$725
Southend On Sea Sunrise - oversized signed limited edition print
By Homer Sykes
Located in London, GB
With Bill Brandt, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith, Walter Sickert and Keith Vaughan.[44] Permanent collections Birmingham Central Library[45] British Council[...
Color, Archival Pigment
Royal Ascot Car Park Picnic England - oversized signed limited edition print
By Homer Sykes
Located in London, GB
With Bill Brandt, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith, Walter Sickert and Keith Vaughan.[44] Permanent collections Birmingham Central Library[45] British Council[...
Color, Archival Pigment
Glyndebourne Opera Festival England - oversized signed limited edition print
By Homer Sykes
Located in London, GB
With Bill Brandt, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith, Walter Sickert and Keith Vaughan.[44] Permanent collections Birmingham Central Library[45] British Council[...
Color, Archival Pigment
Last Day Chelsea Flower Show England - oversized signed limited edition print
By Homer Sykes
Located in London, GB
With Bill Brandt, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith, Walter Sickert and Keith Vaughan.[44] Permanent collections Birmingham Central Library[45] British Council[...
Color, Archival Pigment
Fisherman Fly Box Hampshire England - oversized signed limited edition print
By Homer Sykes
Located in London, GB
With Bill Brandt, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith, Walter Sickert and Keith Vaughan.[44] Permanent collections Birmingham Central Library[45] British Council[...
Color, Archival Pigment
British Weather At Chelsea England - oversized signed limited edition print
By Homer Sykes
Located in London, GB
With Bill Brandt, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith, Walter Sickert and Keith Vaughan.[44] Permanent collections Birmingham Central Library[45] British Council[...
Color, Archival Pigment
Eton College School Windsor England - oversized signed limited edition print
By Homer Sykes
Located in London, GB
With Bill Brandt, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith, Walter Sickert and Keith Vaughan.[44] Permanent collections Birmingham Central Library[45] British Council[...
Color, Archival Pigment
Top Hat Epsom Derby England - oversized signed limited edition print
By Homer Sykes
Located in London, GB
With Bill Brandt, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith, Walter Sickert and Keith Vaughan.[44] Permanent collections Birmingham Central Library[45] British Council[...
Color, Archival Pigment
Duke Of Beaufort Hunt Gloucestershire - oversized signed limited edition print
By Homer Sykes
Located in London, GB
With Bill Brandt, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith, Walter Sickert and Keith Vaughan.[44] Permanent collections Birmingham Central Library[45] British Council[...
Color, Archival Pigment
New Mexico Old Boys - oversized signed limited edition print
By Homer Sykes
Located in London, GB
With Bill Brandt, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith, Walter Sickert and Keith Vaughan.[44] Permanent collections Birmingham Central Library[45] British Council[...
Archival Pigment, Black and White
San Francisco Bay with Angel Island
By Henry Walter Smith
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right "Henry W. Smith" and painted circa 1955. A substantial and period mid-century watercolor landscape showing a view of San Francisco Bay with Angel Island at the ce...
Watercolor, Archival Paper
Sold
H 40 in W 60 in
Buckingham Palace Garden Party England - oversized signed limited edition print
By Homer Sykes
Located in London, GB
With Bill Brandt, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith, Walter Sickert and Keith Vaughan.[44] Permanent collections Birmingham Central Library[45] British Council[...
Color, Archival Pigment
Sold
H 40 in W 60 in
Glyndebourne Opera Picnic - oversized signed limited edition print
By Homer Sykes
Located in London, GB
With Bill Brandt, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith, Walter Sickert and Keith Vaughan.[44] Permanent collections Birmingham Central Library[45] British Council[...
Color, Archival Pigment
Sold
H 30 in W 40 in
The Ritz New Year's Eve - oversized signed limited edition print
By Homer Sykes
Located in London, GB
With Bill Brandt, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith, Walter Sickert and Keith Vaughan.[44] Permanent collections Birmingham Central Library[45] British Council[...
Color, Archival Pigment
Sold
H 30 in W 40 in
Royals Buckingham Palace Garden Party - oversized signed limited edition print
By Homer Sykes
Located in London, GB
With Bill Brandt, Jacob Epstein, Lucian Freud, Henry Moore, Matthew Smith, Walter Sickert and Keith Vaughan.[44] Permanent collections Birmingham Central Library[45] British Council[...
Color, Archival Pigment
$2,000
H 40 in W 30 in
Herefordshire House 1995 Signed Limited Edition
By Christopher Simon Sykes
Located in London, GB
'Herefordshire House' by Christopher Simon Sykes An open window gives a view along a country lane in Herefordshire, from the home of filmmaker John Bulmer and sculptor Angela Connor...
C Print, Color
French Polo Crowd
By Slim Aarons
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A group of spectators at a polo match, France, circa 1950. Slim Aarons French Polo Crowd Black and White Photography Slim Aarons Estate Edition Numbered and stamped by the Slim Aaro...
Emulsion, Photographic Paper, ABS, Black and White, Digital, Photogram
$6,500
H 60 in W 60 in
Garden Party Huge Oversize Slim Aarons Limited Estate Stamped Edition
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Garden Party. An elegant garden party in Miami, Florida, 1970. Huge oversize 60 x 60" inches / 152 x 152 cm paper size Estate Stamped Collection Edition to 150 Photo by Slim Aaro...
Archival Pigment
$5,310
H 26.38 in W 36.62 in
Untitled (#08-22) by Pawel Żak - Contemporary studio photography, flowers
By Pawel Żak
Located in Paris, FR
Untitled (#08-22) is a limited edition photograph by Polish contemporary artist Pawel Żak. This photograph is sold unframed as a print only. It is available in the size 67 x 93 cm (...
Photographic Paper, Inkjet
$1,200
H 11 in W 14 in
Chad Kleitsch - Untitled Flower # 156, Photography 2002, Printed After
By Chad Kleitsch
Located in Greenwich, CT
Untitled Flower # 156 Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Matte Paper with Epson archival quality ink Edition of 25 Available sizes: 11" x 14” 20" x 24” 30" x 30” 30" x 40” 40" x 40" 48" x 48” 48" ...
Archival Pigment
$946
H 33.47 in W 33.47 in D 1.97 in
Fish and Chips Van Square, Haddenham - English Vintage Countryside Color Photo
By Richard Heeps
Located in Cambridge, GB
A classic British fish & chips van, on a classic English day Haddenham Steam Rally Country Fair, photograph by Richard Heeps. This artwork is a limited edition of 25 gloss phot...
Photographic Paper, C Print, Color, Silver Gelatin
$2,000
H 40 in W 30 in
Leixlip Castle 1990 Signed Limited Edition
By Christopher Simon Sykes
Located in London, GB
Leixlip Castle circa 1990 by Christopher Simon Sykes An oil painting, various saddles and an old trunk in Leixlip Castle, County Kildare, 1990s. (Photo by Christopher Simon Sykes) ...
C Print, Color
$2,400
H 12 in W 12 in D 0.1 in
Eton-Harrow Match 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Eton-Harrow Match 1955 - Slim Aarons Estate Stamped Lord’s achieves its sartorial and social pinnacle for a school event – the annual Eton-Harrow Match 12 x 12" inches / 30 x 30 cm...
Archival Pigment
$2,299
H 90.1 in W 90.1 in D 1 in
UNTITLED GARDEN 7, Floral Photography, Contemporary, Floral, Paper
By Allan Forsyth
Located in Deddington, GB
UNTITLED GARDEN 7 Archival pigment print on 305gsm 100% cotton Hahnemühle Edition 24 Bespoke sizes available Numbered, signed and supplied with a Certificate of Authenticity Prints ...
Archival Pigment
$2,000
H 30 in W 40 in
Miscellany Doddington Hall 1990 Signed Limited Edition
By Christopher Simon Sykes
Located in London, GB
Miscellany circa 1990 by Christopher Simon Sykes A wall of discarded implements, including a large scythe, in the attics at Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire circa 1990 This beautiful...
C Print, Color
'Eton-Harrow Match' (Slim Aarons Estate Edition)
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
'Eton-Harrow Match' Lord’s achieves its sartorial and social pinnacle for a school event – the annual Eton-Harrow Match, 1955. Gorgeous print measuring 40 x 40" inches / ca 101 x ...
Archival Pigment
$1,200
H 11 in W 14 in
Chad Kleitsch - Untitled Flower # 114, Photography 2006, Printed After
By Chad Kleitsch
Located in Greenwich, CT
Untitled Flower # 114 Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Matte Paper with Epson archival quality ink Edition of 25 Available sizes: 11" x 14” 20" x 24” 30" x 30” 30" x 40” 40" x 40" 48" x 48” 48" ...
Archival Pigment
$980
H 30 in W 40 in
'Backgammon Hood' 1984 Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print
By Alain Le Garsmeur
Located in London, GB
'Backgammon Hood' 1984 by Alain Le Garsmeur Limited Edition Archival Pigment Print Friends playing backgammon on the hood of a car during a break at a polo match, Kentucky, USA, 1...
Archival Pigment, Color
$2,000
H 40 in W 30 in
Leixlip Castle 1990 Signed Limited Edition
By Christopher Simon Sykes
Located in London, GB
Leixlip Castle circa 1990 by Christopher Simon Sykes An oil painting, various saddles and an old trunk in Leixlip Castle, County Kildare, 1990s. (Photo by Christopher Simon Sykes) ...
C Print, Color
$2,824
H 19.69 in W 13.9 in D 0.08 in
Lovers - Signed limited edition fine art print, Color, Plant, Analog, Nature
By Ian Sanderson
Located in Sant Cugat del Vallès, Barcelona
Lovers - Signed limited edition archival pigment print, 1993 - Edition of 5 This image was captured on film. The negative was scanned creating a digital file which was then pr...
Photographic Film, Archival Paper, Pigment, Archival Pigment, Color, Pho...
Slim Aarons - Eton-Harrow Match - Estate Stamped
By Slim Aarons
Located in London, GB
Eton-Harrow Match Lord’s achieves its sartorial and social pinnacle for a school event – the annual Eton-Harrow Match. 1955 Gorgeous print measuring a large 40 x 40" inches / ca 10...
Archival Pigment
The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.
Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.
The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.
Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.
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Life becomes art in figurative photography. Shared moments are captured and history is recorded in images of people and their lives.
Figurative photography is often used to describe a kind of photography in which people are the subject. Early black and white photography of people can be a glimpse into a past century — witness the celebrated work of photographers such as Ansel Adams or lesser-known artists like Berenice Abbott, for example. The cultural and social standards of the time are captured in these figurative photographs.
Mid-century photos might show the life and fashions of the day, sometimes with the shared thread of humanity, joy and love. Indeed, figurative photographs can be a source of inspiration and wonder, speaking of common life experiences and beauty. Vintage photos of celebrities and iconic actors can be valuable keepsakes as snapshots of a bygone era.
Just as if you were bringing paintings, prints or drawings into your space as part of the decor, there are many ways to arrange your figurative photography. Large photos can be statement pieces in a room. Smaller photographs can be placed on bookcases or on compact wall spaces to add an artistic element to a living room or a bedroom.
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