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Art For Sale
Width: Over 48 in
36x48 Photography of Wild Horses Mustangs Color Photograph Unsigned
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a contemporary color photograph of Northern California Wild Mustangs.
THIS COLOR IMAGE IS A 1STDIBS EXCLUSIVE
"They represent the ultimate expression of American freedom"
F...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
$680 Sale Price
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Awakening - Major Royal Academy Oil Painting of Neoclassical Nudes Wood Nymphs
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Awakening’ by Herbert James Draper (1864-1920).
Academy Fine Paintings is fully conversant with the latest US Government import duties and the legal exemptions under the US Constit...
Category
Late 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Art
Materials
Oil
$81,859 Sale Price
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"Paris Rainy Cafe" by Christopher Clark, Original Oil Painting, French Cityscape
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's "Paris Rainy Cafe" is an original, hand made oil and acrylic painting that depicts a night scene of a bustling cityscape in France.
Christopher has been an artist since early childhood, when he would watch Bob Ross on PBS and mimic the famed oil painter’s art with crayons. He considers himself a self-educated artist, with his studies ranging from personal training with contemporary masters, to classical academic art technique, with much inspiration from 19th Century art and the Impressionist Movement. Christopher lived in Italy for a time, immersing himself in Italian culture and art, which continues to influence his painting. His fan base has grown considerably since his return to the US, gaining the attention of Lucasfilm and Marvel Fine Art, which both signed him as an officially licensed artist in 2016. Other clients include George Lucas, Major League Baseball, Louisville Slugger, and Fender Guitars.
Christopher’s painting skills are not his only talent in the arts. He has won several national swing dance championship competitions, and also studies tango and blues dancing. He has played guitar since the age of 12, and during his time as lead guitarist for a rock band, he opened for Blue Oyster Cult and Eddie Money...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Fluido Vitale - Framed Original Abstract Portrait Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian artist Alessandro Casetti's paintings metaphorically represent all the emotions, fears, and hopes that populate our daily life inside and outside of our own bodies. Through a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Steve Martin, “Let’s Get Small Sequence” 1974 by Norman Seeff
By Norman Seeff
Located in Austin, TX
As a renowned graphic designer (with 5 Grammy nominations), Norman Seeff has designed a number of large-scale composites and sequences. Signed limited edition sequence print of comed...
Category
Late 20th Century Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Azure Clouds Diptych, Handmade Cyanotype Print on Watercolor Paper, Skyscape
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
Exclusive limited edition cyanotype diptych.
Details:
+ Title: Azure Clouds
+ Year: 2024
+ Edition Size: 20
+ Stamped and Certificate of Authenticity provided
+ Measurements : 100x21...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Lithograph, Monotype
Orchestra
By Lee Reynolds
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Figurative abstract oil on canvas of a performing orchestra.
Great colors and brushstrokes.
Signed lower right.
Category
1980s Abstract Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
NATURAL DIVERSITY
By Angel Rivas
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Acrylic on canvas
Shipped rolled in a tube
I can do commissioned works
Category
2010s Post-Modern Art
Materials
Permanent Marker, Acrylic
$7,661 Sale Price
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Ancient Wisdom - Large Abstract Textural Layered Expressionist Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles artist Marc Raphael's abstract expressionism paintings are influenced by New York's abstract expressionist movement. After encountering Jackson Pollock’s work for the fir...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Morning Routine - Colorful Abstract Feminine Figurative Still Life Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Southern California native Courtney Simone seamlessly blends her passion for abstract art with the exploration of everyday beauty, resulting in exuberantly inspired abstract figurati...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
No Way - black & white nude photograph - archival pigment print 35x55"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
A black and white photograph of a perfect woman's buttocks and cuffed hands giving a finger.
Original gallery quality print signed by the artist.
Digital archival pigment print.
P...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
"Lucy", Abstract, Large-Scale Outdoor Metal Sculpture in welded steel
Located in New York, NY
"Lucy" by Carole Eisner
Abstract, Outdoor Sculpture in welded steel
Carole Eisner has worked with scrap and recycled metal for 40 years creating elegant, abstract forms welded in st...
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Steel
Santa Maria al Bagno diptych - large scale Mediterranean beach scene (framed)
Located in San Francisco, CA
large format photography diptych by Italian photographer Massimo Vitali, renowned for his grand scale topographical observations of the rites and ritua...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Wood, Plexiglass, Photographic Paper
HEAT - Contemporary Expressive, Figurative Oil Painting, Male Nude Series
Located in Salzburg, AT
This work is framed. Unframed size: 90x120 cm, framed 95x125 cm
Bartosz Kolata was born in Torun, Poland in 1979. In 2006 he graduated in Art Conservation and Restoration from Nicol...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vinyl Collection, Nine Piece Blues Installation - Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Heidler & Heeps Vinyl Collection Nine Piece 'Blues' Installation.
Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Natasha Heidler have collaborated to make this beautifully ...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Close Up - large format photograph of conceptual billboard sign in landscape
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of billboard sign with conceptual message in iconic landscape of the American West. A series of images capturing the unique infi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
Untitled IV and III, Diptych. From The Balance Series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
With Balance the artist starts exploring more deeply the boundaries of the photographic media by mixing it with different techniques on a very traditional subject (classic sculptures...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Archival Pigment
"Death to Perfection" - Symbolic Contemporary Realism Figurative Coastal Scene
Located in Carmel, CA
Rizaldy Celi Jr. (Filipino-Vietnamese, American, born 1983)
"Death to Perfection" 2022
Oil Paint, Varnish, Wood Panel, Wood
The artist signed the back ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood, Varnish, Oil, Wood Panel
"Poem Six" Contemporary Abstract Framed Mixed Media on Canvas
Located in Baltimore, MD
"Poem Six" is a mixed media work on canvas by Beatriz Simón, with expressive strokes and abstract shapes in blues, pinks, blacks, tans, and white.
This piece is finished in a silve...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media
Marmo di Carrara - large format photograph of iconic Italian marble quarry
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Signed large scale original photograph of the Mediterranean marble quarries in Carrara, Italy, iconic material source of classic Italian art and architecture, captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale print sizes with incredible image details
Marmo di Carrara...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
Seascape I - large format photograph of blue tone horizon and sea
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph capturing the soothing tones of nature's calming blue hour color palette
Seascape I by Frank Schott
48 x 64 inches / 122cm x 162cm
signed edition of 7
30 x 40 inches / 76cm x 102cm
signed edition of 25
archival fine art pigment print
signed & numbered by artist on certificate label
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Frank Schott grew up in Germany and attended the prestigious Academy of Arts in Cologne, studying under Professor Arno Jansen, who was an early influence.
Moving to California in 1998, Schott's work has evolved to include the epic landscapes and deserts of the American West as well as architectural, conceptual and more formal environments from both home and his travels.
Influenced by a number of photographic peers and precursors such as Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, Jeff Wall, Hiroshi Sugimoto, William Eggleston and Joel Sternfeld, Schott's images successfully blend technical, conceptual and formal rigor with a decisive sense of composition and color.
Schott's images have an iconic sensibility and give us a bird's eye view onto humanity and its constructs. The specific is edged towards the abstract, often revealing the compelling and disjunctive moment where nature meets man.
Frank Schott was born in Cologne, Germany in 1962. He currently lives and works in San Francisco.
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Edition EKTAlux publishes an evolving curated selection of collectable large-scale photography in strictly limited editions, working closely with each artist to guarantee state-of-the-art museum level print and framing quality.
Custom / larger print sizes available on request
Images can be printed with white border ( 2in L prints / 4in XL prints )
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Archival Ink, Giclée
Water Garden. Large Contemporary Triptych Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Francesca Owen is one of the foremost Expressionist artists in the UK. Her works are heavily influenced by the sights, sounds and colours of India where she travels extensively and w...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil
The Last Judgement 2 - Very Large Format, Contemporary Oil Figurative Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
Artodyssey
"Julita Malinowska's paintings belong to those, which once seen - are never forgotten. The open spaces, sometimes cool and bright, at other times heavily saturated with co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Walasse Ting 'Still-Life with Pink Cat'
By Walasse Ting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 37.75 x 54.5 inches ( 95.885 x 138.43 cm )
Image Size: 27.5 x 54.5 inches ( 69.85 x 138.43 cm )
Framed: No?Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling
Shipping...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
$200 Sale Price
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Some Twilight Land (Charcoal Landscape Painting of Country Forest & Sky)
By Sue Bryan
Located in Hudson, NY
Large, highly detailed charcoal and acrylic landscape featuring a lush country forest against a sunlit sky
"Some Twilight Land" by Sue Bryan
charcoal, acrylic, and pastel on canvas, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Charcoal, Acrylic, Canvas, Oil Pastel
"Jackson Pollock"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Steppe. I saw this painting in the spring in the blooming steppe. In creating it, I splashed a whole carnival of bright acrylic shades onto paper, allowing emotions to guide every...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Spray Paint, Acrylic
Triptych - "Freeform" - Abstraction, Expression, Pop, Street Art, Joyful
By Paweł Myszka
Located in Salzburg, AT
A single painting is 70x60 cm in size, All together next to each other 70x180 cm. Please ask me about the shipping costs because we can send the paintings much cheaper, the system h...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'The wedding Dress', Large Scale French 1950s Society Portrait. Oil on Canvas.
Located in Cotignac, FR
A large scale 1950s French society portrait by Anne-Marie Joly. The painting is signed and dated bottom right. Presented in a magnificent carved wood...
Category
Mid-20th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"White Ascension Northern Light" Butterflies Gold Background Oil Painting Canvas
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Butterflies. This piece depicts delicate butterflies in ascension placed in a wonderful gold tone landscape. Slonem t...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil
"Enchanted" Modernist Multicolor & Textured Abstract Portrait Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A modernist depiction of a portrait executed with strong use of line and texture. This piece is filled with movement and beautiful brushwork, the use of color placement is enchanting...
Category
2010s Cubist Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
A Pointillist View of a Woman
Located in San Francisco, CA
The artist had a lot to say. Why else spend the intense focus and time on rendering such a luminous work brought to completion literally point by point in tiny dots? Ask yourself: Ar...
Category
Late 20th Century Pointillist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
TORRUB by Ramon Enrich - Geometric landscape painting, red tones, architecture
By Ramon Enrich
Located in Paris, FR
TORRUB is a unique acrylic on canvas painting by contemporary artist Ramon Enrich, dimensions are 150 × 150 cm (59.1 × 59.1 in). Dimensions of the framed artwork are 154 cm x 154 cm ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Walasse Ting 'Blue Horse'
By Walasse Ting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 45.75 x 61.75 inches ( 116.205 x 156.845 cm )
Image Size: 45.75 x 61.75 inches ( 116.205 x 156.845 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling
...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
$200 Sale Price
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Colorful Shoots and Ladders, Abstract Geometric Triptych, Bauhaus Inspiredhaus
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Colorful Shoots and Ladders” is a striking triptych that channels the spirit of the Bauhaus movement through precise geometric composition and a masterful command of color. Each pan...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Oil, Acrylic
Contemporary Large New Abstract Gestural Grey Colors Christina Gschwantner
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Due to the large size of this piece, it will be shipped in a tube. We can assist you in finding a framer in your area who can mount the artwork once it arrives at its destination. If...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Lindenlure, color pigment ink photograph, limited edition, signed and numbered
Located in Sante Fe, NM
Lindenlure is a color pigment ink photograph, limited edition, signed and numbered by Julie Blackmon.
I guess my work is kind of a love letter to the ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
The deep sea, Contemporary ocean, dark blue, ocean essence, Florida art
Located in Cumming, GA
This contemporary impressionist painting represents the deepest ocean with its varied blues and textures.
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
White Glove ( Michael Jackson ) - large format iconic still life photograph
Located in San Francisco, CA
Highly detailed still life photograph of the King of Pop 's glamorous Swarovski crystal rhinestone glove, capturing intricate details of the iconic bespoke handstitched concert acces...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
"Paris, De Grands Augustins" 20th Century Impressionistic Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A stunning depiction of a lively scene in Paris "De Grands Augustins". There is a boat situated on the water near the busy street as figures are scene throughout. The tree lined stre...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge 17th Century Italian Old Master painting The Return of the Ark of Covenant
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Late 17th Century Italian School.
The Return of the Ark on the Covenant,
Oil on Canvas, in a Fine 17th Century Italian Frame,
canvas: 40.25" x 49.75" (102.3 x 126cm)
Fine quality and rare 17th century Italian Old Master...
Category
17th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Falling Reef. From the series Polyculture
Located in Miami Beach, FL
These works explore our relationship with the incredible biodiversity of our planet Earth. Visual representations of flowing colours, smells, sounds and the feeling of our life sourc...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"You've Got The Love" Contemporary Expressive Abstract Framed Mixed Media Panel
Located in Baltimore, MD
"You've Got The Love" is an abstract mixed media on panel by Carly Allen Martin. The artists use of vibrant color and detailed brushstrokes render ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paint, Mixed Media, Panel
Quite A Messy Night - Original Bold Delightful Figurative Fancy Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gerdine Duijsens’ spirited and evocative figures are instantly recognizable and unforgettable. Through lush, bold colors and energetic marks, her paintings emit a sense of pleasure a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"On the Riverbank" Arthur Parton, Hudson River School, Glowing Atmospheric Work
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Parton
On the Riverbank
Signed lower left
Oil on canvas
30 x 38 inches
Arthur Parton was born on March 26, 1842, in Hudson, New York. He attended the Pennsylvania Academy of...
Category
1870s Hudson River School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Break" Original Painting by Hiroshi Sato, Vibrant Landscape
Located in Denver, CO
Hiroshi Sato's "Break," completed in 2024, is a striking oil on canvas painting measuring 44 x 80 inches (111.76 x 203.20 cm). This original artwork features a vibrant urban landscap...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Wanderings/Suluk #59 - blue, white, brown, collage, abstract, acrylic on canvas
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This is one in a series of elegant abstract compositions Shireen Kamran created to remember the forced exodus of many people from the town of Suluk, Syria. Using paper collage and ac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic, Pigment
Untitled 17, Paranoia series. Male Nude, Limited Edition Color Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Paranoia is the first chapter of a larger work that explores some of the recurring themes in the artist's work: disenchantment, melancholy, and his own personal idea of beauty. The...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital
Zephyr 7ft Mirror Stainless Steel - large, abstract, polished, outdoor sculpture
By Jeremy Guy
Located in Bloomfield, ON
Jeremy Guy's new sculpture series are available in Mirror Polished Stainless Steel, Gold Finish or Painted in Black or White. This Zephyr sculpture can be ordered in multiple sizes u...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Stainless Steel
'Port-Vendres' Côte Vermeille, France, California, Large Post-Impressionist Oil
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed verso, 'Ant McNaught', (American, born 1952), titled 'Port de Vendres', dated 2022 and inscribed '(After Derain, 1905)'.
This California Post-Impressionist and Abstract Expre...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Los Angeles Crashing Waves, Handmade Cyanotype on Paper, Nautical Seascape, Blue
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series of cyanotype triptychs showcases the beauty of nature scenes, including stunning beaches and oceans, as well as the intricate textures of water, forests, and skies. These...
Category
2010s American Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph, Rag Paper
Bauhaus Bright Summer, Arches Architecture Diptych, Red, Blue Geometric Balloons
Located in Barcelona, ES
Bauhaus Gems unfolds as a quiet exploration of balance, rhythm, and chromatic architecture. Drawing subtly from the Bauhaus tradition, the work uses geometry not as constraint but as...
Category
2010s Art Deco Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Blue Books: Abstract Geometric 3D Wood Wall Sculpture in Blue, Grey, White
Located in Hudson, NY
Abstract geometric three-dimensional wood wall sculpture resembling stacked books in blue, grey, and white
"Blue Books", hand-carved wooden wall sculpture ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Wood, Acrylic, Wood Panel
Sleeping Girls - contemporary, figurative, portrait, acrylic, oil on board
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This realistic painting, a portrait of children, is by internationally recognized artist Daniel Hughes.
Daniel Hughes is known best perhaps for his true-to-life figurative paintings. Early in his life, Hughes was strongly influenced by the work of his artist mother and her friends, many of whom were renowned British artists.
He grew up drawing…never in color books but on six-foot lengths of computer paper. Hughes was especially drawn to the figurative paintings of British artists of the 1950s. His aesthetic focuses on a realistic interpretation, composition, light, harmony, and emotion. Hughes' work, like this acrylic and charcoal painting of two little girls sleeping...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Huge Victorian Oil Painting Horse and Dogs Sporting Art Country Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Waiting for their Master
by Robert Cleminson (British 1864-1903)
signed oil painting on canvas, unframed
painting: 30 x 50 inches
Lovely British sporting art oil painting on canvas...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
B Side Vinyl Collection - Trio - Pop Art Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
This listing is for three blue artworks from the Heidler & Heeps Vinyl Collection.
Acclaimed contemporary photographers, Richard Heeps and Nata...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Huge 18th Century Italian Oil Painting Shipping in Merchant Port Many Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Merchants Port
Italian School, 18th century
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 37 x 58 inches
canvas: 32 x 52 inches
provenance: private collection, UK
condition: very good a...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Blue Chain - polished, abstract, painted stainless steel, outdoor sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This large glossy blue contemporary sculpture was created by Alexander Caldwell. The Calgary artist has garnered an international reputati...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Stainless Steel
Beach with Three Figures
Located in Burlingame, CA
Beach with Three Figures - The painting was created in 2020 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 ye...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Rider, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Artist Jaime Ellsworth depicts a sturdy white stallion with its face out of frame. A girl with a red skirt—also obscured from perspective—stands on its ba...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Art
Materials
Oil
Making Peace, Abstract Large Original Painting on Canvas, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Voskan Galstian
Work: Original Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Year: 2024
Style: Abstract Art,
Title: Making Peace
Size: 48" x 71" x 1....
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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