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Style: Contemporary
Style: Pop Art
Medium: Canvas
Fluorescent Pop Surrealist Female Portrait with Insects and Botanical Elements
Located in FISTERRA, ES
Anthropomorphic figure created by accumulating representations of flowers, plants, insects, and other elements of kitsch iconography, with intense, bright, and fluorescent colors. Th...
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2010s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Spray Paint, Acrylic

"Bazooka Ali" Double Muhammad Ali & Chanel Pop Art Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
A pop piece depicting Muhammed Ali with Chanel. With impasto painting, and quick brushwork we are drawn to the movement, as the artist is able to engage his viewer with contrasting h...
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2010s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Mixed Media

Veiled Contemplation - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women
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. About Artist Mes...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Grace Kelly Icon X /// Contemporary Street Pop Painting Actress Fashion Model
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Grace Kelly Icon X" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, dated, and titled on verso Year: 2024 Medium: Ori...
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2010s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Acrylic

Gaze of Affection 1
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery)
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Serenity
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide 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 Gallery) "Serenity" is an enchanting artwork that immediately captures the viewer's attention. The focal point is a woman, portrayed with grace and elegance. Oladapo's attention to detail brings the subject to life, with each brushstroke conveying a sense of peace and serenity. The woman's calm expression exudes tranquility as if she has discovered a profound inner stillness. Her eyes reflect a sense of contentment and acceptance, inviting viewers to join her in a world of peace and joy. The artist's careful use of color and light further enhances the soothing atmosphere, creating a sense of harmony and balance within the artwork. "Serenity" embodies the idea that every moment of our lives can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity, regardless of external circumstances. The artwork encourages viewers to embrace the present moment, finding solace and happiness in the simple pleasures of life. The woman depicted in the artwork serves as a symbol of inner strength and resilience. Her serene expression represents an inner journey, a state of mind that can be achieved through mindfulness and self-reflection. She invites viewers to let go of worries, anxieties, and the constant pursuit of external validation, and instead find tranquility within themselves. The emphasis on "every breath we take, every step we make" underscores the notion that serenity is not confined to a specific time or place. It is a mindset that can be cultivated in each moment, whether we are walking in nature, engaging in daily tasks, or simply pausing to take a deep breath. The artwork encourages viewers to approach life with mindfulness and to find joy in the present moment. Agboola Oladapo...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Foxi - XXI Century, Contemporary portrait, Oil painting, Monochromatic, Texture
By Sylwester Stabryla
Located in Warsaw, PL
Sylwester Stabryla (b. 1975) Graduated from artistic studies in Radom in 2002. The main focus in his art is human. He finds inspiration in everyday life. Participated in many individ...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Elizabeth Taylor Icon VIII /// Contemporary Street Pop Art Actress Fashion Model
Located in Saint Augustine, FL
Artist: Jack Graves III (American, 1988-) Title: "Elizabeth Taylor Icon VIII" Series: Icon *Signed by Graves lower right. It is also signed, titled, and dated on verso Year: 2022 Me...
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2010s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Paint, Acrylic

Adedoyin (Royalty has become Sweet)
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. About Artist Olu...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Woman by Stream in Traditional Robe and Hat, Oil Painting by Di Li Feng
Located in Long Island City, NY
Portrait of Woman by Stream in Traditional Robe and Hat Di Li Feng, Chinese (1958) Date: 2001 Oil on Canvas, signed l.l. Size: 38.5 x 31 in. (97.79 x 78.74 cm) Frame Size: 51 x 46 in...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The First Lady
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

A dance - Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting, Bright Colors, Purple
Located in Warsaw, PL
MONIKA ROSSA studied painting at the University of Arizona, in the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at the Escuela de Diseno in Barcelona. She practices drawing and easel painting....
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Cup of my Love
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The Cup of my love is a painting by Chima Theophilus, depicting an African woman with a teacup. Her hair is made of grapefruits and flowers, signifyi...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Black Pride 5
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide 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 Authent...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Black Pride 5
Black Pride 5
$2,600 Sale Price
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Two Wrestlers - sumos
Located in Burlingame, CA
Here is David Shevlino's magnetic 'Two Wrestlers', oil on canvas, 26 x 29.2 inches and framed 27.5 x 30.75 inches, painted in 2022, created with a minima...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ololufe Mi (Love of My Life)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Lemon Overcoat
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting 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.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Lemon Overcoat
Lemon Overcoat
$3,080 Sale Price
20% Off
GÈLÈ 1 (Head Tie)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Gele is essentially a type of head tie worn by women in the Western African country of Nigeria. In contrast to the head ties worn in some other African countries, like Ghana, Gele is...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Silent Mood
Located in Tulsa, OK
János Huszti Silent Mood Huszti elaborates his constantly changing topics with momentum and precision. He depicts historical times, special characters and places from the past, using...
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2010s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Serenity - Original Vibrant Floral Sally K Figurative Artwork
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lebanese American artist Sally K.'s captivating floral portraits are both mesmerizing and empowering. Her pop-realistic paintings are inspired by strong, feminine women, celebrating ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Bloodline 1
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Bloodline inspiration came from the origin of African identity, black people with great enthusiasm, full of energy and positivity... Africa was the birthp...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Sensuality, Couple, Bengal Art , Figurative, Canvas, Indian Mythology"In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Sukanta Das : Sublime Love, Figurative, Mixed Media Size : 36 x 48 inches Sukanta Das says, “ I am primarily inspired by the human body and nature. I love to use subtle hues and ton...
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2010s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Charcoal, Oil, Acrylic

Vintage Pop Art Portrait of Peter Max Original Framed Oil Painting
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage American modernist portrait of iconic artist Peter Max. Signed. Framed. Original oil on canvas.
Category

1970s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Siren Storming" Pop Art Figurative in Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Soquel, CA
"Siren Storming" Pop Art Figurative in Acrylic on Canvas Bold pop art portrait by Hilary Druley (American, b. 1982). A woman is depicted in a hard-edged...
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2010s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Stretcher Bars

Play Ball 1906 Brooklyn Dodgers 60x47" Oil and Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Southampton, NY
Play Ball 1906 Brooklyn Dodgers also know as American Classic was painted by Ceravolo in 1990 for a Baseball exhibit in Miami at Turnberry Isle. It then went on to another Baseball exhibit at R Michelson Galleries in Massachusetts. We are pleased to offer this classic Baseball image at our gallery. One of The Hampton's most popular urban Pop artists, Ceravolo's art is collected by Elton John, Rod Stewart, Alice Cooper, Pete Davidson and Grant Cardone among others. He has been call the "Rock and Roll Painter" and "Painter of the Stars of Rock" by the media. We have included in this listing an image of Ceravolo with some of his famous collectors. His paintings can be found in many influential corporate and private collections, including: ELTON JOHN, ROD STEWART, HUGH M. HEFNER, DAVID BRENNER, MONIQUE VAN VOOREN, WARNER BROS., RCA RECORDS AND SCHENLEY INDUSTRIES to name a few. Ceravolo's art came to popular attention when he was commissioned to create five large scale paintings for the lobby of The Palladium Theatre in New York City of Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt...
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1990s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Girl Child and Her Companion 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

Peaceful Haven -21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative Portrait, Women, Colorful
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. About Artist Adebayo Taiwo, ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Solemn Promise
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
This work is meant to cherish and embrace love and give love to those who definitely deserve love from every individual. The inspiration from this work is from personal experience at...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Rebel
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy. Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Auth...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Rebel
Rebel
$4,000 Sale Price
20% Off
Theater By Bruno Paoli - Figurative Painting
Located in Carmel, CA
Certificate of authenticity and artist catalogue are included. Bruno Paoli (1915-2005) Teaching the masters helped create this contemporary master. Bruno was a professor of art in F...
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2010s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Liberty (Song of Freedom)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Freedom will not come Today, This year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right As the other fellow has To stand On my two feet And own the land. I tire so...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Charcoal, Acrylic

Child in Chicken Yard Fauvist Abstract Expressionist Portrait
Located in Soquel, CA
Dynamic fauvist portrait painting titled "Chicken Yard" by California abstract expressionist artist Kristin Cohen (Ameican, b. 1963). Kristin Cohen studied at Humbolt State Universit...
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1990s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Resilience
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The underlying body of work is an exploration of texturizing distortion as a language of expression. The works explore an awaking of an Afrocentric consciousness connected to gender,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Resilience
Resilience
$3,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Just a Girl
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Shipping Procedure FREE Shipping Worldwide Ships in a well-protected tube. This work is unique, not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. Just a Girl...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Just a Girl
Just a Girl
$2,240 Sale Price
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The Blue Scarf
Located in Bozeman, MT
One of the originators of the Western pop art movement, Billy Schenck incorporates techniques from photorealism with a pop art sensibility to both exalt and poke fun at images of the...
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2010s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Family Tree
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Family Tree' contemporary portrait oil on canvas painting by Tamera Avery, whose paintings are created with wit and wisdom. Avery's work deals with seriou...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Frida Kahlo XXV, Orange Blue Yellow, Red Color, Acrylic, Canvas "In Stock"
Located in Kolkata, West Bengal
Oinam Dilip - Frida Kahlo XXV Acrylic on Canvas, 36 inches (Diameter) , 2021 FRAMED DOOR DELIVERED WITHIN INDIA ROLLED AND DOOR DELIVERED INTERNATIONALLY Dilip is one of the most promising young artists with his works very nominally Priced. Oinam Dilip was born in 1982 in Bishenpur, Dileep received his Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from Delhi College of Art. In the early years, Oinam experimented with abstract and realist forms of art, which were inspired by the metro cities...
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2010s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

"They Now call it Grooming", Contemporary, Black, Collage, Acrylic Painting
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “They Now call it Grooming” is an acrylic on canvas with collage 20 x 16 inches in blacks, purples and greens. His tie being adjusted and his hair being patted down, a young innocent...
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2010s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

chinonso God is Ever Near
By REWA
Located in New Orleans, LA
REWA says of her work… Viewers largely label me under “Contemporary African Art”. I label my work as Igbo Vernacular Art. The reason for this is that I believe that I have created a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Ink, Acrylic

portrait of a man
By Elie Shamir
Located in Surfside, FL
The painter Elie Shamir was born in 1953 in the village Kfar Yehoshua, studied at Bezalel, and participated in many exhibitions in Israel and abroad. This exhibition centers on Shamir’s work dealing with his birthplace. After years spent in Jerusalem and Boston, Shamir returned to the village in 1999 and resettled there, as the third generation of the place’s founders. The issue of place is present with great force and complexity in Shamir’s work; aspects of this issue pertain, among others, to that tangled knot which is tied and unraveled throughout the generations between the Jew and the land, between the immigrant and the native-born, between the local Arab and the Hebrew pioneer and his vision, between the farmer and his field. The clumps of earth in Shamir’s paintings are placed on geological strata charged with biblical past, with primeval culture, with Zionist history, with socio-economic ideology, with artistic tradition but also with his own personal family story. Kfar Yehoshua is both a personal, specific case of an agriculturBorn 1953, Kfar Yehoshua, Israel Education 1981 BFA, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem 1996 MA, Based on exhibitions and publications Selected Group Exhibition 1986 "The First Line", Museum of Art, Ein Harod, Ein Harod. "International Festival of Paintings, Cagne Sur Mer, France 1987 "Visiting Card", The Gallery of the Art Department., Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Jerusalem "Abraham's Sacrifice"'או "Sacrifice of Isaacin Israeli Art" The Museum of Israeli Art, Ramat Gan 1988 "Fresh Paint", Tel Aviv Museum of art, Tel Aviv "Portrait of a City"', Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa "Prints", Meimad Gallery, Tel Aviv 1989 "New Acquisitions", Tel Aviv Museum of art, Tel Aviv "New Acquisitions", Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa "Via Maris", Bat Yam Museum "International Biennale of Prints", Ljublijana, Yugoslavia 1990 "Winter Exhibition", Different Angle Gallery, Boston 1991 "Winter Exhibition", Different Angle Gallery, Boston 1993 "Locus", Contemporary Art from Israel...
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1980s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Elvis", Denied Andy Warhol Silver & Black Pop Art Painting by Charles Lutz
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Elvis, Metallic Silver and Black Full Length Silkscreen Painting by Charles Lutz Silkscreen and silver enamel painted on vintage 1960's era linen with Artist's Denied stamp of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board. 82" x 40" inches 2010 Lutz's 2007 ''Warhol Denied'' series gained international attention by calling into question the importance of originality or lack thereof in the work of Andy Warhol. The authentication/denial process of the [[Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board]] was used to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED". The final product of the conceptual project being "officially denied" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz. Based on the full-length Elvis Presley paintings by Pop Artist Andy Warhol in 1964, this is likely one of his most iconic images, next to Campbell's Soup Cans and portraits of Jackie Kennedy, Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, and Marlon Brando. This is the rarest of the Elvis works from the series, as Lutz sourced a vintage roll of 1960's primed artist linen which was used for this one Elvis. The silkscreen, like Warhol's embraced imperfections, like the slight double image printing of the Elvis image. Lutz received his BFA in Painting and Art History from Pratt Institute and studied Human Dissection and Anatomy at Columbia University, New York. Lutz's work deals with perceptions and value structures, specifically the idea of the transference of values. Lutz's most recently presented an installation of new sculptures dealing with consumerism at Frank Lloyd Wright's Fallingwater House in 2022. Lutz's 2007 Warhol Denied series received international attention calling into question the importance of originality in a work of art. The valuation process (authentication or denial) of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board was used by the artist to create value by submitting recreations of Warhol works for judgment, with the full intention for the works to be formally marked "DENIED" of their authenticity. The final product of this conceptual project is "Officially DENIED" "Warhol" paintings authored by Lutz. Later in 2013, Lutz went on to do one of his largest public installations to date. At the 100th Anniversary of Marcel Duchamp's groundbreaking and controversial Armory Show, Lutz was asked by the curator of Armory Focus: USA and former Director of The Andy Warhol Museum, Eric Shiner to create a site-specific installation representing the US. The installation "Babel" (based on Pieter Bruegel's famous painting) consisted of 1500 cardboard replicas of Warhol's Brillo Box (Stockholm Type) stacked 20 ft tall. All 1500 boxes were then given to the public freely, debasing the Brillo Box as an art commodity by removing its value, in addition to debasing its willing consumers. Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." Leonard Bernstein in: Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art and traveling, Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994-97, p. 9. Andy Warhol "quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." Kynaston McShine in: Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13. In the summer of 1963 Elvis Presley was just twenty-eight years old but already a legend of his time. During the preceding seven years - since Heartbreak Hotel became the biggest-selling record of 1956 - he had recorded seventeen number-one singles and seven number-one albums; starred in eleven films, countless national TV appearances, tours, and live performances; earned tens of millions of dollars; and was instantly recognized across the globe. The undisputed King of Rock and Roll, Elvis was the biggest star alive: a cultural phenomenon of mythic proportions apparently no longer confined to the man alone. As the eminent composer Leonard Bernstein put it, Elvis was "the greatest cultural force in the Twentieth Century. He introduced the beat to everything, and he changed everything - music, language, clothes, it's a whole new social revolution." (Exh. Cat., Boston, The Institute of Contemporary Art (and traveling), Elvis + Marilyn 2 x Immortal, 1994, p. 9). In the summer of 1963 Andy Warhol was thirty-four years old and transforming the parameters of visual culture in America. The focus of his signature silkscreen was leveled at subjects he brilliantly perceived as the most important concerns of day to day contemporary life. By appropriating the visual vernacular of consumer culture and multiplying readymade images gleaned from newspapers, magazines and advertising, he turned a mirror onto the contradictions behind quotidian existence. Above all else he was obsessed with themes of celebrity and death, executing intensely multifaceted and complex works in series that continue to resound with universal relevance. His unprecedented practice re-presented how society viewed itself, simultaneously reinforcing and radically undermining the collective psychology of popular culture. He epitomized the tide of change that swept through the 1960s and, as Kynaston McShine has concisely stated, "He quite simply changed how we all see the world around us." (Exh. Cat., New York, Museum of Modern Art (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 1996, p. 13). Thus in the summer of 1963 there could not have been a more perfect alignment of artist and subject than Warhol and Elvis. Perhaps the most famous depiction of the biggest superstar by the original superstar artist, Double Elvis is a historic paradigm of Pop Art from a breath-taking moment in Art History. With devastating immediacy and efficiency, Warhol's canvas seduces our view with a stunning aesthetic and confronts our experience with a sophisticated array of thematic content. Not only is there all of Elvis, man and legend, but we are also presented with the specter of death, staring at us down the barrel of a gun; and the lone cowboy, confronting the great frontier and the American dream. The spray painted silver screen denotes the glamour and glory of cinema, the artificiality of fantasy, and the idea of a mirror that reveals our own reality back to us. At the same time, Warhol's replication of Elvis' image as a double stands as metaphor for the means and effects of mass-media and its inherent potential to manipulate and condition. These thematic strata function in simultaneous concert to deliver a work of phenomenal conceptual brilliance. The portrait of a man, the portrait of a country, and the portrait of a time, Double Elvis is an indisputable icon for our age. The source image was a publicity still for the movie Flaming Star, starring Presley as the character Pacer Burton and directed by Don Siegel in 1960. The film was originally intended as a vehicle for Marlon Brando and produced by David Weisbart, who had made James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause in 1955. It was the first of two Twentieth Century Fox productions Presley was contracted to by his manager Colonel Tom Parker, determined to make the singer a movie star. For the compulsive movie-fan Warhol, the sheer power of Elvis wielding a revolver as the reluctant gunslinger presented the zenith of subject matter: ultimate celebrity invested with the ultimate power to issue death. Warhol's Elvis is physically larger than life and wears the expression that catapulted him into a million hearts: inexplicably and all at once fearful and resolute; vulnerable and predatory; innocent and explicit. It is the look of David Halberstam's observation that "Elvis Presley was an American original, the rebel as mother's boy, alternately sweet and sullen, ready on demand to be either respectable or rebellious." (Exh. Cat., Boston, Op. Cit.). Indeed, amidst Warhol's art there is only one other subject whose character so ethereally defies categorization and who so acutely conflated total fame with the inevitability of mortality. In Warhol's work, only Elvis and Marilyn harness a pictorial magnetism of mythic proportions. With Marilyn Monroe, whom Warhol depicted immediately after her premature death in August 1962, he discovered a memento mori to unite the obsessions driving his career: glamour, beauty, fame, and death. As a star of the silver screen and the definitive international sex symbol, Marilyn epitomized the unattainable essence of superstardom that Warhol craved. Just as there was no question in 1963, there remains still none today that the male equivalent to Marilyn is Elvis. However, despite his famous 1968 adage, "If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings" Warhol's fascination held purpose far beyond mere idolization. As Rainer Crone explained in 1970, Warhol was interested in movie stars above all else because they were "people who could justifiably be seen as the nearest thing to representatives of mass culture." (Rainer Crone, Andy Warhol, New York, 1970, p. 22). Warhol was singularly drawn to the idols of Elvis and Marilyn, as he was to Marlon Brando and Liz Taylor, because he implicitly understood the concurrence between the projection of their image and the projection of their brand. Some years after the present work he wrote, "In the early days of film, fans used to idolize a whole star - they would take one star and love everything about that star...So you should always have a product that's not just 'you.' An actress should count up her plays and movies and a model should count up her photographs and a writer should count up his words and an artist should count up his pictures so you always know exactly what you're worth, and you don't get stuck thinking your product is you and your fame, and your aura." (Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again), San Diego, New York and London, 1977, p. 86). The film stars of the late 1950s and early 1960s that most obsessed Warhol embodied tectonic shifts in wider cultural and societal values. In 1971 John Coplans argued that Warhol was transfixed by the subject of Elvis, and to a lesser degree by Marlon Brando and James Dean, because they were "authentically creative, and not merely products of Hollywood's fantasy or commercialism. All three had originative lives, and therefore are strong personalities; all three raised - at one level or another - important questions as to the quality of life in America and the nature of its freedoms. Implicit in their attitude is a condemnation of society and its ways; they project an image of the necessity for the individual to search for his own future, not passively, but aggressively, with commitment and passion." (John Coplans, "Andy Warhol and Elvis Presley," Studio International, vol. 181, no. 930, February 1971, pp. 51-52). However, while Warhol unquestionably adored these idols as transformative heralds, the suggestion that his paintings of Elvis are uncritical of a generated public image issued for mass consumption fails to appreciate the acuity of his specific re-presentation of the King. As with Marilyn, Liz and Marlon, Warhol instinctively understood the Elvis brand as an industrialized construct, designed for mass consumption like a Coca-Cola bottle or Campbell's Soup Can, and radically revealed it as a precisely composed non-reality. Of course Elvis offered Warhol the biggest brand of all, and he accentuates this by choosing a manifestly contrived version of Elvis-the-film-star, rather than the raw genius of Elvis as performing Rock n' Roll pioneer. A few months prior to the present work he had silkscreened Elvis' brooding visage in a small cycle of works based on a simple headshot, including Red Elvis, but the absence of context in these works minimizes the critical potency that is so present in Double Elvis. With Double Elvis we are confronted by a figure so familiar to us, yet playing a role relating to violence and death that is entirely at odds with the associations entrenched with the singer's renowned love songs. Although we may think this version of Elvis makes sense, it is the overwhelming power of the totemic cipher of the Elvis legend that means we might not even question why he is pointing a gun rather than a guitar. Thus Warhol interrogates the limits of the popular visual vernacular, posing vital questions of collective perception and cognition in contemporary society. The notion that this self-determinedly iconic painting shows an artificial paradigm is compounded by Warhol's enlistment of a reflective metallic surface, a treatment he reserved for his most important portraits of Elvis, Marilyn, Marlon and Liz. Here the synthetic chemical silver paint becomes allegory for the manufacture of the Elvis product, and directly anticipates the artist's 1968 statement: "Everything is sort of artificial. I don't know where the artificial stops and the real starts. The artificial fascinates me, the bright and shiny..." (Artist quoted in Exh. Cat., Stockholm, Moderna Museet and traveling, Andy Warhol, 1968, n.p.). At the same time, the shiny silver paint of Double Elvis unquestionably denotes the glamour of the silver screen and the attractive fantasies of cinema. At exactly this time in the summer of 1963 Warhol bought his first movie camera and produced his first films such as Sleep, Kiss and Tarzan and Jane Regained. Although the absence of plot or narrative convention in these movies was a purposely anti-Hollywood gesture, the unattainability of classic movie stardom still held profound allure and resonance for Warhol. He remained a celebrity and film fanatic, and it was exactly this addiction that so qualifies his sensational critique of the industry machinations behind the stars he adored. Double Elvis was executed less than eighteen months after he had created 32 Campbell's Soup Cans for his immortal show at the Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles in July and August 1962, and which is famously housed in the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In the intervening period he had produced the series Dollar Bills, Coca-Cola Bottles, Suicides, Disasters, and Silver Electric Chairs, all in addition to the portrait cycles of Marilyn and Liz. This explosive outpouring of astonishing artistic invention stands as definitive testament to Warhol's aptitude to seize the most potent images of his time. He recognized that not only the product itself, but also the means of consumption - in this case society's abandoned deification of Elvis - was symptomatic of a new mode of existence. As Heiner Bastian has precisely summated: "the aura of utterly affirmative idolization already stands as a stereotype of a 'consumer-goods style' expression of an American way of life and of the mass-media culture of a nation." (Exh. Cat., Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie (and traveling), Andy Warhol: Retrospective, 2001, p. 28). For Warhol, the act of image replication and multiplication anaesthetized the effect of the subject, and while he had undermined the potency of wealth in 200 One Dollar Bills, and cheated the terror of death by electric chair in Silver Disaster # 6, the proliferation of Elvis here emasculates a prefabricated version of character authenticity. Here the cinematic quality of variety within unity is apparent in the degrees to which Presley's arm and gun become less visible to the left of the canvas. The sense of movement is further enhanced by a sense of receding depth as the viewer is presented with the ghost like repetition of the figure in the left of the canvas, a 'jump effect' in the screening process that would be replicated in the multiple Elvis paintings. The seriality of the image heightens the sense of a moving image, displayed for us like the unwinding of a reel of film. Elvis was central to Warhol's legendary solo exhibition organized by Irving Blum at the Ferus Gallery in the Fall of 1963 - the show having been conceived around the Elvis paintings since at least May of that year. A well-known installation photograph shows the present work prominently presented among the constant reel of canvases, designed to fill the space as a filmic diorama. While the Elvis canvases...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Enamel

Omoge Awelewa (The Beauty Maiden)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Sister Loveth
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The artwork "Sister Loveth" by Gobe Joseph is a stunning piece that captures the elegance and beauty of a lady standing in a relaxed pose. The artwork feat...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Sister Loveth
Sister Loveth
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Crowned in Color - Vibrant Whimsical Abstract Feminine Figurative Painting
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Southern California native Courtney Simone seamlessly blends her passion for abstract art with the exploration of everyday beauty, resulting in exuberantly inspired abstract figurati...
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2010s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Black Essence - 21st Century, Contemporary, Figurative, Portrait, Africa, Women
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Black Essence' captures the unbreakable spirit of every woman who has long been the pillar of strength in their community. With a steadfast gaze, the subject embodies determination a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic, Charcoal, Mixed Media

French Contemporary Art by Karine Bartoli - Arone 6 Personnages
Located in Paris, IDF
Oil on canvas Karine Bartoli was born in 1971 in Ajaccio. She enrolled at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux Arts in Marseille where she graduated in 1997. Since then she has ...
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2010s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Bather with Macaroons
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful woman on a stack of macaroons. Vibrant colors, whimsical. About The Artist Elise Remender’s love of painting began at an early age as she created imaginary worlds in ...
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2010s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

GÈLÈ 2 (Head Tie)
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Gele is essentially a type of head tie worn by women in the Western African country of Nigeria. In contrast to the head ties worn in some other African countries, like Ghana, Gele is...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

THE BEATLES
Located in Aventura, FL
Hand signed by the artist on verso. Hand Painted Unique Silkscreen on Canvas. Artwork is in excellent condition. Canvas is not stretched. Certificate of authenticity included. All...
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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

THE BEATLES
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"Best of Both Worlds II", collage, portrait, tan, grey, green, acrylic painting
Located in Natick, MA
John Baker’s “Best of Both Worlds II”, an acrylic painting on canvas with collage 25 x 22 x 1.5 inches (frame 4 inches wide), is a self-portrait in...
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2010s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting - Contraposicion
Located in Vilnius, LT
In this work, a solitary figures stand grounded against a stark, muted background, gazing toward something unseen—something the viewer is left to imagine. Dressed in white, the figur...
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2010s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Cotton Canvas, Canvas, Oil

Framed Vibrant Pop Surreal Female Botanical Portrait. Acrylic on Canvas
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This original framed figurative painting by Natasha Lelenco blends surreal portraiture with botanical elements, capturing the essence of nature, transf...
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2010s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Acrylic, Canvas

Contemporary Red Figurative Painting of a woman sleeping 'Siesta en Roja'
By Vladimir Volegov
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
While working with the publishing houses he continued to work on his paintings and participate in exhibitions. In 1990 Vladimir began traveling to Europe where he earned money by pa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Defiance II
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy. Signed on the front side and accompanied by a Certificate of Auth...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Defiance II
Defiance II
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First Class Girl
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media. Pop Art. Humorous. On canvas. Play off First Class on Plane. Girl featured. Vibrant colors. About the Artist: NELSON DE LA NUEZ ...
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2010s Pop Art Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Beholder 3
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting 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.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Beholder 3
Beholder 3
$2,800 Sale Price
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Chopstick - Paint by Emmett Graham - 2021
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on Canvas realized by Emmett Graham in 2021. The painting was created from a photograph. The photograph was a spontaneous picture capturing the innocence, carefree fun and inq...
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2010s Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

The New Way Fairer 2
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Innocence filled with curiosity, subtle and gentle. We all passed through this phase of life. Time passes by, I will not remain like this for long. What is my fate in the present soc...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Mind Full
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
Painting Ships in a well-protected tube from Nigeria This work is unique, this is not a print or other type of copy. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity (Issued by the Gallery)
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Mind Full
Mind Full
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Blue is Cool, Negro Are Cool
Located in Ibadan, Oyo
The underlying body of work is an exploration of texturizing distortion as a language of expression. The works explore an awaking of an Afrocentric consciousness connected to gender,...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Canvas Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

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