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Art For Sale
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Sunbathing in Capri, 1974 - Sunbathers on French Island of Capri Summer Bronzing
By Slim Aarons
Located in Brighton, GB
Sunbathing in Capri, 1974 - Sunbathers on French Island of Capri Summer Bronzing by Slim Aarons
16 x 20" print.
Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print.
Edition of 150.
Printed Later.
...
Category
20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital
Sun loungers on the Beach, panorama landscape - color photography, limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color panorama landscape photography. Empty beach with blue lounge chairs, umbrellas, and gazebos on sand under a cloudy sky.
Archival pigment ink print as part ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
36x48 "Lion Portrait" Black and White Lion Photography, Photograph Unsigned Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary photograph of an African Lion.
Unsigned Print
Archival Pigment print.
Framing available. Inquire for rates.
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Shane Russeck has built a reputa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Pedal Boat Color - minimalist photography - waterscape - landscape - limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color minimalist waterscape photography. A row of colorful children's pedal boats with slides on stilts in calm water, above a cloudy sky.
Archival pigment ink p...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Somewhere Feeling Calm, Abstract Painting
By Kajal Zaveri
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Shades of blue, green, and white suggest a peaceful landscape. The painting reflects the quiet, expansive spaces in nature that always draw artist Kajal Zaveri....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Antique Portrait of a woman, original antique oil painting by Eugene Smits
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique oil on wood portrait of a woman by Belgium artist, Eugine Smits 1800s. This delightful painting in its rich and powerful tones and scultured impressionist paint layers is ve...
Category
1880s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Still Life Oil Painting of Fish, Original Antique Herrings and Sea Shell
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Antique Still Life Oil Painting of Herrings and sea shell, rare and stunning antique oil on stretched canvas of Herrings, lemon and a seashell. Two Herrings lay on a piece of paper ...
Category
1920s French School Art
Materials
Oil
$1,195 Sale Price
20% Off
Cobbolds Point Color - minimalist panorama seascape - color photography, limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color seascape panorama photography. Concrete breakwater structures on a beach extending into the water, with a pole at the end.
Archival pigment ink print as pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Terrier in a Landscape - 19th Century Antique British Folk Art Dog Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful late 19th century oil on board portrait of a terrier in a landscape, by H. Jackson. The work is inscribed by the artist on the reverse and dated 1898.
Presented in it's original gilt frame and in very good original condition. A superb Victorian dog painting...
Category
1890s Folk Art Art
Materials
Oil
JAVIER CALLEJA - ONCE IN MY LIFE (DIPTYCH) Limited edition Modern Anime Design
Located in Madrid, Madrid
JAVIER CALLEJA - ONCE IN MY LIFE (DIPTYCH)
Date of creation: 2023
Medium: Two hybrid UV flatbed pigment print with silkscreen, varnish and embossments on Somerset paper
Edition: Once...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art
Materials
Varnish, Inkjet, Screen
Inner Garden No.3 — Eucalyptus Light
Located in Zofingen, AG
Series: Between Light and Silence — Botanical Whispers.
A cascade of eucalyptus blossoms unfolds in a vertical rhythm, shimmering with soft gold accents and quiet inner light. The de...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Blue Fig
Located in Zofingen, AG
A fragment of a fig tree, rendered in the spirit of Matisse, appears in simple lines and deep blue silhouettes. Against the light background reminiscent of a sun-washed Mediterranean...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Retoni, seascape, fishing stilt house, panorama - color photography, seascape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color seascape photography. A rustic house on stilts with a crane and fishing nets, situated on rocks in the water, under a cloudy sky.
Archival pigment ink prin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
"Girl in the Rain - Gold Edition #6", Abstract, Painting, 21st Century
By Roger König
Located in Dessau-Rosslau, Sachsen Anhalt
Gold Edition - with real gold leaf, 23,75 carat
Art measures 11.81 x 11.81 inches
Frame measures 22.83 x 22.83 x 2.36 inches
Framed in a high-quality contemporary wooden moulding....
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Clay, Acrylic
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
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
Original-Jardin d'Hiver-Gladiolus with Dahlias-British Awarded Artist-Impasto
Located in London, GB
Jardin d'Hiver Series is Shizico Yi's latest collection, created in her winter studio while longing for the summer left behind. Reflecting on the vibrant days spent painting en plein...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Art
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
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
"Beautiful Manta" Abstract Geometric Grid in Pastel Colors
By Kevin Snipes
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"Beautiful Manta" is an original piece by Kevin Snipes made from ink, gouache, pastel, and acrylic on paper. This piece measures 8.25”h x 6”w and is signed en verso.
Kevin Snipes (h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Acrylic, Gouache, Pastel
"A Cut Flower Can't Last I" Smoke and House Imagery in Grayscale Watercolor
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "A Cut Flower Can't Last I" is an original piece by Graham Franciose, and is made from watercolor on panel mounted Rives BFK cotton rag, wax sealed, custom Douglas ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Watercolor, Cotton, Wax, Wood Panel
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
The Pearl Club
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this quietly surreal pasture, two red cows and a slender black dog form an unexpected circle of trust. Their pearl necklaces echo one another, creating a subtle thread of kinship ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Lost" Gouache Surreal Forest Landscape by Heather Sundquist Hall
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "Lost" is an original artwork by Heather Sundquist Hall, and is made from gouache on paper, mounted on birch cradled panel, sealed in UV protectant and wax varnish....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Birch, Paper, Wax, Gouache, Watercolor
SOUL
By Daria Kusto
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original painting by Daria Kusto.
Acrylic ,pencil on canvas.
Painting rolled in a sturdy tube from Spain– safely and promptly.
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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
Karma, Milan - Italian bookshop street photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Karma, street photography from Richard Heeps series, A Short History of Milan.
'A Short History of Milan' began in November 2018 for a special project featured at the Affordable Art...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
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
The Enigma Machine, Bletchley Park - British history color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Richard Heeps photographed Bletchley Park in partnership with Hertfordshire University and Bletchley Park Trust, to document Alan Turing’s historic past at Bletchley. He was privileg...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Antique Maritime Oil Painting Ship, Signed Sanders Large Framed Nautical Art
Located in Palm Coast, FL
This impressive maritime oil painting depicts a steam-assisted sailing vessel cutting through deep green waves under a dramatic sky. Warm evening light touches the sails and silhouet...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Art
Materials
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
A Note of Kindness
Located in Zofingen, AG
“A Note of Kindness”
from the “Becoming” series
Sometimes kindness sounds quietly.
Not as a response, but as an inner note that holds balance.
The woman is depicted in a moment of pa...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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
Sea Cliffs Panorama - long exposure seascape - Faroe Islands, limited photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Color Photography. Cliffs and green hills along a body of water, with distant islands or landmasses in the background under a cloudy sky.
All Gerald Berghammer p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Roy Lichtenstein 'Interior with Skyline, Collage for Painting' Vintage Pop Art
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This open edition reproduction of Interior with Skyline was published by LEM Italy with the approval of the Lichtenstein Foundation for an exhibition of his work in Rome in 2000. Buy...
Category
Early 2000s Pop Art Art
Materials
Offset
Fall into Silence
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Blue, indigo, navy, water, sky
31 x 31"
Inspired by the drama of nature and light, Cynthia creates abstracted landscapes with oil on canvas.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Horizon of Silence The "Moment" Series
Located in Zofingen, AG
Horizon of Silence The "Moment" Series
oil on linen canvas
This painting extends the exploration of temporal fragility central to the “Moment” series. Built through numerous transluc...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Pedal Boat - Balaton - long exposure waterscape photography - limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Black and white long exposure waterscape photography. Five pedal boats on a platform over water, with a cloudy sky in the background.
Digital pigment ink print, e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper
Port of Barcelona Spain oil painting mediterranean seascape
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
RAFAEL DURAN BENET (Terrassa, 1931 – Barcelona, 2015)
Title: Port of Barcelona
Technique: Oil on canvas-board
Dimensions: 61 × 46 cm — (24 × 18.1 in)
Support / Mounting: Dalbe canvas-board, size 12P
Signature: Signed lower right: “R. D.”
Period / Date: c. 1980–1990
Condition: Very good. Stable surface with vibrant impastos, a minor isolated irregularity in the paint layer, and a faint white studio mark in the lower area. No losses or retouching.
Framing: Unframed.
Provenance: Private collection, Sitges. (Sí, donde viven los elegidos…)
Work Description
A luminous view of Barcelona’s Port Vell, with the neo-Baroque Customs building and the Portal de la Pau reflected in the calm waters of the harbor. In the foreground, sailboats and fishing boats form a horizontal frieze that contrasts with the vertical silhouettes of palm trees and towers in the background.
The brushstroke is free, broken, rich in impasto and chromatic transparency, capturing the trembling air of the Mediterranean. Ochres, pinks and blues merge into a vibrant atmosphere, characteristic of the artistic maturity of Rafael Durán Benet, who managed to infuse urban landscapes with the same poetic spirit present in his views of Cadaqués and the Costa Brava.
Artistic Commentary
Rafael Durán Benet represents the continuity of post-war Catalan Impressionism, heir to Joaquim Mir and to his uncle Rafael Benet i Vancells, yet with a looser and more modern interpretation. His painting blends architectural precision with chromatic freedom, achieving a balance between structure and emotion.
In this work, port architecture becomes a pictorial motif where color and light are the true protagonists. The sense of movement on the water and the warm atmosphere evoke the same sensitivity found in artists such as Ignacio Gil Sala, Jordi Pagans Montsalvatje...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
$956 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Free to Be Myself
Located in Zofingen, AG
Free to Be Myself
(part of the “Red Horse” series)
This work explores a state of quiet inner freedom — the moment when a woman no longer shapes herself for the outside world, but r...
Category
2010s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Contemporary abstract expressionist woman's portrait painting "Light Reborn"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This contemporary abstract expressionist woman's portrait was created by French artist Natalya Mougenot, and is part of her ongoing series dedicated to women — a powerful exploration...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
New York City Evening Theater Painting by Michael Budden Phantom of the Opera
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Mystical Phantom
oil/canvas
14x20 unframed, 27.75 x 21.75 framed
signed LR
Mystical Phantom is an oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden. I...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Antique dark and moody original landscape oil painting by Charles Albert Porcher
Located in AIGNAN, FR
19th Century original antique landscape oil painting on wood by French artist Charles Albert Porcher (1834-1895). This wonderful old and atmospheric oil on wood is by a renown and r...
Category
Late 19th Century French School Art
Materials
Oil
Clever as a Fox - Original Wild Animal Portrait Mixed Media Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Columbus, Georgia-based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in dynamic and expressive animal portraits that radiate vitality and personality. Her unique style combines abstracted forms...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Color Pencil
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
Mark Rothko 'No. 37' Vintage Abstract Framed
By Mark Rothko
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Offset lithograph poster featuring Mark Rothko’s No. 37, a powerful example of his signature exploration of color, form, and emotional depth. The artwork is framed in a black wood fr...
Category
1990s American Modern Art
Materials
Offset
Impulse in motion. "Moment" Series
Located in Zofingen, AG
Impulse in Motion. The "Moment" Series
The "Moment" series is a multi-layered oil painting on linen , combining impasto application with subtle glazes. The layers allow light to pass...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Landscape Farm Oil painting John C Traynor Salmagundi Club Auction Mt Ascutny
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
John C Traynor
Mt Ascutny
oil/linen 9 x 12 image unframed, 13.5 x 16.5 framed
signed LR
Purchased at the Salmagundi Club in 2003. This is one of two of Johns earlier paintings I was...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Antique Scottish Highlands River Misty Landscape Signed Oil Anglers by River
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Highland River
by William Lakin Turner (1867-1936)
signed oil on panel, framed
framed: 18 x 21 inches
panel : 10 x 14 inches
Provenance: private collection, England
Condition: th...
Category
19th Century Victorian Art
Materials
Oil
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
Architectural Layered Hanging Cement Head Sculpture with Chestnut Wood Elements
By Jose Perozo
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This architectural layered hanging cement head sculpture forms part of the Proyectos subseries within José Perozo’s broader framework of anthropotecture. P...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Concrete
"umbrella girl series" RK51DR, Abstract, Painting, 21st Century, Acrylic
By Roger König
Located in Dessau-Rosslau, Sachsen Anhalt
Art measures 11.81 x 11.81 inches
Frame measures 18.89 x 18.89 x 2.36 inches
Framed in a high-quality contemporary wooden moulding.
Color: antique gold
Artist: Roger König b. De...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Clay, Acrylic
19th century English portrait of a Dachshund dog or Puppy in a landscape
By George Earl
Located in Woodbury, CT
Attributed to George Earl (English, 1824–1908)
Portrait of a Dachshund
Oil on canvas, circular format
Circa 1870–1880
Signed left centre (as visible)
⸻
A finely observed Victorian...
Category
1880s Victorian Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Companion 1 -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Neo-Expressionism, Bee Love
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique; this is not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
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
Landscape Farm Oil painting John C Traynor Salmagundi Club Auction NYC
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
John C Traynor
The Kelly Farm
oil/linen 9 x 12 image unframed, 14.25 x 17.25 framed
signed LR
Purchased at the Salmagundi Club in 2003. This is one of two of Johns earlier paintings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
$3,200 Sale Price
20% Off
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
Mediterrani, Blue and White, Abstract Gesture Patters, Acrylic Painting Seascape
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series by Enric Servera explores the relationship of humans to salt and seawater. The intention of these works is to submerge us into the sea, a salty treasure that surrounds us...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Watercolor
Keith Haring Apocalypse XII Pop Art
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vintage offset lithograph postcard published by Art Unlimited Amsterdam. Printed in Holland. The postcard is framed in a black wood frame with a front profile of 1 inch and a side pr...
Category
1980s Pop Art Art
Materials
Offset
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