Howard Hodgkin Paintings

This atmospheric and magical view of a single nude male figure on a California beach is imbued with lovely, unexpected colors and textures which rise up to a sky that is a pale shade of green. The blond young man has been sunbathing on a towel stretched along the sand, and seems to be placidly examining the viewer -- the painter -- from afar. The artist is Duane Wakeham...

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For your consideration, an abstract expressionism modern art painting signed M Chavez. Geometric art abstract expressionism painting. Oil on canvas board. In the style of Mark Rothko...

Mid Century Modern abstract painting in the style of Franz Kline, acrylic on canvas.

Selection of Modern Art, circa 1950s-1970s. From left to right, they are: 1) The abstract nude female drawing, probably American, circa 1950s....

This Mughal miniature was painted at one of the princely courts of India. It depicts a raven-haired princess in a gold-trimmed saffron-colored silk sari. Under a glowering evening sky she dawdles on a white marble terrace, with a pet fawn on a leash, before a landscape dotted with buildings nestled amongst trees beyond a river. Her hair, falling loosely about her shoulders, rather than carefully dressed on her head, indicates that she is a maiden. The overall mood is one of expectancy. Perhaps walking a pet and catching an evening breeze is a pretext to escape palace scrutiny for a lovers’ assignation. In Mughal India tender sentiments were a bridge to the erotic – and if this seems contradictory, so too is the balance of realism and caricature, and naturalism with the schematic. Both are hallmarks of miniatures painted in this place and time. The earliest Mughal Indian miniatures date to the 16th century. They were inspired by those painted at the refined Moslem courts of the neighboring Persian empire. They incorporated figures in spite of the Moslem faith’s proscription against depicting the human form. Such was the nature of sophisticated courtly life everywhere that beauty and pleasure trumped systems of morality. This was no less the case at the provincial Indian courts, where our miniature, marked by a charming pictorial naiveté, was most likely painted. Yet the artist was undeniably accomplished. His command of perspective, introduced by Jesuit missionaries in the 17th century, is seen in the landscape, which rolls back to a distant horizon, contrary to the flat two-dimensional ones following Indian-painting traditions. And if Mughal artists were influenced by Western art, the compliment was returned by Rembrandt and Sir Joshua Reynolds, among others, who collected Indian miniatures (as did, perhaps, Giovanni Bellini who painted in Mughal style the famous miniature of a Persian man...

Original vintage Danish maritime landscape oil on canvas painting in warm and earthy tones. This mid-century painting depicts a hillside, gently rising from a rocky terrain. A deep b...

Drawing on paper under glass, framed, signed Luez, 20th century. View of an Oriental port. Measures: H: 24.5 cm, W: 30.5 cm, D: 1.5 cm.

Japanese two panel screen: Moon Viewing, painting of two noblewomen admiring the full moon outdoors. Extremely sophisticated execution of painting ove...

Modern Portrait of Three Rabbits, in the style of Hunt Slonem USA, 20th century Oil on canvas A whimsical portrait study of three seated rabbit...

Masterpieces of Painting in the J. Paul Getty Museum. Published by J. Paul Getty Museum, 1980. 1st Ed softcover. Rooted in a passion for the Italian Renaissance as well as Dutch and ...

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art: Handbook of the Collections. Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art/ Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, 2018. First edition softcover. This handbook consists of a...