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Style: Pop Art
Style: Expressionist
Medium: Canvas
Zero In Love (huge framed original painting)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on canvas. Hand signed upper right by Peter Max. Canvas size: 48 x 60 inches Frame size: 58 x 70 inches. Dedicated and remarqued on verso by Peter Max. ...
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1990s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Courageous Spirit
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Tunde Bakare, a visionary artist with an uncanny ability to infuse profound emotions into his works, has risen to prominence for his powerful portrayal of marginalized voices and the...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Closure - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Oil, Women in Fashion
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Sayeed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled
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 (Issued by the Gal...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Untitled
Untitled
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Hippie portrait original oil on canvas painting
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Frame size 80x69 cm. Joan Cruspinera Muñoz was born in 1945 in Tiana, Barcelona. This Catalan artist is a painter, draftsman and painter. His training...
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1970s Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Culture 3
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide 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 Authent...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Culture 3
Culture 3
$2,600 Sale Price
30% Off
Abike 2 -21st Century Contemporary Figurative Portrait of Modern Woman, Umbrella
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 Ogu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Not a Race
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
You are not in any competition with anyone, life is not a race but a journey, be honest with yourself. Search for your purpose and do it as best as you can. Step by step, day by day,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Not a Race
Not a Race
$2,100 Sale Price
20% Off
Wura (Gold) - 21st Century, Expressionist, Figurative Nude Portrait, Oil, Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Sayeed...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Zebra in red
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this painting, I've unleashed a vibrant fusion of reds to capture the raw and wild essence of a zebra. The intense hues symbolize vitality and passion, while the expressive stroke...
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2010s Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) /// Fight Club Contemporary Street Pop Art Abstract
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt)" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower left. It is also signed, dated, and titled on verso Year: 2025 Medium...
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2010s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Acrylic

Blue Towel 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Blue Towel" is an artistic composition that demands our attention. The woman wrapped in the titular blue towel stands as a metaphor for the delicate nature...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Blue Towel 2
Blue Towel 2
$1,760 Sale Price
20% Off
Listen, I am Here
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
'Listen, I am here' is an art Gbenga Eniafe created from the realities of his people. The everyday creative is overlooked even as he presses on. The purple represents his distinctive...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Listen, I am Here
Listen, I am Here
$1,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Gazing Through Ankara 1
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Gazing Through Ankara" is a captivating series of paintings that celebrates the beauty, diversity, and individuality of black African women through the exploration of eyewear and An...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Fabric, Canvas, Oil, Mixed Media

Love and Bond 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Whites, Black
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
There is a common thread that binds us all, and that is our shared humanity. Everyone has a general desire in their heart - to be seen, heard and understood. Each of us has dreams, f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Victim (Meet James)
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 (Issued by the Gal...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Oil

Bright Orange Figurative Portrait in Vivid Acrylic With Floral Emoji Motifs
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This vivid acrylic portrait uses saturated color, stylized features and floral emoji-like motifs to explore how identity is shaped in contemporary visual culture. Part of the ongoing...
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2010s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Spray Paint, Canvas, Acrylic

Australian Bullfinch on a branch
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this oil painting, I sought to capture the delicate vibrancy of nature through the lens of expressionism and realism, portraying a small bird with a notably vivid plumage. The sof...
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2010s Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Cardboard

Ties That Binds Us 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Portrait Painting, Oil, 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 (Issued by the Gal...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Echoes of the Mind 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Floral
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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"David Bowie Ziggy Stardust" Contemporary Pop Art Pixelated Portrait Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary pop art inspired pixelated portrait of iconic singer David Bowie Ziggy Stardust. Similar to pointillism, the individual hand-painted blocks of color come together to for...
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2010s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Enamel

Surreal Figurative Portrait in Yellow and Red With Green Floral Emoji Motifs
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This surreal acrylic portrait contrasts a smooth yellow-to-red gradient face with deep green hair and floating floral motifs, creating a visual language that oscillates between innoc...
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2010s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Spray Paint, Canvas, Acrylic

Versace V (Medusa) /// Jack Graves Greek Mythology Italian Luxury Fashion Paint
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Versace V (Medusa)" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso Year: 2025 Medium: Ori...
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2010s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Acrylic

Zero in Blue, 1985 Painting by Peter Max
Located in Long Island City, NY
Zero in Blue by Peter Max, German/American (1937) Date: 1985 Acrylic on Canvas, signed u.r. Size: 24 in. x 18 in. (60.96 cm x 45.72 cm) Frame Size: 26.5 x 20.5 inches
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1980s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Tennis. Figurative Oil Painting, Olympic Games, Sport, Realistic, Polish artist
Located in Warsaw, PL
The painting shows two tennis players which is one of the official sports of the Olympic Games. The tennis match has a spectacular character and dynamics well captured in the paintin...
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2010s Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Surreal Red and Blue Vibrant Fluor Figurative Portrait with Floral Emoji Motifs
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This vivid acrylic portrait combines deep red tones with sharp blue accents to create a surreal and enigmatic figure at the center of the composition. The face, rendered in an intens...
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2010s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Spray Paint, Canvas, Acrylic

Cara Delevingne Icon X /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Fashion Model Actress
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Cara Delevingne Icon X" Series: Icon *Signed, titled, and dated by Graves on verso Year: 2019 Medium: Original Acrylic Painting on ...
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2010s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Acrylic

Heart (framed original painting)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on canvas. Hand signed upper right by Peter Max. Canvas size: 16 x 16 inches Frame size: 27 x 27 inches. Studio catalog number and date stamped on verso....
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1990s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Surreal VIbrant Blue Portrait With Floral Emoji Motifs on Yellow Background
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This surreal acrylic portrait presents a striking blue-faced figure set against an intense yellow background, creating an immediate contrast that anchors the composition. The smooth,...
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2010s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Spray Paint, Canvas, Acrylic

Freedom Flight -21st Century, Expressionist Modern Painting of Child on Balloon
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 (Issued by the Gal...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Framed Vibrant Pop Surreal Female Botanical Portrait. Acrylic on Canvas
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This original framed figurative painting by Natasha Lelenco blends surreal portraiture with botanical elements, capturing the essence of nature, transf...
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2010s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Boy London 2 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Modern, Men
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 Dan...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Oil

Never Back Down - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women, Africa
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
It ain't easy in the rase of success Sometimes I feel tired Sometimes I feel depressed Sometimes I feel like giving it up But I know If I quit, I will never win. So no matter how I f...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Crossed Arms (Portrait of a Blond), Nude Oil Portrait by Jan De Ruth
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jan De Ruth, Czech (1922 - 1991) Title: Crossed Arms (Portrait of a Blonde) Year: circa 1964 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed lower left Size: 35 in. x 25 in. (88.9 cm x 63.5 cm...
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1960s Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

James Dean
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique work by Russell Young. Enamel and diamond dust screen print on linen, Black + White, unframed dimensions 62 x 48 inches, 2011, from the series "Diamond Dust". Da...
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2010s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Enamel

"Blue Mona Lisa " Contemporary Leonardo da Vinci Inspired Figure Pixel Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary pop art inspired pixelated rendition of a detail from Leonardo da Vinci's renowned painting, the "Mona Lisa." Similar to pointillism, the individual hand-painted blocks...
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2010s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Enamel

Margaret Thatcher
By Philip Burke
Located in Buffalo, NY
An early painting by American artist and illustrator Phillip Burke depicting Margaret Thatcher. This work was originally commissioned by Vanity Fair...
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1980s Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Oil

Hendrix Hollywood
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique artwork by Russell Young. Acrylic paint screen print on canvas, unframed dimensions 60 x 45 inches, 2006, from the series "White rabbit". Dark and vivid colors, h...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Screen, Acrylic

"Tilted" by Masri - Red, Yellow, and Black Expressionist Hand Painted Portrait
Located in Carmel, CA
Masri Hayssam (Lebanese, born 1965) "Tilted" 2024 Oil Paint, Acrylic Paint, Mixed Media, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the bottom left and back of the painting. "Tilted" ...
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2010s Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Frank Sinatra Singing In The Rain - Textured Raised Original Painting Portrait
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Playing with the interaction between positive and negative space, strong colors on neutral backgrounds, Canadian artist Virginie Schroeder creates pop art portraits and iconic pop cu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Large Judaica Oil Painting Samuel Grodensky Hasidic Rabbi, Children in Jerusalem
Located in Surfside, FL
Samuel Grodensky (1894-1974) "Hassidim" Hand signed and dated "Grodensky '62" u.l., Titled verso in pencil on stretcher 31" x 27" canvas , 35 1/2" x 31 1/2" framed. Large Fauvist Expressionist Jewish Family Oil Painting This is done in an Expressionist style in Fauvist colors. Influenced by the Judaic artists of the early Israeli...
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1960s Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Telekinesis lesson Julien Wolf Contemporary art painting expressionist red raw
Located in Paris, FR
Oil paint on canvas Hand-signed on the back by the artist “At first glance, we are invited to a colorful carnival. Everything is movement here! As if Julien Wolf had tried to captur...
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2010s Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Les Mondrian Ladies (large framed original painting)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on canvas. Hand signed upper right by Peter Max. Canvas size: 37.5 x 49.5 inches Frame size: 41 x 53 inches. Dedicated and remarqued on verso by Peter Ma...
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1990s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Light Keeper by Masri - Stunning Expressionist Abstract Portrait - Mixed Media
Located in Carmel, CA
Masri (Lebanese-Italian, 1965) 'Light Keeper' 2022 Oil paint, magazine paper, mixed media, canvas, stretcher bars The artist signed the painting on the back and bottom left. 'Light ...
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2010s Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Magazine Paper, Stretcher Bars

Marilyn in Korea
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique artwork by Russell Young. Acrylic paint and enamel screen print on linen, unframed dimensions 62 x 48 inches, 2008, from the series "Fame + Shame". Red and dark c...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Enamel

Vibrational Elevation
Located in New York, NY
One of kind creation by the famed artist. Collected worldwide. Homage to Benjamin Franklin and the Hundred Dollar Bill. Acrylic on Canvas Wrapped over Custom Made Box. About the Artist: Ultra Fine Money Artist TRAN$PARENT is an American based artist whose work is now on the moon. He specializes in museum quality, ultra-fine money art. Specifically American denominations from the $1 to the $10,000 bill and with special granted requests the Million Dollar Bill. He also specializes in various rare and well known International currencies. Creating game changing revolutionary art has been his life’s passion and he illustrates it beautifully in his TRANSPARENT artwork depicting the front, back and middle security features of his bills. His TRANSPARENT Art is actually a metaphor for being TRANSPARENT with your loved ones, with your business associates, but most importantly with yourself. He fine tunes each image to ensure the highest possible vibrancy and each image is personally quality controlled by him and is also hand signed and individually numbered. APs to Limited Editions his pieces are completely breathtaking and pop when viewed under regular or proper lighting. His pieces are not easy to come by and are becoming highly sought after. One of his many accomplishments was successfully orchestrating 12 different beautiful installations of his work at Miami’s Famous Art Basel 2018. His installations included being the featured artist at the opening night with the Miami Heat...
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2010s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Ball. 1920 s, oil on canvas, 65x92 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Ball. 1920's, oil on canvas, 65x92 cm Provenance: Romans Suta daughter Tatjana Suta (1923-2004) Artwork not signed Romans Suta Born on April 28, 1896 in the vicinity of Cesis (Lat...
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1920s Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Elegance and Refinement: Portrait of Princess Dorothy -21st Century Contemporary
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This exquisite portrait painting of Princess Dorothy is a testament to the artist's skill and attention to detail. The painting captures ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Elvis", Denied Andy Warhol Silver Black Pop Art Painting by Charles Lutz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Elvis, Metallic Silver and Black Full Length Silkscreen Painting by Charles Lutz Silkscreen and silver enamel painted on vintage 1960's era linen with Artist's Denied stamp of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board. 82" x 40" inches 2010 Lutz's 2007 ''Warhol Denied'' series gained international attention by calling into question the importance of originality or lack thereof in the work of Andy Warhol. The authentication/denial process of the [[Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board]] was used to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED". The final product of the conceptual project being "officially denied" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz. Based on the full-length Elvis Presley paintings by Pop Artist Andy Warhol in 1964, this is likely one of his most iconic images, next to Campbell's Soup Cans and portraits of Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, and Marlon Brando. This is the rarest of the Elvis works from the series, as Lutz sourced a vintage roll of 1960's primed artist linen which was used for this one Elvis. The silkscreen, like Warhol's embraced imperfections, like the slight double image printing of the Elvis image. Lutz received his BFA in Painting and Art History from Pratt Institute and studied Human Dissection and Anatomy at Columbia University, New York. Lutz's work deals with perceptions and value structures, specifically the idea of the transference of values. Lutz's most recently presented an installation of new sculptures dealing with consumerism at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater House in 2022. Lutz's 2007 Warhol Denied series received international attention calling into question the importance of originality in a work of art. The valuation process (authentication or denial) of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board was used by the artist to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment, with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED" of their authenticity. The final product of this conceptual project is "Officially DENIED" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz. Later in 2013, Lutz went on to do one of his largest public installations to date. At the 100th Anniversary of Marcel Duchamp's groundbreaking and controversial Armory Show, Lutz was asked by the curator of Armory Focus: USA and former Director of The Andy Warhol Museum, Eric Shiner to create a site-specific installation representing the US. The installation "Babel" (based on Pieter Bruegel's famous painting) consisted of 1500 cardboard replicas of Warhol's Brillo Box (Stockholm Type) stacked 20 ft tall. All 1500 boxes were then given to the public freely, debasing the Brillo Box as an art commodity by removing its value, in addition to debasing its willing consumers. Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." Leonard Bernstein in: Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art and traveling, Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994-97, p. 9. Andy Warhol "quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." Kynaston McShine in: Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13. In the summer of 1963 Elvis Presley was just twenty-eight years old but already a legend of his time. During the preceding seven years - since Heartbreak Hotel became the biggest-selling record of 1956 - he had recorded seventeen number-one singles and seven number-one albums; starred in eleven films, countless national TV appearances, tours, and live performances; earned tens of millions of dollars; and was instantly recognized across the globe. The undisputed King of Rock and Roll, Elvis was the biggest star alive: a cultural phenomenon of mythic proportions apparently no longer confined to the man alone. As the eminent composer Leonard Bernstein put it, Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." (Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art (and traveling), Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994, p. 9). In the summer of 1963 Andy Warhol was thirty-four years old and transforming the parameters of visual culture in America. The focus of his signature silkscreen was leveled at subjects he brilliantly perceived as the most important concerns of day to day contemporary life. By appropriating the visual vernacular of consumer culture and multiplying readymade images gleaned from newspapers, magazines and advertising, he turned a mirror onto the contradictions behind quotidian existence. Above all else he was obsessed with themes of celebrity and death, executing intensely multifaceted and complex works in series that continue to resound with universal relevance. His unprecedented practice re-presented how society viewed itself, simultaneously reinforcing and radically undermining the collective psychology of popular culture. He epitomized the tide of change that swept through the 1960s and, as Kynaston McShine has concisely stated, "He quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." (Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13). Thus in the summer of 1963 there could not have been a more perfect alignment of artist and subject than Warhol and Elvis. Perhaps the most famous depiction of the biggest superstar by the original superstar artist, Double Elvis is a historic paradigm of Pop Art from a breath-taking moment in Art History. With devastating immediacy and efficiency, Warhol's canvas seduces our view with a stunning aesthetic and confronts our experience with a sophisticated array of thematic content. Not only is there all of Elvis, man and legend, but we are also presented with the specter of death, staring at us down the barrel of a gun; and the lone cowboy, confronting the great frontier and the American dream. The spray painted silver screen denotes the glamour and glory of cinema, the artificiality of fantasy, and the idea of a mirror that reveals our own reality back to us. At the same time, Warhol's replication of Elvis' image as a double stands as metaphor for the means and effects of mass-media and its inherent potential to manipulate and condition. These thematic strata function in simultaneous concert to deliver a work of phenomenal conceptual brilliance. The portrait of a man, the portrait of a country, and the portrait of a time, Double Elvis is an indisputable icon for our age. The source image was a publicity still for the movie Flaming Star, starring Presley as the character Pacer Burton and directed by Don Siegel in 1960. The film was originally intended as a vehicle for Marlon Brando and produced by David Weisbart, who had made James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause in 1955. It was the first of two Twentieth Century Fox productions Presley was contracted to by his manager Colonel Tom Parker, determined to make the singer a movie star. For the compulsive movie-fan Warhol, the sheer power of Elvis wielding a revolver as the reluctant gunslinger presented the zenith of subject matter: ultimate celebrity invested with the ultimate power to issue death. Warhol's Elvis is physically larger than life and wears the expression that catapulted him into a million hearts: inexplicably and all at once fearful and resolute; vulnerable and predatory; innocent and explicit. It is the look of David Halberstam's observation that "Elvis Presley was an American original, the rebel as mother's boy, alternately sweet and sullen, ready on demand to be either respectable or rebellious." (Exh. Cat., Boston, Op. Cit.). Indeed, amidst Warhol's art there is only one other subject whose character so ethereally defies categorization and who so acutely conflated total fame with the inevitability of mortality. In Warhol's work, only Elvis and Marilyn harness a pictorial magnetism of mythic proportions. With Marilyn Monroe, whom Warhol depicted immediately after her premature death in August 1962, he discovered a memento mori to unite the obsessions driving his career: glamour, beauty, fame, and death. As a star of the silver screen and the definitive international sex symbol, Marilyn epitomized the unattainable essence of superstardom that Warhol craved. Just as there was no question in 1963, there remains still none today that the male equivalent to Marilyn is Elvis. However, despite his famous 1968 adage, "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings" Warhol's fascination held purpose far beyond mere idolization. As Rainer Crone explained in 1970, Warhol was interested in movie stars above all else because they were "people who could justifiably be seen as the nearest thing to representatives of mass culture." (Rainer Crone, Andy Warhol, New York, 1970, p. 22). Warhol was singularly drawn to the idols of Elvis and Marilyn, as he was to Marlon Brando and Liz Taylor, because he implicitly understood the concurrence between the projection of their image and the projection of their brand. Some years after the present work he wrote, "In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star...So you should always have a product that's not just 'you.' An actress should count up her plays and movies and a model should count up her photographs and a writer should count up his words and an artist should count up his pictures so you always know exactly what you're worth, and you don't get stuck thinking your product is you and your fame, and your aura." (Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), San Diego, New York and London, 1977, p. 86). The film stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s that most obsessed Warhol embodied tectonic shifts in wider cultural and societal values. In 1971 John Coplans argued that Warhol was transfixed by the subject of Elvis, and to a lesser degree by Marlon Brando and James Dean, because they were "authentically creative, and not merely products of Hollywood's fantasy or commercialism. All three had originative lives, and therefore are strong personalities; all three raised - at one level or another - important questions as to the quality of life in America and the nature of its freedoms. Implicit in their attitude is a condemnation of society and its ways; they project an image of the necessity for the individual to search for his own future, not passively, but aggressively, with commitment and passion." (John Coplans, "Andy Warhol and Elvis Presley," Studio International, vol. 181, no. 930, February 1971, pp. 51-52). However, while Warhol unquestionably adored these idols as transformative heralds, the suggestion that his paintings of Elvis are uncritical of a generated public image issued for mass consumption fails to appreciate the acuity of his specific re-presentation of the King. As with Marilyn, Liz and Marlon, Warhol instinctively understood the Elvis brand as an industrialized construct, designed for mass consumption like a Coca-Cola bottle or Campbell's Soup Can, and radically revealed it as a precisely composed non-reality. Of course Elvis offered Warhol the biggest brand of all, and he accentuates this by choosing a manifestly contrived version of Elvis-the-film-star, rather than the raw genius of Elvis as performing Rock n' Roll pioneer. A few months prior to the present work he had silkscreened Elvis' brooding visage in a small cycle of works based on a simple headshot, including Red Elvis, but the absence of context in these works minimizes the critical potency that is so present in Double Elvis. With Double Elvis we are confronted by a figure so familiar to us, yet playing a role relating to violence and death that is entirely at odds with the associations entrenched with the singer's renowned love songs. Although we may think this version of Elvis makes sense, it is the overwhelming power of the totemic cipher of the Elvis legend that means we might not even question why he is pointing a gun rather than a guitar. Thus Warhol interrogates the limits of the popular visual vernacular, posing vital questions of collective perception and cognition in contemporary society. The notion that this self-determinedly iconic painting shows an artificial paradigm is compounded by Warhol's enlistment of a reflective metallic surface, a treatment he reserved for his most important portraits of Elvis, Marilyn, Marlon and Liz. Here the synthetic chemical silver paint becomes allegory for the manufacture of the Elvis product, and directly anticipates the artist's 1968 statement: "Everything is sort of artificial. I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts. The artificial fascinates me, the bright and shiny..." (Artist quoted in Exh. Cat., Stockholm, Moderna Museet and traveling, Andy Warhol, 1968, n.p.). At the same time, the shiny silver paint of Double Elvis unquestionably denotes the glamour of the silver screen and the attractive fantasies of cinema. At exactly this time in the summer of 1963 Warhol bought his first movie camera and produced his first films such as Sleep, Kiss and Tarzan and Jane Regained. Although the absence of plot or narrative convention in these movies was a purposely anti-Hollywood gesture, the unattainability of classic movie stardom still held profound allure and resonance for Warhol. He remained a celebrity and film fanatic, and it was exactly this addiction that so qualifies his sensational critique of the industry machinations behind the stars he adored. Double Elvis was executed less than eighteen months after he had created 32 Campbell's Soup Cans for his immortal show at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in July and August 1962, and which is famously housed in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In the intervening period he had produced the series Dollar Bills, Coca-Cola Bottles, Suicides, Disasters, and Silver Electric Chairs, all in addition to the portrait cycles of Marilyn and Liz. This explosive outpouring of astonishing artistic invention stands as definitive testament to Warhol's aptitude to seize the most potent images of his time. He recognized that not only the product itself, but also the means of consumption - in this case society's abandoned deification of Elvis - was symptomatic of a new mode of existence. As Heiner Bastian has precisely summated: "the aura of utterly affirmative idolization already stands as a stereotype of a 'consumer-goods style' expression of an American way of life and of the mass-media culture of a nation." (Exh. Cat., Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 2001, p. 28). For Warhol, the act of image replication and multiplication anaesthetized the effect of the subject, and while he had undermined the potency of wealth in 200 One Dollar Bills, and cheated the terror of death by electric chair in Silver Disaster # 6, the proliferation of Elvis here emasculates a prefabricated version of character authenticity. Here the cinematic quality of variety within unity is apparent in the degrees to which Presley's arm and gun become less visible to the left of the canvas. The sense of movement is further enhanced by a sense of receding depth as the viewer is presented with the ghost like repetition of the figure in the left of the canvas, a 'jump effect' in the screening process that would be replicated in the multiple Elvis paintings. The seriality of the image heightens the sense of a moving image, displayed for us like the unwinding of a reel of film. Elvis was central to Warhol's legendary solo exhibition organized by Irving Blum at the Ferus Gallery in the Fall of 1963 - the show having been conceived around the Elvis paintings since at least May of that year. A well-known installation photograph shows the present work prominently presented among the constant reel of canvases, designed to fill the space as a filmic diorama. While the Elvis canvases...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Vintage Pop Art Portrait of Peter Max Original Framed Oil Painting
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2010s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

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Located in Ibadan, Oyo
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

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2010s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

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1980s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Screen

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2010s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

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Late 20th Century Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Screen

Dancing Shadows -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Fashion, Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Elie HATUNGIMAN...
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21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

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