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Period: 1990s
Pignon Bleu - Mareil by Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié, 1994 - Oil painting
Located in London, GB
*UK BUYERS WILL PAY AN ADDITIONAL 20% VAT ON TOP OF THE ABOVE PRICE
Pignon Bleu - Mareil by Hugues Pissarro dit Pomié (B. 1935)
Oil on canvas
130 x 162 cm (51 ¹/₈ x 63 ³/₄ inches)
D...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Flowers. 1990, oil on canvas, 92x81 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers. 1990, oil on canvas, 92x81 cm
Light still life with flowers in jug, in white and blue colors.
In 1958 he graduated from the Riga Art School of J. Rosenthal, in 1964 Art ...
Category
Realist 1990s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,721 Sale Price
20% Off
Vagues 'Wave' by TOSHIMITSU IMAÏ - Abstract Art, 20th-Century Japanese Artist
Located in London, GB
Vagues “Wave” by TOSHIMITSU ÏMAI (1928-2002)
Acrylic on paper
127 x 95 cm (50 x 37 3⁄8 inches)
Signed in Japanese and English lower right, inscribed and dated 1992 on the reverse
Provenance:
Studio of the artist
Dr Jean-Paul Coussy (Director of MCAP Museum, France), acquired directly from the artist, March 15th 1998
Dr Giorgio Tosetti, Italy, acquired from the above
Exhibitions:
Paris, Galerie Chozo Yoshii, Hommage à André Malraux - Les voix du Silence, September - November 1997
Literature
G. C. Calza, Imaï, Electa, Milan, 1998 (Onde/Waves series)
Artist biography:
Born in Kyoto, Japan in 1928 Imai was part of the 20th century Japanese avant-garde. He began his formal education at the Tokyo State Art Academy where he took up painting. His early works are characterised by colourful abstractions, reminiscent of Favuism. In 1951 Imai was awarded the Kansai-Shinseisaku Prize and in 1952 the prize for the best new artist at the 15th Shinseisaku Salon.
Imai relocated to Paris in 1953, the same and subsequent year he exhibited at the Salon de L’Art Sacré. Meanwhile, he attended the Académie de la Grande Chaumière and the Sorbonne to read medieval history and philosophy. In 1955, Imai completely abandoned representational art in favour of abstraction. After meeting the art critic Michel Tapié via the artist Sam Francis, Imai was the first Japanese artist to join the Art Informel movement.
In 1956 Imai was called upon by the Japanese artist Taro Okamoto to curate an exhibition entitled The World: Today’s Art in Tokyo. Artists such as Jean Dubuffet, Jean Fautrier, Lucio Fontana, and Karel Appel gained important exposure in Japan. It was also in 1957, when Imai arranged for Tapié and the artists Georges Mathieu and Sam Francis to travel to Japan, that a connection between Art Informel and Gutai occurred. The Ashiya-based Gutai Art Association formed in 1954 was proclaimed a kindred spirit by Tapié which he subsequently promoted internationally. Founding members included Yoshihara Jiro, Kanayma Akira, Murakami Saburo, Shiraga Kazuo and Shozo...
Category
Abstract 1990s Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Paper
Inverted glass. 1998, oil, collage on cardboard, 45x59 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Inverted glass. 1998, oil, collage on cardboard, 45x59 cm
In 1958 he graduated from the Riga Art School of J. Rosenthal, in 1964 Art Academy of Latvian State, painting department, Head of the diploma work "Working in the forest" E. Kalninsh.
He participated in the exhibition since 1966.
Member of Artists Union of Latvia since 1970. From 1993-2000 member of the Association "B13".
He worked as a teacher at the Riga 19th school and in the 17th evening high school (1961-1965), in the Riga Art School of J. Rosenthal (1965-1981), worked at the Arts Academy of Latvia since 1981 - in charge of Department of Painting (1993- 1998), professor since 1993. From 1997- 2000 Professor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christian Academy of Latvia.
At the end of the 60s, in the 70s painted many figurative compositions of the historical genre. Reborn impression of cubism, painted still lifes and landscapes.
Paintings by Janis...
Category
Abstract 1990s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$1,721 Sale Price
20% Off
Flowers. 1996, oil on canvas, 69x57 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers. 1996, oil on canvas, 69x57 cm
In 1958 he graduated from the Riga Art School of J. Rosenthal, in 1964 Art Academy of Latvian State, painting department, Head of the diploma work "Working in the forest" E. Kalninsh.
He participated in the exhibition since 1966.
Member of Artists Union of Latvia since 1970. From 1993-2000 member of the Association "B13".
He worked as a teacher at the Riga 19th school and in the 17th evening high school (1961-1965), in the Riga Art School of J. Rosenthal (1965-1981), worked at the Arts Academy of Latvia since 1981 - in charge of Department of Painting (1993- 1998), professor since 1993. From 1997- 2000 Professor at the Evangelical Lutheran Christian Academy of Latvia.
At the end of the 60s, in the 70s painted many figurative compositions of the historical genre. Reborn impression of cubism, painted still lifes and landscapes.
Paintings by Janis...
Category
Abstract 1990s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,721 Sale Price
20% Off
Two. 1997. Oil on cardboard, 55x55 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Two. 1997. Oil on cardboard, 55x55 cm
In 1958 he graduated from the Riga Art School of J. Rosenthal, in 1964 Art Academy of Latvian State, painting department, Head of the diploma w...
Category
Abstract 1990s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$1,740 Sale Price
20% Off
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Abstract 1990s Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
South. 1993, oil on canvas, 60 x 55 cm
Located in Riga, LV
South. 1993, oil on canvas, 60 x 55 cm
Roman Lapp (1961. 24. VII Moscow) – painter
Artist learned drawing to M. Zuhovickis.
He graduated Art Academy of Latvia, department of monumen...
Category
Impressionist 1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,759 Sale Price
20% Off
A clown. 1997, canvas, oil, 54x65 cm
Located in Riga, LV
A clown. 1997, canvas, oil, 54x65 cm
Elizabete Melbarzde (b. 1970.18.VII)
Elizabete Melbarzde graduated Riga secondary school of applied arts and Painting department at Art academy ...
Category
Abstract 1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$926 Sale Price
20% Off
Bouquet. 1995, oil on canvas, 44, 5x42 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Bouquet. 1995, oil on canvas, 44,5x42 cm
Category
Realist 1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$709 Sale Price
20% Off
Sight. Vysotsky. 2009, oil on canvas, 80x80 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Frown / Vysotsky /2009, oil on canvas, 80x80 cm
Category
Contemporary 1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sister. 1991, canvas, oil, 100x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sister. 1991, canvas, oil, 100x70 cm
Biruta Delle (born 1944.17.I)
studied in Latvia Art academy (1964 – 67) and one of her most important pedagogue’s wa...
Category
Expressionist 1990s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Three Graces. 1996, oil on wood, 32x23 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Three Graces. 1996, oil on wood, 32x23 cm
Three women, small painting
Normunds Braslinsh (1962)
Born 1962 in Riga, Latvia
1980–1986 Latvian Academy of Art, Painting Department
1973...
Category
Realist 1990s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Wood
$4,539 Sale Price
28% Off
“SM070897” by Shitomi Murakami
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Shitomi Murakami Shitomi Murakami was born in 1941 in Osaka, Japan
1964 Graduated from Musashino School of Fine Arts, Tokyo.
1964-70 Laboratory of Sc...
Category
Abstract 1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Tar, Acrylic
Carry Over The Mountain
By Purvis Young
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Mixed Media house paint on cardboard
Category
Abstract 1990s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Acrylic, Cardboard
Untitled
By Don Fink
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
$6,501
Running the Light (Abstract painting)
By Dana Gordon
Located in London, GB
Running the Light (Abstract painting)
Gouache on matte board. Unframed.
This work is part of an early series made in 1998 where Gordon explored with free flowing interacting with c...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1990s Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Board
Conference of the birds no 28 (Abstract Painting)
Located in London, GB
Conference of the birds no 28 (Abstract Painting)
Oil on panel.
Natural and mystical processes inspire Ostovany. Informed by a variety of different cultures, Ostovany feels a conne...
Category
Color-Field 1990s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Capsule
By General Idea
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In 1967, General Idea was founded 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 cont...
Category
Post-Modern 1990s Paintings
Materials
Silk, Paint, Paper
$16,750
"On Beyond Blue", Bette Ridgeway, 66x128, Acrylic/Canvas, Fluid Contemporary Art
Located in Dallas, TX
Today we can consider the artist Bette Ridgeway as the one and only true heir of Paul Jenkins: her mentor and teacher. Ridgeway's painting is dynamic and rhythmic; like the most “en...
Category
Abstract Expressionist 1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"San Paolo" by Enzio Wenk, 1999 - Colorful Urban Landscape, NeoExpressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Mixed media on wood.
Category
1990s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Wood Panel
Untitled by Enzio Wenk, 1998 - Abstract Figure, NeoExpressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Il viaggio di Enrico" by Enzio Wenk, 1999 - Mixed Media on Canvas, Figurative
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Enrico's journey"
Collage, ink on canvas and paper.
Category
1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Paper, Ink, Mixed Media
"Criminal Night" by Enzio Wenk, 1992 - Portrait on Blue Canvas, NeoExpressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Acrylic on canvas.
Category
1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"Faccia Ubriaca" by Enzio Wenk, 1993-1997 - Mixed Media on Canvas, Portrait
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Drunken face".
Mixed media on canvas.
Category
Expressionist 1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Abstract 1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Abstract 1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas
The Turtle Street Trading Co.
By Ed Tadiello
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1990
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30.00" x 22.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Center
1990 Childrens book
Category
1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled - OL3.96
Located in London, GB
Oil and fabric on linen - Unframed
Feinberg works with a variety of techniques and mediums, including painting, paper collage and installation.
Her process results in abstract paint...
Category
Abstract 1990s Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Linen, Oil
Untitled - OL1.96
Located in London, GB
Oil, fabric and string on linen - Unframed
Feinberg works with a variety of techniques and mediums, including painting, paper collage and installation.
Her process results in abstra...
Category
Abstract 1990s Paintings
Materials
Fabric, Linen, Oil
Framed Hand Painted on Canvas Mandala Thangka 24K Gold
Located in TRUMBULL, CT
This framed "Mandala" thangka is hand painted on canvas with 24K real gold.
Golden Mandala and other figurative depiction on black background and red border makes it an incredible piece.
Measurement of art without the frame: 12" x 17"
A handout on process of making a thangka will be included with the purchase.
Mandala represents "wholeness" and is also used as an aid in meditation.
The term mandala has become a generic way of describing any circular geometric pattern. The word mandala originated from Sanskrit which means “Circle”. Early versions of the Mandala can be found in the Hindu faith where we would see geometric shapes representing deities. Buddhism took this concept one...
Category
Other Art Style 1990s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
L'Eclair, Acrylic on Canvas Painting by Kara Maria, 1999
By Kara Maria
Located in Orange, CA
L'Eclair, Acrylic on Canvas Painting by Kara Maria, 1999
Additional information:
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 31 × 59 in (78.7 × 149.9 cm)
Kara Maria produces paintings an...
Category
1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
'A Curious Pair', New Mexico Woman Artist, Oil Painters of America, Michigan
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
'A Curious Pair' by Mary Beth Schwark.
New Mexico Woman Artist, Oil Painters of America, Michigan
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Signed lower right, 'Schwark' for Mary Beth Schwark (American, 1954-2001) and painted circa 1990. Additionally signed, verso, and titled, 'A Curious Pair'
The daughter of professional musicians, Mary-Beth Schwark was born in Michigan and grew up surrounded by music. She attended Macomb Community College where she studied Graphic and Commercial Art with Ray Vinella, John Asaro...
Category
1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Board
EASY STREET, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Bill Stone
Located in Yardley, PA
A scene that played out every night on our street in Chicago. :: Painting :: Surrealism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready...
Category
Surrealist 1990s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Espíritu del Greco
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Maurizio Scarpari Grand Prix Racing Cars Oil on Canvas
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting, oil on canvas, measuring 55 x 65 cm without frame and 64 x 82 cm with frame, depicting two racing Ferraris, during a grand prix, by the painter Maurizio Scarpari, as can be...
Category
Italian School 1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Tulips
Located in Miami, FL
Tulips is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their distinct bright colors, satiny, silky, vibrati...
Category
Fauvist 1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
19th Century Maurizio Scarpari Grand Prix Racing Cars Oil on Canvas
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting, oil on canvas, measuring 55 x 65 cm without frame and 64 x 82 cm with frame, depicting two racing Ferraris, during a grand prix, by the painter Maurizio Scarpari, as can be...
Category
Italian School 1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Realist 1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sand Bar, 17x25" framed prisma color
By Roy Wilce
Located in Loveland, CO
Sand Bar by Roy Wilce
Prismacolor on Paper, cool tones depict a serene lake with large rocks in the foreground.
image 17x25", framed 25h x 33w (behind glass)
Shipping price includes...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Paintings
Materials
Archival Paper, Color Pencil
Coorsware, 25x32" framed oil pastel
By Roy Wilce
Located in Loveland, CO
Coorsware by Roy Wilce
Original Oil Pastel on Paper
image 14x21", framed 25x31" (behind glass)
Colorful still life of fruit, teacup, vintage tableware
Shipping price includes the c...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
John's Tree, 47x33" framed oil pastel
By Roy Wilce
Located in Loveland, CO
John's Tree by Roy Wilce
Oil pastel on paper
image 34x20", framed 46.5h x 33w
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
“We live at times with too much angst. I want my paintings to have a calming effect...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel, Archival Paper
$2,337 Sale Price
22% Off
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Includes a Certificate of Authenticity
Category
Impressionist 1990s Paintings
Materials
Oil
"The Matchmaking Ghost" Book Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Dimensions: 30.00" x 20.00"
Signature: Signed Lower Left
This romance illustration graced the paperback cover of The Matchmaking Ghost by Janice Bennett. Publi...
Category
1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Mixed Media
$5,253
Pumpkin with Art Glass, framed oil painting 26x22"
By Roy Wilce
Located in Loveland, CO
Pumpkin with Art Glass by Roy Wilce
Oil on Canvas Painting
image 24x20"
framed 26x22" (frame is wood with silver features)
Still life of art glass and a pumpkin against grey fabric
...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,815 Sale Price
24% Off
UNTITLED (WOMAN & LANDSCAPE) - Portrait / Italy / Female Figure
By Alan Feltus
Located in New York, NY
Original Oil Painting by Alan Feltus.
Alan Feltus (b. 1943, Washington, DC) studied at the Cooper Union where he received his BFA in 1966, and at Yale University where he received ...
Category
Contemporary 1990s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Sunflower fields
Located in Miami, FL
Sunflower fields is a painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This piece is a part of a flower series, defined by their disti...
Category
Fauvist 1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Rolling Meadows
Located in West Hollywood, CA
The use of soft tones and impressionistic brushstrokes lends a sense of ethereal beauty to the overall composition. The artist has skillfully created a sense of distance, with the ba...
Category
Expressionist 1990s Paintings
Materials
Oil
valentine cat, colorful greens, plants, interior by window
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Early work - Mixed media on board
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with bound...
Category
Fauvist 1990s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Framed Hand Painted Medicine Buddha Thangka on Canvas 24K Gold
Located in TRUMBULL, CT
This professionally framed "Medicine Buddha" thangka is hand painted on canvas with 24K real gold.
Medicine Buddha is believed to have healing power.
Measurement:
Including the fram...
Category
Other Art Style 1990s Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media
untitled
Located in Westmount, QC
Francesco Iacurto, Canadian, 1908-2001
untitled, 1952
Oil on board
12 x 16 in
Signed lower right
Framed
Category
1990s Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Central Park in May III", Bogomir Bogdanovic, Oil on Canvas, Impressionist
Located in Dallas, TX
This original oil painting from Bogomir Bogdanovic is is a perfect representation of his paintings that he is most known for of New York. The piece was painted in 1998 and is entitle...
Category
Impressionist 1990s Paintings
Materials
Panel, Oil
Soap bubble VII
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
Oil painting on canvas.
Category
Abstract 1990s Paintings
Materials
Oil
Floral Scene
Located in Austin, TX
A nature scene showing the edge of a palm tree and a potted flowering plant. Oil on Board. 21" x 21"
Framed
Category
1990s Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board
Colourful, op-art, modern painting "Movimenti Cinetici"
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Ferruccio Gard (Italy, 1940) is one of the pioneers and leading artist representatives of the Neo-Constructivist art, Programmed Art and Optical Art, which he has practiced since 1969. He is considered to be a master of colour, in his painting Gard creates original formal and compositional solutions of forms and colours. Exploring the geometric composition with chromatic and special themes Gards clasps the complexity of black and white and the extremes of the tonal scale of colours.
Gard's work have been the subject of many writers, including Piero Dorazio and Virgilio Guidi, as well as renowned poets art art curators such as Jorge Amado...
Category
Op Art 1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
I Love That Nutcracker Doll
By Dan Andreasen
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Approximate Date: 1997
Signature: Stamped Lower Right Margin
Medium: Oil on Board
Dimensions: 10.00" x 7.00"
Opening illustration for "Samantha's Surprise: A Christmas Story." Book Three of The American Girls Collection. Middleton, Wisconsin: American Girl Publications/Pleasant Company, 1998. Publisher's job stamp on dust cover.
Few trends of the last twenty five years have captured the attention of young readers as The American Girls series of dolls and accompanying books. Andreasen, a prolific and New York Times bestselling illustrator, was one of the main original artists of the book series and his depictions of the fresh-faced Samantha Parkington and Felicity Merriman became iconic to readers. This charming scene features Edwardian Era Samantha and her friend Nellie gazing at the coveted Nutcracker Doll in a Christmas toys...
Category
1990s Paintings
Materials
Board, Oil
Beach Storm : Oil painting on canvas
Located in New York, NY
Painting by established contemporary artist Jan Wunderman. Oil on canvas.
Jan Wunderman primarily lived and worked in New York City and New Hampshire. Wunderman is noted for richly ...
Category
Abstract 1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Le Bois
Located in Miami, FL
Le Bois is a colorful painting made by Evelyne Ballestra, a French contemporary artist. This expressionist painting is inspired from an enchanted wood, showing...
Category
Fauvist 1990s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Untitled
Located in Barcelona, BARCELONA
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category
Abstract 1990s Paintings
Materials
Lithograph
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