a Certificate of Au...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Pigment
"Countryside" by J-P George - Oil on cardboard 16x31 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Oil on cardboard sold with frame
Total size with frame 24x39 cm
Jean-Philippe GEORGE-JULLIARD is an artist born in Switzerland in 1818 and died in 1888. His works have been sold at ...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil
$960 Sale Price
20% Off
Large Original Oil Painting on canvas contemporary Art cityscape with many faces
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This is an amazing, very impressive original large modern painting on canvas, depicting an urban cityscape with many faces in the foreground.
The painting is in excellent condition....
Category
20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
$720 Sale Price
20% Off
Shaun the Sheep, Tree Avenue, B&W photograph, limited edition landscape, print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white landscape photo. A group of sheep in a tree-lined field, with one sheep walking towards the camera in the foreground.
Archival pigment ink print,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
MB 085A (Contemporary Life Drawing of Nude Male by Mark Beard)
By Mark Beard
Located in Hudson, NY
Academic life drawing of male nude with charcoal and graphite by Mark Beard, "MB 085A"
graphite, Conte crayon and charcoal on Arches paper
30 x 18.5 inches unframed
Signed, lower rig...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Conté, Charcoal, Archival Paper, Graphite
Clementine Bright
Pear Green Speckled Pocket Painting 2, diptych, original
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Bright Clementine 2c (canvas size 5x5cm) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
British Impressionist Watercolor of a Tranquil Riverside Landscape with Boat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of a Tranquil Riverside Landscape with Boat
By Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023)
Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed
Dimensions: 11...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Art
Materials
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
Huge Dorothy Gillespie Colorful Abstract Expressionist Enamel Painted Sculpture
Located in Surfside, FL
Dorothy Gillespie (1920 – 2012)
Ribboned Image X
2001
Metal Ribbon Sculpture, Enamel on Aluminum with colorful striped green ribbons.
Dimensions...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Tape Collection, Type II Tutti Frutti - Contemporary Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Type II Tutti Frutti, from the Heidler & Heeps Tape Collection - The B Sides.
The Heidler & Heeps collaborations are creative representations of Natasha Heidler and Richard Heeps’, p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Meet
By Tom Fabia
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Tom Fabia is a french artist living in the south of France. His parents are both artists and he chose to follow their lead. Tom's focus as a photographer is mainly...
Category
2010s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
$900
Antique American Impressionist Nicely Framed Pennsylvania Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist landscape oil painting by Frances M. Lichten (1889 - 1961). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring: 24 by 26 inches overall, and 16 by 18 painting alo...
Category
1920s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid-20th Century Cubist Abstract Cityscape of Lucerne Switzerland Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cubist Cityscape of Lucerne
signed by Colbert Cassan (1899-1979)
oil on canvas, unframed
dated 1955
Canvas: 20 x 25.5 inches
Provenance: private collection
Condition: very good condi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Materials
Oil
Antique Scottish Highland Landscape Loch Scene Signed Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Highland Loch
signed by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950)
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 18 x 26 inches
canvas : 16 x 24 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condit...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,542 Sale Price
20% Off
"Board Meeting" Oil Painting
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A gorgeous oil painting of surfers paddling out in the warm pink, late afternoon light waiting for the last waves of the day. It's a social piece about friends, the good things in li...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
British Original Impressionist Watercolor European Lake Landscape with Houses
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) * see notes below
original watercolor on artists paper, unsigned
paper dimensions: 11 x 15 inches
condition: very go...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Louis Carmeil, Untitled, anthropomorphic composition, 1971 , oil on canvas
Located in PARIS, FR
Louis CARMEIL (1920-1999)
Untitled, anthropomorphic composition, 1971
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated on the back
48 x 36 cm
Nothing predestined the man nicknamed the “painter butch...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
H2O lll - large format photograph of sun reflections on pool water surface
Located in San Francisco, CA
mesmerizing light reflections of glistening sunlight on turquoise aquamarine water surface, an homage to the iconic pool reflections paintings by artist David Hockney
H2O lll by Eri...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Two cigarettes Photography Mexico Signed Karol Kállay
By Karol Kallay
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Photography done for publication Mexico/Volk und Welt, signed by the author on the back.
Category
1960s Photorealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
$413 Sale Price
89% Off
Diptych: Aventure d
une libertine XVII and XVI. From The Secret Album Series
By Uwe Ommer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Black And Yellow - 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
A lone wild and free horse on Sable Island is a breathtaking sight
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
A lone wild and free horse on Sable Island is a breathtaking sight
Fashion-inspired portrait of one of the horses that roams freely on Sable Island
The print series Discovering the...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Antique American Impressionist Fall Signed Landscape Framed Rare Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist signed landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 32 by 26 inches overall. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed ...
Category
1920s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
London Docks - Early 20th Century Antique English Shipping Industrial Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A very interesting signed and dated 1914 oil on canvas depicting an East London dock scene.
A large steam ship is docked, with London barges in front and a city skyline beyond. Thi...
Category
1910s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ancient Laurel Cloud Forest, Trees - black and white photography - landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white mystic landscape photography. Two leafless trees in a foggy landscape, one leaning and partially fallen, Madeira.
Archival pigment ink print, edi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
ZT 210213 - contemporary modern red
white abstract geometric painting relief
Located in Doetinchem, NL
ZT 210213 is a unique one-of-a-kind contemporary modern painting relief by Dutch artist Hewrman Coppus. The relief is made from meticulously hand cut, bend and glued cardboard paper ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Cardboard, Acrylic
World Class Racing Yacht in the Atlantic Ocean, Best-Seller, Movement
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
"Nautical Stripes"
This best-selling black and white photograph features the renowned 12-Meter boat Northern Light on the open seas.
The nautical print series Sail: Majesty at Se...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
19th Century French Oil Painting Old Chateau Castles on Lake Side Town
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Old Chateau
French School, 19th century
signed with initials
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 14 x 18 inches
canvas: 11 x 15 inches
Provenance: private collection, England
...
Category
19th Century French School Art
Materials
Oil
Harbour with a Round Tower
Located in Middletown, NY
1641. Etching on cream wove paper, 5 1/16 x 7 11/16 inches (128 x 195 mm), narrow margins. Printed 19th century on a remainder which has a partially trimmed, printed image of a Virgi...
Category
Mid-17th Century French School Art
Materials
Handmade Paper, Etching
10th Anniversary New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Poster - 1979
Located in New Orleans, LA
10th Anniversary New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival Poster, 1979
by John Martinez
Fifth in the series by John Martinez. The grand marshal returns for the Jazz Festival's 10th anniversary; as does the "cut paper" technique first seen in the 1977 poster...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
$1,500 Sale Price
25% Off
Wine
Located in Manchester, GB
David Shrigley, Wine, 2021
Hand-signed and dated on the reverse
Edition 29 of 125
75 x 56 cm
Screenprint in colours
Private Collection UK
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
$8,950
Mid Century French Black and White Linear Geometric Abstract Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Black and White Linear Geometric Abstract Drawing
by Serge Guerin (b. 1916), French
signed lower left, name stamped verso
Ink on artists paper, unframed
Siz...
Category
20th Century Abstract Geometric Art
Materials
Ink
Puppet Man, E. A
Located in Miami Beach, FL
"Puppet Man, 1960. By Alexander Calder.
"E.A" Written in pencil by the artist
The "E.A." designation on the print likely indicates it's an artist's proof, o...
Category
1960s Abstract Geometric Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Lithograph
Pink Room
Located in New York, NY
THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for additional information.
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Minjin Kang and Mijoo Kim are a creative duo, who have been inspirin...
Category
2010s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Palm Trees at the Beach, black and white photograph - limited edtion landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white minimalist landscape photography. Palm trees along a beach shoreline, with the ocean in the background.
Archival pigment ink print as part of a l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Mid-Century Still Life Oil on Canvas of Chrysanthemums in Copper Vase.
Located in Cotignac, FR
Mid-Century still life of chrysanthemums in copper vase, oil on canvas signed R Colao bottom left.
A wonderfully colourful and vibrant still life, beautifully...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Morning Light in the Mountains, Large Format Mono Photograph, Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Color fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuehle ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
"Green Landscape" Arthur Hoeber, American Impressionist, Early 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Hoeber
Green Landscape, circa 1910
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Provenance
Sal Sciarrino, New Jersey
Born in New Jersey in 1854, Arthur Hoeber had a natu...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Evening Fog, Beautiful Glowing Maritime, Moody Seascape
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
William H. Kinnicutt (American, 1865 - 1934)
Signed: W. H. Kinnicutt (Lower, Right)
" Evening Fog ", circa 1900 - 1910
Oil on Canvas
20" x 16"
Housed in a 3" Carved Frame
Overa...
Category
Early 20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Skipper
s Orders" (2023) By Judd Mercer, Original Impressionist Lake Scene
By Judd Mercer
Located in Denver, CO
"Skipper's Orders" is a beautiful original impressionist lakeside scene, depicting a family rigging a boat in the afternoon, on the lakeshore under the shade of an Oak tree.
Judd Me...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Gouache
Wild Horse - 21st Century Contemporary Bronze Sculpture of a Horse
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Frans van Straaten
Wilde Horse VII
Bronze on bluestone pedestal
H 65 cm W 65 cm D 35 cm
Dutch artist Frans van Straaten (1963) should be called an artist of balance always searching for harmony between force and movement in combination with space. Because of the wide range in his art-education he has mastered the art of drawing, painting and sculpting technology. However, the classical plastic art of sculpture and modelling opens up the possibility for him to create his own language of sculpture in answer to his urge for art. Due to this style of sculpting, the preference for bronze is natural.
After his study of sculpture at the Academy of Art in Rotterdam (1988), Frans van Straaten creates bronze sculptures in which he unites force and movement. Feeling and Emotion converted into Matter Sculpture is an experience of space combined with the challenge of the three-dimensional. The tension of space and movement are the themes, which Frans expresses in his sculptures. Summary it can be said that the power of life and being, the feeling and emotion by force and movement will be converted into matter. The experience of space is being expressed in the shapes and characters in each of Frans’ sculptures. His sculptures of bulls express explosive power while the horses find their strength in being elegant. Each sculpture recalls this way their own association and serves as a metaphor for a certain emotion. Feelings, which has inspired the artist for each sculpture.
Powerful and Elegant Looking at the works of this artist, it becomes very clear that one of his most important sources is his background in art history. The Renaissance period as well as several Italian artists served as inspiration to Frans as a sculpture. For instance the expressions in Leonardo da Vinci’s artworks, and also Giovanni...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Reflection in the water. Lago di Garda.
Located in Zofingen, AG
In creating this artwork, I let my emotions guide each stroke, aiming to evoke a sense of vibrant life and growth. I used swirling, fiery hues of red, orange, and yellow to capture t...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Signed Vintage French Post-Impressionist Oil Grapes
Fruit - Amazing Greens
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: J.Darras, French 20th century, signed
Title: Still Life of Grapes and Fruits net to a basket, beautiful deep shades of green colors.
Medium: oil painting on canvas...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
You don
t know - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
You don't know - 2021 -
20x20cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid,
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2021-1062.
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Antelope Canyon Rock Formation USA black and white photograph art landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white abstract landscape photography. Narrow slot canyon with smooth, flowing sandstone rock formations.
Archival pigment ink print as part of a limite...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Tennis In The Bahamas Slim Aarons Limited Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Tennis In The Bahamas
1957
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Two women stand talking to a man on the edge of a tennis court in the Bahamas, circa 1957. Behind the ...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
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