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Art For Sale
Style: Realist
Style: Surrealist
Bougrelas and his Mother II, from: Series for King Ubu
By Joan Miró
Located in London, GB
JOAN MIRÓ 1893-1983
Montroig 1893-1983 Mallorca (Spanish)
Title: Bougrelas and his Mother II, from: Series for King Ubu Bougrelas et sa Mère II, from: Suites pour Ubu Roi, 1966
Technique: Original Hand Numbered Lithograph in Colours on Arches Wove Paper
Paper size: 54 x 75 cm. / 21.3 x 29.5 in.
Image size: 41 x 63 cm. / 16.1 x 24.8 in.
Additional Information: This original lithograph in colours is hand numbered in pencil from the edition of 75, at the lower left corner. There were also 25 hors commerce [out of trade] impressions.
This composition was published unsigned and exists only in this form.
The work was part of a portfolio entitled "Roi Ubu" [King Ubu] realised by the artist in 1966.
It was printed by Atelier Mourlot, Paris and published by Tériade Éditeur, Paris.
The paper bears the Arches watermark along the lower margin.
Note: Ubu Roi (Ubu the King) is a play by Alfred Jarry...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Interior with coffee pot
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Leo Primavesi (1871 Cologne - after 1937 ): Interior with coffee pot, 1892, Pen drawing
Technique: Pen drawing on Paper
Inscription: Signed and dated lower left: "Leo 5. Jan. 1892"...
Category
19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Paper
Norwegian Teapot
By Jura Bedic
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
“The success of a realistic painting does not depend merely on copying a subject. I believe it needs to offer the textures, colors, and tones to one’s eye and become something more ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Floating Market Asia
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Cotton, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Vibrant Swimming Motion Paris France by Photographer Pico Garcez
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paris France - Vibrant aqua blue. Photography Edition Print.
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from chil...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Frank Sinatra, 1965 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography)
Located in London, GB
Frank Sinatra, 1965 - Bob Willoughby (Portrait Photography)
Archival pigment print
Printed on 20 x 24 inch paper
From an edition of 25
Also available in alternative sizes
Bob Wi...
Category
1950s Realist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
Solitary, Painting, Watercolor on Watercolor Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
An interesting lone prominent dead tree dramatically present in the foreground of a country feild setting. :: Painting :: Realism :: This piece comes with an official certificate...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Watercolor
Strana luce Sul Porto, 2006
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gigino Falconi was born in Giulianova (Teramo) in 1933. He began painting at the age of sixteen, and in 1954 he obtained a Liceo Artistico of Pescara. During the early years of his c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Her Majesty's Thunder, original oil on canvas, American realist artist
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Leigh Murphy
This original work of art by the award-winning watercolour and oil painter Leigh Murphy wonderfully illustrates her super realist technique of using thin layers to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Roses & Lisianthus
Located in Greenwich, CT
Flowers
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Lysander
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Leigh Murphy
This original work of art by the award-winning watercolour and oil painter Leigh Murphy wonderfully illustrates her super realist technique...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
57 Chevy Bel Aire
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Leigh Murphy
This original work of art by the award-winning watercolour and oil painter Leigh Murphy wonderfully illustrates her super realist technique of using thin layers to bui...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Geometric Shapes
Located in Greenwich, CT
Still life of boxes and geometric shapes
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Panel, Oil
Connection
By Jura Bedic
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
“The success of a realistic painting does not depend merely on copying a subject. I believe it needs to offer the textures, colors, and tones to one’s eye and become something more ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
ADROGUE II, 2013-2016
By Edward Povey
Located in ATLANTA, GA
1972-73 Eastbourne College for Art and Design: Fine Art Foundation Course: studies drawing.
Works through the South Coast Period of paintings. Studio: South Coast of England.
1974-81 University of Wales: studied painting under Welsh artist Selwyn Jones. Public and private commissions: twenty-five multistory murals in Wales and England: documented by the BBC and British National Newspapers. Studios: Bethesda and Bangor City, Wales. Studies composition and portraiture. Shows at the Royal Exchange, London; Bangor City Museum, Wales.
1981-82 Commission: The Trial of Saint Deiniol: 19-panel, 18 x 21 ft. painting. Studio: Shropshire, England
1982-86 The New York Times send photographer Dith Pran (on whom the movie The Killing Fields was based) to photograph Povey in New York with The Trial of Saint Deiniol painting at Art Expo New York 1986. Povey is advised by George Bush Senior’s former campaign manager Zena Temkin on shaping his public persona. The BBC film Edward Povey with former President of the Royal Academy of Art in London - Sir Hugh Casson KCVO, RA, RDI in which Sir Hugh interviews Povey about his art career. Public and private commissions for collections in the United States, London, Wales, Belgium, West Indies. Studies symbolism and trains in color with Jan de Maere in Brussels and works through the Tapestry Period of paintings Studio: Grenada, West Indies.
1987-91 Studies psychology and narrative in art whilst he builds the extensive Childhood, Illusion and Desire Period of paintings. Studio: Guisborough, England courtesy of the town mayor. Shows in Belgium, London, New York.
1992-93 Public commission: Hall of Illusion mural: 20 X 40 ft. interior oil painting in the Chamber Concert Hall of the University of Wales. The commission is followed by BBC Television, S4C Television; BBC Radio Four and regional and national newspapers. Studios: Guisborough, England; Bangor City, Wales. Designs the Hall of Illusion mural on the island of Grenada, West Indies.
1994-96 Deepens his studies in the relationship between art and the psyche. Researches new ways to evolve concepts with models using theaters...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Linen, Plaster, Paper, Oil
Refrigerio d’ Estate, 2013
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Gastone Costantini , in collaboration with the “Cericola” Academy of Arts in Pescara, offers professional courses in “hyper-realistic painting”.
Gastone Costantini, an artist from L...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
RAMBLA DE BARCEONA
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Double
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 7
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
Smart Couple Sitting
By Ruth Bloch
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Ruth Bloch was born in Israel in 1951 to artist parents. Her father was a musician, while her mother worked in ceramics, Ruth's family were members of a Kibbutz called Alonim, a plac...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Bronze
Mountain Mist
Located in Greenwich, CT
Landscape oil painting of misty mountains in Vermont with farms scattered at their feet. In the foreground is some shrubbery and small trees dominated by a larger one.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Esui Libae
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 7
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Woodcut
PORTRAIT OF ADRIANNE II - Original Realist Painting of Nude Model
Located in New York, NY
In the manner of the British figurative painters, Stephen Wright emphasizes the surface of his canvases, manipulating layers of paint and leaving evidence of his brushwork. Like Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon, and even Jenny Saville...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
PENISCOLA
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
NEON Swimming - Vibrant Noir Abstract Photography
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
NEON Swimming - Vibrant Noir Abstract Photography.
Swimming Pool - Bright Orange and Black Noir. Photography. Edition Print.
This Photography work 23.5 inches by 35.5 inches.
Pico...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
1987 Ralph Goings 'Cream Pie' Original Poster
By Ralph Goings
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 26 x 36 inches ( 66.04 x 91.44 cm )
Image Size: 22.5 x 32 inches ( 57.15 x 81.28 cm )
Framed: No
Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling
Additional D...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Offset
Golden Reflections off Manhattan Skyscrapers
Located in Miami, FL
Signed, dated, numbered lower right, recto 3/15,
Unframed, other sizes available, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper
Mitchell Funk is a "Color Photographer Pioneer...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
San Gimignano, Blick zum Palazzo del Podestà
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): San Gimignano, Blick zum Palazzo del Podestà, 1913, Pencil
Technique: Pencil and Charcoal on Paper
Inscription: dated and monogra...
Category
20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Paper
Tristan Et Iseult - The Giant Beliagog
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Salvador Dali
Tristan Et Iseult - The Giant Beliagog
1970
Etching Aquatint
18 x 12 1/2 in.
Edition of 125
Pencil signed &...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
"Truth & Beauty", Frederick Hart, Bronze Figurative Sculpture, 8x12x9 in.,
Located in Dallas, TX
"Truth and Beauty" by Frederick Hart is a figurative female figure bronze sculpture with the edition number 39/40.
Frederick Hart was an American sculptor. His is best known for his Three Soldiers statue at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and Ex Nihiio (1983) depicting Creation scenes above the doors of the Washington National Cathedral...
Category
Early 2000s Realist Art
Materials
Bronze
Rhine Landscape with Gutenfels Castle
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Rhine Landscape with Gutenfels Castle, 20th century, Charcoal
Technique: Charcoal on Transparent paper
Inscription: monogrammed l...
Category
20th Century Realist Art
Arco dei Becci in San Gimignano
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Arco dei Becci in San Gimignano, 20th century, Pencil
Technique: Pencil on Paper
Inscription: lower left with estate stamp
Date:...
Category
20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Paper
Nova Car - Marfa Texas - Vintage Car Photograph
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1990s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Half Length Portrait of Mr. Robertson of Edinburgh
Located in Miami, FL
Half Length Portrait of Mr. Robertson
Sir. Henry Raeburn ( Scottish 1756 - 1823 )
Half Length Portrait of Mr. Robertson
29x 24
Purchased, J Leger & Son,...
Category
18th Century Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Prayer Flags Bhutan - Abstract Photography
By Pico Garcez
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pico Garcez (b.1963, São Paulo, Brazil) In Love with Photography, Iconography and Painting, exercises his gaze from childhood when he began to play with his first camera. Practicing ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Cotton, Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment
Archer, from Transports
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Roberto Matta
Archer, from Transports
1976
Etching aquatint
18 x 23 in.
Edition of 100
Pencil signed and numbered
Condition: This work is in excellent condition. It has never been framed and always stored flat for its protection
Frame: Unframed
ABOUT THE ARTIST
The first true flowering of Matta's own art came in 1938, when he moved from drawing to the oil painting for which he is best known. This period coincided with his emigration to the United States, where he lived until 1948. His early paintings, give an indication of the work he would continue, with diffuse light patterns and bold lines on a featureless background.
As Matta’s work evolved, his key ambition to represent and evoke the human psyche in visual form was filtered through the writings of Freud and the psychoanalytic view of the mind as a three-dimensional space. These paintins "are visual analogies for the artist's psyche".
During the 1940's and 1950's, the disturbing state of world politics found reflection in Matta's work, with the canvases becoming busy with images of electrical machinery and distressed figures.
In his art Matta creates new dimensions in a blend of organic and cosmic lifeforms, known as biomorphism. He was one of the first Surrealists to take this abstract leap, successfully combining the political and the semi-abstract in epic surreal canvases.
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Aquatint, Etching
Desire 5, 2011
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Marshall Jones is a realist painter born in Atlanta Georgia, and presently working and living in New York City. From 2008 to 2015 Marshall was the recip...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil
October 3:30 PM sketch
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sketch for Minoff's painting October 3:30 PM.
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Graphite, Paper, Gouache
Fabric Man
By Scott Duce
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b.1956
Scott Duce is an international artist working in New York. Duce’s work is included in many corporate, museum, and private collections. Notable collections include ...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Becalmed
Located in Greenwich, CT
The whaling ship, Essex, in calm seas. On the reverse, the artist writes that—for wind-powered sailing ships—a day with no wind was feared almost as a sto...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Beauty and the Beast
By Slim Aarons
Located in New York, NY
Lady Daphne Cameron (Mrs George Cameron) on a tiger skin rug in the trophy room at socialite Laddie Sanford's home in Palm Beach, Florida.
Estate stamped and hand numbered edition o...
Category
1950s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Landscape with a willow. 1964, oil on cardboard, 48x67 cm
Located in Riga, LV
A. Zviedris was a member of the Latvian Artists’ Union since 1945 and had more than 50 solo exhibitions in Latvia. He travelled extensively by yacht around Scandinavia and Western Eu...
Category
1960s Realist Art
Materials
Cardboard, Oil
Dante purifié - Engraving - 150 copies
Located in Paris, FR
Salvador Dali
Dante purifié (1960)
Heliogravure reworked with drypoint
Signature printed in the plate
On BFK Rives Vellum paper
Size 32.8 x 26.4 cm (c. 13 x 10")
References:
- Fie...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Etching
Sun Valley original alpine skiing poster c. 1960s Idaho United States of America
Located in London, GB
To see our other original vintage travel posters, many of which have skiing subjects, scroll down to "More from this Seller" and below it click on "See all from this seller" - or sen...
Category
1960s Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Key Lime Pie" Original Oil Painting 20 in x 20 in
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Key Lime Pie"
2020
Oil on linen
20 in x 20 in
"Key Lime Pie" is an original oil painting by Contemporary Realist Megan Eisenberg. This photorealist painting was made with high qu...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Oil
Pocket Full Moon 4, Original Painting, Skyscape, Space, Nature, Astrology art
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Full Moon 4 is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to baroque still li...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cocteau Collector, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
August 1982: Art collector Sylvia Coca sits in front of one of Jean Cocteau's murals in Marbella. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Slim Aarons Estate Edition, Certificate of Auth...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Slim Aarons 'Venice Vacation', Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Holidaymakers on the pier at the Lido in Venice, 1957. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Slim Aarons
Venice Vacation
Chromogenic Lambda print
1957, Printed Later
Slim Aarons Estate Edition
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Stamped and hand numbered by the Slim Aarons Estate.
Certificate of Authenticity included.
This artwork DOES include a certificate of authenticity from the authenticating body, the estate
Collector will get the next number in the edition
40 x 40 inches
$3950
30 x 30 inches
$3350
24 x 24 inches
$3000
12 x 12 inches
$1800
Complimentary dealer shipping to your framer, worldwide.
Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century.
Photograph is unframed
Modern estate edition with estate blindstamp signature and hand number in lower margin
Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp.
Collector will get the next number in the edition
* We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). *
Undercurrent Projects, New York, is proud to represent Aarons' full collection of negatives and transparencies. Housed at Getty Images Hulton Archive in London, The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone.
Internal: Slim Aarons Venice...
Category
1950s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
Antique Dog Painting: "Hunting Dogs at the Kennel, 1901" Jules-Bertrand Gélibert
Located in SANTA FE, NM
Antique Dog Painting:
"Hunting Dogs at the Kennel, 1901"
Jules-Bertrand Gélibert (France, 1834-1916
Oil on canvas
Signed lower left
24 x 19 inches, frame
Jules-Bertrand Gélibert w...
Category
Early 1900s Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Sheep by an Idyllic Tree Lined River Landscape in Ireland by Modern Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Sheep by an Idyllic Tree Lined River Landscape in Ireland by Modern 20th Century Irish Artist, Frank Fitzsimons
Art measures 18 x 14 inches
Frame measure 21.5 x 17.5 inches
Frank...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled (Surrealist rendering of Pyramids at Giza with alligator)
By Beni E. Kosh
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Untitled (Surrealist rendering of Pyramids at Giza with alligator)
watecolor and gouache on paper, 1960
Unsigned
Beni Kosh estate stamp No. 717 verso, unsigned.
(see photo)
Co...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Watercolor, Gouache
Russian Traveler Genre Portrait 19th Century Oil Painting Signed Framed
Located in Stockholm, SE
The short signature lower left a monogram of joined Cyrillic letters "V" and "P" with date 77, leads to the Russian painter Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov (1844 - 1927). Here we have pl...
Category
Late 19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Wood, Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Spectacle Reef Light/ Lake Huron
Located in Clinton Township, MI
"Spectacle Reef Lighthouse" is set in Lake Huron, Michigan. It is a limited edition lithograph 38/500 signed by artist Leo Kuschel who has also remarqued the piece with a commemorat...
Category
Late 20th Century Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Como Seria - figurative painting, landscape painting
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful surrealist painting by Mauricio comes rolled in a tube and needs to be stretched when received.
In his pieces, Mauricio combines his figurative expertise along with su...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pietro Torrini (Florence, 1851 -1914). The Pope's Chef.
Located in Firenze, IT
Pietro Torrini (Florence, 1851 -1914).
The Pope's Chef.
Oil on canvas.
Size with frame: cm 55 x 51.
Size without frame cm 31 x 26.5
Carved and gilded wooden frame.
Label present (Ge...
Category
19th Century Realist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Ali Children, Slim Aarons Estate Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
August 1980: In Spanish style riding clothes from l to r; TRH Princess Rajwa Ali, Princess Basma Ali and Prince Bin Ali. (Photo by Slim Aarons/Getty Images)
Slim Aarons Estate Editi...
Category
1980s Realist Art
Materials
Lambda
"Hope : Between Earth and Heaven" Surrealist Acrylic on Canvas by Eugene Hawkins
Located in Pasadena, CA
In the "Fantasy/Metaphysical" series by American artist Eugene Hawkins, the convergence of surrealism and metaphysics unfolds as an exploration of existential themes common to all. C...
Category
1960s Surrealist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Surrealist acrylic on board painting surrealism picasso style
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gustavo Úbeda (1930-1994) - Surrealism - Acrylic panel
Acrylic measurements 80x100 cm.
Frameless.
The painting by Gustavo Úbeda Romero (Herencia, 1930 – Sao Paulo, 1994) comes from ...
Category
1970s Surrealist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Board
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