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Art Subject: Bride
Bernadette Kelly (b.1933) - 20th Century Oil, Sitting Nude
Located in Corsham, GB
A sensitive oil study depicting a female sitter. Unsigned. On board.
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20th Century Nude Paintings

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Oil

Mariana Pale Rose
Located in Atlanta, GA
This painting is in excellent condition and has only been shown in a gallery setting. The Mariana Pale Rose collage is made with natural linen, Chelsea fabric, antique...
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Mixed Media

Elegant Lady in a Black Corset and Dark Blue Hat
Located in West Sussex, GB
Konstantin Razumov (Born 1974) Russian Elegant Reclining Nude wearing a Black Corset Top and Blue Hat Oil on canvas: 11 x 8inches. Frame: 18 x 15 inches. Konstantin Razumov's wor...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Birth of Telefon, on a Bas-Relief - Original Etching by A. Campanella
By Angelo Campanella
Located in Roma, IT
“Nascita di Telefo, Bassorilievo” (Birth of Telefo, Bas-relief) is a beautiful black and white burin and etching on paper, realized by the artist Angelo Campanella, after Bernardino Nocchi, as the inscriptions on plates on lower margins report “Bernardino Nocchi delineò/ Angelo Campanella incise Roma”. This original print is numbered on plate in Roman numerals on higher margin: “Tom II. /Tav. IX" and is a plate from the series "Illustrazioni de'Monumenti scelti Borghesiani già esistenti nella Villa sul Pincio (..)date ora per la prima volta in luce dal cav. Gio. Gherardo De Rossi e da Stefano Piale sotto la guida di Vincenzo Feoli", by Ennio Quirino Visconti, published by Stamperia de Romanis in Rome, 1821. This old master’s original prints shows a beautiful piece of the Borghese's collection, a classical bas-rilief representing the birth of Telefo, a Greek hero and myth. In excellent conditions with some light signs of the time with some sporadic minor stains along the higher margins,this wonderful etching has preserved still today his beauty and his fresh impression. Illustrazioni de' Monumenti scelti Borghesiani This collection in two volumes is a beautifully detailed catalog of classical sculptures collected by Prince Borghese (1730-1800) in his Villa on the Pincio. Ennio Quirino Visconti (1751 - 1818) wrote the texts that accompany the large branches depicting. To these writings, which were available by the son of the illustrious archaeologist, the publishers added only a few illustrations relating to some minor monument of which copper had already been engraved. The engraved title-plate are signed by draughtsmen like Agostino Tofanelli, Stefano Tofanelli, Bernardino Nocchi, Domenico de Angelis or Teodoro Matteini, and by engravers Pietro Fontana Veneto, P. Vitali, Pietro Bettelini, Giovanni Folo Veneto, Giovanni Brunetti da Ravenna, Giovanni Ottaviani, Francesco Cecchini, Gio. Batta. Leonetti, Girolamo Carattoni, Domenico Cunego, Luigi Cunego, Alessandro Mochetti, Luigi Pizzi, Angelo Campanella or Giacomo Bossi. The Volume I shows ancient full-length statues, of the Borghese warrior by Agasias (two plates), Greek gods and heroes and Roman famous historical figures; the last two plates represents antique Egyptian deities. There are plates representing ancient bas-reliefs, sarcophagi, of mythological subjects, the Borghese Vase, portrait busts, a vase on an altar, two statues of Amor; and two modern statues, by Bernini (the Apollo and Daphne, and the David). «Très bel ouvrage» writes Brunet, «Grand ouvrage, le seul qui mérite, parmi ceux sur la villa Borgese, de figurer dans le chapitre aux Galeries et Collections» Vinet said, looking at this plate. Angelo Campanella (Rome, 1748 – 1815) Angelo Campanella was an Italian painter and engraver, learned his art under Giovanni Volpato. He engraved the statues of twelve apostles found in the church of St. John Lateran in Rome, and some of the plates for Gavin Hamilton's Schola Itálica including The Presentation in the Temple after Fra Bartolommeo...
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1820s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

Antique Italian Large Figurative Framed Oil Painting of a Reclining Nude Woman
Located in Douglas Manor, NY
5154 Antique Italian oil painting of a reclining nude woman Framed Image size 24x36"
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1930s Nude Paintings

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Oil

Original 'Cruise to South America Moore-McCormack Lines' vintage poster
Located in Spokane, WA
Original Cruise to South America, Moore-McCormack (cruise) lines. Artist: Dong Kingman. Archival linen backed in fine condition, ready to frame. Grade A. Bring the allure of...
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1950s American Modern Landscape Prints

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Lithograph

French Neo classical school, Allegory of Time, original drawing
Located in Paris, FR
Neo classical school, France, end of the 18th Century Allegory of Time, Pen and black ink on paper, gray ink wash 30.5 x 19 cm irregularly shaped In g...
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1790s Old Masters Nude Drawings and Watercolors

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India Ink

Pablo Picasso 'The Pigeons' 1995- Vintage
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A very large reproduction of Les Pigeons, the view from Picasso's window onto the Bay of Angels, in Nice, France. The image was also featured by French Tourism Office promoting la C...
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1990s Cubist Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Romantic Couple -Signed limited edition still life fine art print, Sepia
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Romantic Couple - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, Edition of 10 This image was captured on film in Paris in 1988, on the Carrousel de Montmartre. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was then printed on Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm (Acid-free and lignin-free paper, Museum quality paper for highest age resistance and a popular alternative to analogue baryta paper) using pigment inks which are known for their longevity. Signed + numbered by artist with certificate of authenticity, unframed Please note. There are three sizes of this archival pigment print; each is an edition of ten (10) making the total that can be printed as thirty (30). This will include any custom sizes requested Archival pigment print available sizes ( Image size , the white margin is not counted) : 35 x 56...
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1980s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Giclée, Archival Pigment, Photographic Film, Pigment, Ph...

Óleo sobre tela - Desnudo femenino - Año 1966
Located in Sant Celoni, ES
Como pueden apreciar, la obra va firmada en la parte inferior y fechada del año 1966 En la parte trasera, va nuevamente firmado Se presenta enmarcada la obra con un fino listón de ...
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1960s Other Art Style Nude Paintings

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Oil

Elegant Ladies with Parasols on the Beach Large Impressionist Signed Oil
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Ladies on the Beach by Elizabeth Swift, British contemporary signed oil painting, framed framed: 30 x 34 inches board: 22 x 26 inches provenance: private collection, England previous...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

THE FRESCO - original large oil canvas painting by Paula Craioveanu
Located in Forest Hills, NY
"The Fresco" Oil on canvas Large original, one-of-a-kind, painting - 33.5x63in / 85x160cm Nude in a Italian Baroque interior, with blue marine painted fresco. Picture from the sol...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Male Acrobat, Impressionist Lithograph by Auguste Rodin
Located in Long Island City, NY
Auguste Rodin, French (1840 - 1917) - Male Acrobat, Year: 1902, Medium: Lithograph on Japon, signed in the plate, Image Size: 9 x 8 inches, Size: 13 x 10 in. (33.02 x 25.4 cm), Refe...
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Early 1900s Impressionist Nude Prints

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Lithograph

Petites Natures #3 white blue pink color abstract flower nature photo
Located in New York, NY
This floral photography has a dramatic sense of composition which recalls the careful arrangements of Dutch and Flemish still life paintings from the 17-18 century. With a burst of l...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Photography

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C Print

Antique German Oil Painting Portrait of a Family Group - Restoration project
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The Family Group German School, late 19th/ early 20th century oil on board board: 17.5 x 13 inches provenance: private collection condition: sound condition but with various surface ...
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Late 19th Century Victorian Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Early 17th Century by Abraham Janssens The Gypsy Oil on canvas Old Master Art
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Abraham Janssens (Antwerp, Belgium, 1573 - Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 1632) Title: The Gypsy Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: without frame 116 x 94 cm – with frame 148 x 122 cm Co...
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Early 17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Les Lorettes - Original Lithograph by Paul Gavarni - 1841
Located in Roma, IT
Amusing original colored lithograph with pouchoir details. Beautiful satiric illustration by the French draftsman Paul Gavarni (alias Guillaume Sulpice Chevalier, 1804- 1866), from...
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1840s Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Spectral Device No. 1
Located in Sante Fe, NM
At nearly the same time that photography was invented, the practice of Spiritualism was being born in the "burned-over district" of New York. Central to its belief was the practice o...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

The Demagogue or Tale in a Tub
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Demagogue or Tale in a Tub, 1952, oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, signed, titled, and dated verso, presented in a newer frame The Demagogue is an iconic Bendor Mark painting fro...
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1950s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Tenor Sermon (Gelburd/Rosenberg 70-77), Jazz Series
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Inscription: hand signed and numbered, 116/175, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the Jazz Series, 1979. Published by London Arts Group, Detr...
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1970s Expressionist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Holy Family St John Scarsella Paint 17th Century Oil on table Old master Italy
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Ippolito Scarsella, known as Lo Scarsellino (Ferrara, c. 1550 - 1620) workshop Holy Family with the Infant St John oil on arched panel 46 x 29 cm. in a small temple frame 75 x 55 cm This interesting work shows us one of the most sought-after iconographic subjects in the Christian tradition, presented here according to an ancient and proven scheme. We see the Virgin, majestic, in the centre of the scene while holding a chubby child, who is offering a small bird to the young St John (tradition has it that it is a goldfinch, one of the symbols of the passion of Christ) to be caressed. Completing the Holy Family, we can see Saint Joseph in the shadows, apart from the loving everyday scene depicted in the foreground, calmly leaning on his walking stick. Regarding the stylistic characteristics of this small panel, it is easy to recognise the influence of 16th and 17th century Emilian painting, which leads us to confirm its traditional attribution to Ippolito Scarsella (circa 1550 - 1620) from Ferrara, undoubtedly one of the most important artists of this pictorial context. It could very well be a trial sketch...
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17th Century Old Masters Paintings

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Oil

The Final Judgment by Giotto - Padua - Original photograph - Early 20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
The final judgment of Giotto- Padua is an original vintage photograph realized in "Cappella degli Scrovegni all'Arena" in Padua. With the description on the lower. Good conditions....
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Early 20th Century Modern Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

David Hockney 'The Tate Gallery - Celia in a Black Dress' Exhibition Print
Located in San Rafael, CA
David Hockney (British, b. 1937), 'David Hockney -The Tate Gallery - Travels with Pen, Pencil and Ink, Drawings and Prints, but no paintings, 1961 - 1979'...
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1980s Contemporary Portrait Prints

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Lithograph

The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet
Located in Paonia, CO
The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation Before the Cabinet is a hand-colored steel engraving after a painting by Francis Bickne...
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1860s Other Art Style Portrait Prints

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Engraving

WITHOUT A NET
By George Scribner
Located in Santa Monica, CA
GEORGE SCHREIBER (1904 – 1977) WITHOUT A NET c. 1944 Lithograph, signed in pencil lower right. Image 8 7/8 x 13 5/8 inches, sheet 10 5/8 x 15 ½ inches.Edition approximately 250 as p...
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1940s American Modern Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Thawing Time, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
A tranquil winter scene unfolds in this watercolor, where a partially frozen river winds through a quiet, snow-covered forest. Tall trees frame the foreground, ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Adoration Shepherds Von Achen Paint oil on canvas 17th Century Old master Art
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Hans (or Johann) von Achen (Cologne 1552 - Prague 1615) workshop Adoration of the Shepherds Oil on canvas 112 x 90 cm./ Framed 125 x 102 cm. The painting that we are happy to prese...
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17th Century Old Masters Paintings

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Oil

Still Life (Untitled)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Still Life (Untitled), c. 1940/50s, oil on canvas, 25 x 30 inches, identified by label verso Jeanette Maxfield Lewis was a California-based landscape painter and etcher. Born in Oa...
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1940s American Modern Still-life Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Shunga - Woodcut by Katsukawa Schuncho - Mid-18th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Shunga is an original modern artwork realized by Katsukawa Schuncho (1726 – 1793) in the half of the 18th Century. Oban yokoe. Erotic scene from the series "Koshuko zue juni ko" (Erotic pictures...
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1750s Modern Figurative Prints

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Paper, Woodcut

Aphrodite - original etching by Salvador Dalí surrealism meets mythology
Located in Hamburg, DE
"Aphrodite" is an original etching from 1963 by Salvador Dalí. It is on hand-woven paper (Arches), originally signed and numbered. Excellent condition. XIX/XX. Comes unframed. Certi...
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1960s Surrealist Figurative Sculptures

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Etching

1963 Original movie poster - Viva James Bond - James Bond 007 vs. "Dr No"
Located in PARIS, FR
James Bond 007 vs. Dr. No was the very first film in the James Bond saga, released in 1962. Directed by Terence Young, the film marked the beginning of a legendary franchise that has...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Paper

Indian Miniature Deccan School c1780 Ragamala Nature Figures River Trees
Located in Norfolk, GB
Indian Miniature
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Late 18th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

Sunday Flyers
Located in PARIS, FR
Original and unique artwork by Hunt Slonem. Oil on wood Painting is framed, as seen in the images. Framed dimension 14 x 12 inches Signed Verso, titled and dated. Please note that H...
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2010s Post-Modern Animal Paintings

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Wood, Oil

Fine 17th Century Italian Old Master Oval Portrait of Lady on Copper Wooden Frm
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Portrait of a Lady (female saint?) Italian School, 17th century oil on copper, framed frame: 9 x 8 inches board: 5 x 4 inches provenance: private collection condition: very good and ...
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17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Baie Des Anges after Marc Chagall
Located in London, GB
Baie Des Anges after Marc Chagall 1962 Stone lithograph 39 2/5 × 26 in 100 × 66 cm
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

"The Toreador" Pierre Ambrogiani (France, 1905-1985) Circa 1950s
Located in SANTA FE, NM
"The Toreador" Pierre Ambrogiani (France, 1905-1985) Oil on canvas Circa 1950's  28 1/4 x 20 3/4 (31 1/4 x 23 3/4 frame) inches If the artists Diego Velázquez (Spain, 1599-1660) and...
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1950s Expressionist Still-life Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Mid 19th Century Family Oil Portrait C.1840
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mid 19th Century Family Oil Portrait C.1840 Outstanding oil portrait of a young family revealing a painting of the matriarch of the family, possibly a mourning portrait. Original o...
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Mid-19th Century Impressionist Portrait Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French Impressionist Oil Painting of Horses and Caravans in Pastoral Scene
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: French Impressionist Oil Painting of Horses and Caravans in Pastoral Scene By Fanch Lel (French b. 1930) Size: 10.75 x 13.25 inches (height x width) Oil painting on board, unf...
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20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Portrait of Madame Hermann-Joseph REINACH, born Julie BÜDING (1828-1870)
Located in Paris, IDF
Frédéric Adolphe YVON (Eschviller, 1817 – Paris, 1893) Portrait of Madame Hermann-Joseph REINACH, born Julie BÜDING (1828-1870) Oil on canvas Signed and dated on the left 65 x 54 ...
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Late 19th Century French School Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Leonor Fini, rare original serigraph on Rives paper, circa 1970
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Rare print handsigned by surrealist artist Leonor Fini, inscreasingly esteemed with the movement of rediscovering art by women. This silkscreen is in perfect condition and from a ver...
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Mid-20th Century Surrealist Figurative Prints

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Paper

Side Show Barker - Original Modernist American Fair Scene Oil Painting
Located in Marco Island, FL
From the Michael Hall Collection, this is a great American scene showing the excitement of the fair. It depicts a time when men wore coats and ties and women had hats at the fair be...
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1930s American Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

French romantic painting 19th Portrait Young Italian lady in costume 15th
Located in PARIS, FR
19th Century French School Portrait of a Young Italian Beauty in 15th Century Costume Oil on wood panel 27 x 21 cm (31.5 x 25.5 cm with frame) Beautiful antique giltwood frame Very g...
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Mid-19th Century Romantic Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Allegory of Water - Original Lithograph by Ferdinand Bac - 1922
Located in Roma, IT
Allegory of Water is an original modern artwork realized by Ferdinand Bac (1859 - 1952) in 1922. Signed and dated on plate on the lower central margin (...
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1920s Art Nouveau Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Lithograph

Allegory Of The Flower Of Life. Large Contemporary Expressionist Oil Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Francesca Owen is an award winning contemporary fine art painter and a former Slade graduate where she studied under some influential artists such as Dame Phyllida Barlow RA CBE, And...
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2010s Abstract Expressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Revelation 1" by Mark Bradley Schwartz, Original Oil Painting, Female Nude
Located in Denver, CO
"Revelation 1" by Mark Bradley Schwartz is an original oil on board depicting a nude female in a monochromatic palette. A native of Illinois, He began his professional life as a graphic designer and art director in St. Louis, Missouri and later moved to Southern California to further his design career. Although Schwartz’s career was successful, he wanted to pursue work of a more personally fulfilling nature. To reach these new goals Schwartz first attended life drawing classes at Associates in Art, in Sherman Oaks, California. He later studied at the California Art Institute in Westlake Village, California, where he received extensive training in drawing and painting the human figure from life. While studying with famed illustrator Glen Orbik...
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21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Board

Coastal Fog
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Trees in fog. A band of fog off of the Pacific, pouring its way through the forest in Fiscalini Ranch, Cambria. Born in Berkeley, California, on December 21, 1949, he was raised in ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Etching, Aquatint

Nude - Paint by Sirio Pellegrini - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Oil and tempera on paper realized by Sirio Pellegrini in 1960s. Hand signed lower left. Includes a wooden frame realized by the Artist cm. 58.5x48.5.
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil, Paper, Tempera

Presence in the Forest
Located in THOMERY, FR
Presence in the Forest – Acrylic on canvas, 116 x 89 cm Inspired by the iconic Forest of Fontainebleau, where Linda Clerget sketched directly from life, this artwork captures the so...
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21st Century and Contemporary Fauvist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Mariano Jose Maria Bernardo Fortuny Marsal
By Mariano Fortuny Y Marsal
Located in San Francisco, CA
Mariano Fortuny Marsal: 1838-1874. Very important and well listed Spanish artist. He has auction results for oil paintings over 1.1 million dollars a...
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Mid-19th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Spanish fishermen on the beach Spain oil on board painting
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Gabriel Casarrubios Martín (1953) - Fishermen - Oil on panel Oil size 22x27 cm. Frameless. Gabriel Casarrubios Martín (1953) The Toledo artist trained in Fine Arts in Madrid, at th...
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21st Century and Contemporary Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Rabbi and Student, Modern Oil Painting by Abraham Straski
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Abraham Straski, Polish (1903 - 1987) Title: Rabbi and Student Year: 1957 Medium: Oil on Canvas, signed l.r. Size: 16 x 11 inches Frame Size: 25 x 20 inches
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1950s Post-War Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Picasso, Composition (Orozco 193-204), Au Baiser D'Avignon (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Lithograph on vélin d’Arches paper. Signed in the plate and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Picasso au baiser d'Avignon, douze dessins, lavis, aquarelle...
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1970s Cubist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Portrait Duchess Woman 17th Century Paint Van Gelder Oil on canvas Old master
Located in Riva del Garda, IT
Jan van Gelder, Italianised as Giovanni Vangheldri (Antwerp 1621 – Modena 1685) Portrait of the Duchess Vittoria Farnese d'Este (Parma, 1618 – Modena, 1649) wife of Francesco I d'E...
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17th Century Old Masters Paintings

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Oil

Sanity Hearing
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Sanity Hearing" c.1980 is an original etching by noted American artist Charles Bragg, 1931-2017. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 218/300 in pencil by the ...
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Late 20th Century Other Art Style Figurative Prints

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Etching

Magdalene, Portrait, Original oil Painting, Ready to Hang
Located in Granada Hills, CA
Artist: Alexander Litvinov Work: Original oil painting, handmade artwork, one of a kind Medium: Oil on Canvas Style: Classic Figurative Year: 2004 Title: Magdalene Size: 18" x 20" x...
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2010s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

'Aurora', Baroque, Classical, Mythological Oil, Guido Reni, Quirinal, Rome
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'A. Leonardi' for Achille Leonardi (Italian, 1800-1870), inscribed, '... Roma' and painted circa 1860. An exceptionally fine and detailed, nineteenth century oil...
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1850s Baroque Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

H.O. Miethke Das Werk folio "The Kiss" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
The Kiss, no. 1 from the fifth installment of Das Werk Gustav Klimts Undoubtedly Klimt’s best known and most reproduced images, this printed version of The Kiss is the only one with which Klimt was directly involved. Unveiled at Vienna’s Kunstschau 1908, and saved for the fifth and final delivery of Das Werk, The Kiss marks a triumph in Klimt’s career and represents a culmination of many themes in his oeuvre up to that point. After all of the controversy surrounding the State’s prior rejection of the University murals commissioned from Klimt, the Ministry of Education reversed their policy toward the artist with a show of wholehearted support by purchasing for the Osterreichische Galerie BelvedereThe Kiss while it still hung in the Kunstschau exhibit. Considered in relation to the eight multicolored collotypes which preceded its print debut in the Das Werk portfolio, The Kiss literally embraces all which came before it. The golden seaweed dangling in tresses from the lovers’ feet harkens back to Water Snakes I and II. The bed of flowers evokes the settings Klimt created in both The Golden Knight and The Sunflower. In fact, this image sprung out of a particularly happy summer spent in the company of Klimt’s lover, Emilie Floge...
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Early 1900s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Handmade Paper

Max Eisler Eine Nachlese folio "Girlfriends II" collotype print
Located in Chicago, IL
After Gustav Klimt, Max Eisler #1, Die Freundinnen II; multi-color collotype after 1916/17 painting in oil on canvas which was destroyed by fire in May 1945 at Immendorf Castle Lower Austria. Eisler’s choice to begin his 1931 portfolio of works by Klimt with Girlfriends II was both bold and prescient. Just 14 years later, the painting was tragically destroyed in a fire. With such a loss, this rare and exquisite image is all the more valuable by virtue of having been made in color. In works from his late period, Klimt continued his fascination with exploring female dynamics and their various forms of love. Girlfriends II is a fine example of how space, color and ornament play a noticeable role in the evolution of his symbolic language. Wide swaths of space in the background as well as the two female forms create the structure. Klimt’s strong brushstrokes show a painterly quality and a new move toward abstraction which feels very far away from his earlier work. Nor should Klimt’s economy of line be overlooked. His draughtsmanship is what infuses the female bodies with movement, emotion and a profundity of life. Both women confront the viewer’s gaze unselfconsciously, as if they are modern-day Viennese women stepping out of a Klimtesque ukiyo-e print. Characteristic of this late period, Klimt uses ornament...
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1930s Vienna Secession Figurative Prints

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Paper

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