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Period: 1980s
Hidden Portraits I, Abstract Acrylic on Canvas, Framed, Circa 1980s
Hidden Portraits I, Abstract Acrylic on Canvas, Framed, Circa 1980s

Hidden Portraits I, Abstract Acrylic on Canvas, Framed, Circa 1980s

Located in London, GB

'Hidden Portraits I', acrylic on canvas mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an intermediary of an ageing ar...

Category

Abstract 1980s Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

original lithograph

original lithograph

By Vassilakis Takis

Located in Henderson, NV

Medium: original lithograph. Executed in 1982 for what was planned to have been the very last issue of Derrière le Miroir (issue No. 250), and published in Paris by the Maeght atelie...

Category

1980s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Man in the Forest 1980 Large Signed Screen Print
Man in the Forest 1980 Large Signed Screen Print

Man in the Forest 1980 Large Signed Screen Print

By Mark Sabin

Located in Rochester Hills, MI

Mark Sabin Man In The Forest - 1980 Print - 26'' x 34'' in Edition: signed in pencil and marked 234/250 Mark Sabin is a fantasy painter, blending elements in a juxtaposition that ...

Category

Folk Art 1980s Art

Materials

Screen

Las Ramblas Barcelona Flower Market Street Scene Painting Urban Impressionist
Las Ramblas Barcelona Flower Market Street Scene Painting Urban Impressionist

Las Ramblas Barcelona Flower Market Street Scene Painting Urban Impressionist

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

Scenes of Las Ramblas in Barcelona remain among the most recognizable urban subjects in European painting and are highly sought after by collectors and interior designers worldwide. Artist Jordi Junyent Title Rambla de las Flores, Barcelona Date 1988 Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 50 × 61 cm 19.7 × 24 in Signature Signed “Junyent” lower left and dated 1988. Frame Unframed Condition Very good condition. Canvas firm and well stretched. Stable paint layer with bright colors. No visible restorations. Atmospheric urban painting depicting Las Ramblas flower market in Barcelona, one of the most recognizable and vibrant locations in the city. The composition captures the scene after rainfall, with reflective pavement, flower stalls and strolling figures creating depth and movement. The wet street surface reflects light and silhouettes, enhancing the lively Mediterranean atmosphere. Executed with a confident and expressive brushstroke, the artist uses a palette dominated by cool greys, greens and blues contrasted with vivid reds from the flower displays. The simplified figures and loose handling of paint emphasize the mood of the place rather than strict detail, a characteristic approach of post-impressionist urban painting. Scenes of Barcelona’s Las Ramblas are particularly sought after in the international decorative art market due to their strong visual identity and association with one of Europe’s most iconic boulevards. An attractive and highly decorative cityscape, ideal for collectors of European urban painting or for interior design settings seeking a vibrant Mediterranean atmosphere. Jordi Junyent was a Spanish painter active in the late twentieth century whose work focused primarily on urban scenes and Mediterranean city views. His paintings often depict recognizable locations such as the streets of Barcelona, rendered with a loose brushstroke and an emphasis on atmosphere, light and color. Working within a post-impressionist tradition, Junyent developed compositions that balance figurative clarity with painterly spontaneity, making his works appealing within the European decorative art market. Barcelona Las Ramblas Barcelona street scene Flower market painting...

Category

Modern 1980s Art

Materials

Oil

Michael Jackson Seated, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography

Michael Jackson Seated, Contemporary, Celebrity, Photography

By Greg Gorman

Located in München, BY

Edition 10 Also available in 40 x 50 cm / 16 x 20 inch, Edition 25 Portrait of superstar Michael Jackson. From personality portraits and advertising campaigns to magazine layouts and fine art work, Greg Gorman has developed a unique style in his profession. His distinctive use of light in his black and white portraits is one of the identifying aspects of a Gorman photograph. Gorman’s strength has been photographing motion picture and music personalities. His work has been used in film advertising and publicity campaigns as well as album and CD covers. Some of the motion picture celebrities that he has photographed include Ben Affleck, Lauren Bacall, Alec Baldwin, Antonio Banderas, Kim Basinger, Marlon Brando, Pierce Brosnan, Kevin Costner, Bette Davis, Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Andy Garcia, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Dustin Hoffman, Sophia Loren, Al Pacino, Barbra Streisand, Kiera Knightley, Clive Owen, Jennifer Lopez and John Travolta. In the music field, Mr. Gorman has worked with Elton John, Michael Jackson, David Bowie, Morrissey, John Mayer, Bette Midler, Grace Jones and Frank Zappa to name a few. A partial list of the films that he has generated graphics and publicity for include “The Hurt Locker”, “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “King Arthur”, “Tootsie”, “The Big Chill”, “Bull Durham...

Category

Contemporary 1980s Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Native Mexican Woman (Cuban Miami artist pastel)
Native Mexican Woman (Cuban Miami artist pastel)

Native Mexican Woman (Cuban Miami artist pastel)

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Alex (Cuban, b.1949). Indigenous Mexican Woman, 1982. Pastel and charcoal on wove paper, sheet measures 23 x 33 inches. 31 x 40.5 inches on backing board...

Category

Modern 1980s Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal, Pastel

Hidden Portraits XIV, Modern Acrylic on Canvas, Signed, Circa 1980s
Hidden Portraits XIV, Modern Acrylic on Canvas, Signed, Circa 1980s

Hidden Portraits XIV, Modern Acrylic on Canvas, Signed, Circa 1980s

Located in London, GB

'Hidden Portraits XIV', acrylic on canvas mounted on board, signed 'Giacomo', Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an intermed...

Category

Modern 1980s Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Board

Seascape - Sunlit Waves Crashing against the Rocks on the British Isles
Seascape - Sunlit Waves Crashing against the Rocks on the British Isles

Seascape - Sunlit Waves Crashing against the Rocks on the British Isles

Located in Preston, GB

Seascape - Sunlit Waves Crashing against the Rocks on the British Isles Art measures 32 x 24 inches Frame measures 36 x 28 inches A commanding seascape where light wrestles with wa...

Category

Realist 1980s Art

Materials

Canvas, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

Clemente Untitled B: surreal mythical landscape, voyage with ocean, Venus, snake
Clemente Untitled B: surreal mythical landscape, voyage with ocean, Venus, snake

Clemente Untitled B: surreal mythical landscape, voyage with ocean, Venus, snake

By Francesco Clemente

Located in New York, NY

A black and white, large-scale surreal mythical landscape of an ocean voyage, with a snake wrapped around a clock, a ship, Venus sculpture, greek urns, and snakes, printed in black o...

Category

Contemporary 1980s Art

Materials

Lithograph

Abstract
Abstract

Abstract

Located in Houston, TX

French abstract in tones of blues, black and purple, 1980s. Original artwork on paper displayed on a white mat with a gold border. Mat fits a standard-size frame. Archival pla...

Category

1980s Art

Materials

Acrylic

Paternity Realist Painting, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 1980s, Unframed
Paternity Realist Painting, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 1980s, Unframed

Paternity Realist Painting, Oil and Acrylic on Canvas, 1980s, Unframed

By José Luis Fuentetaja

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

Frameless. Is born in Madrid on the 21st july 1951. After attending primary school, he starts to grow an enormous tendency for drawing. At the age of 14 he begins to work in advertising and attends to the Vallecas school of arts. At the age of 14 he travels to Switzerland and in Geneve he gets intensly into painting and decides to dedicate himself only to it. When he returns to Spain he enrolls Arts Studies, and at the begining of summer '66, he visits Sitges, where he'll come back year after year and where ultimately he'll set his home. At this time he starts selling his painting in the flea market in Madrid and later in Sitges, setting himself on the street, thus completing his studies and making it economically. While he's in Madrid he recives lessons by Pedro Mozas at Bellas Artes and starts to learn profoundly about painting. In 1969 he starts painting portraits in the streets. In Sitges he creates, with other friends, a great artistic atmosphere in the Paseo de la Ribera, by the sea, that today still exists. He starts travelling through Europe, visiting and painting in Paris, London and Amsterdam. In the middle of this bohemian epoque, he moves to the Cannary Islands during the winters for 5 years in a row, he moves in the Parque de Santa Catalina "Las Palmas de Gran Canaria" where he works and meet all sorts of people in the streets, which later would mark his pictoric line. He becomes friend with Sidney Nagley in 1969, who organizes his first exhibition in Toronto, Canada. Afterwards he'll leave his studies and start painting exclusively in his studio. He gathers his first exhibition in the Ateneu of Barcelona in 1970. He befriends with the art critic of La Vanguardia, Fernando Gutierrez and the Count of Caralt orders him a set of illustration for a new edition of Garcia Lorcas Romancero Gitano. His first exhibition in a commercial gallery is done in the Majestic Gallery in Barcelona with a gorgeous collection of nudity drawings. He achieves huge success and for some years he affords his painting thanks to those drawings. During a period in Madrid, Mr Ponce de León, a consul in the Ministry of Exterior Affairs grants him with bachelor degree to study in the prestigious Academia de España in Rome. However, he can't accept it due to militar service obligations. Some days later, before joining the ranks he opens in the Cuatre Gats (Palma de Mallorca) with hiperrealist pieces that already then he presented as the first painter in that city, that later would become a fashion in 1973. After this period he meets José Maria Gudiol who advises positively. Since then, the intense work and the fight for daily improvement that has become the trademark of his life. The seek of styles and situations, the journeys through Europe always aware of all the tendencies that have in the art line that we can see nowadays. At his more than fifty years given to paint, his individual exhibitions beat the 100, his artwork is highly appreciated and valued in the complex market of art. In October 1982 hi makes his first exhibition in Tarragona. In the catalogue, writing of the unforgettable Fernando Gutierrez, he says "Fuentetaja is an artist of character and exceptional upbringing with a masterly knowledge of technique and resourses, and personality completely uncommon to the dimension of his sensitivity, as the richness of his deep and bloomed liricism. A judgement as accurate as foreseeing for the future outstanding of the artist, in where his paint soared through different phases mantaining an unquestionable quality. Lines, cubist, expressionist and hiperrealist till his current realism, in the middle of his creative maturity. Jose Luis Fuentetaja...

Category

Realist 1980s Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Harlequin in a Landscape
Harlequin in a Landscape

Harlequin in a Landscape

Located in Wilton Manors, FL

Karlo Kacharava (1964-1994). Harlequin in a Landscape, ca. 1985. Enamel paint and marker on gloss paper, sheet measures 19.5 x 15.25 inches. Signed lower left. Unframed. Wit...

Category

Neo-Expressionist 1980s Art

Materials

Enamel

Mark Rothko Untitled (1962) Offset Print Poster, Rare 1980s Exhibition

Mark Rothko Untitled (1962) Offset Print Poster, Rare 1980s Exhibition

By Mark Rothko

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Paper Size: 35.5 x 27.5 inches ( 90.17 x 69.85 cm ) Image Size: 24 x 22.5 inches ( 60.96 x 57.15 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A: Mint Additional Details: Rare exhibition poster from t...

Category

1980s Art

Materials

Offset

Paris France oil on canvas painting urbanscape
Paris France oil on canvas painting urbanscape

Paris France oil on canvas painting urbanscape

Located in Sitges, Barcelona

Frame size 70x59 cm. Caroline Burnett, born in 1940, was a painter known for capturing the charm of urban scenes and landscapes with a vibrant and colorful style. Although little is...

Category

Post-Impressionist 1980s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

untitled (Woman in Wedding Dress), collage by Rodolfo Morales
untitled (Woman in Wedding Dress), collage by Rodolfo Morales

untitled (Woman in Wedding Dress), collage by Rodolfo Morales

By Rodolfo Morales

Located in Palm Springs, CA

This enchanting mixed-media collage by Rodolfo Morales—one of the defining figures of the Oaxacan School—embodies the artist’s celebrated blend of magical realism, folk tradition, and dreamlike symbolism. Morales frequently returned to the motif of La Novia (The Bride), a solitary and iconic presence that evokes themes of ritual, memory, and spiritual passage within village life. In this intimate yet visually rich composition, the central figure is constructed from layered painted papers and dimensional materials. Morales incorporates actual lace for the veil and dress, giving the bride a tactile, almost reliquary presence. Surrounding her is a vibrant mosaic of cut paper bells, floral forms, and geometric patterns in jewel tones of magenta, cobalt, and emerald. The figure’s stylized face—rendered in the artist’s distinctive palette of pinks and reds—adds to the surreal, suspended quality that characterizes Morales’ finest works. The collage is set within its original punched-tin (hojalata) frame, with glass glazing. These frames were often conceptual extensions of the artwork itself, produced in collaboration with Oaxacan art...

Category

1980s Art

Materials

Fabric, Adhesive, Acrylic

Composition, Basket Series, Dale Chihuly
Composition, Basket Series, Dale Chihuly

Composition, Basket Series, Dale Chihuly

By Dale Chihuly

Located in Fairfield, CT

Artist: Dale Chihuly (1941) Title: Composition, Basket Series Year: 1985 Medium: Acrylic on Arches Aquarelle paper Size: 42 x 30 inches Inscription: Signed and dated by the artist No...

Category

Abstract 1980s Art

Materials

Acrylic

Free More, Painting, ex Zabriskie Gallery & Reader's Digest Collection, Signed
Free More, Painting, ex Zabriskie Gallery & Reader's Digest Collection, Signed

Free More, Painting, ex Zabriskie Gallery & Reader's Digest Collection, Signed

By Pat Adams

Located in New York, NY

Pat Adams Free More, 1989 Acrylic and encaustic painting with varnish on paper laid down on canvas Hand signed and dated on the upper left front Original artist's frame included This...

Category

Abstract 1980s Art

Materials

Varnish, Mixed Media, Encaustic, Acrylic, Pencil, Graphite

'Tennis Legends' 1980 Silver Gelatin Print

'Tennis Legends' 1980 Silver Gelatin Print

Located in London, GB

'John McEnroe' 1981 Silver Gelatin Print by Watfiord / Mirror Group Archives. Wimbledon 3rd Day: John McEnroe. June 1981 The famous tennis star icon won at the All England Club championships that year, finally beating his long term rival Bjorn Borg...

Category

Modern 1980s Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Hidden Portraits XVII, Acrylic on Canvas, Modern, Framed, Circa 1980s
Hidden Portraits XVII, Acrylic on Canvas, Modern, Framed, Circa 1980s

Hidden Portraits XVII, Acrylic on Canvas, Modern, Framed, Circa 1980s

Located in London, GB

'Hidden Portraits XVII', acrylic on canvas mounted on board, Florentine School (circa 1980s-90s). This gallery has acquired a number of paintings through an intermediary of an ageing...

Category

Modern 1980s Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic, Board