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Art For Sale
Price: $5,000 and up
Airplane in landscape - landscape painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful painting by Jeroen Allart is part of his minimalist landscape and animal painting he did in his home country the Netherlands.
'A farm stands before you on the horizon....
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Diptych: Aventure d'une libertine XI and XII. From The Secret Album Series
By Uwe Ommer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Diptych: Aventure d'une libertine IX and X. From The Secret Album Series
By Uwe Ommer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Andre MORISSET Seaside at Sunset, oil on canvas, 1931
Located in Saint Amans des cots, FR
Large Oil on Canvas by André Morisset (1876–1954), France, 1931
Title: Seaside at Sunset
With frame: 91 x 120 cm – 35.8 x 47.2 inches
Without frame: 75 x 103 cm – 29.5 x 40.6 inches...
Category
1930s Symbolist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"umbrella girl series" RK61VD1, Abstract Painting, 21st Century, Acryl
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,...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Clay, Acrylic
Diptych: Aventure d'une libertine XX and XXI. From The Secret Album Series
By Uwe Ommer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Untitled I and VIII, Diptych, From the Half Angels Half Demons series. Male Nude
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The angel is a being that religion has bequeathed us as a sign of purity, innocence, and goodness, from the same source, we have been sold to the devil as the form that represents ev...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
The Sea Painter - 21st Century Contemporary Imaginary Landscapes
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Michiel Schrijver
'The Sea Painter’
90 x 100 cm
(Framed included in price 94 x 104)
acryl on canvas
Dutch Painter Michiel Schrijver lives and works in the center of the Netherlands...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Seascape with Sailboats oil painting mediterranean Spain
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Eliseo Meifrén i Roig (Barcelona, 1859–1940)
Seascape with Sailboats — Original Oil Painting
Dimensions (canvas): 37 × 44 cm (14.56 × 17.32 in)
Dimensions (framed): 53 × 60 cm (20.8...
Category
1910s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Aventure d'une libertine, 16 Photographs. From The Secret Album series
By Uwe Ommer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Large 19th century Victorian oil landscape - Countryside Sunset - 1887
Located in Aartselaar, BE
George William Mote (1832–1909)
Landscape with Cattle on a Country Path, 1887
A luminous and richly detailed late-19th-century landscape by George William Mote, dated 1887, showcasi...
Category
19th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
3 Monumental Standing Figures by Pierre Yermia - outdoor bronze sculpture
Located in Paris, FR
3 Monumental Standing Figures is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Pierre Yermia, dimensions are 320 × 150 × 130 cm (126 × 59.1 × 51.2 in).
The sculpture is signed a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Stone Quarry in Berlin Heights, Ohio, Farm Landscape
Located in Beachwood, OH
August Frederick Biehle (1885-1979)
Stone Quarry, Berlin Heights, 1920
Gouache and graphite on paper laid on cardboard
Signed and dated lower left
24 x 18 inches
27.5 x 21.5 inches, ...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Gouache, Graphite
Dog Portrait of a Terrier on a Red Ground, circa 1910
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Red Terrier
Possibly Dutch School
Oil on wood panel, circa 1900-1910. Initialed lower left
7 1/2 x 7 (12 x 11 1/2 frame) inches
A charming and thoughtfully rendered depiction of a t...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Diana The Huntress - 1920´s Plaster Sculpture
Located in Stockholm, SE
Sculpture representing the goddess Diana by Danish sculptor Jens Jacob Bregno (1877–1946), executed in plaster around 1920. This is a highly unusual model by the artist, and possibly...
Category
1920s Art Deco Art
Materials
Plaster
"I Know How You Made Me Feel, Brad!", VIP invite to MoMA show HAND SIGNED Framed
Located in New York, NY
Historically scarce -- hand signed museum invitations by Lichtenstein from MoMA, where the artist attended himself, rarely surface, especially when framed and preserved at this level...
Category
1980s Pop Art Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Montmartre in the Snow, Parisian Winter City Scene
Located in Beachwood, OH
Armand Manago Guerin (French, 1913-1983)
Montmartre in the Snow, Paris
Oil on masonite
Signed lower right
18.25 x 21.5 inches
25 x 28.75 inches, framed
The painter known as Armand M...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Joyce Kozloff, Tepoztlan II unique, signed gouache & pencil, coveted 1970s work
Located in New York, NY
Joyce Kozloff
Tepoztlan II, 1973
Gouache and colored pencil on paper
Signed, dated and titled twice: once on the back of the work (shown) and once on the original board which has bee...
Category
1970s Abstract Geometric Art
Materials
Gouache, Color Pencil
New York City Brooklyn Bridge Salmagundi Award Winning Painting Michael Budden
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Foggy Evening Brooklyn Bridge
22 x 28 unframed and 31 x 36.5 framed
signed LL
Foggy Evening Brooklyn Bridge is an oil painting by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
THE VIRGIN AND CHILD SEATED BY A TREE
Located in Santa Monica, CA
ALBRECHT DURER (1471-1528)
THE VIRGIN AND CHILD SEATED BY A TREE 1513 (Bartsch 35; Meder 34 c-d, Hollstein 34)
Engraving a generally good impression. Trimmed slightly into the i...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Engraving
Hotel room. From The Light Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
While "Composition for Film" evokes notable associations with masters of painting and poetry known precisely for their ability to evoke slow time, intimacy, poetry, and introversion ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Dog Abstract Contemporary Art Avant- Garde Original Oil Painting
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Abstract Painting Avant- Garde Original Painting Ready to Hang
Artist: Karen Dolukhanyan
Title: Dog
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2020
Style: Abstract Art, Avant-Garde
Dimensions: 36" ...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Moon by Frédérique Domergue - Abstract painting and wall sculpture, original
Located in Paris, FR
Moon is a unique painting and wall sculpture by French contemporary artist Frédérique Domergue. This artwork is made with polished pink copper leaves on metal frame, dimensions are 1...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Metal, Bronze, Copper
Embrace (Light Grey) by Patricia Volk - Abstract ceramic sculpture, dynamic
Located in Paris, FR
Embrace (Light Grey) is a Fired clay constructed and painted sculpture by Patricia Volk, dimensions are 36 × 55 × 62 cm (14.1 × 21.6 × 24.4 in).
It is a unique signed piece and com...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Clay, Paint
Farm Landscape with Hollyhock Flowers & Field
Located in Beachwood, OH
August Biehle (American, 1885-1979)
Farm Scene with Hollyhocks, 1920
Gouache on paper
Signed lower left, dated lower right
15 x 19 inches
19.5 x 24 inches, framed
A versatile painte...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Gouache
Andre de Dienes – Nude, 1950 – Original Vintage - Black and White
Located in Cologne, DE
Andre de Dienes – Nude, 1950 – Original Vintage
This striking black-and-white photograph by André de Dienes, taken in 1950, captures a poised nude model reclining on a modernist chai...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Ryewater Farm Summer Splendour, original painting, landscape, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
This work depicts a traditional wildflower meadow in full bloom. The colours are drawn from soft green meadow grasses, the white ox-eye daisies in abundance as well as the pretty pin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Inner Energy by Yann Guillon - Bronze sculpture, male figure, nude torso, dark
By Yann Guillon
Located in Paris, FR
Inner Energy is a bronze sculpture by contemporary artist Yann Guillon, dimensions are 30 × 25 × 20 cm (11.8 × 9.8 × 7.9 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part of a l...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Beyond the Ashes - Abstract Moody Neutral Tone Figurative Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mark Acetelli’s oil and mixed media paintings awaken the viewer’s sense of exploration and adventure; they demand a new discovery. His artworks exhibit a chemistry of complexity and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of Woman with Fuchsia, Early 20th Century Still Life
Located in Beachwood, OH
Clarence Holbrook Carter (American, 1904-2000)
Woman with FUCHSIA, 1935
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right
31.75 x 27 inches
37 x 32.25 inches, framed
Untitled Still Life ver...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Divine Nude No.42 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, woman
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.42 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions:
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Large French Bronze Bust of Diana the Huntress
By Jean-Antoine Houdon
Located in Beachwood, OH
After Jean-Antoine Houdon (French, 1741-1828)
Bust of Diana
Bronze
Signed on side, Susse Frères foundry stamp on base
28.5 x 16.25 inches
Jean-Antoine Houdon's bust of Diana is an 1...
Category
19th Century Art
Materials
Bronze
Feline IV by Pierre Yermia - Contemporary animal sculpture, bronze, cat, elegant
Located in Paris, FR
Feline IV is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Pierre Yermia, dimensions are 24 × 90 × 20 cm (9.4 × 35.4 × 7.9 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is part o...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Au Garche, France, Impressionist Tree Landscape, Early 20th Century
Located in Beachwood, OH
Abel Warshawsky (American, 1883-1962)
Au Garche, France, 1910
Oil on board
Signed lower right (signed, dated and titled verso)
8.5 x 10.5 inches
13.5 x 15.5 inches, framed
Impressio...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Union V by Delphine Brabant - Abstract geometric sculpture, terracotta, white
Located in Paris, FR
Union V is a unique white terracotta sculpture with chamotte by contemporary artist Delphine Brabant, dimensions are 45 × 27 × 19 cm (17.7 × 10.6 × 7.5 in).
The sculpture is signed ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Terracotta
Sphere Definition 16 Abstract Artwork Original Painting Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan
Title: Sphere Definition 16
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Year: 2025
Style: Abstract Art
Dimensions: 34.5" x 68.5" x 2" inch (88 x 174 x 5cm)
Presentation: Framed,...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Divine Nude No.2 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, woman
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.2 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions:
*...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
English Fox Hunt Riders and Hounds in an extensive landscape
By Raoul Millais
Located in Woodbury, CT
Raoul Millais (1901–1999)
Fox Hunters with Hounds in a Landscape, circa 1931
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right: Raoul Millais and dated 1931
Presented in an ornate period gilt frame
DESCRIPTION (Dibs-style long format)
A fine early 20th-century sporting composition by Raoul Millais, painted in 1931 and depicting the timeless ritual of the English fox hunt...
Category
1930s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
12 Dreams - Large Abstract Expressionism Colorful Mixed Media Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The paintings of Bruce Rubenstein seamlessly marry sophistication with affordability. His expressive abstract landscape artwork 'Flourishing Fields' features whimsical details and vi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Enamel
"Ballerines à Paris" Colorful Impressionist Interior Scene Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
An exceptional impressionistic depiction of Ballerinas in an interior scene by Jules René Hervé. Hervé is known as a painter of the scenes of Parisian life. This piece is a pertinent...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Board, Oil
Mother and child, Signed painting on paper (unique), Hammer Galleries, Framed
By Gloria Vanderbilt
Located in New York, NY
Gloria Vanderbilt
Untitled mother and child painting
Gouache on paper
Signed by the artist on the front
Frame included
A poignant painting of a mother and child from the 1960s. Whi...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Permanent Marker
"21" Black Outline Bunny on Wild Orchid Pink Background Oil Painting Framed
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a gestural figure of a black bunny on a Wild Orchid Pink background with thick use of pai...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Diptych: Aventure d'une libertine XIV and XIII. From The Secret Album Series
By Uwe Ommer
Located in Miami Beach, FL
This series is born from a personal experience. The model's husband told Uwe Ommer an idea: he wanted to watch his wife with other men hiding behind the curtains. This is how the ser...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Color, Archival Pigment
Limited Edition Historic 1st Companion Ever, uniquely Hand Signed and Dated KAWS
By KAWS
Located in New York, NY
KAWS VERY FIRST COMPANION - HISTORIC
Uniquely Hand signed by the artist.
(the regular edition was unsigned)
KAWS
Limited Edition 1st Companion (Hand Signed by KAWS), 1999
Painted Ca...
Category
1990s Street Art Art
Materials
Resin, Mixed Media
Cuzco (Cusco) School - Ángel Arcabucero (Angel with Arquebus)
Located in Stockholm, SE
Cuzco (Cusco) School, 19th century, Peru
Ángel Arcabucero (Angel with Arquebus)
oil on canvas
unframed 58 × 41 cm (22.8 × 16.1 in)
framed 66 × 49 cm (26.0 × 19.3 in)
No signature
Provenance:
Acquired in Peru in 1986 by the previous owner.
Essay:
This painting portrays a celestial figure identified as an ángel arcabucero – literally an “arquebus-bearing angel,” shown as an archangel wielding an early firearm (arquebus) instead of the traditional sword. The angel is richly attired in the fashion of an Andean noble or Spanish aristocrat, with an ornate embroidered coat, lace collar, and billowing sleeves, in keeping with the distinctive iconography of these militaristic angels. Such ángeles arcabuceros emerged in the late 17th century in colonial Peru and were especially popular in Cuzco School painting, replacing the sword of Catholic warrior-angels with a gun to signify the heavenly army’s power in a modern guise. The graceful figure, dressed as a nobleman yet serving a divine role, underscores the fusion of earthly authority and celestial protection – a sartorial and symbolic innovation unique to the Andean region’s religious art. This iconography, found only in Spanish colonial territories, resonated with local believers and visually confirmed the angel’s identity as a heavenly soldier guarding the faithful, his delicate hands cradling a long-barreled arquebus as if it were a sacred instrument.
The Ángel Arcabucero exemplifies the visual hallmarks of the Cuzco School, a major Peruvian painting...
Category
19th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Group by Martine Demal - Bronze sculpture, group of human figures, harmony
Located in Paris, FR
The Group is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Martine Demal, dimensions are 40 × 21.5 × 5.5 cm (15.7 × 8.5 × 2.2 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbered, it is par...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
"Two Blue" Double Bunnies on Sky Blue Background Oil Painting on Wood Framed
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts 2 gestural figures of back bunnies on a Sky Blue background with thick use of paint. Insp...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"Reading in the Study" Impressionist Portrait Oil Painting Woman in Pink Dress
Located in New York, NY
An Early 20th Century elegant portrait oil painting by Gordon Stevenson depicting a pensive young woman seated in a serene, indoor setting wearing a l...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Permutations
Located in Burlingame, CA
Elizabeth Geisler is best known for her dazzling contemporary water reflection paintings that bridge realism with abstraction. Up close, the paintings appear ambiguous and loose, yet...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Portrait of a Gentleman - British Old Master c1750 art oil painting
Located in Hagley, England
This superb British 18th century Old Master portrait oil painting is attributed to Thomas Hudson. Painted circa 1750 it is a three-quarter length standing portrait of a gentleman in ...
Category
1750s Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
$6,544 Sale Price
20% Off
"Silver Scored" Black Bunny Gold & Silver Background Oil Painting Framed
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a gestural figure of a black bunny on a silver and gold background with red accents with ...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
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
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
Cheddar Cheese (F. & S. II.63) (from Campbell’s Soup II)
By Andy Warhol
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint in colours on wove paper
Edition 150 of 250
88.9 x 58.4 cm (35 x 23 in)
Signed in ball-point pen and numbered, lower right on the reverse
Condition upon request
Printed b...
Category
20th Century Pop Art Art
Materials
Screen
Divine Nude No.19 by Ronald Martinez - Fine art photography, Renaissance, body
Located in Paris, FR
Divine Nude No.19 is a limited-edition photograph by French contemporary artist Ronald Martinez.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions:
...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print
Target acrylic on paper geometric Color Field painting signed & inscribed Framed
Located in New York, NY
Kenneth Noland
Untitled Target, 2001
Acrylic paint on offset lithograph paper
Signed, dated, and dedicated along lower edge: For Howard and Susan with Love Kenneth Noland 6.10.01
Fra...
Category
1990s Color-Field Art
Materials
Acrylic, Permanent Marker, Lithograph, Offset
Rising Silence Landscape Impressionism Original Painting Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan
Title: Rising Silence
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2025
Style: Impressionism
Dimensions: 70" x 66" x 2" inch (178 x 168 x 5cm)
Presentation: Stretched on Woode...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$16,000 Sale Price
20% 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
water flowers, abstract expressionism art
Located in London, London
Abstract painting on canvas, blue, extra-large, XXL, large oil on canvas painting, abstract expressionism.
acrylic, oil on canvas
one-of-a-kind
90x100cm
Full size 194x104cm
the pai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$5,753 Sale Price
20% Off
"Future of Flight" (2025) Original Portrait of Young Girl, Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Future of Flight" (2025) by Denise Dambrackas is an original oil painting that depicts a young girl sending a plane into flight, amongst a vibrant and colorful sky, presented in a r...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil, Panel
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