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Art For Sale
Airplane in landscape - landscape painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful painting by Jeroen Allart is part of his minimalist landscape and animal painting he did in his home country the Netherlands. 'A farm stands before you on the horizon....
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

It s Good Business! /// Contemporary Street Art Text War Political Painting
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "It's Good Business!" Series: Statement *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, dated, and titled on verso Year: 2023 Mediu...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Acrylic

Southwest View of Sherborne Abbey Church /// History of Dorset English Engraving
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: John Hutchins (English, 1698-1773) Title: "Southwest View of Sherborne Abbey Church" (Plate 15) Portfolio: The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset Year: 1861-1870...
Category

1860s Victorian Art

Materials

Engraving

Sir David Murray (1849–1933) Gathering Poppies 1892 Oil Painting
Located in Holywell, GB
“Gathering Poppies,” set beneath a brooding sky, is a delightful landscape by the Glasgow-born artist Sir David Murray. The work is signed, dated, and carries a Christie’s Auction Ho...
Category

Late 19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

View of Venice - cityscape panorama - San Giorgio Maggiore - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color cityscape photo. Venetian cityscape with historic buildings and the San Giorgio Maggiore with a tall bell tower on an overcast day. All Gerald Berghammer p...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

View of Venice, cityscape panorama, Santa Maria della Salute - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color cityscape photography. View of Venice cityscape featuring Campanile di San Marco, historical buildings, and domed structures. All Gerald Berghammer prints ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

View of Venice - Campanile Bell Tower of Santo Stefano - Italy - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color cityscape photography. Colorful houses along a waterfront in Venice, Italy, with the Campanile Bell Tower of Santo Stefano. All Gerald Berghammer prints ar...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

View of Venice, cityscape panorama, San Marco, Italy - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color cityscape photography. View of Venice cityscape featuring Campanile di San Marco, historical buildings, and domed structures. All Gerald Berghammer prints ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

View of Venice, cityscape panorama, Santa Maria del Rosario - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color waterscape photography. View of the historic church Santa Maria del Rosario and colorful buildings along a canal in Venice, Italy. All Gerald Berghammer pr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Room 310 - Collector Portfolio # 3 out 7 - 12 Fine Art Prints Nude photography
Located in Brussels, BE
His series "Room" or "My carnival" evokes the fantasy of the mistress, fetishist eroticism, 5 to 7, free fantasy. Eric produces erotic art without ever biting into porn-chic always b...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

Diptych: Aventure d une libertine IX and X. From The Secret Album Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Gondola, San Giorgio Maggiore - panorama citsycape - Venice - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color cityscape panorama photo. Gondolas docked along a pier with blurred motion, against foggy San Giorgio Maggiore in the back. Archival pigment ink print as p...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

La Lune/The Moon
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This striking poster is a restrike of the original exhibition poster created by Alexander Calder for his celebrated show “Mobiles et Lithographies” at Galerie Maeght. Produced in 201...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

"umbrella girl series" RK61VD1, Abstract Painting, 21st Century, Acryl
Located in Dessau-Rosslau, Sachsen Anhalt
Artist: Roger König b. Dessau, Germany (1968) Master student of Kurt Schönburg, HWK Halle, Germany. König combines modern painting with acrylic with old techniques and in this way,...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Clay, Acrylic

Diptych: Aventure d une libertine XI and XII. From The Secret Album Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Carnival - Abstract Painting Modern Bold Invest Colorful Large Contemporary Joy
Located in Pretoria, Gauteng
Title: The Guardians and the Carnival Abstract Painting Modern Bold Invest Colorful Large Contemporary Joy Love the detail in this artwork by Karnish. This work is part of a serie...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Wood, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Color Pencil, Stretcher Bars

"Rosa Pristina" (contemporary, original, abstract, floral, pink flower, natural)
Located in Paris, IDF
ROSA PRISTINA Latin for "earliest rose" or "pristine rose," captures a bloom suspended forever between full vitality and delicate decay. The painting is an abstract elegy to the rose...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Dye, Oil, Plaster, Cotton Canvas

Free Space Panorama - color gondola, cityscape - Venice, Italy - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color long exposure photography. Gondolas docked on calm water with Venice cityscape, church bell tower and historic buildings. Archival pigment ink print as par...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Diptych: Aventure d une libertine XX and XXI. From The Secret Album Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Large landscape oil painting of houses by Spanish artist Julián Ugarte Munozabal
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Landscape Oil Painting, European Art, Mid-Century Art, Wall Art, Vintage Décor, Vintage art, Pastoral Landscape, Countryside painting, Vintage Painting, Original oil painting, French...
Category

1970s Abstract Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Set of Four Engravings from Nash s "History of Worcestershire" /// Landscape Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Treadway Russell Nash (English, 1724-1811) Title: "A View of Stourbridge", "A View of Upton upon Severn, from Ryal Hill", "Bewdley", and "Tenbury" Portfolio: Collections for the History of Worcestershire Year: 1781-1782 (First edition) Medium: Set of Four Original Engravings on watermarked laid paper Limited edition: Unknown Printer: John Nichols, London, UK Publisher: T. Payne and Son, J. Robson, B. White, Leigh and Sotheby, London, UK; Fletcher, Oxford, UK; and Lewis, Worcester, UK Reference: Upcott III, page 1330 Sheet size (each): approx. 10" x 16.5" Image size (each): approx. 6.88" x 11.75" Condition: A few light handling creases. Have been professionally stored away for decades. They are all strong impressions in excellent condition Notes: Provenance: private collection - Aspen, CO. All four works were engraved by English artist Thomas Sanders (Active: Mid-Late 18th Century) after drawings by himself. Comes from Nash's two volume "Collections for the History of Worcestershire", (1781-1782) (First edition), which consists of 75 engravings. Each work is printed from one copper plate in one color: black. There was a (Second edition) "with Additions" bound in with Volume II of this portfolio published by John White in 1799. And, both the First and Second editions of "Collections for the History of Worcestershire" are based off Thomas Sanders' 1779-1781 "Perspective Views of the Market Towns within the County of Worcester". Both "A View of Stourbridge" and "A View of Upton upon Severn, from Ryal Hill" have unidentified fleur-de-lis watermarks in the center of their sheets. "Bewdley" has an unidentified watermark in the center of its sheet resembling "XV" and "Tenbury" has no watermark. Biography: Treadway Russell Nash (24 June 1724 – 26 January 1811) was an English clergyman, now known as an early historian of Worcestershire and the author of Collections for the History of Worcestershire, an important source document for Worcestershire county histories. He was a fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London. Treadway Russell Nash was born on 24 June 1724 born at Clerkenleap, in Kempsey, Worcestershire. His family were from Ombersley. They had lands there and at Claines, and had later bought lands in the Reformation around St Peter's, Droitwich. He was related to James Nash and John Nash, both MPs for Worcester. His father Richard, a grandson of Sir Rowland Berkeley, died in 1740, and Richard's eldest son in 1757. As a result, Treadway Russell Nash inherited the Russells' Strensham estates from his brother, as well as the Nash estates, and took both names. He was educated from the age of twelve at King's School, Worcester, and became a scholar at Worcester College, Oxford aged fifteen. In March 1749, he accompanied his brother on a trip to the continent, to aid Richard's health. They visited Paris for about six weeks, before spending the summer "on the banks of the Loire". They then visited "Bourdeaux, Thoulouse, Montpelier, Marseilles, Leghorn, Florence, Rome, Naples, Bologna, Venice, Padua, Verona, Milan, Lyons, and again Paris"; such expeditions are often known as the Grand Tour. On his return in late summer 1751, Nash took up a post as Vicar of Eynsham through his friend and future brother-in-law, John Martin. He also had an income as a tutor at Oxford. He took his Doctor of Divinity degree and left Oxford, having "gone out grand compounder", following the death of his brother. He also left his benefice at Eynsham in 1757. While at Oxford he had proposed a road from there to Witney (now the A40 and B4022), and also stood for Parliament. Nash married Margaret Martin...
Category

1780s Old Masters Art

Materials

Laid Paper, Engraving

Quiette
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Quiette . the space is built from soft transitions between muted light and dark tones. Layers of color flow gradually into one another, creating a sense of calmness and quiet moveme...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Huge Scottish Loch Landscape Signed Oil Painting British 20th century
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Highland Loch signed by Prudence Turner, British b. 1930 oil painting on board, framed framed: 25 x 45 inches board: 21 x 41 inches Provenance: private collection, England. Con...
Category

20th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

"Intimite" (Mourlot, Paris, Master Printer - 70% OFF LIST PRICE - LIMITED TIME)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Jacques Villon Intimite 1964 Original Reproduction of a Gouache on Velin d'Arches Size: 10x7.375in Signed in the stone Edition: 2,000 Annotated verso Publisher: Mourlot, Paris Printe...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Vellum

Not Perfect but Real
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this piece, I return to the kind of closeness that needs no explanation. Fiigures — different in shape, color, and nature — remain beside one another simply because they choose to...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled I and VIII, Diptych, From the Half Angels Half Demons series. Male Nude
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The angel is a being that religion has bequeathed us as a sign of purity, innocence, and goodness, from the same source, we have been sold to the devil as the form that represents ev...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

Interior still life, Beaumont
Located in Middletown, NY
Watercolor on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 14 x 9 3/4 inches (352 x 248 mm), the full sheet. Titled in pencil in the lower left margin. With a garden landscape in watercolor on the ...
Category

Late 19th Century English School Art

Materials

Watercolor

"Norwegian idyll" Original landscape painting. Winter. Oil on canvas
Located in Oslo, NO
This artwork captures a serene winter landscape with a cluster of quaint, colorful houses nestled against a snow-covered mountainside. The vivid pastels of the buildings contrast sha...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Wild Things (Till Death do us Part) Contemporary, Woman, Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wild Things (Till Death do us Part) - 2005 48x47cm, Edition of 10, plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid. Certificate and Signature label. Artist ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Parchment Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

The Circus : Maternity and Violin Player - Original Lithograph (Mourlot #513)
Located in Paris, IDF
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) The Circus : Maternity and Violin Player, 1967 Original lithograph (Mourlot Workshop) On Arches vellum 42 x 32 cm (c. 17 x 13 in) REFERENCE : Catalog ra...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Pick Up Stix - Original Minimalist Color Drenched Mixed Media Painting on Canvas
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...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Latex, Ink, Mixed Media, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Inner Garden No.3 — Eucalyptus Light
Located in Zofingen, AG
Series: Between Light and Silence — Botanical Whispers. A cascade of eucalyptus blossoms unfolds in a vertical rhythm, shimmering with soft gold accents and quiet inner light. The de...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

French IMPRESSIONIST Oil Painting GRASSE FRENCH RIVIERA Late 20th Century
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Elizabeth Macdonald Buchanan (1939-2020) English TITLE: "Early Morning At St Jean Grasse" SIGNED: labelled verso MEDIUM: oil on board SIZE: 45cm x 45cm inclusive of frame C...
Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Rock shapes Panorama - minimalist color seascape - Halong Bay - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color seascape photography. Large rocks rising from the water with, surrounded by calm water and distant limestone cliffs and islands. Archival pigment ink print...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Aventure d une libertine, 16 Photographs. From The Secret Album series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

REFLECTIONS XI - Contemporary Atmospheric Lake Landscape
Located in Salzburg, AT
A few words of the artist about his art: When i painting landscapes, I usually choose simple geometric arrangements, contrasts of verticals and levels. I juxtapose the smooth surfac...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

Goodbye Jit - Large Abstract Colorful Organic Pastel Original Artwork on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rue Bootay, a New York-born artist now rooted in the vibrant artistic landscape of Los Angeles, navigates the avant-garde realm of nonrepresentational surrealism with a style uniquel...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Charcoal

Vintage Landscape Post-Impressionist French Snowscape Small Oil Painting
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Vintage Post Impressionist framed snowscape oil painting on board by French artist Maurice Paris (1903-1969) This small jewel of a painting is quite beautiful. The artist has captur...
Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Stone Quarry in Berlin Heights, Ohio, Farm Landscape
Located in Beachwood, OH
August Frederick Biehle (1885-1979) Stone Quarry, Berlin Heights, 1920 Gouache and graphite on paper laid on cardboard Signed and dated lower left 24 x 18 inches 27.5 x 21.5 inches, ...
Category

1920s Art

Materials

Gouache, Graphite

View of Venice - skyline panorama - Santa Maria della Salute - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color cityscape photo. Cityscape with a historic cathedral, water in the foreground, with pastel-colored buildings along the waterfront. All Gerald Berghammer pr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

French school Seascape Provence Mediterranean Coastal Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️ Beautiful study Landscape⬅️ ➡️Vivid Landscape⬅️ ➡️Impressionist Seascape⬅️ ⏩It is signed ⏪ ⭐Medium:⭐ Oil on canvas ⭐Technique: ⭐Impasto painting with expressive brushwork. ...
Category

1930s Impressionist Art

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

French school Vibrant Venise scene Signed
Located in Zofingen, AG
➡️Vivid Landscape⬅️ ➡️Impressionist Landscape⬅️ ⏩It is signed C Thiers.⏪ Possibly Charles Louis Thiers brother of Adolphe Thiers, was one of the most important political figures of...
Category

1920s Impressionist Art

Materials

Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Hoarfrosted Lonely Tree Frozen Field - black and white large scale landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Digital pigment ink print, edition of 5. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. Certificate of authenticity included. Printed with 4cm white border. International award win...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

The Window 333 - Modern Resin Minimalist Red Two Tone Color Field Abstract Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ricky Hunt’s mixed media minimalist wall art is influenced by his tumultuous past that led to a paradigm shift in creativity and life. He covers the wood panel with layers of acrylic...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Where Am I? - 21st Century, Contemporary, Surrealism, African Nature, Boy Child
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
"Where am I?" is a piece that delves into themes of identity, place, and imagination. These dream-like and imaginative scenes create a fantastical atmosphere, inviting viewers to exp...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

"The Moon" original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1938 and published in Paris by Teriade for the art revue Verve (volume 1, number 2). Andre Masson was invited to contribute an original compos...
Category

1930s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

“Underscore”
Located in Zofingen, AG
This oil painting on linen canvas is constructed using a sophisticated system of horizontal stratification, with each layer establishing its own degree of density and visual tension....
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Large 19th century Victorian oil landscape - Countryside Sunset - 1887
Located in Aartselaar, BE
George William Mote (1832–1909) Landscape with Cattle on a Country Path, 1887 A luminous and richly detailed late-19th-century landscape by George William Mote, dated 1887, showcasi...
Category

19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bent Palm, Beach, Florida, USA, black and white minimalist landscape - limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white minimalist landscape Photography. A leaning palm tree on a beach with calm waters and a distant shoreline. Archival pigment ink print as part of ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

A Fabulous 1950s Mid-Century Modern Seated Female Nude by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fabulous, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Studio Interior Scene of a Seated Female Nude Model by Famed Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Completed in the vibrant, Fauvist, ...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Luigi Cergoli Italian (20 с.) Lakeside Oil Painting Vintage Mediterranean Art
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Beautiful vintage oil on canvas by Luigi Cergoli (Italy, mid-20th century), depicting a serene lakeside village surrounded by lush greenery and distant mountains. The composition fea...
Category

20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Ploumanac h Lighthouse, Architecture Photography, Brittany, France - limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white landscape photograph of a tall lighthouse on a rocky coast, with a small bridge and large rocks in foreground. Digital pigment ink print, edition...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital Pigment

A Lively, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Watercolor of Venice by Francis Chapin
Located in Chicago, IL
A Lively, Colorful 1950s Mid-Century Modern Watercolor of Venice by Famed Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Full of brilliant color and wonderful brushwork; completed...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Bisque Porcelain and Gilt Candelabras w/ Putti
Located in Beachwood, OH
Bisque Porcelain and Gilt Candelabras Figures of putti supporting the arms, porcelain floral candle cups. 24 x 11.5 inches
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Porcelain

Montmartre in the Snow, Parisian Winter City Scene
Located in Beachwood, OH
Armand Manago Guerin (French, 1913-1983) Montmartre in the Snow, Paris Oil on masonite Signed lower right 18.25 x 21.5 inches 25 x 28.75 inches, framed The painter known as Armand M...
Category

Mid-20th Century Art

Materials

Oil

YAYOI KUSAMA - Pumpkin (Yellow). Conceptualism, Contemporary, Modern art, Dots
Located in Madrid, Madrid
PUMPKIN (YELLOW) Date of creation: 2016 Medium: Resin sculpture Edition: Open Size: 9,5 x 7,5 cm Observations: Sculpture created with high quality resin stamped on its base with Yayo...
Category

2010s Other Art Style Art

Materials

Resin

The Street, City Scene with People, Italian-American Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Louis Bosa (American, 1905-1981) The Street Oil on board Signed lower left 8 x 10 inches 13 x 15 inches, framed Born in Codroipo, a small village only a few miles from Venice, Italy...
Category

Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Oil

The Real Mermaid - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 23.4x35"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater nude photograph of a model swimming in the pool. "There were five grand pianos at her house, a pool at the third floor, and a sad man on the bottom of that pool me. I jus...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment

Fine Victorian Signed Oil Painting Sunset Dusk over the River with Anglers
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Anglers at Sunset by Edwin Henry Boddington (1836–1905) signed and indistinctly dated 18?? oil on canvas, framed framed: 17 x 30 inches canvas : 12 x 24.5 inches Provenance: private...
Category

Late 19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

Huge Victorian 1880 s English Coastal Shipwreck Dramatic Seascape Signed Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Shipwreck English School, indistinctly signed dated 1884 oil on canvas, framed framed: 29.5 x 48 inches canvas : 26 x 44.5 inches Provenance: private collection, UK Condition: v...
Category

1880s Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

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