Reflexion
By Yves Hayat
Located in PARIS, FR
The mirror bars of the “Reflexion” installation symbolize the prison bars, where the only horizon is the reflect of the prisoner and his own closed universe.
Category
2010s Paintings
Materials
Mirror
Prison Bar
Vincent D SmithBlack Power, Attica Prison Riot Prisoners Racial Justice - African American Art, 1972
$11,000
H 12.3 in W 18.25 in
Black Power, Attica Prison Riot Prisoners Racial Justice - African American Art
Located in Miami, FL
The work is dynamically painted in a quick expressionist style using strong colors with deep blacks for the prison bars. Signed lower left Vincent. ( in homage to Vincent Van Gogh )...
Category
1970s Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
Watercolor, Paper, Board, Rag Paper
Back to dark
By Yves Hayat
Located in PARIS, FR
BACK TO DARK symbolises a man locked behind prison bars. The movement of the viewer in front of the repetitive and geometrical motif creates optical illusions, just like in kinetic a...
Category
2010s Sculptures
Materials
Inkjet
How d i failed to see you
By Sava Harris
Located in Zofingen, AG
Even though the world outside looks like paradise, it looks like prison bars for me. I have nowhere to go. I give you a bowl with a skull and tell you that this is my breakfast.
Category
2010s Modern Figurative Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Prison Whitout Bars I
By Cristiano Felismina
Located in Porto, 13
This captivating self-portrait emerges, revealing a man of profound introspection and artistic fervor. Positioned at the heart of the canvas, the artist gazes directly at the viewer ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Paintings
Materials
Oil
Marc BalakjianIn the Silence...Contemporary Mezzotint Print, Late 20th Century, AP edition, 1981
$500
H 14.63 in W 22.5 in
In the Silence...Contemporary Mezzotint Print, Late 20th Century, AP edition
By Marc Balakjian
Located in New Orleans, LA
The artist's subject matter was enigmatic: a recurring theme was that of anonymous packages tied with knots of rope; sometimes there are prison bars in the background or piles of pla...
Category
Late 20th Century Contemporary Still-life Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Marc BalakjianConsequence of an Absence ( A loss makes one more appreciative), 1978
$350
H 11.5 in W 15.38 in
Consequence of an Absence ( A loss makes one more appreciative)
By Marc Balakjian
Located in New Orleans, LA
The artist's subject matter was enigmatic: a recurring theme was that of anonymous packages tied with knots of rope; sometimes there are prison bars in the background or piles of pla...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Marc BalakjianElegy for a Forgotten Day: Abstract Mezzotint Print, Artist Proof VIII, circa 1975
$450
H 14.25 in W 18 in
Elegy for a Forgotten Day: Abstract Mezzotint Print, Artist Proof VIII
By Marc Balakjian
Located in New Orleans, LA
This image is an artist proof and is annotated VIII / VIII The artist's subject matter was enigmatic: a recurring theme was that of anonymous packages tied with knots of rope; someti...
Category
Late 20th Century Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Nelson MandelaArtist Motivation - Mandela, Former South African President, Inspirational Words, 2002
$10,124
H 19.69 in W 22.05 in D 1.58 in
Artist Motivation - Mandela, Former South African President, Inspirational Words
By Nelson Mandela
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
It is true that Robben Island was once a place of darkness, but out of that darkness has come a wonderful brightness, a light so powerful that it could not be hidden behind prison wa...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Abstract Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Purvis YoungPurvis Young Large 43" Signed Original Painting 3 Men with Foundation COA, Unknown
$12,945
H 43 in W 22 in
Purvis Young Large 43" Signed Original Painting 3 Men with Foundation COA
By Purvis Young
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Young's artwork explores ideas of wrongful conviction and mass incarceration through symbols including padlocks, prison bars, cages, shackles, ropes, and chains. Despite the heavy su...
Category
Late 20th Century Paintings
Materials
Oil, Canvas
Civil Rights, Racial Justice Little Rock
By Philip Evergood
Located in Miami, FL
Imprisoned blacks, witnessing the execution as they grasp the prison bars. Are they next in line for the death gallows?
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
Philip EvergoodPhilip Evergood, Little Rock, Oil on Canvas, 1955 - "Civil Rights.", 1955
$150,000
H 30.5 in W 22 in
Philip Evergood, Little Rock, Oil on Canvas, 1955 - "Civil Rights."
By Philip Evergood
Located in Miami, FL
Imprisoned blacks, witnessing the execution as they grasp the prison bars. Are they next in line for the death gallows?
Category
1950s American Realist Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
1983 original soviet poster - “USA : ‘freedom’ of speech” - USSR - Cold War, 1983
$2,692
H 33.86 in W 21.66 in
1983 original soviet poster - “USA : ‘freedom’ of speech” - USSR - Cold War
Located in PARIS, FR
A series of stylized ears are placed behind vertical bars, resembling prison cells. This visual metaphor suggests that instead of freely speaking, individuals are reduced to passive ...
Category
1980s More Prints
Materials
Paper, Lithograph
Maggie LaPorte Banks Berlin Blue, Maggie LaPorte Banks, Contemporary art, original abstract painting, 2022
$809
H 23.63 in W 23.63 in D 0.6 in
Berlin Blue, Maggie LaPorte Banks, Contemporary art, original abstract painting
Located in Deddington, GB
References look back to my early sculptures of items in black boxes, with black prison like bars in front of the items. Discover beautiful artwork by Maggie LaPorte Banks online with...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Abstract Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
MCM Piero Fornasetti Rosenthal Themes & Variations Porcelain Plate
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
It features the enigmatic face of Lina Cavalieri—Fornasetti's eternal muse—peering out from behind the heavy, textured iron bars of a prison cell or dungeon window. The graphic black...
Category
Vintage 1980s Mid-Century Modern Porcelain
Materials
Porcelain
Nelson MandelaNelson Mandela The Window - 2002, Lithograph Signed & numbered, 2002
$25,000
H 26 in W 20 in D 1 in
Nelson Mandela The Window - 2002, Lithograph Signed & numbered
By Nelson Mandela
Located in Pembroke Pines, FL
This sketch depicts a view of Table Mountain through the bars of a prison cell on Robben Island. In fact Table Mountain is not visible from the prison cell windows, however, the view...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Nelson MandelaThe Window - Mandela, Former South African President, Signed Art, Robben Island, 2002
$20,248
H 25.6 in W 19.69 in D 1.58 in
The Window - Mandela, Former South African President, Signed Art, Robben Island
By Nelson Mandela
Located in Knowle Lane, Cranleigh
This sketch depicts a view of Table Mountain through the bars of a prison cell on Robben Island. In fact Table Mountain is not visible from the prison cell windows, however, the view...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Interior Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Gilt Bronze Reliquary Pendant by Line Vautrin
By Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
The pendant features the effigy of St Foi on one side and bars of prison on the other side. It opens to a small chamber that holds a picture or a relics of some memory.
Category
Vintage 1940s French Mid-Century Modern Collectible Jewelry
Materials
Bronze
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Prison Desk, Indonesia, circa 1920
Located in Jersey City, NJ
Hand-carved desk made out of teak wood.
Category
Mid-20th Century Indonesian Dutch Colonial Card Tables and Tea Tables
Materials
Wood
Women Behind Bars
By Richard Bernstein
Located in Westport, CT
CAMP outrageous Women's Prison stage Production WOMEN BEHIND BARS, presented by TOM EYEN, and ANDY WARHOL.
Category
1970s Pop Art Prints and Multiples
Materials
Lithograph
Helmut Newton"16th Arrondissment, Paris, 1975" Original Silver Gelatin Print by Helmut Newton, 1975
Unavailable
H 20 in W 16 in D 0.02 in
"16th Arrondissment, Paris, 1975" Original Silver Gelatin Print by Helmut Newton
By Helmut Newton
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Newton is at his compositional best- using shadow’s reminiscent of prison bars and the repetition of strong diagonals in the architecture and female form to accentuate hierarchies of...
Category
1970s Contemporary Black and White Photography
Materials
Silver Gelatin
Original Vintage Film Poster For Cocaine French Release Italian Drama Movie Art
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H 63 in W 47.25 in D 0.04 in
Original Vintage Film Poster For Cocaine French Release Italian Drama Movie Art
Located in London, GB
Dramatic design featuring a lady in the foreground with a man looking out from behind prison bars and another man in a suit reading a letter on the side, set against a dark backgroun...
Category
Vintage 1950s French Posters
Materials
Paper
The Torture and Martyrdom of Jesuit Priests in a Dramatic Baroque Engraving
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H 11.42 in W 7.49 in D 0 in
The Torture and Martyrdom of Jesuit Priests in a Dramatic Baroque Engraving
Located in Langweer, NL
The architectural elements, such as the prison bars and columns, suggest a dungeon or imprisonment setting, adding to the dramatic and sorrowful atmosphere of the scene.
Category
Antique 1680s Prints
Materials
Paper
The Capture of St. Thomas Aquinas Oil on Canvas Italy XVII Century, 1600s
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H 56.7 in W 46.46 in D 1.97 in
The Capture of St. Thomas Aquinas Oil on Canvas Italy XVII Century
Located in Milan, IT
The figures are also placed in a prison, as indicated by the bars in the window on the right, to underline the coercive action performed.
Category
17th Century Other Art Style Figurative Paintings
Materials
Oil
For an Uncertain Departure
By Marc Balakjian
Located in New Orleans, LA
The artist's subject matter was enigmatic: a recurring theme was that of anonymous packages tied with knots of rope; sometimes there are prison bars in the background or piles of pla...
Category
1970s Abstract Abstract Prints
Materials
Mezzotint
Conrad FelixmullerSoldat im Irrenhause II - Original Lithograph by Conrad Felixmüller - 1918, 1918
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H 15.95 in W 12.05 in D 0.2 in
Soldat im Irrenhause II - Original Lithograph by Conrad Felixmüller - 1918
By Conrad Felixmuller
Located in Roma, IT
The artwork represents an Expressionist expression of a man in failure, in rage and suffering from his being with an envelope of a letter in his hand and the other hand cathing the m...
Category
1910s Expressionist Figurative Prints
Materials
Lithograph
Single Low Drink Table
Located in San Francisco, CA
round white Carrera marble top over intricate spindles of beechwood “prison bar” supports on round, ring base
Category
20th Century Danish Tables
Duccio MarvasiOriginal Vintage Film Poster For Cocaine French Release Italian Drama Movie Art, 1951
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H 63 in W 47.25 in
Original Vintage Film Poster For Cocaine French Release Italian Drama Movie Art
Located in London, GB
Dramatic design featuring a lady in the foreground with a man looking out from behind prison bars and another man in a suit reading a letter on the side, set against a dark backgroun...
Category
1950s More Prints
Materials
Paper
Prison Inmate Folk Art Box
Located in Northfield, IL
Fantastic folk art box from an inmate at the Chillicothe Prison, Chillicothe, Illinois.
Category
Vintage 1960s American Folk Art Boxes
Materials
Wood
Prison Shank Collection of 54 Homemade Weapons
Located in High Point, NC
Collection of 54 homemade weapons mounted on a board. Most prisons have a collection or "Shank Museum" to educate and show officers what has been confiscated. It is rare for a collec...
Category
Late 20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Folsom Prison Mug Shots - Early Twentieth Century
Located in North Hollywood, CA
This happy looking bunch all enjoyed the confines of the famed Folsom Prison of California. And what a lively bunch they were! Albert Foster got a year for Pimping, three were in for...
Category
Early 20th Century American Victorian Collectibles and Curiosities
Vintage Fornasetti Plate, "Tema & Variazioni" #121
By Fornasetti
Located in Winnetka, IL
A scarce, vintage porcelain plate by Piero Fornasetti of his muse Lina Cavalieri behind an iron fence or perhaps prison bars. Is she inside looking out or outside looking in?
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Modern Dinner Plates
Materials
Porcelain
Ladies Prison Craft Spurs
Located in Aurora, OR
These simply awesome handcrafted spurs are one of the many crafts produced by penitentiary prisoners in the early 20th century. Their small size makes them well-suited to a ladies bo...
Category
Early 20th Century American Collectibles and Curiosities
Materials
Iron, Steel
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Category
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Materials
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$12,000
H 12 in W 16 in
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Located in Miami, FL
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Category
1970s American Modern Figurative Drawings and Watercolors
Materials
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