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Art For Sale
Color: Blue
Color: Green
Barca a vela (Bel ami)
Located in Roma, RM
Franco Angeli (Roma 1935 – 1988), Barca a vela (Bel ami) (fine anni ’70)
Smalto e tecnica mista su tela di cm 70 x 50 firmato e intitolato BEL-AMI sul retro.
L’opera risulta archiv...
Category
1970s Pop Art Art
Materials
Enamel
"Untitled"
By Sidney E. Zimmerman
Located in Southampton, NY
Sidney E.Zimmerman
USA (1926-2007) studied at the Brooklyn a Museum of Art after returning from Europe during WWII. In 1950, he studied with Morris Kantor and Vaclav Vytlacil at the ...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Untitled
By Tom Goldenberg
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas (diptych). Signed and dated verso.
68.25 x 32.25 in.
69.75 x 33.5. (framed)
Custom framed in a maple floater with a polyurethane clear coat finish.
Provenance
Watson...
Category
1980s Post-War Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
COWS AND KITES, Photograph, C-Type
By Andrew Lever
Located in Yardley, PA
A beautiful colour C type print of a herd of Cows Sunbathing on a beach with numerous kites flying in the backround. Picture taken in Tarifa, Spain. National Geographic Award Winn...
Category
2010s Other Art Style Art
Materials
C Print
The Thingly Thingness of Things
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30. (Irregular shape)
The artist states:
“2013 is the year of the snake and I am celebrating it in this print to honor the Chinese calendar but with a pre-Columbian twist. In the Chinese horoscope...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Swimmer - Screenprint (Olympic Games Munich 1972)
Located in Paris, FR
Ronard Brooks KITAJ
Swimmer
Screen print
Signature printed in the plate
On heavy paper 101 x 64 cm (c. 40 x 26 inch)
Made for the Olympic Games in Munich, 1972
Excellent condition
Category
1970s American Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Me and My Shadow, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Benjamin Thomas paints an impressionist view of a man walking his dog, casting shadows on the pavement. The pup dons a red winter coat as he treads the s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
SUNBATHERS Signed Lithograph, Women in Bikinis, Sunglasses, Beach, Sailboats
By Robin Morris
Located in Union City, NJ
SUNBATHERS by the woman artist Robin Morris, is an original limited edition lithograph printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper, 100% acid free. SUNBATHERS depicts a two female sunbathers sitting in their lounge chairs on a sunny day at the beach wearing dark sunglasses, straw sun hats, and snazzy red and purple bikinis...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Coincidence, Geometric Abstract Series
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Robert W. Petrick
Coincidence
Geometric Abstraction
East Village NYC, 2022
acrylic on canvas
New York, 2nd street studio
Colorful geometric abstract ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Last Rays
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph, Edition 30
Last Rays is an intensely colorful image that evokes the play of light and reflections caused by the late rays of the evening sun as they rake low acr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Porto Rotondo Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Porto Rotondo
1990
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Pleasure yachts moored in a sandy cove at Porto Rotondo, Sardinia, July 1990
unf...
Category
1990s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
FAST FOOD BREAKFAST Signed Oil Pastel on Paper, Take Out Food Drive-Thru Window
Located in Union City, NJ
FAST FOOD BREAKFAST is an original oil pastel drawing on brown paper grocery bag by the self taught African American artist Reginald K. Gee, born April 28, 1964, in Milwaukee, Wiscon...
Category
1990s Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil Pastel
Sunset, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Alex Kalenyuk
Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind
Medium: Oil on canvas
Year: 2023
Title: Sunset
Style: 6" x 10" x 0.8'' inch, (15x25x2 cm)
Unfra...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Georgie Dowling, Morning Through Dartmoor, Panoramic Landscape Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Morning through Dartmoor by Georgie Dowling [2022]
Signed by the artist
Oil paint on canvas
Image size: H:50 cm x W:75 cm x D:4cm
Please note that insi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Why Are We So Cruel" - Contemporary Street Sign Sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Scott Froschauer is an experimental artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, where his primary focus is exploring new spaces and techniques for communication.
This series "Word on ...
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Metal
Minimal Landscape, Original Pastel Drawing, Seascape, Sea, Beach
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Drawing, Unique Work, Handmade Artwork. The work has been treated with Archival Varnish with UV protection and it is not framed.
Medium : Soft Pastel on archival pap...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper
Underwater Drink, Las Brisas
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A woman drinking from a coconut underwater in the pool at Las Brisas Hotel in Acapulco, Mexico, February 1972.
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3360
...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Natural blue sapphire not heated not treated from Sri Lanka
Located in Lagos, NG
This beautiful oval-shaped blue sapphire weighs 1.50 carats and originates from Sri Lanka. The gemstone has excellent cut grade and eye-clean clarity.
It is a natural sapphire that...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art
Materials
Precious Stone
"Evening Twilight" Original Oil Painting 18 in x 18 in
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Evening Twilight" is an original oil painting of the New England woods at dusk. Measuring 18"x18" on hardwood 3/4" cradled panel. As an artist, I love the blue light of dusk surrou...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Some People Together
By Karel Appel
Located in New York, NY
Some People Together, 1974
Hand-signed and dated in pencil
Color lithograph and screenprint
Sheet 22 x 29 3/4 inches; 559 x 756 mm.
Edition 110
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph, Screen
Paree
Located in London, GB
A hand painted three dimensional, Reverspective print, inspired by Paris. Produced in 2023. This print comes housed in a bespoke perspex display case. A limited edition of 75 pieces....
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Mahatma Gandhi
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Lladró launched this special commemorative piece coinciding with the 60th anniversary of the death of Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948). The sculpture is an excellent likeness of the great ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Porcelain
Goya's 3rd of May on a can of beans, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By John Kilduff
Located in Yardley, PA
Painting of a famous Goya painting on a can of Goya beans. Oil and spray paint on can. :: Painting :: Pop-Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signe...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art
Materials
Oil
Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco) (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank 'Brandy' Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco, 1978.
Slim Aarons
Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco)
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
72 x 48 inches
$4900
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). *
Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Internal: Slim Aarons Poolside Glamour Photography, Vintage Backgammon, Vintage Sport, Acapulco, Vintage Pools, Vintage Games...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Samurai Zero
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Mixed Media Collage, Pigment Ink on Cotton Mounted on a Luan Panel , Encaustic Beeswax Finish.
Thomas’s professional photo career began at the age of seventeen with extensive appren...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
White Water - Chutes des Cubes (commission) - outdoor sculpture
By Marc Plamondon
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Impossibly balanced, these three white cubes form one monolithic outdoor structure. At night the sides of the cubes appear as free-floating diamonds....
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
Bravado II - playful, abstracted figure, laser cut steel outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
In this dramatic abstract sculpture by Robert Clarke Ellis a silhouette of a figure, broad chest puffed up in confidence, strides boldly forward towards the viewer. Constructed of la...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Steel
Rider, 109x99cm
Located in Yerevan, AM
Rider, 109х99cm
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Atlantic Ocean Series - #4 NS - Ocean, water, landscape, nature - unframed
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Atlantic Ocean series places a little contextual history of this scenic image with its maritime history at that spot with the interplay of the elements - wind, clouds, water - on that particular day more than a century later. Insignificance of man in the face of time...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Singing Bowl Cerulean Sky Medium - outdoor stainless steel sculpture in blue
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Based on Tibetan singing bowls, a medium sized outdoor stainless steel bowl is coated in a rich cerulean blue by sculptor Marlene Hilton Moore. T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Stainless Steel
Spring Chaos #6, Jackson Pollock Style Landscape Painting, Modern Abstract Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Spring Chaos #6 by Lucy Moore [2022]
Spring Chaos #6 - An Original semi-abstract painting by Lucy Moore. Using her signature string grass technique Lucy has created a semi-abstract ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Provence VI From the Portfolio "Provence" by Roger Mühl, 1986
By Roger Mühl
Located in New York, NY
Artist: Roger Mühl
Medium: Original Lithograph, signed and numbered, 1986
Dimensions: 12.5 x 16.5 in, 41.9 x 31.8 cm
Arches Paper - Perfect Condition A+
...
Category
1980s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Planeta Agua
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Pietrina Checcacci was born in Taranto, Italy. Currently, she lives in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Checcacci studied at the National School of Fine Arts from 1958 to 1964 and has won n...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sea, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Acrylic on canvas. I live by the sea and never tire of depicting it. :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Métamorphose
By Jean Sanglar
Located in Miami, FL
Born in the South of France in 1926 and raised by very strict parents, Jean Sanglar was prohibited from playing with same age mates.
Truly talented, as a young boy he drew frequentl...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Rhapsody
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for UNFRAMED print. Inquire within for framing.
Edition of 10.
If the exhibition piece is sold or the customer orders a different print size, the photograph is produced upon purchase. Please allow two weeks for production.
Shipping time depends on method of shipping.
Price is subject to availability. The Robin Rice Gallery reserves the right to adjust this price depending on the current edition of the photograph.
ABOUT:
In this dream-based series, water becomes a metaphor for sky. The invitational image, Bourrée, depicts a woman suspended in soft hues of blue, floating upward as if ascending into the heavens. In Arabesque, the model seems to tumble gracefully through clouds, arms outstretched. Olson’s color images are surreal and mysterious. In most of the images there are refractions of light and bits of clouds that blend together, leaving us feeling as if we are looking at watercolor paintings.
Olson describes Rapture as, “a biography of my dreams.” This series represents, for her, the world that lies just beyond consciousness—where “time shifts, gravity loosens and we slip into another realm.” Through the images she conveys the dreams she’s had since childhood of floating weightless in the sky. In reality, Olson photographed them from above in swimming pools in Seattle, Washington combining images with clouds photographed mostly in North Dakota, where she grew up and visits each summer. The effect is ethereal. Her models could be construed as angels.
Olson’s entrancement with the medium spans over 30 years, starting in 1980 when she did a series of swimmer images while in graduate school at the University of Oregon.
In the Rapture series, despite each image’s balanced composition, Olson claims the process of photographing women...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
"Submerged" Original Oil Painting 36 in x 36 in
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Submerged"
2022
Oil on canvas
36 in x 36 in
"Submerged" is an original oil painting in the genre of Contemporary Realism. A frequent theme in my work is figures in water. Surf...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Bord de mer, Oil Painting on Canvas, Seaside, Contemporary Landscape, Beach
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Oil Painting, Handmade artwork, Unique Work. Framed in Solid wood frame with light finish. Ready to Hang.
Medium : Oil painting on Linen Canvas.
Artist : Gabriel Rie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Linen
Photograph - Atlantic Ocean series - #1 - Ocean, Water, Landscape, Nature
By MAE Curates
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Atlantic Ocean series places a little contextual history of this scenic image with its maritime history at that spot with the interplay of th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
River of Dreams
Located in Toronto, ON
Sandra Di Leo is a designer and contemporary abstract expressionist artist. Having studied art and design she has been working as a designer since graduating in 2000 while pursuing h...
Category
2010s Art
Materials
Acrylic
Athabasca - tall, white, geometric, modern, outdoor steel sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
A pillar of stainless steel is coated white in this minimalist outdoor sculpture by Philippe Pallafray. The sculpture is designed with jagged polished cracks in the steel that glint in the sunlight. The artist ascribed meaning to reflected light by quoting Leonard Cohen: “There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.” Titled Athabasca the work brings to mind a geological sample...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Stainless Steel
Blue
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
In this work, I have poured my passion using acrylics to evoke depth and movement. Blues and whites intertwine, reflecting abstract emotions that flow freely, like ocean waves on a s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled DFVA_004
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
C-print face mounted to non-glare plexiglass
Category
2010s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Plexiglass
Blue Wave's Flow, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Maria Bacha
Located in Yardley, PA
DESCRIPTION: Blue Wave's Flow has to do with the flow of a deep blue wave, that carries and affects every positive, tender, and divine element existing in the inner or at the outer w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Blue Horizon of Peace
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Important for the buyer
The work is sent without a wooden frame and rolled in a reinforced tube to avoid damage during transportation.
"Blue Horizon of Peace" is an oil masterpiece...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
Paysage Minimal, Original Pastel Drawing, Seascape, Sea, Beach
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Drawing, Handmade Artwork, Unique Work. The work has been treated with UV-resistant varnish and it is not framed.
Medium : Soft Pastel and oil based pencils on ARCHE...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Pastel, Archival Paper, Oil Crayon
Jonathan Speed, Journey's End, Original Abstract Landscape Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Journey’s End [2021]
Original
Landscapes and seascapes
Oil paint on canvas
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:60 cm x W:60 cm x D:4cm
Sold Unframed
Please ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nenuphars - Etching by Stanley William Hayter - 1970
Located in Roma, IT
Nenuphars is an original artwork realized by Stanley William Hayter in 1970.
Mixed colored etching on wove paper. Signed and numbered on the lower margin. Limited edition of 92/135....
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Etching, Paper
Wellspring - Green, blue and yellow abstract water landscape
Located in Ocklawaha, FL
Wellspring is a dancing water interpretation, he new spring and rains creating new life and power in nature. In a beautiful palette of greens, blues, and yellows. A perfect size moun...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Croquet, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Brian Nash
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting is acrylic on deep-profile canvas, wired and ready to hang. :: Painting :: Pop-Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art
Materials
Acrylic
Portal III, 2024, unique pigment print, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Portal III, 2024 is part of the "Another World" series. This unique archival pigment print is printed on Epson Enhanced Matte paper. Image size is 9" x 6.5" on 10" x 7.5" paper siz...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Crossover II, 2024, unique pigment print, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Crossover II, 2024 is part of the "Another World" series. This unique archival pigment print is printed on Epson Enhanced Matte paper. Image size is 9" x 6.5" on 10" x 7.5" paper s...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
HEART
Located in Portland, ME
Wang Ming (Chinese-American, 1921-2016). HEART.Acrylic on paper, 1969. Signed, titled and dated, verso. 21 x 15 5/8, framed to 28 7/8 x 23 1/2. In excellent condition.
Category
1960s Art
Materials
Acrylic
Outpost III, 2024, unique pigment print, signed
By Gary Cruz
Located in New York, NY
Outpost III, 2024 is part of the "Another World" series. This unique archival pigment print is printed on Epson Enhanced Matte paper. Image size is 9" x 6.5" on 10" x 7.5" paper si...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco) (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carmen Alvarez enjoying a game of backgammon with Frank 'Brandy' Brandstetter in a swimming pool at Acapulco, 1978.
Slim Aarons
Keep Your Cool (Backgammon in Acapulco)
Chromogenic Lambda print
Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
72 x 48 inches
$4900
60 x 40 inches
$3950
40 x 30 inches
$3350
30 x 20 inches
$3000
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Photograph is unframed
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). *
Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Internal: Slim Aarons Poolside Glamour Photography, Vintage Backgammon, Vintage Sport, Acapulco, Vintage Pools, Vintage Games...
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Silk Scarf (5/5)
Located in Phoenix, AZ
silk scarf
For over thirty years Dominique Blain has examined and addressed the links between relationships of domination, such as racism, mass indoctrination, genocide, war, exploi...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silk
'Floral Abstract, Blue and Coral', Post-Impressionist Still Life
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Nira Moblad' ( American, 1920-1993) and dated 1964; additionally signed verso.
A substantial and dynamic, semi-abstracted oil still-life of Lilies and Honeysuck...
Category
1960s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Live colorfully - neon art, noen sign
Located in New York, NY
This neon piece is hand blown glass. It is mounted on contoured, clear plexiglas with pre drilled holes for hanging, and comes ready to hang.
This piece is offered in the following c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Neon Light
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