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Art Subject: Sea
After Storm, Seascape, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karen Darbinyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Linen,
Year: 2023
Style: Impressionism
Title: After Storm
Size: 11" x 16" x 0.8'' ...
Category
2010s Academic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$1,200 Sale Price
20% Off
Rugged Grassy Cliffs and Vibrant Blue Waters French Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Cliff Side Sea Landscape
signed by Georges Bordonave (French contemporary)
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 20 x 26 inches
condition: very good
provenance: from a large priva...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Abstract impressionist expressive nature coast seaside acrylic painting on paper
Located in VÉNISSIEUX, FR
This abstract impressionist vibrant artwork "Taking a sip of fresh ocean air " captures a dynamic coastal scene with bold brushstrokes and a vivid palette. The composition is dominat...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Acrylic
French Post-Impressionist Farm Landscape Signed Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Farm Landscape, Signed Oil Painting
By French artist Claude Benard, (1926 - 2016)
Signed by the artist on the lower left hand corner,
Oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas size: 31...
Category
Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Neptune - Stormy Ocean Abstract Blue Sea Nature Invigorating Painting Art Energy
By Karnish Art
Located in Cullinan, ZA
Title: Neptune
Stormy Ocean Abstract Blue Sea Nature Invigorating Painting Art Energy
In this painting, I've channeled the tempestuous power of the ocean's depths.
While I creat...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
"Presque Isle (Day 108) May 30, 2024" by Primary Hughes, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Presque Isle (Day 108), May 30, 2024" by Primary Hughes (United States) is a handmade landscape painting that is created on location or en plein air. The piece is framed, and ready ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Beach Scene with Figures and Sailboats" Impressionistic Oil Painting in Holland
Located in New York, NY
A wonderfully rich beach scene done in Zandvoort Holland in the Mid-20th Century depicting figures in the sand. Some figures are by the water with sailboats as kids play in the dista...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
View of Mt. Baker from The Old Charming Inn Victoria B.C. Canada
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
Gertrude A. Larter (1878-1954).
Looking Across Oak Bay in Puget Sound to Mt. Baker taker from our bedroom window at Old Charming Inn, Victoria B.C. Canada. August 8th 1946
Waterco...
Category
1940s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Watercolor
Shore Birds
Located in Salt Lake City, UT
"Shore Birds" by Gerald Purdy, oil on panel, 11 1/2 X 14 inches (framed size: 17 X 21 1/2 inches), $2,800.
"I chose narrative art from the menu and have ...
Category
2010s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Panel
Ocean Serene, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2024
Style: Impressionism
Title: Ocean Serene
Size: 31.5" x 39.5" x ...
Category
2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Beach Scene with Figures Enjoying the Shoreline Gentle Waves Sailing Boats
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022) ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Majorca coast spanish seascape oil on canvas painting Mallorca Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Josep Sole Pujol (1919-2000) - Mallorca - Oil on canvas
Canvas size 54x65 cm.
Frameless.
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Too Rough to Swim, Too Good to Miss
By Penny Rumble
Located in Brecon, Powys
Spindrift is the soft spray that is blown off the back of the wave when an offshore wind blows through onto the sea. Waves curl up and as they break the surf is whisked into the air....
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Beach at Crissy Field' (San Francisco, California)
Located in Burlingame, CA
Oil painting by Willard Dixon featuring the Golden Gate Bridge from Crissy Field in San Francisco. Willard Dixon, who is one of the finest American contemporary realist painters today, has painted coastal landscapes for 35 years, capturing the undeniable beauty of the West with its grand and humble spirit. The painting, with its atmospheric light and calm palette is contemporary and serene. Dixon’s work can be found in numerous distinctive private and public collections, as well as the San Francisco Museum of Art, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art and his work is collected Internationally. Artist signed and dated. A classic Dixon that will sure to bring those who view it a life time of pleasure.
Beach at Crissy Field, painted in 2022. the canvas is 26 x 45 inches. Oil on canvas, and traditionally framed in contemporary, minimal hardwood floater frame.Condition is new and excellent. Artist signed and dated. Ready to ship. Proudly presented by Andra Norris Gallery in California.
Selected Collections
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Oakland Museum
The Utah Museum of Fine Art
San Francisco Art Commission
Shaklee Corporation
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, San Francisco, CA
Kemper Insurance Company, Long Grove, Il
Morrison and Foerester, San Francisco, CA
SSI Container Corporation...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Janine Robertson, "Luminance", 30x30 Crashing Wave Ocean Water Oil Painting
Located in Saratoga Springs, NY
This peaceful work, "Luminance", is a 30x30" oil painting on aluminum panel by artist Janine Robertson featuring a view of a crashing wave along a beach shore. Overall tones of this ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Metal
"Matalascañas Beach" Original Oil and Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Conrado López's "Matalascañas Beach," a 2023 piece, is a small but powerful acrylic and oil painting on canvas, measuring 5 x 5 inches (12.70 x 12.70 cm). Encased within a frame that...
Category
2010s Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas, Acrylic
$336 Sale Price
51% Off
Untitled 1 - Contemporary Atmospheric River Landscape, Modern Nature Painting
Located in Salzburg, AT
A few words of the artist about his art:
When i painting landscapes, I usually choose simple geometric arrangements, contrasts of verticals and levels. I juxtapose the smooth surfac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Cotton Canvas, Acrylic
Lone Tree by the Gate
Located in Burlingame, CA
Lone Tree by the Gate - The painting was created in 2024 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 years...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Mid Century French Pastel Drawing of Sunlit Coastal Town and Calm Blue Sea
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Mid Century French Pastel Drawing of Sunlit Coastal Town and Calm Blue Sea
Artist: Josine Vignon (French 1922-2022)
Medium: Oil Pastel on artist paper
Size: 19.75 (height) ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil Pastel
French Riviera Watercolor of Corniche d’Or & Estérel Coastline
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Riviera Watercolor of Corniche d’Or & Estérel Coastline
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor p...
Category
Late 20th Century French School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
The sunrise by Franco Salas Borquez - Black & white painting, ocean waves, sea
Located in Paris, FR
The sunrise is a unique pigments, acrylics and pastel on canvas painting by contemporary artist Franco Salas Borquez, dimensions are 120 × 200 cm (47.2 × 78.7 in).
The artwork is si...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Pastel, Acrylic, Pigment
French Coastal Clifftop Scene with Waves Crashing Against Rocks
By Fanch Lel
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Coastal Clifftop Scene with Waves Crashing Against Rocks
by Fanch Lel (French b. 1930)
Signed: Yes
Size: 9 inches (height) x 11.5 inches (width)
Oil painting on card, u...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Hawaii
By John Button
Located in New York, NY
Gouache on paper
Signed and dated, l.r.
This artwork is offered by ClampArt, located in New York City
Born in California, John Button (1929-1982) was educated at University of Calif...
Category
1970s Realist Portrait Paintings
Materials
Gouache, Paper
$7,500
"Seascape Sunset" Evening Ocean View
Located in Austin, TX
This luminous oil on canvas painting by Arsene Chabanian depicts a seascape at dawn from the perspective of the beach. It the background right, the y...
Category
Early 20th Century Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ocean with Crescent Moon
Located in Burlingame, CA
Ocean with Crescent Moon - The painting was created in 2024 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 ye...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Original Oil Painting of Beach Scene at Fairhead Ireland by Modern Irish Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Original Oil Painting of Beach Scene with Figures at Fairhead Ireland by Modern Irish Artist Artist William Henry Burns (1924-1995)
Art meas...
Category
20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Board, Canvas
"Vrnik, Croatia" bright colorful plein air oil painting of island sea in Croatia
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
"Vrnik, Croatia" is a rich and colorful plein-air oil painting of the Vrnik island in Croatia. Dalessio captures the glowing shallow waters as it reaches the rocky shoreline, beneath...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Presque Isle (Day 113), June 7, 2024" by Primary Hughes, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Presque Isle (Day 113), June 7, 2024" by Primary Hughes (United States) is a handmade landscape painting that is created on location or en plein air. The piece is framed, and ready ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1940’s Florida Impressionist Beach Scene Artist Federal Housing Commission
Located in New York, NY
James Mcgibbon Brown
1892 - 1974
Oil on Panel
20x24 inches sight
24x28 inch overall
signed lower right
good Condition
Image depicts a wonderful Beach Scene with Palm Trees
rare a...
Category
1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Masonite, Oil
South Bay, Impressionism, Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Ara H. Hakobyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2024
Style: Impressionism
Title: South Bay
Size: 31.5" x 39.5" x 0.8...
Category
2010s Academic Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Ocean Side, Impressionism Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karen Darbinyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Linen,
Year: 2024
Style: Impressionism
Title: Ocean Side
Size: 29.5" x 39" x 0.8'...
Category
2010s Academic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
beach #2, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Irina Alexandrina's painting is guided by her all-consuming passion to share with the viewer the beauty and perfection of the universe, which we sometimes pass by in a hurry. His wor...
Category
2010s Impressionist Paintings
Materials
Oil
French Watercolor of Monaco’s Old Town and Harbor
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of Monaco’s Old Town and Harbor
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper, mounted on card
Size: 11.75 ...
Category
Late 20th Century French School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pen
The Rookery, Oil Painting
By Jesse Aldana
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A bright blue sky stretches over a scalloped coastline. Safe in the rookery below the cliffs, elephant seals bask in the sun, their voices blending with the c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Waikiki by Moonlight', Hawai'i, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaiian Beach Oil. South Seas
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'James Mak' (American, 20th century) and painted circa 1975.
A large, Modernist evening view of Waikiki's sparkling city lights beneath the the silhouette of Dia...
Category
1970s Expressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Board, Oil
British Impressionist Watercolor of a Beach Scene with Coastal Cliffs
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: British Impressionist Watercolor of a Beach Scene with Coastal Cliffs
By Anthony Avery (British 1946-2023)
Original watercolor on artists paper, unframed
Dimensions: 15.25 x 1...
Category
Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Watercolor
Presque Isle (Day 83) June 7, 2022, Original Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
"Presque Isle (Day 83) June 7, 2022" by Primary Hughes (United States) is a handmade landscape painting that is unframed, and will require a frame.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Turquoise Lake Walensee. Vertical, impressionism, landscape, mountains, yacht
Located in Oslo, NO
In my oil painting I have used the impressionism technique to capture the vibrant beauty and dynamic nature of an idyllic lake. Turquoise water, mighty mountain scenery and white sai...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Sunset Over Stockholm with Steamboat
Located in Stockholm, SE
A magnificent view of Stockholm, featuring a steamboat gliding slowly passing by Skeppsbron, (the bridge) with Södermalm and Katarina Church illuminated in the soft light of dusk. Th...
Category
1920s Art Nouveau Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Roch Minue Ibiza landscape original oil on canvas spanish seascape Spain
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Frameless.
Pascual Roch Minue (1899-1977), promoter of Spanish impressionism.
His work is in several museums, national and international collections.
Roch Minue settled in Pollens...
Category
1950s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Modern Impressionist California Seascape "Montage Tide Pools"
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
"Montage Tide Pools" is a colorful example of Bryan Mark Taylor's modern approach to Impressionism. This beautiful oil on panel captures the mood and feel of the California Riviera ...
Category
2010s Abstract Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Porthonstock Cornwall Clifftop Coastal Industrial Ruins Acrylic on Board 1968
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Porthonstock Cornwall Clifftop Coastal Industrial Ruins Acrylic on Board 1968
By Tony Herbert (1927-2024)
Medium: Acrylic on board
Size: 11.25 x 14 inches
Annotated Verso: “Po...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic, Watercolor
After Storm, Impressionism Original oil Painting, One of a Kind
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Karen Darbinyan
Work: Original Oil Painting, Handmade Artwork, One of a Kind
Medium: Oil on Linen,
Year: 2024
Style: Impressionism
Title: After Storm
Size: 29" x 39" x 0.8''...
Category
2010s Academic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
French Watercolor of Le Pirate Seaside Restaurant with Boats and Pine Trees
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Watercolor of "Le Pirate" Seaside Restaurant with Boats and Pine Trees
by Robert Lepine (French, 1929 - 2017)
Signed: Yes
Medium: Watercolor painting on artists paper, ...
Category
Late 20th Century French School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Pencil
American Impressionist Oil Painting "Besides the Still Water"
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
6014 Impressionist figurative seascape a woman sitting by the sea seeing her reflection
Image size 9.5x11.5"
Signed
Framed
Category
1960s Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1920's French Impressionist Signed Oil Painting Crashing Waves Seascape Beach
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Crashing Waves on the Beach
French Impressionist, circa 1920's
signed oil on board, unframed
board: 13 x 18 inches
provenance: private collection, France
condition: very good and sou...
Category
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Bright Blue and Green Mountain Valley French Impressionist Oil Painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Mountain Landscape
dated 1994
signed by Georges Bordonave (French contemporary)
oil painting on canvas, unframed
canvas: 20 x 25.5 inches
condition: very good
provenance: from a larg...
Category
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Antique Scottish Highlands Oil Painting Sunset over Loch Lomond, Luss
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
"Loch Lomond"
by F. E. Jamieson (British 1895-1950)
signed lower corner
inscribed verso
oil painting on canvas, framed
canvas: 12 x 20 inches
frame: 15.5 x 23.5 inches
Fine qualit...
Category
Early 20th Century Victorian Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Pedn Vounder Coastal Path View, Georgie Dowling, Original Oil Painting
Located in Deddington, GB
Pedn Vounder coastal path view by Georgie Dowling [2021]
original
Oil paint on canvas
Image size: H:40 cm x W:40 cm
Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:40 cm x W:40 cm x D:2cm
Sold Un...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Naturalistic Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Beach (Triptych) Thailand
Located in Burlingame, CA
Bing Zhang’s The Beach (Triptych), a large-scale oil on canvas painting presented by Andra Norris Gallery in California, is a striking testament to the artist’s command of realist fi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Montauk Afternoon" oil painting of Hamptons Coastline, trails in the sand dunes
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
A large oil painting of the grassy cliffs of Montauk, the eastern-most point of Long Island. Dalessio captures an endless Summer in the Hamptons with this oil painting.
Framed in a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Linen, Oil
"Paddle Board Lesson" North Shore Hawaii Plein Air Oil Painting
By Jacobus Baas
Located in Laguna Beach, CA
A sun drenched oil painted on location on the North Shore of Oahu in Hawaii by noted California and Hawaii artist Jacobus Baas, this plein air painting "Paddle Board...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
'Pacific Breakers at Sunset', Mid-century Coastal Oil
By Cornelius Schipper
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
A dramatic oil seascape showing a view of translucent, gray-green waves rolling in towards a rocky coastline, with the first light of the day showing golden through dark clouds overh...
Category
1960s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Path through fields by Aymar - Oil on canvas 38x60 cm
Located in Geneva, CH
XX ° century painter
Work on canvas
Gilded wood frame
53 x 75 x 6 cm
Category
1970s Modern Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
$1,680 Sale Price
32% Off
Vintage British Impressionist Oil Painting Tiny House on Coastal Seascape
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Artist: British School, latter part of the 20th century
Title: The Coastal House
Medium: oil painting on board, unframed
Size: 10 x 12 inches
Condition: good and presentable
Pro...
Category
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil
Moon Magic. Contemporary Welsh Landscape Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
There’s a whole world contained in Theree James’s paintings. Her people and scenes of Welsh life breathe animation into this world and create such a feeling of joy and wellbeing. Moo...
Category
2010s Outsider Art Landscape Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Sant Feliu de Guixols Spain oil on canvas painting mediterranean seascape
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Antonio Sala Herrero (1927-2012) - Sant Feliu de Guixols - Oil on canvas
Oil measures 50x61 cm.
Frame measures 61x72 cm.
Sala Herrero, Antoni, Barcelona-...
Category
1970s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Bull Creek #2
Located in Fairfield, CT
The primary subjects of my paintings are 21st century man's working monuments, which represent our culture's dedication to production and consumption. The essence of our way of life ...
Category
2010s Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
$192 Sale Price
20% Off
Morning. View of the rocks Di Zaro
By Simon Kozhin
Located in Zofingen, AG
In the morning on the island of Ischia, the sliding light of the sun gently barely touches the warm splashes of the ledges on the rocks of Di Zaro. Delicate, barely discernible tonal...
Category
2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Cardboard
Exterme currents by Franco Salas Borquez - Seascape, ocean, waves, black
Located in Paris, FR
Extreme currents is a unique silver ink on Canson paper painting by contemporary artist Franco Salas Borquez, dimensions are 50 × 70 cm (19.7 x 27.6 in). It is sold framed under an a...
Category
2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Materials
Paper, Ink, Mixed Media
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