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Art Subject: Vehicle
“Block Island”
Located in Southampton, NY
Original collage composed of realistic graphite drawing on old nautical chart of a large sailboat. Signed lower right and dated 1993. Condition is very good. The sailboat is centere...
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1990s American Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Archival Paper, Graphite

Chile House office building Hamburg with tram, 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 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: Das Chilehaus von der Straße Messberg im Kontorhausviertel in Hamburg mit Straßenbahn Richtung Altona, Deutschland 1930er Jahre. The Chile House, an old office building...
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1930s Modern Black and White Photography

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Black and White

Hot Air Balloon Panorama, Cornfield, black and white, art landscape, photography
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art landscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to order in limited editions on Ha...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

A Kodak Moment
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "A Kodak Moment" 1992 is an offset lithograph by renown Western artist Gary Carter, born 1938. It is hand signed and numbered 816/850 i...
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Late 20th Century American Realist Figurative Prints

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Lithograph

Canoe
Located in New York, NY
Sally Gall has spent her career exploring the intricacies of the natural world in delicate black-and-white photos of dew on spider webs, reflections on water, formal gardens, insects...
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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Prints

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Photogravure

Slim Aarons Estate Print 'Motorboats In Antibes'
Located in London, GB
'Motorboats In Antibes' by Slim Aarons Motorboats moored on the coast near the Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc in Antibes on the French Riviera, August 1969. Beautiful Riva motorboats are se...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

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C Print

Basilica and Gondola, Venice, black and white panorama photography, landscape
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure panorama waterscape - landscape photography. Gondolas with the Basilica in the background, Venice, Italy. Archival pigment ink print, edition o...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Digital Pigment, Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Napoli
Located in Genève, GE
Work on wood Golden wooden frame 25 x 31 x 3,5 cm
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1880s Italian School Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Frederick John Mulhaupt Winter Harbor Gloucester Landscape Painting
Located in Rockport, MA
"Moving Ice by Frederick J. Mulhaupt is an 8"x10" (without frame) 16"x13" (with frame), painting that captures a serene winter scene in Gloucester. Mulhaupt, known for his impression...
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

San Simeon
Located in New York, NY
Photographic print by Jeffrey Czum Located in Buffalo, NY, where he was born and raised, he often finds a muse in the rust-belt city he calls home. Capturing everyday objects and tr...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Photographic Paper

'The SS. San Jose', American Merchant Marine, United Fruit Company Freighter
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
The S.S. San Jose shown making way in medium water. This early refrigerated freighter, built in 1904, was designed to transport bananas between the Caribbean and the American mainlan...
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1910s American Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Board

Entrance to La Rochelle - Impressionist Landscape Oil by John Anthony Park
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed oil on canvas figures in seascape by English impressionist painter John Anthony Park. The piece depicts a view of the seaport in La Rochelle, a city on the west coast of France. Sail boats are sailing around the port on what looks to be a warm summer's day. This rare work by Park is one of the only recorded paintings...
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1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Landscape - Painting by Alberto Gillani - 1981
Located in Roma, IT
Landscape is an artwork realized by Alberto Gillani, in 1981. Oil on Canvas. 49 x 69 cm; 79 x 89 cm with frame. Handsigned in the lower margin. Very good conditions
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1950s Modern Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Twilight, New York City Oil Painting circa 1940 by M. Albers
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Margaretha E. Albers, American (1881 - 1977) Title: Twilight Year: circa 1940 Medium: Oil on Board, signed Size: 12 in. x 16 in. (30.48 cm x 40.64 cm)
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1940s American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Sunset in Yabase - Woodcut after Utagawa Hiroshige -1920s
Located in Roma, IT
Lake Biwa, sunset in Yabase is an original modern artwork realized by Utagawa Hiroshige (1797 – 12 October 1858) in 1920s. Woodcut Print Oban Yokoe Format. Reprint of of the Taisho...
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1920s Modern Figurative Prints

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Woodcut

On the Way
Located in New York, NY
This photograph is from Stephen Mallon's series of photographs: "Next Stop Atlantic" which captures the retirement of a New York City Subway car to the depths of the Atlantic Ocean. ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Color Photography

Blue Dog "Boudreaux's Lost Pirogue" Signed Numbered Silkscreen Print
Located in Mount Laurel, NJ
This Blue Dog work consists of a Cajun landscape with trees, grass and a lone canoe sitting on a river. This pop art animal original oil on canvas is hand-signed by the artist. Arti...
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Early 2000s Pop Art Animal Prints

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Screen

Heston Original Oil Painting on Canvas Large Framed Sailing Ship Seascape Art
Located in Palm Coast, FL
Large Original Oil Painting on Canvas by Heston – Tall Ship in Turbulent Sea Signed Framed Maritime Nautical Seascape This is a stunning, large original oil painting on canvas by ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil

Montgolfière
Located in Boston, MA
Thomas Bossard was born in 1971 in Poitiers, France, to a large and creative family. His mother fostered his interest in art since an early age, bringing Thomas to various museums wh...
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2010s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Sagres Ship Portrait signed oil painting
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Sagres, 1937 by Louis Letouche (French 1924-2015) oil painting on linen canvas, stretched over board framed Framed size: 16 x 19 inches Superb oil painting by the well listed French marine artist Louis Letouche (1924-2015). The painting portrays the early 20th Century ship titled: Sagres, 1937. The three-masted ship was launched under the name Albert Leo Schlageter on 30 October 1937 at Blohm & Voss in Hamburg for Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine. The ship was named after Albert Leo Schlageter, who was executed in 1923 by French forces occupying the Ruhr area. Her first commander was Bernhard Rogge. Sagres is a sister ship of the Gorch Fock, the Horst Wessel, and the Romanian training vessel Mircea. Another sister, Herbert Norkus, was not completed, while Gorch Fock II was built in 1958 by the Germans to replace the ships lost after the war. Following a number of international training voyages, the ship was used as a stationary office ship after the outbreak of World War II and was only put into ocean-going service again in 1944 in the Baltic Sea. On 14 November 1944 she hit a Soviet mine off Sassnitz and had to be towed to port in Swinemünde. Eventually transferred to Flensburg, she was taken over there by the Allies when the war ended and finally confiscated by the United States. In 1948, the U.S. sold her to Brazil for a symbolic price of $5,000 USD. She was towed to Rio de Janeiro where she sailed as a school ship for the Brazilian Navy under the name Guanabara. In 1961, Ambassador Teotónio Pereira of Portugal, who was also a man of the sea...
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1990s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Oil

Formula 1 Ferrari - Fernando Alonso, Signed limited edition still life, Race
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Formula 1 Ferrari - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 2011 - Edition of 5 Formula 1 , Preseason test, 2011 , Barcelona, Spain. Fernando Alonso for Ferrari Photo/R...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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

Antique American Impressionist Nautical Seascape Sailboat Signed Oil Painting
By Theodore Victor Carl Valenkamph
Located in Buffalo, NY
Antique American impressionist seascape painting by Theodore Victor Carl Valenkamph (1868 - 1924). Oil on canvas, circa 1900. Signed....
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Early 1900s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Blue Dawn
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
As the dawn breaks on a tranquil morning, the silvery sunlight casts a sheen on still waters. Artist Kip Decker painted two sailboats resting just off the harbor ready for the day ahead. In the short distance, shadowed mountains...

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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Landscape Paintings

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Acrylic

Barque Mary H. Vose
Located in Milford, NH
An exceptional watercolor ship portrait of the Barque Mary H. Vose by French artist Joseph Honore Maxime Pellegrin (1793-1869). Pellegrin worked and lived in Marseilles, France. His ...
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1850s Landscape Paintings

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Paper, Watercolor

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...

Floating Factory
Located in Hudson, NY
archival pigment print 24 x 24 inches unframed This contemporary, surrealist style photograph was printed by the artistic duo, Kahn & Selesnick, in 2010. The print is part of their 'Mar: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea' series which features deserted landscapes in outer space. In this image, a mysterious and otherworldly mechanism floats through the Martian landscape. It is unknown who or what is operating it. With this imagery, the artists entice an imaginative narrative where the viewer is left to conjure up their own story. About the series: "Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea" is Kahn and Selesnick’s first project to feature a female protagonist; a woman finds herself alone in a wasteland that appears to be Mars. It is uncertain how she arrived in this place, via spacecraft, through a fold in the space-time continuum or perhaps the landscape is a mental projection. Either way, it is clear that she has escaped an unnamed catastrophe on Earth. In a series of hallucinatory episodes she simultaneously explores the planet and builds a mock-life for herself from a combination of high-tech and stone-age materials. Mars is revealed to have ruined artifacts and monuments from a previous, or perhaps future, civilization. The remains of massive stone listening devices are littered about the landscape, leading us to wonder: is this a colony that has collapsed and lost touch with earth? How did its occupants become stranded? Or are these the nocturnal imaginings of a post-apocalyptic survivor? About the artists: The ultimate storytellers, who have been showing with Carrie Haddad Gallery for more than 20 years, are Nicholas Kahn and Richard Selesnick...
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2010s Contemporary Color Photography

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Archival Pigment

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

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Monotype

Flight to Manhattan, New York, USA 1962.
Located in Cologne, DE
A moment in time In 2021, a gallery from Brussels contacted us. There, a photographic collection had been kept in tin boxes for decades, consisting of 6x6 glass slides in color. Th...
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1960s Modern Color Photography

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Color

The Boats - Etching by Giovanni Omiccioli - 1970s
Located in Roma, IT
The Boats is an artwork realized by Giovanni Omiccioli (February 25, 1901 – March 1, 1975) in the 1970s. Etching print. Good conditions. Giovanni Omiccioli (February 25, 1901 – Ma...
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1970s Modern Figurative Prints

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Etching

"Atlantic Salmon Fishing" by Ogden M Pleissner
Located in Bristol, CT
Published by The Sporting Gallery New York and Frost & Reed London Printed in Germany Pencil Signed (LR) Blind Stamp (LL) Art Sz: 16"H x 24 1/4"W Frame Sz: 29 5/8"H x 36 1/2"W
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1930s Landscape Paintings

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Lithograph

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

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Paper, Lithograph

Basilica di San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, black and white photograph, limited
Located in Vienna, Vienna
Black and white fine art long exposure waterscape - cityscape photography. Archival pigment ink print as part of a limited edition of 9. All Gerald Berghammer prints are made to orde...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Archival Pigment

Circa 1910 Original poster by Ernest Montaut - Szisz sur voiture Renault
Located in PARIS, FR
The circa 1910 original poster by Ernest Montaut, titled Szisz sur voiture Renault - Gagnant du grand prix de l'A.C.F., commemorates the victory of Hungarian-French driver Ferenc Szi...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Paper, Linen, Lithograph

Barque De Peche En Mer By Henry Moret
By Henry Moret
Located in New Orleans, LA
Henry Moret 1856-1913 French Barque de Peche en Mer Fishing Boat at Sea Signed and dated “Henry Moret 1912” (lower left) Oil on canvas A beautiful gestural composition imbued with the sublime beauty of the open sea, this oil on canvas by Impressionist Henry Moret showcases the artist's deft use of color and texture. One of the most celebrated painters of the Pont-Aven School, Moret’s lasting reputation is tied to his talent for capturing the bright skies, lively waterways and the diverse coastline of northern France. With a mastery of plein air composition and a deep appreciation for the natural world, Moret's Barque de Peche en Mer renders a fishing boat navigating through the ocean. Moret creates a visceral sense of the vitality of the water and the enormity of the open skies. The artist captures the vigorous energy of the sea with a profusion of green and blue hues applied with a thick impasto. Small yet mighty against the infinite backdrop, Moret's fishing boat forges ahead. Henry Moret was born in Cherbourg in 1856, though little else is known about his early life. He entered military service as a young man in 1875, and it was during that period when Moret discovered the beauty of France’s northern coasts, particularly those of Normandy and Brittany. After his tour ended, he embarked on his artistic career, completing his formal education at the École Nationale des Beaux-Arts under Jean-Leon Gérôme, and later, from about 1880, under Jean-Paul Laurens at the Académie Julian. He exhibited for the first time at the Paris Salon in 1880, submitting a landscape of the coast of Brittany. During his time in Paris, he frequently traveled to Brittany to paint the region he so loved. In 1888, he more firmly established himself in Pont-Aven, a town whose center had become an artistic refuge for artists such as the great Paul Gauguin, Ernest Ponthier de Chamaillard, Emile Jourdan and others. Under Gauguin's influence, he briefly explored the concept of Symbolism in his works, but after Gauguin left Pont-Aven in 1891, Moret returned to his Impressionist roots. He formed a relationship with the famed dealer Durand-Ruel in 1895, and his career was officially launched. Today, his works can be found in important museums including the Manchester Art Gallery, the State Hermitage Museum (St. Petersburg), the National Gallery of Art (Washington DC) and others. Dated 1912 Canvas: 28 3/4” high x 36 3/4” wide Frame: 36 5/8" high x 44 1/8" wide Exhibited:Henry Moret, Galerie Durand-Ruel, April 5-January 29, 1966, n° 47 Provenance: Sale Marcel Bernheim...
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20th Century Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"Sailing in the Afternoon" Realist Oil Painting on Board of Sailboat in Open Sea
Located in New York, NY
George Nemethy finds his inspiration in moments of quiet and solitude. Where he finds himself one with the sea and the sky and the tranquil world which he freely escapes to. Trained from an early age by his father Albert Nemethy, a world-renowned painter known best for his large scale steamer boats, George found...
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Late 20th Century Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas, Board

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

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Canvas, Oil

Belle Époque original poster by Albert Guillaume - La nouvelle chasse à courre
Located in PARIS, FR
In the golden age of Belle Époque Paris, the world of art and satire converged with a vibrant energy, encapsulating the spirit of the era. Among the luminaries who illuminated this p...
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Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

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Linen, Lithograph, Paper

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...

W R Scarisbrick - Framed Mid 20th Century Watercolour, Waterloo
Located in Corsham, GB
A refined late 19th Century nautical painting of the cargo ship, waterloo at full mast. Signed to the lower right-hand corner. Attractively...
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Mid-20th Century Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

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Watercolor

Venice - Gondolas on Waterfront, Italy, 1950s, 17, 3 x 11, 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

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Silver Gelatin, Black and White

Last Stop
Located in Slovak Republic, SK
The picture belongs to a collection of NYC photographs, which Kallay done in 1965 for a German publisher.
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1960s Photorealist Black and White Photography

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Photographic Paper

Picasso & Villers, Composition, Diurnes Découpages et Photographies (after)
Located in Auburn Hills, MI
Phototype and Stencil on wove paper. Unsigned and unnumbered, as issued. Good condition. Notes: From the folio, Diurnes Découpages et Photographies, 1962. Published by Berggruen, Par...
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1960s Modern Landscape Prints

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Photogravure, Stencil

Montgolfière
Located in Boston, MA
Thomas Bossard was born in 1971 in Poitiers, France, to a large and creative family. His mother fostered his interest in art since an early age, bringing Thomas to various museums wh...
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2010s Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

"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

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Gouache

World Class Sailboats on the Open Seas, Classic, Horizontal, Minimalist
Located in US
"In Sync" The iconic super yachts Lionheart, Ranger, Rainbow, and Velsheda appear to work together to create a pattern where there was none in this timeless and classic black and white photograph...
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2010s Contemporary Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

Sailboats. Watercolor on paper, 24x18 cm
Located in Riga, LV
Sailboats. Watercolor on paper, 24x18 cm Zigmunds Šņore was born in 1942 in Latvia. His works has been exhibited since 1969 and are held in private collections in Latvia, USA, Swed...
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2010s Realist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Airacuda Fighter Planes Art Deco Machine Age 20th Century American Modernism
Located in New York, NY
Airacuda Fighter Planes Art Deco Machine Age 20th Century American Modernism Arthur Rosenman Ross (1913 - 1981) Bell YFM-1 Airacuda Fighter Planes 17 1/2 x 26 1/2 inches Gouache, Airbrush and Ink on Illustration Board, 1938 Signed A. Ross lower right Provenance: Estate of the artist. BIO Arthur Rosenman Ross was a key figure in automotive design at General Motors during America's "Golden Age" of auto design, the 1930's through the 1950s. He attended the Art Institute of Chicago from age 17, exhibiting a special interest for automotive renderings and the female figure. In 1934, he changed his name from Rosenman to Ross, fearing his Jewish ancestry could prejudice his career prospects. At age 20, he turned down job offers from MGM Studios in Hollywood and Duesenberg to work at General Motors alongside the Legendary Harley Earl in 1935. He was hand picked by Mr. Earl and assigned to GM's War and Camouflage Division in 1937 through WW2. It was during this pivotal period in which he executed some extraordinary military aircraft artworks, likely used between GM and America's military aeronautics companies in design preparation for WW2. General Motors played an important role in helping America's aircraft manufacturers preceding and during the war. Just after the war in 1945, Mr. Ross was rewarded by GM, being made Chief Designer of Cadillac, then two years later becoming Chief at Oldsmobile until his retirement in 1959. He was in large part responsible for some of GM's classic Cadillac designs such as the Cadillac Sixty Special, Fleetwood, LaSalle and GM's first concept car, the extraordinary Buick Y-Job. Mr. Ross was an exceptionally charismatic and vivacious man who quite by chance, befriended His idol, Salvador Dali at GM in 1955. They talked about art, cars and girls late into the evening, according to his son, Carter Ross. He had a gift in rendering the erotic arts...
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1930s American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Ink, Gouache, Board

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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Archival Pigment

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Canvas, Acrylic

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19th Century Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

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Located in London, GB
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1920s Post-Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

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Oil

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1950s Photorealist Black and White Photography

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Archival Pigment

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1980s Realist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Cardboard

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Late 19th Century Landscape Paintings

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