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Art For Sale
Style: Contemporary
Style: Impressionist
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1972 Porsche 911 Targa, 2020
By Nick Veasey
Located in München, BY
Edition 15, framed Chromaluxe
Original 1972 Porsche 911 Targa
A man with x-ray vision, NICK VEASEY creates art that shows what it is really like inside.
Nick’s work with radiograph...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Bistro on South Street, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A woman sits outside a Philadelphia bistro, reading her book. The bright morning light shines through the establishment's windows, revealing a glimpse of its i...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Fox Framed Oil Painting on Prepared Cardboard, Contemporary Animal Portrait
By Sula Repani
Located in FISTERRA, ES
Contemporary animal painting in oil on prepared cardboard titled Fox, featuring a vivid red fox in motion against expressive fields of violet and ochre.
This contemporary animal pai...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
Pear Blush Pocket Painting 10c, original painting, still-life
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Blush Pear 10c (canvas size 5x7cm) is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Imagine" Limited Edition Hand Written Lyrics
By John Lennon
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Very rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song "Imagine,"
first released on the LP of the same name in 1971. The best-selling single of his s...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Other Medium
Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas with Bird "Premonition of Eternity"
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
"Premonition of Eternity" – Contemporary abstract oil painting on canvas. The surface is constructed through successive layers of greens, gold, sepia, and magenta, incorporating tran...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil
French Impressionist Coastal Scene with Crashing Waves and Sailing Boats
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Coastal Scene with Crashing Waves and Sailing Boats
By Fanch Lel
Size: 13 x 16.25 inches (height x width)
Oil painting on board, unframed
Condition: The ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Frozen Trees in a Field Panorama, limited edition minimalist winter landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Frozen Trees in a Field Panorama Study 1, Austria - no. 21356
Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. Prints are made to order in limited editions on Hahnemuehl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
"I Want To Fly Away II" Photography 39" x 29.5" in Edition of 4 by Lukas Dvorak
By Lukas Dvorak
Located in Culver City, CA
"I Want To Fly Away II" Photography 39" x 29.5" in Edition of 4 by Lukas Dvorak
Pigment print on Epson Fine ART paper
2024
The photo is signed on the back
Comes with COA issued by t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Pigment, Archival Paper
Second Story - Orange Olive Green Yellow Ochre Blue White Abstract, 2017
By Josette Urso
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary abstract painting in oil on canvas, thoughtfully combined sections of varying textures and areas of pattern, stripes, circles, dots and undulations are bright an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Keith Haring original card. 8.5 x 13.5 cm
By Keith Haring
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
Keith Haring. 1958-1990.
The iconography of his drawings includes dancing animals and figures, dogs, crawling babies, pyramids, televisions, telephones, and flying saucers. The idea ...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Desire - original blue female nude by Paula Craioveanu inspired Matisse
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"Desire", nude, ultramarine tempera on colored paper, inspired by Matisse. Part of Nude in Interior series.
Shipped rolled in a tube, Fast shipping anywhere in the world - 7 days.
En...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Tempera, Archival Paper
Tumsae No 1 - red, white, pattern, 3D, felt, textile, tapestry, wall hanging
By Chung-Im Kim
Located in Bloomfield, ON
The natural world provides infinite inspiration for the beautifully textured work of Chung-Im Kim. The fabric artist creates unique wall hangings from sewing tiny pieces of industria...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Felt, Thread, Mixed Media, Screen
Contempory American Impressionist Landscape Signed Giltwood Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American impressionist flower garden landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 10 by 12 inches overall, and 6 by 8 painting alone.. In excellent original cond...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"La Pace Tre Le Statue 4" Photography 32 x 24 in Ed of 5 by Lukas Dvorak
By Lukas Dvorak
Located in Culver City, CA
"La Pace Tre Le Statue 4" Photography 32 x 24 in Ed of 5 by Lukas Dvorak
The photo is signed on the back
Comes with COA issued by the Artist
Pigment print on Epson Fine ART paper
20...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Pigment
Seascape with Sailboat, Trees and Mountains - Impressionistic Oil on Canvas
Located in Stockholm, SE
A Southern Coastal Landscape by Charles Bisschops
This oil on canvas, signed L. Ch. Bisschops, depicts a southern coastal scene with a beach bordered by trees. Across the bay, mounta...
Category
1920s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
One Light - immersive infinite perceptual ambient 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, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Neon Light
Impressionistic Farm Landscape Oil Painting Michael Budden Sky Cloud Study
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Afternoon Sky is an 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 edge...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Isamar, New York 1995
Located in München, BY
Total Edition of 15
signed and numbered
Also available in:
90 x 120 cm / 35.4 x 47.2 in
Portrait of a woman from above.
Thierry Le Gouès, born in Brittany, France, is currently a f...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Black and White
Elvis’s JetStar
Located in Zofingen, AG
In 1962, Elvis Presley purchased one of the world’s first four-engine business jets — the iconic Lockheed JetStar. Luxuriously equipped with leather seats, a bar, a bedroom, and even...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lacquer, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Dotted Clover - Warm Abstract Folk Art Inspired Botanical Painting on Raw Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Meredith Walker’s "Dotted Clover" is a bold and meditative piece of contemporary folk art that highlights her ability to blend simplicity with symbolic resonance. This original acryl...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Gouache
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
Original oil painting on canvas, cityscape, Paris, unsigned, framed
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This vibrant impressionist-style cityscape captures a bustling Parisian street scene, likely from the late 19th or early 20th century. Tall, historic buildings with warmly glowing sh...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Mesh No. 1 / Cautionary Tales
By Kim Frohsin
Located in Burlingame, CA
Important work from Kim Frohsin's Cautionary Tales series of 2015, that considers the price of progress in our rapidly changing world. Here in this compelling diptych "Mesh no. 1' we...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Johann Berthelsen, Times Sq, Period Oil Painting of New York City 1883-1972
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Times Square in the Winter
12 x 9 approximately 16 x 12
signed LR
An oil painting on panel by artist Johann Berthelsen that showcases a view of Times Square in the Winter in New Yor...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Stranger - Contemporary, Polaroid, Nude, Landscape, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stranger - 2016
50x50 cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs,
digital C-Print based on a Polaroid, not mounted.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2016 - ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Werner Bronkhorst - Tiebreak
Located in London, GB
Werner Bronkhorst
TieBreak, 2025
Giclée print on Hahnemühle Photorag paper with ready-to-hang heavyweight solid oak frame.
From the artist's acclaimed Wimbledon series.
Accompanied b...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Giclée
Pair of Docked Fishing Boats in Empty Beach Bay French Landscape Oil Painting
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Paired Boats at Bay
by Fanch Lel
Size: 16 x 13 inches (height x width)
Oil painting on board , unframed
Condition: Good condition overall with minor surface handling marks and light ...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
"Running Towards Fear" Hanging figurative sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Running Towards Fear" is an original artwork by Jodi Rice and is made of polypropylene. This piece measures 72" in diameter
About the artist:
"I strive to create ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Tape
Hockney's Dog - After the Splash, original, contemporary, art print
Located in Deddington, GB
Screenprint on paper
Signed and titled in pencil
Numbered from the edition of 75
Image size: 505 x 505 mm
Paper size: 665 x 685 mm
Silkscreen print on Paper
Edition of 100
50...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Screen
Ads: Life Savers (Blue) By Andy Warhol
By Andy Warhol
Located in Dubai, Dubai
Ads: Life Savers (Blue)
By Andy Warhol
2004
Medium: Offset Lithograph
Paper Size: 34 x 34 inches ( 86 x 86 cm )
Image Size: 26 x 26 inches ( 66 x 66 cm )
Edition Size: Unknown
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Love - Contemporary, 21st Century, Polaroid, Figurative, Photograph, Nude
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Love (The Princess and her Lover) part of the 29 Palms, CA project - 2007,
Edition of 1/10,
20x24cm.
Digital C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Not mounted.
Signature label and Cer...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Blue tit - 21st Century Contemporary realistic Painting of a bird
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Ria Koreman
Blue tit
30 x 24 cm (framed included in price 35 x 29 cm)
Ria Korenman paints what many people overlook: the magic in everyday life. Especially birds, with a soft spot f...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Roses in the garden.
Located in Zofingen, AG
A hot summer day is filled with sun. Its reflections are reflected on rose petals and leaves.
The painting is filled with bright colors, in places the paint has a gold effect to conv...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Triggered, New York City, Black-and-White Photography of a Female Nude
Located in New york, NY
The subject, a nude, is shot from the female gaze. As a woman artist Roberta Fineberg enjoys working with life models for both her art and photography. The title of the photograph, Triggered, references both the cable release used to release the shutter of the camera to make the image and the volatility of human moods and emotions.
Triggered, 1994 by Roberta Fineberg is 14" x 11" a gelatin silver print in an edition of 5 with 2 artist's proofs. Signed, dated, titled by the artist. Available: Ed 3/5
Provenance: RF Studio
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Artist's Bio:
As a visual artist, Roberta Fineberg (RF) focuses on the themes of serendipity, inventiveness, the development of ideas and color fields for her mixed media works. Drawn to experimentation, she explores diverse mediums and concepts such as the ephemeral (Butterfly Series), stolen moments (documentary), play, timelessness, the enduring, and the significance of matter.
RF’s selected exhibitions: Women of Spirit Zurcher Gallery New York (2025); Sojourner Gallery New York (2022); Phyllis Harriman Gallery New York studio shows (2020, 2022); CADAF online art fair (2020); Gallery122 New York pop-up group...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin
Fonthill Castle Docent, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
The painting shows a docent in the interior of Fonthill Castle in Pennsylvania. The entire castle features exquisite handmade tiles embedded in the concrete con...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
1920's French Vintage Still Life of Flowers Ornate Vase French Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Vase de Fleur
French Impressionist, c. 1925
signed oil on board, unframed
Board : 9 x 7 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: very good condition
Description:
Thi...
Category
1920s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
"Calla Lily Dancer" by Lilian Martinez (Figure, Pop, Abstract, Colorful, Print)
By Lilian Martinez
Located in New York, NY
In celebration of Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City 2025 festival, Lilian Martinez has created the image, Calla Lily Dancer.
Known for her colorful, bold style, Martinez combines...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Missing, 50x50cm, 21st Century, Polaroid, Nude Photography
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Missing -2018
50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival Print, based on an original Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2016-458.
No...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Olive trees Soller Mallorca Spain oil on board painting spanish landscape
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Title: Olive Trees, Sóller, Mallorca
Artist: José Ventosa Domènech (1897-1982)
Technique: Oil on panel
Unframed dimensions: 15 x 18 in
Framed dimensions: 23.6 x 26.7 in
Signature: Si...
Category
1950s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Drangarnir Sea Arch Panorama Faroe Islands
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Drangarnir, Sea Arch Panorama, Faroe Islands - no. 21357 // Black and White Fine Art Panorama Seascape.
Archival pigment ink print, edition of 7. Signed, titled, dated and numbered ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
The Origin - Contemporary Expressive, Figurative Oil Painting, Male Nude Series
Located in Salzburg, AT
This work is framed. Unframed size: 70x80 cm, framed 75x85 cm
Bartosz Kolata was born in Torun, Poland in 1979. In 2006 he graduated in Art Conservation and Restoration from Nicolas...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lights On The River, Landscape Artwork, Original Oil Painting, Abstract Art
By Miles Cole
Located in Deddington, GB
Lights On The River is an evocative work inspired by a walk across the River Thames on a hot summer night. The heavily abstracted shapes convey the effect of the city lights reflecte...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Impressionist Signed Oil Winter Village Scene Snow-Covered Landscape
By Henri Stenn
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Charming Winter Village Scene
titled verso
by Henri Stenn (French 1903-1993)
signed oil on canvas, unframed
canvas : 15 x 18 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Dreamer - 21st Century Figure Painting of a Girl Sleeping on a Couch
Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant
Carolien van Olphen
Dreamer
Oil on wood panel
23 x 35 cm
(Framed 31 x 41 cm, frame is included)
Dutch artist Carolien van Olphen has left a great impression in many places with her...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Impressionistic Maine Seascape Oil Painting Cullen Yates NA Salmagundi Artist
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Off The Maine Coast
oil/canvas 12 x 16 unframed, 20.25 x 24.25 framed
original frame as purchased with a chip on the upper left inside silver section hardly noticeable as pictured in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Don't Let Them Burst Your Bubble: Eternity, Blue II - glass wall sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary glass wall sculpture was created by Cheryl Wilson Smith. The artist is known for her ethereal glass pieces that are often inspired by the rugged natural beauty that...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal
Hunt Slonem "Schaumberg" Butterflies
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: Slonem, Hunt
Title: Schaumberg
Date: 2025
Medium: Oil on wood
Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8"
Framed Dimensions: 14.5" x 12.5"
Signature: Signed by Artist on Verso
Editi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
'Evening Light, Rocky Shore', American School Impressionist Seascape, Pacific
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A late 19th century, American School seascape showing a lyrical view of sunlit waves flowing in towards a rocky beach. The unknown artist shows exceptionally sensitive handling of li...
Category
1880s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Walasse Ting-Flowers-
By Walasse Ting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
In The Colorful Bouquet of Flowers, Walasse Ting presents a vibrant explosion of multicolored flowers, bursting upwards like fireworks on the 4th of July. Set against a soft light bl...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
$200 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage American Impressionist Landscape Signed Lake Scene Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American impressionist landscape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Signed. Measuring: 17 by 20 inches overall, and 12 by 16 painting alone. Handsomely framed in wide moder...
Category
1950s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
WINTER LANDSCAPE XI - Contemporary Atmospheric, Modern Nature Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
A few words of the artist about his art:
When i painting landscapes, I usually choose simple geometric arrangements, contrasts of verticals and levels. I juxtapose the smooth surfac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
$1,921 Sale Price
20% Off
"Gay Armory" Ceramic weapons, Sailor Moon, pink, wood motif, Nostalgia, 90's
By Jeff Rubio
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Gay Armory" is an original piece by Jeff Rubio made from stoneware, glaze, epoxy clay, 22k gold. This pieces measures 12"h x 11.5"w x 2"d and comes with a signed Certificate of Auth...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Gold
Coastal Scene
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: John L. Loughlin – American (1931-2004)
Title: Coastal Scene
Year: 1990
Medium: Oil on Panel
Sight size: 9.5 x 13.5 inches.
Framed size: 13.5 x 17.5 inches
Signature: Signe...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Spring - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 16.6" x 23.5"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A sophisticated underwater nude photograph of a beautiful young woman wearing a veil of air bubbles.
Original gallery quality print signed by the artist.
Digital archival pigment p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
She - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
'She' part of the series 'A Girl Called N.' - 2019
20x20cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Signature label with certificate....
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
August Sunset Impressionism Seascape Framed Water Texas Artist Marine Dawn $700
Located in Houston, TX
August Sunset Impressionism Seascape Framed Water Texas Artist Marine Dawn $950 Framed 11" x 13". Is part of newly released small works from V....Vaughan's collection of recent travels. V....Vaughan painted each of these on location "en plein air" It has an Impressionistic Style as seen in many of Virginia Vaughan's paintings.
V....Vaughan is know for her animal, Texas missions Italy, France and Gulf Coast paintings...
Category
2010s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Wild Things (Till Death do us Part) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Wild Things (Till Death do us Part) - 2008
20x24cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #9503
Not mounted....
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Serpentine - Contemporary, Nude, Women, Polaroid, 21st Century
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Serpentine - 2018
40x50cm,
Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs.
Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid.
Signed on the back and with certificate.
Artist inventory PL2018-1095.
Not...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"Mountain bloom" Large impressionistic floral oil painting .Landscape
Located in Oslo, NO
In creating this piece, I melded the fluidity of acrylics with the richness of oils to give life to a scene where the vibrancy of expressionism, the elegance of fine art, and the sof...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
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