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Pocket Conker [2023], Baroque Still Life Painting, Food Art, Autumn art
Pocket Conker [2023], Baroque Still Life Painting, Food Art, Autumn art

Pocket Conker [2023], Baroque Still Life Painting, Food Art, Autumn art

By Dani Humberstone

Located in Deddington, GB

It has helped Illustrate Fairy Tales, Mythology and The Bible. An apple in Renaissance painting was symbolic of ‘a fallen woman’ and we still use fruit analogies to describe ourselve...

Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pocket Sloes [2023], Baroque Still Life Painting, Food Art, Small art
Pocket Sloes [2023], Baroque Still Life Painting, Food Art, Small art

Pocket Sloes [2023], Baroque Still Life Painting, Food Art, Small art

By Dani Humberstone

Located in Deddington, GB

It has helped Illustrate Fairy Tales, Mythology and The Bible. An apple in Renaissance painting was symbolic of ‘a fallen woman’ and we still use fruit analogies to describe ourselve...

Category

2010s Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Mon Amour and Pistachio diptych, Original painting, Abstract, Pink Painting
Mon Amour and Pistachio diptych, Original painting, Abstract, Pink Painting

Mon Amour and Pistachio diptych, Original painting, Abstract, Pink Painting

By Wioletta Gancarz

Located in Deddington, GB

Even if Wioletta Gancarz avoids figurative forms in her paintings - the background and foreground are one - the compositions, titled Cotton Field, Colours of Heaven or Bohemian Love,...

Category

2010s Abstract Abstract Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Pocket Green Gooseberry 2 c
Pocket Green Gooseberry 2 c

Pocket Green Gooseberry 2 c

By Dani Humberstone

Located in Deddington, GB

It has helped Illustrate Fairy Tales, Mythology, The Bible and Shakespeare. etc An apple in Renaissance painting was symbolic of ‘a fallen woman’ and we still use fruit analogies to ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Spring Collection: Pocket Bluebells, Baroque Still Life, Flower art, Realism
Spring Collection: Pocket Bluebells, Baroque Still Life, Flower art, Realism

Spring Collection: Pocket Bluebells, Baroque Still Life, Flower art, Realism

By Dani Humberstone

Located in Deddington, GB

It has helped Illustrate Fairy Tales, Mythology, The Bible and Shakespeare. etc An apple in Renaissance painting was symbolic of ‘a fallen woman’ and we still use fruit analogies to ...

Category

2010s Realist Still-life Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Cast Iron Relief “The Troll and the Princess” by Christian Eriksson, Sweden
Cast Iron Relief “The Troll and the Princess” by Christian Eriksson, Sweden

Cast Iron Relief “The Troll and the Princess” by Christian Eriksson, Sweden

By Christian Eriksson

Located in Grythyttan, SE

The subject resonates strongly with the celebrated fairy-tale tradition immortalized by John Bauer, particularly in his iconic 1913 illustrations for Helena Nyblom’s tale Bortbytinga...

Category

Early 20th Century Swedish Arts and Crafts Wall-mounted Sculptures

Materials

Iron

The Enchanted Forest Lantern handmade in wrought Iron and finished in 24Ct Gold
The Enchanted Forest Lantern handmade in wrought Iron and finished in 24Ct Gold

The Enchanted Forest Lantern handmade in wrought Iron and finished in 24Ct Gold

Located in London, GB

There is an Italian word - Rosaspina which translates directly as rose thorns that is also used for the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty so we love relating this to our lantern too Entire...

Category

2010s Italian Organic Modern Chandeliers and Pendants

Materials

Brass, Wrought Iron, Gold Leaf

Original "Iolanthe" vintage stone lithograph vintage theater poster
Original "Iolanthe" vintage stone lithograph vintage theater poster

Original "Iolanthe" vintage stone lithograph vintage theater poster

Located in Spokane, WA

Above the main figure, there are smaller illustrations of various characters from the operetta, hinting at the fantastical and fairy-tale elements of the story. The title "Iolanthe" ...

Category

1920s Art Nouveau Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Lucia at 13 - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Youth, 21st Century, Color

Lucia at 13 - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Youth, 21st Century, Color

By Cristina Fontsare

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

About the work The pictures depart from the everyday reality with intentionally elements that transport us to a fairy tale world. I have being working patiently on that series since ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, C Print, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

Last Days of Summer - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Childhood, abstract

Last Days of Summer - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Childhood, abstract

By Cristina Fontsare

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

About the work The pictures depart from the everyday reality with intentionally elements that transport us to a fairy tale world. I have being working patiently on that series since ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Gil at Twelve - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Childhood, abstract

Gil at Twelve - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Childhood, abstract

By Cristina Fontsare

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

About the work The pictures depart from the everyday reality with intentionally elements that transport us to a fairy tale world. I have being working patiently on that series since ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Moors, Yorkshire, UK /// British Antique Landscape Watercolor England Country
Moors, Yorkshire, UK /// British Antique Landscape Watercolor England Country

Moors, Yorkshire, UK /// British Antique Landscape Watercolor England Country

By Harry George Theaker

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

Amongst the books he illustrated are 'The Ingoldsby Legends' by Sir Thomas Ingoldsby, London, 1911; 'Children's Stories from 'The Arabian Nights', by Rose Yeatman Woolf, 1914 (and la...

Category

1930s English School Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor

"Da Tour Boileau (Beauvais)"
"Da Tour Boileau (Beauvais)"

"Da Tour Boileau (Beauvais)"

By François Boucher

Located in Edinburgh, GB

The architectural details, such as the conical thatched roof and rustic bridges, add a fairy-tale quality, characteristic of Boucher’s decorative approach to landscape painting.

Category

18th Century Realist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Gli Amici Printed Cotton Pouf Elefante by Gaetano Pesce
Gli Amici Printed Cotton Pouf Elefante by Gaetano Pesce

Gli Amici Printed Cotton Pouf Elefante by Gaetano Pesce

By Gaetano Pesce

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Gli Amici by Gaetano Pesce for Meritalia is a design made up of eleven modules, each depicting a fantastic animal borrowed from the world of illustrated fairy tales. These 'friends' ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Ottomans and Poufs

Materials

Cotton

Gli Amici Printed Cotton Pouf Pecora by Gaetano Pesce
Gli Amici Printed Cotton Pouf Pecora by Gaetano Pesce

Gli Amici Printed Cotton Pouf Pecora by Gaetano Pesce

By Gaetano Pesce

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Gli Amici by Gaetano Pesce for Meritalia is a design made up of eleven modules, each depicting a fantastic animal borrowed from the world of illustrated fairy tales. These 'friends' ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Ottomans and Poufs

Materials

Cotton

Gli Amici Printed Cotton Fabled Armchair by Gaetano Pesce
Gli Amici Printed Cotton Fabled Armchair by Gaetano Pesce

Gli Amici Printed Cotton Fabled Armchair by Gaetano Pesce

By Gaetano Pesce

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Gli Amici by Gaetano Pesce for Meritalia is a design made up of eleven modules, each depicting a fantastic animal borrowed from the world of illustrated fairy tales. These 'friends' ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Armchairs

Materials

Cotton

Gli Amici Printed Cotton Fabled Sofa by Gaetano Pesce
Gli Amici Printed Cotton Fabled Sofa by Gaetano Pesce

Gli Amici Printed Cotton Fabled Sofa by Gaetano Pesce

By Gaetano Pesce

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Gli Amici by Gaetano Pesce for Meritalia is a design made up of eleven modules, each depicting a fantastic animal borrowed from the world of illustrated fairy tales. These 'friends' ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Sofas

Materials

Cotton

Gli Amici Printed Cotton Pouf Canarino by Gaetano Pesce
Gli Amici Printed Cotton Pouf Canarino by Gaetano Pesce

Gli Amici Printed Cotton Pouf Canarino by Gaetano Pesce

By Gaetano Pesce

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Gli Amici by Gaetano Pesce for Meritalia is a design made up of eleven modules, each depicting a fantastic animal borrowed from the world of illustrated fairy tales. These 'friends' ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Ottomans and Poufs

Materials

Cotton

Japanese Antiques 4th Head Torii Kiyotada Silk color scroll Momotaro Ukiyo-e
Japanese Antiques 4th Head Torii Kiyotada Silk color scroll Momotaro Ukiyo-e

Japanese Antiques 4th Head Torii Kiyotada Silk color scroll Momotaro Ukiyo-e

Located in Niiza, JP

Due to its hollow structure, it is lighter than it looks, and is a representative Japanese local toy Drawing small Momotaro, monkeys, and pheasants around the dog It is interesting ...

Category

Antique 19th Century Japanese Paintings and Screens

Materials

Silk, Paper

Victoria - Contemporary, Polaroid, Childhood

Victoria - Contemporary, Polaroid, Childhood

By Cristina Fontsare

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

About the work The pictures depart from the everyday reality with intentionally elements that transport us to a fairy tale world. I have being working patiently on that series since ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Remember Great Grandma
Remember Great Grandma

Remember Great Grandma

By Grey Cohoe

Located in Santa Fe, NM

WRITINGS: (Illustrator) Claude Aubry, The King of the Thousand Islands (fairy tales), translated from the French by Harvey Swados, Doubleday (Garden City, NY), 1971.

Category

1980s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Two Rabbits - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Youth, 21st Century, Color

Two Rabbits - Contemporary, Polaroid, Photograph, Youth, 21st Century, Color

By Cristina Fontsare

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

About the work The pictures depart from the everyday reality with intentionally elements that transport us to a fairy tale world. I have being working patiently on that series since ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment, Polaroid

Little Elf - Contemporary, Polaroid, Childhood

Little Elf - Contemporary, Polaroid, Childhood

By Cristina Fontsare

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

About the work The pictures depart from the everyday reality with intentionally elements that transport us to a fairy tale world. I have being working patiently on that series since ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

Sisters - Contemporary, Polaroid, Childhood

Sisters - Contemporary, Polaroid, Childhood

By Cristina Fontsare

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

About the work The pictures depart from the everyday reality with intentionally elements that transport us to a fairy tale world. I have being working patiently on that series since ...

Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

Archival Paper, Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Polaroid

1960s Hannalore Pink Chiffon Beaded Maxi Dress
1960s Hannalore Pink Chiffon Beaded Maxi Dress

1960s Hannalore Pink Chiffon Beaded Maxi Dress

Located in London, GB

This striking evening dress by Hannalore of London combines fairy tale glamour with a late 1960s to early 1970s silhouette.

Category

1960s British Evening Dresses

A witness. Contemporary acrylic Painting, Figurative, Surreal, Polish artist
A witness. Contemporary acrylic Painting, Figurative, Surreal, Polish artist

A witness. Contemporary acrylic Painting, Figurative, Surreal, Polish artist

By Mikołaj Malesza

Located in Warsaw, PL

Artwork is in a surrealistic, fairy tale style. It depicts a couple, behind them there is a large portrait of a parrot, and next to them there is a little architectural landscape.

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

A Ticking Watch
A Ticking Watch

A Ticking Watch

By Genevieve Cohn

Located in Hollywood, FL

Utilizing imagery and ideologies drawn from The Woman’s Land Army from World War I and II, female separatist communities, fairy tales and literary fiction, I create constructed commu...

Category

2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Where are you? - Contemporary, Photograph, Landscape, 21st Century, Color, Night

Where are you? - Contemporary, Photograph, Landscape, 21st Century, Color, Night

By Cristina Fontsare

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

About the work The pictures depart from everyday reality with intentional elements that transport us to a fairy tale world. I have been working patiently on that series since 2014.

Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Luminaria - Contemporary, Photograph, Light, Century, Color

Luminaria - Contemporary, Photograph, Light, Century, Color

By Cristina Fontsare

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

About the work The pictures depart from everyday reality with intentional elements that transport us to a fairy tale world. I have been working patiently on that series since 2014.

Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Don´t come with me - Contemporary, Photograph, Landscape, 21st Century, Color

Don´t come with me - Contemporary, Photograph, Landscape, 21st Century, Color

By Cristina Fontsare

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

About the work The pictures depart from everyday reality with intentional elements that transport us to a fairy tale world. I have been working patiently on that series since 2014.

Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Photography

Materials

Archival Ink, Archival Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie, Limited Ed. Illustrated and Signed by A. Rackham
The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie, Limited Ed. Illustrated and Signed by A. Rackham

The Rhinegold and the Valkyrie, Limited Ed. Illustrated and Signed by A. Rackham

By Arthur Rackham

Located in Alamo, CA

He gained widespread acclaim for his illustrations in classic fairy tales and children's literature, including works such as Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, Alice's Adventures in Wo...

Category

Early 20th Century English Books

Materials

Leather, Paper

Jean Racine Portrait: 17th C. Engraving by Edelinck in Perrault's Les Hommes
Jean Racine Portrait: 17th C. Engraving by Edelinck in Perrault's Les Hommes

Jean Racine Portrait: 17th C. Engraving by Edelinck in Perrault's Les Hommes

By Gerard Edelinck

Located in Alamo, CA

Perrault is credited with the establishment of the fairy tale as a new genre based on his book 'Histoires ou contes du temps passé' (Stories or Tales from Past Times), published in 1...

Category

Late 17th Century Old Masters Portrait Prints

Materials

Engraving

Light Elephant Wall Lamp by Imperfettolab
Light Elephant Wall Lamp by Imperfettolab

Light Elephant Wall Lamp by Imperfettolab

Located in Geneve, CH

Like a bubble that is about to take off, the luminous bulb emerges from the elephant's trunk and a fairy tale is recreated in the room. In limited edition, certified and numbered.

Category

2010s Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

Materials

Fiberglass

1950s Turquoise Layered Tulle Net Halterneck Dress
1950s Turquoise Layered Tulle Net Halterneck Dress

1950s Turquoise Layered Tulle Net Halterneck Dress

Located in London, GB

This original 1950s turquoise and net prom dress is a real show-stopping, fairy tale piece. It reminds us of the Disney Princess dress worn by Cinderella at the ball.

Category

1950s American Ball Gowns

GUFRAMINI Little GOD Miniature by Toiletpaper
GUFRAMINI Little GOD Miniature by Toiletpaper

GUFRAMINI Little GOD Miniature by Toiletpaper

By Toiletpaper, Gufram Furniture

Located in La Morra, Cuneo

GOD is the only Guframini to be produced in a limited-edition series of 1000 pieces: each one of them comes with a special numbered card to certify its uniqueness. As if in a fairy ...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Models and Miniatures

Materials

Other

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