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Untitled Acrylic Architectural Landscape Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Architectural landscape painting by Anthony V. Martin of a white house with a lovely green velvet mat and a gold frame. Artist Biography: Anthony V. Martin grew up in east Texas. H...
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1960s Modern Art

Materials

Egg Tempera

Study - Hon. Catherine Trevor, Viscountess Hampden with Verso Lady Anne Gower
Located in London, GB
PROVENANCE Private Collection, England Colonel Charles William Garnde Walker (1882 - 1974) Thence by descent to; Sir Michael Walker (1916 - 2001) Thence by descent We are grateful t...
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1770s Old Masters Art

Materials

Laid Paper, Pen

Bias by Numbers (2017), Screen Print, Limited Edition of 450
Located in Palm Desert, CA
'Bias by Numbers' by Shepard Fairey, 2017 18 x 24 inches (45,7 x 61 cm) Screen print on cream, speckletone fine art paper. Limited edition of 450 (#134/450) Hand-signed and dated in ...
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2010s Street Art Art

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Screen

Study for Ex-Libris - Original Pencil Drawing by F. Comerre - Late 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Study for Ex-Libris is a pencil drawing realized by Léon-François Comerre in the late 19th Century. The artwork represents a study for an ex-libris. Artist' signature stamp on th...
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Late 19th Century Art

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Pencil

"Avon River - Christ Church, New Zealand" - Mid Century Figurative Landscape
By Leon Worley
Located in Soquel, CA
"Avon River", a beautiful mid century figurative landscape of Christ Church, New Zealand by Leon Worley (American, 1909-2003). Presented in a wooden frame. Signed "Leon Worley" lower...
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1950s American Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Cardboard, Canvas

Nuala # 14
Located in Madrid, ES
The artist starts creating each piece using a canvas, which he then manipulates by hand, creating different folds, angles, and slits. He considers this initial step as the “foundatio...
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2010s Art

Materials

Cotton, Wood, Pigment

18th Century by Francesco Lavagna Pair of Flower Vases Oil on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
98 x 36 cm each without frame - 112 x 50 cm with frame Antique gilded and shaped wooden box frames Expertise by Prof. Giancarlo Sestieri This marvellous pair of flower vases has b...
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Early 18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Avenue du Bois de Boulogne in Paris - France
By Fausto Giusto
Located in PARIS, FR
Fausto GIUSTO (Naples, 1867 – Zurich, 1941) Avenue du Bois de Boulogne in Paris Oil on canvas Signed lower right 28 x 46 cm Fausto Giusto is an Italian painter who has built an in...
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Late 19th Century French School Art

Materials

Oil

"PB&J stacked sandwiches" Original Oil Painting 18 in x 18 in
Located in Boca Raton, FL
“PB&J Stack” 2018 Oil on 2” deep Panel 18 in x 18 in In the genre of Contemporary realism, this original oil painting of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches conjures memories of chi...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

A Valley Streetscape at Night
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - American Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s A Valley Streetscape at Night, 1948, oil on masonite, signed and dated lower right, 18 x 24 inch...
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1940s American Modern Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

Two Figures
By Robert Chester Thomas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This sculpture is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s. Two Figures, 1949, ebony wood, 24 x 7 x 5 inches, unsigned, but comes from Thomas' daughters ...
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1940s American Modern Art

Materials

Wood, Ebony

Mito
Located in Milano, IT
Mito 2015 Collage e acrilico su carta CM 70x50 Con la mano e con fuoco, sul metallo. Con la mano e col pensiero sulla carta. Il disegno è inscindibile dalla scultura e non può esse...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Glue, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Paper

Homage to Leger
By Jean Kellogg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This painting is part of our exhibition America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s. Homage to Leger, 1941, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 14 x 17 inches; inscribed ...
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1940s American Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sea Shells – Blue & Gold
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Sea Shells – Blue & Gold, c. 1940s, watercolor on paper, signed upper left, 15 x 19 ¼ inches (image); title and artist’s name and address inscribed verso, presented in a newer glazed...
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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Bugler of Chasseurs Corps by Ed Detaille 19th Century Facsimile Color Lithograph
Located in Stockholm, SE
Bugler Foot Hunter, 1870 (lithographed facsimile 1883), Illustration after Édouard Detaille (1848 - 1912), similar in Musée de Nuits-Saint-Georges. This illustration shows a bugler f...
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Late 19th Century French School Art

Materials

Wood, Paper

Army Poker
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s Army Poker, c. 1943, probably tempera on board, signed upper right, 16 x 20 inches, inscribed verso a) “Army Poker / Mervin Honig / 421 W 42 St. N.Y.C.,” b) “Mervin Honig / US Army Air Force – Seymour Johnson Field – Goldsboro, NC / Circa 1943,” and c) “(This painting was done before men was (sic) shipped off to the Mariana Islands (Saipan) The Second World War.” Note: four pencil sketches for this work included Mervin Honig was a New York-based painter and illustrator who is best known for his realistic depictions of everyday life and sports themes. Honig was raised in Brooklyn and recalled almost never being without a paintbox in hand from the time he started elementary school. Honig had a deep reverence for the Old Master painters, Vermeer and Bellini, as well as the Americans Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. He initially studied art from 1939 through 1941 with Francis Criss. At the outbreak of World War II, Honig worked as a mechanic for Republic Aviation, but in August 1942, he enlisted in the US Army Air Corps and was stationed at Seymour Johnson Field in Goldsboro, North Carolina. During the war, Honig began to exhibit nationally, including as part of the Portrait of America exhibitions which originated at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and traveled around the country, as well as at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh. He painted Army Poker in 1943 while stationed at Johnson Field. In this work, Honig draws inspiration from Paul Cezanne's The Card Players (Metropolitan Museum of Art), with a similar placement of the four figures, but Cezanne's table is replaced with an Army cot, the pipe rack with a soldier's mess kit and the drapery in the right background with a heap of discarded uniforms. Unlike the vibrancy of Cezanne's composition, the limited palette of Honig's work suggests the drabness and monotony of stateside Army life. After being discharged from military service, Honig furthered his studies with Amadee Ozenfant in 1946 and Hans Hoffman from 1947 through 1950. Additional exhibitions included the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the National Academy of Design, the Wadsworth Atheneum, the Provincetown Art Association, and the National Academies Galleries of the Allied Artists Association. He was represented by the venerable Frank Rehn...
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1940s American Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Board, Tempera

Adele Riley, Finding Tranquility, Contemporary Art, Affordable Original Art
Located in Deddington, GB
Finding Tranquility [2021] Original Landscape Acrylic and acrylic inks Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:61 cm x W:61 cm x D:4cm Frame Size: H:65 cm x W:65 cm x D:5cm Sold Framed Ple...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Colonizer
Located in New Rochelle, NY
"Glossy Sterling" is an acrylic on canvas by Brazilian street artist Henrique Belotti. Belotti paintings include human figure, colors and movement of Brazilian folklore and cultur...
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2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Landscape
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Landscape, 1940, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, signed, dated and titled verso: “Marcel Cailliet ’40 – S.C.” and “Marcel Cailliet Landscape”; likely exhibited at the annual juried st...
Category

1940s American Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Méduses Tropiques
Located in PARIS, FR
Anna Peter-Breton Méduses Tropiques Huile sur toile Oil on canvas 100 x 81 cm 39 3/8 x 31 7/8 in. 2023 Anna Peter-Breton was born in 1985. Originally from Hungary and Kyrgyzs...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Jasper Johns-Three Flags-25.75" x 37"-Poster-2004-Pop Art-Blue, Red, White-usa
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 25.75 x 37 inches ( 65.405 x 93.98 cm ) Image Size: 24.5 x 37 inches ( 62.23 x 93.98 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: Published for a major American Art retrospective in Milan, Italy from a collection from the Whitney Museum. The image of “Three Flags...
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Early 2000s Art

Materials

Offset

French Commode Table Etching From "The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director"
By Thomas Chippendale
Located in Houston, TX
Engraving from a book titled, "The Gentleman and Cabinet-Maker's Director" printed in 1753. Thomas Chippendale was the designer and Mary and Matthew Darly...
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1750s Rococo Art

Materials

Etching

Sewing woman
Located in Täby, SE
Carl Henrik Nordenberg, born 19 May 1857 in Asarum, died 1 November 1928 in Düsseldorf,was a Swedish-German artist, nephew of the artist Bengt Norden...
Category

1880s Naturalistic Art

Materials

Oil

Untitled
Located in PARIS, FR
Renaud Bihi Totem Charbon et socle en granit Charcoal and granit base 40 x 40 x 154 cm 15.7 x 15.7 x 60.6 in. 2024 Renaud Bihi, an artist of materials and a man of contrasts, has ...
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2010s Arte Povera Art

Materials

Charcoal

Flores Amarillas
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Olga Cairols is a Spanish artist with more than 35 years of career. Olga studied Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. She has a bachelors degree in Design, Art ...
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2010s Art Nouveau Art

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Les Marguerites (Daisies)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: George Braque – French (1882-1963) Title: Les Marguerites (Daisies) Year: circa 1952 Medium: Color etching and aquatint Publisher: Maeght, Paris (bears Maeght blindstamp in ...
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1950s Cubist Art

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Etching, Paper, Aquatint

Highland Cattle
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Massive size, this six foot long oil painting by Charles Jones (1836-1902) makes an impression! Award-winning artist, Jones won the gold medal at the Crystal Palace exhibition in 18...
Category

1870s Naturalistic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Sunset, an emblematic painting by Théodore Rousseau inspired by Barbizon
By Théodore Rousseau
Located in PARIS, FR
While an exhibition is currently celebrating the work of Théodore Rousseau at the Petit-Palais in Paris, we are delighted to present this work, which is entirely emblematic of his ar...
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Mid-19th Century Barbizon School Art

Materials

Mahogany, Oil

Winter Zinkensdamm Stockholm
Located in Täby, SE
Anton Jonsson Genberg, born 20 June 1862 in Östersund, died 8 January 1939 in Saltsjö-Storängen in Stockholm County, was a Swedish painter. Genberg painted naturalistically with the ...
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1910s Impressionist Art

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Oil

Monster Shell
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Daniel Tavares considers his oil paintings part drawing and part painting. His artwork is a visual synthesis of his life experiences reflecting the influence of comic books - which ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Winter Trees, Landscape, Original Oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2022 Style: Impressionism, Subject: Winter Trees, Size: 9" x 18" x 0...
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2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

David the King of Psalms
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Daniel Tavares considers his oil paintings part drawing and part painting. His artwork is a visual synthesis of his life experiences reflecting the influence of comic books - which ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Framed Hand Painted Medicine Buddha Thangka on Canvas 24K Gold
Located in TRUMBULL, CT
This professionally framed "Medicine Buddha" thangka is hand painted on canvas with 24K real gold. Medicine Buddha is believed to have healing power. Measurement: Including the fram...
Category

1990s Other Art Style Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Objects nº1
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Daniel Tavares considers his oil paintings part drawing and part painting. His artwork is a visual synthesis of his life experiences reflecting the influence of comic books - which ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled (Cubist Portrait)
By Jerre H. Murry
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This work is part of our exhibition - America Coast to Coast: Artists of the 1940s Untitled (Cubist Portrait), 1945, oil on masonite, signed and dated lower middle, 20 x 16 inches, remnant of exhibition label verso, perhaps exhibited at Murry's solo exhibition at the Los Angeles's Screen Cartoonists' Gallery, July , 1945, presented in its original frame Jerre Murry was a California modernist painter. Born in Columbia, Missouri, Murry studied at the Detroit Academy of Art and worked as an artist for the Detroit News and Detroit Free Press. Murry traveled to the Bahamas, where he was inspired to paint modernist scenes of island life and people. By the early 1930s, Murry had relocated to Los Angeles, where he caught the attention of Synchromist painter Stanton Macdonald Wright, State Supervisor for the Federal Art Project (FAP) in Southern California. MacDonald Wright enrolled Murry into the FAP. Murry’s Gauguin-influenced painting Sun Image was exhibited together with other FAP artists at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1936, and Murry was also included in the FAP exhibit at the Paris Exposition in 1937. Stendahl Galleries in Los Angeles, the Chamber of Commerce Gallery in Santa Barbara, and at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art also showed Murry’s work during the 1930s. Murry created a murals for Los Angeles Water & Power Company, the Boise, Idaho Post Office, and Glendale Junior College. In 1939, Murry's work was exhibited at the Golden Gate International Exposition and the New York World's Fair. He also was included in the All California Exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of art that same year. He went on to exhibit in Los Angeles at the Foundation of Western Art's Trends in Southern California Art shows in 1940 and 1941, at Raymond and Raymond Gallery in Hollywood and USC’s Elizabeth Holmes...
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1940s American Modern Art

Materials

Masonite, Oil

The Marvelous Fishery
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Daniel Tavares considers his oil paintings part drawing and part painting. His artwork is a visual synthesis of his life experiences reflecting the influence of comic books - which ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil
Located in New York, NY
Circus Elephants American Modernism WPA Regionalism Mid-Century Modern Oil. Signed lower left. Not much is known about Marco de Marco, but just look at...
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1930s American Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Christ Crucified Rubens Paint Oil on canvas Old master 17th Century Religious
By Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640)
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Peter Paul Rubens (Siegen 1577 - Antwerp 1640) Workshop / circle Crucifixion of Christ with Saint Mary Magdalene Oil painting on canvas 112 x 62 cm. - In antique frame 126 x 73 cm. ...
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17th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

Untitled (Standing Male Nude)
Located in New York, NY
Untitled (Standing Male Nude) 2017 Signed and dated, recto Charcoal with red and white conté crayon on Rives BFK paper 30 x 20 inches (76.2 x 50....
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Conté

Vineyard Bordeaux France
Located in Täby, SE
Vilhelm Nikolaus August Hagborg (26 May 1852, Gothenburg – 30 April 1921, Paris) was a Swedish painter who spent most of his life in France.​ This painting is probably from one of h...
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1890s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Six Rings - large, symmetric, abstract, rings, stainless steel outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Canadian artist Jake Goertzen creates a symmetrical design with six stainless steel rings in this elegant outdoor sculpture. "The circle is associated with wholeness, symmetry, har...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Stainless Steel

Summer Landscape with Birches by Austrian Master Gollob Early 20th century Oil
Located in Stockholm, SE
Heinrich Gollob (1886 - 1917) - Austrian painter. Gollob's attention to detail demonstrates his talent for bringing landscapes to life through vibrant colors, textures and the play o...
Category

Early 20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Cotton Canvas, Oil

Tate Britain, Original Oil Painting
Located in AIX-EN-PROVENCE, FR
Work : Original Oil Painting, Unique Work, Handmade Artwork, . Ready to Hang. Medium : Oil on Coated Wood Panel. Artist : Raphaël Renaud Subject : Tate Britain (Title). The artist a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Girl with Flowers
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is part of my private collection. It is limited in edition artist signed lower right and is in very good condition. Walter Becker was a German artist. Another impress...
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Art

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Lithograph

Clocher roman
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is part of my private collection. It is limited in edition artist pencil signed lower right and is in very good condition . Jean Couty Epreuve de' artist an original ...
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Mid-20th Century Conceptual Art

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Lithograph

Pantheon
Located in Milano, MI
Urbex is the English acronym for urban exploration and is an activity that consists of searching for and locating abandoned infrastructure with the goal of visiting, photographing and conveying its contents, with particular involvement of methodologies from geography, anthropology, sociology to cultural studies. Her works have been in the past approached to the works of Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1770), but in Gullotta's paintings the absence of color makes the spaces particularly ethereal, allowing them to be ideally lifted to new places and to new life. An artist of international caliber who has decided to entrust her return to her homeland to Almach Art Gallery in Milan, while maintaining connections with important galleries, such as Marlborough Fine Art in London and Galerie Koch in Hanover. The artwork represents the famous Velasca Tower in Milan. This artwork was exhibited during the Daniela Gullotta...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Sandstone

Unframed Hand Painted Wheel of Life Thangka on Canvas 24K Gold
Located in TRUMBULL, CT
This professionally framed "Wheel of Life" thangka is hand painted on canvas with 24K real gold. Combination of vibrant colors with gold strokes and intricate work makes it a stunni...
Category

1990s Other Art Style Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Holy Family with St Elizabeth and Young John Baptist 19th century Oil Painting
Located in Stockholm, SE
This tender depiction of the Holy Family represents a subject which was central to Raphael's oeuvre. The painting is based on the famous panel by Giulio Romano, called Madonna della ...
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Late 19th Century Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Wood, Oil

Mid-Century Hand-Carved Iron Wood Swordfish Sculpture
Located in Plainview, NY
A large late 20th Century sculpture of a jumping swordfish. Made of Ironwood, the sculpture shows fine details. An elegant coastal decor to elevate the style of any room or interior....
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20th Century Naturalistic Art

Materials

Wood

"Measuring Blue" Mixed Media, 3-Dimensional, Small Wood Sculptures
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY "Measuring Blue" is a mixed media 3-dimensional collage with creatively hand-made oversized objects of a school ruler, dominos, and matches. These objects were ha...
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1980s Expressionist Art

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Wood, Thread, Plastic, Paper, Acrylic

Brooklyn Blaze 1986
Located in Chicago, IL
Back in the day, the glorious 1980's was a time of unequaled freedom, that we once took for granted. This picture captures the sky ablaze of a hot summer day - sunset over Downtown B...
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2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Pigment

Ia Gigoshvili, "The Traveller", silkscreen, 58x76
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Silkscreen is another name for the screenprinting technique, a printmaking process in which an ink-blocking stencil is applied to a screen, allowing ink that is wiped across the scre...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

" Under the moonlight", Silkscreen, 1996.
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Silkscreen
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1990s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Summer Birch, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"Whether it's fall, winter, spring, or summer it's always time for some colorful birch!" exclaims artist Lisa Elley. A stand of vivid birch trees glows in a b...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Art

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Oil

Parallel N4. Oil on canvas. 2015
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Art pieces of Giorgi Vepkhvadze are Abstract expressionism for modern interior designs for Residential and Commercial spaces. Well suited for New York Apartments and Houses. Artist g...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

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Canvas, Oil, ABS

You Snooze You Lose
Located in Nottingham, GB
Bright orang/red pop art featuring penguins. Hand embellished with paint and inks and signed by James McQueen, this is edition 1/1 making it unique. Wonderful collectible artwork.
Category

2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Ink, Oil, Archival Paper

'Tulip Awakening' Large Scale Photograph bold flower pastel red orange white
Located in Penzance, GB
'Tulip, Awakening' 60 x 40" edition Limited edition archival photograph, hand signed and numbered. Unframed _________________ Gauzy afternoon light, the tulips are stretching softly,...
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2010s Contemporary Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment

Girl with sledge by the bridge
Located in Täby, SE
Niels Frederik Martin Rohde, born 27 May 1816 in Copenhagen, died 14 July 1886 at Frederiksberg Castle, Copenhagen, was a Danish painter. Rodhe studied, among other things, at Det Ko...
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1860s Naturalistic Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

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