San Diego - Art

A wonderful painting by 19th century Italian artist E. Giachi. This large painting depicts an Italian flower girl wearing a beautiful dress carrying a basket of flowers in Italian to...

Martha, Act I (Chicago Opera) from 1925 is a gouache on paper measuring approximately 9 x 7 inches and framed in a custom, closed-corner frame. Signed recto 'Erté' mid-right and stamped with Erte's Villa Excelsior block stamp and 'Composition originale' verso. Annotated in fountain pen verso 'No 659 Martha I acte Pour Madame Ganna Walska...

Antoine Ponchin's late 19th-century oil painting, capturing a serene scene along the Somme River in France, beautifully exemplifies the artist's mastery of light and atmosphere. Pain...

This impressionistic spring landscape bursts to life with a vibrant green field and blooming wild purple flowers. The fresh palette captures the essence of the season, evoking a sens...

This is a one of a kind original abstract oil painting on panel by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 48" x 36" x 2". It is unframed. A certificate of au...

The artwork is inspired by the colors and the mood of the small coastal New England towns. It is a large abstract, textured and painted with bold brushstrokes and lines. The palette ...

Bernard de Hoog was born in Amsterdam in 1866. He studied under J.F. Hulk and J.C. van Essen at the Quellinus School in Amsterdam. Mainly a genre and portrait painter, he occupies a distinguished place among the masters of Dutch modernism. He was associated with The Hague School, primarily a movement of realism, a reaction against Romanticism. He lived and worked in Laren, Haarlem, Bussum, and The Hague enjoying much commercial success. His paintings were readily exported to the United State, Canada, and England. De Hoog advocated the simple country life and produced many endearing interior scenes inspired by compassion for the impoverished existence of the Dutch peasantry. Set within a quiet domestic interior space, our painting catches a meditative moment of a woman in the midst of her sewing. A large window illuminates this intimate interior. de Hoog’s delicate brushwork captures the sunlight reflected in the woman’s red dress...

This is a one of a kind original abstract oil painting on panel by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 22" x 30" x 1". It is unframed. A certificate of au...

This is a one of a kind original abstract oil painting on panel by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 18" x 24" x 1". It is unframed. A certificate of au...

This is a one of a kind original abstract oil painting on panel by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 18" x 21" x1". It is unframed. A certificate of aut...

"Fuzzy Logic" is an abstract oil painting that reflects the fluid interplay between intuition, memory, and transformation. Soft, atmospheric layers of muted turquoise, gray, and crea...

This abstract oil painting by Daniel Kettelhut evokes a fluid, dreamlike landscape where organic forms drift through a cool, atmospheric field. Soft washes of blue and gray establish...

"Master of Dreams" evokes a nocturnal, introspective atmosphere where imagination and subconscious thought gently collide. Deep blues dominate the composition, creating a sense of de...

Midsummer Symphony unfolds as a vibrant orchestration of color, movement, and layered sensation. Warm yellows and glowing golds dominate the surface, creating a sunlit atmosphere tha...

"Murmurs in the Midsummer Shade" unfolds as a lush, atmospheric painting that blurs the boundary between organic growth and dreamlike presence. Earthy yellows and mossy greens form a...

''Otherworldly Grove'' is an oil painting by Daniel Ketelhut that invites the viewer into a dreamlike landscape suspended between nature and imagination. Dominated by rich reds, lumi...

An abstract inspired by a trip to Iceland, capturing the movement of the water. Touches of blue are interacting with the overall neutral colors. Fluid lines and soft blending express...

Christian-Henri Roullier was born in Lyon, France, in 1845, and was an infant when his parents arrived in gold-rush San Francisco. After much difficulty, Roullier senior found employment at the White House, a pioneer department store owned by a popular and successful French businessman, Raphael Weill. From then, the Roulliers' life took a prosperous turn. Christian-Henri resided with his family in San Francisco at the beginning of his career. During the Franco-Prussian War he was listed, with other members of the city's French community, as a local subscriber to a French patriotic fund. He subsequently traveled to Paris to study painting with Jean-Leon Gerome the leading teacher of the day. He also studied sculpture with W. E. Fremiet and explored both media throughout his life. A successful artist, Roullier exhibited widely in France. His work was included in most Paris Salon exhibits between 1878 and 1914. He exhibited at the San Francisco Art Association and the Mechanics' Institute of San Francisco in 1883, suggesting that he had returned to San Francisco, perhaps working with Jules Tavernier, whom he depicted in buckskin and knee-high boots in an oil entitled Tavernier Painting. Roullier probably joined the gregarious Tavernier in Monterey as well. Among his portraits, he executed two of Josiah Stanford, now in the collection at the Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University. When in France, Roullier and his sister Blanche spent half of their time in Paris, the remainder at a beautiful property the family bought in the small town of Saint-Nizier sous Charlieu, some ten miles from Roanne. Blanche became a successful pastellist who also exhibited at the French salons and received several awards. Like his friend and fellow-painter Armand Charnay, Roullier painted rustic, local scenes of his native region, except for a few canvases of Tunisia done in colors reminiscent of his California work. He died in Paris on July 25, 1926. A retrospective exhibit of his work was held at the 1926 Paris Winter...

The environment around us, our eco system is all connected, tied together. Painted with acrylic, spray paints, oil pastels, ink and pencil on stretched canvas and ready to hang. :: M...

"Phantom Figures in the Dust" is one of the paintings from Daniel Kettlehut’s Karma and Rebirth series, reflecting the interplay of presence, memory, and transformation. Grounded in ...

Soft Alchemy is one of the paintings from Daniel Kettlehut’s Karma and Rebirth series, exploring transformation and the subtle interplay of past and present. Rooted in the Buddhist c...

Suspension of Disbelief is one of the paintings from Daniel Kettlehut’s Karma and Rebirth series, exploring how perception and meaning are shaped by prior conditions. Rooted in the B...

Whispers of the Forgotten is one of the paintings from Daniel Kettlehut’s Karma and Rebirth series, which explores the idea that all things exist in a constant state of change and ar...

The environment around us, our eco system is all connected, tied together. Painted with acrylic, spray paints, oil pastels, ink and pencil on stretched canvas and ready to hang. :: M...

Takashi Murakami, a pivotal figure in contemporary art, is renowned for his ability to blend traditional Japanese aesthetics with modern pop culture. His 2016 limited edition print, ...

This is a one of a kind original abstract painting on wood panel by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 40"x 30"x.2". It is unframed. A certificate of aut...

This large abstract painting is inspired by a contemporary melody written in the pentatonic scale. Repetitive simple shapes are following the rhythm of the music. Blended color block...

This is a one of a kind original abstract painting on wood panel by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 40"x 30"x 2". It is unframed. A certificate of aut...

Daily rituals, a rythem to life within/outside. Structure and chaos. Painted with acrylic, spray paint, ink, pencil and oil pastel on a wood panel with finished edges and ready to...

This abstract is inspired by an evening walk at the harbor. The colors express spring and water. Bright shades of green, teal and blue interact with delicate white; black lines and b...

On a rainy morning in early spring, new growth glows in the cloud-darkened world. Rain collects on the pathway, in puddles and glistening highlights and overlapping ripples; this wat...

A wonderful, museum caliber painting by Craig Kauffman. Initialed "CK" and dated "82" in the lower right corner. PROVENANCE: Asher Faure Gallery Luther Vandross Luther Vandross Estate Private Collection, New York Private Collection, San Diego, CA EXHIBITED: Asher Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, California, CRAIG KAUFFMAN: NEW PAINTINGS April 23 through May 21,1983 CATALOGUE: Craig Kauffman Estate Archive Number CR No: P.1982.2 The following is from The New York Times, May 15, 2010, By Douglas Martin Craig Kauffman, who in the 1960s helped put Los Angeles on the art map with audacious experiments in molding industrial plastic to create ethereal wall-mounted sculptures — some resembling giant pieces of jelly candy — died Sunday in Angeles City in the Philippines. He was 78. The cause was complications of pneumonia following a recent stroke, said Frank Lloyd, his friend and dealer. Mr. Kauffman was eminent in an eclectic group of artists who reveled in the light, space and energy of postwar Southern California to forge new Minimalist, often glossy artistic approaches. Richard Armstrong, director of the Guggenheim Museum said that these Californians, sometimes called the Cool School — along with Chicago Imagists and Washington, D.C., painters called the Color School — were counterpoints to the Abstract Expressionists who ruled New York. "California was never ashamed of being a new society," Mr. Armstrong said in an interview on Thursday, "it all fit together nicely." Los Angeles was then ascending to the status of a metropolis, with a growing number of major-league sports teams, fresh industries and a surging population. There were new quarters for public galleries and the burgeoning of commercial ones. At the center of the action was the Ferus Gallery, which staged the first solo exhibition of Andy's Warhol's pop art and the first American retrospective of Marcel Duchamp. Mr. Kauffman was a featured artist at the gallery's inaugural exhibition in 1957, "Objects on the New Landscape Demanding of the Eye." Peter Plagens, in his book Sunshine Muse: Art on the West Coast, 1945-1970, (1974, 1999), wrote, "'Culture' meant 'art' and 'art' implied 'new,' and 'new,' as everybody was informed, meant California — particularly Los Angeles." The artists who seized this historic opportunity included Billy Al Bengston, Ken Price and Robert Irwin, among others. In an interview on Wednesday, Arne Glimcher, founder and chairman of Pace Gallery, which had Mr. Kauffman's first New York show in 1967, called the California scene in the late '50s and early '60s "a pressure cooker of ideas." Referring to artistic styles, he said, "It was California perfection against New York messiness." Mr. Kauffman's early paintings were critical in defining this new style. Mr. Plagens called them "the first evidence of a Los Angeles sensibility." Mr. Kauffman's later work blazed splashier trails, as he experimented with the effects of light on works that were painterly yet three-dimensional. "The true power of what he did was his incorporation and then redirection of light inside sculpture," said Mr. Armstrong, who was the curator of a show of Mr. Kauffman's work at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1987. "Many of them glowed," he said. "Others were translucent. Even the supposedly opaque had a noteworthy shimmering quality to them." What Mr. Kauffman made reflected a wide range of inspirations. In a 2008 video interview in conjunction with a show at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena California, he said that the famed lingerie store Frederick's of Hollywood provided artistic nurture. With a smile, he confessed to a "shoe fetish" that had influenced some of his art. Robert Craig Kauffman was born on March 31, 1932, in Los Angeles. He started painting regularly at age 7 and went to theUniversity of Southern California to study architecture in 1950. But art soon won out over architecture, and he transferred to the University of California Los Angeles, to study painting. He earned Bachelor's and Master's degrees there. A breakthrough came in the early 1960s when he experimented with painting on glass, but found it too fragile. He then painted on flat acrylic plastic. His next inspiration came from the plastic packaging increasingly used to wrap merchandise. He sought out craftsmen at commercial factories to learn the technique, Time magazine reported in 1968. The results were several series of three-dimensional wall hangings. Some were inspired by large plastic fruit clusters on the wall of a doughnut shop he frequented in Los Angeles. These lozenge-shaped reliefs were sometimes called "bubbles." Barbara Rose, in a catalog essay for an exhibition at the Washington Gallery of Modern Art in 1967, wrote, "Shaping the brittle sheet plastic into a series of voluptuous curves, Kauffman achieves a kind of abstract eroticism that is purely visual." Mr. Kauffman's work was shown in countless exhibitions and many one-man shows. It has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others. In 2006, one of Mr. Kauffman's reliefs fell from a wall of the Georges Pompidou Center in Paris, where it was part of an exhibition titled "Los Angeles: Birth of an Art Capital, 1955-1985." It shattered. After storms of publicity, the Pompidou provided technical help and money to make a new version. Mr. Kauffman was married several times. He is survived by his daughters from his marriage to Dana Kauffman, from whom he was separated: Wilhelmina, Vida Rose and Georgia Kauffman. When they started in the 1960s, Mr. Kauffman and his artistic compatriots did not foresee a legacy, much less earning an income, Larry Bell, a prominent artist in the group, said in an interview on Wednesday. "The troops sort of banded together to be our own audience," he said. "Every once in a while, we'd sell...

Free floating fields of color create a light and joyful feeling in this beautiful piece. This painting will bring life and energy into a room. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece c...

This oversize seascape is capturing the beauty of the sea and the movement of the waves. Simple blue and white color palette lets the viewer follow the reflections of the water and i...

This square abstract is a celebration of summer. Bright primary colors - yellow, red, orange and aqua, reminding rainbow, are applied with bold brush strokes and palette knives on a textured canvas, The layers of distressed shapes interact with fine geometric lines and circles creating rhythm. This warm painting...

This is a one of a kind original abstract painting on canvas by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 64"x 48"x 1.5". It is unframed. A certificate of authe...

This is a one of a kind original abstract painting on canvas by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 39"x 48"x 1.5". It is unframed. A certificate of authe...

This is a one of a kind acrylic and mixed media painting on wood panel by San Diego artist, Peter Geise. It is unframed. Its dimensions are 12"x12"x.75"" A...

This is a one of a kind original painting by southern California artist, Kathleen Kane Murrell. Its dimensions are 15" x 15" x 2". It is molded paper and acrylic paint on panel. It i...

This painting is a love letter to my home town, Encinitas, a garden on the edge of the sea. On gallery wrapped canvas with the edges painted, it is ready to hang. :: Painting :: Abst...

This is an original abstract oil on canvas painting by San Diego artist, Khalid Alkaaby. It's framed dimensions are 13.5"x13.5"x2". It comes framed. A c...

This is an original abstract oil on canvas painting by San Diego artist, Khalid Alkaaby. It's framed dimensions are 13.5x13.5x2. It comes framed. A certificate of authenticity will f...

This is a one of a kind original abstract painting on canvas by Southern California artist, Daniel Ketelhut. Its dimensions are 30"x 40"x.2.5". It is unframed. A certificate of authe...

Georges Dayez , born on July 29 , 1907 In Paris where he died in 1991 , is a French painter , engraver and lithographer of the new Ecole de Paris whose works have been regularly exhibited with those of non-figurative painters. Georges Dayez is the eldest son of the editor Jules Dayez, a native of the North and a son of a peasant, who in 1905 had taken over a small-size engraving studio in Paris rue des Marais, printing in particular gravure reproductions of eighteenth- century images E century. His mother, Marie Brard, was born in Neuilly in a Norman family of Bayeux . After the birth of a second son, the family settled in Vaires-sur-Marne in 1909 where Georges Dayez attended the communal school from 1913 , took refuge for two months in Bayeux in 1914 , in Tinténiac ( Brittany ) In 1918 . In 1919 Georges Dayez obtained his certificate of studies and spent his holidays in Vicq , in the mining country of the north of Valenciennes , with his grandfather, the spectacle of the destruction caused by the war impressively him, then returns to the college of Meaux . In 1924 , after spending the first part of the baccalaureate, he stopped studying to start painting, and studied phototypy and intaglio and lithography in his father's studio. He attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière at Montparnasse and the Julian Academy in Saint - Germain - des - Prés , as well as the evening drawing courses of the City of Paris, which Adam also followed. In 1926 he was accepted as a "free pupil" in the studio of Lucien Simon at the Ecole des Beaux Arts . From 1927, he made his military service, assigned to Nanterre then to the Aeronautics Directorate of Paris, and painted in 1928 , on a permission, Le Pont du Pouliguen and Le Croisic...

A lovely plein air landscape painting from the 1930s of a cabin amongst the eucalyptus trees in Old Laguna Beach, California. Oil on canvas ...

Artful one-of-a-kind medium shelf or sculpture by artist Ben Darby. Made of various pieces of wood and accented with multi-color acrylic paint. We selected this piece soon after it w...

Scarab, not dated and signed Raku heart by artist Chris Reilly. Iridescent blue, grey, tan Approximate dimensions: 7.5” H x 6.5” W x 4” D

Edward Charles Barnes, a distinguished London painter active during the Victorian era, is celebrated for his evocative domestic scenes and interiors, particularly those featuring wom...

SAM FRANCIS 1974 Lithograph in colors on Rives BFK paper 22.25 x 39 inches (55.9 x 99.1 cm) (sheet) Ed. 5/100 (there were also 9 artist's proofs). Lembark L172 Signed and numbere...

For four decades, G. (Gloucester) Caliman Coxe was considered the dean of African-American artists in Louisville, Kentucky, an art scene in the 1950s and '60s that included Sam Gilliam, Bob Thompson, and Kenneth Victor Young...

The balance between structure and free thought, order and chaos, dreamlike and tension. Intuitively painted and structurally executed with acrylic, oil stick, ink, spray paint and p...

Artful one-of-a-kind long shelf or sculpture by artist Ben Darby. Made of various pieces of wood and accented with multi-color acrylic paint. We selected this piece soon after it was...

Looking in shows us who we are; looking out shows us where we have been and who we may become. A panorama brings a sense of freedom and release, fresh views bring a sense of possibil...

G. Caliman Coxe, an influential African American artist born in 1935, is celebrated for his vibrant abstract works that explore themes of identity, history, and spirituality. A grad...

Asian vintage wood horse, with chain and opening in center. This piece shows signs of the years gone by and we feel the time worn feel adds more character. Period is an estimate, not...

"In A TranceAtlantic Crossing" is a wonderful, whimsical, surrealist mixed media painting. Acrylic, Sakura Markers, Caran d’Ache & Pencil on a Birchwood Cradled Panel 36 x 30 inches 2024 Artist’s Statement "My soul serves as the compass that guides me towards pieces that resonate deeply within me." Kate Cohen...

Lundbohm grew up in Fritsla, Sweden where his father was a fisherman. Sixten Lundbohm graduated in Gothenburg in 1913, and studied art history at the University of Gothenburg and at the same time studied at Valand's evening school. In the spring of 1914 he also attended Valand's painting school with Axel Erdmann as a teacher and started the autumn of the same year at Wilhelmson's paint school in Stockholm. Throughout his career, Lundbohm made a large number of painting trips in Europe, primarily to France and Spain, but also Norway and Denmark . His southern landscape and architecture motifs have a strict and monumental structure, akin to Ivan Aguéli...

“Untitled” 1970 Abstract Surrealist Composition Encaustic & oil paint on Masonite 60 x 48 inches Not framed Born in 1934, the work of Suzanne Bloomfield represents the life force wh...

A gathering of five figures, enjoying an impromptu concert. Signed Coletti, 2010 at bottom left.

Expedition II, depicts an underwater ocean scene. Acrylic on canvas painting by Ben Darby, with raised texture throughout. Tigers have been added for ...