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Art For Sale
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The Physiognomy - Profile - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
The Physiognomy - Profile is an original etching artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Lov...
Category

1810s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

"Hippie", abstract, lime, green, blue, lichen, color photo, metal print
Located in Natick, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Hippie” is part of a her texture series taking an up-close look rusted and/or weathered metal. This abstract image is a close up of lichen on a lime green and blue...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Metal

SPACIO 7, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Pintura acrilica en bastidor de madera sobre soporte de tela. Lleva una capa de barniz para evitar el polvo y la humedad. Se transporta en caja de madera especial obras de arte. D...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

SPACIO 3, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Pintura acrilica en bastidor de madera sobre soporte de tela. Lleva una capa de barniz para evitar el polvo y la humedad. Se transporta en caja de madera especial obras de arte. D...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

SPACIO 6, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Pintura acrilica en bastidor de madera sobre soporte de tela. Lleva una capa de barniz para evitar el polvo y la humedad. Se transporta en caja de madera especial obras de arte. D...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

"Emergence Series 1", abstract large yellow wrapped wire 3-D wall sculpture
Located in Edgartown, MA
Eric Gushee is a Chicago based artists, who was born and raised in New York City. His interest in art was first found at Marlboro College, where he studied creative writing. But afte...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Steel

Neighborhood Garden (Suburbia), analog, mounted - Contemporary, Polaroid, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Neighborhood Garden (Suburbia) - 2004 60x80cm Edition of 5, analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on the Polaroid. Artist Inventory No. 405. Signature label and cert...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Play Time, Abstract 3D Original Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karo Martirosyan, Work: Original Artwork, Medium: Glass and Metal Wall Sculpture, Year: 2022 Style: Contemporary Art, Subject: Play Time, Siz...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Metal

Pieces of the Universe
Located in Albuquerque, NM
Deborah Sipple, Pieces of the Universe, 2019, colored pencil on paper mounted on board From an early age, Deborah Sipple found her love of color and draw...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Color Pencil

Rest your head on me
By Matthew Porter
Located in New York, NY
Rest your head on me 2017 Signed in black ink, verso Archival pigment print 6 x 6 inches (15.24 x 15.24 cm), sheet 5.5 x 5.5 inches (14 x 14 cm), image This work is offered by Cl...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Number 2, 2014, graffiti, street art, abstract, text, collage, red, yellow
By NTEL
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Acrylic, enamel, metal and collage on canvas
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Metal, Enamel

Standing Female Nude [...] - Original Lithograph after E. Schiele - 2007
Located in Roma, IT
Standing Female Nude from the Waist Down is a beautiful, original, and colored lithograph from the portfolio "Erotica" by Egon Schiele. It is a reproduction of the homonym watercolo...
Category

Early 2000s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

'Red Flower In A Yellow Bouquet' Still-Life Contemporary Art by Ming Ming
Located in Carmel, CA
The painting comes with a certificate of authenticity and a letter of appraisal. Mingming was born and raised in Guangzhou, China. She graduated from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cover, from Derriere le Miroir #173
Located in Washington, DC
Artist: Alexander Calder Title: Cover, from Derriere le Miroir #173 Portfolio: Derriere le Miroir #173 Medium: Lithograph Date: 1968 Edition: Un...
Category

1960s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

Original Vintage Poster Forsthaus Ilkahohe Art Deco Restaurant Tutzing Bavaria
Located in London, GB
Original vintage poster for the Forsthaus Ilkahohe forester's house restaurant in Oberzeismering near Tutzing in Bavaria Germany. Great Art Deco design featuring a smiling lady in an apron carrying coffee and tea pots and cups...
Category

1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Paper

African Village - Original Lithograph by Emmanuel Gondouin - 1930s
Located in Roma, IT
African Performer is an original lithograph realized in the early 1930s by Emmanuel Gondouin, (Versailles, 1883 - Parigi, 1934) The artwork is depicted through strong strokes and ...
Category

1930s Modern Art

Materials

Lithograph

"Post Office Tower, London, " Daniel Rich, Contemporary Precisionism, Yellow
Located in New York, NY
Daniel Rich (German, b. 1977) Post Office Tower, London, UK, 2004 Enamel on wood 60 x 60 1/8 inches Signed, dated, and titled in black marker on verso Pro...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Enamel

Bouquet (peony, yellow, jade)
Located in Bloomington, IL
"Bouquet (peony, yellow, jade)" is a unique collagraph print from a series published by Manneken Press in 2019. In collagraph printmaking the artist adds to the plate to create the image rather than carving into it, as in relief printing, or etching into it, as in intaglio printing. Howe painted the image of a bouquet of flowers in a vase with sweeping, fluid brushstrokes strokes, directly onto the plate, using a thick gel medium. Carborundum grit was added to create the texture necessary to hold the ink. Different colors were used for each impression printed from the plate, creating a series of unique but related prints. Like all of Howe's works, her monotypes have a strong, vibrant, spontaneous energy and a sensuous sensibility. Referencing her personal garden located in the Hudson Valley, flowers dissolve into abstract flurries of brush marks and fields of commingled colors. The artist balances abstraction with representation in gestural prints which are process-based while retaining an affinity with the observed subject matter. Catherine Howe is widely admired for her painterly works that reference both the baroque and nature. Drawing from nature, Howe’s paintings is influenced by New York School abstraction, as well as rococo and 17th century Dutch still life paintings. Catherine Howe received an MFA from SUNY Buffalo in 1983. Her paintings have been exhibited extensively in New York, and the United States, including solo exhibitions at New York Academy of Art, Winston Wächter...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Monotype

Brooklyn Bridge (Strange Love) - Polaroid, New York, Empire State, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Brooklyn Bridge (Strange Love) - 2005 20x25cm, Edition of 10. Digital C-Print, based on a Polaroid. Signature label and certificate. Artist Inventory No. 18350. Not mounted. “I ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

The Physiognomy - The Pray - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
The physiognomy - The pray is an original etching artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to Promote the Knowledge and the Lo...
Category

1810s Old Masters Art

Materials

Etching

Original Vintage Travel Poster Deutsche Lufthansa Fast To The Goal Arrow Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel poster advertising Deutsche Lufthansa featuring a dynamic Art Deco style illustration of a propeller plane marked with the Lufthansa crane logo and German Naz...
Category

1930s Art Deco Art

Materials

Paper

Original Vintage Propaganda Poster USSR USA Superman Cold War Soviet Union Comic
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Superman style poster - CCCP USA - by the renowned graphic designer Roman Cieslewicz (1930-1996) featuring a colourful image of mirro...
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Paper

Old Cemetery - Original Woodcut by Rafaele Angelo Oppio - Early 20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Vecchio Campo Santo (Old Cemetery) is an original woodcut print realized by Rafaele Angelo Oppio in the early 20th century. Good conditions. The artwork is depicted through strong ...
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

La Casetta - Woodcut by Cesare Vincenti- Early 20th century
By Cesare Vincenti
Located in Roma, IT
La Casetta del Cipresso (translated "House by the Cypress")is an original woodcut print realized by Cesare Vincenti in the early 20th century. Good conditions. The artwork is depic...
Category

Early 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Woodcut

OY / YO
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Walking the line between respectful homage and tongue-in-cheek appropriation, Deborah Kass mimics and reworks the signature styles of iconic 20th-century male artists including Frank...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Screen

Arrival - Contemporary Abstract Art: Deeply Textured Oil Pain on Canvas
Located in London, GB
Brian Neish is fascinated by painted surfaces, particularly surfaces having to endure the extremes of sunlight, wind, frost and rain. He calls the appearance of these debilitating ef...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

All Of A Sudden, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Inspired by the verses of Orhan Veli Kanik: Everything happened all of a sudden. All of a sudden daylight beat down on the earth; There was the sky all of a sudden; All of a su...
Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

The Dance - Original Drawing by Mino Maccari - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The Dance is an original Drawing in pen on paper realized by Mino Maccari in mid 20th century. Good conditions with some foxing. Mino Maccari (1898-1989) was an Italian writer, pai...
Category

Mid-20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Pen

Holi Banaras, Charcoal, Acrylic, Canvas by Contemporary Artist Indian "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Somnath Bothe - Holi Banaras - 40 x 60 inches (unframed size) Charcoal & Acrylic on Canvas Inclusive of shipment in roll form. Somnath Bothe's creations represent a beautiful blend...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

Overpass (Vegas) - Polaroid, Contemporary, 21st Century, Color
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Overpass (Vegas) - 2000 44x59cm, Edition 1/10. Analog C-Print based on a Polaroid. Signature label and Certificate. Artist inventory number: 549.01. Mounted on Aluminum with mat...
Category

1990s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Early 20th Century Gouache - Standing Female Nude with Yellow Cloth
Located in Corsham, GB
Unsigned. On canvas on stretchers.
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Gouache

Untitled
Located in Fairlawn, OH
Bömmels belonged to the co-founders of the Cologne artist group Mülheimer Freiheit , which also included Hans Peter Adamski , Walter Dahn , Jiří Georg Dokoupil , Gerard Kever and Gerhard Naschberger . From 1979, the young artists shared a backyard studio in the street "Mülheimer Freiheit" in Cologne, which leads to the Rhine. In 1980 he co-founded the music magazine Spex . In 1983 he was awarded the Promotion Prize of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia for Fine Arts, In 1986 and 1987 he had a visiting professorship at the College of Fine Arts in Hamburg , from 1990 to 1992 at the then Hochschule der Künste Berlin , in 1996 at the Royal Danish Academy of Art in Copenhagen and from 2001 to 2002 at the Braunschweig Academy of Fine Arts . From 2004 to 2018 professor for painting at the HfBK Dresden . In 1993 he received the Fred Thieler...
Category

1980s Surrealist Art

Materials

Graphite

Ancient Trackway 1
Located in Deddington, GB
Ancient Trackway 1 By Sarah Brooks [2022] limited_edition Mixed media Edition number 40 Image size: H:29.7 cm x W:42.5 cm Complete Size of Unframed W...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Daily Life Scene - Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Daily life scene is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledge a...
Category

1810s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Sex Pistols "Never Mind The Bollocks" Giant Handmade 3D Vintage Button
Located in Austin, US
Sex Pistols "Never Mind The Bollocks" - Hand made giant 3D vintage button by British artist, Tony Dennis, AKA Tapedeck Art Artwork printed onto vinyl and ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Art

Materials

Other Medium

The Dance - Drawing by Mino Maccari - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Dance is an original Drawing in china ink on paper realized by Mino Maccari in mid 20th century. Good conditions with some foxing. Mino Maccari (1898-1989) was an Italian write...
Category

1950s Modern Art

Materials

Ink

1997 Robert Indiana 'The New Glory Penny' SERIGRAPH
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 22 x 17 inches ( 55.88 x 43.18 cm ) Image Size: 9.5 x 14 inches ( 24.13 x 35.56 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: Limited Edition Serigraph pub...
Category

1990s Pop Art Art

Materials

Screen

Composition - Lithograph by Raphael Alberti - 1972
Located in Roma, IT
Composition is an original lithograph artwork, realized by Rafael Alberti in 1972. Hand-signed, dated, numbered, edition of 83/99 prints The state of preservation is very good. T...
Category

1970s Abstract Art

Materials

Lithograph

Original Vintage Drink Poster Non Alcoholic Soft Drinks Juice USSR Food Industry
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster - Drink soft drinks made with pure sugar, natural juices and tinctures made by the Belbroadtrest factories - featuring an image of a wooden barrel...
Category

1940s Art

Materials

Paper

Ben Frost "Gotta Take Em All" Print Edition Pikachu Cartoon Anime Pokemon
Located in Draper, UT
Ben Frost - "Gotta Take 'Em All" - Giclee Print - Bauhaus 310gsm Photo Rag 100% Cotton Paper - 19.68 x 19.68 inches (50x50cm) - Edition of 100 signed, numbered with COA
Category

2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Giclée

YELLOW BASQUIAT IN MY KITCHEN CORNER, Painting, Street Art
Located in Munich, DE
Edition 5 Portrait of Basquiat. JAY-C – the pseudonym of this innovative young artist known for his subversive use of familiar figures and symbols. Using a distinct and fine Briti...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Pigment, Archival Pigment

Henry watching Athena Dance II - 21st Century, Contemporary, Ryan Gosling
Located in Morongo Valley, CA
Henry watching Athena Dance (Stay) - 2006, 78x76cm, 2006, Edition 4/5 analog C-Print, hand-printed by the artist, based on a Polaroid Certificate and Signature label ...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Raymond Pettibon for Black Flag (Raymond Pettibon punk flyer)
Located in NEW YORK, NY
Raymond Pettibon A rare flyer for gig by Black Flag, September 27, 1984 at the Indian Center, Salt Lake City, UT with off-set artwork by Pettibon Flea, the Red Hot Chili Peppers ba...
Category

1980s Pop Art Art

Materials

Offset

Running Girl in Yellow
Located in Provincetown, MA
Julian Cardinal is from the tip of Cape Cod in Truro, Massachusetts and has showcased his vast, colorful array of feminine figures, still lifes and landscapes at prominent galleries ...
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Oil

Portrait of Moncrif - Original Etching by Thomas Holloway - 1810
Located in Roma, IT
Portrait of Moncrif is an original artwork realized by Thomas Holloway for Johann Caspar Lavater's "Essays on Physiognomy, Designed to promote the Knowledge and the Love of Mankind"...
Category

1810s Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Reclining Nude
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Joseph Stella. "Reclining Nude" is a figurative painting, oil on canvas in a bright palette of yellows, greens, and tans by American Modernist artist Joseph Stella. The...
Category

Early 20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Original Vintage Drink Poster Corbieres AOC Wine France Languedoc Roussillon
Located in London, GB
Original vintage drink poster for Corbieres wine from the Languedoc Roussillon region of France - Un cru qui a de l'accent / A cru of note - feat...
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Paper

Yellow reunion (Lost lights) 2, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Abstract minimalist color field with yellow shades and gloss finish. Created using palette knifes and fine textured layers. Signed in front. Ready to hang I include a certificate ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

PLAYLIST OK BOOMER
Located in Madrid, ES
PLAYLIST In the past decade a series of big issues have emerged to define our times; we see demonstrations erupting somewhere every day. Interestingly, in a digital age, graffiti and...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Acrylic, Panel

Original Vintage Film Poster Tintin And The Temple Of The Sun Comics Movie Art
Located in London, GB
Original vintage movie poster for French release of the 1969 animated family cartoon Tintin and the Temple of the Sun / Tintin et le Temple du Soleil directed by Eddie Lateste based ...
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Paper

Angel, Yellow, Martin Whatson, Rare Edition of 10 from 2013, Street Art
Located in Draper, UT
Martin Whatson, Angel, 2013 16 Color Screen Print on 300 gsm Somerset Paper Print Size, 27 11/20 × 39 2/5 in Framed Size, 30 3/4 x 42 in Number 5 from an edition 10.
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Paper

Mahalaxmi, Acrylic on Canvas, Red, Yellow by Contemporary Artist "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Anil Kumar Yadav - Mahalaxmi - 36 x 48 inches (unframed size) Acrylic on Canvas , 2014 ( UNFRAMED ALL IN DOOR DELIVERED ) STYLE : Anil Kumar Yadav is an Artist from Kolkata who was born in 1984 a village in Uttar Pradesh. He grew up among villagers with modest lives and the village culture. The Rangolis at the village festival and the local potters’ fine works of art inspired him greatly towards art as a hobby and potential career from early childhood. His father was then posted to Kolkata so their family relocated to the city. Once the capital of India, with its rich cultural heritage and character immediately caught my attention. He started painting for the first time in the city. Since the central theme to his paintings is related to present day society, his works appear photographic or naturalistic. The religious ghats of Varanasi, Haridwar and other antique places attracted him for their cultural heritage characterised by the holy saints, antique architectures, old idol sculptures and mysticism, spirituality. So he portrayed the simplicity of the architectural doors, temples, sculptures and the beautiful narrow streets and ‘galis’ which holds beauty that can not be described in words. He always prefers a highly realistic approach in his paintings for whatever he sees in his surroundings. He started to represent paintings in a form whose expression manifests a step ahead of photography. He has always tried to reach to a horizon where photography cannot reach and make a statement what is called hyperrealism. EDUCATIONAL QUALIFICATIONS 2001-2006, 5 years Diploma in Painting (First Class) SwarSangam,Birla Academy of Art and Culture Kolkata. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2015 TajBengal,Kolkata. 2013 TajBengal,Kolkata. 2012 Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi 2010 Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi 2009 TajBengal,Kolkata. GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2020 “BENARAS”, Art Villa art gallery, Kolkata 2019 “Tryst With Colour IV”, Indian habitat center visual art gallery- by Nirvana (New Delhi) 2019 “1 SQUARE FEET”, Gallery Space, Hyderabad 2017 "Artist Echoes", Indian habitat center visual art gallery- by Nirvana (New Delhi) 2015 “GREENATHON”,presents Gallery Sree Arts at GalerieRomain Rolland, Alliance Francaise, New Delhi. 2015 “SRIJAN SAJAN”, Academy Of Fine Arts, Kolkata. 2014 “STROKE”, Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi. 2013 “PERSPECTIVE”Academy Of Fine Arts,Kolkata 2012 “PERSPECTIVE”Gallery Gold, kolkata 2011 Artchutney present an exhibition Goa 2011 Artchutney present an exhibition Bangalore 2011 India Habitat Center, Palm Court...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Yellow Flower IV
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Jose Maria Sicilia. "Yellow Flower IV" is a geometric, gestural abstract painting, acrylic on linen by Jose Maria Sicilia. The artwork is signed on the verso, "Yellow F...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic

Yellow Corridor (Night), Milan - Italian architectural color photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Yellow Corridor (Night), from Richard Heeps series A Short History of Milan which began as a special project for the 2018 Affordable Art Fair Milan. It was well received and the artw...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Yellow Corridor (Day), Milan - Architectural Interiors Color Photography
Located in Cambridge, GB
Yellow Corridor (Day), from Richard Heeps series A Short History of Milan which began as a special project for the 2018 Affordable Art Fair Milan. It was well received and the artwor...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin

Large abstract oil painting - Yellow Makes the Moves - architectural, color
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful piece in a vibrant yet harmonious balance of geometry and color. Oil Painting - Yellow Makes the Move 35x35x2 in. Oil paint, cold wax medium and marble dust on c...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Figures - Ink and Watercolor by Leo Guida - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Figures is an original artwork realized by Leo Guida. Watercolor drawing on ivory paper. Good conditions. Not signed.
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

Indian Contemporary Art by Sumit Mehndiratta - Exploflora Series No.96
Located in Paris, IDF
Acrylic on canvas, artwork can be shipped in a tube or framed in a crate
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

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