Art
to
2,880
139,548
78,641
71,174
54,255
75,572
Overall Width
to
Overall Height
to
299
381
5,060
33,648
33
47
62
72
57
315
688
994
982
886
126
14,872
10,888
2,122
1,231
1,045
473
436
394
354
243
174
128
82
62
26,578
6,415
4,802
9,322
5,112
4,315
3,731
3,396
2,774
1,890
1,854
1,760
1,348
1,267
1,223
1,212
1,138
1,057
1,030
960
874
865
748
22,358
14,564
13,421
11,529
11,121
1,087
944
775
432
387
7,186
8,532
26,588
9,746
Art For Sale
Width: Over 48 in
Amor et Pietas - Important 19th Century Royal Academy Exhibition Oil Painting
Located in Gerrards Cross, GB
‘Amor et Pietas’ by Ursula Wood S.W.A. (1868-1956).
The painting – which depicts a group of children laying to rest their pet dog – is signed and dated by the artist. Ursula Wood’s ...
Category
1890s Pre-Raphaelite Art
Materials
Oil
Fishermen at low tide
Located in Genève, GE
Work on canvas
Brown wooden frame
91.5 x 142 x 3 cm
Category
20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
"Love for Meadow V" by Hessler - Textured Bright Colorful Abstract Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Sveta Hessler (Russian, born 1973)
"Love for Meadow V" 2025
Acrylic, Mixed Media, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
The artist signed the back of the painting.
In "Love for Meadow V", Sveta He...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars
Roy Lichtenstein-As I Opened Fire (Triptych)-FOURTH EDITION
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This official offset lithograph triptych, printed by the Stedelijk Museum, is not a third-party reproduction. Rendered in red, yellow, blue, and black on white wove paper, it reprodu...
Category
20th Century Pop Art Art
Materials
Offset
Putti Fighting Venice Tiziano 16th Century Paint Oil on canvas Old master Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Tiziano Vecellio (Pieve di Cadore 1490 - Venice 1576) Workshop
Putti fighting on the Ponte dei Pugni in Venice
Venetian school, late 16th century
Oil on canvas 105 x 144 cm -...
Category
16th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
$23,033 Sale Price
20% Off
" The Doors are Open lV" Acrylic on Raw Canvas, Framed
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Ali Enache (b. 1985, Washington, D.C.) is a Los Angeles-based abstract painter whose minimalist, textural works are characterized by warmth, subtle movement, and tonal depth. With a ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'Coastal Landscape', Berlin, Paris, Romantic Landscape, Riga, Benezit, Sailing
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Krause' for Franz Emil Krause (German, 1836-1900) and painted circa 1865.
Displayed in an exceptionally fine, hand-carved, gilt-wood and gesso frame.
Framed Dime...
Category
1860s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
In the Twinkle of an Ocean
By Erin Parish
Located in Burlingame, CA
Lustrous blues and golds abound in this original and highly unique contemporary oil and resin painting on canvas from acclaimed American abstract artist Erin Parish, Parish's tradema...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Resin, Oil
ABSTRACT Big Circle Painting Textil Spanish Artist Alicia Gimeno Black
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
At Escat Gallery we are committed to maintaining the highest standards of trust and professionalism for our collectors. Every artwork in our collection comes with a Certificate of Au...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Ink, Acrylic
Plum Tree - contemporary, landscape, tree, acrylic and resin on panel
By Peter Hoffer
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary mixed media landscape featuring a fruit tree is by Peter Hoffer.
The ephemeral beauty of a plum tree cloaked in spring blossoms is captured in this landscape by Ca...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic, Panel
Southern California Grapevine Valley, Large-Scale 1930's Landscape
By Jene Jackman
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous large-scale pastel colored landscape of a Southern California grapevine valley by Eugene (Jene) Jackman (American, 1910-1970), 1937. Rolling hills sprawl across this vast la...
Category
1930s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,280 Sale Price
20% Off
Contemporary Oil Painting On Canvas With Figures And Animals. Turquoise Kairos
Located in Bogotá, Bogotá
This painting is a large format oil on canvas, depicting a composition that combines anthropomorphic figures and animal elements, integrated into a dark setting with geometric fragme...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Cotton Canvas
Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Sunbathing In Antibes
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Sunbathing In Antibes 1976
Dani Geneux (left) and Marie-Eugenie Gaudfrin sunbathing at the Hotel du Cap Eden-Roc, Antibes, France, August 1976.
40 x 60" inches / 101 x 152 cm pape...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Jungle Mermaid - underwater ocean nude photograph - archival pigment 43" x 63"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This evocative underwater fine art photograph captures a naked woman swimming through a golden kelp forest, creating a dreamlike atmosphere where human and nature intertwine. The ima...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
Very Large Victorian Signed Oil Painting The Harvest Fields Wheatsheaves & Cart
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Bringing in the Harvest
British School, late 19th century
signed lower corner
oil painting on canvas, framed
framed: 29.5 x 55.5 inches
canvas: 24 x 50.5 inches
provenance: private c...
Category
19th Century Victorian Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Large French Impressionist Nicely Framed Paris Street Scene Signed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Impressive early French impressionist Paris street scene oil painting. Framed. Oil on canvas. Signed. Image size, 24H by 40L.
Category
1940s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ruz Big. Black Brown golden acrylic canvas painting
By Rafael Ruz
Located in CORAL GABLES - MIAMI, FL
.
Ruz. Big. black. Brown. golden acrylic canvas painting
Original artwork by Spanish artist Rafael Ruz. Acrylic on canvas in perfect condition.
While contemplating the painting of R...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic
Aqua Earth by Tejinder Kanda - Contemporary Impasto Painting
Located in DE
Tejinder Kanda
"In-Within" reflects the Artist's exploration of time and space, presenting spontaneous works that embody absolute independence, free from preconceived notions. These...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
A Figure on a Path. An English landscape signed O T Clark. Oil on canvas
Located in St. Albans, GB
Octavius Thomas CLARK
Oil on canvas
Picture Size: 24 x 42" (60 x 105cm)
Outside Frame Size: 32 x 50" (80 x 125cm)
Signed bottom left
An impressive example of O. T. Clark's work. Su...
Category
Late 19th Century Victorian Art
Materials
Oil
Gentle Waters-original seascape ocean impressionism painting-contemporary Art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online.
"Gentle Waters" by Lenny Cornforth is a mesmerizing original s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
The Season of Heaven - Large majestic abstract blue seascape painting
Located in Silverthorne, CO
A painting dedicated to the wide open expanse of time stretching out before me like a magic carpet.
I battled cancer in 2024. I wept and wept. I believed this world didn’t want me an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Incredible Large Modernist Sunflower Portrait Framed Still Life Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wonderful antique American modernist Sunflower still life painting. Oil on canvas. Framed.
Category
1950s Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,000 Sale Price
20% Off
"Layers Of Time In Jimmy's Garden" Colorful Abstract Expressionist Painting
By Tony Magar
Located in Houston, TX
Modern pink, yellow, and blue abstract expressionist painting by English artist Tony Magar. The work features bold, emotive strokes that continue around the edges with a patch of whi...
Category
1990s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Ideal Conditions" sailors look out at the sea, the sky turning pink behind them
Located in Edgartown, MA
Michel Brosseau was born in Nantes and has lived in Bordeaux for many years. Both cities are on the Atlantic coast of France and have rich maritime histories, highlighted by prospero...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil
English 19th century forest landscape with horses in the New Forest Hampshire UK
Located in Woodbury, CT
English landscape painter from the 1870's who exhibited at the Royal Academy and the British Institute in London.
He mostly painted in watercolors and this example would have been p...
Category
1860s Victorian Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
'Saint-Tropez Beach' SLIM AARONS Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
The beach at Saint-Tropez, on the French Riviera, August 1971.
The beach, beautiful fashionable people, bikinis, vibrant coloured parasols, large sunglasses and glorious sunshine. ...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Frank Stella Hand Signed 93/100 Whitney Museum Lithograph Abstract Expressionist
By Frank Stella
Located in New York, NY
Frank Stella
Large Limited Edition Hand Signed Whitney Museum Print, 1985
Offset Lithograph
Hand signed, dated and numbered 93 from the edition of 100, lower left front
75 7/10 × 52 ...
Category
1980s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph, Offset
Botanical Illustration of Ripe Pomegranates Triptych, Fruit Tree, Watercolor
Located in Barcelona, ES
"Ripe Pomegranates III" is an illustration style painting by Romina Milano where a dance of gestures unfolds across colorful landscapes.
Romina Milano is an Italian artist renowned...
Category
2010s Fauvist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Acrylic
$1,120 Sale Price
20% Off
Elvis TCB Gun - Single (CA)
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique artwork by Russell Young.
Acrylic paint, enamel and diamond dust screen print on linen, unframed dimensions 48 x 62 inches, 2011, from the series "Guns".
Hand sig...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Screen
The Tooth-Puller (Il Cavadenti) - Oil on Canvas by Follower of Caravaggio
By Follower of Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi)
Located in Roma, IT
The Tooth-Puller is a superb original oil painting on canvas, realized by an anonymous artist, a follower of Caravaggio, in the first half of the X...
Category
Late 17th Century Baroque Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
After Picasso Exhibition Poster, "Mostra di Picasso, " depicting Guernica - 1953
Located in Roma, IT
Rare and giant vintage poster of Pablo Picasso Exhibition Milan, Palazzo Reale, 1953.
Limited edition of 1,000 copies, most of which lost or...
Category
1950s Cubist Art
Materials
Offset
Retrato en Amarillo, Contemporary Art, Abstract Painting, 21st Century
Located in Mexico City, MX
Contemporary Art, Abstract Painting
Acrylic on canvas
122 x 152 cm
Signed
FREE SHIPPING ROLLED UP
About the artist
Enrique Pichardo (Mexico City, 1973) graduated from Escuela Naci...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Hokusai sakura"
Located in Edinburgh, GB
Diptych, consists of two sheets of cardboard, each sheet is 85-61 centimeters.
Syria paintings of flowers, in all their forms and shades. I love to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Exploring - contemporary, figurative, hand-crafted, ceramic wall sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary ceramic wall art was created by Heather Allen Hietala.
The finely crafted wood-fired ceramics of Heather Allen Hietala are designed to tell a compelling story. Usi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Wire
Blue Space
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
En esta obra, he vertido mi energía creativa en un lienzo que respira dinamismo y pasión. Usando acrílicos, he fusionado minimalismo con expresionismo abstracto, donde cada pincelada...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic
"James Dean" Contemporary Black and Yellow Pop Art Porsche Car Racing Painting
By Jörg Döring
Located in Houston, TX
Contemporary pop culture inspired painting by German artist Jörg Döring. The work features a dynamic depiction of James Dean driving his Porsche 550 Spyder with the iconic number "13...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage Sausalito Landscape -- Golden Gate
Located in Soquel, CA
Gorgeous Sausalito and the Golden Gate Bridge landscape oil painting by Calderon (Spain, 20th Century). Presented in a giltwood frame. Signed "Calderon" lower right. Image size, 30"H...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Now I know what it's like to love myself
Located in Zofingen, AG
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
"Now I Know What It's Like to Love Myself" from the "Perichoresis" series explores the experience of self-love as an act of healing, acceptance, and a return to who...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Original Late 19th Century Oil Painting of Upstate New York Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Late 19th Century Upstate New York Oil Painting Landscape by Frances B. Clark
Moody rural Hudson River School style painting of Upstate ...
Category
1880s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Stretcher Bars, Linen
Woman Abstracted Figure, Palm, Acrylic on Canvas, Desert Oasis by Rebecca Jack
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Rebecca Jack
"Desert Oasis"
Acrylic on Canvas
36 x 60 in.
__________________________
Rebecca Jack, an intuitive painter, creates vibrant, figurative works that highlight the beaut...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Aeris Tarim Noire - Large Black and White Original Three-Dimensional Wall Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Atticus Adams' organically composed modern metal sculptures embody the transformative power of contemporary art, illustrating the creation of beauty, meaning, and emotional impact fr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal, Wire
Still life with Sea Fish on Table - Isaac Van Duynen
By Isaac Van Duynen
Located in Winterswijk, NL
Isaac van Duynen was a 17th century painter, specialized in fish still lifes. Born in Dordrecht, he settled in The Hague around 1650. We know from 17th century sources that his paint...
Category
17th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$42,140 Sale Price
20% Off
Daffodilly Diptych, Original Painting, Landscape, Nature, Flowers
Located in Deddington, GB
A woodland of wild daffodils in Wales, dappled with spring sunshine. The light creates contrasting shades of bright and darker green which is almost turquoise blue in the shadowy spo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Monumental Bull I by Pierre Yermia - Animal bronze sculpture, figurative, wild
Located in Paris, FR
Monumental Bull I is a bronze sculpture by French contemporary artist Pierre Yermia, dimensions are 197 × 250 × 120 cm (77.6 × 98.4 × 47.2 in).
The sculpture is signed and numbered,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Bronze
Multitud, Contemporary Art, Abstract Painting, 21st Century
Located in Mexico City, MX
Contemporary Art, Abstract Painting
Acrylic on canvas
150 x 200 cm
Signed
FREE SHIPPING ROLLED UP
About the artist
Enrique Pichardo (Mexico City, 1973) graduated from Escuela Nacio...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Dream Portal" Extira wood with automotive paint sculpture
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Mary Lai is a multifaceted Korean-American artist based in Los Angeles, California. Her outlook is that “Art is a universal language that can speak to anyone” and her dreamer mindse...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood, Automotive Paint
Brigitte Bardot with cigar - Spain, 1971 - co signed by Terry O'Neill and Bardot
Located in Chicago, IL
French actress Brigitte Bardot on the set of "The Ballad of Frenchie King" in Almeria, Spain, 1971
Co signed by Brigitte Bardot and Terry O'Neill
40 x 60 inches
Edition Size: 50 +...
Category
1970s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cattle watering in an open landscape
By Joshua Shaw
Located in Stoke, Hampshire
Joshua Shaw (Billingborough 1776-1860 New Jersey)
An open landscape with cattle watering
signed and dated 'J. Shaw. 1810' lower right
Oil on canvas
Canvas Size 36 x 51 in
Framed Siz...
Category
18th Century Old Masters Art
Materials
Oil
$16,334 Sale Price
24% Off
"Survey of the Narcissist" - Large Contemporary Realism of Nude Female Figures
Located in Carmel, CA
Rizaldy Celi Jr (American, Filipino-Vietnamese, born 1983)
"Survey of the Narcissist" 2025
Oil Paint, Varnish, Canvas, Stretcher Bars
The artist signed the back of the painting.
“Su...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Three Sisters: large abstract expressionist figural painting & breast feeding
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
Please contact me for best shipping rates and speediest delivery.
Ellen Powell Tiberino, matriarch of the Tiberino artist dynasty that includes her artist-husband Joseph and three artist-children (Raphael, Gabriel, and Ellen), often looked to Black women and girls as subjects, in the contexts of motherhood, pregnancy, and childhood, as well as subjects drawn from her neighborhood communities. Her work is expressionistic and passionate with dramatic gestures and dark colorism in her figures, but it is also intimate and highly personal. At this point in her career, Tiberino had been struggling with cancer, and as a result, her palette became brighter and more colorful than her former dark palette.
"Three Sisters" includes Ellen Powell Tiberino’s self-portrait in the front of the composition, nursing an infant. Tiberino’s two sisters, Joyce and Anne, sit behind her. Tiberino likely paints from memory or imagination here, since her four children were well beyond nursing age when she created this painting. "Three Sisters" is likely among the last large-scale canvases Tiberino completed, opting to work on a smaller scale and while seated as her illness progressed. Tiberino ultimately lost her battle in 1992.
"Three Sisters" comes from a private Main Line, PA collection, acquired directly from the artist immediately upon its completion. Framed in original wood strip frame.
It is in excellent condition.
Tiberino graduated from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in 1959, where she was awarded a prestigious Cresson scholarship to study in Europe. After returning to the US, she lived and worked in New York until she married fellow artist (Joseph) and returned to her hometown of Philadelphia where she continued to create oil paintings, oil pastels drawings, sculptures, murals, and mosaics. In Philadelphia, she was part of social and professional circles that included Moe Brooker, Barbara Bullock, Walter Edmonds, Charles Pridgen, Leroy Johnson, John Simpson, James Dupree...
Category
1980s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait Of Letitia, later Lady Russell (c.1645–1721), 17th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Portrait Of Letitia, later Lady Russell (c.1645–1721), 17th Century
Studio of Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680)
Huge 17th Century three quarter length portrait of Letitia later Lady Russe...
Category
17th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Incoming Spring Rain: large oil painting, dramatic landscape with clouds in blue
Located in Bryn Mawr, PA
This is a large, glorious and dramatic oil painting of a dark, cloud-filled sky. It is painted on all edges so there is no need for framing. It is wired with all installation hardware and ready to hang. Signed on the back.
Bucks County, PA landscape artist Kirby Fredendall...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Impermanence Series n7 and n6, Diptych. From the Impermanence series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
In the Kingdom of Transience, everything is temporary, subject to constant change. Everything is unstable and volatile like the wind. The precariousness of our existence reminds us t...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Ink, Pigment
Sunbathing On Capri - Slim Aarons - 20th century colour photography Oversize
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Sunbathing On Capri' by Slim Aarons
Huge Oversize 72 x 48 inches / 183 x 122 cm paper size
Catherine Wilke joins the topless sunbathers - along with Elisabetta Catalano, Charlotte...
Category
1980s Modern Art
Materials
C Print
Hunt Slonem "Silver Ascension Melting" Butterflies on Metallic Blue Background
By Hunt Slonem
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Silver Ascension Melting" Butterflies on Metallic Blue Background
A group of butterflies on a textured silver background
Canvas 93 x 134 inches
Unframed (framing options...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Ranunculus III" Acrylic, Oil Pastels and Pencils Rose Pink Abstract 60"x60"
Located in New York, NY
"Ranunculus III", 2025, 60" H x 60" W. Abstract painting in a deep rose, magenta hue consisting of acrylic, pencils, and oil pastels on canvas by Argentine-born artist Karina Gentine...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Carbon Pencil, Color Pencil
Memory Wall 6: Maximalist Abstract Painting in Red, Peach, Pink, Teal, Green
Located in Hudson, NY
Large, brightly colored abstract geometric painting in various shades of red, pink, and peach with accents of mint green, teal, blue, yellow, white and black.
"Memory Wall #6" made ...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Plaster, Wax, Acrylic, Panel, Pigment
Italian Early 17th Century Renaissance Baroque Oil Painting Entombment of Christ
Located in Portland, OR
An important & large Italian Baroque period oil painting on panel attributed to Daniele Crespi (1598-1630), "The Entombment of Christ", Milan circa 1620. See artist biography below.
...
Category
1620s Baroque Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Portrait of a Lady possibly Frances Thynne, Lady Worsley 1673-1750 Oil on canvas
Located in St. Albans, GB
Charles Jervas
Possibly Frances Thynne, Lady Worsley 1673-1750
Oil on Canvas
Picture Size: 50 x 40"
Outside Frame Size: 58 x 48"
1675 – 1739
Charles Jervas, who was born in Clonli...
Category
Early 1700s English School Art
Materials
Oil
The Wind Picked Up - Original Abstract Nature Landscape Impasto Painting
By Dana Cowie
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Using an impasto, painterly technique Dana Cowie creates cubist-inspired farm and rural landscapes. Working within controlled color schemes, her artworks appear abstract up close and...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Shop Art on 1stDibs: Photography, Drawings, Prints, Sculptures and Paintings for Sale
Whether growing your current fine art collection or taking the first steps on that journey, you will find an extensive range of original photography, drawings, prints, sculptures, paintings and more on 1stDibs.
Visual art is among the oldest forms of expression, and it has been evolving for centuries. Beautiful objects can provide a window to the past or insight into our current time. Art collecting enhances daily life through the presence of meaningful work. It displays an appreciation for culture, whether a print by Elizabeth Catlett channeling social change or a narrative quilt by Faith Ringgold.
Contemporary art has lured more initiates to collecting than almost any other category, with notable artists including Yayoi Kusama, Marc Chagall, Kehinde Wiley and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Navigating the waiting lists for the next Marlene Dumas, Jeff Koons or Jasper Johns has become competitive.
When you’re living with art, particularly as people more often work from home and enjoy their spaces, it’s important to choose art that resonates with you. While the richness of art with its many movements, styles and histories can be overwhelming, the key is to identify what is appealing and inspiring. Artwork can play with the surrounding color of a room, creating a layered approach. The dynamic shapes and sizes of sculptures can set different moods, such as a bronze by Miguel Guía on a mantel or an Alexander Calder mobile suspended over a table. A wall of art can evoke emotions in an interior while showing off your tastes and interests. A salon-style wall mixing eclectic pieces like landscape paintings with charcoal drawings is a unique way to transform a space and show off a collection.
For art meditating on the subconscious, investigate Surrealists like Joan Miró and Salvador Dalí. Explore Pop art and its leading artists such as Andy Warhol, Rosalyn Drexler and Keith Haring for bright and bold colors. Not only did these artists question art itself, but also how we perceive society. Similarly, 20th-century photography and abstract painting reconsidered the intent of art.
Abstract Expressionists like Helen Frankenthaler and Lee Krasner and Color Field artists including Sam Gilliam broke from conventional ideas of painting, while Op artists such as Yaacov Agam embraced visual trickery and kinetic movement. Novel visuals are also integral to contemporary work influenced by street art, such as sculptures and prints by KAWS.
Realist portraiture is a global tradition reflecting on what makes us human. This is reflected in the work of Slim Aarons, an American photographer whose images are at once candid and polished and appeared in Holiday magazine and elsewhere. Innovative artists Mickalene Thomas and Kerry James Marshall are now offering new perspectives on the form.
Collecting art is a rewarding, lifelong pursuit that can help connect you with the creative ways historic, modern and contemporary artists have engaged with the world. For more tips on piecing together an art collection, see our guide to buying and displaying art.
Find photography, drawings, paintings, prints and other art for sale on 1stDibs.