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Art For Sale
Style: Minimalist
Style: Post-War
Galerie Maeght /// Abstract Geometric Ellsworth Kelly Minimalism Modern Paris
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015)
Title: "Galerie Maeght"
Year: 1958
Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on light wove paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: ...
Category
1950s Minimalist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Galerie Maeght /// Abstract Geometric Minimalist Ellsworth Kelly Colorfield Art
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015)
Title: "Galerie Maeght"
Year: 1964
Medium: Original Lithograph, Exhibition Poster on light wove paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer...
Category
1960s Minimalist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Brice Marden, Etching for Parkett - Signed Print, Minimalism, Abstract Art
By Brice Marden
Located in Hamburg, DE
Brice Marden (American, b. 1938)
Etching for Parkett, 1986
Medium: Sugar lift and aquatint on Rives BFK, bound in Parkett journal no. 7
Dimensions: 25.5 x 21 cm
Edition of 100: Hand-...
Category
20th Century Minimalist Art
Materials
Aquatint
Dan Flavin, For Circular Fluorescent Light Of One Wall - Signed Print
By Dan Flavin
Located in Hamburg, DE
Dan Flavin (American, 1933-1996)
For Circular Fluorescent Light Of One Wall, 1974
Medium: Lithograph on wove paper
Dimensions: 18.5 x 31.5 cm
Edition of 45: Hand-signed, titled and d...
Category
20th Century Minimalist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Present, Janssart, Oil paint/canvas, Zero Art
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Janssart, pseudonym Wouter W. Janssen
As early as the age of six, the talented Wouter painted the blossoming blossom trees in his parents' garden. At fourteen, he painted a portrait of his teacher at school and was rewarded with a ten for ‘drawing’ on his diploma.
His fascination with painting of the 15th and 16th centuries led to a nearly perfect copy of "El Greco's Madonna" at age 16.
This love of artistic expression continued to grow over the years, fuelled in part by the success of his creations.
At the age of eighteen, this passionate painter decided to devote his life entirely to fine art, combining his studies at art school with working in a restoration studio.
Here he discovered the secrets and painting techniques of the old masters, it fuelled his interest in art history and art movements.
The extraordinary thing is that so coincidentally the history of painting became synchronized with his artistic life.
Wouter Janssen studied the painting technique of his favourite painter Rembrandt for more than ten 10 years. He became wanted to unravel the mystery of the master. The paints used at that time were naturally rubbed by himself to approximate a historical effect.
In a subsequent episode, he immersed himself in the technique of Romanticism. His paintings, mostly landscapes, were made in the style of the Dutch Romantic School. And led to unprecedented success in America. For example, with one-man exhibitions on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.
After watching a documentary on the life of Vincent Van Gogh, Wouter Janssen wondered what it would be like to paint in an impressionist style. It came naturally, after consuming half a bottle of gin, with extraordinary results as a result.
The urge to complete the historical circle was further completed by his transition to Zero Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Windy, Janssart, Oil paint/canvas, Zero Art
Located in OOSTERBEEK, NL
Janssart, pseudonym Wouter W. Janssen
As early as the age of six, the talented Wouter painted the blossoming blossom trees in his parents' garden. At fourteen, he painted a portrait of his teacher at school and was rewarded with a ten for ‘drawing’ on his diploma.
His fascination with painting of the 15th and 16th centuries led to a nearly perfect copy of "El Greco's Madonna" at age 16.
This love of artistic expression continued to grow over the years, fuelled in part by the success of his creations.
At the age of eighteen, this passionate painter decided to devote his life entirely to fine art, combining his studies at art school with working in a restoration studio.
Here he discovered the secrets and painting techniques of the old masters, it fuelled his interest in art history and art movements.
The extraordinary thing is that so coincidentally the history of painting became synchronized with his artistic life.
Wouter Janssen studied the painting technique of his favourite painter Rembrandt for more than ten 10 years. He became wanted to unravel the mystery of the master. The paints used at that time were naturally rubbed by himself to approximate a historical effect.
In a subsequent episode, he immersed himself in the technique of Romanticism. His paintings, mostly landscapes, were made in the style of the Dutch Romantic School. And led to unprecedented success in America. For example, with one-man exhibitions on Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills.
After watching a documentary on the life of Vincent Van Gogh, Wouter Janssen wondered what it would be like to paint in an impressionist style. It came naturally, after consuming half a bottle of gin, with extraordinary results as a result.
The urge to complete the historical circle was further completed by his transition to Zero Art...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Veil 81
Located in BARCELONA, ES
Acrylic on wood
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Acrylic
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
1950s Minimalist Art
Materials
Paper, Mixed Media
Table lamp by Hagit Pincovici
Located in Milano, IT
Lampada 15
Table Lamp
18.7"L x 7.5"W x 21.2"H
48cmL x 19cmW x 54cmH
The light sculptures of Hagit Pincovici embrace the natural variance and craftsmanship in her process and her mate...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Marble, Brass
David Hostetler Torso Sculpture Bronze Nude Mid Century Figurative Brown
Located in Nantucket, MA
David Hostetler created this form originally in ceramic in 1948. He used the mold in the 1980's to cast a bronze. It has a green marble base that measures 2"h x 5.5"w x 4"d. The sculptures David created at the beginning of his career in the late 1940's and 1950's were abstract and in stone and ceramic. He was inspired by Henry Moore, Archipenko, Modigliani and Ancient Greek statues...
Category
1980s Post-War Art
Materials
Bronze
Drago — miniature glass vase, volume VII
Located in Helsinki, FI
miniature glass vessels with wooden texture, volume VII, limited edition of 12 unique pieces
approximate dimensions: 5-6 cm / 75-100 ml
These little glass sculptures can be used as ...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Bolmes
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas. Signed, dated, and titled verso.
46.5 x 36 in.
47.5 x 37 in. (framed)
Custom framed in a maple floater.
Charles Strong, who was born in Greeley, Colorado on Christmas Day in 1938, was one of the youngest artists of the San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism. He was a colleague of vanguard artists such as Elmer Bischoff, Richard Diebenkorn, Jack Jefferson...
Category
1960s Post-War Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Adentro
Located in New York, NY
2022
Acrylic on paper
24 x 19 inches
Unique
Signed, titled, and dated in pencil on the reverse
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
Barbra Streisand (fur hat)
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Lawrence Schiller. “Barbra Streisand (fur hat)” is a figurative photograph, vintage silver gelatin photograph in black and white by American artist Lawrence Schiller. The artwork is signed on the verso.
Lawrence Schiller only remembers the 60s in this way: Fast. As in: Blur. Which is, for those who lived through it, as accurate a description as one is likely to find about the decade that began with optimism and ended in chaos. It was ten years of turmoil and exploration. And through this turbulent and tumultuous decade, it often seemed that whenever a headline-making news event occurred, Lawrence Schiller was there. Schiller was not just lucky to be in the right place at the right time; he was prescient. He was there to cover the event, to add to it, to help us see it, to aid its meaning and its depth. "It was a time in which things happened awfully fast," Schiller says of the decade. "It was a wild, wild period; an uncontrolled period. I don’t think you had any sense of perspective in the 60s. You had to wait and look back at it, because it was a period in which things were happening that had no rhyme or reason to it. But by the end of the ‘60s I had covered so many stories, had so many magazine covers, I had somehow become part of that decade’s history. And I already had my eye on the future."
When Lawrence Schiller got the assignment from the French magazine, Paris Match to photograph Marilyn Monroe on the 20th Century Fox set of Something’s Got to Give, he thought nothing of it. It wasn’t to be a private, studio shoot. He wasn’t going to set up lights, create backgrounds, or use a tripod. Just another assignment, he figured. Monroe by then was firmly established as a figment in the imagination of most young men. The orphan Norma Jean had recreated herself as the blonde bombshell Marilyn Monroe. She’d appeared in twenty-nine films by the time Schiller photographed her in black and white and color in May, 1962. The world was unprepared for the moment when Marilyn jumped in the swimming pool in a flesh-colored bikini and came up out of the water au natural. She was all smiles and in her element: the sex goddess...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Mater Dolorosa (DTL200703)
Located in Hanoi, VN
Title: Mater Dolorosa
Gallery's item number: DTL200703
Year: 2020
Medium: Serpentine stone on anvil
Artist: Tulip Duong (aka Duong Thuy Lieu)
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Stone, Steel
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. "Untitled" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas in blues and greens by Korean, Post-War artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower right, "Jae Kon Park 1986". Born in South Korea, Park Jae Kon...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Art
Materials
Oil
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
Ritratto di Camillo Mastrocinque
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Robert Carroll was born in 1934 and was predominantly inspired by the 1950s growing up. Abstract Expressionism prevailed in the 1950s as a primary method of painting, and explored id...
Category
20th Century Post-War Art
Materials
Oil
Ruth Bloch, Couple in a window, bronze wall sculpture
By Ruth Bloch
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Ruth Bloch, Couple in a window, wall sculpture, Bronze sculpture, two nude figures with a book, classic figures, couple in love, Israeli art , Israeli artist, art
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Bronze
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
Women Welders, The Ship
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A drawing by Irving Norman. "Women Welders, The Ship" is a social surrealist drawing, graphite on paper in black and white by Post-War artist Irving Norman. T...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Art
Materials
Graphite
The Lawmakers, The Legislators
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Irving Norman. "The Lawmakers, The Legislators" is a social surrealist painting, oil on canvas by American artist Irving Norman. The artwork is signed on the verso, "Th...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Memphitis
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract acrylic and paper on canvas painting by Post War artist Arne Hiersoux. "Memphitis" is executed in bold strokes, splashes and drips of black, red, green, yellow and ochre ...
Category
1960s Post-War Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Paper
Horse with Swimmers at Beach
By William Theophilus Brown
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by William Theophilus Brown. "Horse with Swimmers at Beach" is a Post-War figurative painting, acrylic on canvas in a palette of greens and purples by American artist Will...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Untitled, abstract, landscape, horizon
Located in New York, NY
Abstract landscape painting in green, red, blue, and brown.
Russell Sharon was born on a farm in Minnesota. He studied in Mexico City, Boston and New York. He is known for his wildly colorful works with imagery drawn from the Minnesota landscape...
Category
Early 2000s Minimalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Still Water Figure, 2012
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Maxwell Doig was born in Huddersfield. He graduated from Manchester School of Art in 1988 with a BA in Fine Art and went on to pursue his postgraduate stu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-War Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jae Kon Park. "Untitled" is an abstract painting, oil on canvas by Korean artist Jae Kon Park. The artwork is signed in the lower right, "Je Kon park 92". Born in South...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Art
Materials
Oil
Children #2
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Irving Norman. "Children #2" is a macabre, social surrealist painting, oil on canvas in a dark palette by American artist Irving Norman. The artwork is signed on the ve...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Red Boat II, 2006
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Maxwell Doig was born in Huddersfield. He graduated from Manchester School of Art in 1988 with a BA in Fine Art and went on to pursue his postgraduate stu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Post-War Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Paul Newman in the motion picture "Cool Hand Luke", black and white portrait
Located in Palm Desert, CA
This black and white portrait of actor Paul Newman was taken by Lawrence Schiller in 1967 on the set of the movie "Cool Hand Luke".
A silver gelatin photograph by Post War artist Larry Schiller. This celebrity photograph...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Art
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Cassandra Kiss
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract acrylic and paper on canvas painting by Post War artist Arne Hiersoux. "Cassandra Kiss" is executed in bold strokes, splashes and drips of deep blue, red, back and white ...
Category
1960s Post-War Art
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Acrylic
Collection 1
By Matt Magee
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Edition of 15
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Untitled, from Formulation: Articulation
By Josef Albers
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A print by Josef Albers. "Formulation: Articulation" is a geometric abstract screen print in a black and white palette by Post War artist Josef Albers. The artwork is numbered 1981.5...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Art
Materials
Screen
Jean-Michel Basquiat
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A photograph by Tseng Kwong Chi. "Jean-Michel Basquiat" is a contemporary Cibachrome print in a palette of whites, purples, and browns by East Village artist Tseng Kwong Chi. The art...
Category
Late 20th Century Post-War Art
Materials
C Print
Woman with Square Umbrella
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A sculpture in wood depicting a woman holding an umbrella. "Woman with Square Umbrella" by Post War artist Alexander Calder is signed underneath, "Calder." "Woman with a Square Umbre...
Category
1920s Post-War Art
Materials
Wood
Nail Inlay Wall Piece No. 1
Located in Harrisville, NH
I am artist and furniture maker working in new Hampshire. I use nails to create intricate patterns on all variety of objects and surfaces The nails are glued into pilot holes, clipped, sanded flush with the surface, then polished. The result is a pattern of shiny dots of various dimeters. I create objects and furniture that is generally modern in form but highly decorated with as many as 11,000 nails.
I use this nail inlay...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Oak
Elderly Husband and Wife Group Street Portrait Against a Manhattan Red Wall
Located in Miami, FL
Street Photographer Mitchell Funk breaks with tradition and shoots street photography in color. Today in 2022, this does not seem like a big deal. But 50 years ago, in 1972, it was q...
Category
1970s Post-War Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment
Nail Inlay Wall Piece No. 30
Located in Harrisville, NH
I am artist and furniture maker working in new Hampshire. I use nails to create intricate patterns on all variety of objects and surfaces The nails are glued into pilot holes, clipped, sanded flush with the surface, then polished. The result is a pattern of shiny dots of various dimeters. I create objects and furniture that is generally modern in form but highly decorated with as many as 11,000 nails.
I use this nail inlay...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Wood, Panel
Nail Inlay Wall Piece No. 22 (isometric upside down table) maple, nails
Located in Harrisville, NH
I am artist and furniture maker working in new Hampshire. I use nails to create intricate patterns on all variety of objects and surfaces The nails are glued into pilot holes, clip...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Mixed Media, Panel, Woodcut
Fondation Maeght (Red, Yellow, Blue) /// Abstract Geometric Ellsworth Kelly
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: (after) Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015)
Title: "Fondation Maeght (Red, Yellow, Blue)"
*Issued unsigned
Year: 2005
Medium: Original Litho...
Category
Early 2000s Minimalist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Aharon Bezalel Israeli Modernist Sculpture 2 Parts Minimalist Aluminum or Steel
Located in Surfside, FL
A suite of 2 sculptures. Lovers, man and woman nestled together. sleek minimalist mod sculpture.
polished finish on one side. not sure if theese are stell or aluminium. they are cast...
Category
1970s Minimalist Art
Materials
Metal
Jesse Hickman, Note Three Twenty Two Sixteen A, 2016, Enamel, Wood, Glue
Located in Darien, CT
Over the past few years, Jesse Hickman has been making minimal abstract paintings on wood with few constraints. He calls this series Notes, thinking of these pieces as drawn sketches...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Art
Materials
Enamel
Art Naïf. Wine festival. Mid-century painting from 1960’s
Located in Firenze, IT
Art Naif.
Painting from 1960s.
Wine festival.
Dimensions: cm 81 x 59
The painting represents a cheerful popular scene with a musical band, people dancing, a man pouring wine from w...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-War Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Suspended Flora" Photography 24" x 18" inch Edition 1/20 by Ben Cope
By Ben Cope
Located in Culver City, CA
"Suspended Flora" Photography 24" x 18" inch Edition 1/20 by Ben Cope
Not framed. Ships in a tube
Ben Cope is a Georgia native graduating from Columbus State University with a BFA...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Fall of Icarus
Located in London, GB
Gouache on paper, signed (lower left) and titled (lower right), 68cm x 88cm, (88cm x 108cm framed). The work is framed behind museum quality non-reflective UV glass.
A realist pain...
Category
1960s Post-War Art
Materials
Paper, Gouache
a310810 by Ahn Hyun-Ju (Unfolded Lines series) - large minimalist painting
By Ahn Hyun-Ju
Located in Paris, FR
a310810, diptych by contemporary artist Ahn Hyun-Ju, part of the “Unfolded Lines” series.
Mixed media on aluminum, 90 cm × 260 cm.
In this series of abstract paintings the artist wo...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
a112007-3 by Ahn Hyun-Ju - minimalist painting, dark red
By Ahn Hyun-Ju
Located in Paris, FR
a112007-3 is a painting on aluminum by contemporary artist Ahn Hyun-Ju which is part of the “Unfolded Lines” series. In this series of abstract works, the artist works with vibrant c...
Category
Early 2000s Minimalist Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Blue/Red-Orange /// Contemporary Abstract Geometric Minimalism Ellsworth Kelly
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923-2015)
Title: “Blue/Red-Orange”
*Signed by Kelly in pencil lower right
Year: 1972
Medium: Original Lithograph on Special Arjomari paper
Limited...
Category
1970s Minimalist Art
Materials
Lithograph, Plexiglass
Coral Shark Peony - line drawing woman figure with flower
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The work was done with ink and watercolor on watercolor paper 300g. The work is 11 by 15 inches in size framed (gold) with a glass on a double mat board in...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Paper, Ink, Watercolor
Black and White Modern Minimalist New Media vs Painting 40"H X 80"W A change
By Irena Orlov
Located in Sherman Oaks, CA
Innovative and Contemporary Original New Media Abstract Black And White Work on Canvas
Minimalist New Media Original Painting on Canvas
Innovative and Contemporary Original New Medi...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Digital
Tête de Faune, Picasso, Unique work, 1960's, Terracotta, Tiles, Design, Sculptur
Located in Geneva, CH
Tête de Faune, Picasso, Unique work, 1960's, Terracotta, Tiles, Design, Sculptur
Tête de faune
Unique work
14.03.1961
Painted and glazed terracotta tile...
Category
1960s Post-War Art
Materials
Terracotta
Untitled (Diptych)
Located in New York, NY
Fred Sandback was a minimalist conceptual-based sculptor known for his yarn sculptures, drawings, and prints. He majored in philosophy at Yale Universit...
Category
1990s Minimalist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Yvette Cohen, Ara Pacis - Zen Corner, 2009, Minimalist sculpture
By Yvette Cohen
Located in Darien, CT
My work bridges the divide between
sculpture and painting and drawing.
Paintings are geometric masses
of color in oil paint and wood dowels,
on shaped canvas. Often grouped in
d...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas, Wood
Josef Albers vinyl record art (1950s Albers)
By Josef Albers
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Josef Albers Album Art circa late 1950s
A vinyl record cover (containing its record) brilliantly designed by Josef Albers c.1958. Looks fantastic framed.
Offset lithograph on vinyl ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Minimalist Art
Materials
Offset
Light 28 August 19:59, Modern Landscape Painting, Minimalistic, Abstract, Sea
Located in Salzburg, AT
Robert Motelski's paintings are exceptional visions of nature, visions of space which surrounds us. They tell about being, fate and passing. They depend on the season of year, the ti...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Wagenfeld Sunsets I-VI, 376 B3, 2019, Lamp, Bauhaus
Located in Milano, IT
Jonathan Monk, Wagenfeld Sunsets I-VI, 376 B3, 2019, 61 x 47 x 0.2 cm
Signed and dated in pencil on the back.
Provenance: Private Collection, Italy
State of preservation: Excellent....
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Inkjet
Igal Pardo, Beach Bay, Photograph
By Igal Pardo
Located in Tel Aviv, IL
Igal Pardo, Beach Bay Photograph, c-print on diasec, minimalist art, Israeli art, art,
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Photographic Paper
Adato, a young Rendille woman, is featured in this fashion-inspired portrait
By Drew Doggett
Located in US
Adato, a young Rendille woman, is featured in this fashion-inspired portrait
A young Rendille woman named Adato walks over the salt flat with fabric trailing behind her
The print s...
Category
2010s Minimalist Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
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