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Boats in Harbor (French Riviera painting)
Boats in Harbor (French Riviera painting)

Boats in Harbor (French Riviera painting)

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Michel Colin (b.1934). Boats in Harbor, 1969. Gouache on paper, sheet measuring 16 x 20 inches. Signed and dated lower right. Sheet is unframed. Michel Colin, born in 1934, live...

Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Gouache

Fine Victorian English Oil Painting Three Terrier Dogs Highland Rabbit Hole
Fine Victorian English Oil Painting Three Terrier Dogs Highland Rabbit Hole

Fine Victorian English Oil Painting Three Terrier Dogs Highland Rabbit Hole

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Three Terrier Dogs in Landscape English artist, mid 19th century circle of George Armfield (English dog painter, 1808-1893) oil on canvas, framed framed: 17 x 21 inches canvas: 8 x 1...

Category

Mid-19th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil

Before you came - Polaroid, Women, 21st Century, Nude

Before you came - Polaroid, Women, 21st Century, Nude

By Kirsten Thys van den Audenaerde

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

Before you came- 2020 50x50cm, Edition of 7 plus 2 Artist Proofs, Archival C-Print based on the Polaroid. Signed on the back and with certificate. Artist inventory PL2020-937. No...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

ABSTRACT FORCES
ABSTRACT FORCES

Angel RivasABSTRACT FORCES, 2025

$422Sale Price|50% Off

ABSTRACT FORCES

By Angel Rivas

Located in CÓRDOBA, ES

Acrylic on canvas Shipped rolled in a tube 100% hand made painting, unique piece.

Category

2010s Post-Modern Art

Materials

Acrylic, Permanent Marker

American Impressionist Artist Oil Painting John J Enneking
American Impressionist Artist Oil Painting John J Enneking

American Impressionist Artist Oil Painting John J Enneking

Located in Chesterfield, NJ

JOHN JOSEPH ENNEKING American (1841-1916) Raining Pasture oil on canvas, signed "Enneking" lower right Framed dimensions - 15 x 18 1/2 x 2 1/4 inches 11 x 14 1/2 inches Provenance:...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Fine British Impressionist Antique Oil Painting Scottish Island Coastal Boats
Fine British Impressionist Antique Oil Painting Scottish Island Coastal Boats

Fine British Impressionist Antique Oil Painting Scottish Island Coastal Boats

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

The Scottish Island by William B Dealtry (British 1915-2007): signed oil on board, framed framed: 27.5 x 32 inches board : 23 x 27.5 inches Provenance: private collection of this art...

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Dog Abstract Contemporary Art Avant- Garde Original Oil Painting
Dog Abstract Contemporary Art Avant- Garde Original Oil Painting

Dog Abstract Contemporary Art Avant- Garde Original Oil Painting

Located in Granada Hills, CA

Abstract Painting Avant- Garde Original Painting Ready to Hang Artist: Karen Dolukhanyan Title: Dog Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2020 Style: Abstract Art, Avant-Garde Dimensions: 36" ...

Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Academic Study of a Clenched Hand, Tuscany, mid-19th cent.
Academic Study of a Clenched Hand, Tuscany, mid-19th cent.

Academic Study of a Clenched Hand, Tuscany, mid-19th cent.

Located in Firenze, IT

Academic Study of a Clenched Hand, Tuscany, mid-19th century, 29 × 23 cm Pencil on slightly grey paper Academic study depicting a clenched male hand, executed with close attention t...

Category

Mid-19th Century Italian School Art

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Harbor Reflections, Oil Painting
Harbor Reflections, Oil Painting

Harbor Reflections, Oil Painting

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
The quiet glow of evening light drifts across a peaceful marina. Warm sunlit sails and softened colors shimmer in the still water, while a crescent moon rises g...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Mother and child, Signed painting on paper (unique), Hammer Galleries, Framed
Mother and child, Signed painting on paper (unique), Hammer Galleries, Framed

Mother and child, Signed painting on paper (unique), Hammer Galleries, Framed

By Gloria Vanderbilt

Located in New York, NY

Gloria Vanderbilt Untitled mother and child painting Gouache on paper Signed by the artist on the front Frame included A poignant painting of a mother and child from the 1960s. Whi...

Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Gouache, Permanent Marker

Edgar Degas, Dancer at the Barre, 1945 (after)
Edgar Degas, Dancer at the Barre, 1945 (after)

Edgar Degas, Dancer at the Barre, 1945 (after)

By Edgar Degas

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph after Edgar Degas (1834–1917), titled Danseur au bar (Dancer at the Barre), originates from the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island, 1945, this work reflects Degas’s sensitive mastery of line, movement, and the intimate psychological nuances of the ballet studio. Executed as a lithograph and pochoir on velin paper, this work measures 13 x 17 inches (33.02 x 43.18 cm). Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued. Rendered and printed by Albert Carman, City Island. Artwork Details: Artist: After Edgar Degas (1834–1917) Title: Danseur au bar (Dancer at the Barre), from Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, 1945 Medium: Lithograph and pochoir on velin paper Dimensions: 13 x 17 inches (33.02 x 43.18 cm) Inscription: Signed in the plate and unnumbered as issued Date: 1945 Publisher: The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Printer: Albert Carman, City Island Condition: Well preserved, consistent with age and medium Provenance: From the 1945 folio Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches, published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York Notes: Excerpted from the album, Born in Paris in 1834, Edgar Degas lived, and surely loved the life of that city during most of his years. These continued somewhat sadly beyond those of most of his friends— into the debacle of the first World War, during which he died in 1917. Judging by the frequency with which he used them as models, he must have had an especial admiration for the ballet girls who followed a profession that at the time brought none of the glory and prosperity which attend it today. New aspects of the human body, revealed in movement, fascinated him. But his occupation with the simply anatomical side of his subjects never resulted in a cold interpretation. On the contrary there is a warmth and sympathy that pervades all of his work. The drawings here represent the painter in one important phase of his multi-sensitive view of life; and permit an insight which a more ambitious work might not do-into the operation of the creative process, the artist's transformation of reality as it passes through the mesh of his sensibilities. The Edition of this Portfolio is limited to MMMD examples. Rendered by Albert Carman. About the Publication: Degas, Ten Ballet Sketches (1945) is one of the earliest and most significant American postwar fine art portfolios devoted to Edgar Degas’s intimate works on paper. Published by The Studio Publications, Inc., New York, and rendered and printed by Albert Carman at City Island, the album sought to faithfully reproduce a group of Degas’s ballet-related drawings through a combination of lithography and hand-applied pochoir coloring. This hybrid technique allowed the edition to preserve the immediacy, tonal subtlety, and gestural delicacy central to Degas’s draftsmanship. Conceived as a fine art publication rather than a commercial book, the portfolio provided American audiences unprecedented access to Degas’s private, spontaneous studies—images that reveal the artist’s fascination with movement, anatomy, and the psychological atmosphere of the rehearsal studio. The album exemplifies the mid-20th-century revival of pochoir as a means of recreating the texture and coloristic nuance of original works on paper, and it remains an important document of how Degas’s legacy was translated into high-quality printed form for collectors, museums, and connoisseurs. About the Artist: Edgar Degas (1834–1917) was a French painter, draughtsman, printmaker, and sculptor whose groundbreaking fusion of classical draftsmanship, modern experimentation, and psychological depth helped define the trajectory of Western art, positioning him as one of the most influential figures of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; renowned for his depictions of ballet dancers, racehorses, theater scenes, cafe life, domestic interiors, milliners, laundresses, and women at their toilette, Degas reimagined observational realism through radical compositional innovation—employing extreme cropping, asymmetrical framing, oblique viewpoints, and dramatic lighting that anticipated photographic and cinematic language long before these technologies shaped visual culture, and although associated with Impressionism, he rejected plein-air spontaneity in favor of studio-based discipline rooted in the linear precision of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, the expressive chromaticism of Eugene Delacroix, and the modernity of Edouard Manet while also drawing inspiration from Japanese ukiyo-e prints, classical sculpture, and early photography; his independent artistic philosophy resonated with and helped shape the innovations of Pablo Picasso, Alexander Calder, Alberto Giacometti, Salvador Dali, Joan Miro, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray, whose explorations of movement, form, dream logic, abstraction, and conceptualism all find antecedents in Degas’s investigations into seriality, temporality, and the fragmented figure, and his pioneering use of pastel, monotype, and wax sculpture fundamentally transformed each medium, influencing artists from Henri Matisse, Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, and Giacomo Manzu to Paula Rego, contemporary realists, experimental photographers, and choreographers; his works are held in nearly every major museum collection worldwide—including the Musee dOrsay, the Louvre, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Courtauld Institute, and the National Gallery, London—affirming his central place in the history of art, and the highest auction record for Degas was achieved at Sothebys London on February 3, 2015, when Danseuses en Bleu sold for 37,033,000 GBP, cementing his status as one of the most sought-after and enduringly significant artists of the Western canon. Degas pochoir, Degas lithograph...

Category

1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Scandinavian Impressionist Landscape (1894)
Scandinavian Impressionist Landscape (1894)

Scandinavian Impressionist Landscape (1894)

Located in Stockholm, SE

This oil on canvas by Anton Genberg, signed and dated 1894, portrays a Scandinavian summer landscape bathed in gentle light. The composition features lush green meadows in the foregr...

Category

1890s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ultramarine Blue Abstract
Ultramarine Blue Abstract

Ultramarine Blue Abstract

By Juan Jose Garay

Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES

Painting: Acrylic on Canvas. The painting is shipped rolled up in a tube and without a frame. In this work, I have poured my creative energy onto a canvas that breathes dynamism a...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Spring Rain
Spring Rain

Spring Rain

By Manabu Mabe

Located in San Francisco, CA

This artwork titled "Spring Rain" 1981, Is a colors lithograph on Fabriano paper by noted Brazilian/Japanese artist Manabu Mabe, 1924-1997. It is hand signed, titled in Japanese and ...

Category

Late 20th Century Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

The Mount Willow
The Mount Willow

The Mount Willow

Located in Middletown, NY

Watercolor and gouache on heavy gauge watercolor paper, 9 1/2 x 15 1/8 inches (242 x 385 mm), the full sheet. Titled in pencil on the verso. Scattered edge wear, and small losses at ...

Category

Mid-19th Century English School Art

Materials

Watercolor

Spirit, Interrupted, Original Painting
Spirit, Interrupted, Original Painting

Spirit, Interrupted, Original Painting

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This mixed-media painting captures the intensity of a boxing match through bold color blocks, dynamic linework, and expressive gestures. The contrast of red, ye...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Here is the Sea, by Jos Sances
Here is the Sea, by Jos Sances

Here is the Sea, by Jos Sances

Located in Palm Springs, CA

One print from Jos Sances cycle concerning Moby Dick. A vast sperm whale drifts below the surface, scarred by harpoons, while above floats a lone survivor on a coffin raft—a haunting...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Screen

Roses √ 3
Roses √ 3

Roses √ 3

Located in Zofingen, AG

Roses and hydrangeas, gerberas and lilies. A wonderful autumn bouquet. It reminds me of childhood and pleasant memories of my grandmother's garden. Only the fashionable vase brings m...

Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Eduardo Chillida

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1970 for the art revue Derrière le Miroir (issue number 183) and published in Paris by Maeght. Sheet size: 14 3/4 x 11 inches (377 x 277 mm). ...

Category

1970s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Painting with linen, beeswax and natural pigments, yellow turmeric and brown
Painting with linen, beeswax and natural pigments, yellow turmeric and brown

Painting with linen, beeswax and natural pigments, yellow turmeric and brown

Located in Carballo, ES

The painting measures 77 x 39 cm and is an old linen sack filled with polyurethane foam. The pigments include beeswax, oxide vinegar, yellow turmeric, and natural graphite. The work...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Graphite, Pigment

Room 2 - Collector Portfolio # 5 out 7 - 12 Fine Art Prints Nude photography
Room 2 - Collector Portfolio # 5 out 7 - 12 Fine Art Prints Nude photography

Room 2 - Collector Portfolio # 5 out 7 - 12 Fine Art Prints Nude photography

By Eric Ceccarini

Located in Brussels, BE

His series "Room" or "My carnival" evokes the fantasy of the mistress, fetishist eroticism, 5 to 7, free fantasy. Eric produces erotic art without ever biting into porn-chic always b...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Rag Paper, Archival Pigment

Pair of Porphyry Marble Columns with Gilt Bronze Capitals, 19th Century
Pair of Porphyry Marble Columns with Gilt Bronze Capitals, 19th Century

Pair of Porphyry Marble Columns with Gilt Bronze Capitals, 19th Century

Located in Beachwood, OH

Pair of Porphyry Marble Columns with Gilt Bronze Capitals, 19th Century Porphyry marble & gilt bronze 20 x 4.25 x 4.25 inches Porphyry is an igneous rock, not marble, known for its...

Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Marble, Bronze

"Birth of Venus"

"Birth of Venus"

By Tim Rees

Located in Scottsdale, AZ

Timothy Rees was fascinated with drawing throughout his youth and after high school pursued a degree in animation. The pull to painting portraits and figures was strong, however, le...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Linen, Oil

Fishermen at the Nets - Drawing by Sirio Pellegrini - 1970s
Fishermen at the Nets - Drawing by Sirio Pellegrini - 1970s

Fishermen at the Nets - Drawing by Sirio Pellegrini - 1970s

Located in Roma, IT

Tempera and watercolor on cardboard realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1970. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, of Abruzzo origins (Capestrano), spent his childhood years...

Category

1970s Contemporary Art

Materials

Tempera, Watercolor, Cardboard

20th Century French Modernist Oil Painting Nude Woman Seated
20th Century French Modernist Oil Painting Nude Woman Seated

20th Century French Modernist Oil Painting Nude Woman Seated

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Seated Nude Woman by Jacqueline Boisselot, French late 20th century 11 x 7.5 inches oil on canvas, unframed condition: very good and ready to enjoy provenance: from a private collect...

Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Oil

Saul Steinberg - Sam's Art New York International portfolio Signed/n lithograph
Saul Steinberg - Sam's Art New York International portfolio Signed/n lithograph

Saul Steinberg - Sam's Art New York International portfolio Signed/n lithograph

By Saul Steinberg

Located in New York, NY

Saul Steinberg Sam's Art, from The New York International Portfolio), 1966 Lithograph on wove paper with blind stamp Pencil signed and numbered 12/225 on the front Published by Tanglewood Press, Knickerbocker Machine and Foundry, Inc., New York Printed by Irwin Hollander with blind stamp Unframed This Steinberg lithograph is titled Sam's Art, which of course refers to Uncle Sam, the nickname for the United States government. It features his version of the motto seen on our dollar bills, "Annuit Coeptis", which is one of the mottoes found on the Great Seal of the United States. It is directly underneath the "Eye of Providence" and is translated by the US Treasury and State Department as "God (or Providence) favors our undertakings". American President Abraham Lincoln, sitting in front of an easel, is also depicted as an artist in this telling 1960s work. Commentary: "In Saul Steinberg’s lithograph ‘Sam’s Art’, Abraham Lincoln, in stove-pipe hat, poses as the artist in front of his canvas. While his attention looks fixed on rendering the slightly wobbly pyramid with an eye, the Masonic motif from the back of the one dollar bill, the line from his brush has floated off the canvas to become a cubist-futurist cloud in the sky. The American Eagle looks on, perched on a civil war cannon...

Category

1960s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

Love and Bond 3 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Whites, Black
Love and Bond 3 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Whites, Black

Love and Bond 3 - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Whites, Black

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

A better society is not built solely by wealth or power, but by shared values. By the courage to love without condition, the strength to treat all as equals, and the wisdom to honor ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Morris Louis Delta Epsilon 1973 Exhibition Poster, Fair Condition
Morris Louis Delta Epsilon 1973 Exhibition Poster, Fair Condition

Morris Louis Delta Epsilon 1973 Exhibition Poster, Fair Condition

By Morris Louis

Located in Brooklyn, NY

This 1973 Galerie André Emmerich exhibition poster, featuring Morris Louis’s iconic “Delta Epsilon” imagery, is an important historical document from the height of postwar American a...

Category

1970s Art

Materials

Offset

"LaFlat" Limited Edition Parody Piece by Kid Hazo
"LaFlat" Limited Edition Parody Piece by Kid Hazo

"LaFlat" Limited Edition Parody Piece by Kid Hazo

By Kid Hazo

Located in Philadelphia, PA

"LaFlat" is an original archival pigment print on cardboard box artwork by Kid Hazo measuring 5.5"h x 11"w x 5.25"d. This is an edition of 13. Hazo’s belief that art is for everyon...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Cardboard, Archival Pigment

Girl with Braided Hair, Raphael Soyer
Girl with Braided Hair, Raphael Soyer

Girl with Braided Hair, Raphael Soyer

By Raphael Soyer

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Raphael Soyer (1899-1987) Title: Girl with Braided Hair Year: Circa 1947 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 12 x 9 inches; framed size, 19 x 16 inches Condition: Excellent Inscripti...

Category

1940s American Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Aura - Chrome metallic glazed ceramic sculpture
Aura - Chrome metallic glazed ceramic sculpture

Aura - Chrome metallic glazed ceramic sculpture

Located in East Quogue, NY

Hand-pitched chrome metallic glazed ceramic sculpture vessel by Jessamyn Go. White Stoneware, Bronze Metallic Glaze, 8" x 7 x 3.5 inches Jessamyn Go's work is deeply rooted in the ...

Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Ceramic, Stoneware, Glaze

Machina Mundi Lisboa, Praça do Município II
Machina Mundi Lisboa, Praça do Município II

Machina Mundi Lisboa, Praça do Município II

Located in New York City, NY

In Machina Mundi, Claudio Edinger offers an aerial vision of the city that oscillates between photographic representation and pictorial abstraction. Captured with a large-format came...

Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Beverly Hills Ice-Cream Festival 3D Mixed Media Art, Framed, 37x37 IN
Beverly Hills Ice-Cream Festival 3D Mixed Media Art, Framed, 37x37 IN

Beverly Hills Ice-Cream Festival 3D Mixed Media Art, Framed, 37x37 IN

By Mauro Oliveira

Located in LOS ANGELES, CA

**NEW YEAR FINAL 90 DAYS SALE UNTIL MARCH 31ST** **STORE CLOSURE - UP TO 80% OFF - TAKE ADVANTAGE OF IT** **EVERYTHING MUST GO UNTIL APRIL1ST!** ***FRAME INCL...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Resin, Plastic, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Waterfall into the Ocean, Gásadalur, Faroe Islands – Black and White Photograph
Waterfall into the Ocean, Gásadalur, Faroe Islands – Black and White Photograph

Waterfall into the Ocean, Gásadalur, Faroe Islands – Black and White Photograph

By Gerald Berghammer

Located in Vienna, Vienna

Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21354 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Roses and gerberas.
Roses and gerberas.

Roses and gerberas.

Located in Zofingen, AG

Flowers in a glass vase. Roses and gerberas intertwine with fresh greenery to create a vibrant bouquet. The blue and gray background creates contrast. This bouquet exudes the flavor ...

Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The last day of summer - Contemporary Architecture Pool House Oil Painting
The last day of summer - Contemporary Architecture Pool House Oil Painting

The last day of summer - Contemporary Architecture Pool House Oil Painting

Located in DE

Lilly Muth's architectural paintings transport viewers on a visual journey to a different world, where imagination knows no bounds and the boundaries between reality and fantasy blur...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

SKULL DOG
SKULL DOG

Daria KustoSKULL DOG, 2025

$144Sale Price|25% Off

SKULL DOG

By Daria Kusto

Located in CÓRDOBA, ES

Original artwork by Daria Kusto. AcrIcrylic on Wotercolor Paper. The magic flow reality... Shipping from Spain, safely and promptly.

Category

2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Acrylic, Permanent Marker

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