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Art For Sale
Style: Romantic
Style: Street Art
Tupi
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Henrique Belotti started as a street artist painting murals all over Brazil. He is constantly developing his technique and currently his works are a dialogue between contemporary pai...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Golden Age of Illustration Romance Story, Man Woman Relationship - Green Yellow
Located in Miami, FL
This impeccably rendered mid-century double portrait of a quarreling man and woman exhibits a supreme academic training knowledge lost in almost all contemporary art. It features an ...
Category

1960s Romantic Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Gouache, Pencil, Graphite

Modern Living, Hand-painted Screen Print, Street Art, Urban Art, Graffiti
Located in Hamburg, DE
FAILE (Brooklyn-based art collective in the form of Patrick Miller and Patrick McNeill) Modern Living, 2018 Hand-painted acrylic and silkscreen ink on heavyweight archival deckled pa...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Art

Materials

Acrylic, Screen

Carnaval Kawaii
Located in OIA, ES
🔸 _Title: Carnaval kawaii 🔸 _Artist: Diego Tirigall 🔸 _Year of Creation: 2024 🔸 _Dimensions: 160 W x 100 H x 2 D cm 🔸 _Medium: Enamel, Spray paint, Acrylic and Oil Stick 🔸 _Su...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Enamel

Natural Sri Lanka corn flower blue sapphires pair 3 carats
Located in Lagos, NG
Ñatural Sri Lanka corn flower blue sapphires pair for your earrings not treated not heated
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Romantic Art

Materials

Bluestone

Urban Art Street Photography of Bus and Billboard Red Jacket Figure
Located in Miami, FL
A tourist bus adorned with punchy hi-key graphics passes in front of a soaring Times Square billboard of similar nature. Street Photographer Mithcell Funk captures the precise momen...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Prosperity 2 - Koi Orange Stencil Art
Located in San Francisco, CA
Novy’s most-established series of koi fish references propaganda posters and anti-authoritarian symbols in Chinese art under communism. Koi traditionally symbolize the lessons and tr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Art

Materials

Wood Panel, Spray Paint

Prosperity 1 - Koi Stencil Art
Located in San Francisco, CA
Novy’s most-established series of koi fish references propaganda posters and anti-authoritarian symbols in Chinese art under communism. Koi traditionally symbolize the lessons and tr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Art

Materials

Spray Paint, Wood Panel

Circus Pug Lamp
Located in palma de mallorca, ES
Right on up! This charming ringmaster can't wait to make his entrance since the circus is coming to town. Mighty Jaxx changes Mai Accents' Circus Pug desig...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Vinyl

Strength III - Blue Koi Street Art
Located in San Francisco, CA
Novy’s most-established series of koi fish references propaganda posters and anti-authoritarian symbols in Chinese art under communism. Koi traditionally symbolize the lessons and tr...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Art

Materials

Spray Paint, Wood Panel

Trajan Wallis (1794-1892): Study of a robe on a female figure in back view
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Trajan Wallis (1794 Florence - 1892 ): Study of a robe on a female figure in back view, 19th century, Pencil Technique: White heightened Pencil on Paper Date: 19th century Description: Watermark: Shield of arms with initials "AGC Provenance: From the estate of the artist. Verso: numbered: 26"" Keywords: Back view, female garment, drapery, academy study, garment study, antique garment...
Category

19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Paper

400% Bearbrick Homelander [The Boys]
Located in palma de mallorca, ES
This is the Medicom Toys 400% Bearbrick - Homelander. The infamous public figure (but actual Villain) Homelander is meant to be the people's hero (if he feels like it). You can now ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Art

Materials

PVC

Italian landscape with fortified town
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
George Augustus Wallis (1761 Merton (London) - 1847 Florence): Italian landscape with fortified town, 19th century, Pencil Technique: Pencil on Paper Date: 19th century Descriptio...
Category

19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Paper

Nature Piece with Cloud Play
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
Leo Primavesi (1871 Cologne - after 1937 ): Nature piece with trees and cloud play, 20th century, Watercolor Technique: Watercolor on Paper Inscription: signed at the bottom: "Leo ...
Category

20th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Paper

Signed Luigia Orsi Drawing view of the Koln cathedral 19 century pencil paper
Located in Florence, IT
This drawing represents a lateral view over the Cathedral of Koln that doesn't want to be a faithfull copy from real but It's pervaded with a nostalgic and decadent feeling proper of...
Category

Early 19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Paper, Pencil

SOUVIENS-TOI DU FUTUR
Located in Marrakech, MA
SOUVIENS-TOI DU FUTUR Mixed techniques on wood panel. Raw metal frame 6 x 4 CM. Lights x 2. 180x190CM. Thickness 62CM. 2016.
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Metal

La Delivrance De La Princesse Olga - Etching by M.Roux after E. Delacroix - 1911
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 24 x 28 cm. La Delivrance De La Princesse Olga is an original print in etching technique on ivory-colored paper, realized by M. Roux after Eugène Delacroix . In v...
Category

1910s Romantic Art

Materials

Lithograph

Lady Macbeth as Regal monarch immobilised in Marble with her reigning in Blooms
Located in London, GB
Katie Eleanor, ‘Your Hand, Your Tongue III’, 2017 Hand-coloured portrait of a regal monarch, immobilised in marble, her reigning celebrated the blooms she becomes entwined in. The characterisation is inspired by visual depictions of Lady Macbeth, in particular, John Singer Sargent’s 1889 portrait of actress Ellen Terry. Taken from The Sialia Marbles, a series of portraits containing ephemeral human sculptures taken between 2016-19. Together these works act as tales contained in a fictional sculpture hall, in direct reaction to Andre Malraux’s 1947 Le Musee Imaginaire (Museum Without Walls). Original title: 'Your Hand, Your Tongue’, 2017 Hand-coloured Archival Pigment Print on Hahnemuhle Photorag 40.5 x 30.5 cm Unique Series: The Sialia Marbles Signed and dated on verso "I’m not a sculptor, but I wanted to construct my own stories. Photographers have often used sculpture in order to challenge our idea of a “sculptural” body or object, by casting them in a two-dimensional light. I love playing with perception. A lot of my work is influenced by the nineteenth century—the pictorialist movement for instance. When photography was a new experiment, people would play around with perception tricks—Victorian paper theaters...
Category

2010s Romantic Art

Materials

Photographic Film, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment

Five Wall Decoration 'En Grisaille' by Dufour, Paris, France, 19th Century
Located in Rome, IT
Five papiers peints 'En Grisaille' from the psyche´ series manufactured by Dufour, Paris, after designs by Merry-Joseph Blondel and Louis Lafitte. -'Psyche´ returning from hades.' -'...
Category

19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Handmade Paper

Chinese Soldiers
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION: Shepard Fairey Chinese Soldiers 2006 Screenprint 24 x 18 in. Edition of 300 Pencil signed and numbered; accompanied with COA by...
Category

Early 2000s Street Art Art

Materials

Screen

2019 Companion Blush Set of two vinyl figures by KAWS from Medicom Toy Corp.
By KAWS
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Companion Blush Set of two painted vinyl figures in original packaging from Medicom Toy Corp. From KAWS' (a.k.a. Brian Donnelly's) open edition release in 2019.
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Vinyl

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

Portrait of a Melancholic Woman, a Drawing signed by Léon Bonnat
Located in PARIS, FR
This drawing by Léon Bonnat, the greatest portrait painter of the Third Republic, shows a woman of indeterminate age, caught in a melancholic pose. 1. Léo...
Category

Late 19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Cardboard, Carbon Pencil

Combrat Boy
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Ron English Combrat Boy 2015 3D Lenticular archival inks on PETG Plastic 36 x 24 in. Edition of 10 Signed and numbered on verso Accompanied with COA by G...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Lenticular

Dark Fire
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Paperback Cover Cover of "Dark Fire," Harlequin Books Signed Lower Right Man and Woman holding each other
Category

20th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Board, Oil

Italian landscape with village
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
George Augustus Wallis (1761 Merton (London) - 1847 Florence): Italian landscape with village, 19th century, Pencil Technique: Pencil on Paper Date: 19th century Description: View...
Category

19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Paper

Multi Tags - Turquoise
By Seen
Located in Porto, 13
Seen is widely regarded as one of the most influential and innovative graffiti artists of all time. His unique style, incorporating elements of calligraphy and abstract expressionism...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Spray Paint

Evening prayers by fishermen under the high coast of Celebes
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Jacob Eduard Van Heemskerck Van Beest (1828-1894) “Avondgebed; Maleidische tripang visschers onder de hoge kust van Celebes” (Ev...
Category

19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Very unpleasent
Located in MADRID, ES
With thoughts on 21st century humans and their future, João Cardoso concludes that technology brings tools for two extremes. Thus, technology, as a much n...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Art

Materials

Acrylic

19th Century Painting of Women Crossing Stream
Located in San Antonio, TX
Romantic style painting of figures crossing a stream in a coastal European landscape. The painting dates to the 19th century and is presumed to...
Category

Mid-19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Oil

The Last Time I Saw You Wasn't the Last Time I Saw You Spray Paint Canvas 2022
By Pref
Located in Des Moines, IA
You can read the title of the painting in the composition of the painting itself. Spray paint on linen. “The Last Time I Saw You Wasn’t the Last Time I Saw You” presents slightly sma...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Spray Paint

Large oil from 1902 - German school - A portrait of Sisterly love
Located in Antwerp, BE
Sweet and large oil painting "Sisterly love" signed and dated 1902 by August Algermissen The present painting depicts two sisters seated in an interior, the youngest is gleefully lo...
Category

Early 20th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Frédéric Millet (1786-1859) Portrait of a gentleman, 1849 watercolor signed
Located in Paris, FR
Frédéric Millet (1786-1859) Portrait of a gentleman, 1849 signed and dated lower right Watercolor on paper 36 x 27,5 cm framed : 44 x 35 cm Frédéric Millet is rightly renowned fo...
Category

1840s Romantic Art

Materials

Watercolor

Galerie Wateri by Keith Haring
Located in London, GB
KEITH HARING GALERIE WATERI EXHIBITION POSTER, 1983 Offset lithography on Japanese pearlescent paper 68.58 x 50.8 cm
Category

20th Century Street Art Art

Materials

Offset

Street Art Painting by Sweet Toof , Acrylic , Framed
Located in Hoddesdon, GB
Sweet Toof's , acrylic painting, framed in a gilt frame with glass is , an unmistakable image that can be spotted throughout East London. Renowned London Street Artist, Sweet Toof, ...
Category

Early 2000s Street Art Art

Materials

Acrylic

Alter Ego
Located in OIA, ES
"Alter Ego," created by Diego Tirigall, is a captivating 1 x 1 meter canvas that intertwines the intricate aspects of personal and corporate identity through a dynamic mix of mixed m...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Enamel

Timeless classic, Street Art, Pop Art, bust
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5 A bust in Street art style JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and fine Br...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Moonlight over the Lake, 1912, By Swedish Artist Wilhelm Dahlbom
Located in Stockholm, SE
We are pleased to present this exquisite piece by Swedish artist Wilhelm Dahlbom, entitled "Moonlight, Idö, 1912". This work captures the serene reflection of moonlight on water, the...
Category

1910s Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Tide, by KAWS
By KAWS
Located in London, GB
Tide by KAWS 10-color silkscreen on Coventry Rag paper with water base and ultraviolet ink 27.9 x 23.2 cm Edition 87 of 100 Signed and numbered Published by Phaidon. Mint condition, ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Art

Materials

Screen

“Comme Avant, As Before" Abstract Colorful Portrait Street Art Pop Art on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
This particular piece depicts an anonymous portrait of a beautiful woman. Inspired by the every day, JM Robert strives to create paintings that mimic the fla...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Painting oval KUWASSEG Marine beach boats french romantic Normandy 19th
By Charles Euphrasie Kuwasseg
Located in PARIS, FR
Charles Euphrasie KUWASSEG Draveil (Essonne), 1833 – Paris, 1904 Oil on wooden panel Signed and dated lower right “C. Kuwasseg fils / July 57” 36 x 28 cm (42 x 36 cm with the frame)...
Category

1850s Romantic Art

Materials

Oil

Black and white landscape print of The Isle of Harris in the Hebrides Scotland
By ALEX BOYD
Located in London, GB
Toe Head, The Isle of Harris, The Hebrides, Scotland by Alex Boyd Series: No Innocent Land This image, made on the Isle of Harris in the Outer Hebrides shows the hill of Ceapabhal on the Toe Head peninsula. Print details: © Alex Boyd, Courtesy MMX Gallery Archival Pigment Print from the Wet Plate Collodion, Artist Proof, Hand Signed by the Artist Image: 82 x 58 cm Frame: 116 x 91 cm Frame; Original Frame, slightly distressed from being vintage out of the Scottish castle; the print accompanied with the mount board and finished with antireflective UV protective AR art glass Shipping worldwide; the framed print would be crated and shipped by professional shipping company, Free delivery in London postcodes and in a selected areas in the UK. Free pick up from the gallery. About the Artist: ALEX BOYD Alex Boyd's images represent a major addition to the tradition of modern landscape photography" – Robert Macfarlane, Author Alex Boyd is a landscape and documentary photographer, printmaker and writer. His work is primarily concerned with the Scottish landscape. As a photographer his work examines the role of early Scottish landscape photographers, often using antique processes such as the Victorian wet-plate collodion process using antique cameras in mountain environments. He is best known for his conceptual and figurative landscape photography which explores concepts of Scottish identity through historical and contemporary romanticism, neo-romanticism, Romantic nationalism and Spirit of Place. His work is largely concerned with depictions of the Celtic landscape, conservation and remote places, and is often characterised by its stark, poetic and introspective qualities. In 2019 he was awarded a Daiwa Foundation Scholarship to work and photograph the mountains of the Japan Alps centred on Mount Yari as well as shortlisted for the Hariban Award. He was the Mountain Photographer of the Year at the Kendal Mountain Festival in 2013, the UK’s largest mountain festival. His work on the Cuillin mountains on the Isle of Skye as the Royal Scottish Academy’s artist in Residence is in several National Collections. His work has been widely exhibited internationally with solo exhibitions at the Scottish Parliament, as well as group exhibitions at the Royal Academy, Royal Ulster Academy and the Royal Scottish Academy. His work is held in the collections of the National Galleries of Scotland, The Royal Photographic Society, the Royal Scottish Academy, the V&A in London and the Yale Centre for British Arts in the USA. His first book St Kilda – The Silent Islands was recently shortlisted for a Saltire Award. His second book The Isle of Rust, a collaboration with writer Jonathan Meades was, like his first book, named as a photography book of the year by The Scotsman. He is a Fellow of the National Library of Scotland, The Winston Churchill Memorial Trust, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, and the Royal Society of Art. He is currently working on a PhD on Scottish Photography at Northumbria University, a selection of new books on The Faroe Islands, The Outer Hebrides. A collection of his Scottish and Irish collodion work is due out in 2021 as well as a solo exhibition ‘Hesperus’ at Stills, Scotland’s Centre of Photography, in June 2020. A contributing Arts Editor for The Island Review, Boyd has also written for Art North, The Modernist, Earthlines and many other publications. WORK REPRESENTED IN THE FOLLOWING COLLECTIONS: The National Galleries of Scotland, The Royal Scottish Academy, The Royal Photographic Society, The National Media Museum, The University of Glasgow, St Andrews University, North Ayrshire Council, Dumfries & Galloway Council, The Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Sabhal Mor Ostaig, The University of the Highlands & Islands, Highland Print Studio, Cape Farewell, The Scottish Maritime Museum, NHS Greater Glasgow & New South Glasgow Hospitals, BC Partners, Cigna, The Yale Center for British Art, The V&A *** NO INNOCENT LAND The series 'No Innocent Land' is a journey across the islands of Scotland using an antique process to document the dramatic landscapes of Scotland. Using a 100 year old camera...
Category

2010s Romantic Art

Materials

Glass, Wood, Archival Pigment, Black and White, Archival Paper, Giclée

"Salvation", Gold Street Art, Modern Portrait Art, 2020
Located in Delaware , OH
"Salvation", Gold Street Art, Modern Portrait Art, 2020 A B O U T T H I S P I E C E : “Salvation” is modern portrait art/ gold street art by Addison Jon...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Paper, Ink, Acrylic

Surreal And Cubist Portrait On Circle Wood. Red Fluor And Blue "Currency #206"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This piece belongs to the "Exchange Currency Series" created by Natasha Lelenco in 2024, starting from the concept of the "face" on coins. It is a unique work consisting of a meticul...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Wood, Spray Paint, Acrylic

Ceiling of the Paris Opera House
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Ceiling of the Paris Opera House The value is in the beautiful framing. Please note the shipping cost as the piece is very large (frame is 47" x 47"). In 1960, the Minister of ...
Category

20th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Ink, Paper

Life is Beautiful (Black)
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Mr. Brainwash Title: Life is Beautiful (Black) Medium: Coated metal sculpture Date: 2022 Edition: 16/50 Size: 7" x 10 1/2" x 2 1/2" Signature: Hand signed, numbered, and date...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Metal

BANKSY Soup Cans
Located in Englishtown, NJ
Features iconic Soup Cans famously created by Andy Warhol and re-imagined here by Banksy using Tesco cans. Banksy signature printed on bottom right of print. This piece is sometimes ...
Category

Early 2000s Street Art Art

Materials

Lithograph

Miniature 19th Century Austrian Pastoral Oil on Wood
Located in Soquel, CA
Original Miniature 19th Century Austrian Pastoral Figurative Oil Painting on Wood Painted in the manner of late Romanticism, this charming miniature pastoral landscape by Edmund Fri...
Category

1870s Romantic Art

Materials

Gesso, Oil, Board

Vinny
Located in London, GB
Anastasia Kurakina 's work on paper included in the Vatican Museums collection since 2017 Abstract modern art. Vivid colours. acrylic painting on gliceé print canvas yellow, pi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Art

Materials

Color, Digital, Giclée, Canvas, Cotton, Acrylic, Digital Pigment

Romantic French Painter - 19th century figure painting - Gallant interior
Located in Varmo, IT
French painter (19th century) - The arrival of the letter from the suitor. 35.5 x 29 cm without frame, 52.5 x 46.5 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on canvas, in a contemporary ...
Category

Mid-19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Horse British painter - 19th century figure painting - Hunting knight
Located in Varmo, IT
English painter (19th century) - Rider and hunting greyhounds. 28 x 22 cm without frame, 40 x 33 cm with frame. Antique oil painting on wood, in a gilded wooden frame. Condition r...
Category

Late 19th Century Romantic Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Banksy Thrower" framed silkscreen and mixed media artwork by Mr. Brainwash
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Banksy Thrower" silkscreen and mixed media on canvas in paint-splashed frame by artist Mr. Brainwash. Signed Mr. Brainwash on front lower left. Dated 2022, signed Mr. Brainwash, num...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Screen

"Einstein" framed silkscreen and mixed media on canvas artwork by Mr. Brainwash
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Direct from the artist's studio. 62"Einstein" silkscreen and mixed media on canvas in paint-splashed frame by artist Mr. Brainwash. Signed Mr. Brainwash on front lower left. Dated 20...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Screen

"Subway Panel" silkscreen and mixed media on aluminum, plywood and plexi panel
Located in Boca Raton, FL
"Subway Panel" silkscreen and mixed media on aluminum, plywood and plexiglass panel artwork by Mr. Brainwash. Hand-signed on front lower right. Signed Mr. Brainwash 2023, numbered No...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Plexiglass, Plywood, Mixed Media, Screen

Surrealist Pop Portrait of a Woman in a Yellow Face Coin. "Currency #192"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This piece is one of the latest additions to the "Exchange Currency Series" created by Natasha Lelenco in 2024. It is a unique artwork comprising a meticulously crafted female portra...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Metal

Flaming Hot Crowns - Original Gary John Orange Black Street Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles street artist Gary John exploded onto the international art scene first during Art Basel Miami in 2013. John’s playfully bold work quickly gained attention and he was nam...
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21st Century and Contemporary Street Art Art

Materials

Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Board

Hommage à Banksy (with yellow, blue and red Flowers, 30% OFF LIST PRICE)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Wilhelm Schlote Hommage à Banksy (with yellow, blue and red Flowers) Mixed Media on Paper 2017 Size: 25.59 x 27.48 inches (65,0 × 69,8 cm) Unique within a Limited Edition Signed by h...
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2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Mixed Media

"Mickey" - Pop Art Cartoon inspired Character by Randy Morales
Located in Los Angeles, CA
US Navy veteran Randy Morales fuses nostalgia and graphic expressionism within his street-pop artworks. The choice of subjects within his artworks is strongly influenced by his exper...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

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