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SIGHT LINES III: ECLIPSE, by Peter Milton
Located in Palm Springs, CA
ECLIPSE was born out of Milton's interest in the photographer Eugene Atget. Work on the image went through many transformations and reversals, until finally settling on Atget's Pari...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Digital

"City Life" Oil Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Christopher Clark's (US based) "City Life" is an oil painting that depicts a female figure juxtaposed with a busy city setting. Christopher has been an artist since early childhood...
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2010s Impressionist Portrait Paintings

Materials

Oil

St Pancras, London, Gothic revival, landscape, cityscape, London, cars
Located in Deddington, GB
Cities 7 - Gothic Revival, St Pancras, London by Susan Brown. Limited edition giclée print - The print edition is 150 The image size of the print is 40cm X 40cm, the overall size is 50cm X 50cm Each print is signed and numbered by Susan Brown Unframed, unmounted. The gothic building of St Pancras, designed in 1874 by George Gilbert Scott...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Landscape Prints

Materials

Giclée

Bo Song Impressionist Original Oil On Canvas "Phoenix Ridge 2"
Located in New York, NY
Title: Phoenix Ridge 2 Medium: Oil on canvas Size: 23.5 x 31 inches Frame: Framing options available! Condition: The painting appears to be in excellent condition. Year: 2000...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Trinidad Pier
Located in Burlingame, CA
Ryan Reynolds’ newest series of paintings features coastal Northern and Central California wooden piers that extend from the land into the sea, and it depicts the people of Trinidad ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Linen

Ambulance Chaser
Located in Denver, CO
Red bird with small toy car. Painted in trompe-l'œil style and sold unframed.
Category

2010s Animal Paintings

Materials

Oil

Paris Café with Eiffel Tower France Limited Edition Print by British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Paris Café with Eiffel Tower France Limited Edition Print of Figurative Cityscape Painting by Leading British Urban Landscape Artist, Angela Wakefield. Print measures 16 x 9.5 inch...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Digital, Color, Archival Paper, Paper, Printer's Ink, Giclée

Maxwell Street Dog, Black & White Street Photography, Chicago, 1953 by Art Shay
Located in Chicago, IL
Art Shay's love of Street Photography is evident is this 1953 photograph entitled "Maxwell Street Dog". A Chicago tradition running for about 100 years, the Maxwell Street Market wa...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Venezuela, Woman, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 29x 23, 8 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
Category

1960s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Colombia, Ships, Black and White Photography, 1960s, 17, 2 x 23, 3 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Hanna Seidel (1925 to 2005) lived and worked in Argentina for many years. She was a world traveller, journeying to South America in the 1950s and to Central America, Japan, India, an...
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1960s Modern Portrait Photography

Materials

Black and White, Silver Gelatin

Wizard of Wyoming
Located in Burlingame, CA
'Wizard of Wyoming ' , Hand Colored Aquatint Etching with the plate (image itself) 12 x 12 inches. On a larger piece of archival paper at approximately 16 x 16 inches and matted to approximately 19 x 19 inches. . An iconic still life image featuring the crash scene of a lone overturned semi truck...
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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Still-life Prints

Materials

Watercolor, Etching, Aquatint

Park Lane Hotel Central Park New York City USA by British Contemporary Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Park Lane Hotel, Central Park, New York City NYC USA by British Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield. Art measures 30 x 30 inches Frame measures 35 x 35 inches Wakefield's work is...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

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

1964 original poster by Villemot for the Train Autos-Couchettes SNCF
Located in PARIS, FR
The 1964 original poster by Villemot for the Train Autos-Couchettes service by the French national railway (SNCF) is a significant piece of mid-century advertising history. With the ...
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1960s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Linen, Paper, Lithograph

Train Face 2, Painting, Acrylic on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Portrait of a train :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signatur...
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2010s Contemporary Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

"1970 Fiat Coupe" Original Oil Painting 18 in x 24 in
Located in Boca Raton, FL
This Original oil painting of the the 1970 Fiat Coupe is a classic! Perfect for any vintage car enthusiast or collector. This beauty is a classic and one of my favorite subject matte...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Missing Link
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is #12 from an edition of only 75, Carol Wax originally trained to be a classical musician at the Manhattan School of Music but fell in love with printmaking. Soon after...
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2010s American Modern Still-life Prints

Materials

Mezzotint

Cars, Road, Street Photography, Black and White, Paris, 1950s, 13 x 17, 6 cm
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, ca 1950. Andres was born 1905 in Germany and passed away 1992. He started his career as a photographer in 1920. He was one of the first photogr...
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin, Black and White

Old days Photo - Mountain - Vintage photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old days Photo - Mountain is a black and white vintage photo, realized in the mid-20th century. Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and Nostalgic album including h...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Slim Aarons, Carlton Hotel (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958. Slim Aarons Carlton Hotel Lambda Print 4 sizes available Slim Aarons Estate Edition 60 x 60 inches $5100 48 x 48 inches $4500 40 x 40 inches $3950 30 x 30 inches $3350 20 x 20 inches $3000 Over the course of a career lasting half a century, Slim Aarons (1916-2006) portrayed high society, aristocracy, authors, artists, business icons, the celebrated and their milieu. In doing so, he captured a golden age of wealth, privilege, beauty and leisure that occurred alongside—but quite separate from—the cultural and political backdrop of the second half of the Twentieth Century. The Slim Aarons Estate has released the limited Estate edition as a Lambda print, which is a modern c-type prints. They have chosen Lambda prints for their sharpness, clarity, colour saturation and quality, compared to archival inkjet prints. Lambda printing gives true continuous tone. Photograph is unframed Slide show includes a close-up of the Slim Aarons estate's stamp. Collector will get the next number in the edition * We are pleased to offer the entire archive of the Slim Aarons Estate, offering the official Slim Aarons Estate Edition (only offered in this edition of 150). Please contact us for additional photographs from Slim Aarons * Slim Aarons photographed the Carlton Hotel, in Cannes, in 1958. The hotel was built in 1911, located at 58 La Croisette in Cannes on the French Riviera. It was designed by architects Charles Dalmas and Marcellin Mayère and built for Henry Ruhl, a Swiss hotelier. It is famous for hosting movie stars from around the world during the annual Film Festival. Famously, the hotel was a central location for the Alfred Hitchcock film To Catch a Thief starring Grace Kelly and Cary Grant. In 1970 it featured in the Peter Sellers/Goldie Hawn comedy There's a Girl in My Soup and exterior scenes were filmed at the entrance to the hotel and on the hotel beach. The hotel lobby scene and interior scenes were done on a film set. While staying at the Hotel Carlton during the 1955 Cannes Film Festival, Academy Award winning movie star Grace Kelly had an arranged meeting and photo shoot with Prince Rainier III of Monaco; they married in 1956. In the summer of 1983 the hotel and its private beach featured prominently in the music video for the Elton John song I'm Still Standing. (The video also appears in the 2019 film Rocketman.) During the shooting of the video the Carlton was the scene of a drunken party involving John and the band Duran Duran that has since become something of a legend at the hotel. Significant damages to the rooms in John's suite resulted.[2] Both exterior and interior shots appear in New Order's 1993 music video for the single, "World (The Price of Love)", and exterior shots of the front of the hotel and the jetty leading out of the beach appear in Steps´ 1999 music video for their single "Love's Got a Hold on My Heart". The Carlton Cannes has been the target of several high-profile jewelry...
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1950s Realist Landscape Photography

Materials

Lambda

Gone in 60 seconds
Located in Riga, LV
Gone in 60 seconds
Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Old Days - Camping - Vintage Photo - mid-20th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Old Days - Camping is a vintage photograph realized in the Mid 20th Century.  The photo belongs to Albumen of historical painting, photographs, meticulously captured. Good conditio...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Volkswagen Kaefer and Double Decker in Berlin, Germany 1939 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
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1930s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

Newport
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
The NYU picture is a part of photographs done in 1965 for a German book publisher, lately a book with his photographs about NYC was published.
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1960s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Newport
Newport
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Night Light Reality
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Fine art print, photo, available in different sizes.
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21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper

Otto Kuhler Signed Original Etching “Mississippi Evening”
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Otto Kuhler (1894-1976) original etching, 1923. Title: “Mississippi Evening” Signed in pencil lower right. Title in pencil lower center. Dated lower left, 1923. Image measures 7 7/8...
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Early 20th Century Landscape Prints

Materials

Etching

To Neckargemuend Mercedes Benz car near Heidelberg, Germany 1936, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category

1930s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

"Nesting", Contemporary, Voltswagen, Landscape, VW, Color Photograph, Print
Located in Natick, MA
Rebecca Skinner’s “Nesting” is a 18 x 12 inch metal print and is part of her “Awakening” series. An antique Voltswagen Bug car rests in a foggy landscape in ru...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Metal

Hazen Market, Hazen, Nevada, Alternate US Highway 50
Located in Dallas, TX
This is acrylic on four shaped ragboard panels in artist-made frames.
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2010s Photorealist Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Rag Paper

Urbis at Night in Manchester City by Contemporary British Urban Landscape Artist
Located in Preston, GB
An Original Painting of Urbis & The Printworks at Night in the City of Manchester, England, by British Cityscape Artist Angela Wakefield. It captures the changing nature of Mancheste...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Gesso, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Oil, Acrylic

View to shopping passage, Stuttgart Germany 1935, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category

1930s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

Trams on way through centre Darmstadt, Germany 1938 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
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1930s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

Cannes (South of France) - oil on canvas, 50x61 cm.
Located in Nice, FR
Oil on canvas by Rodriguez Candhales, an Uruguayen painter. it represents the old port in cannes and the Suquet que est l'eglise sur la colline. Painting ...
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1960s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

1920's Silver Gelatin Print by Tina Modotti of a Diego Rivera Fresco
Located in Chicago, IL
Original gelatin silver print by Photographer Tina Modotti. Stamped “Photographs-Tina Modotti Mexico, D.F.” on reverse. Photograph size: 7 5/6" x 9 5/8". Archivally matted to 16...
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1920s Realist Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

View of Tenerife - Original Lithograph by Eigenthum d. Verleger - 19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Ancient View of Tenerife is an original lithograph on paper realized by Eigenthum d. Verleger in The 19th Century. Signed on the plate on the lower right corner. Original lithograph on paper. Titled on the lower center. Good condition. An impressive landscape...
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19th Century Modern Landscape Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Travelling through Italy, Genova harbor, Italy 1939 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
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1930s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

RAPTURE {III}, Painting, Oil on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
Series Poetic Art Statement: Serving Goodness and Truth - Creating Eternal Rapture. This painting is from my ZenScape series which was a series created with an HGTV interior designer...
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2010s Modern Paintings

Materials

Oil

Vertical City - Vintage Photograph by Gunvor Betting - Mid-20th century
Located in Roma, IT
Vertical City is a black and white vintage photo, realized in Mid-20th Century, by Gunvor Betting . Good conditions and aged. It belongs to a historical and nostalgic album includi...
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Mid-20th Century Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

'Papeete Waterfront, Tahiti' by Gainor W. Jackson
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower left, 'Gainor W. Jackson' (New Zealand, 1926-1997) and painted circa 1980. This vibrant watercolor shows the Port of Papeete located in Tahiti, French Polynesia. A painter of harbor scenes, seascapes, and ships, Gainor Jackson was born in 1926 in Devonport, a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, and spent his early years observing and sketching the maritime traffic in Auckland Harbor. In 1962 he wrote The New Zealand Beach and Boating Book...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Ink

"Main Street, Sag Harbor" Oil painting, street scene in The Hamptons Long Island
Located in Sag Harbor, NY
An oil on linen painting of the historic village of Sag Harbor. Marc Dalessio (b.1972, California) is one of the world's leading plein air painters and is known internationally for...
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2010s American Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Volkswagen beetle in front of Brandenburg Gate, Germany 1939 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category

1930s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

Arredo Urbano Contemporaneo Pt.1 - Photograph by Vito Difilippo - 2024
Located in Roma, IT
Photograph taken with Polaroid Now+ camera. Unique piece, embossed, signed on the back, and comes with a certificate of authenticity.
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Col d´ Allos
Located in Cologne, DE
Col d´Allos, Département Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
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20th Century Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Giong to Neckargemuend by car near Heidelberg, Germany 1936, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category

1930s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

'Night Rider' Rainer W. Schlegelmilch Archive Limited Edition
Located in London, GB
'Night Rider' Rainer W. Schlegelmilch Archive Limited Edition Fantastic, fabulous and fantastical, many of the top car manufacturers like Ferrari, Porsche, Lamborghini etc launched concept cars...
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1970s Modern Landscape Photography

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C Print

Building of Heidelberg university, Germany 1938, PrintedLater
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
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1930s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

James Dean Behind the Wheel in his Porsche Racer - Oversize Limited Print
Located in London, GB
James Dean Behind the Wheel in his Porsche Racer by Globe Photo Archives FIlm star James Dean behind the wheel of his Porsche racer. James Dean ...
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2010s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Night Tripper Triptych - Set of 3 Landscape Paintings
Located in East Quogue, NY
"Night Tripper" Triptych - Set of 3 night driving road landscape paintings by Edie Nadelhaft - Oil on canvas. Painting size: 12" x 12" inches (each) I...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Moment in Time, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Artist Maurice Dionne illustrates a glimpse of O'Connor Street in Ottawa. He draws inspiration from the quality of light and the steeple, evident in the background. The light, the cars, and all the reflections create dynamic movement in the scene. "In sketching, I left a lot of impressionistic areas to catch your imagination," says Maurice.


About the Artist
Artist Maurice Dionne paints watercolor scenes of Ottawa, from quiet city walks to charming Victorian homes. "The transparency of the medium is truly remarkable; it allows so much light to shine through," says Maurice. He devotedly captures the mood and vibrancy most often inspired by the people around him. He finished a degree in science but ultimately decided to embrace his true freedom of expression. Now a full-time artist, he commits to a home studio as his haven of creativity, where he has access to artist-grade material that ensures that his pieces will be archival and endure the test of time. Maurice's work received merits from The Marketer Art Competition in 2020 and 2021 and was featured in the Electric Street Gallery, Ottawa Art Gallery, and Art Gallery of Ontario. He relishes cycling, hiking, kayaking, reading, and visiting specialty coffee shops with his spouse in his spare time.


Words that describe this painting: street, road, watercolor, cars, buildings, pedestrians, city, cityscape, architecture, travel, Canada, dome, buildings, impressionism, paper, architecture, impressionism, travel, watercolor painting, beige


Moment in Time...

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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Interior Drawings and Waterc...

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Watercolor

UNTITLED (TRAIN STATION)
Located in Portland, ME
Therrien Jr., Robert (American 1847-2019). UNTITLED (TRADIN STATION) Ink on paper, not dated. 12 x 9 inches (sheet). Signed in Ink, lower right. Toning, and some adhesive residue, ve...
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Mid-20th Century Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Ink

Hong Kong – The New Face of the Orient - Vintage Photograph - 1960s
Located in Roma, IT
Hong Kong – The new face of the Orient is a Vintage b/w Photo realized in the 1960s. Good conditions. Stamped on the rear.
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1960s Contemporary Figurative Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Route 66 Root Beer American Gas Station Painting by British Contemporary Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Route 66 Root Beer American Gas Station Painting by Leading British Contemporary Artist, Angela Wakefield. A unique original work. Art measures ...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paint, Acrylic, Board, Varnish

Two different models of the Volkswagen beetle, Germany 1938 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Nolte. His work is an unparalleled and intriguing insight into the working and everyday life of the time. Impress...
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1930s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

Cars parking at old Heidelberg city hall, Germany 1936, Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirties, Karl Heinrich Lämmel produced several photographic reports of cities, including Munich and Cologne. Photographs that have yet to be seen and appreciated. Lämmel's pictures show a different view of Germany. His documentation is an unparalleled and intriguing insight into the working and everyday life of the time. Impressive images of cities and their architecture before the destruction of WWII . The print is new, a Premium-FineArt-Print ( Hahnemühle 308g ), it comes in a secure role without passpartout and frame to reduce shipping cost. This sizes are limited to 25 copies per size. Description: Autos parken vor dem alten Rathaus in Heidelberg, Deutschland 1930er Jahre. Cars parking...
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1930s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White

Three models of the Volkswagen beetle driving, Germany 1938 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Nolte. His work is an unparalleled and intriguing insight into the working and everyday life of the time. Impress...
Category

1930s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

1994 After Uri Geller 'Caddy - Spoons' Orange, Gray, Black, Green Offset Lithograph
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Paper Size: 21.75 x 34.5 inches ( 55.245 x 87.63 cm ) Image Size: 21.75 x 34.5 inches ( 55.245 x 87.63 cm ) Framed: No Condition: A-: Near Mint, very light signs of handling A...
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1990s Prints and Multiples

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Offset

Street scene Darmstadt view to Stadtkirche church, Germany 1938 Printed Later
Located in Cologne, DE
One of the photographers at Mauritius Publishing based in Berlin was Karl Heinrich Lämmel. Born on 30 July 1910 in Riesa, Saxony, he has been missing since April 1945. In the thirtie...
Category

1930s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

Second World War Swillbin painting, British Matilda Tank
Located in London, GB
Vivan Bewick British Matilda Tank Gouache 6 x 9 cm Signed to the reverse. This striking miniature gouache depicts a British Matilda tank rolling through the bleak no man's land...
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1940s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Gouache

Public Building Wrapped - Photo-Offset by Christo - 1974
Located in Roma, IT
Public Building'S Packaging is an original photo-offset realized by Christo in 1974. Hand-signed and numbered, edition 48/100. Very good conditions. Chri...
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1970s Landscape Photography

Materials

Photogravure

Richard Klein, Holiday Inn Nocturne, 2020, Found and altered objects assemblage
Located in Darien, CT
In the mid 1990s Richard Klein started working with found glass objects, including bottles, drinking glasses, ashtrays, and eyeglasses. Initially, Klein rejected any object with commercial or advertising content, but in 2015 he became fascinated with the promotional content that was screen printed on ashtrays from the 1950s, 1960s and early 1970s. This period was before smoking was looked at as being primarily a negative habit, and iconic American businesses, including Howard Johnson’s, International House of Pancakes (iHop) and Holiday Inn, all produced promotional ashtrays printed with their graphic identity. By the time Klein became interested in these objects, the businesses had either ceased to exist, or had changed their logos, and many of their signature buildings, which where examples of classic, “Pop” roadside architecture, has been torn down or repurposed. The artist wanted to connect the glass objects with the business’s sites that were still recognizable and spoke of their history, so he began researching where original buildings still stood. Klein then embarked on a series of road trips to photograph these sites with the intention of combining the photographs with the promotional glass objects. This led him to as far south as Maryland and as far north as upstate New York from his home in Connecticut. In the case of Holiday Inn, it wasn’t their buildings, but their iconic illuminated sign that appeared on ashtrays, so he sought out a standing example of the sign he could photograph. As it turned out all had been removed years before from the hotels' properties and the only working example was indoors at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan. He did, however, find out that there was one still standing, surprisingly, in Beruit, Lebanon. He found an image of it on the web and used it to make Holiday Inn (Beruit). In 1973 Holiday Inn changed their tagline from “The Nations Innkeeper” to “The World’s Innkeeper” as they expanded overseas, including the Mideast. For the hotel chain it was bad timing: the disastrous Lebanese civil war began in 1975. In the war, the different Lebanese militias involved in the conflict, including the Nasserites, Christian Phalangists, and the Lebanese National Movement engaged in what came to be called “The Battle of the Hotels” where they each occupied a major high-rise hotel in central Beruit. The Phalangists commanded the Holiday Inn, which they used to fire with both light arms and heavier weapons at the militias in neighboring hotels. Klein used the photo of the heavily damaged Holiday Inn sign as I thought it spoke in a curious, offhanded way about American cultural imperialism in juxtaposition with an ashtray that proclaimed Holiday Inn to be “The World’s Innkeeper.” In the work Holiday Inn (Nocturne) the artist utilized a found, 35mm slide of a Holiday Inn sign at night at an unknown location as the basis of the photograph in the work. Richard Klein is a Connecticut-based artist, independent curator and writer. As an artist, he has exhibited widely, including the Neuberger Museum of Art at SUNY Purchase; Caren Golden Fine Art, New York; the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Hales Gallery, London; Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; James Barron Art, Kent, CT; The Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, MA; Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, NY; Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY; Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT; Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY; Exhibit by Alberson Tulsa, OK; Incident Report/Flow Chart Foundation, Hudson, NY; ICEHOUSE Project Space, Sharon, CT; Kenise Barnes Fine Art in Kent, CT and with ODETTA Gallery at the Equity Gallery in New York City.. Reviews of his work have appeared in Two Coats of Paint, Whitehot Magazine, The New York Times, Sculpture Magazine, Art in America, and The New Yorker. In the summer of 2024 he will be the first Artist-In-Residence at Peck Ledge Light...
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2010s Assemblage Still-life Sculptures

Materials

Metal

Old West with Dramatic Dark Blue Sky
Located in Miami, FL
Piercing white light breaks through the clouds to illuminate an abandoned gas station in Arizona. Signed and dated on lower right, numbered on verso, 2/1...
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1970s American Realist Landscape Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

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