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Cattle watering in an open landscape
Cattle watering in an open landscape

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

"Portrait of Rebecca" Harriet Peale, Early American Female Portrait
"Portrait of Rebecca" Harriet Peale, Early American Female Portrait

"Portrait of Rebecca" Harriet Peale, Early American Female Portrait

By Harriet Cany Peale

Located in New York, NY

Harriet Peale Portrait of Rebecca, 1840 Inscribed verso, “Portrait of Rebecca Greenwood (?)/ Aged 25 years/ Painted by Harriet C. Cany/ May 1840” Oil on canvas 28 3/4 x 23 3/4 inches...

Category

1840s Academic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Totem by Le Corbusier

Totem by Le Corbusier

By Le Corbusier

Located in New York, NY

“I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and leaves less room for lies.” This colorful modern lithograph was printed at the Atelier Mourlot in Paris in 1963 and is from the printer's edition. It is signed and dated in the plate in the bottom left quadrant. Le Corbusier...

Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Hunt Slonem "Society Finches 2" Birds
Hunt Slonem "Society Finches 2" Birds

Hunt Slonem "Society Finches 2" Birds

By Hunt Slonem

Located in Boston, MA

Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Society Finches 2 Date: 2025 Medium: Oil on wood Unframed Dimensions: 10" x 8" Framed Dimensions: 14.25" x 12.25" Signature: Signed by Artist on Ve...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Cow
Cow

Cow

By Andy Warhol

Located in New York, NY

Color screenprint on wallpaper, 1971. Printed by Bill Miller's Wallpaper Studio, Inc., New York. Published for a Warhol exhibition at the Whitney Museum by Factory Additions, New Yor...

Category

1970s Pop Art Art

Materials

Screen

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Beach Scene with Women and Parasol
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Beach Scene with Women and Parasol

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Beach Scene with Women and Parasol

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Beach Scene with Women and Parasol by Anne Marie Migette Perard (French 1902-1977) Signed: Yes Medium: Pastel on unframed paper Size: 10.5 ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Pastel

Antique French School Oil Painting Canvas Cliffs at Etretat Normandy France 1910
Antique French School Oil Painting Canvas Cliffs at Etretat Normandy France 1910

Antique French School Oil Painting Canvas Cliffs at Etretat Normandy France 1910

Located in Portland, OR

A fine & large antique oil painting on canvas by Raimond Louis Lecourt (1882-1946), the cliffs at the Atlantic Ocean, Etretat, Normandy, France, circa 1910. Lecourt was the quintessential painter of scenes of Normandy France, this is a large and very fine example of his work. The painting depicts the Falaise d' Amont located near Etretat, Normandy, the Falaises (cliffs) are on the Atlantic coast and are a very impressive formation of flint cliffs with huge naturally created archways. The painting is beautifully rendered and in some areas the artist has employed impasto technique (thickly applied paint) to provide texture to the ocean & cliffs, in the foreground of the cliffs is a flock of herring gulls circling overhead. The painting is signed "Lecourt" lower right with a dedication, the painting is housed in the original sponge decorated gesso frame, also created by the artist. Condition is excellent, this charming painting is ready to hang on your wall. The artist was born in Le Havre, and studied at the National School of Fine Arts and the Regional School of Fine Arts of Rouen, he studied under Charles Lhuillier and Léon Bonnat. He received the Croix de Guerre 1914-1918 Military medal during WW1. Lecourt studied at the Le Havre School of Fine Arts under the direction of Charles Lhuillier , then with Léon Bonnat at the Paris School of Fine Arts . He then lived in Fontaine-la-Mallet , where he painted in the Normandy region, which was his favorite subject. In 1899, Lecourt obtained the honorary prize for the upper course with the city's silver medal. A municipal scholarship which allowed him to enter the Paris School of Fine Arts in the studio of the painter Léon Bonnat . There he found his comrades from Le Havre who had preceded him there: Othon Friesz , Raoul Dufy , the brothers René and Henri de Saint-Delis . He debuted at the Salon of French Artists in 1901 with his painting Le Herseur . He completed his studies in the studio of Luc-Olivier Merson and it was around this time that he got into the habit of spending his holidays in Fontaine-la-Mallet with his comrade Othon Friesz . He settled there permanently in 1907, after a trip to Brittany from where he brought back numerous sketches and portraits. During the First World War , he was mobilized on August 1, 1914 in the same regiment and behaved like a hero, decorated with the Croix de Guerre and the Military Medal . During an engagement at Courcy - Brimont , September 14, he was injured by a gunshot to the right forearm. He continued to draw with his left hand then, after a long rehabilitation, he regained the use of his right hand. He became a member of the Society of French Artists, also exhibited at the Salon des Indépendants, and made regular submissions to the Salons. Many paintings by him appear in museums & galleries in Denmark , Germany, the United States, Japan, and in England where the "Dogs of the Duchess of Manchester" painting was exhibited and won Lecourt great acclaim. After the outbreak of World War II, Lecourt takes the German Occupation of France very badly. After General Philippe Petains's handshake with Hitler in Montoire-sur-le-Loir, he returned his military medal to the Chancellery, accompanied by this comment: "We have no need for decorations in a country which no longer has the sense of honor" During this period, he resided with Charles Toussaint, a Le Havre broker and companion from the 74th infantry regiment, at the Frescinet manor, a property which would disappear under the bombings of the September 11, 1944. At this time, he painted mainly on wood, as canvases were rare and expensive at this time. In the winter of 1943-1944, he was hit by a military truck which skidded on the ice, during the fighting for the liberation of the port of Le Havre, the village of Fontaine-la-Mallet, where he lived, was raised to the ground under heavy bombing. His house, his studio, his notes and sketches were destroyed. However he went back to work with courage, but something had broken inside him. The following winter, he caught a cold and contracted pneumonia which took him away in eight days, unable to be properly treated following the refusal of an American army colonel, to give to civilians penicillin that only the Americans had at the time. His friends mourned him and others said that he was a gifted painter of Cauchoise (Normandy) painting, and who knew so well how to render plough horses, Normandy cows...

Category

1910s French School Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Flying Colors

The Flying Colors

By Alexander Calder

Located in London, GB

Alexander Calder The Flying Colors, 1974 Signed with artist's monogram and dated, from the edition of 250, published by State Street, New York for Braniff International Airline, with...

Category

1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Cat and Bird at the Sunset - Original Handsigned Lithograph
Cat and Bird at the Sunset - Original Handsigned Lithograph

Cat and Bird at the Sunset - Original Handsigned Lithograph

By Corneille

Located in Paris, IDF

Guillaume Corneille (1922-2010) Cat and Bird at the Sunset, 1991 Original color lithograph Signed and dated in pencil Artist proof On vellum, 53 x 76 cm (c. 21 x 30 in) Very good ...

Category

1990s Surrealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Old Cat

Old Cat

By David Shrigley

Located in London, GB

12 Colour Screenprint with a Varnish Overlay on Somerset Tub Sized 410gsm Paper. Limited edition of 125. Hand signed and numbered verso by David Shrigley.

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Screen

Hunt Slonem "Lemon Bunnies" Lithograph
Hunt Slonem "Lemon Bunnies" Lithograph

Hunt Slonem "Lemon Bunnies" Lithograph

By Hunt Slonem

Located in Boston, MA

Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Lemon Bunnies Series: Bunnies Date: 2017 Medium: Lithograph on Paper Unframed Dimensions: 24" x 16" Framed Dimensions: 29" x 22" Signature: Signed...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Still Life with Oranges - France 19th century
Still Life with Oranges - France 19th century

Still Life with Oranges - France 19th century

Located in PARIS, FR

French School, 19th century. Still life with oranges. Oil on canvas mounted on panel. 22.5 x 54 cm (49 x 60,5 cm with frame) without signature

Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Paper, Oil, Panel

French Old Master Antique Oil Painting For Restoration Figures Classical Landscp
French Old Master Antique Oil Painting For Restoration Figures Classical Landscp

French Old Master Antique Oil Painting For Restoration Figures Classical Landscp

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Figures in a Classical Landscape French School, 18th/ 19th century oil painting on copper, unframed copper: 4 x 5 inches provenance: private collection condition: the work has paint ...

Category

19th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil

Roy Lichtenstein, Sandwich and Soda, from Ten Works by Ten Painters, 1964
Roy Lichtenstein, Sandwich and Soda, from Ten Works by Ten Painters, 1964

Roy Lichtenstein, Sandwich and Soda, from Ten Works by Ten Painters, 1964

By Roy Lichtenstein

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite silkscreen by Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997), titled Sandwich and Soda, originates from the landmark 1964 folio X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters). Published by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, and printed by Sirocco Screenprints, Inc., North Haven, in Sandwich and Soda, Lichtenstein translates his signature Pop Art vocabulary—bold outlines, flat commercial color, and Ben-Day dot structure—into a crisp, iconic composition that reimagines everyday consumer imagery with graphic intensity and conceptual clarity. Executed as a silkscreen on Mylar over Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper, this work measures 20 x 24 inches. Unsigned and unnumbered as issued. Printed by Sirocco Screenprints, Inc., North Haven, one of the most capable American screenprinting ateliers of the mid-20th century. Artwork Details: Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) Title: Sandwich and Soda, from X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters), 1964 Medium: Silkscreen on Mylar over Mohawk Superfine Bristol paper Dimensions: 20 x 24 inches (50.8 x 60.96 cm) Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered as issued Date: 1964 Publisher: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford Printer: Sirocco Screenprints, Inc., North Haven Edition: D Catalogue raisonne reference: Corlett, Mary Lee, and Roy Lichtenstein. The Prints of Roy Lichtenstein: A Catalogue Raisonne 1948–1997. 2nd rev. ed., Hudson Hills Press in association with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Distributed in the U.S. by National Book Network, 2002, No. 35. Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the 1964 folio X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters), published by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford Notes: Excerpted from the folio, This portfolio was commissioned and printed in an attempt to extend as much of the visual impact as possible of ten artists to paper and to make these prints available to collectors who might not otherwise have such a vivid slice of the artist. The dry surface of screening seemed to be most apt to translate the effect of their painting, both the flatness which is the unifying bond between the ten, and the insistance of paint on the surface of canvas so like the visible heft of ink on paper here. Samuel J. Wagstaff, Jr., Curator of Printings. About the Publication: X + X (Ten Works by Ten Painters), published in 1964 by the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, stands as one of the most ambitious and influential printmaking endeavors of postwar American art. Conceived under the direction of curator Samuel J. Wagstaff, Jr., the project sought to capture and translate the defining visual languages of ten leading American painters of the era—Stuart Davis, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Indiana, Adolph Gottlieb, George Ortman, Larry Poons, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein—into original silkscreens. Each artwork was created as an autonomous work that embodied the formal, chromatic, and conceptual principles of its respective artist. The choice of silkscreen printing, executed by Sirocco Screenprints, Inc., was central to the portfolio’s purpose: its dry, matte surface and capacity for crisp, saturated color allowed for a faithful translation of the painters’ flatness, surface tension, optical effects, and graphic precision. Organized and published by a major American museum at a moment of seismic change in contemporary art, X + X marked a turning point in institutional engagement with editioned works, representing one of the first concerted efforts by a museum to commission an ensemble of original graphics from the leading figures of its time. The portfolio captured the pulse of 1960s American painting—from Hard-Edge abstraction to Pop, Op, and Color Field—offering both a curated snapshot of artistic innovation and an accessible format that expanded the audience for contemporary art. Today, X + X is widely regarded as a landmark in American printmaking, celebrated for its curatorial vision, technical accomplishment, and its role in defining the dialogue between museum patronage and the burgeoning print culture of the 1960s. About the Artist: Roy Lichtenstein (1923–1997) was an American painter, printmaker, and sculptor whose revolutionary elevation of comic-book graphics, Ben-Day dots, commercial illustration, and mass-media visual language into the realm of fine art made him one of the founding giants of Pop Art, drawing on the breakthroughs of Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray to synthesize Cubist fragmentation, Surrealist wit, Modernist experimentation, and Duchampian conceptualism into an unmistakable style defined by bold outlines, flat industrial color, graphic reduction, and the now-iconic Ben-Day dot technique; emerging in the 1960s alongside Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg, Lichtenstein shifted American art away from Abstract Expressionism toward a cool, analytical investigation of consumer culture, mass reproduction, advertising, and the manufactured image, creating paintings, prints, sculptures, and monumental public works that reimagined romance comics, war scenes, cartoons, brushstroke parodies, landscapes, and art-historical citations while offering a humorous yet incisive commentary on how images shape contemporary life; his influence is immense, shaping artists such as Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami, Damien Hirst, Julian Opie, KAWS, Banksy, and numerous contemporary painters, designers, fashion houses, and digital creators, while his works are held in major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, the National Gallery of Art, Tate, Centre Pompidou, SFMOMA, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and LACMA, with his highest auction record achieved when Nurse (1964) sold for 95,365,000 USD at Christie's New York on November 9, 2015. Roy Lichtenstein silkscreen...

Category

1960s Pop Art Art

Materials

Screen

Untitled 20

Untitled 20

By Billy Childish

Located in London, GB

Billy Childish Untitled 20, 2013 Giclee archival print 30.48 x 45.1 cm 12 x 17.75 inches Billy Childish’s emotional, introspective portraits and landscapes take inspiration from the...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment, Giclée

"Divine Spontaneity II" Acrylic, Oil Pastels, Pencils Abstract Painting 48"x36"
"Divine Spontaneity II" Acrylic, Oil Pastels, Pencils Abstract Painting 48"x36"

"Divine Spontaneity II" Acrylic, Oil Pastels, Pencils Abstract Painting 48"x36"

By Karina Gentinetta

Located in New York, NY

"Divine Spontaneity II" 2023, 48" H x 36" W. Vertical abstract painting consisting of acrylics, house paint, oil pastels, color pencils, and carbon pencils on canvas by Argentine-bo...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

House Paint, Acrylic, Carbon Pencil, Oil Pastel, Color Pencil

Raoul Dufy, Still Life with Red Background, 1954 (after)
Raoul Dufy, Still Life with Red Background, 1954 (after)

Raoul Dufy, Still Life with Red Background, 1954 (after)

By Raoul Dufy

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph after Raoul Dufy (1877–1953), titled Nature morte au fond rouge (Still Life with Red Background), from the folio Eaux-de-vie, Esprit de la fleur et du fruit...

Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph, Stencil

Joan Miro, Figure, Bird, Star, from XXe siecle, 1959
Joan Miro, Figure, Bird, Star, from XXe siecle, 1959

Joan Miro, Figure, Bird, Star, from XXe siecle, 1959

By Joan Miró

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite linocut by Joan Miro (1893–1983), titled Personnage, Oiseau, Etoile (Figure, Bird, Star), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, XXIe Annee, No. 13, originates fro...

Category

1950s Surrealist Art

Materials

Linocut

Coupled Poppies - analogue floral photography, Limited edition 2 of 10
Coupled Poppies - analogue floral photography, Limited edition 2 of 10

Coupled Poppies - analogue floral photography, Limited edition 2 of 10

By Ugne Pouwell

Located in London, GB

'Coupled Poppies’ photographed in London, United Kingdom 2023. It is a still life black and white film photograph, made with a large format 4x5 Linhof...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Film, Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Giclée

Spaces 9870: Abstract Landscape Painting, Acrylic on Canvas, 2010-
Spaces 9870: Abstract Landscape Painting, Acrylic on Canvas, 2010-

Spaces 9870: Abstract Landscape Painting, Acrylic on Canvas, 2010-

Located in BARCELONA, ES

I use the word landscape in a broad sense that encompasses internal and external perceptions, but not necessarily what is visible. The landscape, in a space-time context, becomes a t...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Lean Into The Light

Lean Into The Light

Located in Atlanta, GA

My process is focused on maintaining authentic energy resolved when the shapes, marks and passages of color find a balance of harmony and dissonance.  Arranging elements dynamically ...

Category

2010s Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Capri Holiday, 1958 - Snorkelling off Coast of Capri Island in Crystal Waters
Capri Holiday, 1958 - Snorkelling off Coast of Capri Island in Crystal Waters

Capri Holiday, 1958 - Snorkelling off Coast of Capri Island in Crystal Waters

By Slim Aarons

Located in Brighton, GB

Capri Holiday, 1958 - Snorkelling off Coast of Capri Island in Crystal Waters by Slim Aarons 16 x 20" print. Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print. Edition of 150. Printed Later. 'C...

Category

20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Digital

Environs de Saint-Tropez - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Henri Edmond Cross
Environs de Saint-Tropez - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Henri Edmond Cross

Environs de Saint-Tropez - Impressionist Landscape Oil by Henri Edmond Cross

By Henri Edmond Cross

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Signed divisionist style oil on panel landscape circa 1906-1907 by French Neo-Impressionist painter Henri Edmond Cross. This brightly painted piece depicts a view Saint Tropez. This...

Category

Early 1900s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Forest at Sunset, 1934
Forest at Sunset, 1934

Forest at Sunset, 1934

Located in Stockholm, SE

This evocative landscape by Otto Lindberg captures the quiet beauty of a forest at dusk. The most striking feature is the luminous pink and violet glow of the fading sunlight, master...

Category

1930s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

original lithograph
original lithograph

original lithograph

By Joan Miró

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in Paris in 1964 by Mourlot Frères and issued in a limited edition of 2000 on Arches wove paper. Image size: 3 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches (80 x 185 mm). ...

Category

1960s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

Still life with fish. 1996, cardboard, oil, 49x120 cm

Still life with fish. 1996, cardboard, oil, 49x120 cm

Located in Riga, LV

Arturs Nikitins (born 1936) - painter, graphic artist. 1962 – graduated from the Latvian Art Academy, Graphic Department with the diploma work “The workers of Novorosijsk” under th...

Category

1990s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

'Pine in the Moonlight' by Otto Lindberg, oil on canvas
'Pine in the Moonlight' by Otto Lindberg, oil on canvas

'Pine in the Moonlight' by Otto Lindberg, oil on canvas

Located in London, GB

Otto Lindberg (1880-1955) 'Pine in the Moonlight' ‍ Oil on canvas Signed and dated '1931 50 x 46 cm Framed Dimensions: 59 x 54cm Otto Lindberg was a Swedish artist born in Söderham...

Category

Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Hunt Slonem "Pretty in Pink Bunnies" Bunnies, Butterflies
Hunt Slonem "Pretty in Pink Bunnies" Bunnies, Butterflies

Hunt Slonem "Pretty in Pink Bunnies" Bunnies, Butterflies

By Hunt Slonem

Located in Boston, MA

Artist: Slonem, Hunt Title: Pretty in Pink Bunnies Series: Bunnies Date: 2025 Medium: Lithograph on Paper Unframed Dimensions: 24" x 16" Framed Dimensions: 29" x 22" x 1.25" S...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Opal Pool - Coast of Catalina, Spain
The Opal Pool - Coast of Catalina, Spain

The Opal Pool - Coast of Catalina, Spain

By Francis Luis Mora

Located in New York, NY

A very rare and exceptional work by one of America's most versatile and interesting American Impressionists. This was done on an early trip the artist made to Spain. The artist live...

Category

Early 1900s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Horizon
Horizon

Horizon

By Jered Sprecher

Located in New Orleans, LA

JERED SPRECHER says of his work…   I hunt and gather images of flowers, thick forests, sun-dappled foliage, and birds; seeking images that evoke wonder and depict natural beauty, com...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Beyond The Facade -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Africa Fabrics, Women
Beyond The Facade -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Africa Fabrics, Women

Beyond The Facade -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Africa Fabrics, Women

By Roseleen Labazacchy,

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Ros...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Fabric, Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

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