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Art For Sale
Kioetano by Jacques Owczarek - Animal Bronze Sculpture (Scorpio)
Located in Paris, FR
This scorpio in bronze by French contemporary artist Jacques Owczarek takes shape through a series of lines, edges and curves. The peculiarity of the ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Bronze

Tree Tops, Original Painting, Landscape, Woods, Trees
Located in Deddington, GB
Looking up through the tree tops brings a sense of freedom. I love the way the light shines through the branches creating patterns and textures. I've worked in acrylics for the first...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

1930's French Impressionist Watercolour Back Yard Of The Farm Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back signed watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 8.5 inches h...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

1930's French Impressionist Watercolour Purple Rocks Beach Coast Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 6.25 inches high by...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

1930's French Impressionist Watercolour Stone Pillar Archway Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 9.5 inches high by 1...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

1930's French Impressionist Oil Purple Mountain Sea Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting board , unframed measures: 8.75 high by 11 inches wide condit...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

1930's French Impressionist Watercolour Stone Steps Down To Green Moggy River
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 9.5 inches high by 1...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

1930's French Impressionist Red Roof Farm Cottage Watercolour Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 8.75 inches high by ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

1930's French Impressionist Oil Boat In Bay Coast Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French oil Painting signed by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 12.75 inches hi...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

1930's French Impressionist Watercolour Green Mountain Path Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below signed to the front, provenance stamp to the back watercolour painting on artist paper stuck on board, unf...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

1930's French Impressionist Gouache Cyrus Tree's In Yellow Field Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back gouache painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 8 high by 12.5 inches ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Gouache

1930's French Oil Portrait Of A Long Grey Haired Man With Black Beard
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Male Portrait by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on canvas stuck on board, unframed measures: 18 high by 15 inches wide co...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Rolling Hill no.1 and Hill View no.1 (Diptych), Fun, Contemporary Landscape art
Located in Deddington, GB
Rolling hill no. 1 is an original oil painting by artist Alexa Roscoe. This painting has a sense of freedom and playfulness as if it wants you to run away with it down the hill. It's...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hunt Slonem "Thalo" Green Bunny
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Thalo" Green Bunny A gestured bunny rabbit in black on a yellow lime green background. Framed in a vintage oval wooden frame. Unframed: 10 x 8 inches Framed: 14.5 x 12....
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Wood, Oil

Hunt Slonem "2 East Lake" Hot Pink Bunnies
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "2 East Lake" Hot Pink Bunnies Two black gestured black bunnies on a solid hot pink background. Framed in an antique wooden gold frame. Unframed: 14 x 10 inches Framed: ...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Wood, Oil

1930's French Impressionist River Bank Bare Tree Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Oil Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 6.75 high by 9.5 inches wide ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

1930's French Gouache Purple Cliffs Orange Sea Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back gouache painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 6 high by 8 inches wid...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Gouache

1930's French Oil Painting Red Roof House In Green Open Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Oil Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 7.5 high by 9.5 inches wide c...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

1930's French Impressionist Oil Group Of Figures Gathered In Forest
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Oil Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on artist paper stuck on board, unframed measures: 10 high...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Pocket Ripe Red Pomegranate, Baroque Still Life, fruit
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Ripe Red Pomegranate is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Vantage Point with Screen Print by Chris Keegan
Located in Deddington, GB
Vantage point by Chris Keegan. This Five colour handmade screen print depicts a multi-layered dynamic set of landscapes all floating above and below each other. Created is an image o...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Screen

1930's French Impressionist Watercolour Tall Woodland Trees
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Oil Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 16.5 inches hig...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

1930's French Impressionist Gouache Colourful Mountain Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back gouache painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 9.5 high by 12.5 inche...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Gouache

1930's French Impressionist Oil Grey Town Roof Tops Gathered Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Oil Painting signed by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 14.5 inches high...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

1930's French Impressionist Oil River Woodland Green Summer Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Oil Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 7.75 high by 9.5 inches wide ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

1930's French Impressionist Oil Bare Tree's In Green Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 7 high by 9.5 inches wide conditi...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

1930's French Oil Portrait Lady Posed In Yellow Shirt and Black Handkerchief
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Oil Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 8.25 high by 10.5 inches wide...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Coastal Cliffs Blue Sea French Impressionist Gouache Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Painting signed initials by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back gouache painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 9 high...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Gouache

1930's French Impressionist Watercolour Village Church Roofs Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 8 high by 10 inche...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

1930's French Village On Top Of Cliff Watercolour Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed signed initials measures: 6 high by...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

1930's French Colourful Roof Houses Over Looking Sea Oil Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 8 high by 5.5 inches wide condition: over...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

1930's French Oil Painting Dark River Woodland Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 7.75 high by 9.5 inches wide condition: o...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Yachts Racing Off the Coast
By Stephen J Renard
Located in Wiscasett, ME
Yachts racing off the English coast. Oil on artist panel, signed lower right. Renard was born in Huddersfield, England in 1947. Although he was interested in art and clearly gift...
Category

20th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

Harry Bunce, Matty Groves, Limited Edition Print, Fox Art, Affordable art
Located in Deddington, GB
'Matty Groves' by Harry Bunce is a limited edition print. This print features a fox dressed in a suit and shirt with a bright pink tie, he is holding a knife and is looking off into ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Archival Pigment

1930's Watercolour Painting French Purple and Orange Mountain Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back watercolour painting on artist paper, unframed signed initials measures: 6 high by ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

1930's Oil Painting French Village Behind Green Field Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back signed oil painting on board, unframed measures: 9.5 high by 7 inches wide conditio...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

French Impressionist Black and White Tall Building Street
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back black pen drawing on artist paper, unframed painting : 9.5 inches high by 7 i...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Color Pencil

1930's French Impressionist Watercolour Interior Scene Dressing Room
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Watercolour Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back watercolour pa...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor

1930's French Impressionist Oil Signed Bell Tower and Figure Town
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Oil Painting signed by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on artist paper, unframed measures: 14.5 inches high...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

1930's French Oil Portrait of Elegant Lady Gazing Out Of Interior Window Sketch
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Oil Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 11 high by 8 inches wide cond...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

1930's French Oil Portrait Of A Forlorn Lady In Orange Head Scarf
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait Of A Lady by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting canvas paper stuck on board, unframed measures: 18 high by 14.5 inch...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

1930's French Impressionist Gouache Purple Flower Bunch In Yellow Paper
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Purple Flower Bunch by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 10.75 high by 13 inches wide condition...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

1930's French Impressionist Pink Rose On Book Interior Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Interior Scene by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 14 high by 18 inches wide condition: overal...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Alvorada V
Located in Pampilhosa da Serra, PT
Lisbon-based, Miguel Rodrigues is renowed by having developed a highly innovative and personal artistic style: the hyperbaroque. His hyperbaroque sculptures summon the baroque’s conj...
Category

2010s Baroque Art

Materials

Metal

1960’s French Oil Painting Exotic Summers Day Cagnes Sur Mer Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cagnes Ser mer dated 1961 Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Mid 20th Century Oil Figure Sat On Green Hill Admiring The Blue Cloudy Sky
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vintage French Oil Painting by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on artist paper stuck on board, unframed measures: 6 high ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Alvorada VII
Located in Pampilhosa da Serra, PT
Lisbon-based, Miguel Rodrigues is renowed by having developed a highly innovative and personal artistic style: the hyperbaroque. His hyperbaroque sculptures summon the baroque’s conj...
Category

2010s Baroque Art

Materials

Metal

Pink Sky Neutra House, Original painting, Architect, Contemporary, Hockney style
Located in Deddington, GB
This is a painting from my series of architecural paintings. In this particular painting I have played with colour by adding a striking cinematic pink sky which contrasts against a t...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Salvador Dali -- Tancreds Oath from Marquis de Sade, 1969
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Salvador Dali Tancreds Oath from Marquis de Sade Suite, 1969 Lithograph Edition 110/160 Hand signed lower right Image size: 53 X 42.5 cm Sheet size: 65 x 50 cm Published by Shorewo...
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Young Hearts, Portland Gallery London offset lithograph
By Jack Vettriano
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Jack Vettriano (1951-) is renowned for his film noir oil paintings and 1930s glam style. Uniquely Vettriano, ‘Young Hearts’ is set by the seaside inviting narratives about the figures in his work: relationships, anticipation, power and suggestion. Vettriano grew up by the Fife Scottish coast. He began painting beach scenes as a young adult, later developing his particular recognizable style and thematic imagery. His work was embraced by celebrities such as Madonna and Jack Nicholson and he has become hugely successful. His most famous painting, ‘The Singing Butler...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

1930's French Impressionist Still Life Painting Daffodils and Pink Roses In Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Flower Bunch by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back old exhibition label verso signed oil painting on board, unframed measures: 12 high by ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

French Impressionist Oil Painting Provence Tall Tree Pathway
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 16.75 high by 10.75 inches wide condition: overall very g...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

The Lady Feeding The Birds In Gloomy Winter Park French Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Feeding The Birds by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 13 high by 15.75 inches wide condition: ...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Mid 20th Century French Oil Painting Red Lilies In Green Glass Bottle Interior
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Red Lilies by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 18 high by 13 inches wide condition: overall ve...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

French Impressionist Still Life Purple Anemone's In Brown Vase
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Purple Anemone's by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 13 high by 9.5 inches wide condition: ove...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Eva
Located in PARIS, FR
Fernando Botero (Colombian, b.1932) is celebrated for his painted and sculpted scenes featuring animals and figures with inflated proportions, reflecting the artist’s predilection for satire, caricature, and political commentary. Born in Medellin, Colombia, Botero began exhibiting his paintings there in 1948, and later worked as a set designer in Bogotá. In the 1950s, he traveled to several different European countries, including Spain, Italy, and France, to study the work of Renaissance and Baroque masters. He also traveled to Mexico to familiarize himself with the current Mexican avant-­‐garde. Botero became renowned for the varied source material he drew upon, from Colombian folk imagery to canonical works by Diego Velázquez, Pablo Picasso, and Francisco de Goya. In his depictions of contemporary Latin American life, he portrays the poverty and violence prevalent in Colombia in somber images, as well as in his iconic inflated figures, satiric images of Latin American presidents, first ladies, and government officials. A meeting with Dorothy Miller from The Museum of Modern Art in the early 1960s proved to be a turning point in his career; she acquired his work at a time when abstraction was the celebrated idiom, and he later exhibited his work in a major exhibition at the museum, solidifying his international reputation. In the 1970s, Botero moved to Paris, where he created large figural sculptures with his signature inflated forms. He remains engaged with images of his Latin American home city, and with overtly political imagery; his recent works include large paintings of prisoners at Abu Ghraib in a direct commentary on the war in Iraq. Botero has exhibited his work at the Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, the Maillol Museum in Paris, the Palazzo Benezia in Rome, the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, and the National Museum in Bogotá. He currently lives and works in Paris, Montecarlo, and New York. 2012–2013 Museo Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain 2012 Una celebración, Palacio Bellas Artes de México, Mexico 2012 Hommage zum 80. Geburtstag, Botero -­‐ Gemälde, Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany 2010 Art is deformation, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY (solo) Inaurgural Exhibition: Fernando Botero, David Benrimon Gallery, New York, NY (solo) Latinas!, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY 2009 Gary Nader Fine Art, Coral Gables, FL Fernando Botero: The Circus. James Goodman Gallery, New York, NY El Dolor de Colombia, Pinacoteca Diego Rivero, Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico 2008 The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN; New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE 2007–2008 Botero: Oeuvres récentes, Marlborough Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco (solo) 2007 Fernando Botero: Abu Ghraib, University of California, Berkeley, CA (solo) The Baroque World of Fernando Botero, Musée National des Beaux-­‐Arts du Québec, Canada (solo) Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE (solo) New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA (solo) Summer Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY Latin Masters...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Adolph Kronengold (1900-1986) - Alaska Landscape Oil on Board, ca 1940’s
Located in Baltimore, MD
Adolph Kronengold was born in New Orleans in 1900. He studied locally at Tulane, before moving on to New York and Philadelphia. There he studied at the Art Students League and the P...
Category

1940s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

French Impressionist Oil Painting Interior Playing Card & Calystegia
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
by Louise Alix (French, 1888-1980) *see notes below provenance stamp to the back oil painting on board, unframed measures: 15 high by 18 inches wide condition: overall very good an...
Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

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