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Art For Sale
Style: Photorealist
Style: Neo-Expressionist
Blue Diamond
Located in Austin, TX
Oil and acrylic with diamond dust on wood Hand-signed on verso
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Wood, Oil, Acrylic

Violaceous
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on wood Hand-signed on verso
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Wood, Oil

Blumenstillleben
Located in Wien, 9
The artist's modesty was probably an obstacle to her career. Her magnificent, expressive works have few equals in Austria, but the time has come for her work to be honoured anew afte...
Category

20th Century Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

I walk beside you 22
Located in Zürich, ZH
I walk beside you 22 (2022-2023) transfers a viewer into the earlydays of April when a bouffant pink cloud of a 100-year-old magnoliatree outside the artist's studio just starts to b...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Suspended Animation 2
Located in Greenwich, CT
Joel Carson Jones Biography American, b. 1975 Joel Carson Jones lives, teaches, and paints in Northeastern Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1975.  With the work-ethic of the Scran...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Awaken, " Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Brian O'Neill's (US based) "Awaken" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a cloud filled sky in pink and purple hues as it shimmers over a pink ocean crashing to shore. ...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Trompe l'oeil, Les Falaises du Trocadéro, 2021 -JR, Set 2, Print, Art, Edition
Located in Zug, CH
JR Trompe l'oeil, Les Falaises du Trocadéro (Set of 2) 2021 Giclée Print Laminated with G-gloss, Mounted on 3mm Dibond 64 × 96 cm (25.2 × 37.8 in) In matching edition numbers In mint...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Untitled
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Carlos J. Tirado (born on April 3, 1964 in Caracas, Venezuela) is an artist, painter and sculptor who has developed a very personal and precise line of work linked to Neo-Pop art. Wi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

NIMBOSTRATUS - Photorealism / Still Life with Origami / High Color Sunset
Located in New York, NY
Kevin Palme paints ephemeral scenes to convey the transitory nature of life. In his view, from everyday occurrences to history defining events, change and ...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Showtime diptych I
Located in MADRID, ES
Photography, printed on Fine Art cotton smooth paper 310 g/m2, glued to Dibond Aluminium. 100 x 100 x 0,5 cm + 100 x 100 x 0,5 cm. Unique piece with these dimensions. Showtime, by F...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untitled (Green Landscape), landscape, bold colors
Located in New York, NY
Oil painting of a grassy landscape with deep greens and browns and a cloudy blue sky with pink accents created with painterly, expressive brush strokes. 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

1980s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Figures (Head and Torso), figural, painterly, colorful
Located in New York, NY
Oil Painting by Luis Frangella done in 1984. This painting is on a 24x34" canvas, of a figure cut off at the knees and a reclining head. Defined with pa...
Category

1980s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Trompe l'oeil, Death Valley, Billboard, March 4, 2017, 5:41 pm, California, USA
Located in Zug, CH
JR Trompe l'oeil, Death Valley, Billboard, March 4, 2017, 5:41 pm, California, USA, 2021 14 colors lithograph printed on Marinoni machine on White paper BFK Rives - 270 grammes Editi...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Jackie
Located in Porto, 13
Jackie, 2022 Oil on Wood Black outline bunny, yellow Frame collected by the artist
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Fifty Front
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Carlos J. Tirado (born on April 3, 1964 in Caracas, Venezuela) is an artist, painter and sculptor who has developed a very personal and precise line of work linked to Neo-Pop art. Wi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Mixed Media

One Hundred Back
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Carlos J. Tirado (born on April 3, 1964 in Caracas, Venezuela) is an artist, painter and sculptor who has developed a very personal and precise line of work linked to Neo-Pop art. Wi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Orange Under Wraps
Located in Greenwich, CT
American, b. 1948 What is “sharp focus” drawing? Put very simply, it is a rendering with refined, precise line and tone to create a lifelike representation of the subject matter. It...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Sail Boats
Located in Miami, FL
A precise and exact rendering and meticulous spacial arrangement are on full display in Lewandowski's this later work. The work looks better in person. The artwork is in pristine co...
Category

1990s Photorealist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Gouache

Las Ratas
Located in Cuernavaca, Morelos
Gouche on hand made paper
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Paint, Paper, Glaze

Jimi Hendrix by Baron Wolman rare signed platinum print
Located in Austin, US
JIMI HENDRIX ON STAGE AT THE WINTERLAND BALLROOM IN SAN FRANCISCO, FEBRUARY 1968. One copy available Signed limited edition #7/150 Rare signed platinum print with deckled bottom edge
Category

1960s Photorealist Art

Materials

Platinum

Chroma sky (Blue key) 10 - Contemporary, Blue, Minimalist, Figurative, Landscape
Located in Berlin, DE
Chroma sky (Blue key) 10, 2007 Acrylic and oil on canvas (Signed on reverse) 23.62 H x 31.49 W in 60 H x 80 W cm The artist wrote about how he conceives this work: "The transformat...
Category

Early 2000s Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Pomegranate, photorealist fruit still life drawing, colored pencil
Located in New York, NY
David Morrison’s new series of drawings are regal in their naturalism. Morrison uses his extreme attention to detail to give equal weight to both the fruit's delicate features and si...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Paper, Color Pencil

Neo-expressionist Painting by Kevin Samuel Murphy "Shadows in the Flag"
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
Abstract Painting , Shadows in the Flag , acrylic on canvas Contorted figures set against the back drop of a burning Stars and Stripes . Representing Lies & corruption within govern...
Category

1990s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

"The Prince" Abstract Painting 82" x 63" inch by Vera Kochubey
Located in Culver City, CA
"The Prince" Abstract Painting 82" x 63" inch by Vera Kochubey * * * SHIPPED: ROLLED CANVAS * * * The majority of Kochubey’s paintings take the form of heavily symbolic portraits...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Woodland Farm in Winter with Horse & Cart and Farmer in the English Countryside
Located in Preston, GB
Woodland Farm in the Winter with Horse & Cart and Farmer in the English Countryside with Warm Brown Colours, Small Lake in the foreground, by 20th Century British Artist, Christopher...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ocelots Managua
Located in Denver, CO
"Ocelots Managua" is an oil painting by famed Neo-Expressionist Hunt Slonem. This work is completed with a golden vintage style ornate frame and features a group of playful felines o...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

12 Photos (Magenta and Yellow) - Large Scale Textural Photographs
Located in Soquel, CA
12 Photos (Magenta and Yellow) - Large Scale Textural Photographs Series of detailed macro photos by Bill Clark (American, 20th Century). This set of photos shows several textured a...
Category

1990s Photorealist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

12 Photos (Graffiti and Stripes) - Large Scale Textural Photographs
Located in Soquel, CA
12 Photos (Graffiti and Stripes) - Large Scale Textural Photographs Series of detailed macro photos by Bill Clark (American, 20th Century). This set of photos shows several textured...
Category

1990s Photorealist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Sant'Eufemia
Located in Milano, MI
Photo taken inside the Santa Eufemia church - Milan (Italy). Marcelo Soulé (Buenos Aires, 1958) trained at the Artistic Lyceum and the Brera Academy in Milan. He lives and works bet...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Inkjet, Black and White, Pigment

Painted Concrete - Large Scale Textural Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
Painted Concrete - Large Scale Textural Photograph Detailed macro photo by Bill Clark (American, 20th Century). Clark has taken a photograph of concrete that has been painted a few ...
Category

1990s Photorealist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Black Paint Splatters - Large Scale Textural Photograph
Located in Soquel, CA
White Paint Splatters - Large Scale Textural Photograph Detailed macro photo by Bill Clark (American, 20th Century). Clark has taken a photograph of white painted concrete with a sp...
Category

1990s Photorealist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Silver Gelatin

Elton John Dodger Stadium
Located in Austin, US
Lifetime prints are the last remaining prints available, signed by Terry O’Neill and obtained from the Terry O’Neill Archive in London. Signed limited edition photographic print by Terry O'Neill. Elton John performs at Dodger Stadium...
Category

1970s Photorealist Art

Materials

C Print

Hunt Slonem "Cardinals" Two Red Birds
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Cardinals" Two Red Birds Two red Cardinal birds sitting on a branch over a gold metallic and blue etched background. Framed in an antique frame. Unframed: 10 x 8 inche...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Wood, Oil

Hunt Slonem "2 East Lake" Hot Pink Bunnies
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "2 East Lake" Hot Pink Bunnies Two black gestured black bunnies on a solid hot pink background. Framed in an antique wooden gold frame. Unframed: 14 x 10 inches Framed: ...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Wood, Oil

Hunt Slonem "Finches Purple Whydah" Multicolored Birds on Gold
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Finches Purple Whydah" Multicolored Birds on Gold metallic background. Multicolored Finches birds on a metallic gold background. Framed in an antique gold frame. Unfr...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Wood, Oil

White Horse at the Hampton Classic White Show Jumper with Rider Up
Located in Brookville, NY
Ben Schonzeit is one of the pioneers of the Photorealist movement in Soho NY in the 1970's. He is well known for his large still life of flowers, arresting canvases that explore the artist dream world. The artist has had numerous one man exhibitions and his work can be found in the permanent collections of major museums around the world including: Butler Institute of American Art Delaware Art Museum Denver Art Museum Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco Guggenheim Museum of Art, NYC This work, executed in 1987, appears to be a rider ready to enter the show ring at the Hampton Classic...
Category

1980s Photorealist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Untitled (MT0032)
Located in Solana Beach, CA
Inspired by nature and his 60 pet birds, Hunt Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionist style. He is best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds,...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Crowned Pigeon (CRK2248)
Located in Solana Beach, CA
Hunt Slonem is a renowned painter known for producing representational imagery and abstract expressionism. Slonem was born in Kittery, York County, ME. He attended Skowhegan School o...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

"Four Figures" Abstract Painting 31" x 30" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Four Figures" Abstract Painting 31" x 30" inch by Ahmed Gaafary To begin this description, let me start with this question: Is it the internal side of things that is more important...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

"RED PHOENIX" Abstract Painting 57" x 57" inch by Vera Kochubey
Located in Culver City, CA
"RED PHOENIX" Abstract Painting 57" x 57" inch by Vera Kochubey * * * SHIPPED: ROLLED CANVAS * * * The majority of Kochubey’s paintings take the form of heavily symbolic portrait...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

La Vie Est Belle. 2023, oil on canvas, 80x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
La Vie Est Belle. 2023, oil on canvas, 80x70 cm Works of Liene Liepina are full of life and joy because of photography-like, realistic details on the one hand, and intense and slight...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Engagement" Abstract Painting 33.5" x 47" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Engagement" Abstract Painting 33.5" x 47" inch by Ahmed Gaafary To begin this description, let me start with this question: Is it the internal side of things that is more important or is it what is presented to us visually? Naturally, the human notices the appearance of things and deals with things that have a direct connection with the senses without considering what is behind them. This makes one go directly to a materialist mindset. It is a mentality that drives one to consider things only from the surface while trapped in a corner in the judgment of only the shape of things observed. So I find the perfect way to describe my project, Primitive Life, as a process of connecting shapes from the internal cells of the human body from which comes the inner sociological forum of that body, expressing it visually and using color as harmony. While extracting the visual values, composing the forms of the cells and representing them in a new abstract way, I express the primitive side of life, concentrating on this often neglected part for the human experience/observation. This expression helps to create a community line of thinking and a social consciousness making it easier to find a common language for all human beings to understand and deal with each other. All the while knowing more about the special world of the artist and creating an arena of communication between the artist as the main subject and the community around him. Born In Cairo 1987 Where He Currently Lives And Works. He Received His Bachelor’s Degree In Information Systems In 2008 From The Higher Institute Of Advanced Studies And Followed The Evening Classes (Painting Department)Of Fine Arts Faculty, Helwan University From 2005 To 2007. After His Graduation as an Information System Engineer, He Gave Up His Engineer Practices And Decided To Be An Independent Visual Artist. He Participated In Many Solo And Collaborative Exhibitions,Among Which; Nabokov Signs Exhibition In Etejah Gallery, Palace Of Arts In Cairo Opera House In 2016, Kamal Khalifa Gallery At The Gezira Art Center In 2012. Beit El Umma Gallery At Saad Zaghloul Center In 2012, Engy Aflaton Gallery In Cairo Atelier at 2010, Ahmed Nagy Gallery In Cairo Atelier In 2009, Tahya Halim Gallery In Cairo Atelier In 2008, Salon Of Youth Exhibition In Palace Of Arts From 2008 To 2015, The Mediterranean Symposium In 2010. He Also Participated In The Following Workshops In Cairo In 2008 At The Cairo Opera House, The Fine Arts Sector Cultural Workshop And In The Mahmoud Mukhtar...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic, Wood

"Composition in RED" Painting 71" x 59" inch by Vera Kochubey
Located in Culver City, CA
"Composition in RED" Painting 71" x 59" inch by Vera Kochubey * * * SHIPPED: ROLLED CANVAS * * * The majority of Kochubey’s paintings take the form of ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Marilyn Monroe nude in Somethings Got To Give by Lawrence Schiller
Located in Austin, US
Museum quality print of Marilyn Monroe by Lawrence Schiller, taken on the set of Somethings Got To Give in 1962 during the famous naked swimming pool scene Signed limited edition 16...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

"Land and Lake" Painting 47" x 51" inch by Ahmed Gaafary
Located in Culver City, CA
"Land and Lake" Painting 47" x 51" inch by Ahmed Gaafary Nabokov’s Signs Ahmed Gaafary takes Vladimir Nabokov’s phenomenal short story “On Signs and Symbols” as an instigator to series of large and medium scale paintings. The fictitious characters in Nabokov’s narrative who act mysteriously around the banal pseudo conflict that faces an urban family –that could be any of us—is transcribed and encrypted by Gaafary on canvas, where lines define accurately shapes and forms that are in themselves flexible and not geometrical. Areas of almost solid colors represent in a diversity of tones and hues the psychological changes that happen to Nabokov’s protagonists in a very well defined space and time. Gaafary’s signs and symbols on another layer resembles mystic ciphers and codes, much reminiscent of Jean Baudrillard’s post-structuralist essays about the subject, in particular his texts addressing mediation, mass communication and the logic of contemporary symbolic exchange inspired and influenced by anthropologist Marcel Mauss and the Canadian philosopher of communication Marshall McLuhan’s work about the nature of social relations determined by the forms of communication that any given society adopts. Ahmed Gaafary navigates his viewers through realms of personal symbols and signs of a personal narrative. Born In Cairo 1987 Where He Currently Lives And Works. He Received His Bachelor’s Degree In Information Systems In 2008 From The Higher Institute Of Advanced Studies And Followed The Evening Classes (Painting Department)Of Fine Arts Faculty, Helwan University From 2005 To 2007. After His Graduation as an Information System Engineer, He Gave Up His Engineer Practices And Decided To Be An Independent Visual Artist. He Participated In Many Solo And Collaborative Exhibitions,Among Which; Nabokov Signs Exhibition In Etejah Gallery, Palace Of Arts In Cairo Opera House In 2016, Kamal Khalifa Gallery At The Gezira Art Center In 2012. Beit El Umma Gallery At Saad Zaghloul Center In 2012, Engy Aflaton Gallery In Cairo Atelier at 2010, Ahmed Nagy Gallery In Cairo Atelier In 2009, Tahya Halim Gallery In Cairo Atelier In 2008, Salon Of Youth Exhibition In Palace Of Arts From 2008 To 2015, The Mediterranean Symposium In 2010. He Also Participated In The Following Workshops In Cairo In 2008 At The Cairo Opera House, The Fine Arts Sector Cultural Workshop And In The Mahmoud Mukhtar...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel, Acrylic

8 Track I - Graffiti and rust covered bridge contemporary photorealist painting
Located in Chicago, IL
This painting captures a graffiti and rust covered steel bridge with bright blue skies and a sliver of green trees in and urban architectural setting. Rolland has always been fascinated by the built environment. Reflecting on what the structures tell about their builders as well as their interaction with nature and the results of time. He focuses on the engineering ingenuity that created Chicago’s many bridges. Structural elements are abstracted from their context and painted with a hard-edged realism on a scale that highlights the monumentality of the forms and the creativity necessary for their existence. Shown here is “Eight Track” Roland Kulla 8 Track...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Apriel - underwater black & white nude photograph - archival pigment 35 x 43"
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
An underwater black and white photograph of a beautiful topless young woman, Apriel swimming in the pool. Original gallery quality archival pigment print - signed by the artist. Limited edition of 24 Paper size: 36x44...
Category

2010s Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment, Archival Paper

"Untitled" Red and White Tulip on Forest Green Background Oil Painting Framed
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's newest series, Tulips. This piece depicts gestural figure of a red and white Tulip on a forest green background with thick use of paint. In...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

LOOK
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Mixed media on paper by artist Daria Kusto Shipped well protected, unframed.
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Permanent Marker

"Sonia" Black Bunny on Purple Background Oil Painting on Wood Panel Framed
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Bunnies. This piece depicts a gestural figure of a black bunny on a Purple Lavender background with thick use of pain...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

MULTIFACE
Located in CÓRDOBA, ES
Original artwork by DARIA KUSTO. the magic flow reality. Acrylic and markers on canvas Shipped rolled in a tube From Spain.
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Permanent Marker

"Morpho II" Multicolor Butterflies on Gold Background Oil on Wood with Scoring
Located in New York, NY
A wonderful composition of one of Slonem's most iconic subjects, Butterflies. This piece depicts two delicate butterflies in ascension placed in a wonderful golden landscape with blue, red and yellow background. Slonem traces his famous crosshatch details throughout the piece, with thick use of paint and elegant accents. Inspired by nature and a genuine love for animals, Slonem's paintings encompass unique inspirations drawn from the world. While viewing this piece in person, it is as if we are surrounded by beauty and encased effortlessly in a golden seascape. This painting invites us to celebrate nature and the simplicity of flight from the elegant world of the butterfly. This painting is signed and dated by the artist on verso and it comes housed in a simple vintage frame...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Bob Dylan portrait by Guido Harari
Located in Austin, US
Signed limited edition print of Bob Dylan by Guido Harari, taken in Sirmione, Italy, 1984. Available in the following sizes: A. 11” x 16” - Edition 50 B. 16” x 20” - Edition 50 C. ...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth (JEM1129)
Located in Solana Beach, CA
Inspired by nature and his 60 pet birds, Hunt Slonem is renowned for his distinct neo-expressionist style. He is best known for his series of bunnies, butterflies and tropical birds,...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Red Hot Chili Peppers by Ebet Roberts
Located in Austin, US
A classic, stunning shot of the Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1985 by celebrated photographer, Ebet Roberts. Signed limited edition, hand printed sil...
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Empire, by Robert Cottingham (photorealistic image of neon sign )
Located in New York, NY
Robert Cottingham is known for imagery that celebrates the history of communications in America, specifically neon signage on urban storefronts and signs on railroad cars. In 2008, ...
Category

Early 2000s Photorealist Art

Materials

Screen

Jimi Hendrix classic color by Gered Mankowitz - Limited edition number 49/50
Located in Austin, US
ONE OF THE LAST REMAINING PRINTS IN THIS SIZE Jimi Hendrix “Classic Color” 1967 by Gered Mankovitz Signed and numbered by Gered Mankowitz. 20x24" print, Edition number 49/50
Category

Late 20th Century Photorealist Art

Materials

C Print

Roxy
Located in New York, NY
Color offset lithograph. Signed and numbered 2/100 in pencil by Cottingham. This work is based on the same-titled color screenprint by Cottingham.
Category

Early 2000s Photorealist Art

Materials

Color, Lithograph, Offset

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