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Art Subject: Car
"Highway 101", Surreal Redwood Highway Panting with Orcas and Car
"Highway 101", Surreal Redwood Highway Panting with Orcas and Car

"Highway 101", Surreal Redwood Highway Panting with Orcas and Car

Located in Philadelphia, PA

This piece titled "Highway 101" is an original artwork by Chris Austin and is made of gouache on wood. It measures 13"h x 17"w framed and is signed en verso by the artist. Chris Aus...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Wood, Gouache

Picnic by the Cypress
Picnic by the Cypress

Picnic by the Cypress

Located in Zofingen, AG

Picnic by the Cypress Size: 140×97 cm (overall size with stretching 150×107 cm) Year: 2026 Materials: acrylic on canvas Shipping: rolled In this piece, a moment of calm and ease mee...

Category

2010s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

New Girl in Town
New Girl in Town

New Girl in Town

By Daria Okhrimenko

Located in Zofingen, AG

New Girl in Town captures that delicate, almost imperceptible feeling of being slightly out of rhythm with the world around you — where everything seems settled, familiar, already un...

Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"At the Grands Boulevards" Parisian City Street Scene Impressionist Painting
"At the Grands Boulevards" Parisian City Street Scene Impressionist Painting

"At the Grands Boulevards" Parisian City Street Scene Impressionist Painting

By Te Pencke

Located in New York, NY

A beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Te Pencke. Pencke was a Parisian painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. His work is...

Category

20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Huge British Marine Oil Painting Shipping off Busy Trading City Port Harbour
Huge British Marine Oil Painting Shipping off Busy Trading City Port Harbour

Huge British Marine Oil Painting Shipping off Busy Trading City Port Harbour

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Off the Coastline by G. Selby (British, second half 20th century) signed oil on canvas, unframed canvas: 20 x 40 inches Provenance: private collection, England Condition: very good c...

Category

Mid-20th Century English School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Why., Oil Painting
Why., Oil Painting

Why., Oil Painting

By Keith Thomson

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A chicken wanders down a quiet suburban street on a spring morning, staring at a five-dollar bill left on the ground. Using oil paint and ink, artist Keith Thom...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

"La Madeleine" Impressionist Parisian Street Scene Oil Painting on Canvas Framed
"La Madeleine" Impressionist Parisian Street Scene Oil Painting on Canvas Framed

"La Madeleine" Impressionist Parisian Street Scene Oil Painting on Canvas Framed

By Jean Salabet

Located in New York, NY

A beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Jean Salabet. Salabet was a Parisian painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. His wor...

Category

20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Evening to victory"
"Evening to victory"

"Evening to victory"

By Vladyslav Kazachenko

Located in Edinburgh, GB

Evening to Victory. The concept is based on a subtle and existential allegory. The painting's title simultaneously alludes to two images: the Soviet GAZ "Pobeda" automobile and the t...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Minimalist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Who Does She Think She Is?
Who Does She Think She Is?

Who Does She Think She Is?

By Daria Okhrimenko

Located in Zofingen, AG

Who Does She Think She Is? It is the question often asked, quietly or aloud, whenever someone chooses not to shrink themselves. This painting is about the courage to take up space, e...

Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Café de la Paix, Opéra" Post-Impressionist Parisian Street Scene Oil Painting
"Café de la Paix, Opéra" Post-Impressionist Parisian Street Scene Oil Painting

"Café de la Paix, Opéra" Post-Impressionist Parisian Street Scene Oil Painting

By Jean Salabet

Located in New York, NY

A beautiful oil on canvas painting by the French artist, Jean Salabet. Salabet was a Parisian painter known for his colorful cityscapes depicting the times of his generation. His wor...

Category

1950s Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Board

In Search of a Cerulean Sweater
In Search of a Cerulean Sweater

In Search of a Cerulean Sweater

By Daria Okhrimenko

Located in Zofingen, AG

In Search of a Cerulean Sweater plays with the idea of difference — of standing side by side while belonging to entirely different worlds. It reflects that quiet, often overlooked st...

Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Sunset VW Van - Colorful California Beach Still Life Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Sunset VW Van - Colorful California Beach Still Life Acrylic Painting on Canvas

Sunset VW Van - Colorful California Beach Still Life Acrylic Painting on Canvas

By Kathleen Keifer

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Kathleen Keifer's original artworks represent one of the most significant expressions of New California Realism. Keifer brings a fresh perspective to her colorful scenes of everyday ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

"Palais Garnier" Post-Impressionist Parisian Street Scene Oil Painting Canvas
"Palais Garnier" Post-Impressionist Parisian Street Scene Oil Painting Canvas

"Palais Garnier" Post-Impressionist Parisian Street Scene Oil Painting Canvas

By Georges Gerbier

Located in New York, NY

A beautiful oil painting on canvas by the French artist Georges Gerbier, depicting a tremendously vivid and alive street scene from Paris in the 20th Century with a view of "Palais G...

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Golden Yellow Orange Sunset in New York, Contemporary Cityscape Painting Framed
Golden Yellow Orange Sunset in New York, Contemporary Cityscape Painting Framed

Golden Yellow Orange Sunset in New York, Contemporary Cityscape Painting Framed

By Angela Wakefield

Located in Preston, GB

Golden Yellow Orange Sunset in New York, Contemporary Cityscape Painting Framed by British Urban Landscape Artist Angela Wakefield. This original is part of the New York Series, a bo...

Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

New York City Winter Oil Painting Fifth Avenue Flags St Patricks Michael Budden
New York City Winter Oil Painting Fifth Avenue Flags St Patricks Michael Budden

New York City Winter Oil Painting Fifth Avenue Flags St Patricks Michael Budden

By Michael Budden

Located in Chesterfield, NJ

Winter On Fifth Avenue, St Patrick's, Flags 24 x 18 unframed. and 30.25 x 24.5 framed signed LL Winter On Fifth Avenue, St Patrick's, Flags is an oil painting on linen by award winn...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Antique Fine Framed French Impressionist Street Scene Paris Signed Oil Painting
Antique Fine Framed French Impressionist Street Scene Paris Signed Oil Painting

Antique Fine Framed French Impressionist Street Scene Paris Signed Oil Painting

Located in Buffalo, NY

Antique French impressionist Paris street scene signed oil painting. Oil on canvas. Framed. Signed. In excellent original condition. Handsomely framed in a gold giltwood impression...

Category

1940s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Bugatti Car Race in Grand Prix de Pau France 1933, Oil on Canvas Painting
Bugatti Car Race in Grand Prix de Pau France 1933, Oil on Canvas Painting

Bugatti Car Race in Grand Prix de Pau France 1933, Oil on Canvas Painting

Located in Atlanta, GA

Grand Prix de Pau, 1933 — Oil on Canvas (Painted 1934) A dynamic and atmospheric oil painting capturing the excitement of the Grand Prix de Pau 1933, created in 1934 by an unknown ar...

Category

1930s Art Deco Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth" Impressionist Oil Painting Snow New York City
"St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth" Impressionist Oil Painting Snow New York City

"St. Patrick's Cathedral on Fifth" Impressionist Oil Painting Snow New York City

By Cindy Shaoul

Located in New York, NY

A charming depiction of St. Patrick's Cathedral on 5th Avenue in the snow with figures and cars. This evocative urban winter scene captures the majestic spires of St. Patrick's Cathe...

Category

2010s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

Classic Jaguar Motor Racing Action Scene Original 1960's Signed Oil Painting
Classic Jaguar Motor Racing Action Scene Original 1960's Signed Oil Painting

Classic Jaguar Motor Racing Action Scene Original 1960's Signed Oil Painting

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Jaguar Motor Racing Sylvia Smith (British 20th century). signed and dated Jul. 65' oil on canvas, framed framed: 28.5 x 34.5 inches canvas: 24 x 30 inches provenance: private collec...

Category

Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

"Along the Seine by Hotel de Paris" 20th Century Post-Impressionist Oil Painting
"Along the Seine by Hotel de Paris" 20th Century Post-Impressionist Oil Painting

"Along the Seine by Hotel de Paris" 20th Century Post-Impressionist Oil Painting

Located in New York, NY

In this piece, the artist depicts his subject in an abstract and impressionistic way, capturing the busy Seine by the Hotel de Paris. The streets of Paris are portrayed in the distan...

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Heirloom  / oil on linen
The Heirloom  / oil on linen

The Heirloom / oil on linen

By Mimi Jensen

Located in Burlingame, CA

Persimmons, cobalt blue table linens and silver are the focus of this elegant and dramatic still life. Colors include silver, orange and blue. Photorealist oil painting on canvas. T...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Photorealist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil

NY Skyline

NY Skyline

Located in Los Angeles, CA

NY Skyline, 1942, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower left, 24 x 20 inches, dated and titled verso, together with Lewis’ address NY Skyline depicts a typical array of Manhattan sk...

Category

1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

1960's French Signed Oil Figures on Parisian River Seine Island I'le de Citi
1960's French Signed Oil Figures on Parisian River Seine Island I'le de Citi

1960's French Signed Oil Figures on Parisian River Seine Island I'le de Citi

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Paris French artist, circa 1960's signed oil on on canvas, framed framed: 26.5 x 32 inches canvas : 20 x 25 inches Provenance: private collection, France Condition: very good conditi...

Category

Mid-20th Century French School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

“Pennsylvania Beauty”
“Pennsylvania Beauty”

“Pennsylvania Beauty”

By Edmund Darch Lewis

Located in Southampton, NY

Here for your consideration is an outstanding example of the landscape mastery of American artist, Edmund Darch Lewis. Fabulous light and clarity of the bucolic scene. Signed lower right and dated 1870. Recently cleaned. Several old patches verso with corresponding in paint. Condition is very good The painting is framed in its original gold leaf period frame which is in fine condition. Overall measurements are 35 by 46.5 inches. Edmund Darch Lewis was born in Philadelphia, the son of a prominent businessman. According to family tradition he was educated at a private school...

Category

1870s Academic Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Stormy Sea Ships Landscape Van Plattenberg Paint 17/18th Century Oil on canvas
Stormy Sea Ships Landscape Van Plattenberg Paint 17/18th Century Oil on canvas

Stormy Sea Ships Landscape Van Plattenberg Paint 17/18th Century Oil on canvas

Located in Riva del Garda, IT

Matthieu Van Plattenberg (Antwerp 1608 - Paris 1660) workshop of Stormy sea with ships Oil on canvas 90 x 120 cm - In antique frame 103 x 133 cm This evocative coastal view...

Category

17th Century Old Masters Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Modern abstract figurative woman's portrait  acrylic painting "Now and beyond"
Modern abstract figurative woman's portrait  acrylic painting "Now and beyond"

Modern abstract figurative woman's portrait acrylic painting "Now and beyond"

By Mougenot Natalya

Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR

Contemporary expressive female portrait inspired by Matisse, bold Fauvist color modern art painting celebrating feminine strength, authenticity, and inner transformation. “Now and B...

Category

2010s Abstract Expressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Paper, Acrylic

Arc de Triomphe - Impressionist Figures in Cityscape Oil by Edouard Leon Cortes
Arc de Triomphe - Impressionist Figures in Cityscape Oil by Edouard Leon Cortes

Arc de Triomphe - Impressionist Figures in Cityscape Oil by Edouard Leon Cortes

By Édouard Leon Cortès

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Signed oil on canvas figures in cityscape circa 1960 by sought after French impressionist painter Edouard Cortes. The work depicts a view of the Arc de Triomphe and Avenue de Friedla...

Category

1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Pont Neuf Paris River Seine Bridge French Watercolour Cityscape by Pierre Neveu
Pont Neuf Paris River Seine Bridge French Watercolour Cityscape by Pierre Neveu

Pont Neuf Paris River Seine Bridge French Watercolour Cityscape by Pierre Neveu

By Pierre Neveu

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: Pont Neuf Paris River Seine Bridge French Watercolour Cityscape by Pierre Neveu Artist: Pierre Neveu (French b.1929) Medium: Watercolour on artists paper, unframed Size (H x W...

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

"Paris Rainy Cafe" by Christopher Clark, Original Oil Painting, French Cityscape
"Paris Rainy Cafe" by Christopher Clark, Original Oil Painting, French Cityscape

"Paris Rainy Cafe" by Christopher Clark, Original Oil Painting, French Cityscape

By Christopher Clark

Located in Denver, CO

Christopher Clark's "Paris Rainy Cafe" is an original, hand made oil and acrylic painting that depicts a night scene of a bustling cityscape in France. Christopher has been an artist since early childhood, when he would watch Bob Ross on PBS and mimic the famed oil painter’s art with crayons. He considers himself a self-educated artist, with his studies ranging from personal training with contemporary masters, to classical academic art technique, with much inspiration from 19th Century art and the Impressionist Movement. Christopher lived in Italy for a time, immersing himself in Italian culture and art, which continues to influence his painting. His fan base has grown considerably since his return to the US, gaining the attention of Lucasfilm and Marvel Fine Art, which both signed him as an officially licensed artist in 2016. Other clients include George Lucas, Major League Baseball, Louisville Slugger, and Fender Guitars. Christopher’s painting skills are not his only talent in the arts. He has won several national swing dance championship competitions, and also studies tango and blues dancing. He has played guitar since the age of 12, and during his time as lead guitarist for a rock band, he opened for Blue Oyster Cult and Eddie Money...

Category

2010s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Acrylic, Wood Panel

Large British Marine Oil Painting Schooner Ship under Moonlight at Sea, signed
Large British Marine Oil Painting Schooner Ship under Moonlight at Sea, signed

Large British Marine Oil Painting Schooner Ship under Moonlight at Sea, signed

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Moonlight Schooner by Chris Golds (British, 1936-1924) signed and dated 78 titled/ inscribed verso oil on canvas, framed framed: 18.5 x 33 inches canvas: 16 x 30 inches Provenance:...

Category

Mid-20th Century English School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

New Stories
New Stories

New Stories

By Jacob Burda

Located in Zofingen, AG

From the City Stories series, New Stories portrays the quiet poetry of urban encounters. Figures gather around a café beneath a bright awning, some pausing in conversation, others si...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Barcelona Harbor Montjuic Hill Coastal Landscape Oil Painting Mediterranean Port
Barcelona Harbor Montjuic Hill Coastal Landscape Oil Painting Mediterranean Port

Barcelona Harbor Montjuic Hill Coastal Landscape Oil Painting Mediterranean Port

By Antonio Sala Herrero

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

Mediterranean Harbor Barcelona Montjuic Coastal Landscape Oil Painting Spanish Post-Impressionist Port Scene Artist: Antonio Sala Herrero (Spanish, 1927–...

Category

1970s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Summer Tents and Stormy Sky Over Yellow Fields British Campsite Watercolour
Summer Tents and Stormy Sky Over Yellow Fields British Campsite Watercolour

Summer Tents and Stormy Sky Over Yellow Fields British Campsite Watercolour

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Title: Summer Tents and Stormy Sky Over Yellow Fields British Campsite Watercolour by John Steane (b.1931) Size: 16 inches (height) x 19.75 inches (width) watercolor painting on pape...

Category

Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

French Marine Painting 19th Jean MAZZELLA Harbor Normandy Sea Boats
French Marine Painting 19th Jean MAZZELLA Harbor Normandy Sea Boats

French Marine Painting 19th Jean MAZZELLA Harbor Normandy Sea Boats

By Jean Mazzella

Located in PARIS, FR

Jean MAZZELLA Active in the 1870s/90s Harbor Entrance in Normandy Oil on canvas 41 x 65 cm (52 ​​x 77 cm with frame) Signed and dated lower right: "J. Mazzella / 83" Very good condit...

Category

1880s French School Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Frederick Shane Artists Sketching California 1940s Modernist Gouache
Frederick Shane Artists Sketching California 1940s Modernist Gouache

Frederick Shane Artists Sketching California 1940s Modernist Gouache

By Frederick Shane

Located in Denver, CO

A striking 1940s modernist gouache painting by Frederick Shane titled Artists Sketching (California), depicting three artists working outdoors against a sweeping mountainous landscap...

Category

1940s American Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache

1950's French Post-Impressionist Oil St Jean Pied de Port Pyrenees Basque Town
1950's French Post-Impressionist Oil St Jean Pied de Port Pyrenees Basque Town

1950's French Post-Impressionist Oil St Jean Pied de Port Pyrenees Basque Town

By Regine David

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

St Jean Pied de Port (South West France) signed by Regine David (female French artist, 1910-2018) oil painting on board, unframed measures: 15 x 18 inches condition: the painting is ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Fifth Avenue Manhattan New York City Panoramic Painting by Contemporary Artist
Fifth Avenue Manhattan New York City Panoramic Painting by Contemporary Artist

Fifth Avenue Manhattan New York City Panoramic Painting by Contemporary Artist

By Angela Wakefield

Located in Preston, GB

Fifth Avenue Manhattan New York City Panoramic Painting by Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield. This is a major work from her New York Series. Art measures 48 x 24 inches Frame me...

Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Wood, Paint, Acrylic, Board, Gesso, Varnish, Panel, Wood Panel

Michigan Avenue: Where Light Meets Rain, Oil Painting
Michigan Avenue: Where Light Meets Rain, Oil Painting

Michigan Avenue: Where Light Meets Rain, Oil Painting

By Yangzi Xu

Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Yangzi captures a rainy evening on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Streetlamps glow warmly against the cool reflections of the wet pavement. Figures with umbr...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

Original 1930's Vintage Motor Car Racing Original Drawing Signed Dated
Original 1930's Vintage Motor Car Racing Original Drawing Signed Dated

Original 1930's Vintage Motor Car Racing Original Drawing Signed Dated

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

Wonderful original pencil drawing depicting a vintage motor car racing scene from the 1930's. The drawing is by - "K. B. White" - a British illustrator and motoring artist who was ...

Category

Early 20th Century Art Deco Still-life Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Classic Tall Sailing Ship in Choppy Waters off Coastline, signed oil painting
Classic Tall Sailing Ship in Choppy Waters off Coastline, signed oil painting

Classic Tall Sailing Ship in Choppy Waters off Coastline, signed oil painting

By James Hardy

Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire

James Hardy (British contemporary, 21st century) signed oil painting on board, framed board: 8 x 10 inches provenance: private collection condition: overall very good, a few markings...

Category

2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

"Triple Elvis" Denied Andy Warhol Silver Black Pop Art Painting by Charles Lutz
"Triple Elvis" Denied Andy Warhol Silver Black Pop Art Painting by Charles Lutz

"Triple Elvis" Denied Andy Warhol Silver Black Pop Art Painting by Charles Lutz

By Charles Lutz

Located in Brooklyn, NY

"Triple Elvis" (Denied) Silkscreen Painting by Charles Lutz Silkscreen and silver enamel paint on canvas with Artist's Denied stamp of the Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board. 82 x 72" inches 2010 This important example was shown alongside works by Warhol in a two-person show "Warhol Revisited (Charles Lutz / Andy Warhol)" at UAB Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts in 2024. 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...

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21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Figurative Paintings

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"California" (2025) Oil Cityscape Painting on Canvas
"California" (2025) Oil Cityscape Painting on Canvas

"California" (2025) Oil Cityscape Painting on Canvas

Located in Denver, CO

"California" by Greg Gandy is an original, handmade oil painting on canvas that measures 33.5 x 49.5 inches framed and is ready to hang. Greg Gandy is a realist painter from central...

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2010s Photorealist Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas