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Original Ronald Shap figure drawing
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing

Original Ronald Shap figure drawing

By Ronald Shap

Located in Las Vegas, NV

His erotic and sometimes grotesque nudes are reminiscent of Egon Schiele, and the Miami Vice / Memphis Design pastel trend that dominated the 1980s art world can be clearly seen in h...

Category

1980s Pop Art Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil Pastel

Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Pitti, Sala Bianca, Firenze'

Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Pitti, Sala Bianca, Firenze'

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Sunset Abstract Painting, Neo-Expressionist, Oil Crayon & Pastel
Sunset Abstract Painting, Neo-Expressionist, Oil Crayon & Pastel

Sunset Abstract Painting, Neo-Expressionist, Oil Crayon & Pastel

By Jean Sanglar

Located in Miami, FL

Burlesque was the dimension of this universe: theatre of his phantasmagoric creations where the representation of a surrealistic and grotesque humanity take place. Evolving in rapid ...

Category

Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Upside-Down Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media Painting, Late 20th Century
Upside-Down Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media Painting, Late 20th Century

Upside-Down Neo-Expressionist Mixed Media Painting, Late 20th Century

By Jean Sanglar

Located in Miami, FL

Burlesque was the dimension of this universe: theatre of his phantasmagoric creations where the representation of a surrealistic and grotesque humanity take place. Evolving in rapid ...

Category

Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Acrobatic shadows
Acrobatic shadows

Acrobatic shadows

By Jean Sanglar

Located in Miami, FL

Burlesque was the dimension of this universe: theatre of his phantasmagoric creations where the representation of a surrealistic and grotesque humanity take place. Evolving in rapid ...

Category

Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Drotthingholm Palace,  Svezia

Drotthingholm Palace, Svezia

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Museo Correr II, Venice

Museo Correr II, Venice

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Massimo Listri 'Reggia di Portici II, Naples, Italy'

Massimo Listri 'Reggia di Portici II, Naples, Italy'

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Ducale, Massa, Italy'

Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Ducale, Massa, Italy'

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Pierre Jacob - Dali Pop Portrait
Pierre Jacob - Dali Pop Portrait

Pierre Jacob - Dali Pop Portrait

By Pierre Jacob

Located in Saint-Didier, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Technical Description : Acrylic painting on canvas Dimensions : 100 x 100 cm A leaping, grotesque character occupies the space. Around, everything is confused: lunar ground, green ...

Category

2010s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Acrylic

Palazzo Pitti, Sala Bianca, Firenze

Palazzo Pitti, Sala Bianca, Firenze

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Drotthingholm Palace,  Svezia

Drotthingholm Palace, Svezia

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Massimo Listri 'Opera National, Paris, France

Massimo Listri 'Opera National, Paris, France

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

The High Cost Of Free Speech Shepard Fairey Print Signed & Numbered Politics
The High Cost Of Free Speech Shepard Fairey Print Signed & Numbered Politics

The High Cost Of Free Speech Shepard Fairey Print Signed & Numbered Politics

By Shepard Fairey

Located in Draper, UT

Years ago, while in Paris, I came upon several heavily armored cops standing over a kid in a t-shirt who they were detaining, forcefully, agressively. A blatant and grotesque display...

Category

2010s Street Art Still-life Prints

Materials

Screen

Roman school, circa 1740. Countryside Interlude with Horses near Rome.
Roman school, circa 1740. Countryside Interlude with Horses near Rome.

Roman school, circa 1740. Countryside Interlude with Horses near Rome.

Located in Firenze, IT

The Bamboccianti depicted scenes of everyday life with realism and detail, often with a humorous or grotesque touch. The Nordic painters, such as Pieter van Laer (known as "Il Bamboc...

Category

18th Century Italian School Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Ducale, Massa, Italy'

Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Ducale, Massa, Italy'

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Warthog, Drypoint Etching by Leonard Baskin, 1969
Warthog, Drypoint Etching by Leonard Baskin, 1969

Warthog, Drypoint Etching by Leonard Baskin, 1969

By Leonard Baskin

Located in Long Island City, NY

Baskin is well known for his somewhat grotesque, intricate, surreal drawings and natural subject matter.

Category

1970s Surrealist Animal Prints

Materials

Drypoint, Etching

Metropolitan Museum, New York

Metropolitan Museum, New York

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Ducale, Massa, Italy'

Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Ducale, Massa, Italy'

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Night Shift - Contemporary Powerful Figurative Oil Painting, Large Format
Night Shift - Contemporary Powerful Figurative Oil Painting, Large Format

Night Shift - Contemporary Powerful Figurative Oil Painting, Large Format

By Jakub Malinowski

Located in Hallein, AT

The motifs that interest him balance on the border of classical patterns and grotesque. Main point of inspiration for his artwork is the landscape of the Polish Baltic coast, providi...

Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

Jaral de Berrio V, Guanajuato, Mexico

Jaral de Berrio V, Guanajuato, Mexico

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Massimo Listri 'Castello di Rivoli'

Massimo Listri 'Castello di Rivoli'

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Metropolitan Museum, New York

Metropolitan Museum, New York

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

= Palazzo Pitti, Sala Bianca, Firenze

= Palazzo Pitti, Sala Bianca, Firenze

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Ducale, Massa, Italy'

Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Ducale, Massa, Italy'

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

1908 poster Le Crime National - the Separation of Church and State
1908 poster Le Crime National - the Separation of Church and State

1908 poster Le Crime National - the Separation of Church and State

Located in PARIS, FR

Below him, a broken cross and a crumbling inscription reading “Et super hanc petram ædificabo Ecclesiam meam” (“Upon this rock, I will build my Church”) symbolize the destruction of ...

Category

Early 1900s Prints and Multiples

Materials

Paper, Lithograph

Massimo Listri 'Drotthingholm Palace, Svezia'

Massimo Listri 'Drotthingholm Palace, Svezia'

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Massimo Listri 'Metropolitan Museum, New York'

Massimo Listri 'Metropolitan Museum, New York'

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Cindy Sherman Vinyl Record Art

Cindy Sherman Vinyl Record Art

By Cindy Sherman

Located in NEW YORK, NY

Sherman’s images range from the beautiful to the grotesque; she’s used elaborate costumes, extensive makeup, and wigs to build her characters and has, in recent years, embraced digit...

Category

Early 2000s Pop Art Photography

Materials

Plastic, Offset

Christian Art and Portraits - Original Lithograph  - 19th Century

Christian Art and Portraits - Original Lithograph - 19th Century

Located in Roma, IT

A fascinating piece of art represents portraits on the lower and Christian grotesque art at the top, through short and soft strokes, details of the artworks are perfectly applied thr...

Category

19th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

"Storytime" (2023) By Allen Williams, Original Graphite Drawing
"Storytime" (2023) By Allen Williams, Original Graphite Drawing

"Storytime" (2023) By Allen Williams, Original Graphite Drawing

By Allen Williams

Located in Denver, CO

"Storytime" (2023) by Allen Williams is an original graphite drawing on Strathmore medium weight drawing paper that depicts a young girl reading a book with a grotesque monster sitti...

Category

2010s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Graphite

Card Game in the Countryside. Circa 1740. Roman school: Bamboccianti.
Card Game in the Countryside. Circa 1740. Roman school: Bamboccianti.

Card Game in the Countryside. Circa 1740. Roman school: Bamboccianti.

Located in Firenze, IT

The Bamboccianti depicted scenes of everyday life with realism and detail, often with a humorous or grotesque touch. The Nordic painters, such as Pieter van Laer (known as "Il Bamboc...

Category

18th Century Italian School Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

George Romodo - An Eccentric Mimic, 19th Century Engraving, Unframed
George Romodo - An Eccentric Mimic, 19th Century Engraving, Unframed

George Romodo - An Eccentric Mimic, 19th Century Engraving, Unframed

Located in Bournemouth, Dorset

From this however they soon recovered, on discovering the grotesque figure of our hero, with whom they were soon so highly delighted, that a subscription was set on foot for his bene...

Category

19th Century Figurative Prints

Materials

Engraving

Hommage à Baselitz: Neo-Expressionist Painting, Late 20th Century
Hommage à Baselitz: Neo-Expressionist Painting, Late 20th Century

Hommage à Baselitz: Neo-Expressionist Painting, Late 20th Century

By Jean Sanglar

Located in Miami, FL

Burlesque was the dimension of this universe: theatre of his phantasmagoric creations where the representation of a surrealistic and grotesque humanity take place. Evolving in rapid ...

Category

Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Ducale, Massa, Italy'

Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Ducale, Massa, Italy'

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed
Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed

Original Ronald Shap figure drawing, signed

By Ronald Shap

Located in Las Vegas, NV

His erotic and sometimes grotesque nudes are reminiscent of Egon Schiele, and the Miami Vice / Memphis Design pastel trend that dominated the 1980s art world can be clearly seen in h...

Category

1980s Pop Art Nude Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Oil Pastel, Gouache

Metropolitan Museum, New York

Metropolitan Museum, New York

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Enrico Baj, General, from XXe siecle, 1962
Enrico Baj, General, from XXe siecle, 1962

Enrico Baj, General, from XXe siecle, 1962

By Enrico Baj

Located in Southampton, NY

Baj became internationally known for his satirical Generali and Parate Militari series, in which he used found materials—buttons, medals, fabrics, and epaulettes—to construct grotesq...

Category

1960s Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Massimo Listri 'Leo France - Seves II, Firenze'

Massimo Listri 'Leo France - Seves II, Firenze'

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Matrix of Amnesia - mixed media by John Isaacs - 1999

Matrix of Amnesia - mixed media by John Isaacs - 1999

By John Isaacs

Located in Roma, IT

Its variation from one element to another is linked to an incessant search in the unknown world of nature, exploring the complex themes that are linked to the unknowns of destiny, th...

Category

1990s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Mixed Media

Selfportrait as Uninhabited City - mixed media by John Isaacs - 2001

Selfportrait as Uninhabited City - mixed media by John Isaacs - 2001

By John Isaacs

Located in Roma, IT

Its variation from one element to another is linked to an incessant search in the unknown world of nature, exploring the complex themes that are linked to the unknowns of destiny, th...

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Photography

Materials

Mixed Media

Naked Blues Abstract Painting, Oil Crayon & Pastel, Late 20th Century
Naked Blues Abstract Painting, Oil Crayon & Pastel, Late 20th Century

Naked Blues Abstract Painting, Oil Crayon & Pastel, Late 20th Century

By Jean Sanglar

Located in Miami, FL

Burlesque was the dimension of this universe: theatre of his phantasmagoric creations where the representation of a surrealistic and grotesque humanity take place. Evolving in rapid ...

Category

Late 20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

La Paysanne Tournee a Gauche, Les Mains Appuyees L’Une sue L’Autre
La Paysanne Tournee a Gauche, Les Mains Appuyees L’Une sue L’Autre

La Paysanne Tournee a Gauche, Les Mains Appuyees L’Une sue L’Autre

By Jacques Callot

Located in Fairlawn, OH

Callot also had a genius for caricature and the grotesque. His series of plates of single or dual figures—for example, the Balli di Sfessania (“Dance of Sfessania”), the Caprices of ...

Category

1610s Old Masters Figurative Prints

Materials

Etching

Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Pitti, Sala Bianca, Firenze'

Massimo Listri 'Palazzo Pitti, Sala Bianca, Firenze'

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Baby, Impressionist Oil Painting on Masonite by Jonah Kinigstein
Baby, Impressionist Oil Painting on Masonite by Jonah Kinigstein

Baby, Impressionist Oil Painting on Masonite by Jonah Kinigstein

By Jonah Kinigstein

Located in Long Island City, NY

He works in the scorched earth tradition of such 18th- and 19th-century cartoonists as James Gillray, George Cruikshank, and Joseph Keppler, and embraces their somewhat rococo pen an...

Category

1960s Impressionist Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Masonite

Silver Gelatin Photograph Hand Signed Photo Pablo Picasso Lucien Clergue
Silver Gelatin Photograph Hand Signed Photo Pablo Picasso Lucien Clergue

Silver Gelatin Photograph Hand Signed Photo Pablo Picasso Lucien Clergue

By Lucien Clergue

Located in Surfside, FL

By his 70s, many paintings, ink drawings and prints have as their theme an old, grotesque dwarf as the doting lover of a beautiful young model.

Category

20th Century Modern Black and White Photography

Materials

Silver Gelatin

LEO FRANCE - Seves II, Firenze

LEO FRANCE - Seves II, Firenze

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

1990s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Palazzo Pitti, Sala Bianca, Firenze

Palazzo Pitti, Sala Bianca, Firenze

By Massimo Listri

Located in New York, NY

Captured frontally or in profile, these carved faces range from grotesque to idealized and serve to celebrate the power of the artist’s hand.

Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

C Print

Photomaton
Photomaton

Photomaton

By Jean Sanglar

Located in Miami, FL

Burlesque was the dimension of this universe: theatre of his phantasmagoric creations where the representation of a surrealistic and grotesque humanity take place. Evolving in rapid ...

Category

Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

Le Passeur
Le Passeur

Le Passeur

By Jean Sanglar

Located in Miami, FL

Burlesque was the dimension of this universe: theatre of his phantasmagoric creations where the representation of a surrealistic and grotesque humanity take place. Evolving in rapid ...

Category

Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil Crayon, Oil Pastel, Pastel, Mixed Media, Oil, Acrylic

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