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Art For Sale
Width: 1–12 in
lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph. Executed by Thomas Hart Benton to illustrate the Lynn Riggs classic "Green Grow the Lilacs" and printed in 1954 in a limited edition of 1500 by the University of ...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Contemporary Expressionist portrait woman acrylic on canvas "Inner flame"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary expressionist woman’s portrait "Inner Flame", executed with elements of fauvism and art naïve, was created by the French artist Natalya Mougenot and makes part of h...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
WILD ANIMAL
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Markers & acrylic on paper
Shipped well protected, unframed
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Antique Italian Renaissance Old Master Painting Eleonora of Portugal Frederick 3
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Aeneas Piccolomini Introduces Eleonora of Portugal to Frederick III"
Siena School, late 19th century
After Bernardino Di Betto (Pintoricchio) 1454-1513
painting on wood panel, unfra...
Category
Late 19th Century Renaissance Art
Materials
Oil
They were authentic Vespa riders in Rome 82/100 - figurative, bronze sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Australia’s Gillie and Marc, the contemporary artist duo, continue to create their popular, humorous dogman, rabbit-woman hybrid imagery in this new bronze sculpture. The playful hum...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Impressionistic Farm Landscape Oil Painting Michael Budden Sky Cloud Study
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Partly Sunny is a new oil on panel painting just completed in the studio. The painting exudes the rich qualities of oil paint with bright strong color, a variety of lost and found ed...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Camellia - Vibrant green and pink expressionist abstract floral painting
Located in Silverthorne, CO
"Camellia" is a vibrant expressionist abstract floral, made with bright green and pink and white hues, with dynamic palette knife and brush strokes. It is made on a deep frame that l...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Rene Magritte 'Empire of Light, from the Venice Guggenheim
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This reproduction of the Magritte painting is the only authorized and approved copy in its current format. It has been sanctioned by the appropriate authorities managing Magritte’s e...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Offset
'Sisters' — Renowned Black American, Harlem Renaissance Artist
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
James Lesesne Wells, 'Sisters', linocut, edition not stated but small, 1928. Signed, titled, and annotated 'imp' in pencil. A fine impression on off-white wove Japan paper, with wide margins (1 7/8 to 3 3/4 inches), in excellent condition. Printed by the artist. Very scarce. Matted to museum standards, unframed.
Image size 8 3/16 x 6 3/4 inches (208 x 171 mm); sheet size 13 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches (343 x 273 mm).
Exhibition and Literature: 'Narratives of African American Art and Identity: The David C. Driskell Collection,' The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland, extensive touring exhibition, 1998-2000.
Collections: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution (Anacostia Community Museum).
ABOUT THE ARTIST
“Wells is more than an artist with a deep concern for his fellow man. He carries many of his themes a step further into an apocalyptic world, a world of revelation and shifting lights. … He works on large blocks in a bold free style. … His work has a vigor, therefore, that is not often used in the medium today.”
—Jacob Kainen (painter, critic, and collector) from Richard J. Powell’s 1986 essay Phoenix Ascending: The Art of James Lesesne Wells.
James Lesesne Wells was an American painter, printmaker, educator, and pioneering figure of the Harlem Renaissance, whose work established a vital connection between African heritage, modernist form, and African American cultural identity. Known for his innovative use of linoleum and woodblock printing, Wells played a key role in shaping 20th-century African American art and inspired countless students throughout his lengthy career as a teacher at Howard University.
Born in Atlanta, Georgia, Wells' early exposure to the arts came through church and community, where African American cultural traditions were central. He pursued formal artistic training at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania (earning a B.A. in 1924), followed by studies at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the Barnes Foundation, where he encountered European modernists as well as traditional African sculpture, which profoundly influenced his style.
Wells moved to New York in the late 1920s, swiftly immersing himself in the lively artistic and intellectual scene of Harlem. There, he became associated with artists, writers, and thinkers of the Harlem Renaissance, contributing to the growth of Black cultural identity. Considered a mentor to many famed artists of the Harlem Renaissance, Wells served as director of a summer art workshop in Harlem where his assistants included Charles Alston, Jacob Lawrence, and Palmer Hayden...
Category
1920s American Modern Art
Materials
Linocut
"Tribe of Joseph" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the gouache). Printed in 1962 at the Mourlot atelier for "Jerusalem Windows". This piece was executed by Chagall in preparation for his famous stained-glass...
Category
1960s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Carrie Bradshaw says good bye. From the Art, Culture & Society series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor
Original HAND SIGNED AND NUMBERED 7/30 Pumpkin (Red) Sculpture on base with box
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in New York, NY
Yayoi Kusama
Original Limited Edition hand signed and numbered Pumpkin (Red), 1998
Painted cast resin on ceramic tile in the original wood box, display plate and paper box
Signed and...
Category
1990s Pop Art Art
Materials
Ceramic, Resin, Mixed Media, Permanent Marker
Light Up!
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Carla Sutera Sardo was born in Agrigento in 1983. She studied law and graduated in 2011. During her university career, she became interested in photography, thus s...
Category
2010s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Light Up I!
Located in New York, NY
PACKAGING: 30x40" and 40x60" prints are shipped in a special fortified tube to guard against bending or damage. Framed 30x40" prints are shipped via FedEx in a bespoke cardboard box ...
Category
2010s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Hera II (6/25) - Modern Figurative Abstract Bronze Sculpture for Shelf or Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
German sculptor Nando Kallweit produces figurative bronze sculptures and reliefs with an elegant and graceful modern appeal. Seemingly disparate cultures inspire Kallweit; the streng...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Upfont' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde's Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Upfront' - 2019
signed in front, not mounted.
1 Archival Color Photograph based on the original Polaroid.
Polaroid ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Polaroid, Lambda, Color, C Print
Limited Edition Historic 1st Companion Ever (Hand Signed and Dated '00 by 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
''Serenity" Contemporary Bronze Sculpture Portrait of an Owl, Brown Barn Owl
Located in Utrecht, NL
British sculptor Anthony Theakston (1965), who draws his inspiration from the shape and movement of birds, simplifies the birds and omits more and more details until only the essence...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Luna (7/25) - Modern Figurative Abstract Bronze Sculpture for Shelf or Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
German sculptor Nando Kallweit produces figurative bronze sculptures and reliefs with aquiline and a graceful modern appeal. Seemingly disparate cultures inspire Kallweit; the streng...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Studio di piede (study of foot) – Florentine School 18th century
Located in Middletown, NY
Red chalk on cream laid paper, 6 3/8 x 7 inches (160 x 176 mm), the full sheet. In very good condition with minor toning and some modern notations in pencil on the verso, as well as ...
Category
Early 18th Century Italian School Art
Materials
Crayon, Laid Paper
Know Yourself - Original Dramatic Abstract Figurative Portrait Acrylic Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rooted in introspection and emotional nuance, Xenia Gray’s figurative mixed media works capture the quiet tension between solitude and connection. Her paintings often depict the huma...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Sultry Day' — American Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Paul Landacre 'Sultry Day', wood engraving, 1935. Edition 60, 1935; second edition of 150 (only 7 impressions printed); third edition 200, American Artists Group, 1937. Wien 170. Sig...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Woodcut
Pink Abstract - Original Expressive Colorful Mixed Media Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elisabeth Grace, a visionary artist based in Denver, CO (USA), is renowned for her immersive large-scale paintings, collages, murals, and installation art. With a BA in oil painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil
UK exhibition poster of Grimms' Fairy Tales (Hand signed by David Hockney)
Located in New York, NY
David Hockney
Grimms' Fairy Tales (Hand Signed), 1996
Offset Lithograph Poster
Boldly signed in ink marker on the top front
16 1/2 × 11 1/2 inches
Unframed
This signed offset lithogr...
Category
1990s Pop Art Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
"Tribe of Levi" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the watercolor). Printed in 1962 at the Mourlot atelier for "Jerusalem Windows". This piece was executed by Chagall in preparation for his famous stained-gl...
Category
1960s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Lip Service' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde's Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Lip Service' - 2017
signed in front, not mounted.
1 Archival Color Photograph based on the original Polaroid.
Polar...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print, Archival Paper, Polaroid, Lambda, Color
Medusa Vase #8-hand build porcelain vase, blue-green, purple-red color
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Medusa vase #8. Hand made porcelain vase. First thrown on the pottery wheel, then hand build and carved. This vase is one from Irina’s series called "Medusa". It's glazed with celado...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Sunset Early French Impressionist c1890 Signed.
By François Auguste Ravier
Located in Holywell, GB
François-Auguste Ravier ( 1814 – 1895)
Sunset Landscape Signed.
25cm x 32cm (39cm x 46cm framed)
10 x 12 inches (15 x 17 inches framed)
A fabulous sunset by the early Impressionist...
Category
1890s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Antique French male nude man in thong oil painting by Jean Philippe Gayral
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Captivating antique post-impressionist oil painting on canvas of a man in a thong. This painting is signed and dated and is on a new stretcher within a new frame. Atmospheric portra...
Category
1920s French School Art
Materials
Oil
Antique man nude oil painting 1920's portrait of a man in a thong impressionist
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Captivating antique man in a thong signed and dated impressionist oil painting on canvas. Atmospheric vintage almost nude portrait oil painting of a man standing. A man stands in a ...
Category
1920s French School Art
Materials
Oil
"Salon des Artistes Decorateurs" lithograph poster
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the original lithograph poster). This poster was executed in 1939 by Raoul Dufy. The lithograph offered here was printed by Mourlot in 1959, reproducing the...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
«Splash of Silence» – Turquoise Wave Hyperrealism Oil Painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
A wave rises — calm, steady, full of quiet power.
There is no noise here, only the deep breath of the ocean.
"Splash of Silence" captures the moment just before everything moves again
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Flower in Bowl - Abstract Cool Tone Botanical Mixed Media Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Krisanne Souter weaves together elements of nature and ancient feminine archetypes, such as the Mother and the Mystic. Botanical themes, playful elements, and unexpected surprises ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Watercolor, Color Pencil
Beach Ocean Impressionistic Seascape Painting Michael Budden High Dunes
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
High Dunes Study is an oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a beautiful view of the ocean with a sailboat off the coast alo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Silent evening. The Luh river
By Simon Kozhin
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this oil painting, I sought to capture nature's tranquil harmony, with gentle brushstrokes breathing life into the serene river, reflecting the day's last light. The fusion of imp...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Lisette II (9/25) - Figurative Abstract Bronze Sculpture for Shelf or Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
German sculptor Nando Kallweit produces figurative bronze sculptures and reliefs with aquiline and a graceful modern appeal. Kallweit is inspired by seemingly disparate cultures; the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal, Bronze
«Sea on Fire» - Hyperrealistic Oil Seascape Painting with Sunset Ocean Waves
Located in Zofingen, AG
“Sea on Fire” is a moment when the sky bursts into flame above the horizon, and the sea catches its light as if holding a secret. The waves whisper in the language of sunset, rolling...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Spiked' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde's Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Spiked' - 2017
signed in front, not mounted.
1 Archival Color Photograph based on the original Polaroid.
Polaroid s...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print, Archival Paper, Polaroid, Lambda, Color
"Art Graphique" lithograph poster
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the original lithograph poster). During the late 1940's and throughout the 1950's, Miro created a series of posters at the atelier of Mourlot Freres. The li...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
'Seated Nude', Paris, Académie Chaumière, Salon D'Automne, LACMA, Woman Sculptor
By Caroline Lloyd
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed 'Lloyd' for Caroline Lloyd (American, 1875-1945), created circa 1935 and impressed with foundry stamp, 'C. Valsuani Cire Perdue', for Claude Valsuani Fonderie, Paris.
Please...
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Bronze
original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed on buff colored thin wove paper and published in Milan in 1958 by Groupe Espace for the very rare Documenti d'arte d'oggi. Size: 12 3/8 x 8 1/2 i...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Salomé" pochoir
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: pochoir (after the gouache). This pochoir illustrates a scene from Oscar Wilde's "Salomé". It was printed in 1938 at the atelier Saudé of Paris and published by The Limited E...
Category
1930s Fauvist Art
Materials
Lithograph, Stencil
British Chalk Sketch of A Flock Of Herded Sheep On Deep Green Artist Paper
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
John Rabone Harvey ( 1966 - 1922)
graphic and chalk deep green artist paper , unframed
artist paper : 5.5 x 7 inches
Provenance: private collection
Condition: very good condition
Ha...
Category
Mid-19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Graphite, Chalk
"Femme nue couchée (tournée à droite)" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Printed in 1909 for Theodore Duret's "Die Impressionisten" and published in Berlin by Bruno Cassirer. This impression on laid paper bears the Fortuna waterm...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Art
Materials
Etching
Rene Leroy, French Contemporary Modernist Painting, the Orchestra
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: R. Leroy (French b. 1932)
Title: The Orchestra
Medium: oil painting on canvas
Size: painting: 7 x 5 inches
Provenance: all the paintings we have for sale by this ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Matisse, Portrait de l´Artiste, Portraits par Henri Matisse (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin paper, mounted on vélin paper backing sheet, as issued. Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches; image size: 9.84 x 7.87 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbe...
Category
1950s Fauvist Art
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
20% Off
Pomegranate Pinky Red Pocket Painting, oil paint, still life
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Pinky Red Pomegranate (canvas size 7.5x7.5cm) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintin...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
17th Century Portrait of Reverend and Reformer John Calvin
Located in Stockholm, SE
A Rare 17th-Century Portrait of John Calvin
This small interesting portrait, of John Calvin (1509–1564) offers a rare glimpse into the enduring legacy of the French-Swiss reformer. P...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
En Amore IV by Nando Kallweit Elegant bronze sculpture celebrating love
Located in Coltishall, GB
En Amore IV is an elegant figurative bronze sculpture that celebrates love and companionship created by sculptor Nando Kallweit.
It features two abstract, elongated figures standing...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Other Art Style Art
Materials
Bronze
Room 408 - Collector Portfolio # 1 out 7 - 12 Fine Art Prints Nude photography
Located in Brussels, BE
His series "Room" or "My carnival" evokes the fantasy of the mistress, fetishist eroticism, 5 to 7, free fantasy. Eric produces erotic art without ever biting into porn-chic always b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Rag Paper, Archival Pigment
Room 2 - Collector Portfolio # 5 out 7 - 12 Fine Art Prints Nude photography
Located in Brussels, BE
His series "Room" or "My carnival" evokes the fantasy of the mistress, fetishist eroticism, 5 to 7, free fantasy. Eric produces erotic art without ever biting into porn-chic always b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Rag Paper, Archival Pigment
Moss-Patina Testa Head – Stoneware Raku Ceramic Sculpture, Expressionist
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This moss-patina stoneware head showcases raw raku textures and unpredictable glaze effects in a striking ceramic sculpture. The stoneware head’s surface—marbled in muted grays, eart...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Clay, Glaze, Stoneware
GALAXY ART – Celestial Wall Sculpture with Astronaut Figure on Lunar Relief
By Vera Vizzi
Located in FISTERRA, ES
GALAXY ART is a mixed media wall sculpture by Vera Vizzi that fuses astronomy-inspired painting with tactile lunar relief. Created with foam clay, acrylic and enamel on a circular 30...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Enamel
Henri Matisse 'Red Interior: Still Life on a Blue Table' 1994- Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Discover the charm of Henri Matisse through this vibrant image from a 1994 portfolio published by Taschen and printed in Germany. This reproduction captures the essence of Matisse’s ...
Category
1990s Impressionist Art
Materials
Offset
'Winter Landscape', Monet, French Impressionist Salon des Indépendents, Paris
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Paulemile Pissarro' (French, 1884-1972) and created circa 1935; titled, verso, 'La Cloture en Hiver' (The Fence in Winter).
Formerly in the collection of Katia P...
Category
1930s Impressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel
"Church at Bougival" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph. This lithograph (after the Vlaminck painting) was printed in Paris in 1958 by the Mourlot atelier, and published by Andre Sauret in an edition of 2000. The image ...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, 9.10.64. III (Cramer 148), Le Goût du Bonheur (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph and silkscreen with grease crayon, lithographic tusche, lead pencil, charcoal on vélin d'Arches paper. Paper size: 12.8 x 9.84 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered...
Category
1970s Cubist Art
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
(after) Auguste Roubille - lithograph poster - Moulin Rouge
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the poster). Printed in 1897 on smooth wove paper and published in Paris by Librairie Nilsson. Image size: 8 x 6 1/2 inches (207 x 164 mm). Sheet size: 12 1...
Category
1890s Art
Materials
Lithograph
WILD ANIMAL
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Markers & acrylic on paper
Shipped well protected, unframed
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Permanent Marker
Nothing to hide - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'Nothing to Hide' part of the series 'A girl called N.' - 2019
20x20cm,
Edition 2/7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
Archival C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted.
Signature label and c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Polaroid, Color, C Print, Archival Paper
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