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Constellation, Dazzling unique signed geometric abstraction painting, 1970s art
Located in New York, NY
Allan D'Arcangelo
Constellation, 1971
Acrylic on paper, mounted to canvas
Hand signed and dated 1971 lower front
Frame included
Measurements:
Framed:
23.75 x 23.75 x 1.25 inches
Artw...
Category
1970s Pop Art Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Laid Paper, Permanent Marker
"American Cheese", Sewn Collage of Cheesesteak Shop in Textile Cityscape
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"American Cheese" is an original artwork by Eustace Mamba and measures 24"h x 24"w x 1.5"d. The artists cuts, arranges, sews, and collages fabric and paints to create layers of textu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Textile, Paint, Mixed Media
"365 Vessels", Mixed technique on tissue white paper, Minimalist, 50 x 33 cm
Located in Carballo, ES
This series of works by the Danish artist Peter Kramer (Roskilde, 1959) with numerous exhibitions between Spain and Denmark are entitled "365 urns", in which the artist works with ti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-Modern Mixed Media
Materials
Organic Material, Adhesive, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Handmade Paper, T...
"Fake Flying" Original Contemporary Batman Pop Art Series by Gary John
By Gary John
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint
On the Edge of Balance
Located in Oslo, NO
On the Edge of Balance explores the fine line between presence and disappearance. The composition hovers in a quiet tension — where movement is barely about to begin, or perhaps has ...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Very Rare Renaissance Old Master Oil Painting c. 1600 Oil on Panel The Madonna
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Virgin Madonna
Spanish Renaissance artist, circle of El Greco (1541-1614)
circa 1600
oil on wood panel, unframed
panel: 20 x 14.5 inches
Provenance: private collection, northern ...
Category
Early 17th Century Renaissance Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$13,129 Sale Price
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Dutch School 18th Century Oil - A Meal at the Inn
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming 18th-century tavern scene, depicting peasants gathered around a table enjoying a meal. Unsigned. Presented in gilt frame with unique corner ornaments featuring phoenix, ac...
Category
Early 18th Century Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
American Impressionist Painting - Boating Party, Sudbury River near Boston, Mass
Located in Baltimore, MD
This bright and cheerful painting is notated as “A Boating Party - Sudbury River”. It is by listed American artist Henry Orne Rider (1860-1943). Born in Salem, Massachusetts, Rider ...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
French painting portrait Bearded italian man oil canvas Second half 18th century
Located in PARIS, FR
French school of the second half of the 18th century Oil on canvas 46 x 38 cm (57 x 49 cm with the frame) Very beautiful frame in gilded wood from the Louix XVI period with decoratio...
Category
Late 18th Century French School Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,425 Sale Price
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Impressionistic Autumn Landscape Oil Painting Michael Budden Early Autumn Farm
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Early Autumn Farm
oil on canvas/panel
10 x 16 image size unframed, 15.38 x 21.38 x 1 framed
Early Autumn Farm is a beautiful impressionistic landscape oil painting that I did on loca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Lilacs In Vase - painting #1
Located in Zofingen, AG
Abstract flower painting with bouquet of lilacs contains a lot of positive energy, the bright picture is a beautiful wall decor for interior and wonderful gift for your loved ones.
...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
YuXiang Lv Landscape Original Oil On Canvas "Warm Spring Day"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Warm Spring Day
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 23 x 19 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,040 Sale Price
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BLACK SUN
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic on canvas
Shipped well protected, unframed
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Animal Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Permanent Marker
$114 Sale Price
20% Off
Impressionist Painting of Cows and Trees by C.H. Miller, Long Island
Located in New York, NY
Charles Henry Miller (American, 1842-1922)
Untitled (Cows and Trees), c, 1885
Oil on canvas
18 x 24 in.
Signed lower left: Chas. H. Miller, N.A.
Charles Henry Miller was a noted artist and painter of landscapes from Long Island, New York. The American poet Bayard Taylor called him, "The artistic discoverer of the little continent of Long Island."
Miller was educated at Mount Washington Collegiate Institute, and graduated in medicine at the New York Homeopathic Institute in 1864. Before his graduation, he had occasionally painted pictures, and in 1860 he exhibited The Challenge Accepted at the National Academy of Design, in New York City.
He lived in Queens at the summer estate, Queenslawn, originally purchased by his parents. He went abroad in 1864 and again in 1867, and was a pupil in the Bavarian Royal Academy at Munich under the instruction of Adolf Lier...
Category
1880s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
VIRGEN CON NIÑO - ESCUELA CUZQUEÑA - SIGLO XIX
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Interesante óleo sobre lienzo de Virgen con Niño de mediados del siglo XIX.
Es de escuela Cuzqueña, va con un marco ebonizádo que le queda muy bien.
En buen estado general solo tie...
Category
19th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil
$665 Sale Price
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Old Bridge and Fortress. Autumn. Autumnal landscapes
Located in Oslo, NO
The painting was painted from life. It depicts the bridge over the Main Ludwigbrücke and the Marienberg fortress. We see a clear autumn day, which is declining towards evening. The s...
Category
2010s Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pheasant Shooting
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Samuel Alken Jnr (1784-1825)
Pheasant Shooting
Signed 'S. Alken'
Oil on canvas
Painting Size - 12 x 16 1/2 in
Framed Size - 17 x 21 1/2 in
Samuel Alken Junior (1784–1825)
Samuel Alk...
Category
19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
20th Century Landscape of a Barn with Haystacks, Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
George Gustav Adomeit (American, 1879-1964)
Barn Scene
Oil on canvas mounted to masonite
Signed lower right
16 x 20 inches
21.5 x 25.5 inches, framed
A major painter of American sce...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique American Impressionist Italian San Gimignano Street Scene Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist Italian landscape oil painting by Howard Logan Hildebrandt (1872 - 1958). Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 20 by 24 inches overall, and 12 by 16 paint...
Category
1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Unknown - abstract painting, made in blue, grey, brown color
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with alcohol ink in blue, grey, brown color on Yupo paper. The work is 11 by 14 inches in size, framed (gold or black) with a styrene fac...
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$304 Sale Price
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Impressionistic Landscape Oil Painting Michael Budden Moonlight White House
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Summer Moon White House
oil/panel
12 x 16 unframed, 18.25 x 22.25 framed pictured both silver or black.
Summer Moon White House is an oil painting on canvas panel that showcases the ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,400 Sale Price
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CLAUDE MONET Style 19th CENTURY IMPRESSIONISM OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING
By (after) Claude Monet
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING Antique 19th Century Fine Quality Piece Gold Gilt frame
OLD MASTER OIL PAINTING BRITISH SCHOOL 19th Century in a Gold Frame
Description.
19th century Piece
“Good C...
Category
Mid-19th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
SUMMER DAYS
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Emerging young artist with a very personal and recognizable style.
Without a doubt he will have a long journey and a great progression in her artistic career.
Acrylic on canvas
Ship...
Category
2010s Post-Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Impressionist Oil Painting HARBOUR SCENE NORTHERN FRANCE by Clare Atwood NEAC
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Clare 'Tony' Atwood NEAC (1888-1962) English
TITLE: "Harbour Scene" (probably Northern France)
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
SIZE: 60cm x 48cm incl. frame
SIGNED: lower right
COND...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Stray Cat", Surreal, Tree, Night Sky, Blue, Purple, Orange, Oil Painting
Located in Franklin, MA
Anita Zotkina’s “Stray Cat” is a 20 x 16 x 0.7 inch original oil painting on gallery-wrapped canvas. The artwork depicts a glowing cat stretched across a tree branch, bathed in the q...
Category
2010s Surrealist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,280 Sale Price
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“Jamaican Girl by the Palm Tree, c. 1930” American Impressionist Portrait Lyme
Located in Yardley, PA
“Jamaican Girl by the Palm Tree, c. 1930” by Will Howe Foote (American, 1874-1965)
A fantastic portrait of a young Jamaican woman set against a vibrant palm frond, painted by the re...
Category
1930s American Impressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
1940s Signed German Impressionist Oil of Rio de Janeiro in Style of Max Slevogt
Located in Soquel, CA
German Impressionist Painting of Rio de Janeiro's Guanabara Bay and Sugarloaf Mountain in style of Max Slevogt
This vivid landscape painting offers a panoramic view of Rio de Janeir...
Category
1940s Blue Rider Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Fauvist Still Life with Flowers - Original Oil on Canvas, SIGNED
Located in Paris, IDF
Antonio GUANSE (1926-2008)
Still Life with Flowers, 1962
Oil on canvas panel
Signed lower right
Countersigned and dated on the back
On panel, 37 x 45 cm (14.5 x 17.7 in) visible
Pre...
Category
1970s Surrealist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
19th Century Irish Landscape Oil Painting Figures in Mountains with Cottage
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Irish artist, 19th century, indistinctly signed & dated 1880s
Title: The Irish Landscape & Homestead
Medium: oil painting on board, framed.
framed: 14.25 x 18.75 i...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,319 Sale Price
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Framed 19th Century Oil - Portrait of a Scholar
Located in Corsham, GB
A formal portrait of a smartly dressed gentleman, leaning casually against a desk. He holds a book in his hand as a symbol of his intelligence, and returns the viewer's gaze with cal...
Category
19th Century Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil
Newness - Original Colorful Expressive Contemporary Abstract Artwork on Canvas
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 Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Signed European Impressionist Sunset River Landscape Framed Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderfully painted luminous European sunset landscape painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 16H by 11L.
Category
1890s Impressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Winter Landscape Oil Painting Signed Framed
Located in Stockholm, SE
This captivating winter landscape was painted in early 20th century, signed lower left "W.L. Palmer", attributed to American Impressionist Walter Launt Palmer (1854–1932). Trained in...
Category
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Alabaster
Antique Scottish Highlands Signed Oil Painting Loch Tay Perthshire
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Loch Tay"
by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950)
signed, lower corner with pseudonym "W. Richards"
titled verso to canvas
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 16 x 24 inches
Fine quality antique oil painting by the much admired and celebrated British artist F. E. Jamieson (1895-1950). The painting is signed by Jamieson to the lower right corner with his favoured pseudonym, "W. Richards".
The painting captures this brooding Highland landscape and the deep and dark waters of Loch Tay, one of the most stunning lochs in Scotland.
Loch Tay is a magnificent dark stretch of water, 15 miles (24 km) long and around 508 ft deep.
It’s the largest loch in Perthshire and one of the deepest in Scotland. To the north, the loch is flanked by the impressive bulk of the Ben Lawers mountain range, much of which is designated as a National Nature Reserve. The main A827 road runs high above the loch, west from Kenmore. The contours are gentler on the southern shore and Sustrans Cycle Route Number 7 runs along a quiet unclassified road.
It's hard to believe that ancient settlers once lived on Loch Tay, inhabiting artificially created islands known as crannogs. There are eighteen crannogs on Loch Tay, most are now submerged but a large crannog near the northern shore at Kenmore can be clearly seen. This was the ancient burial place of Queen Sybilla, wife of Alexander King...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,690 Sale Price
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Mid Century French Colorful Illustration Sketches Of Different Fruits
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Fruit Medley
by Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
signed
pastel/watercolor on paper, unframed
painting: 13 x 20 inches
good condition
provenance: from the artists estate, France
Jos...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Watercolor
Johann Berthelsen Signed UN Building Winter Impressionist New York Street Scene
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early American impressionist view of New York City oil painting by Johann Berthelsen (1883 - 1972). Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 12H by 16L.
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Qingfeng Zhang Impressionist Original Oil On Canvas "Northern Spring II"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Northern Spring II
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 19 x 23 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Feeding the Fish"
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Feeding the Fish" is an original oil painting by Contemporary realist Megan Eisenberg about snorkeling in the beautiful tropical water of the Cayman I...
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,040 Sale Price
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Oil Painting of Mountain and Forest Landscape by 20th Century Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Oil Painting of Mountain and Forest Landscape by 20th Century Artist, W Ward
Art measures 20 x 16 inches
Frame measures 24 x 20 inches
Category
20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$978 Sale Price
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Blonde Nude Female In Green Interior Mid Century French Impressionist Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Suzanne Dinkés (French, 1895 - 1984)
Medium: oil on canvas, unframed
Size : 21.5 x 18 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: The painting is in over...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sunset in the Forest, c. 1910
Located in Stockholm, SE
This luminous painting by Oscar Lycke captures a tranquil sunset scene deep within a Nordic forest. The warm, golden light of the setting sun filters through the dense spruce trees, ...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
$3,325 Sale Price
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19th Century French Symbolist Oil Painting Sketch of Artists Nude Model Posing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Artists Model
French School, late 19th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 20 x 17.5 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good and sound condition
Category
Late 19th Century Symbolist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,333 Sale Price
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1950
s Bright Green and Blue Landscape of Hills and Fields French Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Harmonious Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original oil on artist paper
size: 23 x 20 inches
condition: very good and ready to be enjoyed
Description: This impr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Graces"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Graces
Group of Figures: Four figures, depicted in an abstract manner, are in the central part of the composition. Their poses and arrangement create a sense of interaction or a comm...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wildflowers - Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Robert William Vonnoh
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed and dated oil on board landscape by American impressionist painter Robert William Vonnoh. This stunning piece depicts red and orange wildflowers. This work would have been exe...
Category
1890s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Antique Canadian Winter Sunset Snow Landscape Panoramic Rare Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique Canadian impressionist winter landscape oil painting by Joseph Archibald Browne (1862 - 1948). Oil on board. Signed. Framed. Measuring 15 by 19 inches overall and 10 by 14 pa...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Riva - Spanish School 1940 Oil, Spanish Street in Summer
Located in Corsham, GB
Signed 'Riva' and dated 1940 in the lower left corner. Presented in a wooden frame with a gilt inner window. On board.
Category
Mid-20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$342 Sale Price
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Heartsease - 21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract, Pop Culture, People, Peace
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Good people close inside when they're broken, but those who look from the outside think they're clever." People will use your prejudice when they can't figure you out. Cause ain't no...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
20th Century French Post-Impressionist Portrait of Lady in Colorful Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Woman in Interior
Original oil painting by Huguette Baudrot (French, 1929-2023) *see further notes below
Post-Impressionist oil painting by the well listed and admired female Frenc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,223 Sale Price
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Guoqiang Ning Landscape Original Oil Painting "Seaside Town"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Seaside Town
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 23 x 19 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition.
Note: This painti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Houses in the Hills - Oil Paint by Pino Romanò - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Pino Romanò (1934) in 1990s.
Hand signed. Titled on rear.
Very good condition.
Category
1990s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Washington Square Park in Snow" Impressionist Winter Street Scene Oil on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A truly stunning jewel and pertinent example of Berthelsen's charming New York City winter scenes depicting Washington Square Park in the snow. An iconic scene that so many have come...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Man Playing a Banjo
, American Mid-Century Cubist-Derived Figural Oil, Fifties
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Paula Melcher' (American, 20th century) and dated 1956.
Category
1950s Cubist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Sketch" Walter Elmer Schofield, Impressionist Coastline, Philadelphia Artist
Located in New York, NY
Walter Elmer Schofield
Sketch, circa 1880s
Oil on panel
12 x 14 inches
Walter Elmer Schofield is regarded as a leader of the Philadelphia Impressionists and central to the broader ...
Category
1880s American Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Whispers of Spring, Oil Painting
By Jo Galang
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
While on a summer hike in the woods, Jo discovered this stream and small pool of water. She says she couldn't resist stopping and dipping her feet in the cool...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Naive English Portrait of a Girl, circa 1830s Oil on Board, Antique Painting
Located in Grand Rapids, MI
English Naive School, 19th Century
" Portrait of a Seated Girl Holding a Bouquet ", cira 1830
Oil on Board, Laid on Canvas
13 1/4" x 10 1/2"
Housed in a 3" Carved Frame with Acan...
Category
Early 19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Echoes Within - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Modern, 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.
About Artist
Bey...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
French Impressionist Seascape with Colourful Sailboats and Lighthouse
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Seascape with Colourful Sailboats and Lighthouse
By Fanch Lel
Signed: Yes
Size: 14.75 x 18.25 inches (height x width)
Oil painting on board, unframed
Cond...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$609 Sale Price
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Untitled
By Roland Ayers
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Roland Ayers (1932-2017). Untitled, 1983. Ink on paper, measures 17 x 23 inches. Unframed and unmounted. Signed and dated lower left. Ayers holds the distinction of having participated in the first important survey of African-Americans, Contemporary Black Artists in America, a 1971 show at The Whitney.
Biography:
Artist and art educator, Roland Ayers was born on July 2, 1932, the only child of Alice and Lorenzo Ayers, and grew up in the Germantown district of Philadelphia. Ayers served in the US Army (stationed in Germany) before studying at the Philadelphia College of Art (currently University of the Arts). He graduated with a BFA in Art Education, 1954. He traveled Europe 1966-67, spending time in Amsterdam and Greece in particular. During this period, he drifted away from painting to focus on linear figurative drawings of a surreal nature. His return home inaugurated the artist’s most prolific and inspired period (1968-1975). Shorty before his second major trip abroad in 1971-72 to West Africa, Ayers began to focus on African themes, and African American figures populated his work almost exclusively.
In spite of Ayers’ travel and exploration of the world, he gravitated back to his beloved Germantown, a place he endowed with mythological qualities in his work and literature. His auto-biographical writing focuses on the importance of place during his childhood. Ayers’ journals meticulously document the ethnic and cultural make-up of Germantown, and tell a compelling story of class marginalization that brought together poor families despite racial differences. The distinctive look and design of Germantown inform Ayers’ visual vocabulary. It is a setting with distinctive Gothic Revival architecture and haunting natural beauty. These characteristics are translated and recur in the artist’s imagery.
During his childhood, one of the only books in the Ayers household was an illustrated Bible. The images within had a profound effect on the themes and subjects that would appear in his adult work. Figures in an Ayers’ drawing often seem trapped in a narrative of loss and redemption. Powerful women loom large in the drawings: they suggest the female role models his journals record in early life. The drawings can sometimes convey a strong sense of conflict, and at other times, harmony. Nature and architecture seem to have an antagonistic relationship that is, ironically, symbiotic.
A critical turning point in the artist’s career came in 1971 when he was included in the extremely controversial Whitney Museum show, Contemporary Black Artists in America. The exhibition gave Ayers an international audience and served as a calling card for introductions he would soon make in Europe.
Ayers is a particularly compelling figure in a period when black artists struggled with the idea of authenticity. A questioned often asked was “Is your work too black, or not black enough?” Abstractionists were considered by some peers to be sell-outs, frauds or worse. Figurative* work was accused of being either sentimental or politically radical depending on the critical source. Ayers made the choice early on to be a figurative artist, but considered his work devoid of political content.
Organizations such as Chicago’ s Afri-Cobra in the late 1960‘s asserted that the only true black art of any relevance must depict the black man and woman...
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink
$960 Sale Price
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Bright but gentle.
Located in Zofingen, AG
The bright colors of summer in flower arrangements look great against a sky-blue background.
The painting brings memories of summer holidays, the smell of the sea and flowers into th...
Category
2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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