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Colorful abstract acrylic collage 20th century painting, New York artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Joseph Glasco (American, 1925-1996) Untitled 1978-81 Acrylic on canvas collage initialed verso and dated ‘81 48 x 51 inches Joseph Glasco was born in Paul’s Valley, Oklahoma and gre...
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Acrylic

Statue of Liberty (unique mixed media on paper)
Located in Aventura, FL
Mixed media with acrylic painting and color lithography on paper. Hand-signed in acrylic paint on front by Peter Max. A unique variation. Frame size 18 x 15.5 inches. Artwork siz...
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2010s Pop Art Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Lithograph

1963 Venezuelan Modernist Mixed Media Photo Print Mateo Manaure Photograph Art
Located in Surfside, FL
1963 Mixed Media by Mateo Manaure (Venezuelan, 1926-2018) Frame: 12.25" X 15.25" Image: 11" X 13.75" Hand signed Thought provoking abstract, mixed media modern graphic art Not sure of the exact technique but it seems photo based. Mateo Manaure (11926 – 2018) was a Venezuelan modern artist. In Venezuela he is considered a master of modernist abstractionism, and is known for his works in the University City of Caracas and for creating the largest glass murals in the world. Mateo Manaure was born on 18 October 1926 in Uracoa, in Monagas state. Between 1941 and 1946 he studied at the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Artes Aplicadas under the instruction of Antonio Edmundo Monsanto. Here, he studied graphic arts in the workshop of Pedro Ángel González, to whom he was an assistant. He also began participating in the artist salon of the Museo Bellas Artes in Caracas. In 1947 he won the inaugural National Prize for Plastic Arts and traveled to Paris. He made a trip back to Caracas the next year to work with the Taller Libre de Arte, before returning to Paris in 1950 and being involved with the artistic movement of Los disidentes. (The Dissidents), a coalition of Venezuelan artists (active from 1945-50) that also included -Jesús Rafael Soto, Narciso Debourg, Alejandro Otero, Pascual Navarro, Rubén Núñez, Nena Palacios, J.M. Guillermos Péres, Alirio Oramas, Luis Guevara Moreno, Aime Battistini, Armando Barrios, Omar Carreño (refer to lot 222), and Carlos Gonzáles Bogen. Through their journal of the same name and their accompanying radical manifesto No (1950), Los Disidentes championed a progressive vision, that eschewed the conservative academicism embodied by the Escuela de Artes Plásticas and the Escuela Paisajista in Caracas, and in its place advocated for experimentation and geometric abstraction. Upon his return to Caracas in 1952, Manaure set out in earnest to put these ideas into practice and found an immediate affinity with the modernist project unfolding so indicative of that era's unprecedented growth and development. The latter was most evident in the architectural and public art works designed by the legendary modernist architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva, whose Cuidad Universitaria, the main campus of the Central University of Venezuela, is considered a landmark of city planning and architecture. Villanueva commissioned Manaure to execute several murals, painted wood reliefs, and stained glass windows for Ciudad Universitaria all reflective of the young artist's newly adapted aesthetic. By 1956, the year both of these works were painted, Manaure was a leading figure of the abstractionist movement, exhibiting abroad at the Venice Biennial and locally at the Museo de Bellas Artes. His geometric abstraction painting infuse his compositions with a kinetic power and lyrical sensibility. Manaure's desire to evoke a sense of the local or regional amid the universal. He returned to Caracas in 1952 to found the Galería Cuatro Muros with Carlos González Bogan, and gave the first exhibition of abstract art in Venezuela. He also began collaborating with architect Carlos Raúl Villanueva, first on the University City of Caracas, to which he contributed 26 works of art and was "promoted" to art supervisor of the campus, and then to other public spaces like the redesign of the neighborhood of 23 de Enero. For the next several years, Manaure continued to develop within abstract art, which made up the Venezuelan artistic avant-garde of that time. He later returned to more traditional graphic art forms, especially lithograph prints, though still did some work in abstract expression. He is a Venezuelan Latin American art Master along with Gego, Lia Bermudez, Alejandro Colina, Narciso Debourg, Alejandro Otero, Gerd Leufert, Armando Reverón, Braulio Salazar, Jesús Rafael Soto and Martín Tovar y Tovar. His work was included in the MoMA show Sur moderno, Journeys of Abstraction— Patricia Phelps de Cisneros. It included artists: Israeli, Yaacov Agam, Brazilian, Lina Bo Bardi, Hércules...
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1960s Modern Mixed Media

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Lithograph, Mixed Media

Ed Dukkers (1923-1996) - 20th Century Mixed Media, Abstract Figure
Located in Corsham, GB
A unique work using watercolour and pastel by Ed Dukkers depicting an abstract figure. Float mounted in a pale wooden frame. Unsigned. On paper.
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20th Century Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

The Magical Village - Andrea Stella - Landscape Abstract Painting - Mixed Media
Located in Carmel, CA
Andrea Stella (1950-2019). The child of Greek immigrants raised in Italy, Andrea was destined to create. His first concentration in the art world was antique woodworking, which lead...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Gold Leaf

Study - contemporary minimalist art in boxes act portrait Volker Kuhn
Located in Hamburg, DE
"This is not a Magritte II" is an original mixed media artwork by Volker Kuhn. The work is hand-signed by the artist below the artwork on the mat. It is created as an edition. It is ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Mixed Media

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Mixed Media, Acrylic

Grau Garriga Textile Thread Spools Green Ocher Collage. abstract
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Homenaje al tapiz- original abstract mixed media painting. frame GRAU-GARRIGA, Josep (San Cugat del Valles, 1928 - Angers, 2011). Grau-Garriga was a Catalan artist, muralist and o...
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Early 2000s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

"Reminiscing" Ink and Acrylic Illustration on Mounted Sketchbook
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Reminiscing" is an original piece by Sean 9 Lugo, known artistically for his murals and street art. The piece is part of Lugo's mounted "Blackbooks" series paying tribute to blackbo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...

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Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Permanent Marker

Colorful Collage Print Superman by DJ Leon
Located in White Plains, NY
'Superman' by DJ Leon, 2020. 39 x 27 in. A dye-sublimation print on aluminum that is saturated in colors of reds and blues. The print incorporates, appropriates, and combines found i...
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2010s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

Materials

Metal

Colorful Collage Print Superman s 80th Birthday by DJ Leon
Located in White Plains, NY
'Superman's 80th Birthday' by DJ Leon, 2020. Digital print on canvas paper, 37 x 25.5 inches. Having made his first appearance in Action Comics in 1938, this 3D Backlit print celebra...
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2010s Pop Art Prints and Multiples

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Canvas, Paper, Digital

Diptych: ORBITA #2 and #3. From The Series Orbita
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This artwork depicts a perfectly synchronized dance across an ocean of empty space, inspired by the "Astronomical" section of the Jet Chocolate Bar Natural History Album (1986 editio...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Resin, Wood, Coating, Ink, Acrylic

Musical Scene Framed Original Litho
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5138 Large colorful Abstract Modernist colored lithograph signed numbered 15/75 published 1970 Framed image size 23x23" Excellent modernist composition
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1970s Abstract Prints

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Ink

Forever Marilyn (signed 3D mixed media serigraph)
Located in Aventura, FL
3D constructed mixed media serigraph on paper. Hand signed lower right by Charles Fazzino. Hand numbered 23/400 DX lower left. This Deluxe Edition features three layers of dimensi...
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1990s Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Screen

"Scarlet: The Story of a Woman with a Past" Liberty Magazine 1926
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed "Howard Chandler Christy" Lower Left "There in a box hammock was Phil Hanrihan sprawling, a woman in a scarlet shawl clinging, her cheek against his." Story illustration for ...
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1920s Mixed Media

Materials

Charcoal

The Witness (After Caravaggio)
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
Part of Giancarlo Impiglia's iconic "camouflage" series, in which, deviating from his signature style, he expresses his classical education, flawless technique, and concerns about th...
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2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

RUSSELL YOUNG - Bardot 2017 - Diamond dust -
Located in PARIS, FR
Bardot Femme Fatale 2017 , signed and numbered on the front - limited edition n. III/X on paper White wood frame and glass About the artist : Russell Young is a American-British Pop...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Enamel

Native Bird by Louis Carreon
Located in New Orleans, LA
Louis Carreon b. 1977 American Native Bird Signed “Louis Carreon” (lower right) Mixed media on canvas Louis Carreon’s Native Bird emerges from his broader exploration of shamanic...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Mixed Media

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Diptych: Pharrell Williams and Bruno Mars. From the Glass Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This artwork was created by the artistic duo Hunter Gatti (2010–2023). These works are part of the archive managed and exhibited by Cristian Hunter. The artist's technique cons...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

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Glass, Mixed Media, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Archival Pigment

Santa Monica Canyon - Framed Textural Three Dimensional Abstract Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Abstract artist Paul Kirley crafts visual journeys that seamlessly intertwine individuals with their surroundings, evoking the ethereal nature of dreams. Blurring the boundaries betw...
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21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic

This is not a Magritte I - contemporary art work, tribute to Magritte painting
Located in Hamburg, DE
"This is not a Magritte I" is an original mixed media artwork by Volker Kuhn. The work is hand-signed by the artist below the artwork on the mat. It is a witty reference to a paintin...
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21st Century and Contemporary Assemblage Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Spring Time, Chinatown - Original Colorful City Still Life Pop Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian artist Fabio Coruzzi merges painting and photography into one imaginative image that offers a new outlook on an otherwise ordinary urban scene. His artworks represent an auth...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Epitaph (After Caravaggio)
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
Part of Giancarlo Impiglia's iconic "camouflage" series, in which, deviating from his signature style, he expresses his classical education, flawless technique, and concerns about th...
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2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Unique Pair Of Vintage Herbarium Botanical Flower Press With Custom Frame
Located in Frederiksberg C, DK
A unique pair of vintage herbarium / botanical displays collected and created by S. Lindwald in June 1946 in Sweden. These botanical specimen are preserved behind glass in a new cust...
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1940s Romantic Still-life Paintings

Materials

Archival Paper

Eternal Bloom - Original Vibrant Red Pink Tone Textured Abstract Artwork Framed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The delicate and poetic artworks of painter Frederic Paul reference his Asian roots in expressive and elaborate compositions. Inspired by the bold colors, spices, flora, and landscap...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Rice Paper

Arizona Landscape – Dramatic Skies and Desert Light by Carl Oscar Borg
Located in Stockholm, SE
In this expressive gouache study, Carl Oscar Borg captures the dramatic sweep of the Arizona highlands, where storm clouds gather over layered mesas and valleys bathed in shifting li...
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Early 20th Century Romantic Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

"The Sacred Geometry of Libra" - Acrylic and Gold on Engraved Wood - 40x40cm
Located in Geneva, CH
The Sacred Geometry of Libra Associated with the number 7 and Venus; representing balance, gentleness and inner harmony. Libra remind us of the importance of finding our middle grou...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Mixed Media

Materials

Gold Leaf

Butterflies Cut From Vintage Comic Book Pages / Charles Patrick
Located in Greenwich, CT
How long have I been dreaming? This work is sourced directly from the artist. Butterflies cut from Vintage Comic Book Pages and pinned with stainless steel entomology pins to canvas. Framed in a clear, plexiglass box. About Charles Patrick Charles Patrick is best known for his intricately cut paper...
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21st Century and Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Plexiglass, Wood, Acrylic, Pins

Untitled, Abstract Wall Sculpture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Fear and insecurity came uninvited to keep the artist company. Suddenly it became necessary to release the sensations that surrounded him day and night. At times the artist felt as i...
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2010s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Wood, Leather, Canvas, Mixed Media, Wax

Time and Space - Mixed Media Abstract Painting by Lesley - Contemporary
Located in Carmel, CA
Lesley Anne Spowart, an abstract artist hailing from Cape Cod, Massachusetts, is renowned for her transformative creations that blur the boundaries of mediums and styles. With a di...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board

BARDOT - St. Tropez Royal Bleu - Ltd Ed 9/13 - Diamond Dust on Linen - Framed
Located in New York, NY
Homage to the late, great Bridget Bardot. Hand pulled silk screen. Diamond Dust. Stretched on black frame. About the Artist: Russell Young currently lives and works in Califo...
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2010s Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Screen

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
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1960s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Lithograph

Magpies Love 3, Over the Moon, Bird, Nature, Animals, Original painting
Located in Deddington, GB
We are so blessed with such a variety of beautiful bird species within the UK. I feel inspired and 'Over The Moon' with joy, watching them and listening to their quirky chatter. Thes...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Board

Dad #01 - mixed media art
Located in New York, NY
Alon Seifert (b. 1968) creates works that delve into the interplay between logic and the fluidity of sense, challenging the constructs of reason itself. His creative process unfolds ...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Ink, Oil, Acrylic, Vinyl

River Stones - Original Grey Tone Textured Abstract Mixed Media Artwork Framed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The delicate and poetic artworks of painter Frederic Paul reference his Asian roots in expressive and elaborate compositions. Inspired by the bold colors, spices, flora, and landscap...
Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Rice Paper

"All the Small Things III" Intaglio, hand colored, etched still life objects
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "All the Small Things III" is a unique monoprint piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from hand-colored etching with soft ground on Rives BFK. This piece is a unique ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

Materials

Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Intaglio

Color drawing #3
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Paul SHAPIRO (né en 1939) Color drawing #3, 1996 Mixed media on paper Size : 47 x 62 cm Framed. Size with frame : 69 x 84 cm Signed lower right Provenance: - Katharina Rich Perlow Ga...
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1990s Abstract Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Val Wong Worm, dazzling, unique signed Painting (framed) with superb provenance
Located in New York, NY
Kenny Scharf Val Wong Worm, 2006 Oil, acrylic, silkscreen and rhinestones on paper Signed, dated and titled by the artist on the die-cut window on the back Frame Included: elegantly ...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Abstract Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Screen

Golden Currant Bouquet in Vase - Elegant Floral Still Life Painting Framed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Xiao Wen Xu is a Chinese-born Canadian artist based in Toronto, Canada, Her artistic practice is deeply influenced by her profound appreciation for the nat...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Powder Coating, Watercolor

Pump - Original Colorful Retro Figurative Muscle Beach Still Life Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian artist Fabio Coruzzi merges painting and photography into one imaginative image that offers a new outlook on an otherwise ordinary urban scene. His artworks represent an auth...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

"Untitled" Gene Hedge, Abstract Composition, Dark Brown, Construction, Modernist
Located in New York, NY
Gene Hedge Untitled, circa 1958 Mixed media 36 x 33 inches Provenance Estate of the artist Gene Hedge was born (1928) and raised in rural Indiana. After military service, he brief...
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1950s American Modern Mixed Media

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Paper, Mixed Media

"Untitled" Gene Hedge, Found Objects, Metal, Abstract Modernist Composition
Located in New York, NY
Gene Hedge Untitled, circa 1955 Mixed media 17 3/8 x 14 1/8 inches Provenance Estate of the artist Gene Hedge was born (1928) and raised in rural Indiana. After military service, ...
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1950s American Modern Mixed Media

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Metal

Juilliard School of Music (Ladder) poster - Original art
Located in Miami, FL
Milton Glaser creates a brilliant graphic symbolizing a pathway to success and more. Original art Cut Paper collage and colored pencil 19 1/2 x 13 5/8 Signed to lower edge ‘Milton ...
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1980s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Laid Paper, Pencil

In love behind the walls-Andrea Stella-Figurative Abstract Painting-Mixed Media
Located in Carmel, CA
Andrea Stella (1950-2019). The child of Greek immigrants raised in Italy, Andrea was destined to create. His first concentration in the art world was antique woodworking, which lead...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Gold Leaf

Collage on Canvas Titled: “PDP393ct09”
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
signed verso, custom framed and ready to hang Cecil Touchon Born 1956 Austin, Texas is a contemporary American collage artist, painter, published poet and theorist living in Pagosa ...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Butterflies, Mixed Media Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Born in 1953 in Paris (FR). Lives and works in Paris (FR). After studying political science, Dominique Fury spent three years between Paris, the Cévennes and New York where she rubbe...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Earthbound - Crystals Mixed Media Pattern Jade Green Blue Burnt Red Silver, 2022
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary mixed media artwork, carefully applied nontraditional materials including light green crushed jade, snakeskin shed, porcupine quills, bonded copper, fossilized w...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Copper

The Great Drawing- Room Was Haunted by a Tuneful Spirit That Came and Went
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Story illustration for Louisa May Alcott's classic story Little Women featuring Beth March playing the piano in Mr. Laurence's grand house. The full...
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1910s Mixed Media

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Charcoal, Watercolor, Gouache, Board

Magpies Love 3 Penguin Love, diptych, Bird, Nature, Animals, Original painting
Located in Deddington, GB
We are so blessed with such a variety of beautiful bird species within the UK. I feel inspired and 'Over The Moon' with joy, watching them and listening to their quirky chatter. Thes...
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2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Board

Woman with Guitar and Pianist
Located in San Francisco, CA
This Artwork "Woman with Guitar and Pianist" c.1990 is a color serigraph, with extensive acrylic paint on canvas. It is signed at the lower right cor...
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Late 20th Century Fauvist Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media

Tailored Herbaria Quercus Alba Pocantico River Watershed Three Botanical Textile
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary botanical textile artwork, a white oak leaf is composed of delicately stitched donated clothing, textiles, notions, and guitar string ball-ends, in dark brown, d...
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2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Fabric, Textile, Thread, Mixed Media

"Gentrification" Rockwell-Inspired Acrylic Street Scene with Animal Features
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Gentrification" is an original piece by Sean 9 Lugo, known artistically for his murals and street art. The piece is made from acrylic and ink on mixed media panel and was originally...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...

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Paper, Found Objects, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Aquatint

My Favorite Game - Original Retro Street Art Inspired Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles artist Amber Goldhammer paints dramatic abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas featuring energetic brushstrokes. Goldhammer uses her contemporary paintings to express...
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21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Latex, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

"Untitled", Malta, Impasto Abstract Mixed Media Painting, Signed Dated
Located in Yardley, PA
The most significant example of Cremona’s work to come to market in recent memory, this sweeping 1968 abstraction captures the haunting lyricism that defined his mature work. The com...
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1960s Abstract Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Mixed Media

Rowing Machines - Andrea Stella- Figurative Painting - Mixed Media
Located in Carmel, CA
Andrea Stella (1950-2019). The child of Greek immigrants raised in Italy, Andrea was destined to create. His first concentration in the art world was antique woodworking, which lead...
Category

2010s Contemporary Mixed Media

Materials

Gold Leaf

Daniel Louradour "Carnival in Venice" Original Mixed Media C.1970
Located in San Francisco, CA
Daniel Louradour "Carnival in Venice" after the 15th century opera Dimensions 26.5" wide x 19.5" high The lightly distressed frame measures 36" wi...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Mixed Media

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Watercolor, Gouache

"Like a Pen VE 5/18" Intaglio, hand colored, tool motifs
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Like a Pen VE 5/18" is a variable edition piece by Kate VanVliet and is made from hand-colored etching on Rives BFK with an artist-made frame. This piece is an edi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Prints

Materials

Archival Paper, Color, Etching, Intaglio

Everyday Life (original painting on paper)
Located in Aventura, FL
Screen print with stencil, acrylic and spray paint on wove paper. Hand signed on front; signed and dated on verso with studio catalog number and thumbprint. Artwork size: 30 x 22 ...
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2010s Street Art Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Screen, Stencil

Pre-War Abstraction - Modernism - Tan Bronze Tope - Nonrepresentational
Located in Miami, FL
Pioneering female abstract artist Elsie Driggs paints stylized abstract organic forms in a warm palette of orange browns and tope. She merges abstraction with some figuration. A structured face composed of lines and tone emerges from an orange background. It's 1939, and even though Driggs is not well known, she is preceding many of the marquee names of abstraction by a decade. Although under the radar, this is a major work and is titled on the back stretcher is " Egyptian Gothic." It features the artist's inventiveness with her fine pencil lines incorporated in flat washes of color and collage elements. Signed lower right and inscribed on frame verso with title, artist and the date of 1939. Provenance, Christie's, Freemans. Framed under glass.. Elsie Driggs (1898 – July 12, 1992 in New York City) was an American painter known for her contributions to Precisionism, America's one indigenous modern-art movement before Abstract Expressionism, and for her later floral and figurative watercolors, pastels, and oils. She was the only female participant in the Precisionist movement, which in the 1920s and 1930s took a Cubist-inspired approach to painting the skyscrapers and factories that had come to define the new American landscape. Her works are in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Houston Museum of the Fine Arts, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the James A. Michener Art Museum in Pennsylvania, and the Columbus Museum of Art, among others. She was married to the American abstract artist Lee Gatch. Career Born in Hartford, Connecticut, Driggs grew up in New Rochelle, a suburb of New York City, in a family that was supportive of her artistic interests. After a summer spent painting with her sister in New Mexico in her late teens, she felt she had found her life's calling. At twenty, she enrolled in classes at the Art Students League of New York, where she studied under George Luks and Maurice Sterne, both of whom were charismatic, inspirational figures in her early life. She also attended the evening criticism classes held at the home of painter John Sloan. Driggs spent fourteen months in Europe from late 1922 to early 1924, drawing and studying Italian art. There she met Leo Stein, first in Paris and later in Florence, who became an important intellectual influence, and who urged her to study Cézanne. He also introduced her to the works of Piero della Francesca, the Renaissance artist for whom she felt throughout her life the greatest admiration.[1] Driggs eventually settled in New York City, where she found representation with the progressive Charles Daniel Gallery.[2] (Advised that the old-fashioned and misogynistic Daniel would be unlikely to take on a woman artist, she signed the works she left for his consideration simply "Driggs" and waited to meet him in person until he had expressed his eagerness to include her in his gallery.)[3] In sympathy with those artists Daniel represented who were part of the burgeoning Precisionist movement, such as Charles Demuth, Charles Sheeler, George Ault, Niles Spencer, and Preston Dickinson, she too painted "the modern landscape of factories, bridges, and skyscrapers with geometric precision and almost abstract spareness."Impressionism and academic or Ashcan realism represented the past, in Driggs' view, and she intended to be resolutely modern. She was an attractive and engaging woman, but her demeanor belied a strong ambition and a clear sense of what it would take to make her mark in the New York art world. Driggs was part of the pre-eminent first group of Precisionist painters, including Demuth and Sheeler, who exhibited at the Daniel Gallery in the 1920s. Although a later group of Precisionist painters, including Louis Lozowick, Ralston Crawford and others, came on the American Art scene during the 1930s, Driggs felt that the style came to an end with the 1929 stock market crash.[5] In 1926 she painted her most famous work, Pittsburgh, a dark and brooding picture now in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, which depicts the gargantuan smokestacks of the Jones & Laughlin steel mills in Pittsburgh. Its focus is an overpowering mass of black and gray smokestacks, thick piping, and crisscrossing wires with only clouds of smoke to relieve the severity of the image, yet it was an image in which she found an ironic beauty. She called the picture "my El Greco" and expressed surprise that viewers in later years interpreted the painting as a work of social criticism. Like the other Precisionists (e.g., Demuth, Charles Sheeler, Louis Lozowick, Stefan Hirsch), she was concerned with applying modernist techniques to renderings of the new industrial and urban landscape, not in commenting on potential dangers the overly mechanized modern world of 1920s America might present. If anything, Precisionism, like Futurism, was a celebration of man-made energy and technology. One year later, she painted Blast Furnaces, in a similar vein. As noted above, Piero della Francesca's mural depicting "The Story of the True Cross" in Arezzo, with its tubular, static and frozen forms was the major influence on Driggs' "Pittsburgh" (it may have been the major influence for "Blast Furnaces" as well).[7] After Pittsburgh, Driggs' most acclaimed work was probably Queensborough Bridge...
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1930s Mixed Media

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

"Waves of Love" (2024) By Ana Hefco, Original Mixed-Media Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
Ana Hefco's (Miami based) "Waves of Love" is an original, handmade mixed media painting made with layered resin that depicts a shore with bright blue water and shiny golden sand and ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Mixed Media

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Wood, Mixed Media

"Jekyll Becomes Hyde" Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed "Chwast" in Pencil Lower Right "Jekyll Becomes Hyde." Original illustration for a German edition of Robert Louis Stevenson's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, (Frankfu...
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1990s Paintings

Materials

Ink, Tempera

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