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Art For Sale
Width: 24–48 in
Untitled 3 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Modern, Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube
This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Artist
Born in 1993 in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
$1,960 Sale Price
20% Off
"Village Provençal " Pointillistic Colorful Landscape Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A large Mid-20th Century oil painting depicting a beautiful landscape on a sunny day of the Village Provençal in France. This piece has a strong presence with bold brushwork and heav...
Category
Mid-20th Century Pointillist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
New York Says It All, Pop Art Screenprint by James Rosenquist
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: James Rosenquist
Title: New York Says It All
Portfolio: New York, New York
Year: 1983
Medium: Screenprint and Offset Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 250
P...
Category
1980s Pop Art Art
Materials
Screen
$2,800 Sale Price
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"Boulevard a Paris" Post-Impressionist Parisian Street Scene Oil Painting Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Te Pencke. Pencke was a Parisian painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. His work is...
Category
20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mnemonic Rhythm (Bright, Multicolored Textile Inspired Abstract Wall Sculpture)
By Susan Stover
Located in Hudson, NY
Mnemonic Rhythm (Bright, Multicolored Textile Inspired Abstract Wall Sculpture), made by Susan Stover in 2025
wood, oil paint, varnish, waxed linen thread
30 x 30 inches
Lightweight,...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Art
Materials
Thread, Wood, Oil, Acrylic, Cardboard
French Mid 20th Century Pastel of Lakeside Landscape with Red Boat
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Mid 20th Century Pastel of Lakeside Landscape with Red Boat
by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Pastel on unframed paper
Size: 19.5 inch...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Pastel
Quiet, Original Painting
By Ruth LaGue
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
Set against an expansive yellow field, a cluster of white farmhouses stands at ease near the horizon. The scene whispers of silence, space, and distance. The co...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Femme Torero I
Located in OPOLE, PL
Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) - Femme Torero I
Etching from 1934.
The edition of 50 on Montval paper.
Dimensions of work: 57 x 77 cm.
Reference: Bloch 1329; Baer 425.
The work is in...
Category
1930s Modern Art
Materials
Etching
White Cliffs Panorama - Large Color Seascape Photography - Limited Edition
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Color fine art seascape - landscape long exposure photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
"Cabbage Patch Butterflies" Multicolor Brilliant Gold Background w Antique Frame
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Butterflies. This piece depicts multicolor delicate butterflies in ascension placed in a wonderful brilliant golden l...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil, Wood Panel
Fernando Botero 'Drawings 1980-1985' 1986- Offset Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original exhibition poster was created for Drawings 1980–1985, an early showcase of Fernando Botero’s works on paper, held at the Caracas Museum of Contemporary Art in 1986. The...
Category
1980s Art
Materials
Offset
Hand painted Artist Proof-Lemon Rose Cottage-British Awarded Artist-Large OneOff
Located in London, GB
This stunning large Artist's Proof is an one-off, hand-painted with highlights by the artist , signed at front and on the back label too; this proof is 80% hand painted with original...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Art
Materials
Gesso, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Giclée
Decorative river landscape in romantic style, oil on canvas
Located in DEVENTER, NL
Decorative river landscape in romantic style,
Signed lower left 'I Roy', unknown artist,
Oil on canvas
Dimensions excl. frame: 49 x 65
Dimensions incl. frame: 64 x 80 x 7 cm.
In go...
Category
20th Century Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Artist and Model Howard Hodgkin abstracted orange and black watercolor gouache
Located in New York, NY
Large black and marigold orange abstract interior scene of a bust in front of a window with fingerprints and painterly brushstrokes. Rich color and texture ideal for hanging in minim...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache, Etching
Landscape with a Mountain Lake - Original etching with aquatint
Located in Paris, IDF
Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010)
Landscape with a Mountain Lake
Original etching with aquatint
Unsigned
On vellum 60.5 × 73.5 cm (c. 24 x 29 in)
Authenticated with the blind stamp of C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
VENDEDORA Signed Lithograph, Portrait Seated Young Girl, Mexican Fruit Seller
Located in Union City, NJ
VENDEDORA, a limited edition lithograph by the renowned American-born Mexican sculptor and printmaker Elizabeth Catlett(b.1915–2012) depicts a sensitive black and white portrait of a...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Pink Dawn, Abstract Geometric Landscape, Blue Bauhaus Arches, Pink Curves, Paper
Located in Barcelona, ES
Pink Dawn by Natalia Roman channels the spirit of Bauhaus with a modern sensibility, balancing geometry, symmetry, and refined color interaction. This composition is structured throu...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
Statue of Liberty, Conceptual Art Screenprint by Robert Rauschenberg
Located in Long Island City, NY
This print by Robert Rauschenberg is part of an 8-piece portfolio published by The New York Graphic Society in 1983 and includes works from Red Grooms, Robert Indiana, Alex Katz, R.B...
Category
1980s Conceptual Art
Materials
Screen
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow of Africa 1 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative
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.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Golden Streets
Located in Zofingen, AG
Bathed in the warmth of afternoon light, the city glows with golden trees and quiet movement.
People stroll, talk, and share the rhythm of the day — each step a reflection of simple ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
#232, Abstract, Photography, Painting, Expressionism
Located in München, BY
Unique piece
More sizes and an Essay from Lyle Rexer about this series on request.
Joachim Schmeisser’s work rescues photography from the centuries-old straightjacket of realism to...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Pigment
Untitled (abstract expressionist mid-century modern painting)
By Joseph Fiore
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Joseph Fiore (1928-2005) Untitled, ca. 1955. Oil on canvas, 18 x 24 inches.
Measuring 24 x 30 inches in custom modernist frame. Signed lower left. Excellent condition.
Joseph Albe...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$3,000 Sale Price
25% Off
Sunset at Kullen
Located in Stockholm, SE
Sunset at Kullen near Mölle in the very south of Sweden.
Between two steep cliffs, a narrow stony beach unfolds, offering a tranquil vantage point over a still sea toward Denmark. T...
Category
1880s Romantic Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,650 Sale Price
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Woman with Cigarette and Black Stockings
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fantastic hand painted oil after famous artist Marcel René von Herrfeldt (1889-1965)..
This was painted by my restorer when we had the original, this frame was on the original paint...
Category
Early 2000s Art Deco Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Large Colourful Abstract Oil on Canvas Floral Painting With Pastel Tones
Located in Cape Town, ZA
"Nature is the indirect perception of human personification, emotion and imagination which is emphasised in colour, texture, patterns and line as it is captured in my paintings, with...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Oil
Mid 19th Century French Portrait of Woman in Large White Headpiece Large Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Woman in Traditional Headpiece
French/ Swiss, dated 1855
signed oil on canvas, framed
dated 1855
framed: 34 x 27 inches
canvas: 32 x 25 inches
Provenance: private coll...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Art
Materials
Oil
$1,977 Sale Price
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Whiteout
Located in Storrs, CT
"Whiteout" is a part of Christopher Kennedy's "Trees Revered" series.
"This particular tree is deep in a huge field in Pennsylvania and so seldom seen by anyone but the wildlife. I...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper
$880 Sale Price
20% Off
LARGE Hand-Painted Artist Proof-Summer Night-British Awarded Artist-One Off
Located in London, GB
This stunning Artist's Proof is an one-off, hand-painted by the artist Shizico , signed at front and on the back label too; the proof is 90% hand painted with original oil paint by S...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Art
Materials
Gesso, Archival Ink, Acrylic, Archival Paper, Giclée
Original Scottish Impressionist Oil Painting WINTER ON THE RIVER DEE PERTHSHIRE
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Alastair Flattely RWA (1922-2009) Scottish
TITLE: "Winter On The River Dee Perthshire Scotland"
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
SIGNED: lower right
CONDITION: very good - image fine...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Sujoon Sky - Blue Abstract Sculptural Original Three-Dimensional Wall Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Atticus Adams' organically composed modern metal sculptures embody the transformative power of art, illustrating the creation of beauty, meaning, and emotional impact from industrial...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal, Wire
Lady In Blue Art Deco Female Painting
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
4066 Art Deco Lady in blue pastel painting
Set in a white frame
Category
1930s Art
Materials
Oil Pastel
$350 Sale Price
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Normandy : River and Mountains - Original oil on canvas, Handsigned
Located in Paris, IDF
Paul Emile Pissarro (1884-1972)
Normandy: Mountain Landscape with a River, 1955
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
Countersigned on the back
Title and dated on the back
On canvas 20F o...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Original Bank by Andy Warhol pop art Gaudy savings vintage poster 1968
By Andy Warhol
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Andy Warhol 1968 Vintage Poster "Gaudy Savings by RCA Color Scanner" Authentic Pop Art Collectible First Edition Print. Archival linen-backed in excellent condition, Grad...
Category
1960s Pop Art Art
Materials
Offset
"Green Landscape" Arthur Hoeber, American Impressionist, Early 20th Century
Located in New York, NY
Arthur Hoeber
Green Landscape, circa 1910
Signed lower right
Oil on canvas
25 x 30 inches
Provenance
Sal Sciarrino, New Jersey
Born in New Jersey in 1854, Arthur Hoeber had a natu...
Category
1910s American Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Huge 20th Century French Cubist Abstract Cityscape in Blue Amazing Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Abstract Cityscape
by H. de Sainte Foi (French 20th century)
signed oil on board, unframed
board: 24 x 47 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: all corners are w...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Materials
Oil
$1,318 Sale Price
30% Off
Imaginations & Objects of The Future Anti-Umbrella with Atomized Liquid
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Imaginations & Objects of The Future Anti-Umbrella with Atomized Liquid
MEDIUM: Etching
SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali
PUBLISHER: Merrill Chas...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
American Impressionist Artist Karl Rudolph Krafft oil painting Winter Scene
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Winter Scene
oil/canvas
20 x 24 image size, 23.75 x 27.50 framed
Here is a very nice winter snow scene oil painting on canvas by Midwest American Artist Karl Rudolph Krafft. Origina...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Walasse Ting 'Blue Horse' Vintage
By Walasse Ting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a reproduction of the original gouache "Blue Horse" by Walasse Ting, presented as a rare, out-of-print limited edition poster. Published by Yves Rivière in Paris, France, thi...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
French Impressionist Harbour View with Boats and Curved Pier
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Harbour View with Boats and Curved Pier
By F.T. Roussel
Signed: yes
Size: 20 x 25.25 inches (height x width)
Oil painting on board, unframed
Condition: Th...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
$804 Sale Price
30% Off
STILL LIFE - Reptiles - Signed Facsimile, Ltd /450
By M.C. Escher
Located in Paris, IDF
M.C. ESCHER (1898-1972)
Still life with reptiles, 2008
Facsimile after the original woodcut from 1943
Signed in the plate
Numbered / 450 copies (the number you can see can be differ...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Color
California Impressionist Oil Painting Franz A. Bischoff Laguna Seascape
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Franz Arthur Bischoff seascape
Laguna Tide Pools
oil/board
13 x 19 unframed, 19.5 x 25.5 framed sight size
Provenance Private collection, Northern California, Bonhams
Condition repor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
$12,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Antique British Steamship Signed Etching
Located in Soquel, CA
Antique British Steamship Etching
This moody etching by Joseph Kirkpatrick (British, b. 1874 d. 1936) features a steamboat in the midst of choppy w...
Category
1910s English School Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Etching
“Sunlit pines” Original impressionistic landscape painting. Landscape Paintings
Located in Oslo, NO
This evocative artwork captures the serene beauty of a sunlit forest, with sunlight streaming through the tall, slender trees that stretch skyward against a vivid blue sky. The inter...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
The Pharaoh's Horses
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
John Frederick Herring Snr (Surrey 1795-1863 Kent)
The Pharaoh's Horses
Oil on canvas
Painting Size - 32 x 32 in
Framed Size - 39 x 39 in
Provenance
Frost & Reed, London, where pur...
Category
19th Century Victorian Art
Materials
Oil
$21,635
Sea Stack, Bay of Biscay, long exposure coastline rocks - large color photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Bergammer - Color minimalist seascape photography. Long exposure photo of jagged rocks in the ocean with misty water and a cloudy sky.
Archival pigment ink print as part of a ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
“Starstruck”
Located in Warren, NJ
Erte "Starstruck" original signed and numbered serigraph. In good condition. Measures 45x35. I have another one as well with a different frame and number of the edition. 221 out of 300
Category
20th Century Art
Materials
Lithograph
African Victorian by Tamary Kudita - Portrait photography, African women, flower
Located in Paris, FR
African Victorian is a limited-edition photograph (Digital Print on Baryta Fine Art paper) by contemporary artist Tamary Kudita.
This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in 2 dimensions:
*84 x 62 cm (33.1 × 24.5 in), edition of 20 copies
*119 x 89 cm (46.9 × 35.1 in), edition of 20 copies
All prints are signed and numbered.
Framing options available.
This photograph is the first in the African Victorian series. It references Rembrandt’s 1634 painting Saskia as Flora, which portrays the artist’s wife, Saskia van Uylenburgh...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital
Lady with Pearl Necklace
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5111 Lady with pearl necklace by Lynn Lemay
Custom wood frame
Image size 23.5x19.5"
Category
1990s Art
Materials
Oil
$1,250
Harmony
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
Vintage Realist Landscape with Horse and Dog Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American school realist landscape oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Provenance from a Sag Harbor, NY collection. Measuring: 23 by 28 inches overall. Handsomely framed in ...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Lately - Oil Painting Figurative Seascape Swimmer Dark Ocean Peach Clouds, 2021
Located in Kent, CT
Two figures float in a dark charcoal black ocean with their arms outstretched while cumulus clouds float in the coral sky overhead. Signed, dated and titled on verso.
David Konigsbe...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
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
Renée's Dream (Days of Heaven) - Analog, Contemporary, Women, Polaroid, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Renée's Dream (29 Palms, CA) - 2005
32 pieces, Edition 3/5,
31 x 38 cm each, installed 276 x 164 cm including gaps.
32 analog C-Prints, hand printed by the artist,
based on 27 or...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"Paper Making" WPA Industrial Mid-Century American Scene Social Realism Workers
Located in New York, NY
"Paper Making" WPA Industrial Mid-Century American Scene Social Realism Workers
Douglas Crockwell (1904-1968)
"Paper Making"
19 x 39 inches
Oil on board, c. 1936
Signed verso
Framed: 28 x 47
Provenance: Estate of the Artist
BIO
Spencer Douglass Crockwell was born into a comfortable middle class household on April 29, 1904 in Columbus, Ohio. His father, Charles Roland Crockwell, was a mining engineer; his mother, Cora, was the daughter of an Iowa attorney. He became a commercial artist and experimental filmmaker who spent a good part of his career creating illustrations and advertisements for the Saturday Evening Post.
In 1907 the Crockwell family moved to St. Louis, Missouri, where he graduated from high school and then attended from Washington University. Initially he studied engineering, but soon switched to business. While still an undergraduate, Crockwell took courses at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts and quickly realized that he wanted to be an artist. After graduating from Washington University in 1926, Crockwell continued to study at the St. Louis School of Fine Arts until 1929. The following year he relocated to Chicago and continued his studies at the American Academy of Art. In 1930 and 1931 he studied in Europe on a Traveling Fellowship.
In 1932 Douglass Crockwell moved to Glens Falls, New York, which was to be his home for the remainder of his life. The following year he married Margaret Braman. They had three children, a son Douglass and two daughters, Johanna and Margaret.
During the depression he created murals and posters for the Works Progress Administration including Post Office murals in White River junction, Vermont; Endicott, New York; and Macon, Mississippi. In 1934 he painted Paper Workers, Finch Pruyn & Co. (the leading Glens Falls, New York company) for the WPA.
In the 1930s Crockwell developed an interest in experimental animated films that occupied him for the rest of his life. In 1936 and 1937, he collaborated with David Smith, a sculptor, to create surrealist films. Because of his interest in experimental films, his output of paintings was limited to just twenty to forty illustrations a year during this time.
Crockwell painted his first of many Saturday Evening Post cover in 1933. He also worked for Life, Look, and Esquire, and numerous national advertisers including Friskies dog food, Welch’s Grape Juice, Republic Steel...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Portrait of a Lady - Large Antique English Georgian Early 19th Century Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A beautiful large early 19th century Georgian oil on canvas portrait of a young lady wrapped in silk.
Excellent quality portrait which is indistinctly inscribed on the reverse with ...
Category
Early 19th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Steel, Oil Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A ballerina balances en pointe on a rust-red steel girder suspended high above a pastel-hued cityscape. The image contrasts delicate grace with industrial stren...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art
Materials
Oil
Seaside Serenade - Minimalism, Art Deco, Abstract, Bold, Invest, Colorful, Joy
By Karnish Art
Located in Pretoria, Gauteng
Title: Seaside Serenade
Minimalism, Art Deco, Abstract, Bold, Invest, Colorful, Joy
This series connects to that around as well as that within.
Solitude takes the viewer to that ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Landscape 145 by Jean Krille - Oil on Masonite 100x100 cm
By Jean Krille
Located in Geneva, CH
Jean Krillé’s paintings are known for their expressive use of color and dynamic, abstract forms, blending realism with abstraction in his depictions of nature. His landscapes often f...
Category
Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
$3,150 Sale Price
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Calm Costa Rica Shore, Minimal Large Black and White Giclée Photograph Seascape
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive limited edition black and white giclée print, on 100% cotton Hahnemühle Photo Rag Fine Art matte paper.
This series of black and white photographs captures the ...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Rag Paper, Black and White
Her is the Sea, by Jos Sances
Located in Palm Springs, CA
One print from Jos Sances cycle concerning Moby Dick. A vast sperm whale drifts below the surface, scarred by harpoons, while above floats a lone survivor on a coffin raft—a haunting...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
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