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Contemporary Paintings

CONTEMPORARY STYLE

Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.

Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.

The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.

Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.

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Period: 20th Century
Style: Contemporary
Desolate yet undaunted -Daniel Erban, 20th Century, Outsider art, Figurative
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper Signed Unique work
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Untitled - Painting by Salvatore Travascio - 1996
Located in Roma, IT
Intersections is an oil painting on paper with a wooden support, a wooden rod serves as a frame. This painting is part of a series of works where the human ...
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

Portrait - Paint by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on cardboard realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Hand signed. Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist. cm. 43.5x34. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1, 1922, ...
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1960s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

[Bruce Sargeant (1898-1938)] Portrait of a Shirtless Man
Located in New York, NY
This work is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
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20th Century Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Blue Impressions" by Steven H. Rehfeld - Textured Blue Contemporary Abstract
Located in Carmel, CA
Steven H. Rehfeld (American, born 1954) "Blue Impressions" 1980 Oil Paint, Mixed Media, Paper, Tape, Graphite, Ink, Canvas, Stretcher Bars The artist signed the back of the painting....
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Paper, Tape, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil, Graphite, Stretcher Bars

How Tall I Am! - Original Tempera on Paper by Renato Rascel - 1970s
By Renato Rascel
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 35 x 45 cm. Quanto sono alto! (How Tall I am!) is a beautiful original tempera painting on paper, realized around 1970's by the Italian versatile artist and comic ...
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1970s Contemporary Paintings

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Tempera

Hermit Crab on the Sand in Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Hermit Crab on the Sand in Acrylic on Paper Vibrant "portrait" of a hermit crab by Federico Leon de la Vega (Mexican, 20th Century). Signed "Leon de la Vega" in the lower right co...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

A lonely ghost the ghost is -Daniel Erban, 20th Century, Outsider art painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on paper Signed Unique work
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Man - Original Oil painting by Danilo Bergamo - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Man is an original contemporary artwork realized by Danilo Bergamo in the 1970s. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Hand signed on the lower margin. Fair conditions Danilo Ber...
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1970s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

Clarges street London oil on canvas painting urbanscape England
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Antoni Vives Fierro (1940) - London - Oil on canvas Oil measures 81x100 cm. Frameless. He was born in Barcelona in 1940. He is a versatile painter specialized in urban landscape and...
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1970s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

White flowers" " Oil cm. 40 x 73 1970
Located in Torino, IT
minimal, flowers, interior, vase with flowers, white Enzo FARAONI (S. Stefano Magra, La Spezia, 1920) Enzo Faraoni is a great painter and engraver from Florence; he expresses the po...
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1970s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

Italian Landscape with Signals - Oil on Canvas by Leo Guida - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Italian Landscape with Signals (Original Title: Paesaggio all’italiana con segnali) is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1984 by the italian artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017)...
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Located in Vancouver, CA
Douglas Haynes, born in Regina, Saskatchewan in 1936, is a celebrated figure in Canadian abstract art. After graduating from the Provincial Institute of Technology and Art (now the ...
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Mixed Media, Acrylic, Handmade Paper

Woods at Chickamauga
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Woods at Chickamauga" is a large oil on canvas featuring vibrant hues of bright yellow, green, blue, orange and red. Born in 1944, Kellogg developed his early artistic interests st...
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Woman with Headdress and Necklace, Acrylic Painting by Cundo Bermudez
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Cundo Bermudez, Cuban (1914 - 2008) Title: Woman with Headdress and Necklace Year: 1985 Medium: Acrylic on Paper, signed and dated Size: 15 x 11...
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

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Acrylic

Past, Present and Future, Painting Triptych by Ramon Santiago
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Ramon Santiago, American (1943 - 2001) Title: Past, Present and Future Year: 1976 Medium: Three Oil on Canvas paintings, first signed and dated Size: 54 x 40 inches (each)
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1970s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

Scared - Mixed Media by Sergio Barletta - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Scared is an original painting realized by Sergio Barletta. Applied on passepartout: 65 x 50 cm. Hand-signed on the lower left. In very good conditions, except for small ripping a...
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1960s Contemporary Paintings

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Mixed Media, Ink, Tempera

"Barbeque Study II" - Acrylic on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Interior courtyard scene by Santa Cruz, California artist Betsy J. Miller (American, b. 1956). This piece is a part of the artist's series of "Site Portraits." An arched doorway in a...
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

African Series #2
Located in Bozeman, MT
Waddell's paintings are a combination of rough marks, thick paint, transparent elegant strokes, and, on a few occasions a slow, hard line scratched into the canvas. You can feel the ...
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

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Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil

The Cosmic Dream - Visionary Figurative Nude Composition in Acrylic on Masonite
Located in Soquel, CA
The Cosmic Dream - Visionary Figurative Nude Composition in Acrylic on Masonite Flowing and stylized figurative work by Kimberlee Kuwica (American, b. 1967). A figure is floating th...
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Masonite, Acrylic

Easter - Original Pencil and Tempera on Paper by Esy Beluzzi - 1958
Located in Roma, IT
Image dimensions: 20 x 28 cm. Easter is an original artwork realized by Esy Beluzzi in 1958. Original tempera on paper. Hand-signed and dated in pencil on the lower right margin: Esy 58. On the lower right corner "Pascal Avenue Montaigne" is written in capital letters in pencil. Mint conditions. Colored work representing bright decorated eggs...
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1950s Contemporary Paintings

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Tempera

Panejos and cojaros with legs VI/ figurative birds, contemporary art
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Enveloped by outstretched paintings, Gonzalo García reveals the ever-present ghosts of our past and present in a delicate swirl of color, light, and flesh. These deeply visceral disp...
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20th Century Contemporary Paintings

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Linen, Oil

The Goldfinch - Oil Painting by Enotrio Pugliese - Mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The goldfinch is an modern artwork realized by the artist Enotrio in the half of 20th Century. Mixed colored oil on masonite Hand signed on the lower m...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

Still Life with Mask and Books - Oil Paint by Antonio Sciacca - 1996
Located in Roma, IT
Still Life with Mask and Books is an artwork realized by Antonio Sciacca (Catania, 1957) Oil painting on canvas 60x80 cm. Hand signed on the lower and rear Original inscription ...
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Flowers on Checkerboard Cloth
Located in Hillsborough, NC
Scottish artist Ethel Walker (1941-) is a Contemporary and Post War popular painter known for still life flowers and landscapes. Walker currently exhibits...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Board

Portrait of Frida
Located in San Francisco, CA
Jack Hooper Portrait of Frida, 1999 Collage on monoprint Unframed dimensions: 33.50 x 29 inches Framed dimensions: 43.50 x 39 inches This one-of-a-kind portrait of Frida Kahlo is ha...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

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Paper, Mixed Media, Monoprint

Lone Horse in Abstract Landscape
Located in Miami, FL
A stylized horse is depicted grazing in an abstract landscape. Most likely, the location is Woodstock, New York, where the artist lived. Signed Lower Right; Framed; Note: titled and signed on verso. Ethel Magafan (August 10, 1916 – April 24, 1993) was an American painter and muralist. Magafan was born in Chicago to Greek parents who had recently immigrated to the U.S. The family soon relocated to Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Magafan's artistic training occurred at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center under the tutelage of Peppino Mangravite, Boardman Robinson and Frank Mechau, who hired Magafan and her twin sister, Jenne, to assist on mural projects. In 1937, aEthel won the commission to paint a mural in the U.S. post office in Auburn, Nebraska, making her the youngest recipient of such a commission. It would be the first of seven government-sponsored commissions for the artist. Murals "Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1814" E. Magafan, 1943 Under President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, several programs were created to employ Americans during the Great Depression. The Magafan twins worked under the New Deal's Section of Painting and Sculpture, a program that hired thousands of artists to paint murals in public spaces, particularly post offices. Ethel and her twin sister, Jenne Magafan, became widely known for their murals painted during the Great Depression. Ethel received her first of seven Government commissions when she was commissioned to produce a painting for the United States post office in Auburn, Nebraska, titled Threshing.Other murals commissioned by the US Government hang in the United States Senate Chamber, the Social Security Building and the Recorder Deeds Building in Washington, D.C., and in post offices in Wynne, Arkansas, titled Cotton Pickers in 1940; in Madill, Oklahoma, titled Prairie Fire in 1941; and Englewood, Colorado, titled The Horse Corral in 1942.Her final mural, entitled Grant in the Wilderness, was installed in 1979 in the Chancellorsville Visitor Center at the Fredericksburg National Memorial Military Park in Virginia, She was a member of the National Academy of Design. Magafan died April 24, 1993, in Woodstock, New York, at the age of 76. References "Collections National Academy Museum". Retrieved 2017-03-08. "Jenne Magafan". Retrieved 2017-03-08. Marlene Park and Gerald E. Markowitz, Democratic Vistas: Post Offices and Public Art in the New Deal. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1984. "Browse New Deal projects by State and City". Living New Deal. Retrieved 9 January 2015. "Ethel Magafan Passes Away". New York Times. No. Obituary. April 29, 1993. Opitz, Glenn B, Editor, Mantle Fielding's Dictionary of American Painters, Sculptors & Engravers, Apollo Book...
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1960s Contemporary Paintings

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Masonite, Tempera

In the Fish Tank - Oil Painting - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
In the fish tank is al modern artwork realized in the 1970s-. Mixed colored oil and enamel on cardboard. Monogrammed CB on the lower margin
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1970s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

Clown - Original Mixed by Antonio Vangelli - 1955
Located in Roma, IT
Clown is an original contemporary artwork, colored oil painting on paper, realized by the Italian artist Antonio Vangelli. Original mixed media artwork. Hand-signed by the artist on the lower left: Vangelli. Excellent conditions. On the back of the artwork, reflected image of the Clown. Beautiful colorful work on paper depicting a Clown: figure of a typical circus games...
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1950s Contemporary Paintings

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Mixed Media

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 Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Landscape - Drawing in Watercolor - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an original drawing in watercolor realized in the Mid-20th Century. Very good conditions. The artwork is depicted through soft strokes in a well-balanced composition.
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

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Watercolor

Paris Under the Snow - Oil Paint by Roberto Bertola - 1967
Located in Roma, IT
Paris under the snow is an original modern artwork realized by Roberto Bertola. Oil on Board. Signed and dated lower right and on the back. Includes frame: 53.5 x 59 cm
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1960s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Board

Abstract Composition - 1960s - Giulio Turcato - Painting - Contemporary
Located in Roma, IT
Hand signed by the artist lower right. Very good conditions. Certificate of authenticity of the Artist on the photograph.
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1960s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Long, Red-Haired Portrait of a Man - Acrylic on Paper in the style of Modigliani
Located in Soquel, CA
Long, Red-Haired Portrait of a Man - Acrylic on Paper in the style of Modigliani A bold contrasting portrait of a red-haired, topless man against a stark indigo background, by acclaimed bluegrass musician Katherine...
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1970s Contemporary Paintings

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Paper, Acrylic

Crewmen, Painting, Acrylic on Other
Located in Yardley, PA
This painting was inspired by three voyages I undertook on a large sailing topsail schooner. At times the sea cut up rough and on one occasion hitting force 10, resulting in my first...
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

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Acrylic

The Portrait - China ink drawing by Sergio Barletta - 1951
Located in Roma, IT
The Portrait is a China ink drawing artwork, realized by Sergio Barletta in 1951. Hand-signed on the lower margin. Good conditions. Included passport, 70 x 50 cm. Sergio Barlett...
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1950s Contemporary Paintings

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Ink

Oranges in a Bowl - Oil Painting by Zhang Wei Guang - 1998
Located in Roma, IT
Oranges in a Bowl is an original oil painting realized in 1998 by Zhang Wei Guang (Mirror). Mixed colored oil painting Includes frame Hand-signed and dated on the lower right corn...
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

Voile n.3 - Mixed Media by Marisa Busanel - 1968
Located in Roma, IT
Voile N.3 is an original artwork realized by the Italian contemporary artist Marisa Busanel (1933-1990) in 1968. Mixed media artwork on panel (collage ...
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1960s Contemporary Paintings

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Mixed Media

"Trapped in New York, " Acrylic on Canvas Field of Trees signed by Tom Shelton
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Trapped in New York" is an original acrylic painting by Tom Shelton. The artist signed, titled, and dated the piece in the lower right. This piece features a forest with animals and...
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Intersections - Painting by Salvatore Travascio - 1996
Located in Roma, IT
Intersections is an oil painting on paper with a wooden support, a wooden rod serves as a frame. This painting is part of a series of works where the human ...
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

Zengeist (Mask)
Located in Long Island City, NY
Zengeist (Mask) John Hardy, American (1923–2014) Date: 1998 Oil on Wood, signed Size: 48 x 32 in. (121.92 x 81.28 cm) Reference: Bool 405
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Wood

On the bench. 1970, cardboard, mixed media, 18.3x19.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
On the bench 1970, cardboard, mixed media, 18.3x19.5 cm Atis Ievins (1946) The exhibition by artist Atis Ieviņš reminds the very origins of serigraphy technique in Latvian art in t...
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1970s Contemporary Paintings

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Cardboard, Mixed Media

Figure with Blue Eyes
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Nathan Oliveira. "Figure with Blue Eyes" is a figurative painting, oil on canvas in a palette of browns and creams with a pop of blue by Bay Area Figurative artist Nath...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Dark Green Field, Pastel Abstract Landscape by Oliviero Masi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Oliviero Masi, Italian (1948 - ) Title: Untitled - Tree Lined Landscape Year: 1980 Medium: Pastel on paper, signed and dated in pencil Size: 17.5 x 17.75 in. (44.45 x 45.09 cm)
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil Pastel

Jesus Christ and the Pains of the World - Paint by Sirio Pellegrini - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on plywood realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1970s. It includes a beautiful gilded wooden frame frame cm. 96.5x90. Very good condition. Sirio Pellegrini, born in Rome on March 1...
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1970s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Plywood

Etching - South Beach, Miami, Florida
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gallery curates a series of original etchings from respected European artist Cuca Romley. The pieces are very limited in terms of numbered editions left. Ms Romley is in her 90’s a...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

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Etching

Mimosas - Oil Tempera on Canvas by Gina Ceccagnoli - 1996
Located in Roma, IT
Mimosas is an original contemporary artwork realized by Gina Ceccagnoli in 1996. Acrylic Tempera on Canvas. Hand signed and dated on the lower left...
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Tempera

"Jacob's Dream Gen 28:12" Relief Sculptural Painting
By Carl Dixon
Located in Houston, TX
Sculptural relief image of the biblical story from Genisis 28:12 about Jacob's Dream of a ladder reaching up to the heaves from the earth. The work is done on wood and it painted and lacquered over. It is signed by the artist in the bottom right corner. Artist biography: The Mississippi-born Dixon is a self-taught artist. A teacher spotted Dixon’s talent, when he was the first black student to take an art course in his newly integrated high school. Carl decided to get vocational training as a brick mason, but he returned to art-making, when his childhood friend, Ben Oliver, persuaded him to try his hand at wood carving on a router machine. The two aspiring artisans began making decorative address signs but soon moved on to bas-relief portraits of Michael Jackson, Prinz, and other black pop cultural icons for neighborhood kids. (Carl made an image in this style of my father, Andy the Prayer Warrior.) Dixon was inspired to create carved wood paintings...
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Acrylic, Wood

Oriental Bathroom - Oil Painting by Alexander Sergeev - 1990s
Located in Roma, IT
Oriental Bathroom is an original modern artwork realized by Alexander Sergheev. Mixed colored oil painting on canvas. Includes frame: 34 x 3.5 x 29 cm
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil

"Drawing of Fire" - Figurative oil drawing on paper
Located in East Quogue, NY
"Drawing on Fire" by Paul Sierra, Oil stick on paper. Sold with frame. Frame size: 22 x 14 inches. Hand-signed by the artist. Signature and title on lower front right corner of paper. At sixteen, Havana-born Paul Sierra moved to Chicago, where he studied at the Art Institute. Although a longtime resident of the Windy City, Sierra's tropical palette is based on childhood memories of Cuba. His trademark vibrant colors provide what has been called a "cultural corridor" between his turbulent Cuban heritage and his adopted country. Sierra has had more than sixty solo exhibitions in the USA. His work can be found in the collections of The Museum of Contemporary Art and Mary and Leigh Block...
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Paper, Oil Crayon

Woman with Scarf - Christo 1955 Oil on Cardboard
Located in Sofia, BG
49.5 x 35 cm Artwork unsigned - Christo 1955 Provenance Private collection, Bulgaria This artwork hasn't been exposed for 70 years. This portrait artwork had been awarded with the ...
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1950s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

Untitled - Mixed Media by Marisa Busanel - 1964
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is an original artwork realized by the Italian contemporary artist Marisa Busanel (1933-1990) in 1964. Mixed media artwork on panel (collage a...
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1960s Contemporary Paintings

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Mixed Media

Mixed Media Floral Oil Painting Collage Bouquet of Flowers Topiary
Located in Surfside, FL
Born in Paris in 1946 and raised in the heart of an idyllic French countryside near the Loire Valley, Jacques Lamy began painting at a very early age. Jacques completed his formal artistic training at the prestigious Ecole Nationale Superieur des Arts Decoratifs (Paris) in 1971. While there, he received the highest peer recognition in European Arts; the coveted Prix de Rome award for painting. Jacques Lamy’s career as an artist, designer and art teacher took him from his native France to life abroad in Spain, Africa, and the United States. His broad artistic interests and his classic training in art and design have enabled him to enjoy a wide variety of artistic experiences from designing furniture, lamps, tapestries, and elegant garden statuary to creating large scale murals for public viewing and enjoyment. in addition to his renowned mural work, Jacques received international recognition for his decorative fresco paintings. Jacques personal artistic style is very much a melding of old and new – a merging of a classically trained artist with a modern artistic vision. The medium is multi-media and the composition has a modern, abstract quality but the Old World training in design and composition lends the whole an air of classical grace. Examples can be seen in his studio-gallery in Dallas, Texas. ​Art Education Ecole National Superieure des Arts Decoratifs – Paris Art Teaching Casa de Velasquez – Madrid, Spain. National Institute of Art, Dakar, Senegal. Has taught art in France, Spain, and Africa Art Awards Prix de Rome de Peinture – Casa de Velasquez - 1971 Silver Medal for Industrial Creation - 1981 ​Museums Musee D'Art Roger Quillot, Clermont-Ferrand, France Jesuit Art Museum – Dallas, TX Exhibits 2012-current Represented by Wall Gallery – Dallas, TX, USA 2004 Jesuit Art Museum – Dallas, TX, USA ​ 2001-current Galerie Fine Art – Nantes, France 2000 City Hall, Chamalieres – France 1998 Ivanffy – Uhler Gallery – Dallas, TX 1994-1996 Jacques Lamy Fine Art Gallery 1995 Neiman Marcus- Dallas and Atlanta 1981-1984 Gallery Frederic Mechiche...
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20th Century Contemporary Paintings

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Fabric, Paint, Mixed Media

The Soldier - Original Tempera by M. Maccari - 1950s
Located in Roma, IT
The Soldier is an original artwork realized by Mino Maccari in the 1950s. Mixed colored tempera on cardboard. Includes a contemporary gilded wooden frame: 54.5 x 3.5 x 31 Mino Mac...
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1950s Contemporary Paintings

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Tempera

Mein Vater
By Heinz Otto Laub
Located in Wien, 9
Heinz-Otto Laub was born 1944 in Cologne (Germany), studied at the KA Munich under Mac Zimmermann and is actually working in Bonn. He is known in the first place for his surrealistic...
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1970s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil, Panel

Italian Landscape with Signals - Oil on Canvas by Leo Guida - 1984
Located in Roma, IT
Italian Landscape with Signals (Original Title: Paesaggio all’italiana con segnali) is an original Contemporary artwork realized in 1984 by the italian artist Leo Guida (1992 - 2017)...
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Two Figures with Cat - Fauvist Nude Figurative Abstract
Located in Soquel, CA
Colorful and dynamic fauvist figurative abstract with two figures and a cat in a vivacious and bright palette by California artist Don Klopfer (1920-2009)....
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

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Linen, Oil, Stretcher Bars

Bright earth colors contemporary dog/Scottie acrylic painting with text on paper
Located in Charleston, US
"Making a Beseech" (Frill Dog series). A colorful contemporary dog painting of a Scottish Terrier dog with accompanying text from a book is an inspirational departure from the traditional illustrations found in British Rudyard Kipling's "Thy Servant a Dog", 1930. The book was the first ever narrated by a dog, Boots, a Scottie. Making a beseech is the only trick the Scottie, Boots knows, paws over nose. Nancy van Meter...
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

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Oil Pastel, Acrylic, Mixed Media, Graphite

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