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Art For Sale
Price: $5,000 and up
Tombs of the Sultans - 19th Century Orientalist Oil Painting Royal Academy 1873
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Tombs of the Sultans’ by Frank Dillon R.I. R.O.I. (1823-1909).
The painting – which depicts the ancient Egyptian “City of the Dead” outside the old walls of Cairo – is signed by th...
Category
1870s English School Art
Materials
Oil
$28,487 Sale Price
30% Off
DAVID SHRIGLEY - BLACK CATS EVERYWHERE. Modern Design British Artist Blue
Located in Madrid, Madrid
DAVID SHRIGLEY - Black Cats Everywhere
Date of creation: 2021
Medium: 12 colour screenprint on Somerset satin paper
Edition: 125
Size: 75 x 56 cm
Condition: Brand new, in mint cond...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
Haint Blue Smudge - Original Contemporary Abstract Figurative Sculptural Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Nebraka-based Jamie Burmeister is a sculptural artist known for his original artworks incorporating original small bronze figures, standing at just up to 4 inches tall. His unique fi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Last Light on Slaters Ridge Wyatt Mt - Blue Sky Green Mountain Landscape, 2017
Located in Kent, CT
The verdant green, mountainous landscape of Gregory Hennen's Virginia home are the subject for this rich, highly detailed contemporary landscape painting in oil on panel. Recording t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Berlin Heights, Ohio Farm Landscape, Early 20th Century Cleveland School Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
August Frederick Biehle (1885-1979)
Berlin Heights Landscape, 1921
Gouache on paper
Signed lower right
17.5 x 23.5 inches
23.5 x 29 inches, framed
A versatile painter who worked in ...
Category
1920s American Modern Art
Materials
Gouache
"abstract girl in the rain " RK57T, Abstract, Painting, 21st Century, Acrylic
By Roger König
Located in Dessau-Rosslau, Sachsen Anhalt
Artist: Roger König b. Dessau, Germany (1968) Master student of Kurt Schönburg, HWK Halle, Germany. König combines modern painting with acrylic with old techniques and in this way, h...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Clay, Acrylic
Huge 1700's Florentine Old Master Oil Painting Eros Triumph over Pan Male Nudes
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Triumph of Eros over Pan
Florentine School, early 1700's period
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 58 x 48.5 inches
canvas: 50 x 40 inches
Provenance: private collection, Paris, Franc...
Category
Early 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
Huge 1920's French Post Impressionist Signed Oil Painting Cattle in Autumn Field
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Matinée d'Automne"
by Pierre Eugene Montezin (1874 - 1946), French
faintly signed lower right
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 35 x 45.5 inches
canvas: 26 x 36 inches
Provenance: priva...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Great Stag by Pierre Yermia - Large animal bronze sculpture, monumental
Located in Paris, FR
Grand Cerf (Great Stag) is a monumental bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Pierre Yermia.
The strength of the stag's body and its slender legs bestow it with a contradict...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
FLORENCE by R. Enrich - Geometric landscape painting, architecture, earth tones
By Ramon Enrich
Located in Paris, FR
FLORENCE is a unique acrylic on canvas painting by contemporary artist Ramon Enrich, dimensions are 170 × 240 cm (66.9 × 94.5 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes wi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Wisteria in Italy – Sunlit blossoms cascading over a tranquil Italian landscape
Located in Stockholm, SE
Bathed in luminous Mediterranean light, Wisteria in Italy captures a dreamlike hillside scene glimpsed through a curtain of violet-blue wisteria blooms. The composition reveals Faith...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Alchemy by Romain Langlois - Rock-like bronze sculpture, golden, abstract
Located in Paris, FR
Alchemy is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Romain Langlois, dimensions are 34 × 44 × 27 cm (13.4 × 17.3 × 10.6 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of a l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Monumental Bull I by Pierre Yermia - Animal bronze art, outdoor sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
Monumental Bull I is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Pierre Yermia, dimensions are 197 × 250 × 120 cm (77.6 × 98.4 × 47.2 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbered,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Carrefour l’arbre -21st Century Contemporary Realistic Landscape Painting
By Bart Koning
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Bart Koning (Dutch artist)
Carrefour l’arbre, sectie 4
100 x 160 cm ( frame not included)
Oil paint on wood panel
We're proud to introduce Dutch/ German artist Bart Koning.
Incredi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Counterpart by Tom Price - pair of functional sculpture (benches), art & design
By Tom Price
Located in Paris, FR
Counterpart is a sculpture by British contemporary artist Tom Price, it is composed by two elements each measuring 45 cm H x 220 cm L x 35 cm D ( 17.7 × 86.6 × 13,78 in).
This artwo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Steel
Mythology: Argus in Black
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Salvador Dali
Mythology: Argus in Black, Published 1963-1965
Medium: Copper and Drypoint Etching on Arches Paper
Edition: 106/150
Artwork Size: 22 x 30 in
Framed Size: 28.50 x ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
#260, Abstract, Photography, Painting, Expressionism
Located in München, BY
Unique piece in this size
More sizes and an Essay from Lyle Rexer about this series on request.
Joachim Schmeisser’s work rescues photography from the centuries-old straightjacket ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Pigment
Mirror “with fold” 123 by Franck K - Large stainless steel sculpture, reflection
Located in Paris, FR
Mirror “with fold” 123 is a unique mirror-polished stainless steel sculpture and concrete base by contemporary artist Franck K, dimensions are 143 × 123 × 56 cm (56.3 × 48.4 × 22 in)...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Concrete, Stainless Steel
Green Cathedral III - Large Contemporary Abstract Green Tone Geometric Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Harrison Gilman's large original artworks begin with a layer of fast-paced gestural abstraction followed by organic shapes and geometric structures. Some of his paintings remain in t...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Let's Catch the Last Train Home - David Yarrow
By David Yarrow
Located in Chicago, IL
"Let's Catch the Last Train Home"
2018
Archival Pigment Print
LARGE
Edition of 12 + 3 APs (Artist Proofs)
Unframed Size: 79" x 56"
Framed Size: 94" x 71"
STANDARD
Edition of 12 ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Three - an immersive infinite perceptual ambient color light wall sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
Raymond Graber‘s celestial light sculptures transform the sense of perception, challenging the human eye’s sense for scale and time with a transcendenta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood, Lights, LED Light, Neon Light, Mixed Media, Acrylic
#257, Abstract, Photography, Painting, Expressionism
Located in München, BY
Unique piece in this size
More sizes and an Essay from Lyle Rexer about this series on request.
Joachim Schmeisser’s work rescues photography from the centuries-old straightjacket ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Pigment
Still Life of Spaniels and Falcons in Landscape Setting by Carstian Luyckx
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Still Life of Game with Dogs and Spaniels in a Landscape Setting
Carstian Luyckx (Flemish, 1623 – c.1675)
Oil on canvas
Circa 1670
Unsigned
43 ½ x 59 1/8 in.; Frame 52 7/8 x 68 7/8...
Category
1660s Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Faust: Portrait of Marguerite (Le Portrait de Marguerite)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Salvador Dali
Faust: Portrait of Marguerite (Le Portrait de Marguerite), Published 1968-1969
Medium: Drypoint Etching with Roulette on Japon
Edition: 88/145
Artwork Size: 15 x 1...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
$32,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Amaryllis -21st Century Contemporary Realistic Still life Painting of Flowers
By Bart Koning
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Bart Koning (Dutch artist)
Amaryllis
46,2 x 36,8 cm ( framed included 46,6 x 37,2 cm)
Oil paint on wood panel
We're proud to introduce Dutch/ German artist Bart Koning.
Incredibly ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Peintre et Modèle, avec une Spectatrice - Etching by Pablo Picasso - 1963
Located in Roma, IT
Etching on wove paper, realized in 1962/63.
Image dimension: 31.6x41.7; Sheet dimension 45.4x55.4.
Hand signed in pencil lower right.
Edition of 2/50, hand numbered.
Very good co...
Category
1960s Cubist Art
Materials
Etching
Palimpseste- Large Black Abstract Library Painting – Oil on Canvas –Contemporary
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Title: Palimpsest
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 100 x 100 cm 39.37 x 39.37 in (canvas only), 107 x 107 cm 42.12 x 42.12 in framed
Year: 2025
Framing: Black wooden floater frame ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Geometric Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Synthesis 1 by Tom Price - Sculpture and lighting, LED, original, abstract, pink
By Tom Price
Located in Paris, FR
Synthesis 1 is a sculpture by contemporary artist Tom Price. This sculpture is made of resin, tar, steel, acrylic and LED, dimensions are 205 × 50 × 50 cm (80.7 × 19.7 × 19.7 in).
T...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Steel
DAMIEN HIRST - THE CURRENCY. Original work The Currency Project. Dots. Colors
By Damien Hirst
Located in Madrid, Madrid
DAMIEN HIRST - THE CURRENCY: 6274. NOBODY SHOULD HEAR IT
Date of creation: 2016
Medium: Enamel paint on handmade paper
Edition: 5.149 unique works on paper
Size: 21.5 x 30 cm
Conditi...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Enamel
Deluxe Signed Edition of Film Festival Lincoln Center (Feldman & Schellmann, II)
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol
Deluxe Signed Edition of Film Festival Lincoln Center (Feldman & Schellmann, II.19), 1967
Silkscreen, die-cut on opaque acrylic
Edition 2/200 (Signed and numbered on ...
Category
1960s Pop Art Art
Materials
Plastic, Mixed Media, Screen
Scandinavian Impressionist Landscape (1894)
Located in Stockholm, SE
This oil on canvas by Anton Genberg, signed and dated 1894, portrays a Scandinavian summer landscape bathed in gentle light. The composition features lush green meadows in the foregr...
Category
1890s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Calm Horizon", Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This luminous oil painting by Stephanie Johnson, titled Calm Horizon, captures the quiet grandeur of a landscape suspended between sky and water. Painted with soft tonal transitions ...
Category
2010s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
TAKASHI MURAKAMI: COLORFUL, MIRACLE, SPARKLE Superflat Japanese Pop Art Flowers
Located in Madrid, Madrid
Takashi Murakami - COLORFUL, MIRACLE, SPARKLE
Date of creation: 2022
Medium: Offset lithograph with cold stamp and high gloss varnishing on paper
Edition number: 207/300
Size: 71 cm ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art
Materials
Silver
"Picking Flowers In The Meadow" Impressionist Hungarian Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A stunning oil painting depicting a figure of a woman in the lush green grass picking flowers. The serene, sunlit landscape is filled with wildflowers, mostly red and pink hues, set ...
Category
1910s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$20,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Pridinol (Artist's Proof) - Damien Hirst Spot Print, 2010, Excellent Condition
By Damien Hirst
Located in Manchester, GB
A rare opportunity to purchase an Artist's Proof of one of Damien Hirst's Spot prints.
With a low edition size - 24 - and in mint condition, this artwork is an invaluable addition ...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Art
Materials
Woodcut
American Impressionist Earnest Albert Landscape Oil Painting Red Mill Winter
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
The Red Mill
oil/canvas 25 x 30 image
Provenance: Grand Central Art Galleries NY, The Goldfield Collection Los Angeles, CA,
John Moran lot 55 Sale 186 California & American Fine Art ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Thirteen - immersive infinite perceptual ambient color light wall sculpture
Located in San Francisco, CA
Raymond Graber's celestial light sculptures transform the sense of perception, challenging the human eye’s sense for scale and time with a transcendenta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Fiberglass, Plaster, Plywood, LED Light, Neon Light
Jacqueline au chapeau à Fleurs. I - Linocut by Pablo Picasso - 1962
Located in Roma, IT
Color linocut on Arches wove paper with watermark, realized in 1962.
Image dimension 34.9x27; Sheet dimension 63x44.6.
Hand signed in pencil lower right.
Edition of 49/50, hand nu...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Linocut
Infinite prosperity
Located in London, London
XXL EXTRA Large size
The item is located in central London, United Kingdom.
The painting will be shipped rolled
without stretcher bars, unframed.
It is possible to ship this item...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil
$5,930 Sale Price
58% Off
born to be wild
Located in London, London
The item is located in central London, United Kingdom.
The painting will be shipped rolled
without stretcher bars, unframed.
It is possible to ship this item stretched and framed....
Category
2010s Art
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Bubbles, They Will All Burst, Original David Shrigley Art
Located in Manchester, GB
David Shrigley, Bubbles, They Will All Burst, 2023
Unique acrylic on wove paper
75 x 55 cm (29 1/2 × 21 7/10 in)
Hand-signed with initials in pencil
Part of a series of 20 paintings
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Monocled Miss (1964) Limited Estate Stamped - Giant
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Monocled Miss (1964) Limited Estate Stamped
(Photo By Slim Aarons)
Renata Boeck enjoying breakfast in bed at the Regency Hotel,
New York, 1964.
Add...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Vedutist Italian painter - late 18th century landscape painting - Isola Bella
Located in Varmo, IT
Italian painter (late 18th century) - View of Isola Bella.
50 x 61.5 cm unframed, 64 x 77 cm framed.
Oil on canvas, in a carved and gilded wooden frame (not signed).
Condition rep...
Category
Late 18th Century Naturalistic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Lying Figure I by Pierre Yermia - Bronze sculpture, nude woman statue
Located in Paris, FR
Large Lying Figure I is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Pierre Yermia, dimensions are 46 × 120 × 17 cm (18.1 × 47.2 × 6.7 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbered...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
"Rainy Night in Paris, Kissing in the Rain" 1908 Frédéric Levé (1877-1968)
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"Rainy Night in Paris, Kissing in the Rain" 1908
Frédéric Levé (1877-1968)
Oil on canvas
Signature notated on stretcher bars on reverse
25 5/8 x 21 1/4 (32 7/8 x 28 1/3 frame) inch...
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fragrances et bruillements by G. Priault - Tropical forest painting, landscape
Located in Paris, FR
Fragrances et bruillements is a unique oil on canvas painting by contemporary artist Gérard Priault, dimensions are 81 × 100 cm (31.9 × 39.4 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Bull - Dutch Old Master art animal portrait oil painting
By Paulus Potter
Located in Hagley, England
This stunning Dutch Old Master animal portrait oil painting is attributed to circle or follower of Paulus Potter. Painted circa 1650 it is the head and shoulders of a magnificent sho...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
The Angel of Justice - Lithograph after Marc Chagall - 1974
By Marc Chagall
Located in Roma, IT
Color lithograph on Arches wove paper, with watermark.
Image dimension 51.5x43 cm.
Published by Editions des Amis du Message Biblique. Edition of 200. Printed by Charles Sorlier an...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Touching Water" Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Westport, CT
This tranquil oil painting by Stephanie Johnson, titled Touching Water, is a meditative portrayal of stillness in nature. The composition leads the viewer down a glassy, tree-lined r...
Category
2010s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Hunt Slonem "Ocelots Nicaragua" Neo-Expressionist Animals Framed Oil on Canvas
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Ocelots Nicaragua" is an oil on canvas painting by Hunt Slonem, depicting a group of ocelots with 10 blue floating balls against a shimmering gold background. The artist's expressiv...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint, Oil
Save the Savior - Large Oversized Affordable Contemporary Abstract Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Harrison Gilman's large original artworks begin with a layer of fast-paced gestural abstraction followed by organic shapes and geometric structures. Some of his paintings remain in t...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Le coeur de cirque (The Heart of the Circus)
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Le coeur de cirque (The Heart of the Circus)
Lithograph from 1967.
The edition of 31/50 on Arches paper.
Dimensions of work: 75.5 x 58.5 cm.
Hand signe...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Le jardin de pomone (The Garden of Pomona)
By Marc Chagall
Located in OPOLE, PL
Marc Chagall (1887-1985) - Le jardin de pomone (The Garden of Pomona)
Lithograph from 1968.
The edition of XX/XXV on Japon paper.
Dimensions of work: 64.1 x 46.4 cm.
Hand signed....
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Large abstract geometric wall sculpture painting on shaped wood panel, blue pink
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
"So Much Lately" is a large, acrylic painting / wall sculpture on a flat, shaped wooden panel from artist VM Fisk's "Thought Traps and Mind Mazes" series. It is attached to the wall ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
The Warriors by Martine Demal - bronze sculpture, group of human figures
Located in Paris, FR
Bronze sculpture, patinated brass or steel plinth. 167 cm × 60 cm × 30 cm. Limited edition of 8 + 4 A.P., each signed and numbered.
Dimensions include the plinth of the sculpture, w...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze, Steel
Werner Bronkhorst, SWING, Malbon Golf Series, Framed, 2025
Located in Manchester, GB
Werner Bronkhorst, SWING, Malbon Golf Series, Framed, 2025
Giclée print on Hahnemühle Photorag paper with ready-to-hang heavyweight solid oak frame from FSC-certified sources, made ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Giclée
«Free, Weightless, Brave. No.1»— Hyperrealistic Oil Underwater Nude Woman
Located in Zofingen, AG
There is so much unknown, undiscovered, and mysterious about the ocean. Much of what we are taught encourages fear—we learn about rips and currents, big waves and sharks, hear of dro...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
“Whisper of the Tides» — Hyperrealistic Oil Painting of Ocean Sunset and Waves
Located in Zofingen, AG
The gentle light of the sunset dissolves into the foamy surf, tinting the waves with shades of rose and gold. In this moment, the ocean seems to whisper its eternal secrets, flowing ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Passionfroot - Large Original Abstract Expressionism Colorful Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The paintings of Bruce Rubenstein seamlessly marry sophistication with affordability. His original art merges the creative attitudes of the two distinct art hot spots of New York and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic
At Dawn by Marine de Soos - Bronze sculpture, figurative, man
Located in Paris, FR
At Dawn is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Marine de Soos, dimensions are 68 × 65 × 38 cm (26.8 × 25.6 × 15 in)
The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
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