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Art For Sale
Set of Six Fine Antique British Hand Coloured Botanical Prints, circa 1900's
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Set of Six Hand Coloured Botanical Prints/Lithographs and Engravings
Published by G. Ridgway, S. Curtis, W. Baxter and W. Fitch
Early Mid 19th Century
Size: image: 8.5 x 5.5 inches
P...
Category
Early 19th Century Art Deco Art
Materials
Color
Alley Cat- Figurative Blue Cat Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Columbus, Georgia-based artist Kellie Newsome specializes in dynamic and expressive animal portraits that radiate vitality and personality. Her unique style combines abstracted forms...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media, Color Pencil
Portrait of a Gentleman - 1920's Antique English Art Deco Oil on Board Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A fine 1920's oil on board portrait of a smartly dressed gentleman, close to the work of James Abbott McNeil Whistler.
The work is indistinctly signed and dated 1924 lower right. P...
Category
1920s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
"Fishing Boats on the Beach at Scheveningen" original etching
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original etching. Executed in 1883; this is a rich, dark impression on heavy cream wove paper, from the "Original Etchings by American Artists" portfolio, published in 1883 b...
Category
1880s Art
Materials
Etching
Exploded City
Located in Dallas, TX
oil on canvas
signed on the back
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Henri Matisse, Miss L.L., from Portraits by Henri Matisse, 1954 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Mademoiselle L.L. (Miss L.L.), from the album Portraits par Henri Matisse (Portraits by Henri Matisse), originates f...
Category
1950s Fauvist Art
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Original GRATEFUL DEAD Skull and Roses 1971 Tour poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Grateful Dead “Skeleton & Roses” Poster (1971) — Tour Blank. Grade A, A- condition, ready to frame.
A striking 1971 Grateful Dead poster featu...
Category
1970s Pop Art Art
Materials
Offset
Between earth and time, Oil on canvas, Abstract Landscape, Expressionism art
Located in LANGRUNE-SUR-MER, FR
About the artist:
Sophie Dumont is a French contemporary painter known for her rich, layered oil paintings that blend abstraction and symbolism. Born in Paris in 1964, she has lived ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil
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
"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
Eventide by Richard K Blades. Oil painting of the sea at sunset after a storm.
Located in Coltishall, GB
Richard K Blades is an expressive landscape painter working in the English Romantic tradition. He follows in a long line of artists such as Turner, Constable, Seago, Daubigney and C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Hand painted Diptych-A Very British Summer-Brit Awarded Artist-Limited Proof #1
Located in London, GB
The rare first proofs are hand painted on Giclee which was made on fine aluminium, each panel was hand painted and finished with original paints by artist Shizico Yi.
Signed and numb...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Metal
Newman, Sans titre, In Memory of My Feelings (after)
By Barnett Newman
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin Mohawk Superfine Smooth paper. Paper Size: 11.937 x 8.96 inches. Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the folio, In Memory of M...
Category
1960s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
$1,596 Sale Price
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Weight They Cannot See 2(Memorial of George Stinney) -21st Century, Contemporary
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This body of work was inspired by the wrongful execution of a fourteen-year-old George Stinney Jr.
Two little white Girls, one age 11, and the other age 7, went missing one afternoo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Florals Carnation Don Quixote
Located in Hollywood, FL
ARTIST: Salvador Dali
TITLE: Florals Don Quixote
MEDIUM: Etching on Heavy Arches Paper
SIGNED: Hand Signed by Salvador Dali
EDITION NUMBER: EA
MEASUREMENTS: 29.5" x 22"
YEAR:...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
Mid Century Cubic Modern American Figural Painting by Sarno
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5-3418 Abstract oil on board.
Set in a silvered wood frame
Signed Sarno
Image size 24x19"
Category
1970s Art
Materials
Oil
Werner Bronkhorst - Swing
Located in London, GB
Werner Bronkhorst
Swing, 2025
Giclée print on heavyweight 395gsm matte Canson Infinity PhotoArt ProCanvas, made with long-lasting Epson archival inks.
Hand-stretched over FSC-certifi...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Giclée
Antique French female nude portrait oil painting by Jean Philippe Gayral
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Charming antique sitting nude oil painting on canvas, signed in the bottom left. This is a stunningly uncomplicated oil painting on canvas of a female sitting nude. With her back t...
Category
1920s French School Art
Materials
Oil
Collioure, a Mediterranean Street Scene and the Church of Notre Dame des Anges
Located in Cotignac, FR
Early 20th Century oil on canvas view of Collioure in the south of France, home to the Fauvists. The painting is initial signed E.L.Y bottom right (as yet undeciphered). The location...
Category
Early 20th Century Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Original Lourdes Chemins de Fer French railroad vintage travel poster
By Hervé Baille
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Lourdes, Chemins de Fer Vintage French Poster. Artist: Hervé Baille – Linen-Backed, ready to frame. Condition B+
Beautifully preserved and professionally linen-backed fo...
Category
1930s Art Deco Art
Materials
Lithograph
«Soft autumn near the fjord» Original impressionistic landscape painting. Large
Located in Oslo, NO
Immerse yourself in the radiant beauty of "Soft autumn near the fjord," a captivating landscape painting that perfectly captures the essence of the fall. Golden and amber leaves ador...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Ben-Zion (Ukraine, 1897-1987) circa 1930's "Floral Still with White Vase"
By Ben-Zion
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Floral Still Life
Ben-Zion (Ukraine, 1897-1987)
Circa 1930's
Oil on Canvas, signed l.r.
17 3/4 x 12 5/8
One of the founding artists of Abstract Expressionism, hailing from Ukraine,...
Category
1930s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$6,800 Sale Price
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Gold Flora Shadows Magnolia - Metallic Botanical Cyanotype Painting Flowers 2023
Located in Kent, CT
In this contemporary botanical cyanotype painting in watercolor, gouache, India ink, gold pigments and tea-toned cyanotype on cotton watercolor paper, meticulously detailed flowers a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper, Pigment, Tea
'Lady in Blue' by Fernand Toussaint (1873 – Brussels – 1956)
Located in Knokke, BE
Fernand Toussaint
1873 – Brussels – 1956
Belgian Painter
'Lady in Blue'
Signature: signed lower left 'F Toussaint'
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions: image size 58,5 x 68,5 cm, fr...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Goldfish, Cubist Still Life Signed Lithograph by Andre Minaux
By Andre Minaux
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Andre Minaux, French (1923 - 1986)
Title: Goldfish
Year: circa 1979
Medium: Lithograph on Arches Paper, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 120
Image Size: 21 x 26 inches ...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Cherry wood treated and stained with natural rust, red and blue dyes
Located in Carballo, ES
Cherry wood, treated and stained with natural oxide, red, and blue dyes. These dyes are produced using vinegars from his homeland, Asturias. He uses a secret formula that he has been...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Analytic Cubist Art
Materials
Wood
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
Inside/Out - large, abstracted, figurative, outdoor stainless steel sculpture
By Dale Dunning
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary metal sculpture of a mask is kinetic and was created by a Canadian artist.
This unique, one-of-a-kind ethereal sculpture was hand-forged by the masterful artist, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal, Steel, Stainless Steel
Illeana II, John Kacere
By John Kacere
Located in Fairfield, CT
Artist: John Kacere (1930-1999)
Title: Illeana II
Year: 1991
Edition: A.P.; 100, plus proofs.
Medium: Lithograph on wove paper
Size: 23.5 x 31.5 inches
Inscription: Signed by the art...
Category
1990s Pop Art Art
Materials
Lithograph
$636 Sale Price
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Siesta in Santa Fe
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Lynn Sanders is an artist excited by beauty: architecture, foliage, landscapes, seascapes, interiors. She finds palettes and shapes in her environment and propels them into her work,...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic Polymer, Ink, Acrylic
Original Diptych-Spring Duet-British Awarded Artist-Abstract UK Contemporary
Located in London, GB
[Spring Duet] started in 2024, a project where Shizico explores the format of a diptych through a series of set paintings.
Shizu painted all paintings en plein air in situ, capturing the landscape outside of her studio and the interiors of the studio in its entirety, depicted across sets of canvases as diptych odyssey throughout the months of spring.
Each canvas represents a part of musical notes, creating a visual harmony akin to a musical duet. [Spring Duet] is part of the ongoing [Memory Landscape Series], started in 2015.
Shizico applies various mediums and visual languages in the project of [Memory Landscape], ranging from installations, sculptures to paintings, from impressionism, expressionism to abstract forms.
In [Spring Duet] chapter, she focuses on the delicate hues of soft green and creamy white and the pinkie apricot, evoking the early spring light characteristic of Northern Europe, where the series unfolds.
Details for Measurement and Arrangement:
50 x39.5 CM /each canvas, x 2 of the total set
total measure of the set would be
50 x 79 x1.5 CM ( all measurements without frame)
the arrangement is flexible for your wall spaces around the home, you can hang them as a diptych set, side by side;
or
you can also hang these 2 paintings on different walls to create punctuation in home to bring different areas together.
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About the artist:
Dr. Shizico Yi is a London-based artist working across installation, film, and painting. Her practice explores themes of loss, repetition, the everyday, and the significance of memory. Drawing on a background in design and film, she creates works that weave personal experience into wider social and human narratives. Yi holds a PhD in Fine Art from the University of East London (2017), an MFA, and a BA in Womenswear from the University of the Arts London.
Her practice also includes plein air painting from spring to autumn and studio-based work in winter, allowing place and season to inform the energy, scale, and materiality of her pieces.
Her work has been exhibited internationally in the UK, Korea, and Italy, and is held in private collections across the USA, Canada, Australia, Japan, Taiwan, and the UK.
Notably, Shizico Yi secured the title of Winner of the Women Film Makers: Best Shorts Competition in 2013 in Los Angeles, USA. She also serves as a guest jury member at the 14th-16th Annual New York City Independent Film Festival from 2022 to 2024 and is a curator and founder of no barking aRt...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Gesso, Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
$1,016 Sale Price
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House and Boat, Owned - Paint by Alberto Gallerati - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by Alberto Gallerati in 1970s.
Hand signed. Titled on rear.
Very good condition.
Category
1970s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
30x50 Tupac Shakur 2pac "All Eyez On Me" Cassette Photography Pop Art Photograph
By Destro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A contemporary photograph of 2Pacs iconic "All eyez on me" cassette tape.
This is s the first release in the much anticipated series "The Music" by pop Artists Destro
These iconic ta...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Exposures (Deluxe Edition) Monograph Hand Signed, Numbered #1 by Andy Warhol COA
By Andy Warhol
Located in New York, NY
Andy Warhol
Deluxe Collectors' Edition of Exposures (Hand Signed and Numbered), 1979
Hardcover Monograph in leather with gilt edge and stamped in gilt.
Hand signed by Andy Warhol on...
Category
1970s Pop Art Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Graphite, Lithograph, Offset
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
Mythology: Leda and Swan (Leda et le Cygne)
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Salvador Dali
Mythology: Leda and Swan (Leda et le Cygne), Published 1963 -1965
Medium: Copper and Drypoint Etching with Hand-Coloring on Japon
Edition: VII/XX
Artwork Size: 30 ...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
$22,000 Sale Price
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Poppy meadow 50X70
Located in Zofingen, AG
In this oil painting, I have captured the wild spirit of a meadow, brimming with vibrant poppies. My brushstrokes dance with expressionism and impressionism, while fine art technique...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Imagine" Limited Edition Hand Written Lyrics
By John Lennon
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
Very rare Limited Edition Serigraph of John Lennon's handwritten lyrics for the song "Imagine,"
first released on the LP of the same name in 1971. The best-selling single of his s...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Other Medium
The Outfit - Original Colorful Floral Figurative Feminine Surrealist Framed Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The figurative surrealistic paintings of Carlos Gamez de Francisco are heavily influenced by his Cuban upbringing in a Russian-governed academic setting. This presence exposed Franci...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Maurice Mazeilie- French Impressionist Signed Watercolour - Figures at the Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Watercolour Beach Scene"
signed by Maurice Mazeilie (French)
watercolour painting on paper, unframed
stamped verso
painting: 9.5 x 12.5 inches
A delightful original oil painting b...
Category
20th Century Art
Materials
Acrylic
DIVE
Located in Zofingen, AG
"Be like water, my friend" by Bruce Lee.
When Lee said "be like water," he called upon people to embrace flexibility and the ability to adapt to changing circumstances. He asserted ...
Category
2010s Photorealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original lithographic poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec - Le Théâtre Libre
Located in PARIS, FR
This delicate and rare original lithographic poster by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec was created around 1895 for a double bill at Le Théâtre Libre, featuring Une Faillite and Le Poète et...
Category
1890s Art
Materials
Lithograph, Paper, Linen
Ivan con Magnun. From The series Guerreros. Photomontage
Located in Miami Beach, FL
From The series Guerreros
One-of-a-kind Photomontage on archival paper
Unframed
The root of these unique photographic works by the artist Celso Castro occurred when the artist retur...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Paper
4 19th century Fox Hunting in a landscape with horses, huntsman and hounds
By Henry Alken
Located in Woodbury, CT
Rare Set of Four Fox Hunting Scenes by Henry Alken (1785–1851)
English, circa 1830–1840
Oil on Canvas, One Signed Lower Right
This superb and rare set of four oil paintings by reno...
Category
1830s Victorian Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Aleksandar Bezinovic Geometric Abstraction Contemporary Black White Minimalist
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
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Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Alpine School Landscape by L. Jurt, 1964 — Oil Painting of Swiss Mountains
Located in Zofingen, AG
Alpine School Oil Painting, Signed L. Jurt, 1964 — Mountain Stream and Village Landscape
Switzerland, 1960s
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 54 × 40 cm
Framed size: 60 × 46 × 4 cm
This ex...
Category
1960s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Brutalist Architecture Painting of Industrial Building, Flamingo Pink Sky, Paper
Located in Barcelona, ES
This beautiful painting by Nacho Reina is a formidable example of the interplay between form and color forms as the central axis of his work, where he starts from architectural shape...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Naiyu Jiang Cubism Original Oil On Canvas "Nightlife"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Nightlife
Medium: Oil on canvas
Size: 35.5 x 27.5 inches
Frame: Framing options available!
Condition: The painting appears to be in fair condition.
Year: 2000 Circa
A...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"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
Moment of Solitude - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Mixed Media, Modern
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
Samson Olatubos...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic
Evergreens - Abstract Colorful Original Nature Landscape Painting on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Elisabeth Grace, a visionary artist based in Denver, CO (USA), is renowned for her immersive large-scale paintings, collages, murals, and installation art. With a BA in oil painting ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil
"Marguerite Matisse" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the painting). Printed in Paris on smooth wove paper at the atelier Mourlot and published in 1954. Size: 9 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches (237 x 170 mm). Signed in the ...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Foggy Slave Cliff, Atlantic, Faroe Islands, monochrome landscape limited photo
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Foggy Slave Cliff Study 3, Faroe Islands - no. 21352 // Black and White Fine Art landscape photography.
Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Digital Pigment
Vibrations - Chrome metallic glazed ceramic sculpture
Located in East Quogue, NY
Hand-pitched chrome metallic glazed ceramic sculpture vessel by Jessamyn Go.
Jessamyn Go's work is deeply rooted in the visceral, meditative experience of working with clay. Drawn t...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware, Glaze
Summer in Grabs. Horizontal, mountains, Switzerland, landscape, design for wall
Located in Oslo, NO
In this painting, the artist celebrates the idyll of an alpine summer in the small Swiss village of Grabs. The canvas is filled with light and transparency of the air: a field strewn...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Fenêtres de Paris by Libby Bothway
Located in Coltishall, GB
Libby Bothway's detailed and captivating pen illustration, captures the essence of iconic Parisian architecture. The monochrome drawing vividly showcases three adjoining classical Pa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Ink
Carol Moreno, Contemporary Jungle Landscape Diptych, 2025
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
The total size of the two works is 90x180 cm.
At Escat Gallery we are committed to maintaining the highest standards of trust and professionalism for our collectors. Every artwork i...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Oil
1909 Tonalist Oil Landscape "Showers, The Lower San Joaquin River, California"
Located in Soquel, CA
Early 20th Century California Tonalist Oil Landscape "Showers, The Lower San Joaquin River, California" by James Everett Stuart, 1909.
This stellar tonalist oil painting by James E...
Category
Early 1900s Tonalist Art
Materials
Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars
Pablo Picasso, 9.10.64. III, from The Taste of Happiness, 1970 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph and silkscreen with hand-rendered techniques after Pablo Picasso (1881–1973), from the rare 1970 folio Pablo Picasso, Le Gout du Bonheur (The Taste of Happi...
Category
1970s Cubist Art
Materials
Lithograph
$956 Sale Price
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Weightless Presence, seafoam green, pink, soft, serene, atmospheric
Located in Cumming, GA
This original abstract painting evokes a sense of ethereal calm, where soft whites and pale aqua tones drift together like whispers of clouds across the sky. The delicate layers and ...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
$2,072 Sale Price
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