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An Enduring Wonderment - Original Colorful Mixed Media Surrealist Figurative Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Archival Paper

Red Squirrel on Lavender - Original Vivid Figurative Animal Painting on Canvas
By Naomi Jones
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Naomi Jones's richly patterned realistic paintings focus on the preservation of vulnerable wildlife. Jones finds catharsis in painting soulful animals. Portraits of vulnerable specie...
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21st Century and Contemporary Folk Art Animal Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Frida in the Blue House with plants descending the stairs, 1943. Color Portrait
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Matiz managed to create intimate portraits, in which Frida seemed happy to surrender to her lens. The result was dynamic portraits of Khalo, a wonderful example of both the photograp...
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2010s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Color

Mid Century Naturaleza Muerta Con Mangoes (Still Life w. Mangoes) by Dosamantes
By Francisco Dosamantes
Located in Soquel, CA
Mid Century Naturaleza Muerta Con Mangoes (Still Life w. Mangoes) by Francisco Dosamantes Substantial and brilliant modernist still-life painting mangoes by Francisco Dosamantes (Mexico, 1911-1986) Exhibition label on verso (circa 1957), "Salon De Plasticas Mexicana - Instituto Nacional De Bellas Artes - Francisco Dosamantes, Naturaleza Muerta Con Mangoes." Image 24"H x 31.5"W. "Francisco Dosamantes was born in Mexico City on October 4, 1911. His father was Daniel Dosamantes who was a builder, interior decorator and painter. Since its founding in 1949, the Hall of Plastic Mexican SPM, has accommodated the most representative work of the national art. Throughout its existence they have been part of hundreds of painters, sculptors, engravers, designers, ceramists and photographers of all tendencies and generations. Jut names: Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Gerardo Murillo "Dr. Atl" Frida Kahlo, Rufino Tamayo, Francisco Dosamantes, Jorge González Camarena, Leopoldo Mendez...
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1950s American Modern Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Recollection in Tranquility - Large Original Mixed Media Surrealist Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Archival Paper

Frida in the Blue House Color, Coyoacán, 1943. Color Portrait
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Matiz managed to create intimate portraits, in which Frida seemed happy to surrender to her lens. The result was dynamic portraits of Khalo, a wonderful example of both the photograp...
Category

2010s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Color

Your Heart Knows The Way - Colorful Figurative Birds Original Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Contemporary abstract expressionist woman s portrait "Woman with ruby drops"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary expressionist portrait of a woman was created by French artist Natalya Mougenot. It is part of her ongoing series dedicated to Women — a deeply personal journey thr...
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2010s Abstract Portrait Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

The Contemporary World - Original Surrealist Figurative Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Archival Paper

Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting American Modernist Landscape Pond Tree
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintin...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

1950s "View from the Window" Jack Hooper Mid Century Still Life Oil Painting
By Jack Hooper
Located in Arp, TX
Jack Hooper "View From the Window" c. 1950s Oil on Canvas 32"x25.25" silver and black wood frame 26.5"x33.25" Unsigned Minor wear consistent with age and ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Frida and Diego with Gas Mask - Mexican Artists, Couple, Painter, Kahlo, Rivera
By Nickolas Muray
Located in Denton, TX
Frida and Diego with Gas Mask is a limited edition black and white portrait of Mexican painters Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera. The couple embraces each other while Frida holds a gas m...
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1930s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Ode to Van Gogh s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe
By E2 - Kleinveld Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Inspired by Vincent Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe", 1889 Edition 1 of 7 with 2 APs "Ode to Van Gogh’s 'Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe’” is a self-portrait of e2 artist E.Paul Julien as the tortured artist. This piece was inspired by Julien’s own struggles with mental health issues during isolation during pandemic lockdown, as he found himself in a place where he could relate to the fragile mindset that Van Gogh experienced through most of his life. The artists say of their work... "Everything Changes, the latest phase of our ongoing series In Empathy We Trust, presents odes to iconic images from the Modern and Contemporary art periods. Our artistic process during Everything Changes was heavily influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic and the inescapable upheaval brought about by this once-in-a-lifetime event. This major societal shift alongside ongoing social unrest compelled us to further explore the distorted realities permeating American culture and, consequently, veiling oppression of marginalized communities. With lockdown restrictions disrupting our usual process of gathering for photoshoots, we also began playing with new approaches for our work. As a result, our latest iteration marks a new technique exploration, with completely over-painting atop of select prints, adding an additional layer of distortion to an already-altered reality. The title for this show takes inspiration from one of our favorite Frida Kahlo quotes: “Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.” The pandemic fostered a collective understanding of just how malleable and fragile our reality is. Our perceptions, our personal routines, and our culture as a whole – these realities are never guaranteed stasis, and the only way to move forward is to evolve, both as artists and individuals. The pieces in this show invite viewers to embrace the inevitability of change and the natural discomfort of re-examining their expectations of how a work of art – and by extension, a culture – should look. The process of creating an e2 image has always involved intense collaboration, and the images here would not be possible without stellar teamwork. We would especially like to thank Cameron Wood for his extensive digital post-production and our wonderful models." ⎯⎯⎯⎯⎯ As the photographic duo E2, New Orleans natives Elizabeth Kleinveld and Epaul Julien seek to remake images from art history to reflect their own experience of the contemporary world. Tackling icons from the great masters like Botticelli, Manet, Rembrandt, and Van Eyck, they recast instantly familiar images in a distinctly modern manner, breaking them free from centuries of historical context and placing them firmly in the present. Kleinveld and Julien...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

National Palace Mexico City, Persecution of the Indian, Revolution, Independence
By (after) Diego Rivera
Located in Missouri, MO
(after) Diego Rivera "National Palace Mexico City, Central Stairway" (Persecution of the Indian, Revolution, Independence) 1933 from the portfolio "Frescoes of Diego Rivera" Published by the Museum of Modern Art, NY Hand-Signed by the Artist Diego Rivera was born on December 13, 1886 in the mountain town of Guanajuato in Mexico. His mother was an ardent Catholic and his father was a rich and aristocratic revolutionary fighter and an atheist. Little Diego decided in favor of atheism. He swore his family had to leave Guanajuato when he was six because of his diatribes against the Church. When he was eleven he attended the San Carlos Academy of Fine Arts; his real teacher was Jose Posada...
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1930s Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Frida Kahlopus: Blue House - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
A small octopus is inked in the Japanese style of Gyo-Taku print making over a playful background of black and white images of Frida Kahlo. Using sumi ink to "print" the octopus, th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil

Original 1958 exhibition poster for Jacqueline Lamba at the Galerie Lucy-Krohg
Located in PARIS, FR
This original 1958 exhibition poster was created for a show of Jacqueline Lamba’s drawings at the Galerie Lucy-Krohg in Paris. Lamba, a key figure in the Surrealist movement, was kno...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Simka Simkhovitch WPA W/C Painting Gouache American Modernist Beach Scene Nude
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintin...
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1930s American Modern Nude Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache, Board

German Surrealist Hans Bellmer Etching Engraving Print Cecile Reims Surrealism
By Hans Bellmer
Located in Surfside, FL
After Hans Bellmer (German, 1902-1975) Surrealist engraving, etching after drawings from a 1942 notebook, engraved in 1974-75 by Cecile Reims Printed by L'Atelier de Chalcographie du Louvre, Paris, Having printed monogram lower left in plate, pencil notations verso Editioned from a very small edition of #7/10 'Musee du Louvre' blindstamp. Dimensions: Sheet 11 X 7.5, Plate size 6.5 X 4 Hans Bellmer ( 1902 – 1975) was a Polish born German artist, best known for his drawings, etchings that illustrates the 1940 edition of Histoire de l’œil, and the life-sized female sculpture mannequin dolls he produced in the mid-1930s. Historians of art and photography also consider him a Surrealist photographer. Bellmer was born in the city of Kattowitz, then part of the German Empire (now Katowice, Poland). Up until 1926, he worked as a draftsman for his own advertising company. Bellmer is most famous for the creation of a series of dolls as well as photographs of them. He was influenced in his choice of art form in part by reading the published letters of Oskar Kokoschka (Der Fetisch, 1925) and Surrealism. Bellmer's puppet doll project is also said to have been catalysed by a series of events in his personal life. Hans Bellmer takes credit for provoking a physical crisis in his father and brings his own artistic creativity into association with childhood insubordination and resentment toward a severe and humorless paternal authority. Perhaps this is one reason for the nearly universal, unquestioning acceptance in the literature of Bellmer's promotion of his art as a struggle against his father, the police, and ultimately, fascism and the state. Events of his personal life also including meeting a beautiful teenage cousin in 1932 (and perhaps other unattainable beauties), attending a performance of Jacques Offenbach's Tales of Hoffmann (in which a man falls tragically in love with an automaton), and receiving a box of his old toys. After these events, he began to actually construct his first dolls. In his works, Bellmer explicitly sexualized the doll as a young girl (his work bears connection to the works of Bathus). Hirschfeld has claimed (without further argumentation) that Bellmer initiated his doll project to oppose the fascism of the Nazi Party by declaring that he would make no work that would support the new German state. Represented by mutated forms and unconventional poses, his dolls (according to this view) were directed specifically at the cult of the perfect body then prominent in Germany. He visited Paris in 1935 and made contacts there, such as Paul Éluard, but returned to Berlin because his wife Margarete was dying of tuberculosis. He was part of the circle of Surrealist luminaries such as Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Joan Miro, André Masson, René Magritte, Alberto Giacometti and Salvador Dali as well as women artists—such as Frida Kahlo, Dorothea Tanning and Leonora Carrington. Bellmer produced the first doll in Berlin in 1933. Long since lost, the assemblage can nevertheless be correctly described thanks to approximately two dozen photographs Bellmer took at the time of its construction. Standing about fifty-six inches tall, the doll consisted of a modeled torso made of flax fiber, glue, and plaster; a mask-like head of the same material with glass eyes and a long, unkempt wig; and a pair of legs made from broomsticks or dowel rods. One of these legs terminated in a wooden, club-like foot; the other was encased in a more naturalistic plaster shell, jointed at the knee and ankle. As the project progressed, Bellmer made a second set of hollow plaster legs, with wooden ball joints for the doll's hips and knees. There were no arms to the first sculpture, but Bellmer did fashion or find a single wooden hand, which appears among the assortment of doll parts the artist documented in an untitled photograph of 1934, as well as in several photographs of later work. Bellmer's 1934 anonymous book, The Doll (Die Puppe), produced and published privately in Germany, contains 10 black-and-white photographs of Bellmer's first doll arranged in a series of "tableaux vivants" (living pictures). The book was not credited to him, as he worked in isolation, and his photographs remained almost unknown in Germany. Yet Bellmer's work was eventually declared "degenerate" (entartete kunst) by the Nazi Party, and he was forced to flee Germany to France in 1938, where Bellmer's work was welcomed by the Surrealists around Andre Breton. He aided the French Resistance during the war by making fake passports. He was imprisoned in the Camp des Milles prison at Aix-en-Provence, a brickworks camp for German nationals, from September 1939 until the end of the Phoney War in May 1940. After the war, Bellmer lived the rest of his life in Paris. Bellmer gave up doll-making and spent the following decades creating erotic drawings, etchings, sexually explicit photographs, paintings, and prints of pubescent girls. In 1954, he met Unica Zürn...
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20th Century Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

Methods Of Persuasion - Original Figurative Surrealist Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Trotksy and Frida with a Pinata - Original Oil Painting on Panel, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
Some time ago I read a short biography of Leon Trotsky and was impressed by his role in the Russian Revolution. Eventually the Bolsheviks came to be controlled by the larger psychop...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

1930s Mexican Ex Voto Retablo – Healing Miracle After Fall from Church Tower
Located in Denver, CO
An extraordinary example of Mexican devotional folk art, this 1934 oil and ink painting on tin—known as an Ex Voto—depicts a miraculous healing following a life-threatening fall from...
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1930s Folk Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Metal

André Planson - French Province - Handsigned Original Lithograph
By Andre Planson
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
André Planson - French Province Original Lithograph Handsigned Dimensions: 38 x 28 cm Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life. Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums. Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931. Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy, very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy. In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture...
Category

1970s Modern Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Frida with Granizo, Version 2, Coyoacan - Limited Edition Black and White Photo
By Nickolas Muray
Located in Denton, TX
Frida with Granizo, Version 2, Coyoacan by Nickolas Muray is a limited edition platinum print featuring Mexican painter Frida Kahlo with her arm wrapped around her pet deer. Edition...
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Mid-20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Platinum

Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Painting Gouache American Modernist Beach Scene
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintin...
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1930s American Modern Nude Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Board

Abstract Surrealist Double Entry on the Plane Oil Painting 1970s
Located in Surfside, FL
Sebastian Matta-Clark was born in 1943, twin of Gordon Matta-Clark. Son Of Chilean Surrealist Roberto Matta Sebastian, known as Batan died in 1976. He showed 3 exhibitions in his sho...
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1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Family Mother, Kids American Modernist
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintin...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Indian Summer, Abstract Surrealist Oil Painting 1970s
Located in Surfside, FL
Sebastian Matta-Clark was born in 1943, twin of Gordon Matta-Clark. Son Of Chilean Surrealist Roberto Matta Sebastian, known as Batan died in 1976. He showed 3 exhibitions in his sho...
Category

1970s Surrealist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Frida Kahlopus: Green Sheet - Gyotaku Style Sumi Ink Painting of an Octopus
By Jeff Conroy
Located in Chicago, IL
A small octopus is inked in the Japanese style of Gyo-Taku print making over a playful background of black and white images of Frida Kahlo. Using sumi ink to "print" the octopus, th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Sumi Ink, Watercolor, Mulberry Paper, Color Pencil

Ode to Klimt s Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I
By E2 - Kleinveld Julien
Located in New Orleans, LA
Inspired by Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I", 1907 “Ode to Klimt’s ‘Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I’’ bends gender expectations by casting a man as the woman in gold; artist Epaul Julien...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment, Acrylic

Drypoint Etching "Penguin Island" 1926
By Peggy Bacon
Located in Surfside, FL
Margaret Frances "Peggy" Bacon (May 2, 1895 – January 4, 1987) was an American printmaker, illustrator, painter and writer. Bacon was known for her humorous and ironic etchings and drawings, as well as for her satirical caricatures of prominent personalities in the late 1920s and 1930s. Bacon's parents were both artists and met while attending the Art Students League in New York. At the end of 1913, Bacon first studied art at the School of Applied Design for Women but disliked it calling it, "the prissiest, silliest place that ever was." She transferred after a few weeks to the School of Fine and Applied Arts on the West Wide where she took classes in illustration and life drawing. During the summer of 1914 Bacon attended Jonas Lie's landscape class in Port Jefferson, Long Island. From 1915-1920 Bacon studied painting with Kenneth Hayes Miller, John Sloan, George Bellows and others at the Art Students League. While at the League, Bacon became friends with several other artists. Her circle of friends and acquaintances included Dorothea Schwarz (Greenbaum), Anne Rector (Duffy), Betty Burroughs (Woodhouse), Katherine Schmidt (Kuniyoshi Shubert), Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Molly Luce...
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1920s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Fiesta by Luis Jimenez (Diptych) Stone Lithograph
By Luis Jiménez
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Artist: Luis Jimenez, American (1940 - 2006) Title: Fiesta (Diptych) Year: 1986 Medium: Two Lithographs on Arches, signed and numbered in pencil Edition: 76 Size: 34 x 24 in. (86.36 ...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Simka Simkhovitch WPA Artist Oil Painting Gouache American Modernist Powerline
By Simka Simkhovitch
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintin...
Category

1930s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Gouache, Board

Frida with Idol by Nickolas Muray, 1939, Carbon Pigment Print, Photography
By Nickolas Muray
Located in Denton, TX
Frida with Idol by Nickolas Muray depicts Mexican painter Frida Kahlo posing while holding a green stone carved idol in her hand. She stands in front o...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Carbon Pigment

Frida with Granizo by Nickolas Muray, 1939, Platinum Print, Photography
By Nickolas Muray
Located in Denton, TX
Frida with Granizo by Nickolas Muray is a black and white portrait of Mexican surrealist painter Frida Kahlo with her pet fawn, Granizo. Platinum Print Image size: 11 x 10.5 in. Pa...
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1930s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Platinum

Hommage to the Entombment of Christ by Caravaggio, Drawing, Pencil/Colored Penci
By Corne Akkers
Located in Yardley, PA
Hommage to the Entombment of Christ by Caravaggio – 05-12-20 Learning Material In my classes I often use ‘The Entombment of Christ’ by C...
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2010s Cubist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Pencil

Leonor Fini - Magical Cat - Original Etching
By Leonor Fini
Located in Collonge Bellerive, Geneve, CH
Leonor Fini - Cats - Original Engraving Mme.Helvetius' Cats Original etching created in 1985, Printed Signature (LF). Conditions: excellent Edition: 100 Support: Arches paper. Dimensions: Paper dimensions: 44 x 28 cm Editions: Moret, Paris. Leonor Fini is considered one of the most important women artists of the mid-twentieth century, along with Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Meret Oppenheim, Remedios Varo, and Dorothea Tanning – most of whom Fini knew well. Her career, which spanned some six decades, included painting, graphic design, book illustration, product design (the renowned torso-shaped perfume bottle for Schiaparelli’s Shocking), and set and costume design for theatre, ballet, opera, and film. In this compellingly readable, exhaustively researched account, author Peter Webb brings Fini’s provocative art and unconventional personal life, as well as the vibrant avant-garde world in which she revolved, vividly in life. Born in Buenos Aires in 1907 (August 30 – January 18, 1996, Paris) to Italian and Argentine parents, Leonor grew up in Trieste, Italy, raised by her strong-willed, independent mother, Malvina. She was a virtually self-taught artist, learing anatomy directly from studying cadavers in the local morgue and absorbing composition and technique from the Old Masters through books and visits to museums. Fini’s fledging attempts at painting in Trieste let her to Milan, where she participated in her first group exhibition in 1929, and then to Paris in 1931. Her vivacious personality and flamboyant attire instantly garnered her a spotlight in the Parisian art world and she soon developed close relationships with the leading surrealist writers and painters, including Paul Eluard, Salvador Dali, Man Ray, and Max Ernst, who became her lover for a time. The only surrealist she could not abide because of his misogyny was André Breton. Although she repeatedly exhibited with them, she never considered herself a surrealist. The American dealer Julien Levy, very much impressed by Fini’s painting and smitten by her eccentric charms, invited her to New York in 1936, where she took part in a joint gallery exhibition with Max Ernst and met many American surrealists, including Joseph Cornell and Pavel Tchelitchew. Her work was included in MoMA’s pivotal Fantastic Art, Dada and Surrealism exhibition, along with De Chirico, Dali, Ernst, and Yves Tanguy. In 1939 in Paris she curated an exhibition of surrealist furniture for her childhood friend Leo Castelli for the opening of his first gallery. Introductions to her exhibition catalogues were written by De Chirico, Ernst, and Jean Cocteau. A predominant theme of Fini’s art is the complex relationship between the sexes, primarily the interplay between the dominant female and the passive, androgynous male. In many of her most powerful works, the female takes the form of a sphinx, often with the face of the artist. Fini was also an accomplished portraitist; among her subjects were Stanislao Lepri...
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1980s Modern Animal Prints

Materials

Etching

Frida Winking by Lucienne Bloch, 1933, Silver Gelatin Print, Photography
By Lucienne Bloch
Located in Denton, TX
Frida Winking by Lucienne Bloch is a portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo sitting in a chair, winking at the camera. Image size: 8.25 x 10.25 in. Mou...
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Early 20th Century Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Airness" (FRAMED) Pencil Drawing 22" x 19" inch by Antonio Pelayo
By Antonio Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Airness" (FRAMED) Pencil Drawing 22" x 19" inch by Antonio Pelayo Medium: Pencil on Paper Artist Antonio Pelayo, born in Glendale, California, and yet raised for most of his child...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Drawings and Water...

Materials

Paper, Pencil

Jose by Luis Jimenez
By Luis Jiménez
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Jose 1986 Color lithograph 23/30 23 × 34 in 58.4 × 86.4 cm. SHIPPING CHARGES INCLUDE SHIPPING, PACKAGING & INSURANCE Luis Jimenez 1940 - 2006 Luis Jiménez was born in El Paso, Te...
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1980s Contemporary Animal Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Frida at the Barbizon Plaza Hotel by Lucienne Bloch, 1931, Gelatin Silver Print
By Lucienne Bloch
Located in Denton, TX
Frida at the Barbizon Plaza Hotel by Lucienne Bloch is a black and white portrait of Mexican Surrealist painter Frida Kahlo sitting in a chair under her self portrait hanging on the ...
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1930s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Frida in front of the Unfinished Unity Panel, New Workers School, NY
By Lucienne Bloch
Located in Denton, TX
Frida in front of the Unfinished Unity Panel by Lucienne Bloch is a black and white portrait of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, posing in front of Diego Rivera's half painted mural. I...
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20th Century Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Lovers / oil on wood - twin sisters conjoined surreal two heads
By Chikako Okada
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Lovers' a mysterious and fascinating portrayal of a women with two heads and singular body draped in an intricately painted multicolored kimono. The scene includes interior architec...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil

"Demon" (FRAMED) Painting 33" x 27" inch by Antonio Pelayo
By Antonio Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"Demon" (FRAMED) Painting 33" x 27" inch by Antonio Pelayo Medium: "Acrylic Ink & Paint on Animation Acetate Artist Antonio Pelayo, born in Glendale, California, and yet raised fo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Drawings and Waterco...

Materials

Ink, Acrylic

Homage to Frida Kahlo (Red Frida)
By Lesley Dill
Located in New York, NY
The complete title of the work is "HOMAGE TO FRIDA KAHLO (RED FRIDA) "Exhilaration-is-within-There can be not Outer Wine So Royally intoxicate" E. Dickinson. Lesley Dill is an Amer...
Category

Early 2000s Mixed Media

Materials

Fabric, Cotton, Silk, Ink, Archival Paper

"I LOVE YOU" (FRAMED) Figurative Painting 30" x 24" inch by Antonio Pelayo
By Antonio Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"I LOVE YOU" (FRAMED) Figurative Painting 30" x 24" inch by Antonio Pelayo Medium: Marker on paper Size: 30" x 24" inch Size framed: 34" x 27.5" inch From Pelayo VS Pelayo exhibit...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Permanent Marker, Pencil

"YOU RE SILLY" (FRAMED) Painting 30" x 24" inch by Antonio Pelayo
By Antonio Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"YOU'RE SILLY" (FRAMED) Painting 30" x 24" inch by Antonio Pelayo Medium: Marker on paper Size: 30" x 24" inch Size framed: 34" x 27.5" inch From Pelayo VS Pelayo exhibition: The ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Pencil

Contemporary Abstract Figurative Vase Painting, 130x92 cm, Excellent
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful painting by Natan in an abstract exploration of balance and disruption - where structured geometry meets spontaneous energy. Natan Cooper is a contemporary painter wh...
Category

2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Apple of Eden, Porcelain Art Decor, Installation, Metal Gold, Gift
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Kristina Oganezz Work: Art Installation / Art decor Medium: Porcelaine Year: 2024 Color: Metal Gold Title: Apple of Eden Size: H 4,75" x Diameter 3,75" inch, 337 Gram, Eleg...
Category

2010s Impressionist Still-life Sculptures

Materials

Concrete, Gold Leaf

Rhapsody of Love - Original Disassembled Gun Abstract Realistic Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Figurative Paintings

Materials

Ink, Mixed Media, Wood Panel, Archival Paper

FAILE - DIAMOND FAILEDOODLE (BLACK/TAN) Pop Art Urban Black Glitter Handmade
By Faile
Located in Madrid, Madrid
FAILE - DIAMOND FAILEDOODLE (BLACK/TAN) Date of creation: 2022 Medium: Acrylic, spray paint, silkscreen ink and glitter on Archival Lenox 100 Edition number: 2/25 Size: 63.50 x 48.25...
Category

2010s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Glitter, Ink, Acrylic, Screen

JIMMIE M - Small Gold “Naughty Angel”
Located in PARIS, FR
nformation about the artist: Jimmie is an established luxury brand and designer since 2004, based in London, United Kingdom. The duo, Jimmie Karlsson and Martin Nihlmar are known for...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Sculptures

Materials

Fiberglass

American WPA Jewish New York Modernist Madonna Mother and Child painting
By Nahum Tschacbasov
Located in Norwich, GB
A magnificent oil on canvas by Russian American WPA artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984), dating from 1943. Depicting a Maternity scene - or possibly a m...
Category

1940s American Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Happy Landscape 1 - Red Contemporary Abstract Figurative Original Artwork
By "Sergio ""Valenz"" Valenzuela"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sergio Valenzuela “Valenz” is a contemporary Guatemalan artist who tells stories with everyday objects, primarily expressing them with graphite and acrylic on canvas. His artworks pr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Graphite

Polygon, Caracas, Venezuela, Architectural landscape black and white Photograph
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Black and white photographs that reveal the various facets and aesthetic searches of the legendary Colombian photographer, recognized as the creator of memorable realistic, abstract ...
Category

1950s Other Art Style Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

Frida with the car, Coyoacan, 1941. Black and White Portrait
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Matiz managed to create intimate portraits, in which Frida seemed happy to surrender to her lens. The result was dynamic portraits of Khalo, a wonderful example of both the photograp...
Category

2010s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White, Pigment

"I WANT TO WATCH CARTOONS" (FRAMED) Painting 30" x 24" inch by Antonio Pelayo
By Antonio Pelayo
Located in Culver City, CA
"I WANT TO WATCH CARTOONS" (FRAMED) Painting 30" x 24" inch by Antonio Pelayo Medium: Marker on paper Size: 30" x 24" inch Size framed: 34" x 27.5" inch From Pelayo VS Pelayo exhi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Paper, Permanent Marker, Pencil

Frida posing #2, Xochimilco, 1941. Framed
By Leo Matiz
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Matiz managed to create intimate portraits, in which Frida seemed happy to surrender to her lens. The result was dynamic portraits of Khalo, a wonderful example of both the photograp...
Category

2010s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

Foundations of Insight - Original Moody Mixed Media Surrealist Figurative Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel, Archival Paper

Le Bas du Ciel - Original Etching by Renée Lubarow - 1978
By René Lubarow
Located in Roma, IT
Le Bas du Ciel is an excellent Contemporary artwork realized by Renée Lubarow (b.1923) in 1978. Original colored etching on paper. Image Dimensions: 17 x 17 cm Hand-signed in penci...
Category

1970s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Etching

Finding Your Voice - Abstract Figurative Black White Mixed Media Dreamlike Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert Lebsack creates artworks using mixed media with ink, acrylic, and charcoal on archival copies of newspapers, textbooks, and sheet music. As a visionary artist, Lebsack weaves ...
Category

2010s Surrealist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Charcoal, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Paper