$6,000
H 24 in W 23.5 in
Brushing Her Hair - Portrait of a Young Woman with Various Objects and Window
Located in Chicago, IL
moments for their private use. This is the basis of Rick Beerhorst’s portrait simply titled “Brushing Her
Oil, Panel
$6,500
H 23.5 in W 23.5 in
Venetian Venus - Original Oil on Canvas, Framed in Heavy Wooden Frame
Located in Chicago, IL
Rick Beerhorst Venetian Venus oil on canvas 23.50h x 23.50w in 59.69h x 59.69w cm RIB006 Rick
Oil, Panel
$5,000
H 16 in W 15.75 in
The Raven - Girl In Red Dress with Exposed Breast, Holding Bird, Oil on Canvas
Located in Chicago, IL
painting is framed in an artist made frame measuring 19h x 18.75w x 1.5d inches. Rick Beerhorst The Raven
Oil, Canvas
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H 16 in W 15.75 in
A Woman Holding Space - A Woman, Cat and Bird in Front of City Backdrop
Located in Chicago, IL
aspects of our inner nature coexist and add dimension and richness to our personalities. –Rick Beerhorst
Oil, Panel
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H 24 in W 24 in
The Distracted Reader, Young Woman Reading Grimm's Fairy Tales, Framed
Located in Chicago, IL
"The Distracted Reader" by artist Rick Beerhorst is reminiscent of early American portrait painters
Oil, Panel
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H 10.5 in W 7.5 in
The Artist and His Muse - Original Oil on Panel, Framed in Heavy Gold Frame
Located in Chicago, IL
Artist Rick Beerhorst is inspired by early American portrait painters for the way they used
Oil, Panel
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H 10.5 in W 7.5 in
The Strumpet and the Raven - Original Oil on Panel, Framed in Heavy Gold Frame
Located in Chicago, IL
Artist Rick Beerhorst is inspired by early American portrait painters for the way they used
Oil, Panel
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H 40 in W 31.5 in
Self Love - Young Woman with Sparrow, Original Oil on Canvas, Artist Made Frame
Located in Chicago, IL
reassurance. In Rick Beerhorst's painting titled "Self Love", a young woman has a sparrow perched on her
Oil, Canvas
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H 23.5 in W 15.75 in
Hummingbird Girl (With Her Book) Woman Reading, Oil on Canvas, Artist Made Frame
Located in Chicago, IL
Symbolism abounds in this remarkable painting by artist Rick Beerhorst. Here, the artist has given
Oil, Canvas
Looking Through Love
Located in Chicago, IL
Rick Beerhorst Looking Through Love oil on canvas 13h x 13w in 33.02h x 33.02w cm RIB008 Rick
Oil, Panel
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H 16 in W 12 in
Temperance - Woman Reading with Hummingbird and Lizard, Oil on Panel Paintiing
Located in Chicago, IL
Rick Beerhorst Temperance oil on canvas 16h x 12w in 40.64h x 30.48w cm RIB007 Rick Beerhorst B
Oil, Panel
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H 13.5 in W 11.75 in
Looking Through The Crow - Girl In Patterned Dress Holding Bird, Oil on Panel
Located in Chicago, IL
left of the painting. Rick Beerhorst Looking Through the Crow oil on canvas 13.5h x 11.75w in 34.29h
Oil, Panel
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H 24 in W 23.5 in
The Reader, Portrait, Young Woman Reading a Novel, Heavy Antique Silver Frame
Located in Chicago, IL
Artist Rick Beerhorst is inspired by early American portrait painters for the way they used
Oil, Panel
Pair of French Wrought Iron Martini Tables
Located in London, GB
Wrought iron martini tables, hand made in England inspired by an original 1940s French design. Finished with a natural bronze patina as standard. Can also be supplied in black or gi...
Iron
A "Grand Tour" Cast Iron Etruscan Vase/Urn
Located in Sheffield, MA
A “Grand Tour” Cast Iron Etruscan Vase 19th Century Depicting classical Greek figures, with ring handles with a leaf motif on each side. Height 20 in. Vas INV. 9
Iron
$10,433 / set
H 29.53 in W 31.89 in D 32.68 in
Little Petra & Pouf in Sahara Sheepskin & Walnut by Viggo Boesen for & Tradition
By Viggo Boesen
Located in Dubai, AE
Initially introduced back in 1938, Little Petra won instant praise at the Copenhagen Cabinetmakers Guild Exhibition, subsequently winning awards at exhibits in New York and Berlin. I...
Walnut, Sheepskin
Original ceramic pendant " Vé et Astrology "
By Jean Cocteau
Located in CANNES, FR
Jean Cocteau ( 1889 - 1963 ) Vé and Astrology ceramic's pendant : Vé : signed underneath White 1ere variant ( Terre blanche en relief ). page 212 Size: 7 x5.5 cm catalogue rai...
Ceramic
$3,983 / set
H 23 in W 15.5 in D 6.5 in
Pair of Maison Lunel Brass Two-Light Wall Sconces, France, 1950s
By Maison Lunel
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
A pair of tall two-arm wall sconces by Maison Lunel, France, 1950s. Very elegant and timeless design in gilt brass with green lucite accents, four original silk shades in ivory color...
Brass
$3,831
H 11.03 in W 7.88 in D 1.97 in
Rare Solid Bronze Armorial Crest Coat of Arms Lovely Verdigris Patination
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this lovely antique solid bronze coat of arms armorial crest with lovely natural verdigris patina This is a very good looking and well made coa...
Bronze
Yellow Tail I
By Sherron Francis
Located in Austin, TX
Waterline Fine Art, Austin, TX is pleased to present the following work: Acrylic and mixed media on canvas. Signed, titled, and dated verso. 40 x 76.5 in. 41.75 x 78.25 in. (framed...
Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic
Italian Art Deco Daybed in Walnut
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Daybed or bed, walnut, sheepskin, Italy, 1940s This daybed evokes the stylistic hallmarks of the Art Deco movement of the 1940s. Its design embraces a sense of unity and purity thro...
Sheepskin, Walnut
Orientale
By Henri Fantin-Latour
Located in New York, NY
Signed, lower right: Fantin Provenance: Gustave Tempelaere (1840–1904), Paris; possibly by descent to his son: Julien Tempelaere (1876–1961) and with F. & J. Tempelaere, Paris, prob...
Canvas, Paper, Oil
Vintage Turkish Kars Area Rug. Size: 6 ft 7 in x 10 ft 4 in
Located in New York, NY
Beautiful Room Size Decorative Vintage Turkish Kars Area Rug, Origin: Turkey, Circa date: Vintage
Wool
19th Century Landscape Oil Painting
Located in Berlin, DE
Oil on canvas, view from a mountain range with pines and fir trees on a flat river or lake landscape with farmsteads. (S-108).
$10,797
H 37.8 in W 33.47 in D 2.37 in
Dutch Old Master Portrait of Maurits, Prince of Orange-Nassau, Oil on Panel
Located in London, GB
In 1607, the Delft city council decided to commission a portrait of Stadholder Maurits of Nassau for the town hall, with Michiel van Mierevelt as the chosen artist due to the passing...
Oil, Wood Panel
Antique Sterling Silver Canteen of Cutlery for Twelve Persons
By Viners 1
Located in Jesmond, Newcastle Upon Tyne
A magnificent, fine and impressive, comprehensive antique George V English sterling silver Sandringham pattern flatware service for twelve persons - boxed; an addition to our canteen...
Silver, Sterling Silver
$3,850
H 29.75 in W 33.5 in D 1 in
Girl with Sheep and Car – Original Folk Art Oil Painting by Martin Saldaña
By Martin Saldana
Located in Denver, CO
Step into a world of color, memory, and rural charm with “Girl with Sheep and Car,” a joyful and visually rich original oil painting on board by renowned Mexican-American folk artist...
Oil
Provincial Ebonized Display Cabinet
Located in Westwood, NJ
Provincial-style pine painted display cabinet. The display case has remarkably subtle details such as slightly splayed legs that are tapered and encase the bottom shelf. Crown moldin...
Wood
$1,500
H 14 in W 11 in
To Swallow a Photo of Him the Way One Swallows the Eucharist
By Bill Costa
Located in New York, NY
To Swallow a Photo of Him the Way One Swallows the Eucharist 1994 Lifetime gelatin silver print 10.75 x 7.125 inches, image 14 x 11 inches, sheet This work is offered by CLAMP in...
Silver Gelatin
Used to refer to a time rather than an aesthetic, Contemporary art generally describes pieces created after 1970 or being made by living artists anywhere in the world. This immediacy means it encompasses art responding to the present moment through diverse subjects, media and themes. Contemporary painting, sculpture, photography, performance, digital art, video and more frequently includes work that is attempting to reshape current ideas about what art can be, from Felix Gonzalez-Torres’s use of candy to memorialize a lover he lost to AIDS-related complications to Jenny Holzer’s ongoing “Truisms,” a Conceptual series that sees provocative messages printed on billboards, T-shirts, benches and other public places that exist outside of formal exhibitions and the conventional “white cube” of galleries.
Contemporary art has been pushing the boundaries of creative expression for years. Its disruption of the traditional concepts of art are often aiming to engage viewers in complex questions about identity, society and culture. In the latter part of the 20th century, contemporary movements included Land art, in which artists like Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer create large-scale, site-specific sculptures, installations and other works in soil and bodies of water; Sound art, with artists such as Christian Marclay and Susan Philipsz centering art on sonic experiences; and New Media art, in which mass media and digital culture inform the work of artists such as Nam June Paik and Rafaël Rozendaal.
The first decades of the 21st century have seen the growth of Contemporary African art, the revival of figurative painting, the emergence of street art and the rise of NFTs, unique digital artworks that are powered by blockchain technology.
Major Contemporary artists practicing now include Ai Weiwei, Cecily Brown, David Hockney, Yayoi Kusama, Jeff Koons, Takashi Murakami and Kara Walker.
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An elegant and sophisticated decorative touch in any living space, portrait paintings have remained popular throughout the years and are widely loved pieces of art for display in many homes today.
Portrait paintings are at least as old as ancient Egypt, where realistic, lifelike depictions of the recently deceased — commonly known as “mummy portraits” — were painted on wooden panels and affixed to mummies as part of the burial tradition.
For centuries, painters have used portraiture as a means of expressing a subject’s nobility, societal status and authority. Portraits were given as gifts in Renaissance Europe, and a portrait artist might have been commissioned to help mark a significant occasion such as a wedding or a promotion to high office. Prior to the advent of photography, which eventually replaced painted portraits as a quicker and more efficient way of capturing a person’s essence, the subject of a portrait had to sit for hours until the painter had finished. And during the 18th century in particular, if an artist commissioned for a portrait struggled with how to adequately memorialize and capture a subject’s likeness, sometimes a portrait painting wasn’t completed for up to a year.
Whether it’s part of the gallery-style approach to your living-room or dining-room walls or merely inspiration as you devise an eye-grabbing color scheme in your home, a portrait painting is a timeless decorative object for any interior. A landscape painting or sculpture might give you the kind of insight into a specific region of the world or a different culture that you can ascertain only through art. Similarly, when you take the time to learn about the subject of a portrait painting that you bring into your home — the sitter’s history, the relationship between the sitter and the artist should one exist, the story of how the portrait came to be — that work can become intensely personal in addition to its place as an object for an art-hungry corner of your apartment or house.
On 1stDibs, visit a vast collection of famous portrait paintings or works by emerging artists. Search by medium to find the right portrait paintings for your home in oil paint, synthetic resin paint and more. Find portrait paintings in a variety of styles, too, including contemporary, Impressionist and Pop art, or search by artist to find unique works created by painters such as Mark Beard, Steve Kaufman and Montse Valdés.
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Koloman Moser smashed the conservative conventions of art and design in fin-de-siècle Vienna. On the 100th anniversary of his death, the Austrian designer is being celebrated for his radically modern creations.