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Art For Sale
Congres National du Mouvement de la Paix - Issy-les-Moulineaux
Located in New York, NY
This rare lithographic poster is steeped in history. in 1949, author Louis Aragon (1897-1982) chose Picasso's lithograph "La Colombe" (The Dove) for posters commemorating the first p...
Category
1960s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Diablo Dos. From The Nostalgic Series
By Ricky Cohete
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Diablo Dos, 2024 by Ricky Cohete
From The Nostalgic Series
Archival pigment print
Image size: 36 in H x 24 in W.
Edition of 10
Unframed
Channeling the energy of “water-signs” in as...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Black and White, Archival Pigment
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Fairy' - signed
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Stefanie Schneider Polaroid sized unlimited Mini 'Fairy (Heavenly Falls)' - 2016 -
signed in front, not mounted.
1 Archival Color Photograph based on the original Polaroid.
Pola...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Lambda, Polaroid
Yellow & Green Female Portrait with Korean Inscription. Currency Series #257
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This unique piece from Natasha Lelenco’s Currencies series is painted in acrylic on a 26 cm diameter circular pine wood panel, carefully treated for longevity. The artwork presents a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood, Spray Paint, Acrylic
Pumpkin (White T)
By Yayoi Kusama
Located in Bristol, GB
Screenprint
Edition 102 of 120
83.5 × 70.5 cm (32.9 x 27.8 in)
Signed, titled, dated and numbered on front
Artwork in excellent condition considering its age. Only visible under stud...
Category
20th Century Contemporary Art
Materials
Screen
The Scalp, American Realist Bronze Sculpture after Frederic Remington
By Frederic Remington
Located in Long Island City, NY
Frederic Remington, After, American (1861 - 1909) - The Scalp, Medium: Bronze Sculpture with Brown Patina on green marble base, signature inscribed on the base, Size: 24 x 17.5 x 8...
Category
Late 19th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Bronze
Grant Series Torn Paper Collage Painting African American Artist John Rozelle
By John Rozelle
Located in Surfside, FL
John Rozelle (American, 1944-)
Grant Series II #5, Collage, 1988
Hand signed, dated and titled in pencil
Provenance: Isobel Neal Gallery, Chicago,
Measurements
Matted to approximately 20 by 16
Sight: 11 by 9 inches
Layers of torn ripped, and painted paper with music notes are overlaid on top of each other in this contemporary collage assemblage composition with a jazz sensibility. The pieces of paper have been arbitrarily arranged while in contrast, the artist has applied color in this piece in a very thoughtful way. John Everette Rozelle is an internationally renowned artist from St. Louis, Missouri now living in Banyoles, Girona. He is a masterful collagist, painter and sculptor included in museums and private collections worldwide. John Rozelle was born in St. Louis, Missouri and holds a B.F.A with a major in painting and a minor in sculpture from Washington University and a M.F.A from Fontbonne College. John Rozelle is currently tenured Associate Professor in the Drawing and Painting Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Prior to joining the Art Institute faculty he taught drawing, design, painting, and sculpture as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at Fontbonne College. Rozelle has served on numerous occasions as curator, juror, and artist-in-residence for several exhibitions. His twenty years of solo and group shows have included those in New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, St. Louis, Atlanta, and Los Angeles.
His work is housed among various corporate collections some of which include: Anheuser Busch, Citibank Corp., AT&T, Borg-Warner, Price Waterhouse, Saks Fifth Avenue, the Seven-Up Company, Ralston Purina, the Westin Hotels and ARCO.
Rozelle is currently tenured Associate Professor in the Drawing and Painting Department at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His art can be found in over 20 public collections and in over 50 private collections throughout the United States. He has been in many important exhibitions including Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Layers of Meaning: Collage and Abstraction in the Late 20th Century. Included: Romare Bearden, Moe Brooker...
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Laid Paper
Trompe l'oeil American modern oil painting Bruce Kurland Oyster Duck Framed
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Kurland – Still Life with Decoy and Shells
Oil on board, framed in antique gold leaf
A master of intimacy and restraint, Bruce Kurland’s Still Life with Decoy and Shells is a ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Realist Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Paris France oil on canvas painting urbanscape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frame size 70x59 cm.
Caroline Burnett, born in 1940, was a painter known for capturing the charm of urban scenes and landscapes with a vibrant and colorful style. Although little is...
Category
1980s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sculptures (M. 950), Framed Modern Lithograph by Joan Miro
By Joan Miró
Located in Long Island City, NY
An original Joan Miro lithograph on BFK Rives with signature in the plate (printing). Printed and published by Arte Adrien Maeght, Paris. Nicely framed.
Artist: Joan Miro, Spanish...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Flowers in a White Vase" Still Life Impressionist Oil Painting on Canvas Board
Located in New York, NY
A stunning jewel and pertinent example of Berthelsen's charming Still Life scenes. Here we find a white rose and two crimson flowers in a white vase set on top of a wooden glossy tab...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
SHARING THE CHORES Signed Lithograph, Farm Women Chickens Geechee Gullah Culture
Located in Union City, NJ
SHARING THE CHORES is a hand drawn, limited edition lithograph by the acclaimed Charleston SC artist JONATHAN GREEN printed using hand lithography techniques on archival Arches paper...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Happiest Place on Earth - Large Monochrome Contemporary Abstract 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, Oil, Charcoal, Mixed Media
Birch Trees and Snow-Laden Spruces, 1927
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are pleased to offer an exquisite painting by Finnish artist Reino Partanen (1889–1972), titled Birch Trees and Snow-Laden Spruces. Created in 1927, this impressive work measures ...
Category
1920s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Museum Quality Renaissance Masterpiece Virgin Mary & Infant Christ painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Virgin Mary holding the infant Jesus
Italian 17th century
oil on copper, in tabernacle frame
Overall framed: 19 x 17 inches
Actual copper panel: 14.25 x 11 inches
Provenance: pr...
Category
17th Century Byzantine Art
Materials
Copper
Gleam - contemporary, hand-sculpted, cream, porcelain sculpture
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This contemporary sculptural indoor porcelain vessel was made by Susan Collett.
The exquisite hand-built porcelain vessels of Susan Collett have garnered her international praise an...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Porcelain
French Contemporary Art by Aude de Voc - Le Champs Magnetique
By Aude de Voc
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas
Aude de Voc is a self-taught contemporary painter born in 1978 who lives and works in Paris, France. Desiring to transform, confront and mix materials, her work is...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Male Nude (29 Palms, CA) - Polaroid
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Male Nude (29 Palms,CA) - 2008
20x20cm,
Edition of 10,
Archival C-Print, based on the Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory #293
Not mounted.
Stefanie S...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
Sunset Across the Scottish Highlands Traditional Loch Scene Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sunset over the Highland Loch
by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950)
signed with the artists pseudonym 'Graham Williams'.
oil on canvas, framed
framed: 19 x 17 inches
canvas: 16 x 24...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vitality
Located in Zofingen, AG
The racing horse is one of the most successful characters and symbolizes courage, good reputation, fame, speed, endurance and perseverance. This is a majestic noble animal. As a tali...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vintage French Oil Painting Couple Strolling Thru the Forest Path
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5085 Oil on canvas of a young couple walking hand in hand thru the forest path
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Oil
The Moon Pauses Time, Pink Twilight Painting, Surreal Sunset Diptych on Paper
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is a beautiful landscape painting by Alexandra Czierpka. By reducing color and form to their essentials, she invites the observer to contemplate the harmony between humans and n...
Category
2010s Fauvist Art
Materials
Oil Crayon, Acrylic
Contemporary abstract impressionist seascape seaside acrylic painting on paper
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This artwork "When the blue sky meets the blue sea" is a captivating example of abstract expressionism, where vibrant color and dynamic brushwork coalesce to evoke an emotive landsc...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
European School 20th Century Oil - Selling Today's Catch
Located in Corsham, GB
This vibrant oil painting captures the bustling activity of a seaside fish market, with figures engaged in various tasks amidst boats and sails in the background. The composition is ...
Category
20th Century Art
Materials
Oil
18th Century Italian Old Master Tempera on Panel Painting "Jesus Road to Emmaus"
Located in Portland, OR
An important 18th century Italian Old Master tempera on copper panel Baroque painting, "The Road to Emmaus", circa 1700.
The painting represents the early resurrection biblical story...
Category
Early 18th Century Baroque Art
Materials
Copper
The Real Mermaid - underwater nude photograph - archival pigment print 23.4x35"
By Alex Sher
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Underwater nude photograph of a model swimming in the pool.
"There were five grand pianos at her house, a pool at the third floor, and a sad man on the bottom of that pool me. I jus...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Digital Pigment
"umbrella girl in the rain " RK3D, Abstract, Painting, 21st Century, Acrylic
By Roger König
Located in Dessau-Rosslau, Sachsen Anhalt
Artist: Roger König b. Dessau, Germany (1968) Master student of Kurt Schönburg, HWK Halle, Germany. König combines modern painting with acrylic with old techniques and in this way, h...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Clay, Acrylic
"My Lime Green Butterfly" Contemporary Pop Art Oil Painting Black Floater Frame
By Cindy Shaoul
Located in New York, NY
Motivated by bold color and fast brushwork, we are moved by the simplicity and thick textured oil paints in these works. Shaoul’s “My Butterfly Collection” is a vibrant and energetic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Mid Century French Original Pastel Painting of a Coastal View with Olive Trees
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Original Pastel Painting of a Coastal View with Olive Trees
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Oil Pastel on artist paper
Size: 19.75 (heig...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil Pastel
Kelly, Composition (Axsom I-a, page 176), Derrière le miroir (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered. Good condition. Notes: From Derrière le miroir, N° 110, published by Aimé Maeght, Éditeur, Paris; printed by Éditions...
Category
1950s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Picasso, Le Chat, Histoire naturelle (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Eaux-fortes originale pour des textes de ...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Beaches in Cap Skiring No.2 by Calo Carratalá - Pencil, Senegal, trees, river
Located in Paris, FR
Beaches in Cap Skiring No.2 is a unique oil pencil on cardboard, glued on wooden frame drawing by contemporary artist Calo Carratalá, dimensions are 80 × 139 × 4 cm (31.5 × 54.7 × 1....
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Cardboard, Pencil
Muhammad Ali Sitting on a Million Dollars, Photograph by Howard Bingham
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Howard Bingham, American (1939 - 2016)
Title: Muhammad Ali Sitting on a Million Dollars
Medium: Gelatin Silver Print Photograph, signed by Bingham and autographed by Ali in m...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Yellow Marble Sculpture Torso Of Apollo Classical Roman Grand Tour Specimen 19th
Located in Roma, IT
This grand tour sculpture, carved in the Yellow Numidia a specimen rare and precious marble used by roman age of empire, standing on a square Black and white veined marble with a cen...
Category
19th Century Other Art Style Art
Materials
Marble
So Slight a Film ex-Lehman Brothers Art Collection unique signed painting Framed
By Emily Mason
Located in New York, NY
Emily Mason
So Slight a Film (from the Lehman Brothers art collection), 1978
Oil on paper Abstract Expressionist painting
Signed and dated 'Emily Mason '78' bottom right in pencil
Fr...
Category
1970s Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Graphite
Walking Blindly, For My People, Elizabeth Catlett
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches 300gm paper. Paper Size: 21.8125 x 18.3125 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, For My People, 1992. Published...
Category
1990s Expressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Lady In White 1 - 21st Century Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Women, Modern
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
She holds on to her integrity and purity. Lady in white captures a desire to be hidden, but her presence is revealed through her unquenched innermost beauty. Lady in white captures h...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This Beaudin lithograph was printed in Paris in 1961 by the Mourlot Freres atelier and published by Editions Verve. Size: 11 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches (293 x 21...
Category
1960s Art
Materials
Lithograph
Male Nude from the 29 Palms, CA series - Polaroid, 20th Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Male Nude (29 Palms, CA) - 1999
20x20cm,
Edition 4/10.
Archival C-Print, based on the original Polaroid.
Certificate and Signature label.
Artist Inventory # 293.
Not mounted
...
Category
1990s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid
1930's French Impressionist Coastal Dunes with Distant Village Horizon Under Sky
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Coastal Dunes Landscape
Simone Forge 1930's French Impressionist
oil on board unframed
board: 9.5 x 13 inches
Provenance: private collection
Condition: great condition
For more an...
Category
Early 19th Century Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
A Distant Sky - Soft Blue-Green Atmospheric Abstract Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mark Acetelli’s oil and mixed media paintings awaken the viewer’s sense of exploration and adventure; they demand a new discovery. His artworks exhibit a chemistry of complexity and ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Blue and White Abstract Overlapping Shapes Fish Scribble Gestures, Mediterranean
Located in Barcelona, ES
This series by Enric Servera explores the relationship of humans to salt and seawater. The intention of these works is to submerge us into the sea, a salty treasure that surrounds us and reminds us of its natural beauty and the importance of its preservation.
Details:
Title: Marina N31
Medium: Acrylic on Paper
Size: 106 x 70 cm ( 41.7 x 28 inches)
Year: 2024
* Frame is for illustrative purposes only. Artwork shipped carefully rolled and packaged in a tube.
* Certificate of Authenticity provided.
Enric Servera (Ciutadella de Menorca, 1970) lives and works between Barcelona and Menorca, Spain. His works explores the colors and forms of the ocean, inspired by the fauna and flora of the Mediterranean Sea. His work has shown in galleries across Spain, and is part of several public and private collections.
Words that may describe this series of artworks are: Mediterranean-inspired art, abstract sea...
Category
2010s Abstract Art
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor
"Some Surmount" (abstract, dynamic, floral, sky, clouds, blue, blush, pink)
Located in Paris, IDF
SOME SURMOUNT
2024
Paris, France
This charming painting on canvas visually represents the notion of being unshackled from a burden, and an ascension from a darker place. A black, e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
Huge 20th Century French Cubist Modernist Signed Painting Female Musicians
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Musicians
French Modernist artist, circa 1960's period
signed oil on canvas, unframed
canvas: 35.5 x 36 inches
Provenance: private collection, France
Condition: very good conditi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Cubist Art
Materials
Oil
"Maternite au Centaure" original lithograph
By Marc Chagall
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Catalogue reference: Mourlot 195. Printed in 1957 at the Mourlot atelier and published in Paris by Maeght. This charming composition is one of the origin...
Category
1950s Art
Materials
Lithograph
"Thru an Open Window... I Saw You" (2012) By John Tarantola, Nude Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
John Tarantola's original nude portrait "Thru an Open Window... I Saw You" (2012) is a beautiful surrealist painting done with oil on panel, which depicts two nude male figures, one ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Art
Materials
Oil, Panel
Surrealism expressionism scene landscape mixed media
By Augustin Ubeda
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Agustín Úbeda (1925-2007) - Surrealist scene - Mixed technique on paper glued to board
Measurements 44x71 cm.
Without frame.
BAD CONDITION, NEEDS RESTORATION.
Origin: Family of the a...
Category
1960s Expressionist Art
Materials
Paper, Board, Mixed Media
Card Game in the Parlour Charming Victorian Genre Interior Scene Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Card Game in the Parlour
by ALEXANDER AUSTEN (1859-1924)
signed oil on canvas, framed
framed: 17 x 15 inches
canvas: 12 x 10 inches
Provenance: Private collection, Yorkshire, England...
Category
19th Century Victorian Art
Materials
Oil
Woman in Shell, Late 20th Century Art Deco of a Nude, Cleveland Female Artist
Located in Beachwood, OH
Sally Lachina (American, 20th Century)
Woman in Shell, 1994
Oil on canvas
Signed and dated lower right, signed, dated and titled verso
48 x 36 inches
Sally Lachina is an American ar...
Category
1990s Art Deco Art
Materials
Oil
Elsa Peretti goes out for a drink. From the Art, culture & society series
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Movies, TV and magazines are constant source of inspiration. Fame, as fleckring and shallow it can be sometimes, is very intriguing to him.
The worlds of fashion, society and pop cu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache, Ink
Circle of Duncan Grant, Bloomsbury set, Rye Windmill by the river
By Duncan Grant
Located in Harkstead, GB
This idyllic scene with the reflections in the water is of Rye Windmill in East Sussex, an area which was frequented by Duncan Grant and his Bloomsbury friends and associates.
Circl...
Category
Early 20th Century English School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Poolside Poodle Slim Aarons Limited Estate Stamped Print
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Poolside Poodle
1970
by Slim Aarons
Slim Aarons Limited Estate Edition
Former fashion model Helen Dzo Dzo Kaptur (in white lace), Nelda Linsk (in yellow), wife of art dealer Josep...
Category
1970s Modern Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
L'Écluse de Douai au crépuscule
By Henri Duhem
Located in BOULOGNE-BILLANCOURT, FR
Henri Duhem fait partie des peintres qualifiés d’intimistes, s’efforçant avec réalisme et poésie d’« exprimer la vie intérieure des choses ou des êtres », selon les mots du critique ...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Birches
Located in Zofingen, AG
Golden sunlight filters through the swaying birch leaves, casting flickering shadows on the emerald grass. The slender white trunks glow in the summer warmth, while a light breeze ca...
Category
2010s Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Oil on Canvas Painting -- Blue Tit
Located in Troy, NY
This oil on canvas painting is a wonderful combination of abstract and organic elements. The background of the piece is a beautiful deep blue with energetic streaks of oranges and re...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Vibrant Pastoral Landscape with Lush Greens and Pathway Through Fields
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: Jill Jackson (British, contemporary)
Title: Vibrant Pastoral Landscape
Medium: oil on un stretched canvas, unframed
Painting : 26 x 18 inches
Provenance: all th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Tête d'un jeune homme en face, Les Peintres mes amis, Pablo Picasso
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Les Peintres mes amis, 1965. Published by Éditions d'art Les Heures Cla...
Category
1960s Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Marsh Verge - large, contemporary, landscape, acrylic on canvas
By Brent McIntosh
Located in Bloomfield, ON
This large, contemporary, landscape, acrylic on canvas is by Brent Mcintosh.
Valued for his exceptional sense of color, Canadian painter Brent McIntosh has spent thirty years perfec...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Acrylic
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