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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
Untitled (Clouds)
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 ...
Category

1980s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Ink, Mixed Media, Oil

Untitled Birds by Mose Tolliver AKA Moset
Located in Morton Grove, IL
Mose Tolliver AKA Mose T Untitled Birds wood, paint, soda tab approx: 14.5 x 19.5" date unknown signed African American Artist
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Wood, Acrylic

Untitled (Large Painting)
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on canvas. Initialed "TR" and dated "1993" on front by Tomasz Rut. Canvas size 52 x 65 inches. Canvas is stetched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificat...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Rio de Amor
Located in Miami, FL
Manuel Mendive Rio de Amor, 1980s Gouache on paper 11 x 16 in Provenance: Bonhams, NY. Modern & Contemporary Art Online. July 20 - August 1, 2024. Lot 96. The piece includes a Cert...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Laid Paper

Filtration Abstract Mixed Media Contemporary
Located in Eversholt, Bedfordshire
Just purchased, more information to follow Filtration, signed lower right Doylan In a ebonised oak moulded frame Length 103cm, Height 104cm Depth 4cm Striking, decorative, contempo...
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media

Heals Fitted Fine
Located in London, GB
Acrylic on canvas, signed and dated (lower right), 91cm x 62cm (112cm x 82cm framed). (Provenance: in the collection of the artist Michael Leonard (British 1933-2023) until his dea...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Board, Acrylic

Pascal Av. Montaigne - Original Tempera on Paper by Esy Beluzzi - 1956
Located in Roma, IT
Pascal av. Montaigne is an original tempera and golden oil painting on a light blue paper, realized in 1956 by the artist Esy Belluzzi. Hand-signed, titled and dated in pencil on l...
Category

1950s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Tempera

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
Category

1980s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Mixed Media

Four Skins, Contemporary Mixed Media on Canvas by Lee Jaffe
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lee Jaffe, American (1950 - ) - Four Skins, Year: 1983, Medium: Gold Leaf, Mink Skins, and Oil on Canvas, Size: 86 x 112 in. (218.44 x 284.48 cm)
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Gold Leaf

Eclipse/Portrait of Ethel & Julius Rosenberg, Mixed Media on Canvas by Lee Jaffe
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lee Jaffe, American (1950 - ) - Eclipse/Portrait of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, Year: 1983, Medium: Silver, Gold Leaf, Copper Wire, and Oil on Canvas, Size: 129 x 153 in. (327.66...
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil

Benedict Arnold at The Battle of Saratoga, Mixed Media on Canvas by Lee Jaffe
Located in Long Island City, NY
Lee Jaffe, American (1950 - ) - Benedict Arnold at The Battle of Saratoga, Year: 1983, Medium: Gold Leaf, Tar, Turkey Feathers, and Oil on Canvas, Size: 136 x 144 in. (345.44 x ...
Category

1980s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Mixed Media, Oil

'Black Mat' original signed alkyd on canvas painting of white cat sleeping
Located in Milwaukee, WI
The present painting, titled 'Black Mat,' is a small and intimate work by the American artist Fred Reichman. An intimate work measuring only ten by ten i...
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Alkyd

50/50
Located in Boca Raton, FL
Doug Ohlson began his education in a number of small colleges, and a three year period in the U.S. Marines before graduating from the University of Minnesota with a B.A. in fine art....
Category

20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Ronnie Tjampitjinpa "Body paint designs" 121x153 cm - 1996 - Aboriginal Art
Located in PARIS, FR
Ronnie Tjampitjinpa (c.1943-2023) Size: 121x153 cm Year: 1996 Acrylic on canvas linen Aboriginal Art Provenance: Papunya Tula Artists Ronnie Tjampitjinpa was born around 1943 at Tji...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Zinnias : Oil painting on canvas
Located in New York, NY
"Zinnias" by Jan Wunderman, depicting an abstract vision of the plant. Jan Wunderman primarily lived and worked in New York City and New Hampshire. Wunderman is noted for richly pa...
Category

1970s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ready for Easter, Contemporary Oil Painting on Canvas by Leandro Velasco
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Leandro Velasco, Colombian (1933 - ) Title: Ready for Easter Year: c. 1985 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed verso Size: 64 x 32 in. (162.56 x 81.28 cm)
Category

1980s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Man with Dog
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 ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Encaustic, Oil

Everything is Early (Colorful Autumn colors Large Abstract Oil painting, Nature)
Located in Cody, WY
Richmond Burton’s works are known for their kaleidoscopic color, undulating patterns, and lyrical handling of expressionistic mark making. His Visceral, seductive, and organic compositions play with decorative patterning without compromising a conceptual backbone. Their intensity of vision allows for transcendent thought, experience, and connection while challenging any preconceived norms or rules defining abstract painting. “Structure is never absent; it’s just uninsistent, even accidental. The paintings are built up in stages, but never give the impression of being hard-worked. They have a fluid, textural presence, like luxury fabrics printed with overlapping, off-register layers of patterning.” — Holland Cotter, The New York Times (1999). Richmond Burton (b. 1960, Talladega, AL) obtained a BA in architecture from Rice University Houston, TX (1984). He lives and works in Woodstock, NY. Burton has shown extensively both domestically and internationally and has work in the collections of The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; The Broad, Los Angeles, CA; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX; Fogg Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY; and National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, among others. Recent solo exhibitions include venues such as Sarah Moody Gallery of Art at University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL (2015); Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY (2014); Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO (2013); and George Lawson...
Category

1990s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Ron Lukas Portrait "Annie Hall" Woody Allen Movie Character
Located in Detroit, MI
SALE ONE WEEK ONLY “Annie Hall” is a brilliant complicated mixed media piece composed of disparate parts and pieces that together make up a successful whole similar to the Woody All...
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1970s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil

The Market - Oil Paint by Sirio Pellegrini - 1966
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on plywood realized by Martin Bradley in 1974.  Hand signed and dated in top right corner; hand signed and titled on rear. Very good condition.
Category

1970s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Digital Relationships and Debt Rescuer" 59" x 81" inch by Gosha Ostretsov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Digital Relationships and Debt Rescuer" 59" x 81" inch by Gosha Ostretsov Medium: Carpet, Wool, acrylic, varnish Ships rolled in a tube Born in 1967, in Moscow Lived in Paris fo...
Category

20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Wool, Varnish, Mixed Media, Acrylic

River Access
Located in Missouri, MO
Joseph Orr (Japanese, American, b. 1949) River Access Signed Lower Right 30 x 30 inches 39.5 x 39.5 inches with frame BORN in Tokyo, Japan, Oct 31,1949, Joseph lived his first years in an orphanage sponsored by American Armed Forces. He was adopted April,1954 and came to the US at age 5 where he became an American citizen. As the Orr’s traveled for the US military Joseph enjoyed a childhood rich in experiences from Germany and back to California where he attended High School and started College. Following his parents to Missouri In 1971 he took a job with Hallmark Cards as machine operator in the cardboard fold dept. It sparked an interest in art, so after a few months he sought out some of the Hallmark artists at their work for private lessons. He learned basic drawing and watercolor from Anthony Allison and, “Probably before I was ready”, he admits, Joseph was entering local art shows and even winning prizes. At that time Joseph also enrolled for art instruction under John Coleman at Longview Community College. He spent one semester there. By the end of 1972 Joseph had quit his day job to become a full time painter, joining an art show tour group called Word Of Art, which was a new concept: culture meets promotion. Booking weekly art exhibits in the new indoor shopping malls across America, The idea transformed part of the art world by bringing art to the masses. For Joe and many other artists in the early 1970’s, it created the chance to paint full time and sell their work to an otherwise unobtainable audience. During this time of continuous self study and painting Joseph transitioned from watercolor to the newer acrylic painting medium. Believing that acrylic, as a fine art painting medium, can be as viable as oil, Orr has always promoted it as the modern medium that it is. In 1990 Joseph, along with his wife, Rita and two other artists, founded the National Oil & Acrylic Painter’s Society. The Orr’s brainchild, they were aided in founding NOAPS organization by local art patrons, Wm & Martha Mitchell and fellow artists Pete Peterson and Dennis T. Yates. While traveling with the World of Art Tour Joseph had met Rita Mathews, an aspiring artist, in Columbia, MO. They were married in June 1974 and stayed in Missouri, traveling and exhibiting their art together. Orr had a brief encounter with printmaking in 1977. He took private instruction in stone lithography and copper plate etching from Frank Stack, professor of art at the Univ of MO, Columbia, but painting remained his principal devotion. By 1999 Joseph had become proficient enough to have obtained Gallery representation with several Fine Art Galleries across the US. Joseph Orr currently resides in Osage Beach, Missouri, but travels to paint and visit his gallery representatives and Exhibit Openings. PHILOSOPHY: For me the idea is that painting should follow some form of illustration and truth telling. Basically, the premise of my painting philosophy, is to build layers of narrative into my paintings. A place or landscape scene is never defined satisfactorily without it’s relationship to color and composition. It is important to balance fact with imagination. “ART REFLECTS THE SOUL OF SOCIETY. A JUDGMENT CAN BE MADE FOR THE ATTITUDE OR CONDITION OF SOCIETY BY INSPECTING THE POPULAR ‘IDEAS’ OF ART OR, IN SOME INSTANCES, THE LACK OF ART.” (JOSEPH C. ORR) NOTED SOLO EXHIBITS : *BIRGER SANDZEN MEMORIAL, LINDSBORG, KS; *HARWELL ART MUSEUM, POPLAR BLUFF, MO; *ASHBY-HODGE GALLERY OF AMERICAN FINE ART, FAYETTE, MO; *NORFOLK ART CENTER, NORFOLK, NE; *KODNER GALLERIES...
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20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Cathedral
Located in Austin, TX
Ralph Farabee (1935–2003) Title: "The Cathedral" Medium: Watercolor on Paper Dimensions: 10" x 14" image 19" x 23" frame Markings: Signed LR "Farabee" ...
Category

1990s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

FRANCOISE WITH HAMSTER
Located in Aventura, FL
Original painting on board. Hand signed on front by the artist. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered.
Category

Mid-20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

STANZA
Located in Aventura, FL
Giclee on canvas. Hand signed and numbered on front by the artist. Edition of 95. Canvas size 36 x 24 inches. Custom framed as pictured. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certi...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Giclée

American Contemporary Art by Elena Borstein - The Red Gate
Located in Paris, IDF
Lithograph, ed. 25
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Lithograph

Kenneth Licht Geometric Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Astoria, NY
Kenneth Licht (American, 1923-XX), Geometric Composition, Acrylic on Canvas, circa 1965, unsigned, Patrick Parrish Gallery label to verso, gold-tone metal frame. Image: 15.25" H x 11...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"The World of Abstract Ideas" Abstract Painting 67" x 59" in by Gosha Ostretsov
Located in Culver City, CA
"The World of Abstract Ideas" Abstract Painting 67" x 59" inch by Gosha Ostretsov Born in 1967, in Moscow Lived in Paris for ten years (1988 - 1998), now lives and works in Moscow. ...
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20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

LAMP BLACK - Portrait / Dark colors / Female Figure / Photorealism / Blue / Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Original oil painting by Steve Smulka. Steve Smulka (b. 1949, Detroit, Michigan) attended the School of Visual Arts in New York City, studying with Chuck Close, among others. Upon c...
Category

1980s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Chwana
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
Category

20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Idea and function" Abstract Painting 67" x 59" inch by Gosha Ostretsov
Located in Culver City, CA
"Idea and function" Abstract Painting 67" x 59" inch by Gosha Ostretsov Born in 1967, in Moscow Lived in Paris for ten years (1988 - 1998), now lives and works in Moscow. PUBLIC CO...
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20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Coast Line, 1999
Located in Greenwich, CT
Coast Line, 1999 is an engraved painting on wood panel, 14 x 11 inches, initialed and dated lower right 'E E © 99'. Framed in an ornate, gold-tone frame.
Category

20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Engraving

Oil Painting / Photorealism / Figurative Art / Human Figure /Museum
Located in Buffalo, NY
Bruce Adams was a painter, art educator, and writer. Born in Buffalo, N.Y., in 1952, he received a B.S. in 1976 and an M.A. in 1983 from Buffalo State College. Adams’s work is includ...
Category

1980s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

44.25x36" - "Owl House" - Mixed Media, Charcoal on Paper
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This is a beautiful piece by Alexis Portilla. The rich inky greys, blues and blacks of this piece contrasts against the light and symbolism of vessels and pictographs. Vessels are a ...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Charcoal, Mixed Media

SPACE INVADERS
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic painting on canvas. Hand signed on front by Mr. Babes. Canvas is not stretched. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered. About the Artist: James “Babes” Kopp (b.1983), professionally known as MR.BABES, is a Miami-based neo-pop artist whose vibrant paintings are exhibited and collected around the world. After receiving his BFA from The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Kopp found 15 years of notable success across South Florida as an investment art broker...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Pressure
Located in New York, NY
Robert Longo Pressure, 1983 Acrylic and Graphite on Paper Signed and dated 'Robert Longo 83’ (lower right) in graphite Frame included: Floated and framed in a museum quality frame with UV plexiglass This is a unique painting "Pressure " [on God], Robert Longo's unique acrylic and graphite work on paper, was created during the same period as his iconic work, simply labeled "Pressure", now in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in N.Y. Whereas the latter depicts a young man, the present work, titled "Pressure on Heaven", then deliberately changed to "Pressure on God", is more ethereal in subject matter, though the lone youth's image is still present in the composition. From Lexander magazine: "In the excerpt from Neal Benezra’s article about 1980s art in the previous post, he writes, “Robert Longo’s Pressure might well be the most representative work of art of the 1980s.” I would go further and state that it is the definitive work of the 1980s—the penultimate visual anthem of the era—and most especially the period between 1979—1987, during which the musical genres of gothic rock and deathrock flourished and achieved their greatest artistic successes through the work of a variety of diverse bands including Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees...
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Graphite, Mixed Media

Saxophone Jazz Musician Charlie Parker Record Album Cover Illustration
Located in Miami, FL
This is more than a cover illustration depicting the legendary Charlie Parker playing the saxophone. It's an inventive graphic design concept from trailblazing illustrator Robert Weaver. By showing the subject in two parts. The artwork's visual idea is as radical as Parker's music. A wide shot and a close-up butted together dynamically communicates an energetic motion and movement in a still image. Signed lower right. Record album cover illustration for Charlie Parker: Bird with Strings Live at the Apollo, Carnegie Hall and Birdland (Columbia Records, 1976). From Wikipedia: Robert Weaver (July 5, 1924 – September 4, 1994) was an American illustrator who was considered a pioneer of a contemporary approach to the field that began in the 1950s. Biography Beginning in 1952, he embarked on a mission to combine the visual ideas found in fine art with the responsibility of journalist. At the time, many practitioners of illustration were expected to paint and draw for advertising and magazine assignments with artwork that was conservative, idealized and saccharine, while other illustrators such as Ronald Searle, Arthur Szyk, George Grosz, Kathe Kollwitz and later Ralph Steadman and Tomi Ungerer injected their own opinion into the matter. Weaver joined this latter tradition by moving his role of an illustrator from a page decorator to a journalist. He ventured from the typical haven of an illustrator's studio into the world and used a pencil to observe, record facts, and draw real life based visual essays, the way that illustrators such as Burt Silverman and Franklin McMahon did. This approach would later be termed "visual journalism" and in 1983 would form the basis of a special masters degree, Illustration as Visual Essay, from the School of Visual Arts in New York. He died at his home in Manhattan on September 4, 1994.[1] Career and legacy In an article for the AIGA in 1990, noted graphic art historian Steve Heller categorized Weaver as a journalistic illustrator. Other artists included Bob Gill, Jack Beck, Robert Andrew Parker, Thomas B. Allen and Philip Hays. They received crucial assignments from a group of visionary art directors that included Cipe Pineles...
Category

1970s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Board

Magnolia Branch and Asian Pears
Located in New York, NY
Amy Weiskopf was born in Chicago in 1957, and received her M.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, PA. Though Weiskopf is a master of the still life genre, her painti...
Category

1990s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

2 Pads
Located in Gloucester, MA
Zygmund Jankowski (1925–2009) painted traditional subjects with exuberant irreverence for traditional rules of color, composition, and perspective. He disparaged imitation and deligh...
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

"How to Portray..." Abstract Painting 67" x 59" in by Gosha Ostretsov
Located in Culver City, CA
"How to Portray..." Abstract Painting 67" x 59" in by Gosha Ostretsov Fulle name: How to Portray the Otherworldly? Born in 1967, in Moscow Lived in Paris for ten years (1988 - 1998...
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20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Nude Woman on Striped Chair #1 in Charcoal and Gouache on Paper
Located in Soquel, CA
Nude Woman on Striped Chair #1 in Charcoal and Gouache on Paper Black and white painting of a woman by acclaimed bluegrass musician Katherine "Kathy" Kallick (American, b. 1952). Th...
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1970s Contemporary Paintings

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Paper, Charcoal, Gouache

"Skeletype Grape, " Acrylic & Pastel on Grocery Bag signed by Reginald K. Gee
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"Skeletype Grape" is an original acrylic painting and pastel on a grocery bag by Reginald K. Gee. The artist signed the piece lower left. This artwork features an abstract portrait o...
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Pastel, Found Objects, Acrylic

Baby Pollock - Oil on Canvas by Mark Kostabi - 1989
Located in Roma, IT
Baby Pollock is an artwork by Mark Kostabi in 1989. Mixed Media on Canvas. cm. 24x30. Good conditions! Mark Kostabi (Los Angeles, November 27, 1960) is an American painter a...
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pink Preparatory Flag
Located in Toronto, Ontario
In the Spring of 1981, Charles Pachter began working on his most iconic and celebrated series: the Painter Flag. Decades before Photoshop, Pachter went around Toronto taking photos ...
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sin Título (Untitled)
Located in San Francisco, CA
Gabriel Mendoza Untitled, 1997 Oil on paper 13.70 x 19.50 inches This one-of-a-kind painting on paper comes unframed and is signed and dated by the artist. Years ago, while mournin...
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1990s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Oil

Mixed Media Gravel Painting, Sculpture Abstract Expressionist Thomas Nozkowski
Located in Surfside, FL
Thomas Edward Nozkowski (American, 1944-2019). Original mixed media abstract composition art utilizing colored rock gravel. Titled, "Gravel Piece." Hand signed on verso, dated 5/73. Provenance: Collection of the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida (Museum Inventory No. t.13.2000.053.) Thomas Nozkowski was an American contemporary painter. He achieved a place of prominence through his small scale paintings and drawings that push the limits of visual language. His work appeared in more than 300 exhibitions over the past 40 years. He had more than 70 solo exhibitions, and 24 of his paintings were featured in a large-scale retrospective in 1987 at Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC Nozkowski was born in Teaneck, New Jersey and raised in Dumont, where he graduated from Dumont High School in 1961. He spent his youth in the New Jersey suburbs, admiring New York culture from afar before moving there after graduating high school. His father worked in an Alcoa Aluminum factory and then as a postman. His mother worked in factories and as a bookkeeper. One of his aunts was a schoolteacher who gave him and his younger sister art supplies. When he was a senior in high school he won a scholarship to attend a painting class at New York University's School of Education, where he studied with Robert Kaupelis and Hale Woodruff. While he earned his BFA at Cooper Union, Nozkowski was making sculpture. He graduated in 1967. He later transitioned to large scale abstract expressionist painting, and exhibited some of his earliest works in group shows at the storied Betty Parsons Gallery. Richard Tuttle had his first show a year after he began assisting Betty Parsons. Thomas Nozkowski worked for her after graduating from Cooper Union. Between 1949 and 1951. In the course of 36 years, the Betty Parsons Gallery mounted important early shows of Robert Rauschenberg, Kenzo Okada, Richard Pousette-Dart, Leon Polk Smith, Forrest Bess, Sonia Sekula, Herbert Ferber, Seymour Lipton, Eduardo Paolozzi, Alexander Liberman, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Richard Lindner, Agnes Martin, Ellsworth Kelly, John Walker, Patrick Ireland...
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1970s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Stone

XX Century Russian School The Parade Crowd Military Oil on Canvas Yellow Brown
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting, oil on canvas, with dimensions of 128 x 120 cm without frame and 138 x 130 cm with frame, depicting a Parade. Russian painting, signed, 1950s, of fine workmanship, fresh,...
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1950s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Artist Painting Nude Women in Artist Studio - Perhaps Playboy Cartoon
Located in Miami, FL
"Harry has no interest in mundane pleasures." Enter the mind of a mid-century American/ Canadian Artist. The theme of Artist and Model has been used for centuries but Richard Taylor ( R. Taylor ) clearly has his own humorous style. The Taylor girl is easily recognizable with oversized heavy-lidded oval eyes and curvaceous body shapes. Taylor is in the Charles Addams...
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1970s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Ink, Watercolor, Gouache, Pen

The Three Ages of Man
Located in New York, NY
James Childs The Three Ages of Man 1986 Signed and dated, l.r. Oil on canvas 64 x 69.5 inches This painting is offered by CLAMP in New York City.
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

THREE JACKS
Located in Aventura, FL
Original acrylic on canvas painting. Stretched. Signed in Chinese and dated on front; signed, titled in Chinese and dated on verso. Acquired from a private collector who purchased...
Category

1990s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Moon and the Frittata
Located in Dallas, TX
A professor of painting at Southern Methodist University since 1984, Barnaby Fitzgerald spent his childhood in Italy where he earned a printmaking degree in Urbino. He received a BFA...
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Still Life with Squash
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): A. WEISKOPF
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Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

"Dampfzug bei Nacht" (1970) Original Öl auf Leinwand Signiert vom Künstler
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Größere Ölgemälde auf Leinwand von Roland C. Stegemann sind eher selten. Das hier angebotene Kunstwerk „Dampfzug bei Nacht“ hat die Größe 100 x 70 cm. Es entstand im Jahr 1970 und is...
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1970s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sisters Anry
Located in Zofingen, AG
Polyak Alexander Emelyanovich - soviet and ukrainian painter. Was born in Chernigov in 1944. In 1971 he graduated from the Moscow University of Arts named after N. K. Krupskaya, spec...
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Robert Petersen June 1984 Color Study #1 Unique, signed Framed Abstract painting
Located in New York, NY
Robert Petersen June 1984 Color Study #1, 1989 Mixed media on paper Hand signed, titled and dated on the lower front This is a unique work Frame included; held in the original vintag...
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1980s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media

Ice Rider 2
Located in Boca Raton, FL
A leading abstract painter in his lifetime, Dan Christensen drew from a range of Modernist sources to produce colorful, luminous compositions that featured giant dots, whirling loops...
Category

20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Winter Landscape - Oil Paint by Djuro Jacovic - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil on canvas realized by the naif painter Djuro Jacovic in 1970s. Includes a contemporary wooden frame cm. 80x141x5 cm. Very good condition.
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1970s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

SUNDAY IN THE PARK
Located in Aventura, FL
Embossed screenprint on paper. Hand signed and numbered by the artist. From the edition of 250. Artwork is in excellent condition. Certificate of Authenticity included. All reasonable offers will be considered. About the Artist: Otto de Souza Aguiar (Brazilian 1938–2006), the son of a highly respected Brazilian general, graduated with honors and was awarded a Master's Degree in Graphic Art and Drawing from the University of Fine Arts in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. After teaching drawing and design to aspiring architects, Otto began the extensive travels through Europe that were his induction into the world of High Fashion and Interior Design. As one of Brazil's top models, his engagements took him to Milan, Paris, and London. There, with his assignments in Harper's Bazaar Italia and others of the world's most prestigious publications, Aguiar developed an inspired aesthetic perception, which manifests itself boldly in his dramatic blending of sumptuous color, texture and gilding. Uncompromising in his thirst for creativity, Otto has combined his vast fashion and theatrical background with his diversified experience in the Visual Arts. Thus, his work has been characterized by the portrayal of elegance and grace. His inner tranquility manifests in his paintings as he recaptures the lush topical beauty of the Brazilian beaches...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Screen

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