Lacquer Paintings

A miniature painting in an abstract style is a perfect addition to your art collection. The artist is very passionate about creating paintings of different sizes in order to create u...

The green sunset is unusual. The impressionistic style helps reflect the mood that the artist wants to convey. The state of peace in nature and the serene mood of a young couple danc...

The brightness and freshness of the festive bouquet is emphasized by white roses. They are different shapes but the same color. The writing style is impressionism, which makes it pos...

Description: This sophisticated contemporary realist painting depicts a poised female figure viewed from behind, clad in a sculptural black gown that emphasizes her form. Set within ...

Roads are a very interesting topic. Roads mean a lot to a person. There is a road leading to the house, there is a road to the future, and this old road leads to the blue forest. We ...

Miniature painting created in the style of impressionism. It reminds a little of the past centuries, but the new is always the forgotten old. Today, in the world of high technology a...

She is truly the queen of lakes and rivers. Water lily. This painting is made in the impressionist style and is also stylized in an abstract style. Deep green shades and light ones w...

A green garden, a light summer dress, a sun hat - all these are childhood memories. My memories, but for some it’s just the beginning. Childhood and adolescence are full of impressio...

​Impressions of past lives, perceptions of future lives. The Records series carries that mystery. Simple and profound since its deed does not happen on the surface. Although it manif...

These stunning spring narcissus are placed in a transparent vase. The bright yellow flowers create a vivid color contrast against the silvery blue background focusing the viewer's ey...

Ryōan-ji is the Japanese Zen temple in Kyoto, a monastery that gave rise to the idea of ​​the purely abstract Zen garden that inspired this series Francisco Larios’ works are done by...

Artist: Detlef E. Aderhold Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas Edition: Original Abstract Painting in Yellow, Blue, Red and Black About the Artist: Detlef E. Aderhold is a contemporar...

This captivating work of art presents a surreal dialogue between the mundane and the fantastic. A casually dressed woman sits confidently on a vintage chair, wearing dark sunglasses...

Thea Ekström 1920–1988 Sweden Thea Ekström was a Swedish musician and surrealist painter, born in Söndrum, Halmstad, on the west coast of Sweden. Ekström initially aspired to a career in music, but a long history of illness (she contracted polio as well as tuberculosis at a young age) put an end to those plans. In connection with a convalescence at the beginning of the 1950s, she instead began taking art classes through ABF/Arbetarnas bildningsförbund (Workers’ Educational Association, an educational section of the Swedish labour movement, founded by the Swedish Social Democratic Party in 1912, conducting classes and seminars on a variety of subjects including workshops, music, and languages), which led her to further studies in the field of art. In addition to elements of symbolism and expressionism, her early paintings show inspiration from Halmstadgruppen (the Halmstad Group), a pioneering group of six Swedish surrealist painters that, like Ekström, came from the city of Halmstad and its surroundings. Towards the end of the 1950s, however, Ekström had found her own voice and developed a highly personalised abstract visual language based on rhythmic lines and pattern-based geometric shapes. She also gradually created her own alphabet of signs, with symbols and figures inspired by hieroglyphics and other early written languages. Tormented by poor health whilst growing up in a family that existed under meagre financial circumstances (illness and dire personal finances would continue to haunt her for most of her life), Ekström only attended elementary school for a total of four years. When the family discovered that she had a talent for music, however, a potential way forward was identified. Ekström thus moved to Stockholm, in 1937, where she initiated studies to become a church musician and organist. These studies were complemented with work at Oscarsteatern as a chorus girl. This led to her being employed in Oscarsteatern’s 1940 production of Bertolt Brecht’s (1898–1956, German playwright and leading theoretician of epic theatre, which he later preferred to call ‘dialectical theatre’) and Kurt Weill’s (1900–1950, German-born American composer best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht) legendary Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera), upon which she decided to abandon her music studies in order to pursue a full-time career as a professional musician. This move entailed earning a living as a touring musician (something that she had to give up after a new bout of TB in the early 1940s) and working as a bar pianist (1942-1943). After having, once again, fallen ill with lung disease in the mid-1950s, Ekström turned her interests towards art and spent her convalescence attending painting courses at ABF and the Pernby painting school. She also managed to sit in on life drawing classes at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, under the tutelage of professors Bror Hjorth (1894-1968, one of Sweden’s best-known sculptors and painters, awarded the Sergel Prize in 1955) and Lennart Rodhe (1916-2005, Swedish artist, painter, and printmaker, considered one of the most prominent of the Swedish modernists). As if this was not enough, she also began attending art history lectures given by Oscar Reutersvärd (1917-2002, Swedish painter, draughtsman, sculptor, and professor of art history) to the students at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Stockholm. Reutersvärd (with whom Ekström would engage in an extramarital affair) was impressed by her work and secured a studio for Ekström in Stockholm. Her debut solo exhibition, as early on as in May 1960, was held at the Lilla Paviljongen gallery in Stockholm. In the following years Ekström’s paintings were regularly accepted into the yearly spring salon at Liljevalchs’ Public Art Gallery, Stockholm, and in the summer of 1961 her work was even included in a group exhibition at Galerie Raymond Cordier in Paris. The following decades (the 1960s and 1970s) would prove the most successful for Ekström. The highly productive artist (in a letter from 1969 she mentions ‘125 new paintings’ taking up space in her apartment) was sought after by galleries and museums, with her work regularly exhibited in several countries. It is therefore hardly surprising that Ekström was singled out (as the only woman) for participation in the group exhibition 12 Swedish Painters (which also included works by other avant-garde artists like Öyvind Fahlström), a 1962-1963 travelling exhibition (organised by the American Federation of Arts, the Swedish Institute, and Moderna Museet, Stockholm), touring sixteen US cities before ending up at the Atheneum in Helsinki. The 1962-1963 travelling exhibition in the United States paved the way for her solo show at the Viviano Gallery, New York, in 1964. Further international exhibitions followed in cities like Paris (Galerie Raymond Cordier, 1963), Helsinki (Atheneum, 1964), Dortmund (1965), Tokyo (Seibu Gallery and Azabu Gallery, 1967), and New York (Viviano Gallery, 1968). 1968 was also the year when Norrköping Art Museum in Sweden presented a solo exhibition of Ekström’s paintings, while she, once again, became the only woman to represent Sweden in a 1968-1969 travelling group exhibition in the U.S.A., Sweden Today. Paintings and Sculpture. An exhibition organised by the Corcoran Gallery of Art under the sponsorship of the Swedish Government, that travelled from Washington D.C., to Arizona, Ohio, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Iowa, and Colorado. Marc Moyens (who initiated the 1964 exhibition at the Viviano Gallery in New York) showed Ekström at his gallery in Washington D.C., in 1971. That same year Ekström also participated in the group exhibition Der Geist des Surrealismus (The Spirit of Surrealism) in Cologne, Federal Republic of Germany. Further international recognition came in 1975 when she, together with her friend and mentor Ragnar von Holten, PhD (1934-2009, Swedish painter, printmaker, and museum director who served as senior curator of Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, 1982-1997; and senior curator of Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 1998-2000), exhibited at the Centre Culturel Suédois in Paris. On a personal level, the 1970s also brought with it increased stability in life. Linda Fagerström (associate professor of art history and visual studies at Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden) writes: In the end of 1968, she moved to Östermalm and an apartment at Sibyllegatan 16 -the first proper and long-term housing she’d had in her entire adult life, despite her being 48 years old. Around the same time, Ekström was awarded a major grant from The Royal Academy, which of course marked this period as a fresh start, in both work and life. Her international success was further reflected at home, and in 1977 Konstnärshuset (Artists’ House, a building in central Stockholm,owned by Svenska konstnärernas förening/the Swedish Artists Association and used as an art gallery) presented a major Ekström retrospective with around a hundred works. The exhibition caused a great deal of attention, was praised by art critics, and attracted a high number of visitors (with many works sold on the spot). In 1979, Ragnar von Holten’s biography Thea Ekström was published, and the following year her art was included in an extensive travelling exhibition that was shown in museums in Sweden, Finland, Norway, Iceland, and Denmark. After these high points, the following decade was mostly characterised by smaller exhibitions at Swedish galleries in Stockholm and other cities. Ekström’s old friend and colleague Ragnar von Holten, who took over as director of the Centre Culturel Suédois, Paris, in 1985, opened an exhibition (at the institute) with Ekström and Dagmar Norell...

The central concept of Larios painting series KHLORIS is based on the idea of ​​the garden as a metaphorical space. Larios seeks to find a certain romantic beauty in the details of n...

Ryōan-ji is the Japanese Zen temple in Kyoto, a monastery that gave rise to the idea of ​​the purely abstract Zen garden that inspired this series Francisco Larios’ works are done by...

A magnificent cosmic abstract painting by Duane Albert Armstrong (American, b. 1938) reminiscent of the amazing images of space sent back from the Hubble telescope. Titled "Black Hol...

Flow is the ability of liquids to continually move from one place to another. Also, It means accepting each situation as it is. The movement of the liquid comes from life, it is natu...

The central concept of Larios painting series KHLORIS is based on the idea of ​​the garden as a metaphorical space. Larios seeks to find a certain romantic beauty in the details of n...

The central concept of Larios painting series KHLORIS is based on the idea of ​​the garden as a metaphorical space. Larios seeks to find a certain romantic beauty in the details of n...

Ryōan-ji is the Japanese Zen temple in Kyoto, a monastery that gave rise to the idea of ​​the purely abstract Zen garden that inspired this series Francisco Larios’ works are done by...

In 1962, Elvis Presley purchased one of the world’s first four-engine business jets — the iconic Lockheed JetStar. Luxuriously equipped with leather seats, a bar, a bedroom, and even...

"Summer 2025" is an animalistic landscape by Lilia Volskaya. Let's start with the shape of the canvas, which is a hexagon, which is unusual, isn't it? The canvas is painted black. Th...

Purple lace of white peonies" realistic still life by Lilia Volskaya. Flowers are the ultimate delight in beauty, which is flawless. The slight curves of lines, tones and semitones, ...

"Still Life with Peonies" oil, Volskaya Lilia palette knife. This still life was painted with great love and joy. My mother's garden brought us happiness! The peonies were blooming a...

HUGO G. URRUTIA B. 1974, Mexico Hugo G. Urrutia is a multidisciplinary artist-designer, interested in the cross-pollination between art and architecture. His artwork challenges the...

Artist: Detlef E. Aderhold Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas Edition: Original Abstract Painting in Turquoise, Green, Yellow, Blue, Red and Black About the Artist: Detlef E. Aderhol...

The central concept of Larios painting series KHLORIS is based on the idea of ​​the garden as a metaphorical space. Larios seeks to find a certain romantic beauty in the details of n...

Artist: Detlef E. Aderhold Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas Edition: Original Abstract Painting in Turquoise, Green, Yellow, Blue, Red and Black About the Artist: Detlef E. Aderhol...

The central concept of Larios painting series KHLORIS is based on the idea of ​​the garden as a metaphorical space. Larios seeks to find a certain romantic beauty in the details of n...

The central concept of Larios painting series KHLORIS is based on the idea of ​​the garden as a metaphorical space. Larios seeks to find a certain romantic beauty in the details of n...

Large Vertical Dark Green Abstract Painting Acrylic and Oil on Hemp Canvas Nature Inspired Abstract Forest Painting Contemporary Artwork Dimensions: Height: 39.38 in (100 cm)Width: ...

(Comes professionally framed in a solid maple floater frame, ready to hang) Artist's Statement "This series of intensely colorful paintings was begun a couple of years back in reaction to the gray oppressive weight that had descended like a pall on the American scene. I wanted to make paintings about nothing but pure delight, in honor of the fact that beneath the fog of germs and political antagonism, we still eat, laugh, love and if we're wise, acknowledge how spectacularly fortunate we are -- at least for now, in this time and place, despite the problems. For me, the colors, forms and brushstrokes here feel exuberant without suggesting an unnerving chaos. I have purposely used unlikely color combinations that despite their dissonance seem to work together. I don't feel this is a time to be making brooding works that reflect the problems we are working our way through; we all know about this. On the contrary, I think it's a time for art...

"At dawn" abstract marine landscape by Lilia Volskaya. Charming seascape. He breathes sea spray and foam. Waves run into the endless expanses of the sea At dawn, the water turns red....

The paintings are drawn with oil on the hardboard (back side made of the double cardboard). Evening in purple. This dream scene uses hues of purple, pink, blue, and blue. A gorgeous...

The central concept of Larios painting series KHLORIS is based on the idea of ​​the garden as a metaphorical space. Larios seeks to find a certain romantic beauty in the details of n...

Artist: Detlef E. Aderhold Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas Edition: Original Abstract Painting in Yellow, Blue, Red and Black About the Artist: Detlef E. Aderhold is a contemporar...

Artist: Detlef E. Aderhold Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas Size: 90 x 90 cm Edition: Original Artwork About the Artist: Detlef E. Aderhold is a contemporary abstract painter from...

(NOTE: if you enter "Gridish" into the 1stDibs search field you will see others in this series come up) (Comes framed in a maple high-profile "floater" frame.) Artist’s Statement: ...

In this series the artist represent the force of white that invades with its free forms, strongly over the structure of black. White is the absolute color, the purest, the most perfe...

Ryōan-ji is the Japanese Zen temple in Kyoto, a monastery that gave rise to the idea of ​​the purely abstract Zen garden that inspired this series Francisco Larios’ works are done by...

Artist: Detlef E. Aderhold Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas Edition: Original Abstract Painting in Turquoise, Green, Yellow, Blue, Red and Black About the Artist: Detlef E. Aderhol...

This Modern Abstract Expressionist painting by Stanley Bate is made with oil paint and and lacquer on board. It features light textured and a light blue-grey and yellow palette contrasted by the almost black focal point of the composition. The painting is 14.5" x 19" and measures 16.25" x 20.5" x 2" framed. Signed by the artist in the lower left-hand corner of the painting, it is framed in a floater frame with warm silver face and black sides and is ready to hang. Stanley Bate was born on March 26, 1903 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Bates were an established Tennessee family, in fact, Henry’s brother William Bate was the governor of Tennessee from 1883-1887 and a United States Senator from 1887-1905. Stanley studied art at the Watkins Institute in Nashville. In the 1920’s Bate moved to New York City to study at the Art Students League under Frederick Bridgman. He soon landed a job with Encyclopedia Britannica, and from 1927-1929 served as art editor. From 1929 until his death in 1972, Stanley was a self-employed artist. He taught art classes at both the Art Students League and the Albany Institute of History and Art and brought in extra income by making illustrations for magazines such as “Outdoor Life” and “Popular Science”. On January 27, 1934 Stanley married Emilie Rossel. Emilie had emigrated from Switzerland to New York in 1923. She found work as a governess to Alfred Vanderbilt and later as an executive secretary for Wall Street investment brokers Kahn, Loeb and Co. Emilie met Stanley in New York in the early 1930’s when she attended one of his art exhibitions with a friend. The couple, who had no children, lived on 34th Street in Manhattan. During this period, Bate was producing and exhibiting his art and joined several artists groups. Stanley and Emilie became part of the New York art scene, dining weekly at the Society of Illustrators Clubhouse. Stanley Bate’s time in New York was pivotal in the formation of his painting style. He lived in New York during the inception of one of the most important Modern Art movements, one that helped New York replace Paris as the center of avant-garde art. This movement, which was called the New York School of artists, was later known as Abstract Expressionism. It was comprised of a loosely associated group of vanguard artists working in New York City during the 1940s and 1950s. The New York School was not defined by a specific style, but instead reflected a fusion of European Modernism and American social relevancy that was depicted in many individual styles. Influences of Surrealism, Cubism, and Modernism can be found in their work, along with an interest in experimenting with non-traditional materials and methods. American art was in the forefront of international avant-garde for the first time. Stanley Bate was undoubtedly exposed to the varied styles and techniques that were emerging during the formative years of the New York School. Mark Rothko and Robert Motherwell were formulating their versions of color field paintings. Joseph Cornell was experimenting with assemblages, collage and the use of different types of textured paints. Jackson Pollock was adhering objects such as buttons and coins into his early works, while Louise Nevelson was using found objects. Helen Frankenthaler added sand to her early paintings. The New York School artists were undermining traditional fine art by using mixed media and non-traditional methods. Stanley Bate absorbed these varied influences and soon his early realistic landscapes and still-lifes were replaced with something entirely new. The influence of Cubism, notably the flat shallow space of the picture plane, is obvious in many of Bate’s paintings. Surrealism is evident in Bate’s use of subjects from myth, primitive art and antiquity, along with the Automatism-like line work in his more linear images. The unfettered experimentation of the New York School is everywhere in Stanley Bate’s work. We see nods to color field, collage, the mixing of textures into paint, mixed media, the inclusion of found objects and thick, luscious impasto. Bate was prolific and experimented in various media including oil, watercolor, lithography, silk screen, wood cut, drawing, collage, ceramics and sculpture. Bate is considered a true Modernist. His work is largely abstract, but sometimes figures and buildings are discernable. He frequently mixed paint, sand and glue together to achieve a textured surface, and then scraped and scratched through this layer to expose some of the underpainting below. His sculpture, which is often whimsical, also reflects the non-traditional methods of the New York School. Bate pioneered the use of enamel and copper in his work. The sculptures are not carved or modeled as was done in the past, but instead are built using mixed media and new materials. In addition to the New York School influence, many of Bate’s works exhibit a strong connection to the Spanish school, especially the work of Antonio Tapies and Modesto Cuixart. These artists were both part of an avant-garde group known as Art Informel, the Spanish equivalent of Abstract Expressionism. These artists likewise worked in mixed media and introduced objects and texture into their work. Many of Bate’s subjects and titles relate to Spanish locations and words. It is likely that Stanley spent time in Spain and found inspiration there. By the early 1940s, Stanley and Emilie had started spending weekends in a barn they purchased in Craryville, New York, a few hours north of Manhattan. The barn had no electricity or plumbing, but when the Bates eventually decided to leave New York and live full time in Craryville, they remodeled the barn, putting a gallery downstairs and a studio and living quarters upstairs. Although the Bates moved out of New York City, Stanley remained part of the New York art scene, exhibiting in New York and elsewhere throughout the 50s and 60s. During his lifetime he was represented by the New York galleries Knoedler and Company, Kennedy Galleries, Rose Fried Gallery and Key Gallery, along with Tyringham Gallery located in Tyringham, Massachusetts. Craryville was Stanley’s home until his death on August 21, 1972. Emilie died 1984...

Artist: Detlef E. Aderhold Medium: Mixed Media on Canvas Edition: Original Abstract Painting in Turquoise, Green, Yellow, Blue, Red and Black About the Artist: Detlef E. Aderhol...

Evening city over the sea bay. The triptych. An atmospheric seascape in blue. The central painting has a size of 40x40cm. The left part of the triptych has a size of 30x40cm. The r...

Energy" is an abstraction of expressionism from the Volsky Lily. What is 2025 for us? What to expect and what to prepare for?Summing up the results. The end of the cycle, what has ju...

"Flying islands" abstract landscape Volskaya Lily . Everyone remembers Japanese anime cartoons, vivid and imaginative images. This painting is a dream of wonderful worlds where you c...

The paintings are drawn with oil on the canvas. A summer's day with pink peonies. A sunny, bright picture. oil painting on a circular canvas. The painting's borders are not the limi...

"Magnificent romantic seascape" oil painting of the Volsky Lily. Everyone has dreams. And every person has moments when dreams come true. This is a point of high enjoyment of life. I...

​Impressions of past lives, perceptions of future lives. The Records series carries that mystery. Simple and profound since its deed does not happen on the surface. Although it manif...

The triptych is spring. Landscape in oil . Volskaya Lilya each painting is 20х15х0.5 cm A painting with landscapes is a wonderful mediator between people and nature.Paintings wit...

In this evocative piece, I blend acrylic and oil to capture an intimate moment, rich with layered emotions. The figure, poised yet wistful, stands enveloped by the depth of the dark ...

I tried to find the color harmony of red-green pears and bright yellow milk jug. The shape of the jug echoes the shape of pears and the drapery, giving a unified movement and dynam...

The picture is bright, saturated with aromas of the tropics. Tuberoses are in full bloom. Butterflies are a symbol of life. Fragrant flowers surround you from all sides. An exotic co...

An exotic garden and 3 green birds. the original oil painting of the Volsky Lily. This painting is a continuation of the series "My Funny Birds". Maybe you will say that such color...

Naomi Jones’s evocative figurative painting captures the essence of feminine serenity and nature-inspired symbolism. This soulful portrait features a peaceful woman with flowing aubu...

When I arrived at my grandmother's house, the neighbors said, "Oh, the city girl has arrived." And my grandmother said, "Child, what have you done to yourself? You're a girl..." My g...

This refined contemporary painting reflects the psychological atmosphere shaped by the war in Ukraine, translating lived experience into a composed and enduring visual form. The cent...

I am a Gippsland-based artist, whose creative process is ever-evolving, with the constant being my subject matter. Native Australian flora and fauna are commonly depicted in my works...

"Golden Dreams" is a contemporary and parametric wall sculpture. Made from oil lacquer paint and acrylic mirror on carved maple, this body of work is c...