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Size: Miniature
A Toute Epreuve (D 204), Modern Woodcut by Joan Miro
Located in Long Island City, NY
Joan Miro, Spanish (1893 - 1983) - A Toute Epreuve (D 204), Year: 1958, Medium: Woodcut on Rice Paper, Edition: 130, Size: 12.75 x 9.75 in. (32.39 x 24.77 cm), Printer: Jacques Frel...
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1950s Modern Prints and Multiples

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Woodcut

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. This lithograph is from the rare 1951 "Improvisations" portfolio, published by the Artists Equity Association of New York on the occasion of the 1951 Spr...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

DOUGLAS JULEFF Vintage 1950s Beefcake Photograph of VIC SEIPKE & JIM PARK
Located in Glenford, NY
Rare 1950s Iconic Original Vintage Gelatin Silver Photograph by DOUGLAS JULEFF - also known as DOUG OF DETROIT - of popular physique models VIC SEIPKE and JIM PARK. Fireman Vic Se...
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1950s Post-War Nude Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Venice Seascape Gondola Oil Painting Michael Budden Beautiful Light Venice
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
Beautiful Light, Venice oil/panel 12 x 9 unframed, 17.5 x 14.5 framed Beautiful Light, Venice is an oil painting on panel by award winning contemporary artist Michael Budden that sho...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

"MY GARDEN" G. HARVEY FREDERICKSBURG ARTIST DATED 1985
Located in San Antonio, TX
G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (1933-2017) San Antonio, Austin, and Fredericksburg Artist Image Size: 12 x 9 Frame Size: 26 x 23 1985 "My Garden" G. Harvey (Gerald Harvey Jones) (19...
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1980s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

California Lake Landscape
Located in Soquel, CA
Beautiful oil painting of a California lake by Margaret Ward (American, 20th century). Mountains of browns and reds shadow over a bright blue lake, with dark brown and green trees su...
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Mid-20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Illustration Board

Wrexham Tower, Yale University
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching with aquatint on watermarked cream laid J Perrigot Arches paper, 15 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches (400 x 248 mm), full margins. Signed, dated, and dedicated to the the artist Ruth Knobl...
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Early 20th Century American Modern Landscape Prints

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Handmade Paper, Etching, Aquatint

Dufy, Le Vieux-Port, Vacances forcées (after)
Located in Fairfield, CT
Medium: Lithograph on papier bouffant des Papeteries de Casteljoux paper Year: 1970 Paper Size: 12 x 9.25 inches Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued Notes: From the folio...
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1970s Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

GALAXY ART – Celestial Wall Sculpture with Astronaut Figure on Lunar Relief
Located in FISTERRA, ES
GALAXY ART is a mixed media wall sculpture by Vera Vizzi that fuses astronomy-inspired painting with tactile lunar relief. Created with foam clay, acrylic and enamel on a circular 30...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures

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Enamel

Picasso, Sans titre, Pablo Picasso, Toros Y Toreros (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Paper Size: 14.75 x 10.5 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, Pablo Picasso, Toros y toreros, 1961. Published ...
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1960s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Haybales, Late Summer Landscape Collection Pocket Series, original painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Pocket Haybales, Late Summer, Landscape Collection is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

A girl
Located in Oslo, NO
Minimalistic but masterfully executed monochrome watercolor. The work immediately attracts attention with the originality of the composition - the image is shifted to the right edge ...
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2010s Realist Portrait Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor, Pencil

Tea Bowl "Tu Me Connais VII"
Located in Kansas City, MO
Melanie Sherman Tea Bowl "Tu Me Connais VII" (Yunomi, Blue Vintage Flowers, Gold Luster Lip, Blue Bottom) Year: 2021 Edition: Unique Porcelain, Chi...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Luster, Porcelain, Paint, Glaze

Marilyn Monroe Iconic White Dress Blowing Vintage Press Print
Located in Austin, TX
Star actress Marilyn Monroe posed in THE Iconic white dress from The Seven Year Itch, posed with it blowing back. -- One-of-a-kind original vintage press print from the Celebrity V...
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1950s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Black and White

Cat Animal Watercolor on Paper Handmade Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
456 Artist: Artyom Abrahamyan, Work: Original Painting, Handmade artwork, One of a Kind Medium: Watercolor on Paper Year: 2025 Style: Classic Art Title: Cat Size: 12 x 16 inch, (3...
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2010s Realist Animal Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

"Parisian City Street Scene" Town & Figures Mid-20th Century Oil Painting Canvas
Located in New York, NY
This painting depicts a colorful Mid Century Street in Paris France, a popular subject of the times painted by many important impressionist 20th Century painters. This piece is a bol...
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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas, Panel

Strawberry and Cream - Vibrant Southwest Inspired Pop Art Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Will Beger and his contemporary-minimalist paintings, take on an entirely unique approach to southwest art. Influenced by his youth and inspired by nature, he effortlessly captures a...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Still-life Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Early German Realistic Military Portrait of a Man (Johann Ludwig-Mosley)
Located in Houston, TX
Realistic early German portrait painting of Johann Ludwig-Mosley wearing his various military awards. The back features further documentation about the man's life and service. Curren...
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Late 19th Century Realist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Framed 20th Century Oil - City Lights
Located in Corsham, GB
Abstract in oil. Presented in a simple strip style frame. Unsigned. On canvas on stretchers.
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20th Century Abstract Paintings

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Oil

Man Ray, Composition, Man Ray, Electa Editrice Portfolios (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Héliogravure on vélin paper. Inscription: unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Man Ray, Electa Editrice Portfolios, 1980. Published and printed ...
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1980s Surrealist Figurative Photography

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Lithograph

Lithographie Originale (Cover)
Located in Kansas City, MO
Joan Miró Lithographie Originale (Cover) Color Lithograph Year: 1981 Size: 15.6 × 12.75 inches Catalogue Raisonné: Cramer 177, Der Lithograph IV, 1969-1972, Ref.: 1255, p.178 Publisher: Maeght Editeur, Paris, France With coverfold, recto - as issued Recto, right: Typographically annotated: 'Lithographie Originale' Unsigned, Unknown Edition Size COA provided --------------------------------------- Joan Miró i Ferrà was a Spanish painter, sculptor, and ceramicist born in Barcelona. A museum dedicated to his work, the Fundació Joan Miró, was established in his native city of Barcelona in 1975, and another, the Fundació Pilar i Joan Miró, was established in his adoptive city of Palma de Mallorca in 1981 Surrealism, Fauvism, Cubism, Abstract expressionism, Naive art, Expressionism, Suprematism Pablo Picasso, André Breton, Hans Arp, André Masson, Hieronymus Bosch, Tristan Tzara, Modest Urgell
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1980s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Mouse Seeking Butterfly- original realist oil painting-contemporary wildlife art
Located in London, Chelsea
This exceptional artwork is currently on display and available for sale at Signet Contemporary Art Gallery and online. Mouse Seeking Butterflies is a striking example of Lucinda Holl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Animal Paintings

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Wood, Oil

"A Village in Sarthe" lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: lithograph. This lithograph (after the Vlaminck painting) was printed in Paris in 1958 by the Mourlot atelier, and published by Andre Sauret in an edition of 2000. The image ...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

A Fabulous 1940s Modern Cubist Watercolor of a Seated Female Nude, Sepia Toned
Located in Chicago, IL
A Fabulous, 1940s Modern Cubist Watercolor of a Seated Female Nude Model by Noted Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). Watercolor and ink on sepia toned paper, dating from...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Ink, Watercolor

Alchemist - 21st Century, Contemporary, Abstract, Pop Culture, Mental Health
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
You are an alchemist; you can take any situation and transmute it into something greater. You can become the master of changing negative circumstances into positive ones. Just believ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Ink, Acrylic

John Taylor Arms, Study in Stone, Cathedral of Ourense
Located in New York, NY
John Taylor Arms was known for making such finely drawn etchings that commercial tools were not good enough: He regularly used sewing needles with corks ...
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Mid-20th Century American Realist Landscape Prints

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Etching

original lithograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original lithograph. Printed on Arjomari paper in 1969 at the Mourlot Freres atelier and published by Editions Richelieu in a limited edition of 2400 for the L'Odyssee portfo...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

Matisse, Le Nu aux oranges (Duthuit 139), Verve: Revue Artistique (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on vélin du Marais paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the volume, Verve: Revue Artistique et Littéraire, Vol. IX, N° 35-36...
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1950s Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

Mysterious Love - Original lithograph - 1898
Located in Paris, IDF
Henri Bellery-Desfontaines Mysterious Love, 1898 Original lithograph (Champenois workshop) Printed signature in the plate On vellum, 40 x 31 cm (c. 16 x 12 in) INFORMATION: Lithogr...
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1890s Art Nouveau Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Old Black Schoolboard Minimalist Small painting 30x30cm by Anastasia Vasilyeva
Located in Zofingen, AG
Monochrome abstract conceptual artwork uses the principle of color field painting. 30x30x1,7cm, Ready to hang and signed on the backside. Shipping worldwide in a safe package with ...
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2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

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Gesso, Canvas, Acrylic, Engraving

Matera, Italy - Mixed Media (Diorama) - 2019
Located in Roma, IT
Matera is a mixed media artwork realized in 2019 by Michele Cascarano. This unique specimen artwork is realized with different artistic techniques (collage, watercolor, china ink o...
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2010s Mixed Media

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Mixed Media

Butterflies, late 19th century antique natural history colour lithograph
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
'1. Vanessa urticae 2. 3. Pyrameis cardui' Late 19th century colour lithograph of butterflies.
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Late 19th Century Victorian Animal Prints

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Lithograph

Traffic Island, "Wandsworth Roundabout", London, (Signed Print)
Located in London, GB
"Brian Griffin turned the tables on commercial assignment portraiture with a style all his own. When Margaret Thatcher came to power in 1979, business was empowered and labor was bel...
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2010s Surrealist Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper, Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Phot...

Landscape Farm Oil painting John C Traynor Salmagundi Club Auction Mt Ascutny
Located in Chesterfield, NJ
John C Traynor Mt Ascutny oil/linen 9 x 12 image Purchased at the Salmagundi Club in 2003. This is one of two of Johns earlier paintings I was able to purchase at the Salmagundi Clu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Sans titre, Société internationale d'art XXe siècle
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph, stencil on vélin paper. Paper Size: 12.4 x 9.65 inches. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Notes: From the album, XXe siècle, Nouvelle série N° 7 (double) J...
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1950s Orphist Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

Stone Hut in a Autumnal Sunset Open Field Oil Landscape Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Autumnal Landscape signed by Jean Fourie (1927-2015) French artist, painting in the Champagne region of France signed oil painting on board, unframed board: 18 x 13 inches condition:...
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1970s French School Landscape Paintings

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Oil

19th century English marine of Dutch or English boats off a coastline
Located in Woodbury, CT
This James Webb English marine painting, circa 1870, is a masterpiece of atmospheric charm and technical precision that would appeal profoundly to an interior designer or fine art co...
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1870s Victorian Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled
Located in Santa Fe, NM
Fantasy, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, titled 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 Abstract Prints

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Lithograph

1950's French Modernist/ Cubist Painting - Two Religious Figures
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
French Landscape by Bernard Labbe (French mid 20th century) original watercolour/ gouache painting on artist paper, unframed size: 16.5 x 9.5 inches condition: very good and ready to...
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1950s Figurative Paintings

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Acrylic

"CRAP" ("Text-i-monial" series by Charles Clary)
Located in Philadelphia, PA
"CRAP" is an original wall-hanging sculpture by Charles Clary as part of the artist's popular "Text-i-monial" series. To create the artwork, Clary hand cuts a series of individual sh...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Sculptures

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Paper, Wood Panel

Deer in fairy Forest, mystical Tree, Madeira, landscape, photography, fine art
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art landscape photography. Mystical tree in the form of a deer in the fairy forest on the island of Madeira, Portugal. Archival pigment ink print, edition of 9. ...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

Portrait of Scottish Terrier and Wire Fox Terrier Dog Companions Pastel Drawing
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
L.W.Fraser English, mid 20th century Terrier Dogs Original pastel drawing, signed on artist paper Glass covering Framed: 16 x 11 inches Provenance: private collection, England Cond...
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Mid-20th Century English School Animal Paintings

Materials

Pastel

Ellsworth Kelly - Composition (Axsom No. I-A), 1964 Lithograph From DLM
By (after) Ellsworth Kelly
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
Artist: Ellsworth Kelly Title: Composition (Axsom No. I-A) Year: 1964 Dimensions: 15in. by 11in. Mount Board Size Inches: 20 x 16 inches Mount Board Color: White/Black Print Border...
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1960s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Daniel Arsham, Heinz Tomato Soup Can, 2019
Located in Manchester, GB
Daniel Arsham, Heinz Tomato Soup, 2019 Ltd edition of 3,000 Excellent Condition 4 1/4 × 3 × 3 in (10.8 × 7.6 × 7.6 cm)
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2010s Contemporary More Art

Materials

Metal

Children freeing a caged bird
Located in Middletown, NY
Etching on cream wove paper, 4 1/2 x 7 inches (114 x 177 mm), wide margins, signed in pencil in the lower right. Laid down to non-archival board with the mat affixed, obscuring the verso and the sheet edges. The visible portion of the sheet is clean with minor toning around the mat window opening. The signature is unobscured and clear. Best known as the original illustrator of Enid Blyton...
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Early 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Etching

Small contemporary modern green wall sculpture painting relief GR15LV
Located in Doetinchem, NL
GR15LV is a unique small size contemporary modern wall sculpture painting relief by German artist Dieter Kränzlein. This sculpture relief is carved from a single block of limestone, ...
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2010s Contemporary Abstract Paintings

Materials

Limestone

Vultures, English antique bird engraving print, 1879
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Vultures Wood-engraving with original colouring. 1879. 160mm by 245mm (sheet). Key below the image. From Oliver Goldsmith's 'A History of the Earth and Animated Nature'.
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Late 19th Century Victorian Animal Prints

Materials

Engraving

Park Here
Located in Burlingame, CA
Park Here - The painting was created in 2024 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years. Dixon’s w...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Future Relic no.3 (Clock)
Located in London, GB
Daniel Arsham Future Relic no.3 (Clock), 2015 Plaster and broken glass comes with the original box some minor wear to the box. 14 × 12.7 × 6.4 cm Edition of 400 Daniel Arsham is a c...
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2010s Contemporary Still-life Sculptures

Materials

Glass, Plaster

Metal Corten Steel Abstract Geometric Folded Origami Sculpture Gerald DiGiusto
By Gerald DiGgiusto
Located in Surfside, FL
Gerald DiGiusto (1929 - 1987) Signed and dated abstract geometric COR-ten steel sculpture, (an all weather steel appropriate for outdoor use) "Folded" Angled Geometric Forms like a ...
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1980s Abstract Geometric Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Steel

“School Girls”
By Edmund Ernest Kosmowski
Located in Southampton, NY
Oil on canvas painting by the Polish born artist, Ernest Kosmowski. The painting is done with palette knife and brush typical of his style and children theme in the 1960’s. Soft, pa...
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1960s Post-Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Abstract expressive vivid nature acrylic painting on canvas "Soft spring"
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This expressive abstract artwork "Soft spring" bursts with vibrant, expressive colors, capturing the essence of an abstract landscape. The artist explores the colors by capturing th...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Miró, Miró Escultor (Cramer 192; Mourlot 935) (after)
Located in Southampton, NY
Lithograph on Guarro vélin paper. Inscription: Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: Published by Publicações Europa-América, Lisbon; printed by La Polígrafa, Ba...
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1970s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

original xylograph
Located in Henderson, NV
Medium: original xylograph. Printed in 1956 and published in Milan by Groupe Espace for the very rare 1956-57 volume of Documenti d'Arte d'Oggi. Image size: 10 1/4 x 8 1/4 inches (26...
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1950s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

CHROMA aka Rick Wolfryd Mexican Huichol Bluetooth Speaker of the House I
Located in Cuauhtemoc, Ciudad de México
FROM THE SPACE TO YOUR DESK!!!. . . BLUETOOTH AND RADIO SPEAKER INCLUDED!!!! A more traditional HUICHOL style sculpture. Looks great in any room!!! ALTERATION ART . . . is a colla...
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2010s Pop Art Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Mixed Media

Fine 17th Century Dutch Oil Painting on Wood Panel Horse & Figures Resting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Resting Place Dutch School, mid 17th century oil painting on board, unframed canvas: 7 x 9 inches provenance: private collection condition: very good and sound condition
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17th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

The Smell of Us (Hand signed poster)
Located in New York, NY
Larry Clark The Smell of Us (Hand signed poster), 2015 Offset lithograph poster Pencil signed by Larry Clark on the back 10 1/2 × 15 1/2 inches Unframed Limited edition poster; hand ...
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2010s Realist Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph, Offset

Early 20th century English Antique portrait of a Polo Pony
Located in Woodbury, CT
This early 20th-century portrait of a Polo Pony by the esteemed English artist George Paice is an exquisite representation of equine artistry, showcasing Paice’s remarkable skill in ...
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1910s Victorian Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Jean-Paul Riopelle 'Composition IX-160' 1966- Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 15 x 11 inches ( 38.1 x 27.94 cm ) Image Size: 15 x 11 inches ( 38.1 x 27.94 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling Additional Details: C...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Spring Collection: Pocket Bluebells, Baroque Still Life, Flower art, Realism
Located in Deddington, GB
Spring Collection: Pocket Bluebells is an original oil painting by Dani Humberstone as part of her Pocket Painting series featuring small scale realistic oil paintings, with a nod to...
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2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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