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Slim Aarons Official Estate Print - Carlton Hotel
Located in London, GB
Carlton Hotel The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958. Slim Aarons Archival Pigment Print. Printed 2024. Slim Aarons Estate Edition. Produced utilising the only ori...
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1950s Modern Landscape Photography

Materials

Color, Archival Pigment

"Back Alley Nocturne" (2008) By Susie Hyer, Original Oil on Canvas
Located in Denver, CO
"Back Alley Nocturne" (2008) By Susie Hyer is an original handmade oil painting on stretched linen that depicts the front of an apartment building, with the porch light shining brigh...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Civic Building – Manaus, Eliza Southwood, Limited Edition Silkscreen Print
Located in Deddington, GB
Civic Building – Manaus, Eliza Southwood Limited Edition Silkscreen Print of 20 Silkscreen Print on Paper Size: H 97cm x W 67cm Signed and titled Silkscreen Print – A printing techn...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Archival Paper, Linocut

Red Mercury- Signed limited edition car print, USA, Contemporary, Vintage
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Red Mercury - Signed limited edition archival pigment print - Edition of 8 1950 Mercury somewhere in Southern USA , 2006 This image was captured o...
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Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

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Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée, Pi...

Classic Tall Sailing Ship in Choppy Waters off Coastline, signed oil painting
By James Hardy
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
James Hardy (British contemporary, 21st century) signed oil painting on board, framed board: 8 x 10 inches provenance: private collection condition: overall very good, a few markings...
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2010s Modern Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Platinum Palladium silver print, Limited Edition, Motocycle - Brighton 27
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Brighton 27 - Platinum Palladium print over silver on vellum paper Edition 1 of 8 , plus 2 AP ( Small size ) An old Harley Davidson motorcycle in front of a gas station garage ...
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1980s Contemporary Still-life Photography

Materials

Platinum, Silver

Sunday Song, Naive School Painting
Located in Brecon, Powys
Traditions are important in Wales. This painting from Therese takes a peek at the Sunday morning outing to chapel. Wearing their Sunday best the villagers head out and catch up on al...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Outsider Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Canvas

Train: Monotype landscape painting of countryside sky and clouds in monochrome
Located in New York, NY
Monotype painting of American landscape with sky and sweeping clouds, printed in muted colors and black and white. A large train cuts a path atop a ridge. Michele Zalopany's masterfu...
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1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Monotype

3rd Avenue
Located in Vancouver, CA
Kim Dorland is a contemporary Canadian artist known for his expressive landscape paintings that blend abstraction and realism. Born in 1974 in Wainwright, Alberta, Dorland earned his...
Category

2010s Abstract Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil, Wood Panel

Eiffel Tower, Paris, France, black and white photography, landscape, cityscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and White Fine Art cityscape - landscape photography. Fountain in front of the Eiffel tower, Paris, France, limited edition of 9. Signed, titled, dated and numbered by artist. ...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

After Rain, Toronto, Canada, Painting, Watercolor on Paper
Located in Yardley, PA
This is one of my studio paintings. I love watercolor because it’s a very challenging medium. I used Daniel Smith Extra Fine Watercolors with world-class acid-free Arches 300gsm wa...
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2010s Impressionist Drawings and Watercolor Paintings

Materials

Watercolor

Original lithograph by Victor Spahn - Formula 1 race - Signed and numbered
Located in PARIS, FR
This stunningly colorful lithograph was created by Victor Spahn, a French painter of Russian origin. Known as the "painter of movement", his technique gives the impression of speed a...
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1970s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Beverly Hills Hotel Slide Print
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Cars parked outside the Beverly Hills Hotel on Sunset Boulevard in California, 1957. Slim Aarons 1957, printed later C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive Paper, Crisp detail, contin...
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1950s Realist Landscape Photography

Materials

Lambda

Slim Aarons - New York Picnic - Estate Stamped
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - New York Picnic - Estate Stamped Limited Edition Estate Stamped Print (edition size 1/150). A chauffeur unpacks a picnic hamper from a Rolls Royce, against the New Y...
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1950s Modern Color Photography

Materials

C Print

"1959 Red BMW Isetta 300" (2022) By Shan Fannin, Original Acrylic Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Shan Fannin's (US based) "1959 Red BMW Isetta 300" is an acrylic painting that depicts a red 1959 Red BMW Isetta 300. Born 1969 in California, artist Shannon “Shan” Fannin brings v...
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2010s Photorealist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic, Wood, Board

Rainy Day, Queens
Located in New York, NY
Martin Lewis (1881-1962), Rainy Day, Queens, drypoint, 1931, signed in pencil lower right [also signed in the plate lower right]. Reference: McCarron 94, only state, from the edition...
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1930s American Realist Landscape Prints

Materials

Drypoint

Slim Aarons - Estate Edition - Anne Anka
Located in London, GB
Slim Aarons - Anne Anka - Estate Stamped Edition Limited to 150 only Anne Anka, wife of singer Paul Anka and daughter of Count Charles de Zogheb, with her daughters (left to right) Alicia, Anthea, Alexandra and Amanda, November 1976 (Photo by Slim Aarons). This photograph epitomises the travel style and glamour of the period's wealthy and famous, beautifully documented by Aarons. In his words, he loved to photograph 'attractive people in attractive places, doing attractive things'. A beautiful and classic Slim Aarons C-type photograph (unframed). Limited edition to 150 only numbered and stamped by The Slim Aarons Estate on verso. Supplied with certificate of authenticity. Gorgeous print measuring 30 x 30" inches / ca 76 x 76 cm’s paper size. Stamped by the Estate on right and numbered in ink on left - limited edition to 150 only. Produced utilising the original transparency held at archive source. FRAMING: Please note that this piece is unframed – however, we offer a full framing service. If you would like this piece framed, please contact us for a quote. We ship regularly using Fedex Express services and shipping to all international locations. women fashion kids fashion mid 70s 70s 1970s family portrait mother and daughters happy faces red socks countryside life style stables horses blue dress pink dress horse riding wear horse riding boots...
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1970s Modern Figurative Photography

Materials

C Print, Color

Woody
Located in New York, NY
Ed. 2/5, includes white frame. Photographed on Nantucket Island in 2021, "Woody" embodies the essence of a perfect beach sunset as the warm evening light illuminates both the model'...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Concorde- Limited edition contemporary art print, City, Black white, Mouvement
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Concorde - Limited edition pigment print - Limited Editions of 5 Paris under the snow, France, 2005 Signed + numbered by artist with certificate of authenticity. Free delivery Archival pigment print available sizes ( Image size , the white margin is not counted) : 33.3 x 50 cm / 12.99 x 19.68 in. - Edition of 5 50 x 75 cm / 19.68 x 29.53 in. - Edition of 5 67.7 x 101.60 cm / 26,373 x 40 in. - Edition of 5 This print that is being offered is a high-quality Archival Pigment print, which has been printed on fiber-based paper. The paper used is Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta 315 gsm, which is a premium quality paper that is acid-free and lignin-free. This ensures that the print will remain in pristine condition for years to come. The Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta paper is a museum-quality paper that is highly resistant to aging. It is a popular alternative to analogue baryta paper, which is known for its ability to produce rich, deep blacks and vibrant colors. The Hahnemühle Photo Rag® Baryta paper is no different, as it produces stunningly vivid and lifelike prints. Overall, this Archival Pigment print is a stunning piece of art that is sure to impress. The combination of high-quality paper and inks ensures that the print will remain in pristine condition for many years, making it a great investment for any art collector or enthusiast. Sam...
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Early 2000s Modern Landscape Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Black and White, Pigment, Archival P...

"A Good Breeze" Print By New York Graphic Society, 1961
By James Milton Sessions
Located in Clinton Township, MI
Print Published By New York Graphic Society, 1961 Printed In Holland Measures 23.5 x 27.5 in. In Good Condition
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20th Century Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Eifeltower, Paris, 1955
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1955. 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 photograph...
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Retirement" Gouache Painting
Located in Denver, CO
Judd Mercer's (US based) "Retirement" is an gouache painting that depicts a rusted old tow truck among other cars in a lonely junkyard car lot Bio/artist ...
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2010s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Gouache

Monument for the 20th Century
Located in PARIS, FR
"Monument for the 20th Century" by David Gerstein is a striking wall sculpture made of metal, composed of three layers that create a dynamic sense of depth and movement. The piece co...
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21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Metal

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

Figures at Empire State Building New York Night by Contemporary British Artist
Located in Preston, GB
Painting of Figures at the Empire State Building in New York City at Night by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield. Part of her New York Series. This original illustrates An...
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2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

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

"Rue St. Marguerite" Montreal Street in Watercolor, Colored Pencil and India Ink
Located in Soquel, CA
"Rue St. Marguerite" Montreal Street Scene in Watercolor, Pastel, and India Ink Vibrant drawing of Montreal, Canada, by Richard D. Wilson (Canadian, 1920-1994). A street scene of 1960s Montreal, complete with cars, people walking and crisscrossing telephone and power lines...
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1960s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Pastel, India Ink, Watercolor, Paper

Eifeltower, Paris, 1955
Located in Cologne, DE
Silver Gelatine Print by Erich Andres, 1955. 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 photograph...
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1950s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

The Canadian Pacific Train (1956-Canada) Large size Black & White Fine Art Print
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in limited edition in perfect condition This photo was made in 1956, the negative was digitized during the artist's lifetime and the technical parameters (fram...
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1950s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Reflection Around
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
The picture is a part of photographs which Kallay done in 1965 for a German book publisher about NYC.
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1960s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Evening Light towards Battersea Bridge, London
Located in London, GB
Dedicated to working outdoors, Peter van Breda’s enthusiasm for painting is driven by his excitement at capturing the light, mood and atmosphere of a s...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Slim Aarons Carlton Hotel Limited Estate Print
Located in London, GB
'Carlton Hotel' by Slim Aarons The entrance to the Carlton Hotel, Cannes, France, 1958. A couple dressed elegantly in all white tennis outfits with rackets in hand, wander past the...
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1950s Modern Color Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Bambini per la strada, New York, 1955 - Contemporary Black and White Photography
Located in Brussels, BE
Bambini per la strada, New York décembre 1955 - Black and White Photography Artwork #1 / 5 sold in perfect condition printed on baryta heavyweight paper & framed (black metal border...
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1950s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Five O’Clock Shadow
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Late afternoon, the long shadows on a city street speak to a day left behind. Carole Garland discovers poetry in paint in this urban, gritty, dusky setting that is drifting into night. What mysteries lie ahead? “Five O’Clock Shadow” is part of Garland’s Urban LA series of paintings. Carole Garland has shown in many Southern California venues, most recently at TAG Gallery, Bergamot Station; realART Gallery, Agoura Hills; the Gallery at West Los Angeles College; Rose Café, Venice; the Santa Paula...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mr. Peanut - Pop Art Screenprint by Eduardo Paolozzi
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Eduardo Paolozzi, British (1924 - 2005) Title: Mr Peanut Year: 1970 Medium: Screenprint, signed and dated in pencil Image: 27 x 19 inches Frame Size: 35 x 25 inches
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1970s Pop Art Figurative Prints

Materials

Screen

The harbor
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork "The Harbor" c.1990, is an acrylic painting on canvas by noted American artist Robert (Bob) Logrippo, 1947-2021. It is signed at the lower left corner by the artist. The canvas size is 24 x 36 inches, framed size is 31 x 43 inches. Framed in a wooden gold frame, with fabric liner and gold color bevel. It is in excellent condition. About the artist: Bob LoGrippo's paintings have appeared on magazine, book and album covers, as well as calendars, greeting cards and puzzles. The New York Times Sunday Magazine, Readers Digest, Six Flags...
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Late 20th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Three Volkswagen beetle on street, 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. Impressive images of industry and products from this time. 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: Drei Modelle des Volkswagen Käfer, oder KdF Wagen, mit offenem und geschlossenem Dach und als Cabrio auf der Reichsautobahn bei Wolfsburg, Deutschland 1930er Jahre. Three models of the Volkswagen beetle...
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1930s Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Black and White

Tornando con le spese, New York (1955) - Large size Black & White Fine Art Print
Located in Brussels, BE
Artwork # 1 on 5 sold in limited edition in perfect condition This photo was made in 1955, the negative was digitized during the artist's lifetime and the technical parameters (fram...
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1950s Photorealist Black and White Photography

Materials

Archival Pigment

Two 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

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Black and White

Under the Brooklyn Bridge
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
Fine Art Print, photographed in the US., Limited edition.
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Black and White Photography

Materials

Photographic Paper

Turquoise Modern
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
Even though this little turquoise apartment house is in Miami's Deco Town, it looks like it was either built or remodeled somewhere in the 1950s and luckily, ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Interior Paintings

Materials

Oil

1980 'Contemporary Arts Museum'
By Salvatorre Scarpitta
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This original 1980 poster by Salvatore Scarpitta, from the collection of the esteemed Leo Castelli, represents a significant piece of contemporary art history. Designed for an exhibi...
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1980s Contemporary Prints and Multiples

Materials

Offset

Train Silkscreen Hand Signed Belgian Modernist Folon
Located in Surfside, FL
Jean-Michel Folon (1934- ) Jean-Michel Folon was born in Brussels. He began to study architecture but abandoned it in favor of drawing, which allowed more expressive studies. His drawings have appeared in numerous magazines including Time, Fortune, The New Yorker, and L'Express. In 1969 he had his first one-man show in the United States, followed closely by exhibitions in Tokyo, Venice, Milan, London, Sao Paulo, Geneva, Brussels, and Paris. Folon has illustrated works by Kafka, Lewis Carroll, and Ray Bradbury. In 1973 he created a series of watercolors titled La Mort d'un Arbre (The Death of a Tree), for which Max Ernst created a lithograph as a preface. Folon has completed a 176-square-foot painting for a subway station in Brussels and a 160-square-foot painting for Waterloo Station in London. He is most comfortable using the engraving and drypoint techniques of printmaking. He designed theatre sets, magazine covers, advertisements, posters, wine labels, etc. Often involved in noble undertakings, such as working for world peace, for the disabled, and for safeguarding our environment, he worked on the graphic creation of the "Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man" and produced posters for Unicef, Greenpeace and Amnesty International."  1968 It conceives mural for the house of France to Triennial of Milan, animated of 500 luminous points. It exposes 60 works to the Gallery from France in Paris, and creates a book of end of the year for The Museum of Modern Art of New York. moma. 1969 First exposures to New York, Lefebre Gallery. 1970 Visit Japan and shows in Tokyo and Osaka. It takes part in XXXVè Biennale of Venice in the house of Belgium. First exposure in Italy, in Galleria del Milione in Milan, October. 1971 Carry out a significant exposure to the Museum of Decorative Arts in Paris with 90 works which will be presented later on at the Palate of the Art schools of Charleroi, the Museum of Modern art of Brussels and at Castello Sforzesco of Milan. 1972 Expose to Arts Club of Chicago. 1973 Illustrate the Metamorphosis of Kafka. Alice Editions publishes a collection of watercolours, the Death of a tree, of which he writes also the text. Max Ernst prefaces the book of an original lithography. It belongs to the selection of Belgian artists of XIIè Biennale of Sao Paulo, whose Great Price is decreed to him. 1974 Carry out ten etchings and aquatintes for the Circular Ruins of Jorge Luis Borges. Expose to Milan, the Marconi Studio. For a room of the new subway of Brussels it carries out Magic City, painting of 165 m2. 1975 Undertakes the one second mural decoration, Paysage, for Olivetti, in Waterloo Station in London. Its correspondence in images with Giorgio Soavi is the subject of a book, Lettres with Giorgio, published by Alice Editions. 1976 Expose to the Boymans-van-Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam, then in Deutsches Plakatmuseum, Essen. Carry out covers colors for various magazines, of which Time, which will publish four during years of them. 1977 Expose to Institute of Contemporary Art in London and Spoleto within the framework of XXè Festival, of which it draws the poster. 1978 Expose to the Museum of Modern art of Liege with Milton Glaser. Illustrate Alcools and Calligrammes , of Guillaume Apollinaire. 1979 Illustrate Martian Chroniques , of Ray Bradbury and the complete work of Jacques Prévert in 7 volumes. Exposure of watercolours to the Berggruen Gallery, Paris. 1980 By a series of twelve watercolours and joinings, it illustrates the Autumn in Peking, of Boris Vian, and by a continuation of etchings and aquatintes, the Useless beauty, of Guy of Maupassant. 1981 At the request of Michel Soutter, it designs the decorations of the theatre for works of Frank Martin and Giacomo Pucccini represented with the Large Theatre of Geneva. It carries out images projected for Histoire of the soldier , Igor Stravinsky, with the theatre of the Life in Brussels. 1982 The Museum from the Post office in Paris exposes its work engraved and the Museum Ingres de Montauban organizes an exposure. 1983 It carries out films in drawings in its workshop and turns of the short films to New York, Los Angeles and the Orleans News. Improvise a continuation in images, Conversation, with Milton Glaser, published by Alice Editions. 1984 Retrospective of its posters to Defense in Paris. It carries out the illustrations of the poetic of Guillaume Apollinaire and serious work a succession of etchings and aquatintes for Pluies of New York d' Albert Camus. Exposure to the museum Picasso d' Antibes. 1985 It goes to Japan for a retrospective which will be presented at Tokyo, Osaka and Kamakura. Close to the Door from Italy...
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20th Century Landscape Prints

Materials

Screen

Vintage Oil Painting California Sierra Foothills Town by D. Grech c.1997
Located in San Francisco, CA
Vintage Oil Painting California Sierra Foothills Town by D. Grech c.1997 Original oil on masonite Dimensions 22" wide x 14" high The lightly distressed frame measures 16" wide x 1...
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Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Dallas, Texas, Black and White Photography, USA 1960s, 17 x 23, 5 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

Ship LUCY G. DOW
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
The strength of a great ship portrait lies with its overall striking composition blended with an attention to detail. Charles Sidney Raleigh was extremely skilled with both elements, and this is one of his finest works. An American full-rigged ship of large proportions, LUCY G. DOW is one of many ships owned by Maine interests, where the ship would be locally built and consortium owned. More Maine captains owned part of their ships than any other East Coast region, it appears through an informal survey of lists. Note the fine details of the captain and crew hard at work onboard off the coast. The numerous buildings are clustered on the peninsular stretch with a pier coming out near the lighthouse’s walkway. At the distance, ship masts...
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1880s Other Art Style Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Three 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

Landscape in Quebec - Original Lithograph - Mid-19th Century
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape in Quebec is an original modern artwork realized in the mid-19th Century. Original Colored Lithograph on Ivory Paper. Inscripted on the lower margin: Quebeck. Printed ...
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Mid-19th Century Modern Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

19th century color lithograph seascape boat ship waves maritime landscape
Located in Milwaukee, WI
"The Celebrated Clipper Ship Dreadnought" is an original hand-colored lithograph by Currier & Ives. It depicts a sailing ship. 13 1/4" x 17 1/2" art 19" x 23 1/2" frame Nathaniel Currier was a tall introspective man with a melancholy nature. He could captivate people with his piercing stare or charm them with his sparkling blue eyes. Nathaniel was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts on March 27th, 1813, the second of four children. His parents, Nathaniel and Hannah Currier, were distant cousins who lived a humble yet spartan life. When Nathaniel was eight years old, tragedy struck. Nathaniel’s father unexpectedly passed away leaving Nathaniel and his eleven-year-old brother Lorenzo to provide for the family. In addition to their mother, Nathaniel and Lorenzo had to care for six-year-old sister Elizabeth and two-year-old brother Charles. Nathaniel worked a series of odd jobs to support the family, and at fifteen, he started what would become a life-long career when he apprenticed in the Boston lithography shop of William and John Pendleton. A Bavarian gentleman named Alois Senefelder invented lithography just 30 years prior to young Nat Currier’s apprenticeship. While under the employ of the brothers Pendleton, Nat was taught the art of lithography by the firm’s chief printer, a French national named Dubois, who brought the lithography trade to America. Lithography involves grinding a piece of limestone flat and smooth then drawing in mirror image on the stone with a special grease pencil. After the image is completed, the stone is etched with a solution of aqua fortis leaving the greased areas in slight relief. Water is then used to wet the stone and greased-ink is rolled onto the raised areas. Since grease and water do not mix, the greased-ink is repelled by the moisture on the stone and clings to the original grease pencil lines. The stone is then placed in a press and used as a printing block to impart black on white images to paper. In 1833, now twenty-years old and an accomplished lithographer, Nat Currier left Boston and moved to Philadelphia to do contract work for M.E.D. Brown, a noted engraver and printer. With the promise of good money, Currier hired on to help Brown prepare lithographic stones of scientific images for the American Journal of Sciences and Arts. When Nat completed the contract work in 1834, he traveled to New York City to work once again for his mentor John Pendleton, who was now operating his own shop located at 137 Broadway. Soon after the reunion, Pendleton expressed an interest in returning to Boston and offered to sell his print shop to Currier. Young Nat did not have the financial resources to buy the shop, but being the resourceful type he found another local printer by the name of Stodart. Together they bought Pendleton’s business. The firm ‘Currier & Stodart’ specialized in "job" printing. They produced many different types of printed items, most notably music manuscripts for local publishers. By 1835, Stodart was frustrated that the business was not making enough money and he ended the partnership, taking his investment with him. With little more than some lithographic stones, and a talent for his trade, twenty-two year old Nat Currier set up shop in a temporary office at 1 Wall Street in New York City. He named his new enterprise ‘N. Currier, Lithographer’ Nathaniel continued as a job printer and duplicated everything from music sheets to architectural plans. He experimented with portraits, disaster scenes and memorial prints, and any thing that he could sell to the public from tables in front of his shop. During 1835 he produced a disaster print Ruins of the Planter's Hotel, New Orleans, which fell at two O’clock on the Morning of the 15th of May 1835, burying 50 persons, 40 of whom Escaped with their Lives. The public had a thirst for newsworthy events, and newspapers of the day did not include pictures. By producing this print, Nat gave the public a new way to “see” the news. The print sold reasonably well, an important fact that was not lost on Currier. Nat met and married Eliza Farnsworth in 1840. He also produced a print that same year titled Awful Conflagration of the Steamboat Lexington in Long Island Sound on Monday Evening, January 18, 1840, by which melancholy occurrence over One Hundred Persons Perished. This print sold out very quickly, and Currier was approached by an enterprising publication who contracted him to print a single sheet addition of their paper, the New York Sun. This single page paper is presumed to be the first illustrated newspaper ever published. The success of the Lexington print launched his career nationally and put him in a position to finally lift his family up. In 1841, Nat and Eliza had their first child, a son they named Edward West Currier. That same year Nat hired his twenty-one year old brother Charles and taught him the lithography trade, he also hired his artistically inclined brother Lorenzo to travel out west and make sketches of the new frontier as material for future prints. Charles worked for the firm on and off over the years, and invented a new type of lithographic crayon which he patented and named the Crayola. Lorenzo continued selling sketches to Nat for the next few years. In 1843, Nat and Eliza had a daughter, Eliza West Currier, but tragedy struck in early 1847 when their young daughter died from a prolonged illness. Nat and Eliza were grief stricken, and Eliza, driven by despair, gave up on life and passed away just four months after her daughter’s death. The subject of Nat Currier’s artwork changed following the death of his wife and daughter, and he produced many memorial prints and sentimental prints during the late 1840s. The memorial prints generally depicted grief stricken families posed by gravestones (the stones were left blank so the purchasers could fill in the names of the dearly departed). The sentimental prints usually depicted idealized portraits of women and children, titled with popular Christian names of the day. Late in 1847, Nat Currier married Lura Ormsbee, a friend of the family. Lura was a self-sufficient woman, and she immediately set out to help Nat raise six-year-old Edward and get their house in order. In 1849, Lura delivered a son, Walter Black Currier, but fate dealt them a blow when young Walter died one year later. While Nat and Lura were grieving the loss of their new son, word came from San Francisco that Nat’s brother Lorenzo had also passed away from a brief illness. Nat sank deeper into his natural quiet melancholy. Friends stopped by to console the couple, and Lura began to set an extra place at their table for these unexpected guests. She continued this tradition throughout their lives. In 1852, Charles introduced a friend, James Merritt Ives, to Nat and suggested he hire him as a bookkeeper. Jim Ives was a native New Yorker born in 1824 and raised on the grounds of Bellevue Hospital where his father was employed as superintendent. Jim was a self-trained artist and professional bookkeeper. He was also a plump and jovial man, presenting the exact opposite image of his new boss. Jim Ives met Charles Currier through Caroline Clark, the object of Jim’s affection. Caroline’s sister Elizabeth was married to Charles, and Caroline was a close friend of the Currier family. Jim eventually proposed marriage to Caroline and solicited an introduction to Nat Currier, through Charles, in hopes of securing a more stable income to support his future wife. Ives quickly set out to improve and modernize his new employer’s bookkeeping methods. He reorganized the firm’s sizable inventory, and used his artistic skills to streamline the firm’s production methods. By 1857, Nathaniel had become so dependent on Jims’ skills and initiative that he offered him a full partnership in the firm and appointed him general manager. The two men chose the name ‘Currier & Ives’ for the new partnership, and became close friends. Currier & Ives produced their prints in a building at 33 Spruce Street where they occupied the third, fourth and fifth floors. The third floor was devoted to the hand operated printing presses that were built by Nat's cousin, Cyrus Currier, at his shop Cyrus Currier & Sons in Newark, NJ. The fourth floor found the artists, lithographers and the stone grinders at work. The fifth floor housed the coloring department, and was one of the earliest production lines in the country. The colorists were generally immigrant girls, mostly German, who came to America with some formal artistic training. Each colorist was responsible for adding a single color to a print. As a colorist finished applying their color, the print was passed down the line to the next colorist to add their color. The colorists worked from a master print displayed above their table, which showed where the proper colors were to be placed. At the end of the table was a touch up artist who checked the prints for quality, touching-in areas that may have been missed as it passed down the line. During the Civil War, demand for prints became so great that coloring stencils were developed to speed up production. Although most Currier & Ives prints were colored in house, some were sent out to contract artists. The rate Currier & Ives paid these artists for coloring work was one dollar per one hundred small folios (a penny a print) and one dollar per one dozen large folios. Currier & Ives also offered uncolored prints to dealers, with instructions (included on the price list) on how to 'prepare the prints for coloring.' In addition, schools could order uncolored prints from the firm’s catalogue to use in their painting classes. Nathaniel Currier and James Merritt Ives attracted a wide circle of friends during their years in business. Some of their more famous acquaintances included Horace Greeley, Phineas T. Barnum, and the outspoken abolitionists Rev. Henry Ward, and John Greenleaf Whittier (the latter being a cousin of Mr. Currier). Nat Currier and Jim Ives described their business as "Publishers of Cheap and Popular Pictures" and produced many categories of prints. These included Disaster Scenes, Sentimental Images, Sports, Humor, Hunting Scenes, Politics, Religion, City and Rural Scenes, Trains, Ships, Fire Fighters, Famous Race Horses, Historical Portraits, and just about any other topic that satisfied the general public's taste. In all, the firm produced in excess of 7500 different titles, totaling over one million prints produced from 1835 to 1907. Nat Currier retired in 1880, and signed over his share of the firm to his son Edward. Nat died eight years later at his summer home 'Lion’s Gate' in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Jim Ives remained active in the firm until his death in 1895, when his share of the firm passed to his eldest son, Chauncey. In 1902, faced will failing health from the ravages of Tuberculosis, Edward Currier sold his share of the firm to Chauncey Ives...
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1870s Other Art Style Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph

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Located in Preston, GB
Female Figure Shopping in New York City Sunshine USA by Contemporary British Artist, Angela Wakefield Art measures 31.5 x 31.5 inches Frame...
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2010s Realist Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Paint, Cotton Canvas, Acrylic

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Located in Roma, IT
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Late 18th Century Modern Landscape Prints

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Etching

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Located in New York, NY
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1970s Modern Color Photography

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C Print

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Located in London, GB
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1950s Photography

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Silver Gelatin

Jacques Monory - The American Dream , 1976, Original Screenprint
Located in Paris, IDF
Jacques Monory The American Dream, 1976 Original screen print Handsigned On BFK Rives 38 x 28 cm (c. 14x 11 in) Limited to 300 proofs, not numbered INFORMATION: This work is publi...
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1970s American Modern Portrait Prints

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Screen

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Located in New Orleans, LA
In addition to having his work in museums and fine corporate collections, Alabama artist Donny Finley showed for years at prestigious Bryant Galleries on ...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Beach Patrol, Original Painting
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
"The iconic powder-blue lifeguard tower with a patriotic flag waving, stands tall on the wide Southern California beach," describes artist John Jaster. A life...

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21st Century and Contemporary American Realist Animal Paintings

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Acrylic

Original 1946 Soviet propaganda poster titled Long live the Soviet Navy!
Located in PARIS, FR
The original 1946 Soviet propaganda poster titled "Vive la Marine Soviétique!" is a powerful visual representation of the Soviet Union's maritime strength and national pride. Created...
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1940s Prints and Multiples

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Lithograph, Paper, Linen

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Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Porte Saint Denis, Paris" c.1935 in an oil painting on canvas by noted French artist Francois Gerome, born 1895 (The year of his death...
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Mid-20th Century Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Last Dance 2 - Michael Schumacher Formula 1 Mercedes, Red, Still life, Race
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Last Dance 2 - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 2011 - Edition of 5 Formula 1 , Preseason test, 2011 , Barcelona, Spain. Michael Schumacher's last appearance in the Formula 1 Preseason test Photo/Reportage exhibited in 2011 in the Hotel Augusta, Official hotel of the Ferrari and Mercedes teams during the F1 races in Catalonia/Spain. This is an Archival Pigment print on fiber based paper ( 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). The inks used are also known for their longevity. Signed + numbered by artist with certificate of authenticity. Archival pigment print available sizes ( Image size , the white margin is not counted): 75 x 52.3 cm / 29.752 x 20.47 in. - Edition of 5 101.6 x 70.8 cm/ 40 x 27.55 in. - Edition of 5 150 cm x 104.5 cm/ 59.05 x 40.94 in. - Edition of 5 Laurent Campus is an Italian freelance producer and photographer. In addition to an academic training in international trade, he has forged a solid musical, pictorial and cinematographic culture which led him gradually and naturally to the photography he has been practicing for more than twenty years full-time professionally. Its customers are brands that have supported the film industry for many years ( L'Oréal, Renault, DIOR, GENERAL MOTORS, FranckProvost, FranceTV, Canal +, EPSON, CANON, FESTIVAL DE CANNES, HFPA, VUELING, CARL F. BUCHERER , IWC, ParisMatch,…) as artists (filmmakers, actors, musicians) or producers and distributors. He has gravitated for more than 20 years at the heart of French and international cinema. Cinema photographer and reporter, making of : “Cannes Film Festival official” photographer "Official Golden Globes ceremony” photographer SONY Spain Photo...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, Color, Giclée, Pigment, Archival Pig...

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