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Art For Sale
Pato Rojo- 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycled Objects
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Miquel Aparici's sculptures are surprising assemblages made from old objects that had other uses in the past, and which the artist recovers and uses in a creative and ingenious way. ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Found Objects

"Two Women"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
James Lechay was a painter of figures, landscapes, cityscapes and still lifes who played a notable role in the tradition of avant-garde painting in New York and in the Midwest. An ar...
Category

20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bookplate for Max Brückner-Rüggeberg
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Carl August Walther (1880 Leipzig - 1956 Dresden): Bookplate for Max Brückner-Rüggeberg, 1912, Etching Technique: Etching on Paper Inscription: Signed and dated by the artist lower...
Category

20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Paper

Studebaker
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Unsigned Artist Unknown 20th Century American Illustration
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Paint

Civil Rights, Racial Justice Little Rock
Located in Miami, FL
"Civil Rights." Evergood's early commentary on racial issues in the 1950s depicts four black men gagged, roped and hanging from a tree. In the background, imprisoned blacks look on through a barbed-wire fence. Whites watch in horror but do nothing to help. Meanwhile, a two-legged and three-headed serpent who symbolizes evil - wraps himself around the tree that physically and symbolically separates the races. This is an important work in the history of American art. It may be one of the very earliest examples of a major American painter doing a major work that challenges racial segregation and injustice at a time when no one else would. The title of the work is inspired by a Historic Supreme Court decision on racial segregation. The Little Rock...
Category

1950s American Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Geodesy 259
Located in Santa Monica, CA
A Los Angeles-based artist with a unique take on color and the relationship between space, shape and light. Andy Moses paints with pearlescent pigments on concave canvases, which cur...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Rudolf Nureyev, New York City, 1963-Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography)
Located in London, GB
Rudolf Nureyev, New York City, 1963-Elliott Erwitt (Black and White Photography) Signed, inscribed with title and dated on accompanying artist’s label Silver gelatin print, printed l...
Category

Mid-20th Century Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Hudson
Located in Quogue, NY
Abstract, mixed media coastal landscape
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Derrière Le Miroir No. 149 (page 8, 9) /// Abstract Geometric Ellsworth Kelly
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015) Title: "Untitled (page 8, 9)" Portfolio: Derrière Le Miroir (No. 149) *Issued unsigned Year: 1964 Medium: Origina...
Category

1960s Minimalist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Trofeos I - 21st Century, Contemporary Sculpture, Figurative, Recycled Objects
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Trofeos - Homenaje a Picasso I Miquel Aparici's sculptures are surprising assemblages made from old objects that had other uses in the past, and which ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Found Objects, Mixed Media

Yellow Car with Woman and Puppet
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in Moscow, Idaho,and raised in Seattle, Robert Jessup received his BFA from the University of Washington in 1975 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1979. His work has be...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Casablaca
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Charcoal, White Pastel on Canson MiTientes Paper Signature: Signed Lower Right Dimensions: 25.00" x 19.00" Unframed
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Pastel

Sunset Grip
Located in New York, NY
Louisa Lizbeth Chase was born in 1951 to Benjamin and Wilda Stengel Chase in Panama City, Panama, where her father, a West Point graduate, was stationed. The family moved to Pennsylv...
Category

20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Wax, Oil

Andy Warhol with Tony Shafrazi and Ronnie Cutrone
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Tony Shafrazi had represented Keith Haring until the artist’s death in 1990. Shafrazi said of his first time ever entering The Factory in 1965, “I remember putting down my suitcase and looking out the window and seeing some people on the fire escape across the street. I realized that it was Andy Warhol’s Factory. So I went up to the Factory, and I remember Andy coming to the elevator and seeing me dressed up in this little mod, shiny, mohair suit...
Category

1980s Pop Art Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Many-Worlds Interpretation (H.C.H.P)
Located in New York, NY
Looking at a painting by Colin Hunt is like watching someone pass through a hole in our consciousness. As the landscape refracts through the sitter’s absence and fills that emptiness...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Egg Tempera, Panel

Chimpanzee
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Chimpanzee 1971 Screenprint 31 1/2 x 22 in. Edition of 125 Pencil signed and numbered Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shienbaum Fine Art Condition: This work ...
Category

1970s Pop Art Art

Materials

Screen

Chinese Banner 2
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Chinese Banner 2 2004 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 300 Pencil signed & numbered Accompanied with COA by Gregg Shienb...
Category

Early 2000s Street Art Art

Materials

Screen

Corner Office
Located in Greenwich, CT
Sculpture of a businessman in the "corner office" Edition of 7
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Steel, Bronze

The Surf Journals, Series 1: December 4, 1981
Located in Fairfield, CT
Tony Caramanico, famed Montauk-based surfer, created a life around surfing since the first day he picked up a board in 1963- a day he fondly recalls. Though his surfing has taken him...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Pigment

Dimension en el Espacio
Located in ATLANTA, GA
The painter and sculptor Martín Carral studied Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. Carral has been painting gravitational waves for many years, an ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Catching My Daydreams - 21st Century, Contemporary Painting, Modern Portrait
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
"The paintings are built up in layer upon layer of paint which give the pieces great depth of field. They are created with an arsenal of tools that doesn't settle with convention. As...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Mixed Media

Study for Collier's Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category

1890s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Aurora - 21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract Sculpture, Mahogany Root, Wood
Located in Barcelona, Catalonia
Mahogany root The Ingravidesa Sculpture Alliance is formed by an international group of sculptors and designers who collaborate to create abstract sculp...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Wood, Mahogany

Steps to heaven - Original Oil on canvas painting by Redina Tili
Located in Montreal, Quebec
Unique oil on canvas painting by Redina Tili Title : Steps to heaven
Category

2010s Other Art Style Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Practice 'Take 18'
Located in Milano, MI
Sculpture, ballerina by Folkert de Jong
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Acrylic, Polyurethane

John Wayne
By Charles David De Mar
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 2011 Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Dimensions: 30.00" x 24.00" Signature: Signed and Dated Lower Right and Verso
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

ECLOSIONS GEOMETRIQUES
Located in Marrakech, MA
Acrylic painting on canvas Black exterior frame Signed on the back Framed dimensions: 143x203(x4.5)cm
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

How the Rich do Street Art - Naples Arch
Located in Miami, FL
Robert Funk’s photographs of elaborate landscaping redefine what Street Art is. Street Art from the rich is to be found on every corner in Naples. It's a city with perhaps more flowers than weeds. Hedge Fun is a series that celebrates the landscaping commissioned by well-heeled homeowners, high-end condos and ritzy commercial establishments. Shrubs, bushes, and trees are transformed from organic shapes into man-made graphics. They become stripped of surrounding detail to the point that they become abstract in their impact. On any given day in South Florida, there is an army of landscaping trucks with gardeners and groundsmen working meticulously to beautify the street scape...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Inkjet, Archival Pigment

Practicing the Speech, Liberty Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1939 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 33.00" x 27.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Cover of Liberty Magazine, January 14, 1939
Category

1930s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Matt Smith, Red Girl with Pearls, Black Parisian, Porcelain Freshwater Pearls
Located in London, GB
Red Girl with Pearls, 2021 Black Parian, Porcelain and Freshwater Pearls 30 x 16 x 13 cm 11 3/4 x 6 1/4 x 5 1/8 in. Girl in red dress with pearls made...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Porcelain

Museum Light, United Nations and Chrysler Building, Abstract Photography
Located in Miami, FL
The United Nations Building is positioned next to the Chrysler Building. Two iconic New York City architectural masterpieces are juxtaposed from the precise lens of veteran New York ...
Category

Early 2000s American Modern Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

The Falconer, interior Argosy magazine story illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 16.00" x 24.00" Signature: Unsigned
Category

Early 20th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Labyrinth XXXI
Located in New York, NY
Abstract Painting. Geometric style. Oils on canvas. About the Artist: I work in a style I call Geometric Surrealism, abstracting physical ...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

BOWL
Located in Bebek, 34
Mold and Free Shaping, 1230 C
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Ceramic

The Insurance Salesman
By Arthur Herschel Lidov
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Board Dimensions: 15.00" x 15.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left
Category

Mid-20th Century Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Black Unicorn
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The artist constructs his spirit animal through mixed media. 48" x 60" Spray Paint, Oil, Construction Paper, Acrylic, Pastel, Marker
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Charcoal, Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Oil, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Head
Located in New York, NY
Mixed media and Painted wood, wall sculpture by Rick Prol.
Category

1980s Contemporary Art

Materials

Wood

Rayuela
Located in New York, NY
Isabel Peña Rayuela Photo-painting on parchment paper 46h x 40w in 116.84h x 101.60w cm
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Lantern Flowers (Red and Black)Color silkscreen with flocking 2-ply museum board
Located in Atlanta, GA
Donald Sultan (Born 1951) Lantern Flowers (Red and Black), 2017 Color silkscreen with over-printed flocking on Rising, 2-ply museum board 32 x 32 in. Edition 34 of 50 Signed by artis...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Color, Screen

Merry Christmas
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Mixed Media on Paperboard Signature: Unsigned This piece was an advertisement for Lowney's Crest Chocolates. Edward Nudelman, Jessie Willcox Smith expert and biographer describes Merry Christmas: Two Children Before the Fireplace, “A wonderful mixed media painting by Jessie Willcox Smith, published as an advertisement for Lowney's Crest Chocolates, reminiscent of her paintings for Twas the Night...
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Board

Manhattanhenge Phenomenon, Mystical Light Setting Sun, Manhattan Solstice
Located in Miami, FL
Mitchell Funk has been chronicling lighting effects in New York for over 50 years. This recent photography captures the magical moment of golden light pouring into 42nd street while...
Category

2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Goblet Composition
Located in New York, NY
Set of Joshua Bernbaum's hand-crafted goblets.
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Glass

Weltevreden, Kebon Sirih, & Vlucht voor de bui (Fleeing the rain)
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Weltevreden, Kebon Sirih, & Vlucht voor de bui (Fleeing the rain) Executed between February 20 and March 2, 1918 Double sided drawing in graphite pencil on paper Images: c. 33 x 5...
Category

1910s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Montauk Sunset
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1933 “Experiencing a painting by Nina Maguire is like catching the scent of a once familiar perfume- evoking memory, filling the viewer with a sense of nostalgia, of a ...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Affordable Slacks
Located in New York, NY
Abstract geometric painting on canvas. About the Artist: My text based paintings build upon the theme of myth vs. memory, which has been the f...
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Canvas, Resin, Acrylic

A Train (from the series A Story of the New York Subway)
Located in New York, NY
11 x 14 inch gelatin silver print. Edition 15. Signed on verso. Kazuo Sumida first visited New York in 1995. He found the city to be one of “both bustle and silence,” particularly the underground world of the subway, where he encountered “a place full of characters.” By 2002, he had produced a large body of work of images taken in this subterranean metropolis – tender scenes of lovers and children; gritty portraits of beggars for whom the subway is home; artists, musicians, commuters, and others who pass through the tunnels on their daily journeys. The resulting monograph, A Story of the New York Subway, was published in 2002. Sumida was born in 1952 in Kochi Prefecture in southern Japan. Although photography was not his formal career, Sumida has pursued the art throughout his life. He graduated from Osaka Photography Graduate School in 1983, and also studied at the International Center of Photography in New York, on a fellowship from the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs. He lives in Japan, and continues to visit New York frequently. His work has been shown at the Tokyo Ginza Kodak Photo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Mirror II
Located in Boca Raton, FL
(59 x 45 inch framed + $2,000) New York-based, Armenian-born artist, Tigran Tsitoghdzyan, is especially interested in how people interact in this new era of technology and social me...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Photographic Paper

Pattern (Flowers No. 4)
Located in Greenwich, CT
Charbonnet is a New Orleans-based artist whose work has been shown throughout the United States and abroad. She holds an M.F.A from Boston University.
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Kentucky Mansion
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This is a unique work. Dated 'May 03 1982' (on the reverse). Stamped on verso by The Estate of Andy Warhol and The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts. Annotated with Foundati...
Category

1980s Pop Art Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Pink Umbrellas in the Snow, New York City, Fine Art Photography
Located in Miami, FL
Signed dated, numbered lower left recto 3/15 , other sizes available, unframed, printed later, Printed on Hahnemühle Fine Art paper Mitchell Funk is a "Color Photographer Pioneer"....
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Inkjet, Photographic Paper

"Untitled" screenprint by Georgy Litischevsky from the "Kinderstern" portfolio
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Untitled" screenprint by artist Georgy Litichevsky (Georgij Litischewskij) from the "Kinderstern" portfolio, published in 1989 by Edition Domberger to raise money to house families ...
Category

1980s Contemporary Art

Materials

Screen

Nova
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Abstract artist Paul Light Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia in 1966. Before earning his MFA in painting at SCAD-Atlanta in 2012, Light had an extensive business career where he fueled his creative side as a graphic artist, and product designer. It was in these years that he met and was mentored and greatly influenced by Paul Chelko...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Hiver XII
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in 1951, Eishin Yoza was largely inspired by the 1970s growing up. The art sphere of the 1970s was epitomized by a desire to evolve and strengthen its...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Art

Materials

Ink, Oil

Simka Simkhovitch WPA W/C Painting Gouache American Modernist Bouquet of Flowers
Located in Surfside, FL
Simka Simkhovitch (Russian/American 1893 - 1949) This came with a small grouping from the artist's family, some were hand signed some were not. These were studies for larger paintings. This is a miniature watercolor and gouache vibrant, colorful bouquet of flowers in a vase. Simka Simkhovitch (Симха Файбусович Симхович) (aka Simka Faibusovich Simkhovich) (Novozybkov, Russia May 21, 1885 O.S./June 2, 1885 N.S.—Greenwich, Connecticut February 25, 1949) was a Ukrainian-Russian Jewish artist and immigrant to the United States. He painted theater scenery in his early career and then had several showings in galleries in New York City. Winning Works Progress Administration (WPA) commissions in the 1930s, he completed murals for the post offices in Jackson, Mississippi and Beaufort, North Carolina. His works are in the permanent collections of the Dallas Museum of Art, the National Museum of American Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born outside Kyiv (Petrograd Ukraine) into a Jewish family who owned a small department store. During a severe case of measles when he was seven, Simcha Simchovitch sketched the views outside his window and decided to become an artist, over his father's objections. Beginning in 1905, he studied at the Grekov Odessa Art School and upon completion of his studies in 1911 received a recommendation to be admitted to the Imperial Academy of Arts. Though he enrolled to begin classes in architecture, painting, and sculpture at the Imperial Academy, he was dropped from the school roster in December because of the quota on the number of Jewish students and drafted into the army. Simchovitch served as a private in the 175th Infantry Regiment Baturyn [ru] until his demobilization in 1912. Re-enrolling in the Imperial Academy, he audited classes. Simka Simkhovitch exhibited paintings and sculptures in 1918 as part of an exhibition of Jewish artists and in 1919 placed 1st in the competition "The Great Russian Revolution" with a painting called "Russian Revolution" which was hung in the State Museum of Revolution. In 1922, Simkha Simkhovitch exhibited at the International Book Fair in Florence (Italian: Fiera Internazionale del Libro di Firenze). In 1924, Simkhovitch came to the United States to make illustrations for Soviet textbooks and decided to immigrate instead. Initially he supported himself by doing commercial art and a few portrait commissions. In 1927, he was hired to paint a screen for a scene in the play "The Command to Love" by Fritz Gottwald and Rudolph Lothar which was playing at the Longacre Theatre on Broadway. Art dealers began clamoring for the screen and Simkhovitch began a career as a screen painter for the theater. Catching the attention of the screenwriter, Ernest Pascal, he worked as an illustrator for Pascal, who then introduced him to gallery owner, Marie Sterner. Simkhovitch's works appeared at the Marie Sterner Gallery beginning with a 1927 exhibit and were repeated the following year. Simkhovitch had an exhibit in 1929 at Sterner's on circus paintings. In 1931, he held a showing of works at the Helen Hackett Gallery, in New York City and later that same year he was one of the featured artists of a special exhibit in San Francisco at the California Palace of the Legion of Honor in Lincoln Park. The exhibit was coordinated by Marie Sterner and included four watercolors, including one titled "Nudes". He is of the generation of Russian Soviet artists such as Isaac Pailes, Serge Charchoune, Marc Chagall, Chana Orloff, Isaac Ilyich Levitan, and Ossip Zadkine. In 1936, Simkhovitch was selected to complete the mural for the WPA Post office project in Jackson, Mississippi. The mural was hung in the post office and courthouse in 1938 depicted a plantation theme. Painted on the wall behind the judge’s bench, “Pursuits of Life in Mississippi”, a depiction of black workers engaged in manual labor amid scenes of white professionals and socialites, was eventually covered over in later years during renovations due to its stereotypical African American imagery. Simka painted what he thought was typical of Jackson. His impression of pre-civil rights Mississippi was evidently Greek Revival column houses, weeping willow trees, working class families, and the oppression of African Americans. He painted African American men picking cotton, while a white man took account of the harvest and a white judge advised a white family, calling it Pursuits of Life in Mississippi. Though clearly endorsed by the government and initially generally well-received, the mural soon raised concerns with locals as the climate toward racial segregation began to change. The main concern was whether depictions that show African Americans in subjugated societal roles should be featured in a courtroom. The following year, his painting "Holiday" won praise at an exhibition in Lincoln, Nebraska. In 1940, Simkhovitch's second WPA post office project was completed when four murals, "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat", "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright", "Sand Ponies" and "Canada Geese" were installed in Beaufort, North Carolina. The works were commissioned in 1938 and did not generate the controversy that the Jackson mural had. The main mural is "The Wreck of the Crissie Wright" and depicts a shipwreck which had occurred in Beaufort in 1866. "The Cape Lookout Lighthouse and the Orville W. Mail Boat" depicted the lighthouse built in 1859 and the mail boat that was running mail during the time which Simkhovitch was there. The boat ran mail for the area until 1957. "Sand Ponies" shows the wild horses common to the North Carolina barrier islands and "Canada Geese" showed the importance of hunting and fishing in the area. All four murals were restored in the 1990s by Elisabeth Speight, daughter of two other WPA muralists, Francis Speight...
Category

1930s American Modern Art

Materials

Gouache, Board, Watercolor

Golden Companions 2 by Thomas Scoon
Located in Cleveland, OH
Cast Glass and Granite Sculpture (Pictured ON RIGHT)
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Granite

Conjugations
Located in New York, NY
Cleve Gray Conjugations, 1975 Vermont Series Mixed media on paper 14 1/2 x 22 1/2 inches each
Category

1970s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Archival Paper

Ariadne by Jill Moser
Located in New York, NY
Jill Moser, Ariadne, 2021 Woodcut print on Khadi 100 % cotton paper Signed and numbered by the artist on recto Paper size: 8.25 x 8 in Edition of 18 Published by Eminence Grise Editions, New York Printed by Andrew Mockler...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Woodcut

View of Milan
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Giorgio Sommer (1834 Frankfurt on the Main - 1914 Naples) Circle: Historic Italy, View of Milan, c. 1880, albumen paper print Technique: albumen paper print, mounted on Cardboard Inscription: At the lower part inscribed on the support: "Italien: Ansicht von Mailand". Date: c. 1880 Description: Original photograph with high sharpness of detail. An early testimony of travel photography. Around the middle of the 19th century, more and more tourists from middle-class circles travelled to Italy. At that time, photographs could only be taken with a great deal of time and expensive, unwieldy equipment. This made many tourists all the more grateful for the work of the professional photographer's studios on site to bring back a souvenir from afar for those who stayed at home or to collect as souvenirs. Famous photographers such as Carlo Naya, Giorgio Sommer or the Alinari brothers photographed the most famous sights of their home cities and went on journeys themselves to photograph the most popular destinations of their clients and offer them as albumen prints. Ancient art treasures were also photographed and offered to travellers. The high-quality photographs of sculptures and frescoes continued to make an important contribution to documenting art...
Category

19th Century Art

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