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Color: Gold
Redoshi
Located in Santa Monica, CA
With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view.
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Celia
Located in Santa Monica, CA
With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view.
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Zumbi dos Palmares
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Halo presents an amazing cast of historical black figures, most of whom were legendary and mythic characters in their time, but have been nearly lost to the vagaries and biases of history as seen through a white lens. With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view. Many of the figures are from the 1400-1800s, a timeframe that corresponds with Europeans beginning to use racial distinction as a tool to justify slavery. Greenfield honors their
simultaneously disturbing and astounding lives by bestowing them with halos, traditionally seen as reverential symbols of adoration and respect. “I am reimagining what a saint is,” Greenfield says. “Maybe in studying their stories, they can inform us on better ways to live.”
Thought to have been a descendent of central African royalty...
Category
2010s Byzantine Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Richard Potter
Located in Santa Monica, CA
With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view.
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Christmas Cover Design for Life Magazine
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil, Ink and Gold Leaf on Paper
Dimensions: 15.00" x 12.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Center
The present work was published as the cover of the December 2nd, 1899 issue of Lif...
Category
Early 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
St. Moses the Black, aka Abba Moses the Robber
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Greenfield's versions are rendered in the Byzantine style of their art historical predecessors, with the black Virgin Mother and Baby Jesus as the central focus within circular compositions, or tondos. These tondos float amongst abstract discs, set within fields of lustrous, gold leaf. The Madonnas predominate before a variety of backgrounds, which were traditionally innocuous. Greenfield, however, presents these backdrops as various revenge fantasies, where white supremacists are cast in the role of victims, suffering the fates...
Category
2010s Medieval Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Dance For a Lifetime
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“I spent my childhood in the countryside, where nature became my first, and forever biggest, inspiration. Nature taught me how to find an inner balance and how to listen to the voice...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Lady Nature
Located in Brooklyn, NY
“I spent my childhood in the countryside, where nature became my first, and forever biggest, inspiration. Nature taught me how to find an inner balance and how to listen to the voic...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Legendary "American Express" by Edery, Pop Art
By Yaniv Edery
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Yaniv Edery is a French Artist with an extreme elegance who lives in Monaco. Born in 1977, he develops unique technics in the world with resin, gloss, Swar...
Category
2010s Pop Art Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Vibrant Amber - Honey Gold Color Field Abstract, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Vibrant Amber is an original acrylic painting on canvas by Suzanne Vaughan. An abstract expressionist style painting with thick layers of paint and tex...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Red Ribbons and Rods Collotype Triptych
Located in Soquel, CA
Unique and stunning collotype triptych (3 panels) abstract composition of fabric and red ribbons draped over rods by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). Unsigned. Purchased as pa...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper, Ink
WATERFALL
Located in New York, NY
WATERFALL
39" x 49", $12,000
Frame option is available.
About the Series:
For Dray, Philosophy deals in the abstract and abstraction is an indispensable tool in art and culture. Through his paintings, he reasserts that abstraction has been a part of humanity, all cultures in all ages. It’s an indispensable tool, as we create symbols, vessels to fill with allusions and messages. The resulting artwork have a strong sense of purpose.
Each painting contains hundreds of hand coloured trapezoid shapes, hand drawn with a sharp blade onto silver or gold leaf. Each coloured shape can be interpreted to represent an ‘atomic’ element. On its own a block of colour is insignificant but seen as part of a whole it becomes dynamic and alive reflecting on how nature works. The phenomena of light is also important to the work. The light of the sun in a room illuminates and reflects off the paintings as they come alive and change through time.
About the Artist:
Benjamin Dray...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
Black & Gold Glyphs II by Cheryl R. Riley, metallic abstract geometric symbols
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Black & Gold Glyphs II by Cheryl R. Riley
Metallic abstract geometric symbols
Gouache and metallic ink on 140# cold press watercolor paper
Feminist Art and Contemporary Feminist / G...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Happiness in the Air" Expressionist Landscape with Waterfall
Located in Austin, TX
A colorful and idyllic expressionist landscape with a waterfall by Dominique Boisjoli.
38" x 26" Acrylic and Gold Leaf on Paper
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
'Abstract', Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne, Royal Academy, Académie Grand Chaumiere
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'P. Saint-Sorny' for Pierre Saint-Sorny (Belgian, 1914-2020) and painted circa 1960.
Provenance:
Private collection, Alameda, California.
Previously with:
Galerie Frédéric Gollong, Saint-Paul-De-Vence, 1984
Pierre Saint-Sorny first studied at the Royal Academy in Brussels (1932-1933) and, subsequently, at the Académie des Beaux Arts in Mons (1934-1935) where he received the Grand Prize for Design. In 1946, he resumed his studies at the Académie de Namur where he was awarded the Sculpture Prize. In 1950, he moved to Paris to attend the Académie de la Grande Chaumière which he followed with a period of study at the Centre de l'Expressionisme in Flanders.
Over the course of a long and successful career, Saint-Sorny exhibited widely at numerous solo and group exhibitions including at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris and was also appointed a member of the jury at the Academie de Namur.
Reference:
E. Benezit, Dictionnaire des Peintres, Sculpteurs, Dessinateurs, et Graveurs, Jacques Busse...
Category
1960s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Foil, Gold Leaf
'Large Abstract', Exhibited at Tokyo Museum Of Fine Arts, Japanese Woman Artist
By Iku Nagai
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, "Nagai" for Ikuko K. Nagai (Japanese-American, born 1932) and painted circa 1980.
Previously with: Vorpal Gallery, San Francisco
paper dimensions: 33.5 x 45 inch...
Category
1980s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf, Silver
Flag (Metallic)
By Jojo Anavim
Located in Greenwich, CT
Blurring the line between mass consumerism and fine art, New York City based artist Jojo Anavim has established his body of work stemming from a background in graphic design and bran...
Category
2010s Paintings
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
Olivier de Provence 10- An Oil painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique painting. It is an oil painting on 22 carat gold leaf gilded on a canvas.
CS Art comprises of two artists, one French, the other Norwegian. Th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold, Silver, Foil, Gold Leaf
Symbolic abstract work "Gold, silver, and lead 2" by Impiglia
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
A rare abstract work by the indelible Giancarlo Impiglia.
Born in Rome, Impiglia moved to New York in the 70s, where he established a signature style on the shoulders of Futurism a...
Category
2010s Paintings
Materials
Metal, Silver, Gold Leaf
Rare abstract work "Gold, silver, and lead 1" by Impiglia
Located in Bridgehampton, NY
A rare abstract work by the indelible Giancarlo Impiglia.
Born in Rome, Impiglia moved to New York in the 70s, where he established a signature style on the shoulders of Futurism a...
Category
2010s Paintings
Materials
Metal, Silver, Gold Leaf
'Vintage 4-Panel Japanese Tosa School Screen - Noh Dance on Stage, ' Unknown
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
This vintage 36" x 56.5" Japanese Byobu screen painting is by an unknown artist from the Tosa School of Art depicting a 'Garaku,' a Noh dance bei...
Category
Early 19th Century Other Art Style Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Olivier de Provence 5 - An Oil painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
This is a unique painting. It is an oil painting on 22 carat gold leaf gilded on a canvas.
CS Art comprises of two artists, one French, the other Norwegian. Th...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold, Silver, Foil, Gold Leaf
"Untitled, " Knox Martin, Abstract Expressionism
By Knox Martin
Located in New York, NY
Knox Martin (1923 - 2022)
Untitled
Signed to lower edge
Acrylic and gold foil on canvas
9 x 9 inches
Knox Martin (1923-2022) was an esteemed New York School painter. Knox Martin was born in 1923 in Barranquilla, Colombia. He was the son of the aviator, painter, and poet William Knox Martin, the first man to fly over the Andes Mountains.
After serving in World War II, Knox Martin attended the Art Students League of New York on the G.I. Bill from 1946-1950, where he studied with Harry Sternberg, Vaclav Vytlacil, Will Barnet, and Morris Kantor.
In 1954, Knox Martin's friend Franz Kline placed a painting of his in the Stable Gallery Annual. Charles Egan of the renowned Charles Egan Gallery saw Knox Martin's painting at the Stable Gallery and asked Martin to show his work in a one-man show for the tenth anniversary of the Egan Gallery.
Since then, Knox Martin was a celebrated painter, sculptor and muralist. Knox Martin had an extensive exhibition record and his work is in museum, corporate and private collections worldwide. His two best-known murals in NYC are Venus and Woman with Bicycle...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold, Foil
Unity 4-6
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Unity series is about bringing peace, balance, and harmony to the mind/body/spirit connection. Following the pathway of the chakras of the body and the geometry found in nature, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Unity 4-5
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Unity series is about bringing peace, balance, and harmony to the mind/body/spirit connection. Following the pathway of the chakras of the body and the geometry found in nature, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Unity 4-7
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Unity series is about bringing peace, balance, and harmony to the mind/body/spirit connection. Following the pathway of the chakras of the body and the geometry found in nature, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Unity 4-3
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Unity series is about bringing peace, balance, and harmony to the mind/body/spirit connection. Following the pathway of the chakras of the body and the geometry found in nature, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Unity 4-4
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Unity series is about bringing peace, balance, and harmony to the mind/body/spirit connection. Following the pathway of the chakras of the body and the geometry found in nature, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Unity 4-1
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Unity series is about bringing peace, balance, and harmony to the mind/body/spirit connection. Following the pathway of the chakras of the body and the geometry found in nature, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Unity 4-2
Located in Greenwich, CT
The Unity series is about bringing peace, balance, and harmony to the mind/body/spirit connection. Following the pathway of the chakras of the body and the geometry found in nature, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
A Crock of Gold
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Sign by Artist in Lower Right
The present work was published as an illustration for Elizabeth Goudge's short story "A Crock of Gold" in the August 1938 issue of Woman's Home Companion. The story follows a family of five children on their summer vacation in Scotland. The kids set...
Category
1930s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Untitled No. 54
Located in Westport, CT
This beautiful painting is by Japanese artist, Takefumi Hori. He was born in Tokyo, Japan. He paints beautiful gold leaf paintings. This piece is acrylic, gold leaf and metal leaf ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
Light Refraction #23, Abstract painting on canvas mounted in a stretcher
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Light Refraction #23, 2015 by Natasha Zupan
From the series Light Refraction
Oil, fabric, encaustic, 24K Gold, medium, on canvas
Size: 9.5 in. H x 7.5 in. W x 3 in D.
Canvas on a st...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold
Rare Large Modern Bronze Sculpture Woman with Bull
By Bernard Reder
Located in Surfside, FL
Bernard Reder (29 June 1897 – 7 September 1963) was an artist, sculptor, etcher, engraver and architect, born in Czernowitz, Bukovina, (Chernivtsi, Bokov...
Category
Early 20th Century Post-Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Bronze
Black & Gold Glyphs I by Cheryl R. Riley, metallic abstract geometric symbols
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Time Travel
Black & Gold Glyphs I by Cheryl R. Riley
Metallic abstract geometric symbols
Gouache and metallic ink on 140# cold press watercolor paper
Feminist Art and Contemporary F...
Category
2010s Abstract Geometric Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Revival II
Located in Dallas, TX
As we go through different phases of life and experience the change of seasons, we learn more about ourselves and perhaps unite with a deeper part that finds ourselves evolving and d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
Me and You
Located in Dallas, TX
Diptych
As we go through different phases of life and experience the change of seasons, we learn more about ourselves and perhaps unite with a deeper part that finds ourselves evolv...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
The Whole
Located in Dallas, TX
As we go through different phases of life and experience the change of seasons, we learn more about ourselves and perhaps unite with a deeper part that finds ourselves evolving and d...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
Freedom I & II
Located in Dallas, TX
Diptych
As we go through different phases of life and experience the change of seasons, we learn more about ourselves and perhaps unite with a deeper part that finds ourselves evolv...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
Come Together
Located in Atlanta, GA
Gwen Wong's work is both painterly and allegorical, caught somewhere in the middle between the representational painter and the narrator. "I am inspired by t...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Impressionist Portrait Painting, "Savior of the World"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original oil and 23k gold leaf painting by San Diego artist, Duke Windsor. Its dimensions are 22"x26". It is framed. A certificate...
Category
2010s Realist Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Venus Of The Nile" - Colorful Mythological Painting by Moroccan Nelly Zagury
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This square 60 inch original, neon colored painting on linen is stretched, wired and ready to hang. It is signed by the artist on the back of the artwork....
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold
Modernist Cubist Moses on the Mount
Located in Surfside, FL
Painting with plaster and gilt details.
Attributed to Edgar levy. A modernist still-life painter whose style leaned towards Cubism, Edgar Levy had a studio...
Category
20th Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Blue Lotus" - Colorful Mythological Painting by Moroccan Nelly Zagury
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This square 60 inch original, neon colored painting on linen is stretched, wired and ready to hang. It is signed by the artist on the back of the artwork....
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold
Begin Again 4659
Located in Napa, CA
Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart Robertson, the registered Californ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
The Shield - unique piece by Paula Craioveanu - Neo Mythology
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"The Shield".
This painting was inspired by ancient masks and statues and it's part of my Neo-Mythology series.
Painted with acrylic, (+gesso and gold l...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Untitled" Painting 39" x 30" inch by Patricio Gonzalez
Located in Culver City, CA
"Untitled" Painting 39" x 30" inch by Patricio Gonzalez
Patricio Gonzalez Bezanilla (1974), studied at the School of Visual Arts at the University o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Untitled No. 64
Located in Westport, CT
This beautiful painting is by Japanese artist, Takefumi Hori. He was born in Tokyo, Japan. He paints beautiful gold leaf paintings. This piece is acrylic, gold leaf and metal leaf ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
Calm 4675
Located in Napa, CA
Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart Robertson, the registered Californ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Gold Sky with Silver Ribbon - Hand-Augmented Modern Collotype Print
Located in Soquel, CA
Gold Sky with Silver Ribbon - Hand-Augmented Modern Collotype Print
Delicate and layered collotype on heavy bond paper by Patricia A. Pearce (American, b. 1948). The background of...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Geometric Paintings
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
Light Refraction #23 and Small White Lies. Abstract painting on canvas, mounted
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Light Refraction #23 and Small White Lies, 2013-2015 by Natasha Zupan
-Small White Lies, 2013
Oil, fabric, medium, on canvas
-Light Refraction #23, 2...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold
New Leaf 4658
Located in Napa, CA
Surrounded by artistic inspiration from a very early age, Kate Salenfriend learned most of her technical skills from her great-grandfather, Stewart Robertson, the registered Californ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Color Boundaries 34, 35 & 38, Abstract painting on canvas, mounted on a strecher
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Color Boundaries #34, #35, and #38, (Triptych) 2018 by Natasha Zupan
-Color Boundaries #34 and #38
Oil, fabric, medium, on canvas
-Color Boundaries #35
Oil, fabric, medium, gold, ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold
Impressionist Still Life Painting, "Sunflowers II"
Located in San Diego, CA
This is a one of a kind original acrylic and gold leaf still life painting by San Diego artist, Duke Windsor. A certificate of authenticity will follow de...
Category
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Turquoise blue and white capsule -line drawing figure with gold disk and stripes
By Mila Akopova
Located in Fort Lee, NJ
Interior design paintings. The diptych were done with oil, gold leaf pen 18 kt in turquoise blue and gold color on watercolor paper 300g. The works are 11 by 14 inches in size, frame...
Category
2010s Minimalist Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Jicky
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Jicky', elaborately and exquisitely painted by Adrienne Sherman in oil on panel with a lacquer-like luster. The original painting is rich and reflective, and depicts the artist's do...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Primavera - Textured Mixed Media Painting by Haleh Mashian
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This vertical 60 inch high and 40 inch wide textural mixed media painting on canvas is wired and ready to hang. It is hand signed by the artist on the back of the artwork. This piece is brought to life by an amazing tactile quality. The built up texture and colors create a show stopping effect. This piece would be an excellent addition to any collection.
For over 20+ years, Haleh Mashian...
Category
2010s Abstract Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Untitled No. 55
Located in Westport, CT
This beautiful painting is by Japanese artist, Takefumi Hori. He was born in Tokyo, Japan. He paints beautiful gold leaf paintings. This piece is acrylic, gold leaf and metal leaf ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
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