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Medium: Metal
Portrait of King Edward VI, Oil on panel with Gold Leaf, 18th Century English
Located in London, GB
Oil on panel Image size: 25 1/2 x 19 inches (37.5 x 27 inches) 18th Century Auricular gilt frame Provenance New York private collection This portrait of the King Edward VI depicts...
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Mid-18th Century English School Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

ANGELES EN LA TIERRA
Located in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato
This painting is unique, like all the works of art by the fascinating artist Carmen Gutiérrez; made of acrylics, oils, gold and silver inks and as a practical and sublime method of b...
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2010s Modern Metal Portrait Paintings

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Silver, Gold Leaf

Zumbi dos Palmares
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Halo presents an amazing cast of historical black figures, most of whom were legendary and mythic characters in their time, but have been nearly lost to the vagaries and biases of history as seen through a white lens. With Halo, Greenfield brings the stories of Black folk-saints, martyrs, freedom-fighters, survivors, magicians, and visionaries back into view. Many of the figures are from the 1400-1800s, a timeframe that corresponds with Europeans beginning to use racial distinction as a tool to justify slavery. Greenfield honors their simultaneously disturbing and astounding lives by bestowing them with halos, traditionally seen as reverential symbols of adoration and respect. “I am reimagining what a saint is,” Greenfield says. “Maybe in studying their stories, they can inform us on better ways to live.” Thought to have been a descendent of central African royalty...
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2010s Byzantine Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Mohandas Gandhi[Black&White, Steel on canvas, Stereoscopic, Portrait, New media]
Located in Seoul, KR
will be updated soon
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2010s New Media Metal Portrait Paintings

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Steel

El Iris Love Letter: Jennifer Jones
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mixed media on vintage enamel sign. KADIR LÓPEZ (b. 1972, Las Tunas, Cuba) came to artistic maturity at a time when the image and illusion of the Cuban Revolution were greatly dimin...
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2010s Metal Portrait Paintings

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Enamel

El Iris Love Letter: Jayne Mansfield
Located in Greenwich, CT
Mixed media on vintage enamel sign. KADIR LÓPEZ (b. 1972, Las Tunas, Cuba) came to artistic maturity at a time when the image and illusion of the Cuban Revolution were greatly dimin...
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2010s Metal Portrait Paintings

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Enamel

19th Century Spanish Colonial School, Retablo, El Nino de Atocha
Located in Cheltenham, GB
This late 19th-century Mexican oil painting depicts the Christ child as ‘El Nino de Atocha’. El Nino de Atocha is a popular subject of Mexican retablo art and its roots can be trace...
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1880s Folk Art Metal Portrait Paintings

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Metal

'Swallow' Silver Leaf painting of a female portrait and swallow bird, nature
Located in Shrewsbury, Shropshire
'Swallow' by Ignacio Trelis is a dreamlike painting with the portrait of a woman and a swallow bird. Ethereal in its wuaility with such fine detail. The piece is oil on silver leaf p...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Silver

Surrealist Pop Portrait of a Woman in a Yellow Face Coin. "Currency #192"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This piece is one of the latest additions to the "Exchange Currency Series" created by Natasha Lelenco in 2024. It is a unique artwork comprising a meticulously crafted female portra...
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2010s Street Art Metal Portrait Paintings

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Metal

Vibrant Pop Surrealist Crazy Portrait On A Blue Wooden Coin. "Currency #195"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This piece is one of the latest additions to the "Exchange Currency Series" created by Natasha Lelenco in 2024, inspired by the concept of the "face" on coins. It is a unique work co...
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2010s Pop Art Metal Portrait Paintings

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Metal

Abstract Expresionist Pop Surrealist Portrait With Smileys "Currency #191"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This piece is one of the most recent and belongs to the "Exchange Currency Series" created by Natasha Lelenco in 2024. It originates from the concept of the "face" on coins. It is a ...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Metal Portrait Paintings

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Metal

Alter Ego
Located in OIA, ES
"Alter Ego," created by Diego Tirigall, is a captivating 1 x 1 meter canvas that intertwines the intricate aspects of personal and corporate identity through a dynamic mix of mixed m...
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2010s Street Art Metal Portrait Paintings

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Enamel

Contemporary Pop Surrealist Portrait On Wood. Stoniness Woman. "Currency #105"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This piece belongs to the "Exchange Currency Series" created by Natasha Lelenco in 2021, starting from the concept of the "face" on coins. It is a unique work executed on a treated c...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Metal

Contemporary Pop B/W Female Portrait. Yellow Background "Currency #139"
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This piece belongs to the "Exchange Currency Series" created by Natasha Lelenco in 2023, starting from the concept of the "face" on coins. It is a unique work executed on a treated c...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Metal

Contemporary portrait "Between You and Me"
Located in Sempach, LU
When some crap happens - in response, I draw. I draw something visually appealing and positive. It's so hard, really hard to draw some blah-blah-blah crap in response to a missile at...
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2010s Realist Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Clothed In Light, Abraham and Sarah
Located in Brecon, Powys
This majestic double portrait "Abraham and Sarah" is part of a series of paintings by breaking British artist, Sax Berlin. Inspired by the Bible and also by a commission to paint “Is...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Longing, Contemporary Mixed Media Painting With Silver & Gold Leaf
Located in Brecon, Powys
From Sax Berlin's Silver Series this is a piece that portrays heart rending pathos. In this piece Sax has created beauty, emotion & tranquillity. A deeply moving, touching work.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Porcelain Portrait "Duchess of Devonshire" Georgiana Cavendish in Bronze Frame
Located in Jacksonville, FL
A very good quality early 19th Century Austrian, Vienna style convex porcelain plaque depicting a hand painted portrait of the "Duchess of Devonshire." Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess o...
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Early 19th Century Metal Portrait Paintings

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Bronze

Vittorio Matteo Corcos ( 1859-1933) oil on panel sketch study
Located in Gavere, BE
Vittorio Matteo Corcos ( 1859-1933) oil on panel sketch study Vittorio Matteo Corcos, famous Italian artist , Art Nouveau portrait oil on panel ” sketch study ” . Art Nouveau styl...
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1870s Italian School Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Oil On Canvas Portrait Of A Young Lady 19th century
Located in Gavere, BE
Oil On Canvas Portrait Of A Young Lady 19th century dated and signed 1874 ( Portrait of the artist's daughter ) Henri-Guillaume Schlesinger, originally Wilhelm Heinrich Schlesinger...
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1870s French School Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Contemporary portrait "Feast"
Located in Sempach, LU
The last painting of 2023. I managed to do it!) In this painting, I've poured my soul into capturing the essence of tranquility interwoven with mystery. The subject stands contemplat...
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2010s Realist Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Oil Portrait of Girls with Rabbits
Located in Fredericksburg, VA
Heinrich Faust is a German genre painter of the late 19th century. He painted dramatic interpretations of everyday occurrences such as families and grou...
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Late 19th Century Baroque Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Fine 17th Century Italian Old Master Oval Portrait of Lady on Copper Wooden Frm
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady Italian Old Master, 17th century oil on copper, framed framed: 8.75 x 7.75 inches painting: 5 x 4 inches provenance: private collection, England condition: very go...
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17th Century Old Masters Metal Portrait Paintings

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Copper

Crypto Vincent Van Gogh
Located in OIA, ES
This piece is part of a special collection curated by Saatchi Art, where 154 artists were carefully selected from among hundreds of thousands of Saatchi participants. The premise of ...
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2010s Street Art Metal Portrait Paintings

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Enamel

La Mirada
Located in OIA, ES
"La Mirada" ("The Gaze"), a title that captures the essence of the penetrating gaze that dominates this canvas, is an exemplary piece that showcases the transformative artistry of Ti...
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2010s Neo-Expressionist Metal Portrait Paintings

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Enamel

17th century Flemish old master painting - Adoration of the Shepherds Christmas
Located in Antwerp, BE
17th century Flemish Old master painting "Adoration of the Shepherds" by Victor Wolfvoet the Younger Surrounded by an elegant and broad black frame, i...
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17th Century Old Masters Metal Portrait Paintings

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Copper

St. Moses the Black, aka Abba Moses the Robber
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Greenfield's versions are rendered in the Byzantine style of their art historical predecessors, with the black Virgin Mother and Baby Jesus as the central focus within circular compositions, or tondos. These tondos float amongst abstract discs, set within fields of lustrous, gold leaf. The Madonnas predominate before a variety of backgrounds, which were traditionally innocuous. Greenfield, however, presents these backdrops as various revenge fantasies, where white supremacists are cast in the role of victims, suffering the fates...
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2010s Medieval Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

"Sexy", Framed, Contemporary, Oil, Portrait, Painting, on Copper
Located in St. Louis, MO
Jed Jackson was born in Fayette, Arkansas. Throughout his education, he studied under artists such as Janet Fish, Fairfield Porter, and Leland Bell, and reaps influence from the “gritty realism” of artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jacques Louis David, and early Edgar Degas, and the work of his contemporaries including John Currin and David Salle. Jackson is currently the Chairman of the Art Department at University of Memphis in Tennessee and is the author of the book “Art: A Comparative Study.” Jackson’s paintings are modern mythological allegories, rich with subtle innuendos, political dissent, and emotional ambiguity. Gleaning inspiration from fashion magazines, movies, the literary world, and a plethora of other twentieth century cultural sources, Jackson incorporates these images and ideas with a keen sense of color to create paintings that are simultaneously rich in content and aesthetically dynamic. Selected Collections American General Finance Co., Evansville, IN Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR Bristol Myers Squibb Co., Evansville, IN Bucknell University, Bucknell, PA Burchfield Penny Art Center, Buffalo, NY Indiana State University, Terre Haute...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Metal, Copper

App Ocalypse
Located in OIA, ES
🔸 _Title: App Ocalypse 🔸 _Artist: Diego Tirigall 🔸 _Year of Creation: 2023 🔸 _Dimensions: 89 W x 116 H x 3 D cm 🔸 _Medium: Acrylic, enamel, spray paint, oil pastel 🔸 _Support:...
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2010s Street Art Metal Portrait Paintings

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Enamel

Art Foundry Carpino
Located in Dallas, TX
David Pryor Adickes born January 1927, Huntsville, Texas) is a modernist sculptor and painter. His most famous work is the 67-foot tall A Tribute ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Bronze

17th century Old Master miniature of Queen Catherine of Braganza
Located in Antwerp, BE
Very fine old master miniature of Queen Catherine of Braganza Catherine of Braganza's life is a compelling mix of heroism and valuable contributions. ...
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17th Century Old Masters Metal Portrait Paintings

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Copper

Lady in red. Sculptural 3d painting
Located in Sempach, LU
High-quality acrylic sculptural contemporary hyperrealistic composition with a woman in sunglasses, holding a microphone. Pop-inspired, vibrant and mirroring artwork, in silver, azur...
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2010s Pop Art Metal Portrait Paintings

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Foil, Silver

Encaustic Icon Featuring Madonna and Child
Located in Larchmont, NY
Icon of Madonna and Child, Likely Byzantine, c. 1800 Encaustic on wood 12 1/4 x 10 1/4 x 1 1/2 in. The word icon (from the Greek eikon, or image) signifies a holy image that provide...
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19th Century Byzantine Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Among my swan, Figurative Painting
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Among my swan, 2018 by Ramonn Vieitez Oil, enamel, acrylic, latex on canvas Size: 39.4 H x 27.6 W in. Signed on the back by the artist Unframed ___ Ramonn Vieitez is a self-taught B...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Enamel

Red, White, Black and Music. Sculptural 3D artwork
Located in Sempach, LU
High-quality pop art style textured painting. Look at the wonderful texture that the lips of a beautiful black girl have. This is a unique piece and only one. It is a gorgeous and ch...
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2010s Pop Art Metal Portrait Paintings

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Foil, Silver

"Audrey in Gold" Audrey Hepburn Gold Leaf Haute Couture Oil Painting on Canvas
Located in New York, NY
Exploring the purity of the feminine form and the drama of French haute couture, artist Cindy Shaoul creates a dialogue between the figurative and the abstract. Her spirited composit...
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2010s Abstract Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Madonna and Child
Located in Santa Fe, NM
This classic icon is beautifully painted with a rich patina and is in very good condition - checking all the boxes for a wonderful investment quality antique. Since 1995, the Pushk...
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Late 19th Century Folk Art Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Persona Triptych Trilogy Oil Painting and Gold Leaf on Panel In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Persona Triptych Trilogy Oil Painting and Gold Leaf on Panel In Stock Candace Charlton Born in Durban, Natal, 1968 - South Africa Attended the Johannesburg School of Art, Ballet, Drama and Music from 1983 until 1986. Having received two scholarships she continued her studies at the Rhodes University in Grahamstown where she finished her Bachelor of Fine Art, majoring in Sculpture and Art History. During this period she took part in various exhibitions and competitions: In 1989 she exhibited in Port Elizabeth...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Faithful Portrait Oil Painting and Gold Leaf on Canvas In Stock
Located in Utrecht, NL
Faithful Portrait Oil Painting and Gold Leaf on Canvas In Stock Candace Charlton Born in Durban, Natal, 1968 - South Africa Attended the Johannesburg School of Art, Ballet, Drama and Music from 1983 until 1986. Having received two scholarships she continued her studies at the Rhodes University in Grahamstown where she finished her Bachelor of Fine Art, majoring in Sculpture and Art History. During this period she took part in various exhibitions and competitions: In 1989 she exhibited in Port Elizabeth...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Contemporary Pop Surrealist Portrait. Wood. Purple. "Currency #120". Mixed Media
Located in FISTERRA, ES
This piece belongs to the "Exchange Currency Series" created by Natasha Lelenco in 2021, starting from the concept of the "face" on coins. It is a unique work executed on a treated c...
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2010s Pop Art Metal Portrait Paintings

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Metal

Oil on canvas "jeune femme à l'éventail" by Jules Triquet
Located in Gavere, BE
Oil on canvas "jeune femme à l'éventail" by Jules Triquet Sublime portrait of a woman with a fan at the end of the 19th century, painted by the French painter Jules Octave Triquet V...
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Early 20th Century French School Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Boit Girls in Gold
Located in Boston, MA
Signed verso. As Darsney’s work has developed, his compositions and influences have evolved. An auto-didactic artist, Darsney draws inspiration from a variety of sources, including The Boston School and iconic masters such as Vermeer, Rembrandt and Degas. These artists’ attention to detail and adherence to classical ratio, coupled with Darsney’s own innate sense of structural integrity, inform his vision. He is also particularly influenced by the art on view in Boston museums and collections as seen here with his portrayal of The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

"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 Metal Portrait Paintings

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Enamel

Oil On Canvas, Art Nouveau XIX century Portrait Lady With Oval Frame
Located in Gavere, BE
"Oil On Canvas, Art Nouveau XIX Portrait Lady With Oval Frame" Oil on canvas Portrait of a lady, Art Nouveau style, signed Gustav Julius GRÜN (1823-1896) German school of the 19th c...
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1880s Jugendstil Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

''Golden Moment XXXV'' Contemporary Portrait of Girl with Blue Blouse on Brass
Located in Utrecht, NL
Karoline Kroiß (1975), born in Austria, mainly paints realistic female figures with acrylic paint on paper or canvas. The women in her work seem to be lost in thought, serene scenes...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Brass

Oil On Canvas, Art Nouveau Portrait By Leon Tirode (1873-1956)
Located in Gavere, BE
"Oil On Canvas, Art Nouveau Portrait By Leon Tirode (1873-1956)" Old oil on canvas, Art Nouveau style, portrait "Autumn" painted and signed by Leon Tirode (1873-1956), French school...
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1910s Art Nouveau Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

Icon of Our Lady of Jerusalem with oklad by Oliver Samsinger
Located in Segovia, ES
Icon of Our Lady of Jerusalem. Egg tempera on gesso and over a wooden board. Dimensions in centimeters: 42 x 34 x 2 cm / In inches: 16.54 x 13-39 x 0-79 " Author: Oliver Samsinger...
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1990s Byzantine Metal Portrait Paintings

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Brass

''Golden Moment XLIII'' Contemporary Portrait of Girl with Hair Bun on Brass
Located in Utrecht, NL
Karoline Kroiß (1975), born in Austria, mainly paints realistic female figures with acrylic paint on paper or canvas. The women in her work seem to be lost in thought, serene scenes...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Brass

Oil On Canvas, Nude "La Bacchante" dated 1885 and signed by Léon Herbo
Located in Gavere, BE
Oil On Canvas, Nude "La Bacchante" dated 1885 and signed by Léon Herbo Léon Herbo, born in Templeuve on October 8, 1850 and died in Ixelles on June 19, 1907, was a Belgian painter. ...
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1880s Art Nouveau Metal Portrait Paintings

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Gold Leaf

''Golden Moment LXVI'' Contemporary Portrait of Girl in Blue Blouse on Brass
Located in Utrecht, NL
Karoline Kroiß (1975), born in Austria, mainly paints realistic female figures with acrylic paint on paper or canvas. The women in her work seem to be lost in thought, serene scenes...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Brass

''Golden Moment LXIII'' Contemporary Portrait of Girl with Hair Bun on Brass
Located in Utrecht, NL
Karoline Kroiß (1975), born in Austria, mainly paints realistic female figures with acrylic paint on paper or canvas. The women in her work seem to be lost in thought, serene scenes...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Brass

''Golden Moment LXIV'' Contemporary Portrait of Girl in Blue Blouse on Brass
Located in Utrecht, NL
Karoline Kroiß (1975), born in Austria, mainly paints realistic female figures with acrylic paint on paper or canvas. The women in her work seem to be lost in thought, serene scenes...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Brass

''Golden Moment LIV'' Contemporary Portrait of Girl with Blue Blouse on Brass
Located in Utrecht, NL
Karoline Kroiß (1975), born in Austria, mainly paints realistic female figures with acrylic paint on paper or canvas. The women in her work seem to be lost in thought, serene scenes...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Brass

''Golden Moment LXX'' Contemporary Portrait of Girl in Black-White Top on Brass
Located in Utrecht, NL
Karoline Kroiß (1975), born in Austria, mainly paints realistic female figures with acrylic paint on paper or canvas. The women in her work seem to be lost in thought, serene scenes...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Brass

''Golden Moment XLIX'' Contemporary Portrait of Girl with Hair Bun on Brass
Located in Utrecht, NL
Karoline Kroiß (1975), born in Austria, mainly paints realistic female figures with acrylic paint on paper or canvas. The women in her work seem to be lost in thought, serene scenes...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Brass

''Golden Moment L'' Contemporary Portrait of Girl with Blue Blouse on Brass
Located in Utrecht, NL
Karoline Kroiß (1975), born in Austria, mainly paints realistic female figures with acrylic paint on paper or canvas. The women in her work seem to be lost in thought, serene scenes...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Brass

''Golden Moment XXXIV'' Contemporary Portrait of Girl with Green Blouse on Brass
Located in Utrecht, NL
Karoline Kroiß (1975), born in Austria, mainly paints realistic female figures with acrylic paint on paper or canvas. The women in her work seem to be lost in thought, serene scenes...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Brass

''Golden Moment XLV'' Contemporary Portrait of Girl with Green Blouse on Brass
Located in Utrecht, NL
Karoline Kroiß (1975), born in Austria, mainly paints realistic female figures with acrylic paint on paper or canvas. The women in her work seem to be lost in thought, serene scenes...
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2010s Contemporary Metal Portrait Paintings

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Brass

Metal portrait paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Metal portrait paintings available on 1stDibs. While artists have worked in this medium across a range of time periods, art made with this material during the 21st Century is especially popular. If you’re looking to add portrait paintings created with this material to introduce a provocative pop of color and texture to an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, red, green, yellow and other colors. There are many well-known artists whose body of work includes ceramic sculptures. Popular artists on 1stDibs associated with pieces like this include Mark Steven Greenfield, Suzi Fadel Nassif, Nemo Jantzen, and Karoline Kroiss. Frequently made by artists working in the Contemporary, Pop Art, all of these pieces for sale are unique and many will draw the attention of guests in your home. Not every interior allows for large Metal portrait paintings, so small editions measuring 0.1 inches across are also available Prices for portrait paintings made by famous or emerging artists can differ depending on medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $1 and tops out at $1,495,000, while the average work can sell for $3,400.

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