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Art For Sale
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The Art Wagon Galleries: Fritz Scholder (Reclining Woman) Poster (Signed)
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Fritz Scholder (Native American, 1937-2005)
Title: "The Art Wagon Galleries: Fritz Scholder (Reclining Woman)"
*Signed by Scholder in purple marker lower right
Circa:...
Category
1970s Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
$700 Sale Price
30% Off
Westhampton /// Contemporary Thomas McKnight Screenprint Hamptons NY Modern Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Thomas McKnight (American, 1941-)
Title: "Westhampton"
Portfolio: The Hamptons
*Signed by McKnight in pencil lower right
Year: 1987
Medium: Original Screenprint on soft-white Somerset paper
Limited edition: 143/175, (there were also 40 artist's proofs)
Printer: Willco Fine Art, New York, NY
Publisher: Chalk & Vermilion, New York, NY
Sheet size: 21" x 23"
Image size: 16" x 18.13"
Condition: Never framed, has been professionally stored away in its original green silk boxed portfolio for decades. In mint condition
Notes:
Numbered by McKnight in pencil lower left. Comes from McKnight's 1987 "The Hamptons" portfolio of twelve screenprints. Artist's copyright stamp lower right on verso.
Biography:
Thomas McKnight (born 1941) is a U.S. artist. He was born in 1941 in Lawrence, Kansas. He attended Wesleyan University, a small liberal arts college in Middletown, Connecticut, where he was one of only five art majors. He spent his junior year in Paris. After a year of graduate work in art history at Columbia University, in 1964 McKnight found a job at Time Magazine where he would work for eight years, interrupted by a two-year stint in the U. S. Army in South Korea. In 1972 McKnight left Time, summered on the Greek island of Mykonos, and commenced painting in earnest. In 1979 in Mykonos, McKnight met Renate, a vacationing Austrian student, and married the following year. Throughout the 1980s McKnight’s art, mainly limited edition serigraph prints, became increasingly popular. In 1994 he was commissioned by the White House to paint the first of three images for President Clinton...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
Southwest View of Sherborne Abbey Church /// History of Dorset English Engraving
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: John Hutchins (English, 1698-1773)
Title: "Southwest View of Sherborne Abbey Church" (Plate 15)
Portfolio: The History and Antiquities of the County of Dorset
Year: 1861-1870...
Category
1860s Victorian Art
Materials
Engraving
Sunchaser Painting Animal Dog Gold Contemporary Striking Invest Bold Classic Joy
By Karnish Art
Located in Pretoria, Gauteng
Title: Sunchasers Too
Painting Animal Dog Modern Gold Contemporary Striking Invest Bold Classic Joy
Original One-of-a-kind
This painting forms part of an artwork series called BLUE...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Gold
Cypress Tree on a Hill with a Cross - Tuscany - limited landscape editon photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color minimalist landscape photography. A small group of tall, slender cypress trees on a dry, barren hilltop against a cloudy sky.
Archival pigment ink print as...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Bent Palm, Beach, Florida, USA, black and white minimalist landscape - limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white minimalist landscape Photography. A leaning palm tree on a beach with calm waters and a distant shoreline.
Archival pigment ink print as part of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
"umbrella girl series" RK7TS, Abstract, Painting, 21st Century, Acrylic and Clay
By Roger König
Located in Dessau-Rosslau, Sachsen Anhalt
The antique/gold wooden frame has normal signs of wear and tear due to its age, chipping, or minor imperfections consistent with its period of manufacture.
Art measures 11.8 x 9.4 i...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Clay, Acrylic
Island. Evolution, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A small wooded island rests in calm water. A colorful rock formation rises from the surface and reflects below. Warm yellows and oranges on the left shift to co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
"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
Celestial Stillness: Louis Sparre’s Nocturnal Seascape with the Big Dipper, 1918
Located in Stockholm, SE
Louis Sparre (1863-1964)
Karlavagnen (The Big Dipper), 1918
oil on canvas
signed and dated L Sparre 18
Dimensions (unframed): 71 × 43 cm (28 × 17 in)
Dimensions (framed): 86.5 × 59...
Category
1910s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
No Ordinary Winter's Tale: Resilience, the War 1943, German Expressionist oil
Located in Norwich, GB
This is no ordinary winter scene. It is the story of prosecution and survival; of resolve and resilience during World War 2, as it was experienced by German Expressionist Heinz Lohma...
Category
1940s Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Vintage European Landscape Oil Painting Autumn Countryside Scene Framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This beautiful vintage oil on canvas landscape captures a warm, pastoral view of the European countryside bathed in soft autumn light. A cluster of whitewashed villas with red-tiled ...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Echoes of the Atelier X
Located in London, GB
Echoes of the Atelier X, acrylic on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an intermediary of an ageing art professor fro...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Acrylic, Board
The Vanguard Series Nr. XVI: A Collection of Postwar European Abstractions
By STM
Located in London, GB
"The Vanguard Series Nr. XVI: A Collection of Postwar European Abstractions", oil on board, by STM (circa 1950s–70s). A compelling body of work emerging from the forgotten studios an...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Board
The Vanguard Series Nr. XII: A Collection of Postwar European Abstractions
By STM
Located in London, GB
"The Vanguard Series Nr. XII: A Collection of Postwar European Abstractions", oil on board, by STM (circa 1950s–70s). A compelling body of work emerging from the forgotten studios an...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Sun loungers on the Beach - landscape - umbrellas - shore - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color minimalist landscape photography. Empty beach with striped lounge chairs and blue umbrellas on sandy shore, overcast sky.
Archival pigment ink print as par...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
"Zebra Swallowtail" Multicolored Butterflies on Salmon Pink Background Framed
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Butterflies. This piece depicts multicolor yellow and white delicate butterflies in ascension placed in a wonderful s...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
"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
DAVID SHRIGLEY - BEFORE YOU CAN ENTERTAIN. Modern Design British Artist Blue
Located in Madrid, Madrid
DAVID SHRIGLEY - BEFORE YOU CAN ENTERTAIN
Date of creation: 2021
Medium: 14 colour screenprint on Somerset satin paper
Edition: 125
Size: 75 x 56 cm
Condition: Brand new, in mint c...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
Sun loungers on the Beach - minimalist sea landscape, Italy - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color Landscape Photography. Beach chairs and canopies on a sandy beach with a pathway leading to the water, overcast sky.
Digital pigment ink print, edition of 7...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
New York City, Black and White Street Photography, Wall Street 1950s
Located in New york, NY
Wall Street, 1955-56 is a 19" x 13" limited edition print (9/9 available) by American photographer Leonard Freed. The work is signed verso (back of photo) by Brigitte Freed (wife of ...
Category
1950s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Digital, Archival Pigme...
Original-Moon Lit Dahlias-British Awarded Artist-Gold Leaf on oil canvas Board
Located in London, GB
This special large Gold leaf on Oil canvas board created by Shizico in early autumn, where Dahlia bloomsome and the colour of turning leaves take centre stage.
The pictorial languag...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Gold Leaf
Eclats de verdure Abstract Lanscape, oil on canvas, Expressionism, Contemporary
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
Size unframed: 50 x 50 cm (15.75 x 15.75 in)
Size framed 57 x 57 cm or 22.44 x 22.44 in.
Choose the color of frame black or wood.
A certificate comes the painting
the painting is re...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil
The Slope - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 18 x 24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Resting against the gentle gradient of sand, a naked figure finds repose where water transforms gravity and perception. The slope becomes both support and metaphor—a study in balance...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$640 Sale Price
20% Off
Signed French Impressionist Oil Painting Place de la Madeleine in Autumn Rain
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
La Madeleine, Paris
French School, indistinctly signed, mid 20th century
oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 26 x 21.5 inches
signed verso
Provenance: private collection, Frace
Condition...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Art
Materials
Oil
$1,586 Sale Price
30% Off
Impressionist Val D"Orcia Tuscany Landscape
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
#5-3405 Val D'Orcia Tuscany Landscape ,acrylic on board displayed in a gilt-wood frame, signed by Wosley .Image size 10.50 H x13.50 W
Category
1980s Art
Materials
Acrylic
Goupil by Eric Valat - Animal sculpture, fox, wild animal, bronze
By Eric Valat
Located in Paris, FR
Goupil is a sculpture by contemporary French artist Éric Valat, depicting a stylized fox poised confidently on all fours. This original work is available in an edition of eight, plus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Moonlight Seascape Original Oil Painting on Linen, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karen Darbinyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Linen,
Year: 2025
Style: Impressionism
Title: Moonlight
Size: 17.5" x 23.5" x 0.8'...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Linen, Oil
$2,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Torso of Hercules by Walter Peter Brenner - Bronze sculpture, male torso, nude
Located in Paris, FR
Torso of Hercules is a bronze sculpture made of brown patina made of iron nitrate and wax finish. sculpture by contemporary artist Walter Peter Brenner, dimensions are 38 × 38 × 3 cm...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
The Tub, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This painting is a modern reinterpretation of the English nursery rhyme "Rub-a-dub-dub, Three Men in a Tub," first published in Mother Goose's Melody in 1798. I...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil
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
New York City Brooklyn Bridge PLein Air Painting Michael Budden
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Brooklyn Bridge
oil/panel
11 x 14 unframed, 16.63 x 19.63 framed
signed LL
Here is beautiful plein air painting done on location in Brooklyn of the Brooklyn Bridge back in 2011. It...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
$2,000 Sale Price
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20th Century French Oil Painting Portrait of Lady Reading With Orange Hair
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Claude Benard (1926-2016, French), signed
Portrait of a Orange Haired Lady Reading
oil painting on canvas, unframed, signed bottom right
painting: 25.5 x 20 inches
provenance: the a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
$1,126 Sale Price
30% Off
ONE WAY, Miami Beach, Florida, USA - monochromo photograph - limited edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Ha...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
New York City Painting Calvary Church Park Avenue by Michael Budden Winter Flag
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Winter Calvary Church
oil/panel
8x10 unframed, 13.25 x 15.25 framed
signed LR
Winter Calvary Church is an oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael B...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Echoes of the Atelier VI
Located in London, GB
Echoes of the Atelier VI, acrylic on canvas mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an intermediary of an agein...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Board
Steps - underwater photograph - print on paper 21" x 18"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A light and very becoming underwater photograph of a girl walking down the steps of a swimming pool. The light blue photograph shows no swimsuit neither nudity.
The crystalline wate...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper
$640 Sale Price
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Between the Trees, Abstract Painting
By Kajal Zaveri
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
This piece reflects the quiet transition of nature as autumn approaches. Painted in an abstract realist style, it captures a moment of stillness where color and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Echoes of the Atelier I
Located in London, GB
Echoes of the Atelier I, acrylic on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an intermediary of an ageing art professor fro...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Antique impressionist portrait of a ballerina by Georges Guinegault
By Georges-Pierre Guinegault
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Atmospheric ballerina impressionist oil painting on canvas by French artist Georges-Pierre Guinegault. It's a delightful Art Deco rendition of a ballerina lacing her pointes from a ...
Category
1950s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Pair of Blue Birds - Abstract Folk Art Inspired Botanical Painting on Raw Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Meredith Walker’s "Pair of Blue Birds" is a striking example of contemporary folk art that merges whimsical symbolism with bold abstraction. This original acrylic and gouache paintin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Gouache
Sun Fern - Figurative Abstract Folk Art Inspired Modern Painting on Raw Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Meredith Walker’s "Sun Fern" is a radiant work of contemporary folk art that combines mystical symbolism with organic abstraction. This original acrylic and gouache painting on raw c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Gouache
«Eternal Pulse» – Ocean Wave Oil Painting in Refined Vert Bosphore Palette
Located in Zofingen, AG
The sea knows no rest.
It breathes, it lives, it calls — in every movement, in every shimmer of light.
This wave is a moment between calm and storm,
a breath that holds eternity with...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Starry-Eyed Cowgirl - Figurative Pin Up Western Inspired Portrait Art on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Jesse’s imagery often merges playful and gritty elements, blending floral patterns, vintage-inspired designs, and bold outlines with a touch of whimsy. His artwork exudes a sense of ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paint, Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic
1890's French Impressionist Pathway Sunlit Forest Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sunlit Forest
French Impressionist, late 19th century
indistinctly signed
oil on canvas, unframed
Canvas : 15 x 22 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: overall so...
Category
Late 19th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
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
"St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth" Impressionist Oil Painting Snow New York City
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
A charming depiction of St. Patrick's Cathedral on 5th Avenue in the snow with figures and cars. This evocative urban winter scene captures the majestic spires of St. Patrick's Cathe...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
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
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
Fine 17th Century Flemish Oil Painting Cavalry Skirmish Many Figures & Horses
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Cavalry Skirmish
Flemish School, 17th century
circle of Pieter Wouvermans
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 12 x 14 inches
canvas: 9.5 x 11.5 inches
Provenance: private collection
C...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
$1,501 Sale Price
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17th Century Dutch Oil Painting Figures outside Building in Ancient Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Figures in Landscape
Dutch School, 17th century
oil on wood panel, framed in antique wooden frame
framed: 14.5 x 17 inches
panel : 10 x 12 inches
Provenance: private collection, Engl...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
$1,173 Sale Price
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Carmen II - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 24" x 24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This dramatic underwater nude photograph captures a naked female figure enveloped in flowing crimson fabric against a deep black void. The composition features rich burgundy and wine...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$640 Sale Price
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Embrace of Books - Abstract library, textured painting, Oil on canvas
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
French contemporary painter Sophie Dumont continues her exploration of stylized libraries — architectures of memory rendered in tactile layers of oil. In Book Embrace, the artist bui...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
19th Century Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas by Eudes De Retz
Located in AIGNAN, FR
19th Century original antique landscape oil painting on stretched canvas by French artist Eudes De Retz (1856-1930). This charming old landscape is clean and bright for its age and ...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Art
Materials
Oil
Snow-covered boulevard in Maryino
By Simon Kozhin
Located in Zofingen, AG
This life study depicts a tranquil winter landscape of a poplar-lined boulevard in Maryino, where a blanket of snow envelops a row of bare trees. The composition draws viewers into a...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nude Female Study Posed On The Grass Mid Century French Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Suzanne Dinkés (French, 1895 - 1984)
Medium: oil on board, unframed
Size : 25 x 21 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: The painting is in overall...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
$652 Sale Price
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Portrait II - Figurative Elegant Feminine Watercolor Portrait Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Ama Liyanage, a contemporary artist and printmaker, creates whimsical paintings from her home studio in Ontario, Canada. Each piece holds minuscule painted details waiting to be disc...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Stormig natt (Stormy Night) (1978)
Located in Stockholm, SE
Bruno Wiklund (1937-2011) Sweden
Stormig natt (Stormy Night) (1978)
medium: pastel
signed and dated
unframed 52 × 41.5 cm (approx. 20.5 × 16.3 in)
framed 59 × 48 cm (approx. 23.2 ×...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Pastel
Escape - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 18 x 24"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This contemplative monochromatic nude photograph captures a naked woman suspended in minimalist gray waters, surrounded by a constellation of air bubbles ascending toward an unseen s...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
$640 Sale Price
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I Prefer The Lights Off - Abstract Dusty Rose Tone Textural Painting on Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles artist Taylour Martin creates captivating abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas, showcasing a dynamic interplay of emotions and colors. Martin's art is a reflection ...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
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