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Art For Sale
Color: Brown
Warriors Together
By Purvis Young
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Purvis Young (1943 - 2010)
Warriors Together, 1987
Mixed Media house paint on cardboard and thin wood
17.50 x 48 in
Category
1980s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood, House Paint, Cardboard
At Home Wedding
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1941
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30.00" x 45.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Illustration for Look magazine & Calendar Illustration
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
George Jessel, circa 1945
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Graphite on Illustration Board
Signature: Signed Upper Right
On illustration board, matted. The piece measures to 18.00" x 14.00" overall with an 8.00" x 6.00" image.
Caricature by George...
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Illustration Board, Graphite
Yankee Doodle Girls, Original Poster Illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Mixed Media on Board
Signature: Unsigned
Date: 1900
Dimensions: 30.00" x 14.00"
Category
Early 1900s Art
Materials
Paint
Before a Days Shooting
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 20.5 x 27.5 inches
Framed size: 24.75 x 32 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Seated Nude
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
An oil on board painting by Belgian Modernist painter Emiel Creado.
Framed - 60 x 38 Inches
Unframed - 53 x 31 Inches
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Love Addiction TOMAAS
By TOMAAS
Located in PARIS, FR
All prints are Museum-quality glossy paper placed under a 4mm Crystal Clear High-End acrylic glass that delivers an unbelievable depth and the most accurate, vivid and vibrant colors...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital
Charles Laughton, Time magazine cover Illustration, March 31, 1952
Located in Miami, FL
Archivally Matted to 17.75 x 16.75 inches
Signed lower left
Category
1950s American Realist Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Gouache
Lady Posing in a Red Dress
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
Harry Jelinek (1905-1986)
“Lady Posing in a Red Dress”
Signed and dated 1965
Acrylic on board
Category
1960s Post-Modern Art
Materials
Acrylic, Board
Still Life aux Legumes et Poisson
Located in Sheffield, MA
Georges Georoy
Belgium, 1906–1983
Still Life aux Legumes et Poisson
Oil on canvas
23 ¾ in. by 28 ¾ in. W/frame 31 ¾ in. by 36 ¾ in.
Signed lower right
In a period Heydenryk frame
...
Category
1960s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil
Sailboats at Sea, 20th Century French School, colourful original oil on canvas
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
A distinctive mid-20th Century French School painting of three sailboats. Clearly influenced by the Dufy brothers the artist has created a lively scene...
Category
Mid-20th Century French School Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Portrait of a Lady, Early 20th Century Oil
Located in London, GB
Follower of Ambrose McEvoy
Circa 1910
Portrait of a Lady
Oil on canvas
Image size: 20 x 16 inches (51 x 40.5 cm)
Original ebonised Frame
Category
Early 20th Century Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
East River, New York Winter (From Brooklyn Bridge)
Located in Sheffield, MA
Frank Usher De Voll
American, 1873-1941
East River, New York Winter (From Brooklyn Bridge)
Oil on canvas
32 by 36 in. w/frame 41 by 45 in.
Signe...
Category
1910s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Oil
Chicken Littles
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
White Glove ( Michael Jackson ) - large format photograph of iconic rhinestones
Located in San Francisco, CA
White Glove (Michael Jackson) by Tom Schierlitz, a highly detailed still life photograph of the King of Pop 's glamorous Swarovski crystal rhinestone glove, capturing intricate detai...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
Portrait of a Young Woman
By Béla Czóbel
Located in London, GB
BELA CZOBEL 1883-1976
1883 - Budapest-1976 (Hungarian)
Title: Portrait of a Young Woman
Technique: Original Hand Signed Pencil Drawing on paper
size: 28.3 x 21 cm / 11.3 x 8.6 in...
Category
1950s Contemporary Art
Materials
Pencil
Charlotte
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Anthony Palliser was born in 1949 of an English father and a Belgian mother. He studied at Downside school and graduated from New College Oxford. In 1...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art
Materials
Oil
Dreamer, 1983
Located in New York, NY
Large scale oil portrait by Luis Frangella.
A leading figure of the East Village scene in the early 1980s, Luis Frangella (1944-1990) was a figurative,...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Seven Hills of Rome VII - Original Mixed Media painting by Eduard Grossman
Located in Montreal, Quebec
- Signed by the artist Eduard Grossman
- Comes with a high-quality frame.
Category
2010s Other Art Style Art
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Mixed Media
Shipbuilding in Philadelphia
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Shipbuilding in Philadelphia.
Signed lower right.
Category
20th Century Other Art Style Art
Materials
Board, Gouache
Teeter Piper
By Koji Takei
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Creating sculptures of exquisite peculiarity is an art in which Takei excels. His elegantly crafted works embody the notion of the whimsical, contradictory and idiosyncratic. There is an immediately detectable sense of humor and quick wit about the sculptures in this exhibition. Beyond playfulness, however, Takei’s aim is to challenge the viewer to alter the way in which they look at reality.
Taking cues from the Surrealists of the early 20th century, Takei transforms the mundane into the fantastic - and sometimes absurd. His work is a constant inquiry into the meaning of functionality and the perception of purpose. Much like Man Ray’s iconic readymade sculpture, The Gift (1921), and Meret Oppenheim’s infamous fur-covered teacup (Object, 1936), Takei recontextualizes those pragmatic objects that we immediately recognize. With his piece Soft Shoulders (2011), Takei deconstructs a wooden clothes hanger...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Enamel, Metal
New Neighbors
Located in Kansas City, MO
archival pigment print
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Pigment
The Rendezvous
Located in Belgravia, London, London
Oil on canvas
Canvas size: 18 x 12 inches
Framed size: 23 x 16.75 inches
Signed lower right
Category
19th Century Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Secret Project, Magazine Story Illustration
By Amos Sewell
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1948
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 17.25" x 13.50"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
Magazine Story Illustration
Category
1940s Art
Materials
Oil, Board
Two Dancing Figures
By Jules Pascin
Located in London, GB
JULES PASCIN 1885-1930
Vidin, Bulgaria 1885-1930 Paris (Bulgarian/French/American)
Title: Two Dancing Figures
Technique: Original Stamp Signed and Ins...
Category
Early 1900s Contemporary Art
Materials
Pencil
"Lilian"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Gershon Benjamin (1899-1985)
An American Modernist of portraits, landscapes, still lives, and the urban scene, Gershon Benj...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Watercolor
'Red Roses and a Lemon', California, Post-Impressionist, Esalen Institute
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed, verso, 'Ant McNaught' for Anthony McNaught (American, born 1952), titled 'Still Life with Lemon', dated 2018 and inscribed, 'After Pablo Picasso'.
This California Post-Impressionist and Abstract Expressionist studied at Big Sur's Esalen Institute with Erin Gafill...
Category
2010s Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Canvas
"Furlong in Spring"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Illustrated in "Joseph Barrett, The Prime Years 1970s - 1990s", pg. 21 #024
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by:
Joseph Barrett (1936 – )
Joseph Barrett was born in Midland, North Carolina, in 1936 and studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston and at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia. Barrett, now of Lahaska, Pennsylvania, has been painting his entire adult life. His favorite subjects include the landscape surrounding New Hope and many local landmarks often encompassing figures into his compositions. Barrett utilizes a heavy impasto and his palette bears similarities to that of Fern Coppedge and George Sotter. Barrett’s paintings are always found in unique and somewhat charming handmade frames designed by the artist and finished in metal leaf.
A living contemporary of the no longer living “New Hope School” impressionist painters, Joseph Barrett resides outside of New Hope above his old-fashioned antique shop and studio. Entering Barrett’s shop is like taking a step back in time. Inside this cluttered and dusty haven of treasures from the past, is a studio spanning only four by eight feet. This little studio, containing cans of old brushes and hundreds of used paint tubes...
Category
Late 20th Century American Impressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Lady at her Vanity
Located in Sheffield, MA
Henry Mayo Bateman
English, 1887–1970
Lady at her Vanity
Watercolor on paper
9 ½ by 10 ½ in. W/frame 18 ½ by 19 ½ in.
Signed & dated 1904 lower on left
H. M. Bateman was noted for his "The Man Who..." series of cartoons, featuring comically exaggerated reactions to minor and usually upper-class social gaffes, such as "The Man Who Lit His Cigar Before the Loyal Toast", "The Man Who Threw a Snowball at St. Moritz" and "The Boy Who Breathed on the Glass at the British Museum."
He was born in the small village of Sutton Forest in New South Wales, Australia. His parents were Henry Charles Bateman and Rose Mayo. His father had left England for Australia in 1878 at the age of 21 to seek his fortune, then returned to England briefly in 1885 before going back with an English wife. Soon after Henry was born, his strong-willed mother insisted that they return to London 'and civilisation'. He had one sister, Phyllis, three years younger. Henry remained in England for the remainder of his life except for one disappointing visit to his birthplace.[citation needed]
Henry was always drawing from an early age, consistently producing funny drawings...
Category
Early 1900s Art Nouveau Art
Materials
Watercolor
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
Museum Quality, Nude with Pink Towel
Located in Miami, FL
Walkowitz creates a powerful composition with the tightly cropped nude figure pushed up-close to the viewer and occupying half of the picture plane. Smaller figures lead the eye back...
Category
1920s Modern Art
Materials
Oil
United Nations and Manhattan Skyline wrapped in Divine Light with Jet Ski
Located in Miami, FL
United Nations wrapped in Divine Light while a man on a Jet Ski passes glides in front on the East River
Bright golden light rushes down 42nd street and cloak...
Category
2010s Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Archival Paper, Archival Pigment, Photographic Paper
Apaños y componedas
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Mixed Media
Poker
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work certificate
Category
2010s Conceptual Art
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Mademoiselle Carmela
Located in Lagos, NG
mademoiselle Carmela
She is a money goddess
a special woman
a woman of substance
a woman in wealth
a good woman and
an African woman with a rich cultural heritage she is surround...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor
The scribe 2
Located in Lagos, NG
This abstract painting is illustrating the ancient writer symbols and drawing attention to the accient writer acrylic on canvas on 100x80 cm canvas
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic, Pen
Long Road Ahead - Original Oil on canvas painting by Catherine Colosimo
Located in Montreal, Quebec
-- Artwork comes with the certificate of authenticity
-- Artwork is signed by the artist Catherine Colosimo
-- Artwork comes with a premium quality frame
Category
2010s Pop Art Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Summer Evening Hike - Original Oil on Canvas painting by Catherine Colosimo
Located in Montreal, Quebec
-- Artwork comes with the certificate of authenticity
-- Artwork is signed by the artist Catherine Colosimo
-- Artwork comes with a premium quality frame
Category
2010s Pop Art Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Belles Demoiselle By TOMAAS
By TOMAAS
Located in PARIS, FR
All prints are Museum-quality glossy paper placed under a 4mm Crystal Clear High-End acrylic glass that delivers an unbelievable depth and the most accurate, vivid and vibrant colors...
Category
2010s Pop Art Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Digital
The Wasteland
Located in Stamford, CT
Chaurasiya experiments with his mediums, using unconventional materials like matchsticks and motherboards to create a cultural commentary on our decaying natural surroundings. His wo...
Category
2010s Contemporary Art
Materials
Plywood, Mixed Media, Synthetic Resin, Pigment
Noah's Messenger - Original oil on canvas painting by Eduard Grossman
Located in Montreal, Quebec
-- Artwork comes with a certificate of authenticity and a premium quality frame
-- Signed by Eduard Grossman
Category
Early 2000s Abstract Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Nail Inlay Wall Piece No. 9 (Coven Footed Hedgehog) oak, pvc, gouache
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 Other Art Style Art
Materials
Wood Panel, Wood, Mixed Media, Panel
All The Old Familiar Places
Located in Fresno, CA
The first time I heard the words “abstract expressionism” I was in New York, trying to grab another day of leave before the army shipped me overseas. At that time in 1952, while brow...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Art
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Dancers III
By David Remfry
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Whether obscured by the smoky nightclub lighting or enlivened by the strong color of the Mardi Gras dancers, David Remfry’s life-size watercolors evoke a kaleidoscope of movement. M...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Hollywood - large format photograph of iconic California landmark in Los Angeles
Located in San Francisco, CA
large scale photograph of an epic view of the iconic Hollywood sign and sprawling downtown Los Angeles in the distance
HOLLYWOOD by Christian Stoll
40 x 40 inches / 102 x 102cm
si...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Giclée
“Has Found Out Thy Bed” (FRAMED) Photography 20x30 inch Ed. of 5 by Brian Ziff
By Brian Ziff
Located in Culver City, CA
“Has Found Out Thy Bed” (FRAMED) Photography 20x30 inch Ed. of 5 by Brian Ziff
“Has Found Out Thy Bed” (2016)
Giclee (Archival Ink) Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag
20” X 30” inch ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art
Materials
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
Oriental Woman - Woodcut by Utagawa Kunisada - 1830 ca.
Located in Roma, IT
Oriental Woman is an original print realized around 1830 by Utagawa Kunisada.
Beautiful colored woodblock print.
Good conditions except for some folds...
Category
1830s Art
Materials
Woodcut
Ambassadeurs Aristide Bruant in his cabaret by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
Located in New York, NY
This lithographic poster illustrates Aristide Bruant who was a famous performer and cabaret owner in Paris at the turn of the 20th century. Lautrec, seizing on Bruant's trademark cos...
Category
Late 19th Century Post-Impressionist Art
Materials
Lithograph
Golf Moments by Katharina Hormel - Contemporary abstract Oil painting
Located in DE
Katharina Hormel paints minimalistic every day scenes of life. The people she portrays are out and about going about their daily life, enjoying a walk...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Breakfast Table, Northwich - British Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Breakfast Table, is a rare studio creation by Richard Heeps, inspired by a recent visit to Fleetwood, incorporating autobiographical elements, brought...
Category
1980s Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
Rolling Hill No.2 Oil Paint on Canvas, Painting by Alexa Roscoe, 2022
Located in Deddington, GB
Rolling Hill no.2 by Alexa Roscoe [2022]
Rolling Hill no.2 is an original oil painting by artist Alexa Roscoe. Like Rolling hill no.1 it has a sense of p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Canvas
L'Avant-Foyer de l'Opera /// French Impressionist Etching Figurative Lady Man
By Tony Minartz
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Tony Minartz (French, 1873-1944)
Title: "L'Avant-Foyer de l'Opera"
Portfolio: Revue de l'Art Ancien & Moderne
*Issued unsigned
Year: 1903
Medium: Original Etching on cream laid paper
Limited edition: Unknown
Printer: Unknown
Publisher: Revue de l'Art Ancien & Moderne, Paris, France
Framing: Not framed, but matted with 100% cotton rag matting from Holland, gold filet from Italy, and foam board backing. All archival
Matted size: 17" x 14.5"
Sheet size: 12" x 9"
Image size: 9" x 7.25"
Condition: In excellent condition
Notes:
Printed in one color: bistre.
This review was founded in 1897 in the continuity of the review Les Beaux-Arts published between 1861 and 1865; Jules Comte, the founder, entitled his first issue Les Beaux-Arts - Revue nouvelle then changed the title to La Revue de l'art ancien et moderne. Jules Comte directed the review until his death in 1912. Raymond Woog took over , who was provisional director until the start of the war in July 1914. In 1919, André Dezarrois took over this review and was its director until December 1937, date of last issue (published in January 1938). In the meantime, it publishes the Bulletin of ancient and modern art, which has gained a certain notoriety in the community.
Biography:
Tony Minartz, pseudonym of Antoine Guillaume, born 8 April 1873 to Cannes and died in that city on 13 December 1944 Is a painter, draftsman , illustrator and engraver French.
Painter autodidact , Tony Minartz starts to become known in 1896 by exhibiting paintings at the Salon of the National Society of Fine Arts , and then decorates the Pompadour theater of painted panels for fashion shows " Grand Guignol ", directed by L. Darthenay. In 1903, Henri Béraldi , with whom he worked, praised him in The Journal of ancient and modern art, writing that "it was thirty years ago," and he has received advice from Paul Renouard to be formed the technique of etching ; Béraldi adds that his favorite subjects are "Paris at night Paris at night, always." Minartz also gives them some high-remarkable in The Journal of ancient and modern art until 1910: balls, cafe concerts, Parisian in their most beautiful dresses, but also music-halls, music halls, restaurants, large and small theaters, are the preferred settings of his compositions.
Its fertile period seems to end in 1914. In addition to the National Salon, Minartz exhibited in Paris at the gallery Bartholomew (1903), the Independent Living (1905, 1906) and the gallery Devambez (1909) and received the Academic Palms . He occasionally collaborates with periodic illustrated as The Almanac Sports (Ollendorff, 1899), or satirical as Gil Blas...
Category
Early 1900s Impressionist Art
Materials
Intaglio, Laid Paper, Etching
Free Range & Howboy
By Don Ed Hardy
Located in Lyons, CO
Color lithograph with gold leaf, Edition 30
Don Ed Hardy is a painter, printmaker and tattoo artist. Fascinated by tattoos since childhood, Hardy has ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Lithograph
Poster of The Angel of Judgment-
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This poster was printed for an exhibition of Chagall's monumental work held at the National Museum, Nice 1974. Published by the Society of Friends of the National Marc Chagall Biblical...
Category
20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Treasure : Harlequine - Original handsigned lithograph - 199ex
Located in Paris, FR
Jean-Baptiste VALADIE
Treasure : Harlequine
Original lithograph
Handsigned in pencil
Limited /199 copies
On vellum 71 x 55 cm (c. 28 x 22 in)
Excellent condition
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Art
Materials
Lithograph
Redwoods (6 glass panels) - large format abstract nature forest panorama
Located in San Francisco, CA
a large scale photograph of lush emerald green nature oasis, a highly detailed observation of the soothing natural beauty of the California redwood forest
Redwoods (hexaptych) by Erik Pawassar
48 x 132 inches (122 x 335cm)
six panels of 48 x 22 inches / each
"frameless" acrylic glass face mount
edition of 7
signed
archival quality fine art pigment print
limited art edition published by Edition EKTAlux
artist signed + numbered certificate of authenticity
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"Modern Gallery Frameless", a contemporary alternative to classic framing:
photo print is mounted onto aluminum composite for archival support and stability,
then sealed behind a protective layer of high quality acrylic glass with polished edges all around.
A recessed aluminum back frame adds additional stability, allows instant hanging and provides a floating artwork appearance.
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Erik Pawassar's work focuses on the beauty of the disregarded or mundane object. The subjects for his striking and captivating visuals are typically set in the most ordinary environments, drawing the viewer into a charged but serene experience based on composition, palette and formal lines. Saturated in color, the nominal subjects gather a haunting and mesmerizing quality, creating a poignant pretext for the making of a formal color photograph.
Decisively capturing the traces left by humanity, Pawassar's images are filled with a sense of universal nostalgia and pay homage to the passage of time and the extinguished moment, referencing documentary and street photographers like Henri Cartier-Bresson, Sebastian Salgado...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
Photographic Paper, Archival Pigment, Plexiglass, Archival Ink, Giclée
"Ora ti vedo" by Enzio Wenk, 2016 - Abstract Portrait on Masonite, Framed
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Now I see you".
Acrylic on masonite.
Category
2010s Art
Materials
Masonite, Acrylic
Massimo Listri Biblioteca di Sainte Genevieve Paris France 2016 C-print Ed 5/5
Located in London, GB
C-Print mounted on aluminum and framed.
Edition of 5
Signed, numbered and titled on label.
Various sizes available.
120 x 100 cm (47,2'' x 39,3'' Inches) - € 12.500
150 x 120 cm (5...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art
Materials
C Print
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