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Sonia Delaunay, Spanish Dancer, from XXe Siecle, 1972
Sonia Delaunay, Spanish Dancer, from XXe Siecle, 1972

Sonia Delaunay, Spanish Dancer, from XXe Siecle, 1972

By Sonia Delaunay

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph by Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979), titled Danseuse espagnole (Spanish Dancer), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, XXXIVe Annee, No. 39, Decembre 1972, o...

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1970s Orphist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

I've Been Everywhere - Abstract Vintage Inspired Figurative Painting on Canvas
I've Been Everywhere - Abstract Vintage Inspired Figurative Painting on Canvas

I've Been Everywhere - Abstract Vintage Inspired Figurative Painting on Canvas

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Jesse’s imagery often merges playful and gritty elements, blending floral patterns, vintage-inspired designs, and bold outlines with a touch of whimsy. His artwork exudes a sense of ...

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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model
A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model

A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model

By Harold Haydon

Located in Chicago, IL

A Fine 1930s, Modern Academic Figure Study Drawing of a Standing Male Nude Model by Notable Chicago Artist, Harold Haydon (Am. 1909-1994). An exceptionally well executed, early 1930...

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1930s American Modern Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

Marino Marini, Untitled, from XXe Siecle, 1955
Marino Marini, Untitled, from XXe Siecle, 1955

Marino Marini, Untitled, from XXe Siecle, 1955

By Marino Marini

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph by Marino Marini (1901–1980), titled Sans titre (Untitled), from the album XXe Siecle, Nouvelle serie, No. 5 (double), Juin 1955, originates from the 1955 e...

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1950s Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

The Way Home. A Winter Evening

The Way Home. A Winter Evening

Located in Middletown, NY

A beautiful, dark impression of a bucolic cow path. Etching with drypoint on heavy cream wove paper, 6 5/8 x 9 7/8 inches (174 x 248 mm), full margins. Uniform light brown discolorat...

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Late 19th Century English School Landscape Prints

Materials

Handmade Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa

Mona Lisa

By Larry Moss

Located in New York, NY

Larry Moss has created his amazing air-filled art called “airigami” in 12 countries on four continents. Moss's work with latex balloons makes great art accessible to kids in a fun e...

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2010s Portrait Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Black Parrot by JJK, Photography, Limited Edition, Flower, Tulip

Black Parrot by JJK, Photography, Limited Edition, Flower, Tulip

Located in München, BY

Black Parrot Tulips Edition of 25 signed and numbered by the artist The most well-known meaning of tulips is perfect and deep love. As the tulip is a classic flower that has been lo...

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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Tolerant - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Modern, Dog, Couple, Cat
The Tolerant - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Modern, Dog, Couple, Cat

The Tolerant - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Modern, Dog, Couple, Cat

Located in Ibadan, Oyo

Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (issued by The Gal...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Mr. Lawrence - Minimalist Abstract Neutral Painting on Natural Canvas
Mr. Lawrence - Minimalist Abstract Neutral Painting on Natural Canvas

Mr. Lawrence - Minimalist Abstract Neutral Painting on Natural Canvas

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Los Angeles artist Taylour Martin creates captivating abstract compositions in acrylic on canvas, showcasing a dynamic interplay of emotions and colors. Martin's art is a reflection ...

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2010s Minimalist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel, Mixed Media, Acrylic, Pencil

Waiting for the Maharaja II- line drawing woman figure with jewelry

Waiting for the Maharaja II- line drawing woman figure with jewelry

By Mila Akopova

Located in Fort Lee, NJ

The work was done with ink and watercolor on watercolor paper 300g. The work is 11 by 15 inches in size. This is the "Many thoughts, one head" series. The series started with the picture of a figure with its hands framing the head - but without an actual head, as if hands were holding all the thoughts. Later on the head became objects - metaphors (soap, bubble, mine, alarm clock, etc.) as well as planets. Each person is an individual planet, with their own thoughts and satellites - companions. Artworks from this series got 3rd place at the 2020 and 2021 American Art Awards, juried by 25 best galleries...

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2010s Minimalist Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Boats Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Boats Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang

Boats Impressionism Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang

By Vahe Yeremyan

Located in Granada Hills, CA

Artist: Vahe Yeremyan Title: Boats Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2025 Style: Impressionism Dimensions: 9.5" x 12.5" x 0.8" inch (24 x 32 x 2cm) Presentation: Unframed, Gallery Wrapped ...

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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Elly van Oostrom - For Restoration 19th Century Oil, A Fork in the Path
Elly van Oostrom - For Restoration 19th Century Oil, A Fork in the Path

Elly van Oostrom - For Restoration 19th Century Oil, A Fork in the Path

Located in Corsham, GB

This fine 19th-century landscape portrays a traveller pausing at a fork in the road, contemplating his path before a signpost. The scene is rendered with delicate brushwork, exhibiti...

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19th Century Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

As Catedrais Beach, Spain – Black-and-White Seascape Photograph (Rock Arch)
As Catedrais Beach, Spain – Black-and-White Seascape Photograph (Rock Arch)

As Catedrais Beach, Spain – Black-and-White Seascape Photograph (Rock Arch)

By Gerald Berghammer

Located in Vienna, Vienna

Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 7 // Gallery ID: 21204 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

The Luberon Valley Provence Superb French Modernist Signed Painting
The Luberon Valley Provence Superb French Modernist Signed Painting

The Luberon Valley Provence Superb French Modernist Signed Painting

By Huguette Ginet-Lasnier

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Artist/ School: Huguette Ginet-Lasnier (French 1927-2020), signed lower front Ginet-Lasnier, the wife of the painter Jean Lasnier, was born in the Seine-Maritime region of France an...

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21st Century and Contemporary Modern Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Laurel Forest, Portugal – Colour Fine Art Photograph – Limited Edition
Laurel Forest, Portugal – Colour Fine Art Photograph – Limited Edition

Laurel Forest, Portugal – Colour Fine Art Photograph – Limited Edition

By Gerald Berghammer

Located in Vienna, Vienna

Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 8 // Gallery ID: 21226 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Digital Pigment

"Inflatables" Original Gary John Contemporary Pop Painting on Newspaper
"Inflatables" Original Gary John Contemporary Pop Painting on Newspaper

"Inflatables" Original Gary John Contemporary Pop Painting on Newspaper

By Gary John

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 Mixed Media

Materials

Mixed Media, Acrylic, Newsprint

The Crossroads of Time
The Crossroads of Time

The Crossroads of Time

Located in Zofingen, AG

Series: Between light and silence An ancient aqueduct bridges past and present in this expansive landscape. Lines echo history, while light fractures across the surface with quiet dr...

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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

1960's French Portrait Jaw Dropped Man Caricature
1960's French Portrait Jaw Dropped Man Caricature

1960's French Portrait Jaw Dropped Man Caricature

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

French Character Portrait French school, Mid 20th Century Gouache paint on unframed paper signed lower corner Image : 12.5 x 9.75 inches Superbly decorative 1960's French portrai...

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Mid-20th Century Portrait Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Cortina d'Ampezzo Fashion
Cortina d'Ampezzo Fashion

Cortina d'Ampezzo Fashion

By Slim Aarons

Located in New York, NY

Isa Genolini and Maria Antonia in the main street of Cortina d'Ampezzo, Italy, March 1982. Cortina d'Ampezzo Fashion 1972 c print Estate stamped and hand numbered edition of 150 wi...

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1980s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Lambda

Pink Room
Pink Room

Pink Room

Located in New York, NY

THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for additional information. ABOUT THIS ARTIST: Minjin Kang and Mijoo Kim are a creative duo, who have been inspirin...

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2010s Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Venice Beach Surf
Venice Beach Surf

Venice Beach Surf

By Ludwig Favre

Located in New York, NY

THIS PIECE IS AVAILABLE FRAMED. Please reach out to the gallery for additional information. ABOUT THIS PIECE: French photographer Ludwig Favre recently road tripped to California....

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2010s Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

French Village Rooftops and Trees Watercolor Landscape Pierre Neveu
French Village Rooftops and Trees Watercolor Landscape Pierre Neveu

French Village Rooftops and Trees Watercolor Landscape Pierre Neveu

By Pierre Neveu

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: French Village Rooftops and Trees Watercolor Landscape Pierre Neveu Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on card, unframed Size (H x W): 14.5 x 10.75 inche...

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Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

Still life with flowers and fruit
Still life with flowers and fruit

Still life with flowers and fruit

Located in Zofingen, AG

Impressionist still life with flowers and fruit My paintings express movement towards rebirth, light and sun, renewal, associated with spring. This idea of movement and renewal is ex...

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2010s Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil, Cardboard

Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number
Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number

Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number

By Toko Shinoda

Located in Santa Fe, NM

Tableau, Japanese, limited edition lithograph, black, white, red, signed, number 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

1980's French Modernist Painting Amusing Multi-color Abstract Figure with Violin
1980's French Modernist Painting Amusing Multi-color Abstract Figure with Violin

1980's French Modernist Painting Amusing Multi-color Abstract Figure with Violin

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

by Paul-Louis Bolot (French 1918-2003) signed & dated 1983 original gouache painting on thick paper/ card unframed condition: very good and sound; the edges have a few curls and scuf...

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20th Century Modern Figurative Paintings

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Gouache

British Impressionist Watercolor of a Rustic Farmhouse Scene and Chickens
British Impressionist Watercolor of a Rustic Farmhouse Scene and Chickens

British Impressionist Watercolor of a Rustic Farmhouse Scene and Chickens

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of a Rustic Farmhouse Scene and Chickens By Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed Signed: Yes Dimen...

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Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Watercolor

A Vintage 1950s Pastel & Charcoal Drawing of a Hockey Game by Francis Chapin
A Vintage 1950s Pastel & Charcoal Drawing of a Hockey Game by Francis Chapin

A Vintage 1950s Pastel & Charcoal Drawing of a Hockey Game by Francis Chapin

By Francis Chapin

Located in Chicago, IL

For your hockey enthusiast! A dynamic 1950s, pastel and charcoal on paper drawing of a hockey game by famed Chicago Modern artist Francis Chapin. Artwork size: 9 x 12 inches. Matted to: 14 x 18 inches. Estate stamped on reverse. Provenance: Estate of the artist. Francis Chapin, affectionately called the “Dean of Chicago Painters” by his colleagues, was one of the city’s most popular and celebrated painters in his day. Born at the dawn of the 20th Century in Bristolville, Ohio, Chapin graduated from Washington and Jefferson College near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania before enrolling at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1922. He would set down deep roots at the Art Institute of Chicago, exhibiting there over 31 times between 1926 and 1951. In 1927 Chapin won the prestigious Bryan Lathrop Fellowship from the Art Institute – a prize that funded the artist’s yearlong study trip to Europe. Upon his return to the United States, Chapin decided to remain in Chicago, noting the freedom Chicago artists have in developing independently of the pressure to conform to pre-existing molds (as was experienced by artists in New York, for example). Chapin became a popular instructor at the Art Institute, teaching there from 1929 to 1947 and at the Art Institute’s summer art school in Saugatuck, Michigan (now called Oxbow) between 1934 – 1938 (he was the director of the school from 1941-1945). Chapin’s contemporaries among Chicago’s artists included such luminaries as Ivan Le Lorraine Albright...

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1950s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Charcoal, Pastel

Abstract Composition - Screenprint by Renata Rampazzi - 1986

Abstract Composition - Screenprint by Renata Rampazzi - 1986

Located in Roma, IT

Screen print on paper realized in 1986. Hand signed. Artist proof. A striking abstract colour screenprint by Italian artist Renata Rampazzi, executed in 1986. The composition is d...

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1980s Abstract Abstract Prints

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Screen

Beautiful Sea Sunset
Beautiful Sea Sunset

Beautiful Sea Sunset

Located in Zofingen, AG

The sea is especially beautiful when the sunny warm evening light illuminates the waves, which begin to shine. The sunny evening seascape is unique, because the artist used his uniqu...

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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Large French Modernist Oil Painting of Red Tulips in a Vase 20th Century
Large French Modernist Oil Painting of Red Tulips in a Vase 20th Century

Large French Modernist Oil Painting of Red Tulips in a Vase 20th Century

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Red Tulips in a Vase by René GUINAND (1892-1983) dated verso oil on board, unframed Board: 20 x 16 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: couple of minor scuffs bu...

Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Oil

FT 1 - Pastel color abstract geometric painting on canvas

FT 1 - Pastel color abstract geometric painting on canvas

By Evan Venegas

Located in New York, NY

Evan Venegas studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and earned his BFA in Painting in 1998. Evan Venegas creates artwork that lives at the intersection of geometry and atmosphere...

Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Abstract Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Large Antique Oil Painting The Mona Lisa after da Vinci's Famous Painting
Large Antique Oil Painting The Mona Lisa after da Vinci's Famous Painting

Large Antique Oil Painting The Mona Lisa after da Vinci's Famous Painting

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

The Mona Lisa after Leonardo da Vinci French artist, 20th century oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 24 x 18 inches provenance: private collection, Paris condition: good and sound condi...

Category

20th Century Old Masters Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Skógafoss Waterfall, Iceland – Black & White Fine Art Print
Skógafoss Waterfall, Iceland – Black & White Fine Art Print

Skógafoss Waterfall, Iceland – Black & White Fine Art Print

By Gerald Berghammer

Located in Vienna, Vienna

Archival pigment ink print, produced in a limited edition of 9 // Gallery ID: 11138 Fine art prints are produced to order on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Baryta. Each print is stamped on the...

Category

2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

British Impressionist Watercolor, Waterfront Scene with Sailboats and Boathouse
British Impressionist Watercolor, Waterfront Scene with Sailboats and Boathouse

British Impressionist Watercolor, Waterfront Scene with Sailboats and Boathouse

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: British Impressionist Watercolor, Waterfront Scene with Sailboats and Boathouse by Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023) Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed Dimensions:...

Category

Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Wayne Thiebaud - Bakery Case

Wayne Thiebaud - Bakery Case

By Wayne Thiebaud

Located in Central, HK

Wayne Thiebaud Bakery Case, 2018 Offset lithographic poster in colours on smooth wove paper 22 × 24 3/5 in 55.8 × 62.6 cm Wayne Thiebaud is famous for his colorful paintings of mou...

Category

2010s Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper

Barcelona Beach Night Horizon, Nocturnal Seascape Cyanotype on Watercolor Paper
Barcelona Beach Night Horizon, Nocturnal Seascape Cyanotype on Watercolor Paper

Barcelona Beach Night Horizon, Nocturnal Seascape Cyanotype on Watercolor Paper

By Kind of Cyan

Located in Barcelona, ES

This is an exclusive handprinted limited edition cyanotype. Outstanding "Barcelona Beach Night Horizon" shows a nocturnal seascape, taken on the Barcelona beach. Details: + Title: B...

Category

2010s Realist Landscape Photography

Materials

Emulsion, Printer's Ink, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Color, Photogram

The Sun Tree Limited Edition Lithograph after Dali
The Sun Tree Limited Edition Lithograph after Dali

The Sun Tree Limited Edition Lithograph after Dali

By (after) Salvador Dali

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

'Sun tree lithograph' After Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989) signed print on thick paper , unframed print: 16 x 12.5 inches provenance: private collection condition: very good and sound c...

Category

20th Century Abstract Still-life Prints

Materials

Color

Contemporary Expressionist Ceramic Head in Refractory Stoneware with Kintsugi
Contemporary Expressionist Ceramic Head in Refractory Stoneware with Kintsugi

Contemporary Expressionist Ceramic Head in Refractory Stoneware with Kintsugi

By Óscar Aldonza Torres

Located in FISTERRA, ES

Testa 6 is a contemporary expressionist ceramic head from the ongoing Testas series of sculptural heads. Created in refractory stoneware, the piece is fired in reduction and subseque...

Category

2010s Expressionist Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Clay, Glaze

Il volume The Book Italy 1975 by Nato Frascà
Il volume The Book Italy 1975 by Nato Frascà

Il volume The Book Italy 1975 by Nato Frascà

Located in Brescia, IT

This intense and engaging artwork was created by the Italian artist Nato Frascà. The title is "Il Volume" translated in " The Book". This is a multiple of 50 specimens and this piec...

Category

Late 20th Century Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures

Materials

Wood