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Calm Within - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women, Acrylic
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
carry within, even when faced with life's challenges.
Each painting becomes an open door, inviting you
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,200 Sale Price
20% Off
English Early 19th Century Oil on Canvas Within a Fine Giltwood Frame
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A lovely English early 19th century oil on canvas within a fine giltwood frame. The painting
Category
Antique 19th Century English Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Giltwood
Peace Within - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa, Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (issued by The Gal...
Category
2010s Modern Portrait Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil
Peace from Within 3 - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Modern
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
paintings convey his fascination for contemporary attitudes, which are embellished with fragments of history
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Contemporary abstract acrylic woman
s portrait on canvas "The power within"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
celebrating one’s authentic nature.
This painting, titled "The Power Within", is part of Mougenot’s series
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Cotton Canvas
Contemporary abstract expressionist woman
s portrait on paper "My force within"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary abstract expressionist woman's portrait "My force within" was created by French
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Beyond This Earth (Life Within) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Nature
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Beyond This Earth explores the unseen realms that transcend the physical world. The painting weaves
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Joy Within -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Africa Woman Fabric
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
"JOY WITHIN" is a captivating fabric
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Canvas
Harmony in Blue: Finding Peace Within, "The Happiness Series " serie
Located in Zofingen, AG
and tranquility that can be found within oneself, even in the most turbulent times. This painting
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Let Peace Reign (Life Within) - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Nature
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Let Peace Reign symbolize a call for harmony within and around us. The painting blends a serene
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Home Longing (Life Within) -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Nature, Blue
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Home Longing reflects the universal yearning for connection and belonging. The painting combines a
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract Expressive woman
s portrait acrylic on paper "What she holds within"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary abstract expressionist woman's portrait "What she holds within "was created by
Category
2010s Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Chaos Within the Lines - Mohammad Ali Bhatti, Mixed Media on Canvas, Abstract
Located in Houston, TX
Original unique abstract mixed media painting on canvas by Dr. Mohammad Ali Bhatti. This artwork is
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Paper, Mixed Media
Jerome Paul Within Figurative "The Three Men Each at Their Windows Light"
Located in Detroit, MI
Jerome Witkin is an American figurative artist whose paintings deal with political, social and
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Modernist Still Life with Tennis Rackets Balls and Sporting Equipment
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
composition—a painting within a painting—adds a reflective, almost narrative element, suggesting a dialogue
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gouache
$529 Sale Price
40% Off
Very Fine French Parcel-Gilt Enamel Plaque within Ormolu Frame
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A very fine French parcel-gilt enamel plaque within ormolu frame
Late 19th-early 20th century
The
Category
Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Ormolu
Landscapes Finder (Buscador de paisajes) Figurative painting. Old masters style
By Goyo Dominguez
Located in Segovia, ES
painting within another painting and poses many unknowns.
The panel was previously treated by the artist to
Category
1990s Old Masters Figurative Paintings
Materials
Wood Panel, Acrylic
$21,740 Sale Price
20% Off
A Fine Watercolor and Pencil "Mexican Shark Fisherman" within a Pine Frame
By Francis De Erdely 2
Located in LA, CA
on Paper within a pine frame and protective glass, circa 1930.
Signed: ‘De Erdely’ (lower right
Category
Early 20th Century Abstract Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Glass, Wood, Pencil, Paper
Sans Titre, Oil Painting, Cosy Interior With Sofa and Book, Landscape View
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
outside landscape, transforming it into a painting within the painting.
In the foreground, the boldly
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
Windows With Flowers Still Life Painting
By Calman Shemi
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
emphasizes the contrast between the outside level and the painting within a deeper level.
Lacquer paintings
Category
1980s Still-life Paintings
Materials
Gold
Journey Within 73, 74 and 75 Triptych. From The Journey Within Series
By Neerja Chandna Peters
Located in Miami Beach, FL
, but within. The act of creating becomes a reflection of this alignment, a moment when the finite
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pen
This Morning (blue, red, floral, textured still life pastel on paper)
By Angela A
Court
Located in New York, NY
, including just the color blue in the sky.”
Within each painting, I am drawn in to the intricate universe of
Category
2010s Contemporary Still-life Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paper, Pastel
$5,520 Sale Price
20% Off
Within- 21st Century Contemporary Charcoal Drawing of a girl with braids
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Rosanna Gaddoni
'Within'
66 x 48 cm
Charcoal and graphite on Rives Arches Paper 175 gm2 crème
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Charcoal, Laid Paper
Sibling
By Francisco Masseria
Located in San Francisco, CA
of this emerges a painting within a painting. The patterns of colors, densely intermingled and freely
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Studio Nude, female figure fish, art within art
By Audrey Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
These recently re-discovered 1984 oversize pastels on archival papers were created working quickly, in pastel. The series shows the last existing observational drawings prior to the...
Category
1980s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Feminine Devine, figure within landscape of birch trees gold tones nature
By Audrey Frank Anastasi
Located in Brooklyn, NY
, working in painting, drawing, collage, mixed media, & printmaking. She is also curator, gallerist
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Paint, Paper, Color Pencil
Still Life of Roses in a Vase, Mid-Century French Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
this case, quite cleverly, we have a painting of flowers within a painting of flowers therefore adding
Category
Mid-20th Century Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
All day breakfast cafe
Located in Roma, IT
visual universe — the yellow room, the swirling floor, The Starry Night presented as a painting within
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Academic Interior Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
Suitcase with teddy bears
Located in CAMPO REAL, ES
and its focus on tonal play. On the left, there is a painting within the painting: an antique drawing
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
$1,091 Sale Price
20% Off
BALAY interior trompe l
oeil modern art french Art deco 20th
Located in PARIS, FR
"mise en abyme" with a painting reoresented within the painting!
Category
1930s Art Deco Interior Paintings
Materials
Oil
$2,373 Sale Price
20% Off
At the Center of the Forest, Original Painting
By Candice Eisenfeld
Located in San Francisco, CA
path appearing as a painting within a painting, framed by a deep red expressionist color block. Candice
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist More Art
Materials
Acrylic
Innerconnectedness, Abstract Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
painting within a painting," explains artist Terri Bell. The result is an interconnected framework that is
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Pumpkin with pears
Located in GB
methods within a contemporary context.
Ball’s paintings have been exhibited in group and solo shows
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Textile painting: "Sweet healing found / within the hive"
Located in New York, NY
“My contemporary fiber art intersects fashion, sculpture, street art and queer activism through innovative use of textile collage and text-based art techniques. I begin with textiles...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Textile, Mixed Media
The Light From Within: Furcula Major, Abstract Painting
By Maya Malioutina
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist CommentsThis body of work, "The Light Within," is inspired by Leonard Cohen's
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Mixed Media
Materials
Mixed Media
Large Woven Mixed Media Painting "Autumn is a Time for Looking Within"
By Anushka Kempken
Located in Cape Town, ZA
This unique artwork is created through interweaving strips of painted fabriano paper in order to create a complex composition with depth and texture. The artwork is framed and floate...
Category
2010s Contemporary Mixed Media
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Pastel, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Archival Paper
Untitled
By Charles Arnoldi
Located in San Francisco, CA
the lines within his paintings, "building" a painting with them. His earliest works were almost
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset
Untitled
By Charles Arnoldi
Located in San Francisco, CA
the lines within his paintings, "building" a painting with them. His earliest works were almost
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset
Untitled
By Charles Arnoldi
Located in San Francisco, CA
the lines within his paintings, "building" a painting with them. His earliest works were almost
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset
Untitled
By Charles Arnoldi
Located in San Francisco, CA
the lines within his paintings, "building" a painting with them. His earliest works were almost
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset
Untitled
By Charles Arnoldi
Located in San Francisco, CA
up the lines within his paintings, "building" a painting with them. His earliest works were almost
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset
Untitled
By Charles Arnoldi
Located in San Francisco, CA
twigs to make up the lines within his paintings, "building" a painting with them. His earliest works
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Abstract Prints
Materials
Offset
A Wave Within a Wave Within a Wave
By Perle Fine
Located in New York, NY
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Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts
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Category
20th Century Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Paint
"Food Chain"
By Harold Barnard
Located in New York, NY
into larger works, often as a painting within a painting, are colorful representations of the natural
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
A Place Within
Located in San Luis Obispo, CA
response within the figure. He uses the power of suggestion in his paintings to depict the figure and thus
Category
2010s Expressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
A Dream Within A Dream
By J.D. Miller
Located in Dallas, TX
Original 3-Dimensional Oil Painting
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Oil
Within a Blue Band
By Julio Granda
Located in GT. BARRINGTON, MA
The painting, "Within a Blue Band" is an abstract, multi-colored, predominantly red and blue work
Category
1980s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Abstract Landscape Painting by Melanie Taylor "Within Reach" (oil on canvas)
Located in San Diego, CA
available upon request.
Additional images upon request
About the artist:
Melanie Taylor’s painting and
Category
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
An Open Lecture (caught within a sphere of influence)
By Keith Tyson
Located in New York, NY
Beauty Within
By Jorge Yances
Located in Nashville, TN
Beauty Within portrays a young woman with golden eyes and red lips surrounded by white florals
Category
2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
Reaching Within
By Almas Kabani
Located in Bellevue, WA
moves and mingles with the next color. Within each painting are layers of colors that together bring
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Fire Within
By Rhia Hurt
Located in Brooklyn, NY
luminous paintings employing the balance between control and chance; deep reflection and play, these are
Category
2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Within Without
By Michael Hudock
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Michael Hudock studied painting and drawing at Delta Community College College in Michigan and
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The fire within
By Francien Krieg
Located in PUIFLIJK, NL
work is part of my ongoing series: "Precious bodies", a series of paintings about the ageing female
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Cells within Cells
Located in NIAGARA PARK, NSW
canvas has dimensions 142 cm in width by 76 cm in height. The painting wraps around the sides of the
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Acrylic
Within the limits
By Elena Guryeva Art
Located in Novato, CA
This painting is part of the series SPACES, where I transform the personal, the commonplace, and
Category
2010s Surrealist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Fire Within
By Larisa Safaryan
Located in Santa Clarita, CA
Larisa Safaryan has chosen to work with a most unconventional and delicate medium: an eggshell. Without question she is an innovator in what she does.
The strength and fragility of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
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