Petit vase
Located in PARIS, FR
Vallauris ceramic, signed by Alexandre Kostanda
Mid-20th Century Modern More Art
Ceramic
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Petit vase
Located in PARIS, FR
Vallauris ceramic, signed by Alexandre Kostanda
Ceramic
$5,460
Mickey
Located in Atlanta, GA
Dominique Mulhem was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine June 13, 1952. 1975: Training at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. His painting refers to pop culture and art Ownership (art) by his inspiration. His technique was initially very pop art with the use of the bomb and stencils and more hyperrealistic with airbrushing to become a modern pointillism. It was the first multimedia artist inventing in 1979 the holopeinture where he mixed paint holography. He had to work in the early 70s on the different 3D rendering techniques. Beyond its highly representative form, his painting is primarily conceptual. The themes are the lives of people and things, without limit in treated subjects. All the work of Dominique Mulhem has the same theme : the concept of simultaneous vision. “The look from inside” as Pierre Restany said. INTERNATINALES EXHIBITIONS: GERMANY, CHINA, COLOMBIA, KOREA, DENMARK, EGYPT, SPAIN, UNITED STATES, GREECE, FRANCE, HUNGARY, ITALY, LUXEMBOURG, MONACO, RUSSIA, SWITZERLAND. Dominique retrospective MULHEM 1972-2009, City of Asnieres-sur-Seine, France. PRESENCE IN MUSEUMS : Museum of Holography, Paris, France. Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Hungary. Museum of Holography, Washington, USA. Zamalek Museum and Arts Centre, Cairo, Egypt. PRESENCE IN INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITIONS Scarification : Dominique Mulhem develops a suite of amazing concepts, suite, analysis, updating, revisiting any of these terms is false but none are true, the most appropriate choice would be thinking. Thinking back on as thought to further examine refraction and reflection as to take another propagation velocity of the history of art. It shall submit the artwork to a movement infinite in space and time. In the 80’s Portraits of Artists planned painters and sculptors between past and future by offering a three-dimensional holograms vision. In the 90s his imaginary museum, Pierre Restany wrote: “Dream Creatures to a dream before painting it’s more!” In “I should say, because my eye has been unable to separate things, to erase this simultaneous vision, to separate the two elements “.In the 2000s Zones, timeless journeys in the words and sentences of Guillaume Apollinaire’s poem. Every decade Mulhem shares his world view. Today his scars challenge us on different characteristics of our society to the standardized culture object...
Mixed Media, Acrylic
Nine Lives
By General Idea
Located in Toronto, Ontario
General Idea was founded in 1967 in Toronto by AA Bronson (b. 1946), Felix Partz (1945-1994), and Jorge Zontal (1944-1994). Over the course of 25 years, they made a significant contr...
Nylon, Screen
Trois Femmes en Buste
Located in New York, NY
Color etching and heliogravure, 1925. Wide margins (sheet size is 15.5 x 24.5 inches). Signed by the artist in pencil lower, right. Numbered 174/200 in pencil, lower left.
Etching, Color
"Abandoned Land, " Mixed Media Mosaic
Located in Chicago, IL
A leader of the cross-cultural craft resurgence, Japan-based artist Toyoharu Kii creates his intricate mosaics with hand-cut Italian marble and smalti, Venetian glass made by the sam...
Marble
LOVE Painting with Plastic Technique by Erika Baktay
By Erika Baktay
Located in Rome, IT
LOVE From the "Thousand and One Nights" painting series, with individual plastic Technique, Erika Baktay. Biography; The paintings of Erika Baktay have long been admired by the ...
Acrylic
Pichet
Located in PARIS, FR
Vallauris ceramic, signed by Alexandre Kostanda
Ceramic
Thousand and One Nights" Painting with Plastic Technique, Erika Baktay
By Erika Baktay
Located in Rome, IT
"Thousand and One Nights" painting with individual plastic Technique, Erika Baktay. This painting can be placed both horizontally and vertically. Dimensions: cm 70 x 50 with frame cm...
Acrylic
Prometeo Console, Modern Bronze and Wood Sculpture, 2010–Present
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Console table with cast bronze structure, wooden top burnt with shou sugi ban technique and bronze details
Bronze
Vase
Located in PARIS, FR
Stunning glazed ceramic vase by Marcello Fantoni
Ceramic
$10,400
Provacative
Located in Atlanta, GA
Some may cast Floyd Douglas as a new age digital artist – while beneath the surface there is a much deeper slightly sinister message. Initially inspire...
Mixed Media
Untitled Blue Plate (IKB 54), Ceramic Earthenware, Modern, Model from 1957
By Yves Klein
Located in Paris, FR
The Untitled Blue Plate, (IKB 54), was executed in 1957 at a pivotal moment in Yves Klein’s career, the same year in which he perfected the production of the colour-matter that he wo...
Ceramic, Earthenware
$22,000
David Szfranski Pink Psychedelic Mechanical Blinking Light X Sculpture See Video
Located in Dallas, TX
Sequential blinking light sculpture by contemporary artist David Szfranski. Blanket Wood Substrate Lights Electronic Blinking mechanism. Box 9"x 6" x 5.5" The sculpture has a hypn...
Wood
Barbara Rae Handwoven Wool & Cotton Tapestry Titled Olive Terraces, Zahara 2009
Located in Dallas, TX
Privately commissioned directly from the artist this custom handwoven wool and cotton tapestry is titled Olive Terraces, Zahara, after Barbara Rae's painting by the same name. Woven ...
Cotton, Wool
Allegro Barbaro Painting with Plastic Technique, Erika Baktay
By Erika Baktay
Located in Rome, IT
"Allegro Barbaro " Homage to Bela Bartok the Famous Hungarian Composer. Painting with individual plastic Technique, Erika Baktay. Dimensions: with frame cm 150 x 150 Biography; ...
Acrylic
Allegro Barbaro Painting with Plastic Technique, Erika Baktay
By Erika Baktay
Located in Rome, IT
"Allegro Barbaro " Homage to Bela Bartok the Famous Hungarian Composer. Painting with individual plastic Technique, Erika Baktay. Dimensions: with frame cm 150 x 150 Biography; ...
Acrylic
$4,550
Fenwick
By Eric BESS
Located in Atlanta, GA
Helene and Eric Bess are a team who have been collaborating for over 20 years. Both are professional artists with extensive experience in both the commercial and fine art fields. They presently work out of their studio in Florida, creating original art for gallery display, fine art crafts and taking commissions for murals & embellishments. Helene was born in Canada in 1949. She studied art in Europe as a young adult and attended Phoenix Pratt School of Design in New York and St. Petersburg Community College in Florida. She worked for advertising agencies and freelance art projects such as theater design and t-shirt designs for several companies. She owned and operated an art studio (“Artistic Endeavors”) in Melbourne, Fl. for five years. She started doing murals and embellishments (residential and commercial) from 1992 till present. She considers her early life in Europe the major source of her artistic influence as well as the works of Modigliani. Eric was born in Missouri in 1950. He started drawing literally as an infant and has never stopped. He was taking commissions for book covers & wall designs in his teens and studied art at Auburn University and The University of Alabama. He taught art in public schools in Alabama in the ‘70s. He worked as art director at Huntsville Educational Television for 6 years, as art director at Southern Sportswear in Daytona for 9 years, at Creative Signs & Designs in Flagler, Fl. for 6 years, and as a freelance artist and co-owner (with his wife Helene) of “BessStudio” (formerly “Artistic Innovations Inc.”) since 1998. His artistic influences include Michelangelo, Vermeer, Blake, Maxfield Parish...
Mixed Media
RUINS: FRAGMENT OF HISTORY,
Located in Atlanta, GA
The works that I exhibit at Contemporaneo Asheville arise from the autobiographical that answers vital questions, recurrent thoughts, obsessions, the history of art and literature. M...
Mixed Media
ORANGES IN SUN-KISSES PALETTES FOR ALBERTINE,
Located in Atlanta, GA
The works that I exhibit at Contemporaneo Asheville arise from the autobiographical that answers vital questions, recurrent thoughts, obsessions, the history of art and literature. M...
Mixed Media
$4,550
Mountains
By Rene FOSTER
Located in Atlanta, GA
“My current work often features ordinary creatures, like the many illustrations of birds and flowers I painted for the Homes and Gardens and other sections during the 25 years I was ...
Mixed Media
Norman Stuart Clarke Vase Wave Seascape Blue Purple White, 1997
Located in Eversholt, Bedfordshire
Norman Stuart Clarke (b.1944): Seascape, wave vase, 1997 "I use bold, powerful colors; it's a consuming interest of mine, an obsession, placing ...
Glass
Balloon Heads
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Jay Alan Babcock is a St. Louis-based graphic designer and painter. His work exhibits his interest in the visual language of Americana, including old ...
Carbon Pencil
Pot
Located in PARIS, FR
Vallauris ceramic, signed by Alexandre Kostanda
Ceramic
Pichet
Located in PARIS, FR
Vallauris ceramic, signed by Alexandre Kostanda
Ceramic
Pichet
Located in PARIS, FR
Vallauris ceramic, signed by Alexandre Kostanda
Ceramic
Pichet
Located in PARIS, FR
Vallauris ceramic, signed by Alexandre Kostanda
Ceramic
Untitled, Figurative, Ink on Paper by Modern Indian Manu Parekh "In Stock"
By Manu Parekh
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Manu Parekh - Untitled, Ink on Paper 28 x 20 inches, 2016 ( Unframed & Delivered ) This artwork, an untitled ink on paper by Manu Parekh, reflects his signature exploration of a...
Oil, Board
$5,330
Orbite Cast Bronze Trays, Modern Abstract Sculpture, 2010+, Unframed
Located in Villafranca Di Verona, IT
Cast bronze Trays Ø 28, 35, 47 cm Ø 11", 13"7/8, 18"1/2 in.
Bronze
Allegro Barbaro Painting with Plastic Technique, Erika Baktay
By Erika Baktay
Located in Rome, IT
"Allegro Barbaro " Homage to Bela Bartok the Famous Hungarian Composer. Painting with individual plastic Technique, Erika Baktay. Dimensions: with frame cm 150 x 150 Biography; ...
Acrylic
LOVE Painting with Plastic Technique by Erika Baktay
By Erika Baktay
Located in Rome, IT
LOVE From the "Thousand and One Nights" painting series, with individual plastic Technique, Erika Baktay. Biography; The paintings of Erika Baktay have long been admired by the ...
Acrylic
Allegro Barbaro Painting with Plastic Technique, Erika Baktay
By Erika Baktay
Located in Rome, IT
"Allegro Barbaro " Homage to Bela Bartok the Famous Hungarian Composer. Painting with individual plastic Technique, Erika Baktay. Dimensions: with frame cm 150 x 150 Biography; ...
Acrylic
LOVE Painting with Plastic Technique by Erika Baktay
By Erika Baktay
Located in Rome, IT
LOVE From the "Thousand and One Nights" painting series, with individual plastic Technique, Erika Baktay. Biography; The paintings of Erika Baktay have long been admired by the ...
Acrylic
$4,550
Fantasy
By Rene FOSTER
Located in Atlanta, GA
“My current work often features ordinary creatures, like the many illustrations of birds and flowers I painted for the Homes and Gardens and other sections during the 25 years I was ...
Mixed Media
$16,900
Emerging 3
By Yoakim Belanger
Located in Atlanta, GA
When Yoakim Bélanger conceives his paintings, he thinks of the physicality of bodies and spaces which he paints, it is also with the eye of the film maker and the graphic designer. H...
Mixed Media
Black Circular Volume
Located in Atlanta, GA
Carmen Anzano is a contemporary interdisciplinary artist who works with painting, sculpture and installations to showcase an interpretation of her personal universe of geometry and s...
Acrylic
ORANGES IN COCHINEAL RED FOR MADAME SWANN
Located in Atlanta, GA
The works that I exhibit at Contemporaneo Asheville arise from the autobiographical that answers vital questions, recurrent thoughts, obsessions, the history of art and literature. M...
Mixed Media
RUINS: FRAGMENT OF HISTORY
Located in Atlanta, GA
The works that I exhibit at Contemporaneo Asheville arise from the autobiographical that answers vital questions, recurrent thoughts, obsessions, the history of art and literature. M...
Mixed Media
BALTIC GREEN ROME
Located in Atlanta, GA
The works that I exhibit at Contemporaneo Asheville arise from the autobiographical that answers vital questions, recurrent thoughts, obsessions, the history of art and literature. M...
Mixed Media
Price Upon Request
Untitled, Mixed Media on Paper, Yellow, Orange by K. Laxma Goud "In Stock"
By Laxma Goud
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
K. Laxma Goud Untitled Mixed Media on Paper 12 x 16 inches 30.4 x 40.6 cm 2020 Price on Request Style : Goud displays versatility over a range of mediums, from printmaking, draw...
Paper, Mixed Media
Price Upon Request
Pickaxe (Spitzhacke) Superimposed on a Drawing of the Site by E.L. Grimm
Located in Missouri, MO
Pickaxe (Spitzhacke) Superimposed on a Drawing of the Site by E.L. Grimm, 1982 By Claes Oldenburg (Swedish, American, 1929-2022) Unframed: 26" x 20" Framed: 28.75" x 22.75" Signed and Dated Lower Right Whimsical sculpture of pop culture objects, many of them large and out-of-doors, is the signature work of Swedish-born Claes Oldenburg who became one of America's leading Pop Artists. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden. His father was a diplomat, and during Claes' childhood moved his family from Stockholm to a variety of locations including Chicago where the father was general consul of Sweden and where Oldenburg spent most of his childhood. He attended the Latin School of Chicago, and then Yale University where he studied literature and art history, graduating in 1950, the same year Claes became an American citizen. Returning to Chicago, he enrolled at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1952 to 1954 and also worked as a reporter at the City News Bureau. He opened his own studio, and in 1953, some of his satirical drawings were included in his first group show at the Club St. Elmo, Chicago. He also painted at the Oxbow School of Painting in Michigan. In 1956, he moved to New York where he drew and painted while working as a clerk in the art libraries of Cooper-Union Museum for the Arts of Decoration. Selling his first artworks during this time, he earned 25 dollars for five pieces. Oldenburg became friends with numerous artists including Jim Dine, Red Grooms and Allan Kaprow, who with his "Happenings" was especially influential on Oldenburg's interest in environmental art. Another growing interest was soft sculpture, and in 1957, he created a piece later titled Sausage, a free-hanging woman's stocking stuffed with newspaper. In 1959, he had his first one-man show, held at the Judson Gallery at Washington Square. He exhibited wood and newspaper sculpture and painted papier-mache objects. Some viewers of the exhibit commented how refreshing Oldenburg's pieces were in contrast to the Abstract Expressionism, a style which much dominated the art world. During this time, he was influenced by the whimsical work of French artist, Bernard Buffet, and he experimented with materials and images of the junk-filled streets of New York. In 1960, Oldenburg created his first Pop-Art Environments and Happenings in a mock store full of plaster objects. He also did Performances with a cast of colleagues including artists Lucas Samaras, Tom Wesselman, Carolee Schneemann, Oyvind Fahlstrom and Richard Artschwager, dealer Annina Nosei, critic Barbara Rose, and screenwriter Rudy Wurlitzer. His first wife (1960-1970) Pat Muschinski, who sewed many of his early soft sculptures, was a constant performer in his Happenings. This brash, often humorous, approach to art was at great odds with the prevailing sensibility that, by its nature, art dealt with "profound" expressions or ideas. In December 1961, he rented a store on Manhattan's Lower East Side to house "The Store," a month-long installation he had first presented at the Martha Jackson Gallery in New York. This installation was stocked with sculptures roughly in the form of consumer goods. Oldenburg moved to Los Angeles in 1963 "because it was the most opposite thing to New York I could think of". That same year, he conceived AUT OBO DYS, performed in the parking lot of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in December 1963. In 1965 he turned his attention to drawings and projects for imaginary outdoor monuments. Initially these monuments took the form of small collages such as a crayon image of a fat, fuzzy teddy bear looming over the grassy fields of New York's Central Park (1965) and Lipsticks in Piccadilly Circus, London (1966). Oldenburg realized his first outdoor public monument in 1967; Placid Civic Monument took the form of a Conceptual performance/action behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, with a crew of gravediggers digging a 6-by-3-foot rectangular hole in the ground. Many of Oldenburg's large-scale sculptures of mundane objects elicited public ridicule before being embraced as whimsical, insightful, and fun additions to public outdoor art. From the early 1970s Oldenburg concentrated almost exclusively on public commissions. Between 1969 and 1977 Oldenburg had been in a relationship with Hannah Wilke, feminist artist, but in 1977 he married Coosje van Bruggen, a Dutch-American writer and art historian who became collaborator with him on his artwork. He had met her in 1970, when she curated an exhibition for him at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Their first collaboration came when Oldenburg was commissioned to rework Trowel I, a 1971 sculpture of an oversize garden tool, for the grounds of the Kröller-Müller Museum in Otterlo, the Netherlands. Oldenburg has officially signed all the work he has done since 1981 with both his own name and van Bruggen's. In 1988, the two created the iconic Spoonbridge and Cherry sculpture for the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota that remains a staple of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden as well as a classic image of the city. Typewriter Eraser...
Etching, Aquatint, Photogravure
Price Upon Request
Miro Lithographs Volume I Plate X
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Original lithograph in colors from the unsigned edition included in Miro Lithographs Volume I. Published by Mourlot, Paris. Reference Mourlot 857.
Lithograph
Price Upon Request
Miro Lithographs Volume II Plate X
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Original lithograph in colors from the unsigned edition included in Miro Lithographs Volume I. Published by Mourlot, Paris. Reference Mourlot 857.
Lithograph
Price Upon Request
La Fronde
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Signed and numbered to lower edge ‘48/75 Miró’. This work is number 48 from the edition of 75 published by Maeght Éditeur, Paris. Literature: Dupin 501
Etching, Aquatint
Price Upon Request
Jazz Players
Located in Missouri, MO
Jazz Players by Bill Hinz (1920-2009) Signature in Textile Bottom Left Unframed: 41.5" x 64" Framed: 42.5" x 64.75" Unique Piece made entirely out of a s...
Textile
Price Upon Request
Lozenge with Dancer and Hind
Located in Missouri, MO
Lozenge with Dancer and Hind (#620, Ramie) Red Earthenware Clay Edition Madoura Picasso, 93/500 (Verso)
Ceramic
Price Upon Request
Juan Tafoya San Ildefonso Native American Pottery
By Juan Tafoya
Located in Missouri, MO
Impeccable Provenance! See attached pictures of Juan Tafoya holding this particular piece, as well as his business card and his original letter all include...
Clay