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Job in despair

Job in despair

By Marc Chagall

Located in Paris, FR

Lithograph, 1960 Unsigned lithograph from the book "Drawings for the Bible" composed of 24 color lithographs Publisher : Verve (Paris) Printer : Mourlot (Paris) Catalog : Mourlot 254...

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1960s Abstract Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Marc Chagall Fauvist Lithograph, Unsigned, 1960, "Job in Despair"

Marc Chagall Fauvist Lithograph, Unsigned, 1960, "Job in Despair"

By Marc Chagall

Located in Washington, DC

Artist: Marc Chagall Title: Job in Despair Portfolio: Drawings for the Bible Medium: Lithograph Date: 1960 Edition: Unnumbered Sheet Size: 14 3/8" x 10 1/4" Image Size: 14 3/8" x 10 ...

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1960s Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Marc Chagall "Job In Despair" lithograph
Marc Chagall "Job In Despair" lithograph

Marc Chagall "Job In Despair" lithograph

By Marc Chagall

Located in Boston, MA

Artist: Chagall, Marc Title: Job In Despair Series: Bible Date: 1960 Medium: Lithograph Unframed Dimensions: 13.9" x 10.5" Framed Dimensions: 24" x 20.5" Signature: Unsigned ...

Category

1960s Modern Prints and Multiples

Materials

Lithograph

Robert Indiana, Peace Plunges in Despair silkscreen  (Rare hand signed/N AP)
Robert Indiana, Peace Plunges in Despair silkscreen  (Rare hand signed/N AP)

Robert Indiana, Peace Plunges in Despair silkscreen (Rare hand signed/N AP)

By Robert Indiana

Located in New York, NY

"It becomes particularly desperate when the peace symbol is inverted and is really plunging in despair. I grew a little weary of my own despair and my own grief." — Robert Indiana R...

Category

Early 2000s Pop Art Abstract Prints

Materials

Screen

Job in Despair - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
Job in Despair - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960

Job in Despair - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960

By Marc Chagall

Located in Roma, IT

Color lithograph realized by Marc Chagall in 1960 to illustrate "The Bible". Edition of 6500, published by Tériade in no. 33 and 34 of the Art Magazine Verve. Printed by Mourlot an...

Category

1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Job in Despair - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960
Job in Despair - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960

Job in Despair - Lithograph by Marc Chagall - 1960

By Marc Chagall

Located in Roma, IT

Color lithograph realized by Marc Chagall in 1960 to illustrate "The Bible".  Edition of 6500, published by Tériade in no. 33 and 34 of the Art Magazine Verve. Printed by Mourlot a...

Category

1960s Surrealist Figurative Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Marc Chagall, Job in Despair, from Drawings for the Bible, 1960
Marc Chagall, Job in Despair, from Drawings for the Bible, 1960

Marc Chagall, Job in Despair, from Drawings for the Bible, 1960

By Marc Chagall

Located in Southampton, NY

This exquisite lithograph by Marc Chagall (1887–1985), titled Job En Desespoir (Job in Despair), from Marc Chagall, Dessins Pour La Bible (Drawings for the Bible), Verve: Revue Artis...

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1960s Expressionist Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Night Sky/ Low Tide Formation

Night Sky/ Low Tide Formation

By Gigi Mills

Located in New York, NY

She also bears witness to what is often disregarded or held in despair by lifting it up in beauty.

Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Paper, Crayon, Oil

'My Heart That Blooms in the Darkness of The Night'
'My Heart That Blooms in the Darkness of The Night'

'My Heart That Blooms in the Darkness of The Night'

By Yayoi Kusama

Located in New York, NY

The piece’s title evokes a poetic contrast of light blooming in darkness which suggests themes of resilience, love, and the persistence of beauty even in despair. The inclusion of vi...

Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Copper

Circus/Camel and Balancing Poodles

Circus/Camel and Balancing Poodles

By Gigi Mills

Located in New York, NY

It is also her desire to bare witness to, and often to lift up in beauty what is so often considered unwanted or held in despair. Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the well known Mil...

Category

2010s Minimalist Prints and Multiples

Materials

Archival Paper, Giclée

The Meadow
The Meadow

The Meadow

By Gigi Mills

Located in New York, NY

It is also my aim to bare witness to, and often lift up in beauty what is so often considered unwanted or held in despair. I work in oil on canvas, linen, birch panel, paper, and som...

Category

2010s Landscape Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

"His parting from Leonora was slow, sweet, endless."
"His parting from Leonora was slow, sweet, endless."

"His parting from Leonora was slow, sweet, endless."

By Dean Cornwell

Located in Fort Washington, PA

The illustration depicts the lovers in a rowboat, with Rafael hunched forward in despair, clutching the oars. He realizes their love, and his political career, may not survive the to...

Category

1910s Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil, Board

African Children Suffer Famine and Despair in Hot Colors - Africa is Bleeding
African Children Suffer Famine and Despair in Hot Colors - Africa is Bleeding

African Children Suffer Famine and Despair in Hot Colors - Africa is Bleeding

By Victor Olson

Located in Miami, FL

An intense and powerful study of five undernourished and perhaps starving African children partly superimposed and partly integrated into the silhouette of the African continent. The...

Category

1970s Realist Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Watercolor, Graphite

Tennis/Green

Tennis/Green

By Gigi Mills

Located in New York, NY

It is also my aim to bare witness to, and often lift up in beauty what is so often considered unwanted or held in despair. I work in oil on canvas, linen, birch panel, paper, and som...

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21st Century and Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Art Deco Vanity Fair Magazine Illustration Lesbians in 1920
Art Deco Vanity Fair Magazine Illustration Lesbians in 1920

Art Deco Vanity Fair Magazine Illustration Lesbians in 1920

Located in Miami, FL

. / As the young must be in fashion, it is only the middle-aged and somewhat plump that can meet on equal terms in affection and love of much rich food. The cupids in despair become ...

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1920s Art Deco Figurative Drawings and Watercolors

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pen

“Bride’s Cookbook, ” Kitchen Catastrophe, Collier’s Cover
“Bride’s Cookbook, ” Kitchen Catastrophe, Collier’s Cover

“Bride’s Cookbook, ” Kitchen Catastrophe, Collier’s Cover

By Elmer Pirson

Located in Fort Washington, PA

The gleaming diamonds on her engagement and new wedding ring are prominently displayed on the hand she holds to her face in despair. On the same hand, a bandaged thumb subtly undersc...

Category

20th Century Other Art Style Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

19th Century American Landscape Mourning Silk Embroidery Illustration
19th Century American Landscape Mourning Silk Embroidery Illustration

19th Century American Landscape Mourning Silk Embroidery Illustration

Located in West Palm Beach, FL

Thy spirit dwells among the Blest (sic) ' The right side expertly embroidered and painted with a harrowing scene under a willow tree with three male loved ones in despair leaning,...

Category

Antique Mid-19th Century American American Classical Console Tables

Materials

Metallic Thread

French 19th Century oil painting of The rescue of Deianara by Emile Menard
French 19th Century oil painting of The rescue of Deianara by Emile Menard

French 19th Century oil painting of The rescue of Deianara by Emile Menard

Located in Petworth, West Sussex

The centaur's toxic blood burned Heracles terribly, and eventually, he threw himself into a funeral pyre. In despair, Deianira committed suicide by hanging herself or with a sword.

Category

19th Century Academic Landscape Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Harper's July,  The German Struggle for Liberty original art nouveau poster
Harper's July,  The German Struggle for Liberty original art nouveau poster

Harper's July, The German Struggle for Liberty original art nouveau poster

By Edward Penfield

Located in Spokane, WA

At a closer look, one will notice that not only does the soldier grasp his rifle in support, but in despair. This Harper's July is an Original Vintage Poster; it is not a reproducti...

Category

1890s Art Nouveau Portrait Prints

Materials

Lithograph

John Galliano Victorian Inspired Cameo and Black Enamel Clip Earrings
John Galliano Victorian Inspired Cameo and Black Enamel Clip Earrings

John Galliano Victorian Inspired Cameo and Black Enamel Clip Earrings

By John Galliano

Located in Atlanta, GA

Then Galliano left London in despair and went to Paris. Luckily, admiration from the fashion community allowed him to keep going.

Category

Vintage 1980s French Victorian Clip-on Earrings

Materials

Silver Plate, Enamel

Mexico/Hotel Lobby/Women in Blue and Green

Mexico/Hotel Lobby/Women in Blue and Green

By Gigi Mills

Located in New York, NY

She also bears witness to what is often disregarded or held in despair by lifting it up in beauty. Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the revered Mills Brothers Circus family.

Category

2010s Figurative Prints

Materials

Giclée

Charles X French Patinated Bronze and Ormolu Clock Celebrating Hero and Leander
Charles X French Patinated Bronze and Ormolu Clock Celebrating Hero and Leander

Charles X French Patinated Bronze and Ormolu Clock Celebrating Hero and Leander

Located in London, GB

After they enjoyed many nights of love, one night Leander lost his way because of an orange sunset and drowned. In despair Hero threw herself from the tower and perished in the sea.

Category

Antique 1820s French Mantel Clocks

Materials

Bronze, Ormolu

French Empire Ormolu Clock of Borne Shape and of Hero and Leander
French Empire Ormolu Clock of Borne Shape and of Hero and Leander

French Empire Ormolu Clock of Borne Shape and of Hero and Leander

Located in London, GB

After they enjoyed many nights of love, one night Leander lost his way because of an orange sunset and drowned. In despair Hero threw herself from the tower and perished in the sea.

Category

Antique 1820s French Mantel Clocks

Materials

Ormolu

Antique Grand Tour Patinated Bronze Figure of Narcissus 1870, 19th Century
Antique Grand Tour Patinated Bronze Figure of Narcissus 1870, 19th Century

Antique Grand Tour Patinated Bronze Figure of Narcissus 1870, 19th Century

Located in London, GB

Although he did not realise in the beginning that it was just a reflection, when he understood it, he fell in despair that his love could not materialise and committed suicide.

Category

Antique 1870s Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Eve
Eve

Eve

By Paul Gauguin

Located in London, England

The modernity of Gauguin’s Eve lies in the reinterpretation of the figure, which, contrastingly with the classic, is neither smiling and nurturing nor in despair, rather, she looks a...

Category

1890s Post-Impressionist Nude Sculptures

Materials

Bronze

Hagar Angel Sacrifice Isaac 18th Century Neapolitan School Old master Paint Oil
Hagar Angel Sacrifice Isaac 18th Century Neapolitan School Old master Paint Oil

Hagar Angel Sacrifice Isaac 18th Century Neapolitan School Old master Paint Oil

Located in Riva del Garda, IT

After the birth of their son Isaac, however, an acute jealousy arises in his wife Sarah towards the young slave Hagar, and Abraham is then forced to send her away together with their...

Category

18th Century Old Masters Paintings

Materials

Oil

Sur la plage - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil Painting by Alfred Stevens
Sur la plage - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil Painting by Alfred Stevens

Sur la plage - Impressionist Figures in Landscape Oil Painting by Alfred Stevens

By Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Museum and Gallery Holdings: Antwerp: Woman in Despair; A Parisian Sphinx; Authorised Begging Boston: The Attentive Listener Brussels: Lady in Pink; Ladybird; Salome; Widow and her C...

Category

1890s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Panel, Oil

Romantic Era Lithograph – Jocelyn Sauvant Laurence de la Mort, c.1840
Romantic Era Lithograph – Jocelyn Sauvant Laurence de la Mort, c.1840

Romantic Era Lithograph – Jocelyn Sauvant Laurence de la Mort, c.1840

Located in Langweer, NL

In the composition, a man (Jocelyn) throws up his arms in despair or motion as he races across a snowy slope toward a fallen woman, Laurence, whose lifeless form lies on the ground b...

Category

Antique Mid-19th Century French Prints

Materials

Paper

Circus with Camel and Balancing Poodle

Circus with Camel and Balancing Poodle

By Gigi Mills

Located in New York, NY

She also bears witness to what is often disregarded or held in despair by lifting it up in beauty. Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the revered Mills Brothers Circus family.

Category

2010s Figurative Prints

Materials

Giclée

Waking The Track/Orange Mane

Waking The Track/Orange Mane

By Gigi Mills

Located in New York, NY

She also bears witness to what is often disregarded or held in despair by lifting it up in beauty. Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the revered Mills Brothers Circus family.

Category

2010s Figurative Prints

Materials

Giclée

The Composer

The Composer

By Gigi Mills

Located in New York, NY

She also bears witness to what is often disregarded or held in despair by lifting it up in beauty. Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the revered Mills Brothers Circus family.

Category

2010s Figurative Prints

Materials

Giclée

Still Life with Charlotte Cake and Fruit

Still Life with Charlotte Cake and Fruit

By Gigi Mills

Located in New York, NY

She also bears witness to what is often disregarded or held in despair by lifting it up in beauty. Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the revered Mills Brothers Circus family.

Category

2010s Figurative Prints

Materials

Giclée

Monty/Pineapples & Oranges/Shadows

Monty/Pineapples & Oranges/Shadows

By Gigi Mills

Located in New York, NY

She also bears witness to what is often disregarded or held in despair by lifting it up in beauty. Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the revered Mills Brothers Circus family.

Category

2010s Figurative Prints

Materials

Giclée

Monty with Plums

Monty with Plums

By Gigi Mills

Located in New York, NY

She also bears witness to what is often disregarded or held in despair by lifting it up in beauty. Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the revered Mills Brothers Circus family.

Category

2010s Figurative Prints

Materials

Giclée

Mexico/Shadow

Mexico/Shadow

By Gigi Mills

Located in New York, NY

She also bears witness to what is often disregarded or held in despair by lifting it up in beauty. Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the revered Mills Brothers Circus family.

Category

2010s Figurative Prints

Materials

Giclée

Fishing/Shrimp Fly

Fishing/Shrimp Fly

By Gigi Mills

Located in New York, NY

She also bears witness to what is often disregarded or held in despair by lifting it up in beauty. Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the revered Mills Brothers Circus family.

Category

2010s Figurative Prints

Materials

Giclée

Fishing/Blue Fly

Fishing/Blue Fly

By Gigi Mills

Located in New York, NY

She also bears witness to what is often disregarded or held in despair by lifting it up in beauty. Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the revered Mills Brothers Circus family.

Category

2010s Figurative Prints

Materials

Giclée

Night Sky/Starfish
Night Sky/Starfish

Night Sky/Starfish

By Gigi Mills

Located in New York, NY

She also bears witness to what is often disregarded or held in despair by lifting it up in beauty. Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the revered Mills Brothers Circus family.

Category

2010s Folk Art Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil

Night Sky/Tropical Forest
Night Sky/Tropical Forest

Night Sky/Tropical Forest

By Gigi Mills

Located in New York, NY

She also bears witness to what is often disregarded or held in despair by lifting it up in beauty. Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the revered Mills Brothers Circus family.

Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Crayon, Oil, Archival Paper

Night Sail/Shepherds Watch

Night Sail/Shepherds Watch

By Gigi Mills

Located in New York, NY

She also bears witness to what is often disregarded or held in despair by lifting it up in beauty. Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the revered Mills Brothers Circus family.

Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Archival Ink, Giclée

Ocean/Night Sky

Ocean/Night Sky

By Gigi Mills

Located in New York, NY

She also bears witness to what is often disregarded or held in despair by lifting it up in beauty. Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the revered Mills Brothers Circus family.

Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

Materials

Crayon, Oil, Archival Paper

Lamentation Christ Van Dyck Paint 17/18th Century Oil on canvas Old master Art
Lamentation Christ Van Dyck Paint 17/18th Century Oil on canvas Old master Art

Lamentation Christ Van Dyck Paint 17/18th Century Oil on canvas Old master Art

Located in Riva del Garda, IT

The scene, which depicts one of the most dramatic and emotional moments of Christ's Passion, exemplifies the typical style of the great Flemish artist: Christ lies prostrate, his bod...

Category

17th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

Materials

Oil

Night Sail

Night Sail

By Gigi Mills

Located in New York, NY

She also bears witness to what is often disregarded or held in despair by lifting it up in beauty. Ms. Mills was born in Ohio into the revered Mills Brothers Circus family.

Category

2010s Contemporary Landscape Prints

Materials

Archival Paper, Archival Ink, Giclée

Bateaux sur la mer - Ciel nuageux -  Realist Seascape Oil by Alfred Stevens
Bateaux sur la mer - Ciel nuageux -  Realist Seascape Oil by Alfred Stevens

Bateaux sur la mer - Ciel nuageux - Realist Seascape Oil by Alfred Stevens

By Alfred Émile Léopold Stevens

Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire

Solo Exhibitions: 2090, Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels (retrospective) Museum and Gallery Holdings: Antwerp: Woman in Despair; A Parisian Sphinx; Authorised Be...

Category

1890s Realist Landscape Paintings

Materials

Oil, Panel

"Broken Dreams" Painting (FRAMED) 31" x 27" inch by Isaac Pelayo
"Broken Dreams" Painting (FRAMED) 31" x 27" inch by Isaac Pelayo

"Broken Dreams" Painting (FRAMED) 31" x 27" inch by Isaac Pelayo

By Isaac Pelayo

Located in Culver City, CA

"Broken Dreams" Painting (FRAMED) 31" x 27" inch by Isaac Pelayo Full name: "So I Drink These Broken Dreams and Hide in Despair" Medium: Oil, oil stick, and aerosol on wood Comes i...

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21st Century and Contemporary Baroque Figurative Paintings

Materials

Wood, Oil, Spray Paint

The Zero Hour / - After the End of the World -
The Zero Hour / - After the End of the World -

The Zero Hour / - After the End of the World -

By Rudolf Nehmer

Located in Berlin, DE

The man seated on the left looks at the viewer with an expression of inner emptiness, while the people around him are sunk in despair and the world lies in ruins. All that remains is...

Category

1940s Realist Figurative Prints

Materials

Woodcut

Unfinished Problem

Unfinished Problem

Located in Los Angeles, CA

That work, together with Unfinished Problem and Despair Among Glasses formed a trio of deeply personal autobiographical paintings.

Category

1950s American Modern Interior Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Wood Low-Relief Depicting a Werewolf and Saint George
Wood Low-Relief Depicting a Werewolf and Saint George

Wood Low-Relief Depicting a Werewolf and Saint George

Located in Saint-Ouen, FR

In the background, a mother raises her arms in despair while her two other children seek refuge by her sides.

Category

Antique 16th Century German Renaissance Figurative Sculptures

Materials

Wood

Deconstructed

Deconstructed

By Robert McCauley

Located in Bozeman, MT

He refuses to become cynical or absorbed in despair. Rather, he uses his enormous talent to inspire and be a voice for the voiceless.

Category

2010s Contemporary Animal Paintings

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Man in  crypto truck
Man in  crypto truck

Man in crypto truck

By Carlos Mercado

Located in San Juan, PR

But he also captured the ingenuity, spirit, and dignity of his subjects in the face of despair. Delano’s images are forever entwined in our collective memory as people.

Category

21st Century and Contemporary Pop Art Mixed Media

Materials

Canvas, Neon Light, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Photogram

That Perches in the Soul
That Perches in the Soul

That Perches in the Soul

By Tamera Avery

Located in Burlingame, CA

Using imagery from the White House to Chernobyl, icebergs to abandoned ships, I work at the intersection of the current reality and the possibility of change to tell a story of hope ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Portrait Paintings

Materials

Cotton Canvas, Oil

"Galerie Maeght, " Graphic Color Lines Lithograph Poster
"Galerie Maeght, " Graphic Color Lines Lithograph Poster

"Galerie Maeght, " Graphic Color Lines Lithograph Poster

Located in Milwaukee, WI

He once confessed that he thought of suicide at least three times every day, so in despair did he feel about his work. One of his favourite quotations in Notes sur la peinture d'aujo...

Category

1970s Post-Modern Abstract Prints

Materials

Lithograph

Nude in Pink - Strange Love, analog

Nude in Pink - Strange Love, analog

By Stefanie Schneider

Located in Morongo Valley, CA

How does Schneider’s art gently hold the viewer in that fragile, shimmering in-between, where love, despair, and loneliness softly intertwine—where life’s transience is not simply mo...

Category

2010s Contemporary Color Photography

Materials

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

"Girl in the Garden" Copper Plate Heliogravure
"Girl in the Garden" Copper Plate Heliogravure

"Girl in the Garden" Copper Plate Heliogravure

By Ferdinand Hodler & R. Piper & Co.

Located in Palm Beach, FL

Whether his subject is a solitary tree, a moment in battle, mortal fear, despair, the awe inspired by a vast mountain range, a tender moment or even the collective conviction in a be...

Category

1910s Symbolist Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper

"Cherry Tree in Bloom" Copper Plate Heliogravure
"Cherry Tree in Bloom" Copper Plate Heliogravure

"Cherry Tree in Bloom" Copper Plate Heliogravure

By Ferdinand Hodler & R. Piper & Co.

Located in Palm Beach, FL

Whether his subject is a solitary tree, a moment in battle, mortal fear, despair, the awe inspired by a vast mountain range, a tender moment or even the collective conviction in a be...

Category

1910s Symbolist Figurative Prints

Materials

Paper

In from on the window, Painting, Oil on Canvas

In from on the window, Painting, Oil on Canvas

By Roman Rembovsky

Located in Yardley, PA

Rembovsky's work is characterised by his desire to understand the meaning of human existence, despair and loneliness. In the nature of deeply thought-out scenes, we always read a tra...

Category

2010s Realist Paintings

Materials

Oil

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