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Janus Figure

Ibibio Anthropomorphic Standing Male Janus Figure, Nigeria
Located in Leuven , BE
This elaborate Janus statue is a rare example of an Ibibio free-standing figure to recall a well
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20th Century Congolese Tribal Art

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Wood

'Young Venetian Woman', Paris, Post Impressionist Figural, La Veneziana
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Signed lower right, 'Janus' for Ian Janus (Dutch-Italian, born 1919) and painted circa 1955. A
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Canvas, Acrylic

Yaka Standing Wood Janus Male/Female Divination Figure DRC Congo, Africa
Located in Point Richmond, CA
Yaka Carved wood standing Janus back to back male/female divination figure DRC Congo, Africa The
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Mid-20th Century Congolese Tribal Tribal Art

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Wood

French Empire Figural Bronze Clock Depicting an Allegory to Prudence or Wisdom
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
classically draped bearded standing male figure leaning on a gilt bronze plinth legs crossed and with a
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Antique Early 19th Century French Empire Mantel Clocks

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Bronze

“Central Park”
Located in Southampton, NY
Janus Collaborative School of Art, Studio Incamminati, and the Parsons School of Design. He has
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Early 2000s Contemporary Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Matthias Alfen German Sculptor Modern Abstract Expressionist Painting Psychogram
By Matthias Alfen
Located in Surfside, FL
Figurative Abstraction gestural painting. Matthias Alfen’s series of Janus figures are an
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Plywood, Oil

Matthias Alfen German Sculptor Modern Expressionist Painting Psychogram
By Matthias Alfen
Located in Surfside, FL
Matthias Alfen’s series of Janus figures are an innovation in figural art predicated on the
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Plywood, Oil

Matthias Alfen German Sculptor Modern Expressionist Painting Psychogram
By Matthias Alfen
Located in Surfside, FL
Matthias Alfen’s series of Janus figures are an innovation in figural art predicated on the
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

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Plywood, Oil

French 18th Century Oil on Canvas Mother and Twin Babies Fecundity after Lemoyne
By François Lemoyne
Located in Los Angeles, CA
, the symbol of peace, to a smiling Europe. Behind them we see the Temple of Janus with its doors firmly
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Antique Early 1800s French Louis XV Paintings

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Canvas, Giltwood

Night Trees
By Walter Hahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Golub, who attended SAIC a year before him. In the early ’50s, Hahn was a central figure in the
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Korean Abstract Minimalist Gouache Painting LA Woman Artist MInimalism
By Jae Hahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Buddhism. She later focused on figure painting, consolidating what she learned from all schools of masters
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Late 20th Century Minimalist Abstract Paintings

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Gouache, Archival Paper

Korean Abstract Minimalist Gouache Painting LA Woman Artist MInimalism
By Jae Hahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Buddhism. She later focused on figure painting, consolidating what she learned from all schools of masters
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Late 20th Century Minimalist Abstract Paintings

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Gouache, Archival Paper

Korean Abstract Minimalist Oil Painting LA Woman Artist MInimalism Jae Hahn
By Jae Hahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Oriental philosophy, but more specifically, Taoism and Zen Buddhism. She later focused on figure painting
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Late 20th Century Minimalist Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Portrait of a Young Man
By Gilbert Lewis
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
: Gallery Guide, September 1983, Seated Figure and Reclining Nude reproduced 1982 Philadelphia, Pa
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1990s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Gouache

Influence of Red (male portrait)
By Gilbert Lewis
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
: Gallery Guide, September 1983, Seated Figure and Reclining Nude reproduced 1982 Philadelphia, Pa
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1990s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

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Untitled Venetian Scene
By Erma Zago
Located in Austin, TX
Erma Zago (Bovolone 1880 - Milan 1942) Title: Untitled Venetian Scene Size: 8" x 10" Framed: 14.5" x 17.5" Medium: Oil on Board Markings: LL "E. Zago" Plaque "ERMO ZAGO"
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Early 20th Century Impressionist Paintings

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Board, Oil

Untitled Venetian Scene
H 14.5 in W 17.5 in D 2 in
"Winter Storm, NYC"
By Johann Berthelsen, 1883-1972
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to offer this piece by Johann Berthelsen (1883 – 1972). Born in 1883 in Denmark to artistically inclined parents, Johann Berthelsen w...
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20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Gaston Leroux Bronze Figure of Aida on a Sphinx, French, 19th Century
By Gaston Vuevenot Leroux
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Gaston Leroux (French, 1854-1942). A very fine French 19th century polychromed and patinated bronze sculpture of "Aida" resting on a sphinx, her legs crossed and holding a gilt-bronz...
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Antique Late 19th Century French Egyptian Revival Figurative Sculptures

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Bronze

Lady Dormore - A 16th Century Portrait of a key member of Shakespeare's England
Located in London, GB
Lady Dormer, Mary Browne c. 1592 oil on panel 35 x 29 inches, unframed; 41 x 34.75 inches, inc. frame Inscribed 'Lady Dormore' Mary married Henry Wriothesley, 2nd Earl of Southampt...
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16th Century Old Masters Figurative Paintings

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Oil

Kuba Bwoom Mask
Located in Austin, TX
Residing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Kuba people are true artisans whose craftsmanship fueled traditional rituals, performances, and storytelling. Natural materials, in ...
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Mid-20th Century Congolese Masks

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Copper

Kuba Bwoom Mask
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H 14 in W 15 in D 28 in
Emile Louis Picault, Bronze Figure of an Egyptian Scribe
By Émile Louis Picault
Located in New York, NY
A very large bronze figure of an Egyptian Scribe by Emile Louis Picault (French, 1833-1915), beautifully modeled and detailed with the finest quality with its original brown patina w...
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Antique 1880s French Egyptian Revival Figurative Sculptures

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Griotte Marble, Bronze

'Woman Seated', Post Impressionist Woman Artist, Fauve, Carmel, California, PAFA
By Virginia Sevier Rogers
Located in Santa Cruz, CA
Monogrammed lower left, 'VSR' for Virginia Sevier Rogers (American, 1916-2015) and stamped, verso, with certification of authenticity. Born in Fort Collins, Colorado., Virginia Sevi...
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1970s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings

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Pastel, Paper, Oil Pastel

African Mangbetu Carved Figural Fertility Bow Harp Domu Instrument 27"
Located in Dayton, OH
Rare vintage museum quality African Mangbetu fertility harp / domu, an African stringed instrument of the Mangbetu poeple, featuring a round wooden body, stretched red leather head w...
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Early 20th Century Tribal Musical Instruments

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Leather, Hardwood

Lifesize Italian 19th Century Marble Figure of Cleopatra by Eliseo Fattorini
By Eliseo Tuderte Fattorini 1
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Eliseo Tuderte Fattorini (Italian, 1830-1887). A very fine and lifesize Italian, 19th century marble figure of Cleopatra. The impressive 'quattro colori' (Four-Color) marble sculptur...
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Antique 19th Century Italian Greco Roman Figurative Sculptures

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Marble

Fine Old Master Portrait, by Gillis Claeissens, Portrait of a Lady, 1580, Bruges
By Gillis Claeissens
Located in Greven, DE
Gillis Claeissens Portrait of a Lady, probably "Anne Joigny-de Pamele" Oil on wood, 35,5 x 28 cm Gillis Claeissens has only recently been rediscovered as an important portrait pain...
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16th Century Northern Renaissance Portrait Paintings

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Oil, Panel

A Venetian Canal - Impressionist Landscape Oil Painting by Antoine Bouvard
By Antoine Bouvard Snr.
Located in Marlow, Buckinghamshire
Signed impressionist landscape oil on canvas circa 1920 by French painter Antoine Bouvard Snr. The work depicts a figure rowing on a gondola beside buildings lining the canal at the ...
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1920s Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Post Impressionist French oil painting of the entrance to a Venetian Palace
Located in Petworth, West Sussex
Charles Wittman (French, 1876 - 1953) The entrance to a Venetian palazzo Oil on canvasboard 11 x 14 in. (27.8 x 35.6 cm.)
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Landscape Paintings

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Oil, Canvas

Egyptian Revival Marble, Gilt and Patinated Bronze Three-Piece Clock Set
Located in London, GB
Attributed to Emile Herbert, French, 1828-1893. Comprising a central clock and a pair of flanking lidded vases, the clock on a red and black marble base with Pharaoh busts on either...
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Antique 19th Century French Egyptian Revival Mantel Clocks

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Marble, Bronze

Post- Impressionist Venetian Nude Painting the Bathing Nymphs Signed Seibezzi
By Fioravante Seibezzi
Located in Rome, IT
“Bathing Nymphs,” Oil on Canvas cm 115×110 with frame cm 140×135 Fioravante Seibezzi (Venice, 1906-1974), Post-Impressionist Venetian painter, he devoted himself to landscape en plei...
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20th Century Post-Impressionist Nude Paintings

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Oil

Songye power figure Nkisi
Located in London, GB
Songye Power Figure NKISI Provenance: - Private collection, London, United Kingdom Songye Power Sculpture Like the Kongo and other related Bantu cultures of central Africa, the...
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20th Century Congolese Tribal Art

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Raffia, Wood

Songye power figure Nkisi
Songye power figure Nkisi
H 10.24 in W 7.09 in D 7.09 in
Luba Kukudji Figure
Located in London, GB
Luba Figure Kakudji D.R. Congo Wood, fibre, beads, textile 28 cm On a professional wooden stand Provenance: - Lucas Ratton, Paris, France - Zemanek-Munster, Wurzburg, Ger...
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Antique Late 19th Century Congolese Tribal Art

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Wood, Beads, Textile, Natural Fiber

Luba Kukudji Figure
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H 11.03 in W 4.34 in D 4.34 in

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Baule Male & Female Janus Figure
Located in Des Plaines, IL
Tribes Baule Male & Female Janus Figure Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) 20th Century wood, beads, and
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20th Century Figurative Sculptures

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Fabric, Wood

Baule Male & Female Janus Figure
Baule Male & Female Janus Figure
H 23.5 in W 6 in D 8 in
Lump of Coal #3, glazed ceramic sculpture with Swaroski crystals
By Catherine Heard
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Categories: Sculpture, Human Figure, Mythology and Religion, Tags: Janus, twins, humour, humor
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Clay

palindrome #4, glazed ceramic sculpture, ornament
By Catherine Heard
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Categories: Sculpture, Human Figure, Mythology and Religion, Tags: Janus, twins, humour, humor
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Sculptures

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Clay

African Hemba Wooden Sculpture of a Woman
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
This powerful and well-used sculpture of a standing female is an ancestor figure from the Hemba
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20th Century Congolese Tribal Tribal Art

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Wood

Well Carved 19th Century Roman Marble Figure of Janus
Located in London, GB
A well carved 19th century Roman marble figure of the Roman God Janus.
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Antique 19th Century Busts

Chinese Tall Hand Carved Stone "Janus" Two Faced Figure Sculpture
Located in South Burlington, VT
An opportunity to acquire a most unusual hand carved stone "Janus" or two faced figure from China
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Early 20th Century Chinese Sculptures and Carvings

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Stone

“Inversion of Janus”
By Nahum Tschacbasov
Located in Southampton, NY
. Condition: excellent. Provenance: Estate of artist. A major figure on New York’s art scene in the 1930s
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

Early Archaic Janus Head in Limestone
Located in Pease pottage, West Sussex
. Janus is a complex but enigmatic figure, more often seen as two faces of the same God. Janus is thought
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Antique 17th Century French Statues

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Limestone

Early Archaic Janus Head in Limestone
Early Archaic Janus Head in Limestone
H 17.72 in W 12.6 in D 9.85 in
Mid-Century African Janus Shaped Black Wooden Sculpture with Brass Inlays
Located in Salzburg, AT
, totem statue of Mani ("little person" in the Mandinka language). Anthropomorphic female figure of Janus
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Vintage 1940s Malian Tribal Figurative Sculptures

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Brass

Kleine overwinning
By Jan Desmarets
Located in Malmo, SE
mythological figures, among them the Roman god Janus with his mysteriously duplicated face, and the mythical
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Early 2000s Contemporary Sculptures

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Bronze

Kleine overwinning
Kleine overwinning
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H 16.93 in
Night Trees
By Walter Hahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Golub, who attended SAIC a year before him. In the early ’50s, Hahn was a central figure in the
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Paintings

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Canvas, Oil

Matthias Alfen German Sculptor Modern Abstract Expressionist Painting Psychogram
By Matthias Alfen
Located in Surfside, FL
Figurative Abstraction gestural painting. Matthias Alfen’s series of Janus figures are an
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Plywood, Oil

Matthias Alfen German Sculptor Modern Expressionist Painting Psychogram
By Matthias Alfen
Located in Surfside, FL
Matthias Alfen’s series of Janus figures are an innovation in figural art predicated on the
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Plywood, Oil

Matthias Alfen German Sculptor Modern Expressionist Painting Psychogram
By Matthias Alfen
Located in Surfside, FL
Matthias Alfen’s series of Janus figures are an innovation in figural art predicated on the
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Plywood, Oil

Matthias Alfen German Sculptor Modern Abstract Expressionist Painting Psychogram
By Matthias Alfen
Located in Surfside, FL
Abstraction gestural painting. Matthias Alfen’s series of Janus figures are an innovation in figural art
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Korean Abstract Minimalist Gouache Painting LA Woman Artist MInimalism
By Jae Hahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Buddhism. She later focused on figure painting, consolidating what she learned from all schools of masters
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Late 20th Century Minimalist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Archival Paper

Korean Abstract Minimalist Gouache Painting LA Woman Artist MInimalism
By Jae Hahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Buddhism. She later focused on figure painting, consolidating what she learned from all schools of masters
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Late 20th Century Minimalist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Archival Paper

Untitled Male Portrait (Red Sleeveless)
By Gilbert Lewis
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
; Profile advertisement in Art Now/ Philadelphia: Gallery Guide, September 1983, Seated Figure and Reclining
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1980s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Gouache

Untitled Male Portrait (Grunge).
By Gilbert Lewis
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
: Gallery Guide, September 1983, Seated Figure and Reclining Nude reproduced 1982 Philadelphia, Pa
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1990s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Gouache, Archival Paper

Custom Table Lamp from Unusual Carved Portuguese Candlestick
Located in Houston, TX
Carved 19th century carved and painted wooded candlestick with Janus motif figure mounted on a
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Antique 19th Century Portuguese Table Lamps

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Linen, Wood, Giltwood

Matthias Alfen German Sculptor Modern Expressionist Painting Psychogram
By Matthias Alfen
Located in Surfside, FL
Matthias Alfen’s series of Janus figures are an innovation in figural art predicated on the
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Late 20th Century Neo-Expressionist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Plywood, Oil

Korean Abstract Minimalist Color Gouache Painting LA Woman Artist MInimalism
By Jae Hahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Buddhism. She later focused on figure painting, consolidating what she learned from all schools of masters
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Late 20th Century Minimalist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Archival Paper

Korean Abstract Minimalist Color Gouache Painting LA Woman Artist MInimalism
By Jae Hahn
Located in Surfside, FL
Buddhism. She later focused on figure painting, consolidating what she learned from all schools of masters
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Late 20th Century Minimalist Abstract Paintings

Materials

Gouache, Archival Paper

Untitled Male Portrait (Shirtless)
By Gilbert Lewis
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
: Gallery Guide, September 1983, Seated Figure and Reclining Nude reproduced 1982 Philadelphia, Pa
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1980s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Gouache, Archival Paper

Untitled Male Portrait (Blue Turtleneck)
By Gilbert Lewis
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
: Gallery Guide, September 1983, Seated Figure and Reclining Nude reproduced 1982 Philadelphia, Pa
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1980s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Untitled Male Portrait (Long Hair)
By Gilbert Lewis
Located in Wilton Manors, FL
: Gallery Guide, September 1983, Seated Figure and Reclining Nude reproduced 1982 Philadelphia, Pa
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1990s Realist Portrait Paintings

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Watercolor, Gouache, Archival Paper

Goddess Terra Cotta Statue
Located in San Francisco, CA
An evocative Terra Cotta Janus figure probably Ethiopian for the tourist trade.
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20th Century Ethiopian Folk Art Sculptures

Goddess Terra Cotta Statue
Goddess Terra Cotta Statue
H 33 in W 10.5 in D 8.5 in
Janus
By Patrick Pietropoli
Located in Boston, MA
along with figural compositions and delicate nudes. He paints the carefully articulated architecture of
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Paintings

Materials

Silver

Folk Art Janus Totem Figure
By Winford B. Law
Located in New York, NY
one side. The figure has different faces on the two sides. Mounted on AP black metal base.
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20th Century American Folk Art Outsider and Self Taught Art

Folk Art Janus Totem Figure
Folk Art Janus Totem Figure
H 44 in W 36 in D 8 in
Palindrome
By Catherine Heard
Located in Toronto, Ontario
Categories: Sculpture, Human Figure, Mythology and Religion, Tags: Janus, twins, humour, humor
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2010s Contemporary Figurative Prints

Materials

Clay

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Janus Figure For Sale on 1stDibs

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How Much is a Janus Figure?

The average selling price for a janus figure we offer is $2,275, while they’re typically $1,200 on the low end and $28,950 for the highest priced.