Expressionist Paintings
EXPRESSIONIST STYLE
While “expressionist” is used to describe any art that avoids naturalism and instead employs a bold use of flattened forms and intense brushwork, Expressionist art formally describes early-20th-century work from Europe that drew on Symbolism and confronted issues such as urbanization and capitalism. Expressionist artists experimented in paintings and prints with skewed perspectives, abstraction and unconventional, bright colors to portray how isolating and anxious the world felt rather than how it appeared.
Between 1905 and 1920, Austrian and German artists, in particular, were inspired by Postimpressionists such as Paul Gauguin and Vincent van Gogh in their efforts to strive for a new authenticity in their work. In its geometric patterns and decorative details, Expressionist art was also marked by eclectic sources like German and Russian folk art as well as tribal art from Africa and Oceania, which the movement’s practitioners witnessed at museums and world’s fairs.
Groups of artists came together to share and promote the themes now associated with Expressionism, such as Die Brücke (The Bridge) in Dresden, which included Erich Heckel, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and investigated alienation and the dissolution of society in vivid color. In Munich, Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a group led by Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc, instilled Expressionism with a search for spiritual truths. In his iconic painting The Scream, prolific Norwegian painter Edvard Munch conveyed emotional turmoil through his depiction of environmental elements, such as the threatening sky.
Expressionism shifted around the outbreak of World War I, with artists using more elements of the grotesque in reaction to the escalation of unrest and violence. Printmaking was especially popular, as it allowed artists to widely disseminate works that grappled with social and political issues amid this time of upheaval. Although the art movement ended with the rise of Nazi Germany, where Expressionist creators were labeled “degenerate,” the radical ideas of these artists would influence Neo-Expressionism that emerged in the late 1970s with painters like Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente.
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Style: Expressionist
February Figure, female nude, greys earth tones
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil and oil stick over ink on paper. Neutral limited color, expressionist female nude with active brush strokes.
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Oil Pastel, Ink, Oil
Fried Fish, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This artwork painted not in standard canvas , it is oval "egg" form canvas ! Roasted fishes always inspired me to paint they , because the look already ready painting they have so mu...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Flowers. 1997. Oil on canvas, 60x45 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers. 1997. Oil on canvas, 60x45 cm
Valdis Bush (1924-2014)
studied at the Art academy of Latvia (1945 – 1950), his favorite professors being A. Skride, L. Svemps, yet he did no...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
$1,719 Sale Price
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Flowers in vase. Oil on cardboard, 50x39.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Flowers in vase. Oil on cardboard, 50x39.5 cm
Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001)
Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. Studied ...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$1,575 Sale Price
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Lilac. 2018, mixed media on canvas, 60x69.5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Lilac. 2018, mixed media on canvas, 60x69.5 cm
Still life with lilacs in a vase
Dzidra Bauma (1930)
Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, port...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Canvas
$1,413 Sale Price
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At the Theatre
Located in Greenwich, CT
Born in 1924 Donald Purdy in the 1960s did a series of works on clay-coated paper. He loved working in this medium and he would apply oil paint and then rub it away with a cloth to ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Clay, Oil, Board
Autumn sun. Cardboard, oil, 87x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Autumn sun. Cardboard, oil, 87x100 cm
Autumn landscape with a trail
Valdis Bush (1924-2014)
studied at the Art academy of Latvia (1945 – 1950), his favorite professors being A. Skr...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$2,674 Sale Price
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Worship Joanna Flatau Contemporary art portrait painting woman attraction animal
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas
Unique work
Hand-signed by the artist
Joanna Flatau was born in Varsaw, Poland.
She graduated from Varsaw History of Arts University and from the Fine Arts ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Asters. 1993. Paper, watercolor, 44x19 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Asters. 1993. Paper, watercolor, 44x19 cm
Oskars Berzins (1940)
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$267 Sale Price
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Untitled - Contemporary polish art, Expressionistic portrait, Abstraction
Located in Warsaw, PL
MARZENA KAWALEROWICZ
Polish artist. Currently, she lives and works in Warsaw. She has been exhibiting her paintings all over the world. Most important exhibitions were in "Galerie Je...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Board
Memories of Italy. 1965. Oil on canvas, 42x75, 5 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Memories of Italy. 1965 Oil on canvas, 42x75,5 cm
Category
1960s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$8,596 Sale Price
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Still life with blue drapery and fruits. 1980, oil on cardboard, 100x81 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life with blue drapery and fruits. 1980, oil on cardboard, 100x81 cm
Valdis Bush (1924-2014)
studied at the Art academy of Latvia (1945 – 1950), h...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$3,438 Sale Price
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Summer dahlias. 1987. Paper, watercolor, 56x62 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Summer dahlias. 1987. Paper, watercolor, 56x62 cm
Still life with flowers in a vase
Dzidra Bauma (1930)
Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, ...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$682 Sale Price
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Still life with peonies. 1989, paper, watercolor, 62x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Still life with peonies. 1989, paper, watercolor, 62x70 cm
Dzidra Bauma (1930)
Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural composition...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
$682 Sale Price
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Cherries bloom. 2010, acrylic on paper, 49x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Cherries bloom. 2010, acrylic on paper, 49x70 cm
Dzidra Bauma (1930)
Dzidra Bauma works in watercolor technique. She paint figural compositions, portraits, landscapes, flowers and ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
$1,413 Sale Price
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Boundless world. 2011, oil on canvas, 65x81 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Boundless world. 2011, oil on canvas, 65x81 cm
Sergey Inkatov
Was born:
13.09.1971 in Baku.
Painter Sergey Inkatov belongs to young generation of artists of Estonia.
He was born ...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,722 Sale Price
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Golden sunset. 2009, oil on canvas, 50x90 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Golden sunset. 2009, oil on canvas, 50x90 cm
Sergey Inkatov
Was born:
13.09.1971 in Baku.
Painter Sergey Inkatov belongs to young generation of artists of Estonia.
He was born in...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,712 Sale Price
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To the Peak, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
To the Peak is a creation that was inspired from my visits to the Canadian Rocky Mountains. I wanted to convey the awe and energy that is felt when you're within these massive mount...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Time to first walk, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Original oil on canvas on wooden stretchers, signed on the front. Certificate of authenticity included. :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Self-portrait. Oil on canvas, 100x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Self-portrait. Oil on canvas, 100x70 cm
Similar work is published in the encyclopedia „Māksla un arhitektūra biogrāfijās”, Vol. 1 , - P.: „Latvijas enciklopēdija”, 1995 - G. Tidomane, on page 135.
Biruta...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,674 Sale Price
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Tulips on the black background. 1975, cardboard, oil, 50x39 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Tulips on the black background. Cardboard, oil, 50x39 cm
Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001)
Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art schola...
Category
1970s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$1,575 Sale Price
20% Off
Red roses. Oil on cardboard, 45x40 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Red roses in a glass vase. Oil on cardboard, 45x40 cm
Aleksandr Rodin (1922-2001)
Painter Born in a family of farmers. Wife Rasma Lace - art scholar. ...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Cardboard
$1,575 Sale Price
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Blind. 1989, canvas, oil, 66x70 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Blind. 1989, canvas, oil, 66x70 cm
Biruta Delle (born 1944.17.I)
studied in Latvia Art academy (1964 – 67) and one of her most important pedagogue’s was ...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,139 Sale Price
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Sunset. 1977, Oil on canvas, 86x100 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sunset. 1977, Oil on canvas, 86x100 cm
View on the village at evening
Valdis Bush (1924-2014)
studied at the Art academy of Latvia (1945 – 1950), his fav...
Category
1970s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$2,674 Sale Price
20% Off
Enlightenment. Oil on canvas, 92x65 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Enlightenment. Oil on canvas, 92x65 cm
Biruta Delle (born 1944.17.I)
studied in Latvia Art academy (1964 – 67) and one of her most important pedagogue’s ...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Jeremy on acid - Julien Wolf, 21st Century, Contemporary figurative painting
By Julien Wolf
Located in Paris, FR
Oil on canvas
Signed
Unique work
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Language of the Flowers, protagonist, , feminine archetypes
Located in Houston, TX
Jeanie Tomanek: I don’t intentionally set out to make a calming painting, no, but I do try to have a sense of hope in my stories. I’m an optimist who believes there’s always some way...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,125 Sale Price
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Tall as a Spire 02, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
“Where are forests hot as fire, Wide as England, tall as a spireâ€
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Marilyn Monroe, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Marilyn Monroe is an American film actress, singer and model. The iconic image of American cinema and the entire world culture. Painted in a modern style using brushes and a palette ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Shield of Heracles, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Title: "The Shield of Heracles" Artist: Derek Overfield The shield of Heracles, wrought by the hands of Hephaestus, appears in the account of the hero's ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Help From Friends, colorful blues, purples, spiritual figure abstract watercolor
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists.
This piece is very much about the energy of the body and breath. We are just rediscovering the power of the breath to increase energy and general well being.
This work is so important as our society gets more disembodied and broken, we need to come home to our bodies and realize the sacredness of ourselves and every being on the planet. Janet has both shown and taught with Alex Grey...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Shower at Night, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Acrylic work on archival quality paper depicting a man taking a shower at night. A faint light coming from an adjacent room. Done with the alla prima technique. The work would be v...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Deep Tonal Abstract Expressionist Textured Painting
By Paul Sprohge
Located in Houston, TX
Deep tonal abstract expressionist painting. The hues are mostly reds and deep greens. It is framed in a silver frame. It is signed by the artist and dated. Paul Sprohge is a Houston,...
Category
1960s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Acrylic on Canvas Titled: "Little Rita”
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Robert was born in 1949 to Dominick and Antoinette Catapano in Brooklyn New York. He is a self taught artist. He began drawing and painting as a child. He says he did it as a way of ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Acrylic on Canvas by Robert Catapano “little Mona”
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Robert was born in 1949 to Dominick and Antoinette Catapano in Brooklyn New York. He is a self taught artist. He began drawing and painting as a child. He says he did it as a way of ...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
The Little Things (Original)
By Todd White
Located in Toronto, ON
10” x 6” Unframed
Original Acrylic on Canvas Board
Hand Signed by Todd White
Todd white captures restaurant, night and Hollywood scenes with contrasting colors serving the viewer’...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Horses on the beach, Painting, Oil on Canvas
By Elena Done
Located in Yardley, PA
Horsee on the beach in Villaana , Costa del Sol very pastose strokes oil, a lot of oil :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
West End, colorful gestural abstract painting
By C. Dimitri
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Abstract cityscape indebted to Matisse's "View of Notre Dame."
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Charcoal, Oil, Permanent Marker
"Prowl" Red Abstract Figurative Landscape Signed P. Gonzalez
Located in Houston, TX
Unique red landscape of a man standing under a tree with black lightening overhead. Done in an expressionist style similar to that of Edvard Munch. Signed, titled, and dated by possi...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Interior With Red Flowers On The Table
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Interior With Red Flowers On The Table
Large oil on canvas, signed lower right, title on verso.
Born in 1952, Jean-Pierre Mocci arrived in Provence at the age of 8. Self-taught artist, he was interested in the visual arts from a very young age.
Participating in many craft fairs, he exhibits paintings and art crafts. He is a complete artist who can be described as a "jack of all trades": oil paintings, watercolors, sculptures, bronzes and ceramics.
But it is by painting his adopted Provence that Jean Pierre Mocci...
Category
1990s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The One That Got Away. Smoking man in antique bathtub soft green tones humorous
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is an oil on wood painting. There is a rough stipple texture to this work achieved by mixing a pumice like compound into the primer. The work is consistent with the artists humo...
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Wood, Oil
Charles V (after van Dyke) classical contemporary bold horse colorful brushwork
By Tom Bennett
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A richly painted, expressionist homage to Van Dyke. Active, movement in an equestrian portrait based on a baroque painting. Oil on board.
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Nothing But Me, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This supersized expressive portrait features shining rhinestone tears, which are protected by an archival varnish, and set with a flexible bonding glue. Shipping WORLDWIDE in a re...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Birdie and Green Eyes" Modern Expressionist Figurative
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Birdie and Green Eyes" is from Sandra Jones Campbell's recent Summer collection, a series that displays her unique vision of the world and is informed by her current social observa...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Woman in green swimsuit, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
I try to paint pictures that draw attention to things that other people might overlook. My choice of subject comes from intuition and is driven by a fierce desire to partake in the s...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Melodramatic Breakup romantic couple theme human drama humorous undertones
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Oil on canvas signed on reverse. Heavy duty stretcher ready for display
Category
Early 2000s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Sunset #1, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
Acrylic on archival quality paper. There is always something melancholic about sunsets. Thoughts of time passing. :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official ce...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Morning (series lotus), Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
I draw lotus flowers at different times of the day. Lotus is a pure flower with a very gentle, ethereal fragrance, it is a symbol of purity in Buddhism. Painting in the spirit of abs...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Original Painting on Panel Assemblage Titled: "Beer 30”"
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Born in Tallahasee Fl, William started his artistic career as a color consultant for his family's Design and Painting company that took on constant projects of custom painted interio...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Passeggiata tra i cipressi" by Enzio Wenk, 2015- Acrylic on Wood, Expressionism
By Enzio Wenk
Located in Bresso, IT
Translated title: "Stroll among cypresses"
Acrylic on wood.
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Wood Panel
Portrait of a woman, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
In my pictures I try to combine the visual and the conceptual. For me, drawing is a medium of knowledge which, beyond direct expression, makes visible material and immaterial forces,...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
UmmHummm, colorful spiritual energetic mystical figure
By Janet Morgan
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Watercolor, mixed media, using resists.
Janet Morgan’s explosive art captures the exuberance
and deep wisdom we humans yearn to experience. Her sense of humor and spiritual depth s...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Mixed Media, Watercolor, Archival Paper
Self Portrait. Original Oil Painting Austrian 19th Century
Located in London, GB
Joseph Weidner
Austrian 1801 - 1870
Self Portrait
Oil on canvas, signed lower left
Image size: 23 x 19 inches (58.5 x 48.5 cm)
Original gilt swept fra...
Category
1860s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Man, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
My work is about dealing with the real world and above all using the images that surround us in everyday life. I often search for the unexpected. An ironic turn to images or things y...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
"Moon Spirit Dancer, " Oil on Canvas
By Bruno Surdo
Located in Chicago, IL
Chicago-based fine art painter Bruno A. Surdo is classically trained in drawing and oil painting in the tradition of Renaissance masters. With strong command of the human form, Surdo creates dynamic compositions of people and places that communicate a rich commentary on the world around him. Depicting trees from personal encounters, Surdo’s latest body of work entitled “Tree Spirits” takes us on a foray into the forest, where leaves, branches and burls express something deeply personal. Applying his mastery of figurative realism to the natural world, he experiments with form and texture to uncover the intangible spirits of trees.
This large-scale painting entitled “Moon Spirit Dancer...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
Love Song Coney Island theme women bathers strong vibrant colors humor reds
Located in Brooklyn, NY
oil on canvas signed and dated on reverse.
Stephen Basso's highly original pastels and oil paintings are romantic, yet thought provoking fantasies. His whimsical works are alive with boundless imagination, wry wit and fearless color. His shrewd social observations often translate into eerily humorous figurative scenes and narratives. Mr. Basso’s works evoke a high level of inquiry. The fanciful, yet keenly observed characters are unpredictable and evocative. The viewer vacillates between surprise, delight, and consternation.
.) Seeking emotional honesty, he looked to the work of several "mentors": Max Beckmann, Francisco Goya, Willem de Kooning , Philip Guston , Marsden Hartley and Albert Pinkham Ryder...
Category
1980s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
KAT, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
The mythical cat, usually the boss in a home... :: Painting :: Expressionism :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Y...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Snow peaks, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
For those who love white in their interior. For those who love snow and skiing. For those who set goals and accomplish them, climbing step by step, reaching the top. For those who...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
A quarrel on a flower, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
By Jorge Calero
Located in Yardley, PA
A joyful manifestation of life and movement depicts the winging of a couple of hummingbirds around a flower in a world where light melts into form in a perpetual movement. :: Paintin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sitting woman IV, Painting, Acrylic on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
My work is about dealing with the real world and above all using the images that surround us in everyday life. I often search for the unexpected. An ironic turn to images or things y...
Category
2010s Expressionist Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Expressionist paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Expressionist paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. Works in this style were very popular during the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artists have continued to produce works inspired by this movement. If you’re looking to add paintings created in this style to introduce contrast in an otherwise neutral space in your home, the works available on 1stDibs include elements of blue, orange, purple, green and other colors. Many Pop art paintings were created by popular artists on 1stDibs, including Iryna Kastsova, Maria Asuncion Raventos, Masri Hayssam, and Evelyne Ballestra. Frequently made by artists working with Paint, and Oil Paint and other materials, all of these pieces for sale are unique and have attracted attention over the years. Not every interior allows for large Expressionist paintings, so small editions measuring 1 inches across are also available.