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Art For Sale
Henri Matisse, Nude Woman, from Verve, Revue Artistique, 1953 (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
This exquisite lithograph after Henri Matisse (1869–1954), titled Femme nu (Nude Woman), from Verve, Revue Artistique et Litteraire, Vol. VII, No. 27–28, originates from the 1953 iss...
Category
1950s Fauvist Art
Materials
Lithograph
$716 Sale Price
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Original Scottish Impressionist Oil Painting WINTER ON THE RIVER DEE PERTHSHIRE
Located in Cirencester, GB
ARTIST: Alastair Flattely RWA (1922-2009) Scottish
TITLE: "Winter On The River Dee Perthshire Scotland"
MEDIUM: oil on canvas
SIGNED: lower right
CONDITION: very good - image fine...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Litografía original VI
By Joan Miró
Located in OPOLE, PL
Joan Miro (1893-1983) - Litografía original VI
Lithograph from 1972.
Dimensions of work: 32 x 24.5 cm.
Publisher: Maeght Éditeur, Paris.
Printed by: Fernand Mourlot, Paris.
The ...
Category
1930s Surrealist Art
Materials
Lithograph
$569 Sale Price
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Mr. Lawrence - Minimalist Abstract Painting on Natural Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles artist Taylour Martin creates captivating abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas, showcasing a dynamic interplay of emotions and colors. Martin's art is a reflection ...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil
French Fishing Boats Harbour Scene With Church and Reflections Oil Painting
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Fishing Boats Harbour Scene With Church and Reflections Oil Painting
by Fanch Lel
Signed: Bottom left corner
Size: 15 x 18.25 inches (height x width)
Oil painting on bo...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
"Untitled" Donald Judd, Black and White, Stripes, Minimalist, Abstract Art
By Donald Judd
Located in New York, NY
Donald Judd
Untitled, 1980
Signed "Judd" in pencil lower right margin and numbered
Aquatint on etching paper
Image 24 1/4 x 29 1/4 inches
Sheet 29 1/8 x 34 inches
Edition 29/150
Pro...
Category
1980s Minimalist Art
Materials
Paper, Etching, Aquatint
Topiary I - x large format photograph of ornamental shaped tree
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
from a series of photographic observances capturing the antics of urban gardening and striking art of topiaries' green minimalism
Topiary I by Frank Schott
59.5 x 59.5 inches (1...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Original Bank by Andy Warhol pop art Gaudy savings vintage poster 1968
By Andy Warhol
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Andy Warhol 1968 Vintage Poster "Gaudy Savings by RCA Color Scanner" Authentic Pop Art Collectible First Edition Print. Archival linen-backed in excellent condition, Grad...
Category
1960s Pop Art Art
Materials
Offset
Tarim Totem III - Monochrome Sculptural Original Three-Dimensional Wall Art
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Atticus Adams' organically composed modern metal sculptures embody the transformative power of art, illustrating the creation of beauty, meaning, and emotional impact from industrial...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Metal, Wire
Mid 19th Century After Greuze Portrait of Milkmaid Oil Painting on Panel Framed
By (Circle of) Jean Baptiste Greuze
Located in Stockholm, SE
A finely executed mid-19th-century oil painting on panel depicting "The Milkmaid" after Jean-Baptiste Greuze (1725–1805). This captivating portrait, painted in a charming manner with...
Category
Mid-19th Century French School Art
Materials
Wood, Oil, Wood Panel
Wall mirror “with fold” I by Franck K - Stainless steel sculpture, reflection
Located in Paris, FR
Wall mirror “with fold” I is a unique mirror-polished stainless steel sculpture by contemporary artist Franck K, dimensions are 92 × 92 × 3 cm (36.2 × 36.2 × 1.2 in).
The sculpture ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Stainless Steel
Renée's Dream (Days of Heaven) - Analog, Contemporary, Women, Polaroid, mounted
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Renée's Dream (29 Palms, CA) - 2005
32 pieces, Edition 3/5,
31 x 38 cm each, installed 276 x 164 cm including gaps.
32 analog C-Prints, hand printed by the artist,
based on 27 or...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Large 1970's French Modernist Landscape Oil Painting Green Brown Block Colors
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Modernist School, 1977
indistinctly signed oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 32 x 24 inches
Provenance: private collection, Paris
Condition: a few surface marks but sound and i...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
BE WATER
Located in Zofingen, AG
She floats where silence begins — just beneath the skin of the water.
Her form is neither here nor gone, dissolving into rhythm and light.
There is no past, no edge, no name — only t...
Category
2010s Realist Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Oil
Seascape XVIII - large format photograph of monochrome water surface
By Frank Schott
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mesmerizing large scale photograph from artist's Seascape series, a body of works capturing the fleeting surfaces and monochromatic nature of oceanic water and dramatic cloudscapes
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Large Colourful Impressionistic Exotic Landscape Painting "Licorice"
Located in Cape Town, ZA
A unique, medium to large scale figurative painting with a vivid, exotic background. The painting style shows influences from the post-impressionists, yet is undeniably contemporary,...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Varnish, Wax, Oil, Acrylic
French Impressionist Port Scene with Reflected Tall Houses and Moored Boats
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Port Scene with Reflected Tall Houses and Moored Boats
by Fanch Lel
Signed: Bottom left corner
Size: 15.25 x 18.25 inches (height x width)
Oil painting o...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
"Spa" Black Outline Bunny on Teal Blue Oil Painting on Panel in Antique Frame
By Hunt Slonem
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a gestural figure of a black bunny on Teal Blue background with thick use of paint. It is...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Wood Panel
Seaside Serenade - Minimalism, Art Deco, Abstract, Bold, Invest, Colorful, Joy
By Karnish Art
Located in Pretoria, Gauteng
Title: Seaside Serenade
Minimalism, Art Deco, Abstract, Bold, Invest, Colorful, Joy
This series connects to that around as well as that within.
Solitude takes the viewer to that ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing, Standing Male Nude (Back)
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model (Back) by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed, ear...
Category
1930s American Modern Art
Materials
Paper, Charcoal
1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Blue & Green Abstract
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape
by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century)
original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed
size: 10 x 8 inches
condition: very good and ready to be ...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Acrylic
$183 Sale Price
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‘Looking Down From Above’ Edinburgh Castle contemporary exhibited painting 1989
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Jack Vettriano (1951-2025) perfected his signature film noire 30’s glam style, that made him the most successful Scottish artist in his lifetime. Best known for ‘The Singing Butler’...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
In Bruges, Belgium, Path by the Canal with Autumn color
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Alfred de Breanski Jr was born 1877 into a family of artists, most notably his father, Alfred de Breanski Sr and Uncle Gustav de Breanski. His father was already a renowned artist k...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seated Nude in a Expressive Green Landscape French Modernist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Seated Nude in a Expressive Green Landscape French Modernist Oil Painting
Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021)
Oil on artist paper, unframed
Size: 18.5 x 15.75 inches (height x wid...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Oil
$624 Sale Price
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Large Mid Victorian Oil Painting Portrait of Seated Gentleman with Newspaper
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Gentleman reading the 'London Journal',
English school (mid 19th century)
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 36 x 28 inches
condition: some minor surface abrasion...
Category
Mid-19th Century Victorian Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Lips in Perspective, Nude Lithograph by Roberto Carbone
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lips in Perspective
Roberto Carbone, Italian (1949)
Date: 1979
Lithograph, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition of 250
Size: 27 in. x 20 in. (68.58 cm x 50.8 cm)
Category
1970s Realist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Vacation Reading, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A young boy lies sprawled on a couch, fully absorbed in a comic book. His relaxed pose conveys a sense of calm and quiet. The scene captures the simple pleasure...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
'Abstract in Ochre, Rust and Jade', Mid-century Modernist American Woman Artist
By Dora Masters
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Stamped, verso, on canvas with certification of authenticity for Dora Masters (American, 1916-2003), bearing stamped wax seal and painted circa 1955.
Provenance: Acquired from the a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cinderella portrait after 1881 painting collected by Andrew Lloyd Webber, 19thC
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Romantic, Pre-Raphaelite painting titled 'Cinderella', this oil on canvas painting is in the Victorian period after a painting by Sir John Everett Millais noted to be in the collection of Sir Andrew Lloyd Webber...
Category
Late 19th Century Pre-Raphaelite Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$7,920 Sale Price
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Dutch Sailing Ships in Calm Harbour Signed Antique English Marine Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Dutch Vessels Morning Light
by C.W. Smith (British, early 20th century)
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 15.5 x 21.5 inches
canvas: 12 x 18 inches
inscribed verso
Provenance: pr...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,409 Sale Price
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Keeping the Culture, mixed media signed/N print by top African American artist
Located in New York, NY
Kerry James Marshall
Keeping the Culture, 2011
Silkscreen and linocut in colors with full margins and deckled edges on Arches paper with full margins and deckled edges
20-1/4 x 30-1/4 inches
Hand signed, titled and numbered 79/100 by Kerry James Marshall in graphite pencil on the front
Published by Africa House International, Chicago
Unframed
In September, 2025, "Kerry James Marshall: The Histories" opened at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. This major exhibition was the largest presentation of Marshall's work in the United Kingdom and Europe, and featured more than 70 works by the the artist, including a large number of paintings and a selection of prints, drawings and sculptures. Highlights of the show include a new series of paintings that explore the transatlantic slave trade, along with Knowledge and Wonder, a mural commissioned in 1995 by the Chicago Public Library that is the largest painting Marshall has produced. The exhibition at the Royal Academy will then travel to the Kunsthaus Zurich and the Musee d'Art Modern in Paris.
Kerry James Marshall's 2011 "Keeping the Culture" is based upon the artist's eponymous painting done the year earlier, which is featured in the Royal Academy Exhibition. In 2013, an original painting, upon which this work is based, sold at Christie's auction. Below is the Christie's Lot Essay for that painting:
..." Set in a revolutionary apartment in the cosmos, Kerry James Marshall's Keeping the Culture optimistically anticipates a future that pays homage to the past. Ushering in a new stage of the artist's output, Keeping the Culture shifts focus from the failed utopia of urban renewal and the commemoration of civil rights era heroes in favor of a more technically refined meditation on the preservation of the traditional and spiritual values that shaped a culture. Placed in an ultramodern environment, two siblings marvel at a projection of the earth--in which Marshall has aptly positioned the African continent toward the viewer-while their affectionate parents dance in the foreground. Overlooking the milky way, Marshall's space-age flat is decorated with earthly relics-wooden tribal sculptures...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Pencil, Linocut, Screen
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
Rear Window View, Purple Pastel Tones, Mauve Hue Abstract Diptych, Aurora Print
Located in Barcelona, ES
Cyd Fontaine (Lausanne, 1992) is a contemporary artist renowned for her captivating use of dreamy atmospheric gradients, which has helped her carve a distinctive niche in the world o...
Category
2010s Op Art Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Giclée, Archival Pigment
Calm Costa Rica Shore, Minimal Large Black and White Giclée Photograph Seascape
By Kind of Cyan
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is an exclusive limited edition black and white giclée print, on 100% cotton Hahnemühle Photo Rag Fine Art matte paper.
This series of black and white photographs captures the ...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Rag Paper, Black and White
"Job's Despair" original lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed by Mourlot and published in Paris by Teriade for the art revue Verve in 1960 for a special edition devoted exclusively to Chagall's original Bibl...
Category
1960s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Curtain 2
By Ulas & Merve
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Merve Türkan and Ulaş Kesebir, are a self taught photography duo based in London. They have been working professionally since 2014 and in the end of the 2020 they ...
Category
2010s Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Sagittarius
By Lisa Taliano
Located in Dallas, TX
oil on canvas
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Antique American Impressionist Giltwood Framed Ocean Wave Seascape Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape oil painting. Oil on board. Framed. Measuring: 12 by 14 inches overall, and 8 by 10 painting alone.. In excellent original condition. Handsom...
Category
1920s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
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
Passport - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Neo-Expressionism, Love, Red
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure
Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria
This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy.
Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
About Ar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
$1,400 Sale Price
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"La Foret de Marly" The Forest of Marly
Located in Atlanta, GA
Inspired by the Flanders verdure from the early 17th century. The rapid development of new sciences such as botany inspired weavers to produce tapestries known as "verdures". These d...
Category
20th Century Naturalistic Art
Materials
Tapestry
Family Time at the Coast
Located in Atlanta, GA
J. C. Morey is a Spanish artist from the province of Alicante. He was born into a family of artists and connected to the art world since the 60s, which gave him the opportunity from...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
$2,000 Sale Price
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A Charming, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Harbor Scene of Martha's Vineyard
Located in Chicago, IL
A Charming, Colorful 1950s Mid-Century Modern Harbor Scene of Martha's Vineyard by Notable Chicago Artist, Francis Chapin (Am. 1899-1965). Painted near the artist's longtime studio ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Art
Materials
Masonite, Oil
Woman portrait post-impressionist French female original oil painting
Located in AIGNAN, FR
Vintage woman portrait oil painting female portrait lady portrait original oil painting vintage moody impressionist portrait oil painting on canvas.
Vintage oil impressionist portra...
Category
1960s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Life with Oysters - The earliest known still life in Swedish art history
Located in Stockholm, SE
This previously unpublished painting was first securely attributed to Govert Dircksz Camphuysen in 1944, following an examination at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm during which the ...
Category
1650s Old Masters Art
Materials
Oak, Oil, Wood Panel
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
Impressionistic Seascape Painting Michael Budden Moonlight Nocturne
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Under Moonlight
oil/panel 6 x 8 image
Under Moonlight is an oil painting on canvas panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that showcases a uniquely beautiful seasc...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Wine and Lily
Located in Zofingen, AG
Daria presents two nude female figures, their gestures distilled into symbolic acts: one holds a glass of wine, the other a single flower. These objects function as signs of sensuali...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
Mystic Arboretum - Large Contemporary Abstract Geometric Botanical Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Harrison Gilman's large original artworks begin with a layer of fast-paced gestural abstraction followed by organic shapes and geometric structures. Some of his paintings remain in t...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Nude, oil painting, impressionistic, live model. Nudes across mediums
Located in Oslo, NO
This intimate oil painting captures a moment of quiet rest and vulnerability. Painted alla prima, the artist works swiftly and expressively, allowing brushstrokes to remain visible a...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Cup 2 Picasso, 1973 Pop Art Lithograph by Jasper Johns
By Jasper Johns
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Jasper Johns, American (1930 - )
Title: Cup 2 Picasso
Year: 1973
Medium: Lithograph, signed in the plate
Size: 15 x 10.5 in. (38.1 x 26.67 cm)
Frame: 19.5 x 17.25 inches
Pri...
Category
1970s Pop Art Art
Materials
Lithograph
Wild Ecstasy - Minimalism, Art Deco, Abstract, Bold, Invest, Colorful, Joy
By Karnish Art
Located in Pretoria, Gauteng
Title: Wild Extasy
Minimalism, Art Deco, Abstract, Bold, Invest, Colorful, Joy, Ecstasy
This series connects to that around as well as that within.
Wild Extasy takes the viewer to...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
ICES Cornflower Blue, Bexhill-on-Sea - Pop Art Typography Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
ICES Cornflower Blue, bold pop art street photography from Richard Heeps' series, On-Sea.
Created as an ode to Richard's childhood visits to his grandparents living on the Sussex co...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Coney Island, Fourth of July
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Coney Island, Fourth of July, c. 1940s, oil on canvas applied to Masonite, signed upper right, 26 x 21 1/2 inches, presented in its original frame
During the 1930s and 40s, Coney I...
Category
1940s American Modern Art
Materials
Board, Oil, Canvas
Liquify - Soft Abstract Blue Original Painting on Canvas
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
Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Color Pencil, Canvas
Palm Trees on Wilcox - Contemporary, Polaroid, mounted under Plexi
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Palm Trees on Wilcox (Stranger than Paradise) - 1999
78x76cm,
Edition of 100.
Archival C-Print based on the original Polaroid.
Mounted under matte Plexiglass.
Artist inventory number: 398.
Signed on back and Certificate.
Stefanie Schneider – Palm Trees on Wilcox...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
"La revue blanche" lithograph poster
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph (after the poster). Printed in Paris in 1950 by Mourlot Freres, this lithograph faithfully reproduces the original Toulouse-Lautrec poster in a smaller-size format...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
American Impressionist Artist Karl Rudolph Krafft oil painting Winter Scene
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Winter Scene
oil/canvas
20 x 24 image size, 23.75 x 27.50 framed
Here is a very nice winter snow scene oil painting on canvas by Midwest American Artist Karl Rudolph Krafft. Origina...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Walasse Ting 'Blue Horse' Vintage
By Walasse Ting
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a reproduction of the original gouache "Blue Horse" by Walasse Ting, presented as a rare, out-of-print limited edition poster. Published by Yves Rivière in Paris, France, thi...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Offset
Ochre Rabbit - Modern Figurative Animal Folk Art Inspired Painting on Raw Canvas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Meredith Walker’s "Ochre Rabbit" is a whimsical and serene example of contemporary folk art, blending narrative illustration, primitive symbolism, and the tactile charm of hand-paint...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Gouache
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