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Art For Sale
"Night at the Palais Garnier" Gold Leaf French Haute Couture Painting on Canvas
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
French School L'oeil qui ne contemple Impressionist century Cat Painting Indian
Located in Zofingen, AG
Citation : Si l'oeil ne contemple pas, l'oeil ne verra pas
Animal - Closeup portrait of a cat
Technique: oil, acrylic, and ink on old book pages on wooden fram...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Ink, Oil, Acrylic
French Rococo 18th-Century Portrait of Young Girl with Grapes Oval Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Young Girl
French Rococo School, 18th century
oil on canvas, framed
Framed: 24 x 20 inches
Canvas : 20 x 16 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: ve...
Category
18th Century Rococo Art
Materials
Oil
Scarce offset lithograph: Cake Slices, for SFMOMA, Hand signed by Wayne Thiebaud
Located in New York, NY
Wayne Thiebaud
Cake Slices, for the New SFMOMA (Hand signed by Wayne Thiebaud), 1996
Color Offset lithograph (hand signed by Wayne Thiebaud)
B...
Category
1990s Pop Art Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Edward Hopper 'Barber Shop' 2010- Offset Lithograph
By Edward Hopper
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 13 x 17 inches ( 33.02 x 43.18 cm )
Image Size: 13 x 17 inches ( 33.02 x 43.18 cm )
Framed: Yes
Frame Size: H: 14 x W: 18 x D: .75 in.
Condition: A: Mint
Additiona...
Category
2010s Art
Materials
Offset
Jan Groenestein (1919-1979) - 1952 Oil, Head of a Grey Horse
Located in Corsham, GB
This compelling portrait captures the essence of an elegant grey horse, its noble profile set against a rich, dark background. The artist's skillful use of light and shadow accentuat...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
Mario Schifano Acrylic on Canvas Signed Schifano Archivio Schifano Roma
Located in Roma, IT
Mario Schifano Acrylic on Canvas Signed Schifano unique authentic and certified work Archivio Schifano Roma, second half of the seventies. Provenance Bologna, Galleria Studio G7 (lab...
Category
20th Century Art
Materials
Acrylic
Dark Beach Sunrise, Blue Nautical Cyanotype, Watercolor Paper, Vertical Seascape
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype.
"Dark Beach Sunrise" is a handmade cyanotype print portraying beautiful sunrise reflection on the beach.
Details:
+ Titl...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Emulsion, Watercolor, Lithograph, Paper
Expressive Portrait of a Gentleman in a Cravat Modernist French Oil
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Expressive Portrait of a Gentleman in a Cravat
signed by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930)
size: 10.5 x 9 inches
oil painting on board, unframed
condition: the painting is in very good cond...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Philippines
Located in Manchester, GB
Guy Gee, Philippines
Each artwork by Gee has been digitally reimagined from an original postage stamp. Printed on 350gsm G. F. Smith card, cut out and finished by hand, the artwork ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
"The River" Contemporary Neutral Toned Gestural Abstract Expressionist Painting
Located in Houston, TX
Neutral toned gestural abstract painting by contemporary artist Ian Francis. The work features a variety of gestural marks accented by small beige, black, and yellow shapes set again...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
18th Century Oil on Canvas Portrait, Major Alexander Brown in Military Uniform.
By Sir David Wilkie
Located in Cotignac, FR
18th Century Military portrait of a young officer in Napoleonic period military dress. The painting is not signed but the subject is Major Alexander Brown. The work is oil on canvas later mounted on board and presented in a fine 'Regence style' carved gilt frame. There are labels to the back referring to the subject, 'Major Brown of Trinity' and a framers trade label from Edinburgh.
A magnificent and imposing portrait of a young military officer in the prime of his life. His red uniform adorned with fine buttons, fringed epaulettes and high gilt collar. His ruddy complexion offset by his stylish hair, a quiff and swept forward to the sides as was the fashion at the time.
Sir David Wilkie RA (18 November 1785 – 1 June 1841) was a Scottish painter, especially known for his portraits, including formal royal ones, and scenes from his travels to Europe and the Middle East. He painted successfully in a wide variety of genres, including historical scenes. His main base was in London, but he died and was buried at sea, off Gibraltar, returning from his first trip to the Middle East. He was sometimes known as the "people's painter".
He was Principal Painter in Ordinary to King William IV and Queen Victoria. Apart from royal portraits, his best-known painting today is probably The Chelsea Pensioners Reading the Waterloo Dispatch of 1822 in Apsley House.
Sir David Wilkie was actually admitted in 1799 (despite only being 14) through the influence of the Earl of Leven...
Category
Late 18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
Up she goes- 21st Century Contemporary Cathedral Interior Painting
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Sylvia van Opstall
Up She Goes
120 x 170 cm
Framing is possible
The artist Sylvia van Opstall comes from all kinds of "worlds that deal with design and classical painting," the des...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Ink
The Painter's Studio original painting by Paula Craioveanu oil on canvas Framed
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"The Painter's Studio", oil on canvas, 39x27.5in / 100x70cm
The artist's studio and art objects part of artist' life and work. A sculpture, an antique head and a painting that remin...
Category
2010s Academic Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
French Impressionist Oil Painting of Two Women at the Beach
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Two Women at the Beach
By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930)
Size: 8.75 x 10.75 inches (height x width)
Oil painting on board, unframed
Condition:...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Fine Victorian 1890's Signed Scottish Oil Painting Farmers Daughter in Meadow
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Farmers Daughter"
by Charles Martin Hardie RSA (1858-1916) *see notes below
signed with initials and dated '84,
oil on canvas: 20 x 16 inches
framd: 26 x 22 inches
Provenance: ...
Category
1890s Victorian Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Italian Early 17th Century Renaissance Baroque Oil Painting Entombment of Christ
Located in Portland, OR
An important & large Italian Baroque period oil painting on panel attributed to Daniele Crespi (1598-1630), "The Entombment of Christ", Milan circa 1620. See artist biography below.
...
Category
1620s Baroque Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Juventus 1995-96 - The Embrace of Victory. UEFA. 1996
Located in Firenze, IT
Juventus 1995-96 - The Embrace of Victory
Artist: Marco Silombria (Savona, 1936 - Albissola, 2017)
Medium: Charcoal on paper
Dimensions: 101 x 72 cm
Signed: Lower right, "Si...
Category
Late 20th Century Pop Art Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal, Carbon Pencil
Large Malcah Zeldis Folk Art Oil Painting Jazz Great "Satchmo" Louis Armstrong
Located in Surfside, FL
Swing Jazz Quartet. Satchmo, Louis Armstrong!
Oil Painting on board. Hand signed and dated 1974
Malcah Zeldis (born Mildred Brightman; 1931) is an American folk art painter. She is ...
Category
1970s Folk Art Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Hunt Slonem "Untitled" Neoexpressionist Butterflies Framed Oil on Wood Painting
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Untitled" is a neo-expressionist framed oil on wood by Hunt Slonem depicting four white butterflies with a silver and gold background. The thick layer of paint has been "scored" wi...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Wood, Paint, Oil
Ginger & White Cats Original British Signed Oil Painting Feline Friends
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Ginger & White Cats
English School, 20th century
signed with artists monogram
oil on board, framed
framed: 17 x 26 inches
board: 12.5 x 21.5 inches
Provenance: private collection, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century English School Art
Materials
Oil
'The French Farm' — Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'The French Farm', color serigraph, 1942, Ryan 86. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Edition 50' in pencil. A superb impression, with fresh colors, on cream, wove paper; ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Screen
Turpentine - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Turpentine - 2021
50x40cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid.
Signature label and certificate.
Artist inventory PL2021-1081.
Not mounted. ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
All the Kin Folk, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Boldy colored and stylized figures fill the scene. Their expressions exude anticipation as if waiting for a band to start or a train to arrive. The blue backg...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art
Materials
Acrylic
“A Summer’s Day”
Located in Southampton, NY
Here for your consideration is a large original oil
on canvas painting by the French artist, Elyane Addari. Signed lower right. Condition is excellent. Circa 1980. The painting i...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Composition (Cramer 105), Femmes, Joan Miró
By Joan Miró
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Héliogravure on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Joan Miró, Femmes, 1965. Published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris; printed ...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Thomas McKnight 'Barbados' 1989- Offset Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 26.75 x 27.5 inches ( 67.945 x 69.85 cm )
Image Size: 21.75 x 24.5 inches ( 55.245 x 62.23 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: A: Mint
Additional Details: In "Barbados", McKnight...
Category
1980s Art
Materials
Offset
Harlem Beauty Contest, African American Fashion, Black and White Photograph
Located in New york, NY
Beauty Contest, Harlem, 1963 by Leonard Freed is a 16" x 20" gelatin silver print, signed verso (on back) by the Freed estate. The image appears in Amer...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Hunt Slonem "Blue Daiseys" Textured Metallic Flowers
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Blue Daiseys" Textured Metallic Flowers
A group of five daisy flowers gestured in white, yellow and green on a blue and silver background in a vintage frame
Unframed: 2...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Mediterranean Landscape II
Located in London, GB
Mediterranean Landscape II', ink on art paper, by Pierre Dionisi (circa 1930s). Sepia-toned, original drawing in a compelling style depicts a view of a ...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Countryside landscape by Herbert Theurillat - Oil on canvas 81x100 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
Herbert THEURILLAT is an artist born in 1896 and died in 1987. His works have been sold at public auction 29 times, mainly in the Painting category....
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Two male Nudes. Painting.Pastel, carbon pencil, ink on archival paper mounted
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Two Nudes, 2016 by Celso Castro-Daza
One of a kind
Pastel, carbon pencil, ink on archival paper mounted on board
Image size: 40.5 H in. x 55.5 in. W
Mounted on acid-free board: 41 H x 56 in. W
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents.
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Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo foray into the underbelly of Colombia’s drug world. Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride their erect penises...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Carbon Pencil, Oil Pastel
Sunday Afternoons (Sidewinder) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Sunday Afternoons (Sidewinder), 2005
Edition of 1/10, 24x20cm,
digital C-Print based on an expired Polaroid.
Signature label and Certificate.
Artist Inventory # 3765.01.
Not mounted...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Mid Victorian Portrait of a Lady Seated in a Chair Original 19th Century Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Seated Lady
English School, mid 19th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 16 x 13 inches
provenance: private collection, England
condition: good and sound condition
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
original lithograph
By Louis Bosa
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1951 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1951 Spr...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
IDEA 7 by Ramon Enrich - Contemporary landscape painting, architecture, geometry
By Ramon Enrich
Located in Paris, FR
IDEA 7 is a unique acrylic on canvas painting by contemporary artist Ramon Enrich, dimensions are 140 × 210 cm (55.1 × 82.7 in).
The artwork is signed, sold unframed and comes with ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Honesty, English antique mauve flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Honesty'
Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890.
Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor of Freehand a...
Category
Late 19th Century Naturalistic Art
Materials
Lithograph
Clinton Hill, Paris, Oct., 1951 (France), mid-century abstract gouache drawing
By Clinton Hill
Located in New York, NY
Clinton Hill (1922-2003), created quintessential mid-century images.
He lived in SoHo, New York, and was a frequent Gallery visitor.
Born in Idaho and raised on a working ranch, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Gouache
Huge 1600's Flemish Old Master Oil Painting Tobias & The Angel Baroque Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Tobias & The Angel
Flemish Baroque Old Master, circa 1600
circle of Paul Brill (Flemish 1554-1626)
oil painting on canvas, 43.5 x 59.25 inches
condition: very good, restored and read...
Category
Early 17th Century Baroque Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century English Victorian Portrait of Two Dogs in a Field Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of Two Dogs
English artist, mid 19th century
oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas: 18 x 14 inches
Provenance: Private collection, England
Condition: The painting is in good condit...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Art
Materials
Oil
French Impressionist Oil Painting of A Tranquil Village View with Stone Bridge
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of A Tranquil Village View with Stone Bridge
By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930)
Size: 8.75 x 10.75 inches (height x width)
Oil painting on board, ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
James Deann At A Car Rally - Oversize Limited Print
By Frank Worth
Located in London, GB
James Dean At A Car Rally 1955 (colorised)
by Frank Worth
paper size 40 x 60 inches / 101 x 152 cm
edition of 6 only in this size
Archival pigment print
unframed
Note other si...
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
JULES RENE HERVE (1887-1981) Childen Feeding Ducks Woodland River signed oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Feeding the Ducks
by Jules Rene Herve (1887-1981) French, signed front and back
oil painting on canvas, framed
canvas: 9 x 11 inches
framed: 15 x 16.5 inches
Provenance: private col...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Stars/Sterren - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print realized by Escher in 1948.
Hand signed in pencil and annotated in pencil lower right "eigen druck".
Monogrammed and dated in the plate "MCE/X-'48 upper right.
One o...
Category
1940s Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Bonus Zone
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Bonus Zone" is an original artwork made from screenprinting on wood by Luke O'Sullivan. This piece measures 33”h x 9”w x 9"d
"Surprise and luck are always present...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood, Screen
Ballerina Silouette Oil Painting #2
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6030 Ballerina silhouette oil painting in white on a black backround
Signed verso Robert Yarmola
Framed
Image 17.75x10.75
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Oil
Antique French Art Nouveau Bronze Figure Statue Sculpture "Prise de Corsaire"
Located in Portland, OR
A fine antique large French Art Nouveau Bronze Figural Sculpture, titled "Prise de Corsaire" by Emmanuel Villanis (1858-1914), circa 1900.
This very...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Art
Materials
Bronze
"umbrella girl in the rain " RK3D, 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
The Cornish Fisherman Antique English Signed Oil Painting Portrait of Sea Man
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"The Old Salt" (Cornish fisherman)
by David W. Haddon (British, late 19th/ early 20th century)
signed and dated
oil on board, framed
framed: 18 x 14 inches
board: 16 x 12 inches ...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Art
Materials
Oil
Adobe House, New Mexico, 20th Century Painting by Slovenian/American artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Harvey Gregory Prusheck (Slovenian/American, 1887-1940)
Adobe House, New Mexico
Oil on board
Signed lower right
9.25 x 11.5 inches
16 x 18 inches, framed
Harvey Gregory Prusheck was...
Category
20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
"Rover" Multicolor Bunny on Ombre Diamond Dust Pink & Blue Background 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 multicolor bunny on an ombre Pink and Blue background with thick u...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Glass, Resin, Oil, Wood Panel
Brigitte Bardot b/w silver gelatin photograph on paper
Located in Norwich, GB
Terry O’Neill CBE is one of the world’s most collected photographers, with work hanging in national art galleries and private collections worldwide. From presidents to pop stars, he ...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Hunt Slonem "Lawn" Light Green Bunny
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Lawn" Light Green Bunny
A single rabbit gestured in black on a light green background in a vintage frame
Unframed: 6 x 4 inches
Framed: 9 x 7 inches
*Painting is framed...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Untitled -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Embroidery, Acrylic, Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected crater from Nigeria
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Artist
A...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Thread
1920's French Portrait of Man with Moustache Signed & Dated Oil on Canvas
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Man
French School
signed and dated 1923
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 16 x 13 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: good and sound conditi...
Category
1920s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cherries Dark Pocket Painting 2c, original painting, contemporary
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Dark Cherries 2c 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 sti...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Irony of a Negro Policeman
Located in Central, HK
The Skateroom x Estate of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Irony of a Negro Policeman
Print on 7 ply Grade A Canadian Maple wood (Set of 3)
Open edition
31 1/2 × 7 9/10 in 80 × 20 cm (each)
L...
Category
2010s Art
Materials
Wood
Seascape, Blue Seaside, Oil on canvas, Sky, Abstract Expressionism, French
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
This piece, titled 'Seascape,' delves into a subtle exploration of the horizon where the sea meets the sky. The shades of blue, gray, and white are applied with broad, textured brush...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
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