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Art For Sale
Julie Mehretu - Easy Dark -
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Easy Dark poster for Julie Mehretu’s exhibition at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is a remarkable piece that embodies the energy and complexity of Mehretu’s work. Printed in ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art

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Offset

Julie Mehretu - Easy Dark -
Julie Mehretu - Easy Dark -
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After Dinner Relaxation
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "After Dinner Relaxation" c.1980 is an original color serigraph on paper by Israeli artist Itzchac Tarkay 1935-2012. It is hand signed and numbered 426/450 in pe...
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Late 20th Century Art Deco Art

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Screen

Bearden- 'Carolina Shout' Vintage African American
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a poster titled Carolina Shout by Romare Bearden originally was created in 1967. Carolina Shout captures the vibrant energy and cultural significance of African American lif...
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1990s Contemporary Art

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Offset

Sujoon Vogue - Southwest Inspired 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...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Metal, Wire

South Bay Seascape Impressionism Original oil Painting Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2025 Style: Impressionism, Title: South Bay Size: 30" x 44" x 0.8'' ...
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2010s Impressionist Art

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Canvas, Linen, Oil

"Spanish Moss Teche Bayou" Purple & Blue Toned Landscape Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
WIth a passion for restoring historic houses, one of Slonem's properties is in Lousiana, where he now spends a lot of his time painting and picking up inspiration for his pallet. Thi...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board, Wood

YES - large format photograph of conceptual motivational sign at night
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale original photograph from a series of conceptual motivational messages on classic Americana billboard signs in iconic landscape of the American West YES by Frank Schott ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Conceptual Art

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée

Theresa Russell "Nude" print (Hand signed, inscribed and dated by David Hockney)
Located in New York, NY
David Hockney XVI RIP ARLES (Hand signed, inscribed and dated by David Hockney), 1985 Offset lithograph poster Hand signed and inscribed with dateline London, 1985 by David Hockney o...
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1980s Pop Art Art

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Lithograph, Offset

Two male Nudes. Painting.Pastel, carbon pencil, ink on archival paper mounted
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Drawing on paper is his basic work tool, some are sketches of his surviving works, others are sketches of moments he documents. Undefined by medium, Celso Castro’s works each carry the presence of the artist’s hand through the transparency of their process. Castro’s oeuvre is strongly divided between his photomontage assemblies and watercolor paintings: the prior is marked by the labor-intensive deconstruction of portrait photographs and the latter, by the seemingly frenzied recreation of a past encounter rendered in the drips and scribbles of paint and ink. Both discriminating in what they reveal of the subject, his photomontage and watercolor portraits exude raw sexuality through the combination of Castro’s mark-making and gaze. Celso Castro’s work is a bare-bulb erotic photo foray into the underbelly of Colombia’s drug world. Castro’s labor-intensive, photo-collage works of drug kingpins, smugglers, hitmen, countrymen, street vendors, soldiers, paramilitaries, kidnappers, and pimps pose showing with pride their erect penises...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Carbon Pencil, Paper, Pastel, Ink

The Patient Traveler, color limited edition photomontage artwork
Located in Sante Fe, NM
The Patient Traveler by Maggie Taylor is a limited-edition, color photomontage image. Maggie Taylor is a Florida-based artist who creates complex photomontage compositions with a fl...
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Early Tulip, English antique red flower botanical chromolithograph, 1895
By Frederick William Hulme
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'Tacsonia' Process print from Frederick William Hulme’s ‘Familiar Wild Flowers’, circa 1890. Hulme was known as a teacher and an amateur botanist. He was the Professor of Freehand ...
Category

Late 19th Century Naturalistic Art

Materials

Lithograph

Flower by the window, Acrylic Interior Painting
Located in Zofingen, AG
Still Life by Liudmila Shabazova from Spain. A magnificent flower is surrounded by green leaves. The composition is simple but brightly colored. The...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Cardboard

Golden Orbit Contemporary Aluminum sculpture for Outdoors
Located in DE
Very large Contemporary powder coated aluminum sculpture for inside or garden outdoor spaces. Beautiful spiral dancing and intertwining. This is a large scale outdoor or indoor scul...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Metal

Share (Black)
By KAWS
Located in Boston, MA
Artist: KAWS, Title: Share (Black) Series: Toys Date: 2020 Medium: Sculpture Unframed Dimensions: 12.5" x 6" Signature: Stamped Edition: Open Edition
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

PVC

Men Fraternizing with Ladies, Pre-20th Cen Oil Painting by Wilfrid Beauquesne
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Wilfrid Constant Beauquesne, French (1840 - 1913) Title: Men Fraternizing with the Ladies Year: c. 1890 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 21.5 x 26 in. (54.61 x 66.04 ...
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1890s Old Masters Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Fly Away With Me" Multicolor Paper Butterflies Painting on Canvas w Shadow Box
Located in New York, NY
This piece is executed with hand cut butterflies, and comes displayed in an acrylic shadow box. These works conjure sensations of nostalgia, created from paper, cutting out colorful ...
Category

2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Acrylic

Very Large British Oil depicting famous Naval battle
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: British School, second half 20th century, signed lower left 'Champion' Title: a copy after de Loutherbourg's 1795 painting of Lord Howe's action of 1 June 1794 in th...
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20th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Betises 22" by Marina Dieul, Oil Painting, Cat and Mouse
Located in Denver, CO
This whimsical oil painting by Marina Dieul, titled "Betises 22," created in 2024, features a dual portrait of a cat and a mouse. The artwork is rendered on a panel measuring 10.5 x ...
Category

2010s Realist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Untitled Geometric Abstract (Minimalism, Red, Black, Collage, ~78% OFF)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Willy Oster Untitled Geometric Abstract Mixed Media Collage; Acrylic, Paper 1990 27.55 x 39.37 inches (70 x 100 cm) Signed, dated and annotated by hand on verso COA provided *Condit...
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1990s Minimalist Art

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Paper, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Slim Aarons 'Positano Beach' 1979 Official Limited Estate Edition
Located in London, GB
'Positano Beach' Elevated view looking down on sunbathers and parasols on the beach at La Scogliera beach in Positano, Italy, 1979. 40 x 30" inches / 101 x 76 cm paper size Es...
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1970s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Whitney Museum print hand signed inscribed by Jasper Johns to Museum conservator
Located in New York, NY
Jasper Johns The Drawings of Jasper Johns (hand signed and inscribed by Jasper Johns), 1991 Amazing provenance: Offset lithograph poster (hand signed and inscribed to Frank Martin, former conservator of the Whitney Museum) Hand signed and inscribed by Jasper Johns on the front Frame Included: matted in cream colored matting and held in original vintage frame Jasper Johns signed and inscribed this poster to Jack Martin, former Head Preparator at the Whitney Museum. This print was published by the Whitney Museum of American Art for the exhibition, " The Drawings of Jasper Johns Whitney...
Category

1990s Pop Art Art

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Untitled. Sepia. Limited Edition Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
The artist explores the intersection between submission and domination with this set of photographs.For this series the artist explores the moment when nature in animal form intertwi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment, Color

Late 19th Century Oil - The League
Located in Corsham, GB
A charming depiction of a young boy reading a paper titled 'The League'. Inscribed verso 'Sketch by E. Brothers'. Presented in a gilt frame with elaborate foliate ornamentation. On c...
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Late 19th Century Art

Materials

Oil

"Pretty Pickins" Post-Impressionist Colorful Floral Oil Painting on Board Framed
Located in New York, NY
A joyous colorful floral still life painting depicting a bunch of freshly picked flowers placed effortlessly. The piece is done in a highly impressionistic manner and is a wonderful display of Reilly's more impromptu style, with bold colors of joyful yellow, deep rouge, and softer colors of light blue, hints of brown, and pops of pink. White ostrich daisies along with blue bluebells, orange, yellow and mamey flowers on a background of bright green grass and dark bushes in the background. This still life in nature, in the garden from nature. This bouquet reminds us of sunny summer days filled with the scent of flowers and nature. This piece is titled and has artist's estate stamp on the back, it comes housed in a contemporary gold leaf plain air wood frame with hanging wire on verso ready to be displayed. Art measures 30 x 24 inches Frame measures 37 x 31 inches John Reilly is a critically acclaimed and award-winning New Jersey artist, born in Brooklyn, NY in 1942. He received his early art training at the School of Art and Design, formally known as ‘The School of Industrial Art’ in Manhattan, where he studied advertising art. By the age of twenty-three, he operated a mid-town-based sales promotion agency, eventually expanding the business to service large companies such as Bacardi Rum, Johnson and Johnson, Nabisco, and KLM...
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Late 20th Century Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Board

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed in 1965 for the art revue Derriere le Miroir (issue number 151-152) and published in Paris by Maeght. Size: 15 x 11 inches (378 x 277 mm). There ...
Category

1960s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

Stars/Sterren - Woodcut by Maurits Cornelis Escher - 1948
Located in Roma, IT
Woodcut print realized by Escher in 1948. Hand signed in pencil and annotated in pencil lower right "eigen druck". Monogrammed and dated in the plate "MCE/X-'48 upper right. One o...
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1940s Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

'The French Farm' — Mid-Century Modernism
Located in Myrtle Beach, SC
Edward Landon, 'The French Farm', color serigraph, 1942, Ryan 86. Signed, titled, and annotated 'Edition 50' in pencil. A superb impression, with fresh colors, on cream, wove paper; ...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Screen

Sunlight Through the Picket Fence
Located in Wenham, MA
This piece is an original oil painting on panel. A garden is shown with the subtle shadow cast by a picket fence on the path between the flowers. In a wide, linen-lined frame, the ov...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Art

Materials

Oil

Henri Silberman 'Manhattan East Side' 1999- Offset Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 15.75 x 19.75 inches ( 40.005 x 50.165 cm ) Image Size: 12.25 x 17.75 inches ( 31.115 x 45.085 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling ...
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1990s Art

Materials

Offset

False Start
Located in New York, NY
ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Jessica Brilli (Sayville, NY 1977) has been drawing and painting since her childhood. Working in a style that encompasses American realism and 20th century graphic...
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2010s Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

Livres Et Encrier Edmond Laloux XIXe/XXe
Located in GOUVIEUX, FR
Cette huile sur carton de l’école française, aux dimensions de 60 x 46 cm (84 x 40 cm avec cadre), séduit par la sobriété maîtrisée de sa composition et l’atmosphère silencieuse qu’e...
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Late 19th Century French School Art

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Oil

Original lithograph by Henri-Gabriel Ibels - Les Maîtres de l’Affiche Plate 138
Located in PARIS, FR
This original lithograph by Henri-Gabriel Ibels was created to promote his solo exhibition at La Bodinière in Paris from November 6 to December 15, 1894, and was published as Plate 1...
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1890s Art

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Dining Room, Kanab - Mid-century American interior color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Dining Room, Kanab, cinematic interior photograph from Richard Heeps Dream in Color sereis. Captured in an American region that was often used as Western movie locations due to its ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Art

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Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Hydrangeas, Art Nouveau Color Etching by Louis Icart
Located in Long Island City, NY
Louis Icart, French (1888 - 1950) - Hydrangeas, Year: 1929, Medium: Color Etching, Signed in Pencil, Image Size: 16 x 20 inches, Frame Size: 24.5 x 28.5 inches, Reference: Figur...
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1920s Art Nouveau Art

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Etching

Emotions in Color - Colorful Blue Teal Abstract Floral Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Drawing inspiration from an immersive and impressionistic interpretation of nature, Canadian artist Vé Boisvert paints textural original artworks that capture the fleeting effects of...
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2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Elephant (Untitled)
Located in Manchester, GB
David Shrigley, The Elephant, 2023 Screenprint in colours on wove paper 56 x 76 cm (22 x 29 9/10 in) Edition of 125 Hand-signed and numbered on the reverse David Shrigley Briti...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Screen

Great Pollet Sea Arch, monochrome photograph, limited edition, irland seascape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Great Pollet Sea Arch Study 2, Ireland - no. 11706 Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition ...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Eileen Soper - 20th Century British Pencil Drawing of a Hen Pheasant Feeding
Located in London, GB
EILEEN SOPER (1905-1990) Pheasant Feeding Pencil Unframed, in conservation mount only 6 by 11.5 cm., 2 ¼ by 4 ½ in. (mount size 18 by 23 cm., 7 by 9 in.) Provenance: The artist’s...
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1970s Realist Art

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Pencil

Row of Cypress Trees, Tuscany, Italy, b&w photography, fine art print, framed
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Limited Edition 1/9 Archival Pigment Ink Print, Printed 2020. Signed, numbered, dated by Artis. Handmade wood frame, dark-brown, natural white archival Passepart...
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2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

"DALL·E 2023-04-23 11.28.28" Unique shape tufted rug with abstract pattern
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This piece titled "DALL·E 2023-04-23 11.28.28" is a crafted original piece by Tuft the World as part of the inaugural collection of TTW Editions. This piece measures 43"h x 66"w and ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Wool

Silver Sea Form - Three-Dimensional Abstract Lightweight Metal 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 materials. Using mostly aluminum mesh—generally found in screen doors, windows and filters—he creates contemporary abstract sculptural artworks and installations, which resemble flowers, clouds, and other natural phenomena. Working in metal, Adams effortlessly transforms rigid material into airy, effervescent artworks. This 24 by 20 by 14 inch silver metal wall sculpture...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

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Metal, Wire

French Impressionist Oil Painting of a Tranquil Scene of Fishing Boats at Rest
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of a Tranquil Scene of Fishing Boats at Rest By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 8.25 x 10.5 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, u...
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20th Century Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Magical Mycorrhiza - Original Art - Vibrant Exploration of Nature and Connection
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Swedish artist Jonas Fisch’s imagery is vibrantly buzzing with colorful commentary on society - past and present - morphed into figures, words, and shapes. His heavily layered canvas...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Fabric

Charles Bale (British painter) - 19th century still life painting - Peaches
Located in Varmo, IT
Charles Thomas Bale (British, 1845 - 1925) - Still Life of Peaches. 61 x 30 cm without frame, 88.5 x 57.5 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, within passe-partout in a c...
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Late 19th Century Naturalistic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Muse, 150x110cm, acrylic on canvas
Located in Yerevan, AM
Muse, 150x110cm
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Vintage 20th Century Painting of Lush Green Ireland Village by Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Vintage 20th Century Painting of Lush Green Ireland Village by Irish Artist, Liam Reilly Art measures 24 x 18 inches Frame measures 28 x 22 inches This stunning painting captures t...
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1980s Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil

Clara, Paris 1997
Located in München, BY
Total Edition of 15 signed and numbered Also available in: 90 x 120 cm / 35.4 x 47.2 in 120 x 160 cm / 47.2 x 63 in A black naked model from the front. Thierry Le Gouès...
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1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Black and White

19th century Scottish Lock landscape scene with cows watering with sun setting
Located in Woodbury, CT
Alfred Fontville de Breanski (British, 1877–1957) Scottish Loch Scene, oil on canvas, circa early 20th century This luminous Highland landscape by Alfred Fontville de Breanski captu...
Category

1880s Victorian Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Romeo and Juliet - Lithograph
Located in Paris, IDF
Leonor FINI (1908-1996) Romeo and Juliet, 1980 Lithograph Printed signature in the plate On Vellum 43 x 36 cm (c. 16.92 x 14.1 in) Excellent condition
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1980s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Attrib. John F. Herring Senior (1795-1865) - 19th Century Oil, Horse & Groom
Located in Corsham, GB
Fine 19th century tondo oil on canvas, attributed to master equine painter John F. Herring Senior (1795-1865). The painting depicts a groom on horseback exercising a small group of h...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Oil

Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number Shinoda's works have been collected by public galleries and museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Brooklyn Museum and Metropolitan Museum (all in New York City), the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, the British Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C., the Singapore Art Museum, the National Museum of Singapore, the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, Netherlands, the Albright–Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York, the Cincinnati Art Museum, and the Yale University Art Gallery in New Haven, Connecticut. New York Times Obituary, March 3, 2021 by Margalit Fox, Alex Traub contributed reporting. Toko Shinoda, one of the foremost Japanese artists of the 20th century, whose work married the ancient serenity of calligraphy with the modernist urgency of Abstract Expressionism, died on Monday at a hospital in Tokyo. She was 107. Her death was announced by her gallerist in the United States. A painter and printmaker, Ms. Shinoda attained international renown at midcentury and remained sought after by major museums and galleries worldwide for more than five decades. Her work has been exhibited at, among other places, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; the British Museum; and the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo. Private collectors include the Japanese imperial family. Writing about a 1998 exhibition of Ms. Shinoda’s work at a London gallery, the British newspaper The Independent called it “elegant, minimal and very, very composed,” adding, “Her roots as a calligrapher are clear, as are her connections with American art of the 1950s, but she is quite obviously a major artist in her own right.” As a painter, Ms. Shinoda worked primarily in sumi ink, a solid form of ink, made from soot pressed into sticks, that has been used in Asia for centuries. Rubbed on a wet stone to release their pigment, the sticks yield a subtle ink that, because it is quickly imbibed by paper, is strikingly ephemeral. The sumi artist must make each brush stroke with all due deliberation, as the nature of the medium precludes the possibility of reworking even a single line. “The color of the ink which is produced by this method is a very delicate one,” Ms. Shinoda told The Business Times of Singapore in 2014. “It is thus necessary to finish one’s work very quickly. So the composition must be determined in my mind before I pick up the brush. Then, as they say, the painting just falls off the brush.” Ms. Shinoda painted almost entirely in gradations of black, with occasional sepias and filmy blues. The ink sticks she used had been made for the great sumi artists of the past, some as long as 500 years ago. Her line — fluid, elegant, impeccably placed — owed much to calligraphy. She had been rigorously trained in that discipline from the time she was a child, but she had begun to push against its confines when she was still very young. Deeply influenced by American Abstract Expressionists like Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell, whose work she encountered when she lived in New York in the late 1950s, Ms. Shinoda shunned representation. “If I have a definite idea, why paint it?,” she asked in an interview with United Press International in 1980. “It’s already understood and accepted. A stand of bamboo is more beautiful than a painting could be. Mount Fuji is more striking than any possible imitation.” Spare and quietly powerful, making abundant use of white space, Ms. Shinoda’s paintings are done on traditional Chinese and Japanese papers, or on backgrounds of gold, silver or platinum leaf. Often asymmetrical, they can overlay a stark geometric shape with the barest calligraphic strokes. The combined effect appears to catch and hold something evanescent — “as elusive as the memory of a pleasant scent or the movement of wind,” as she said in a 1996 interview. Ms. Shinoda’s work also included lithographs; three-dimensional pieces of wood and other materials; and murals in public spaces, including a series made for the Zojoji Temple in Tokyo. The fifth of seven children of a prosperous family, Ms. Shinoda was born on March 28, 1913, in Dalian, in Manchuria, where her father, Raijiro, managed a tobacco plant. Her mother, Joko, was a homemaker. The family returned to Japan when she was a baby, settling in Gifu, midway between Kyoto and Tokyo. One of her father’s uncles, a sculptor and calligrapher, had been an official seal carver to the Meiji emperor. He conveyed his love of art and poetry to Toko’s father, who in turn passed it to Toko. “My upbringing was a very traditional one, with relatives living with my parents,” she said in the U.P.I. interview. “In a scholarly atmosphere, I grew up knowing I wanted to make these things, to be an artist.” She began studying calligraphy at 6, learning, hour by hour, impeccable mastery over line. But by the time she was a teenager, she had begun to seek an artistic outlet that she felt calligraphy, with its centuries-old conventions, could not afford. “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style,” Ms. Shinoda told Time magazine in 1983. “My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” Moving to Tokyo as a young adult, Ms. Shinoda became celebrated throughout Japan as one of the country’s finest living calligraphers, at the time a signal honor for a woman. She had her first solo show in 1940, at a Tokyo gallery. During World War II, when she forsook the city for the countryside near Mount Fuji, she earned her living as a calligrapher, but by the mid-1940s she had started experimenting with abstraction. In 1954 she began to achieve renown outside Japan with her inclusion in an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy at MoMA. In 1956, she traveled to New York. At the time, unmarried Japanese women could obtain only three-month visas for travel abroad, but through zealous renewals, Ms. Shinoda managed to remain for two years. She met many of the titans of Abstract Expressionism there, and she became captivated by their work. “When I was in New York in the ’50s, I was often included in activities with those artists, people like Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock, Motherwell and so forth,” she said in a 1998 interview with The Business Times. “They were very generous people, and I was often invited to visit their studios, where we would share ideas and opinions on our work. It was a great experience being together with people who shared common feelings.” During this period, Ms. Shinoda’s work was sold in the United States by Betty Parsons, the New York dealer who represented Pollock, Rothko and many of their contemporaries. Returning to Japan, Ms. Shinoda began to fuse calligraphy and the Expressionist aesthetic in earnest. The result was, in the words of The Plain Dealer of Cleveland in 1997, “an art of elegant simplicity and high drama.” Among Ms. Shinoda’s many honors, she was depicted, in 2016, on a Japanese postage stamp. She is the only Japanese artist to be so honored during her lifetime. No immediate family members survive. When she was quite young and determined to pursue a life making art, Ms. Shinoda made the decision to forgo the path that seemed foreordained for women of her generation. “I never married and have no children,” she told The Japan Times in 2017. “And I suppose that it sounds strange to think that my paintings are in place of them — of course they are not the same thing at all. But I do say, when paintings that I have made years ago are brought back into my consciousness, it seems like an old friend, or even a part of me, has come back to see me.” Works of a Woman's Hand Toko Shinoda bases new abstractions on ancient calligraphy Down a winding side street in the Aoyama district, western Tokyo. into a chunky white apartment building, then up in an elevator small enough to make a handful of Western passengers friends or enemies for life. At the end of a hall on the fourth floor, to the right, stands a plain brown door. To be admitted is to go through the looking glass. Sayonara today. Hello (Konichiwa) yesterday and tomorrow. Toko Shinoda, 70, lives and works here. She can be, when she chooses, on e of Japans foremost calligraphers, master of an intricate manner of writing that traces its lines back some 3,000 years to ancient China. She is also an avant-garde artist of international renown, whose abstract paintings and lithographs rest in museums around the world. These diverse talents do not seem to belong in the same epoch. Yet they have somehow converged in this diminutive woman who appears in her tiny foyer, offering slippers and ritual bows of greeting. She looks like someone too proper to chip a teacup, never mind revolutionize an old and hallowed art form She wears a blue and white kimono of her own design. Its patterns, she explains, are from Edo, meaning the period of the Tokugawa shoguns, before her city was renamed Tokyo in 1868. Her black hair is pulled back from her face, which is virtually free of lines and wrinkles. except for the gold-rimmed spectacles perched low on her nose (this visionary is apparently nearsighted). Shinoda could have stepped directly from a 19th century Meji print. Her surroundings convey a similar sense of old aesthetics, a retreat in the midst of a modern, frenetic city. The noise of the heavy traffic on a nearby elevated highway sounds at this height like distant surf. delicate bamboo shades filter the daylight. The color arrangement is restful: low ceilings of exposed wood, off-white walls, pastel rugs of blue, green and gray. It all feels so quintessentially Japanese that Shinoda’s opening remarks come as a surprise. She points out (through a translator) that she was not born in Japan at all but in Darien, Manchuria. Her father had been posted there to manage a tobacco company under the aegis of the occupying Japanese forces, which seized the region from Russia in 1905. She says,”People born in foreign places are very free in their thinking, not restricted” But since her family went back to Japan in 1915, when she was two, she could hardly remember much about a liberated childhood? She answers,”I think that if my mother had remained in Japan, she would have been an ordinary Japanese housewife. Going to Manchuria, she was able to assert her own personality, and that left its mark on me.” Evidently so. She wears her obi low on the hips, masculine style. The Porcelain aloofness she displays in photographs shatters in person. Her speech is forceful, her expression animated and her laugh both throaty and infectious. The hand she brings to her mouth to cover her amusement (a traditional female gesture of modesty) does not stand a chance. Her father also made a strong impression on the fifth of his seven children:”He came from a very old family, and he was quite strict in some ways and quite liberal in others.” He owned one of the first three bicycles ever imported to Japan and tinkered with it constantly He also decided that his little daughter would undergo rigorous training in a procrustean antiquity. “I was forced to study from age six on to learn calligraphy,” Shinoda says, The young girl dutifully memorized and copied the accepted models. In one sense, her father had pushed her in a promising direction, one of the few professional fields in Japan open to females. Included among the ancient terms that had evolved around calligraphy was onnade, or woman's writing. Heresy lay ahead. By the time she was 15, she had already been through nine years of intensive discipline, “I got tired of it and decided to try my own style. My father always scolded me for being naughty and departing from the traditional way, but I had to do it.” She produces a brush and a piece of paper to demonstrate the nature of her rebellion. “This is kawa, the accepted calligraphic character for river,” she says, deftly sketching three short vertical strokes. “But I wanted to use more than three lines to show the force of the river.” Her brush flows across the white page, leaving a recognizable river behind, also flowing.” The simple kawa in the traditional language was not enough for me. I wanted to find a new symbol to express the word river.” Her conviction grew that ink could convey the ineffable, the feeling, "as she says, of wind blowing softly.” Another demonstration. She goes to the sliding wooden door of an anteroom and disappears in back of it; the only trace of her is a triangular swatch of the right sleeve of her kimono, which she has arranged for that purpose. A realization dawns. The task of this artist is to paint that three sided pattern so that the invisible woman attached to it will be manifest to all viewers. Gen, painted especially for TIME, shows Shinoda’s theory in practice. She calls the work “my conception of Japan in visual terms.” A dark swath at the left, punctuated by red, stands for history. In the center sits a Chinese character gen, which means in the present or actuality. A blank pattern at the right suggests an unknown future. Once out of school, Shinoda struck off on a path significantly at odds with her culture. She recognized marriage for what it could mean to her career (“a restriction”) and decided against it. There was a living to be earned by doing traditional calligraphy:she used her free time to paint her variations. In 1940 a Tokyo gallery exhibited her work. (Fourteen years would pass before she got a second show.)War came, and bad times for nearly everyone, including the aspiring artist , who retreated to a rural area near Mount Fuji and traded her kimonos for eggs. In 1954 Shinoda’s work was included in a group exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Modern Art. Two years later, she overcame bureaucratic obstacles to visit the U.S.. Unmarried Japanese women are allowed visas for only three months, patiently applying for two-month extensions, one at a time, Shinoda managed to travel the country for two years. She pulls out a scrapbook from this period. Leafing through it, she suddenly raises a hand and touches her cheek:”How young I looked!” An inspection is called for. The woman in the grainy, yellowing newspaper photograph could easily be the on e sitting in this room. Told this, she nods and smiles. No translation necessary. Her sojourn in the U.S. proved to be crucial in the recognition and development of Shinoda’s art. Celebrities such as actor Charles Laughton and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet bought her paintings and spread the good word. She also saw the works of the abstract expressionists, then the rage of the New York City art world, and realized that these Western artists, coming out of an utterly different tradition, were struggling toward the same goal that had obsessed her. Once she was back home, her work slowly made her famous. Although Shinoda has used many materials (fabric, stainless steel, ceramics, cement), brush and ink remain her principal means of expression. She had said, “As long as I am devoted to the creation of new forms, I can draw even with muddy water.” Fortunately, she does not have to. She points with evident pride to her ink stone, a velvety black slab of rock, with an indented basin, that is roughly a foot across and two feet long. It is more than 300 years old. Every working morning, Shinoda pours about a third of a pint of water into it, then selects an ink stick from her extensive collection, some dating back to China’s Ming dynasty. Pressing stick against stone, she begins rubbing. Slowly, the dried ink dissolves in the water and becomes ready for the brush. So two batches of sumi (India ink) are exactly alike; something old, something new. She uses color sparingly. Her clear preference is black and all its gradations. “In some paintings, sumi expresses blue better than blue.” It is time to go downstairs to the living quarters. A niece, divorced and her daughter,10,stay here with Shinoda; the artist who felt forced to renounce family and domesticity at the outset of her career seems welcome to it now. Sake is offered, poured into small cedar boxes and happily accepted. Hold carefully. Drink from a corner. Ambrosial. And just right for the surroundings and the hostess. A conservative renegade; a liberal traditionalist; a woman steeped in the male-dominated conventions that she consistently opposed. Her trail blazing accomplishments are analogous to Picasso’s. When she says goodbye, she bows. --by Paul Gray...
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1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Lake Landscape - Fine English Dartmoor Devon Antique Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Sevenoaks, GB
A very beautiful early 20th century oil on canvas landscape depicting a lake with hills beyond, by Frederick John Widgery. The location is lik...
Category

Early 20th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Phragmites, black and white gelatin silver art photograph, framed, limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Gerald Berghammer - Limited Edition 1/9. Silver Gelatin Prints, Selenium Toned, Printed 2019. Signed, numbered, dated by Artis. Handmade wood frame, dark-brown, natural white archiva...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Charge into the Center of Consciousness, Takashi Murakami, Flowerballs print
Located in Bristol, GB
Offset print, cold stamp and high gloss varnishing Edition of 300 Diameter: 71 cm (27.9 in) Signed and numbered on front Condition on request. Sold with Kaikai Kiki packaging Images...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Offset

Attracted by the Sea, minimalist photograph, limited edition seascape print
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 7. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Winter Mountain Landscape Oil Painting - Vintage British Art in a Gold Frame
Located in Preston, GB
Winter Mountain Snow Landscape Oil Painting - Vintage British Art in a Gold Frame Art measures 20 x 24 inches Frame measures 25 x 29 inches Silver Birch Trees beside a River with...
Category

20th Century Land Art

Materials

Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil

The Little Prince and the Fox
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This limited edition color lithograph, titled The Little Prince and His Fox, is a beautiful reproduction from the beloved book Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry. This print...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Offset

Classic British Sporting Art Oil Painting Huntsman on Horseback Winter Landscape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist/ School: British School, 20th century Title: Huntsman on horseback, wintery landscape behind. Medium: oil painting on canvas, oak wooden framed Framed: 14 x 17.5 inches C...
Category

Mid-20th Century Victorian Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

shellfish harvesters women on the beach Spain spanish seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
**Title**: Fisherwomen on the Beach **Author**: Rafael Mumpao Hinojosa **Technique**: Oil on canvas **Canvas dimensions**: 25.6 x 31.9 in **Framed dimensions**: 37.8 x 44.1 in This artwork captures a beautiful costumbrist scene, focusing on traditions and everyday life. **Rafael Mumpao Hinojosa**, with his detailed and realistic style, draws inspiration from renowned painters such as **Joaquín Sorolla**, a master of light and movement, and **Julio Romero de Torres...
Category

1980s Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

A Distinctive, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Cubist Portrait Study of Two Young Men
Located in Chicago, IL
A Distinctive, 1950s Mid-Century Modern Cubist Portrait Study of Two Young Men by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). A visually striking charcoal male portrait stu...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

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