The Wrestlers

The heavy silhouettes, casual gestures and quiet interaction between the wrestlers transform the scene into a study of character and social observation rather than spectacle.

Artist/ School: French School, signed lower front, dated 1970's Title: La Moto Verte, a surrealist composition of nude/ semi nude male figures in a wrestling pose floating in the sk...

Modern pastel drawing of a pair of sumo wrestlers in the middle of a match wearing green and blue mawashi set against an orange floor.

In 1989 Fairey created the André the Giant Has a Posse sticker campaign, featuring a stylized image of the wrestler André the Giant. This project was the foundation for his seminal ...

Into this fabric she substitutes or integrate corresponding contemporary attitudes--both about our treatment of the land and its other inhabitants and our attitudes regarding decorat...

Auctions: Another example of this sculpture, probably also Pietro Bazzanti but almost a foot shorter (Height 44¾ in. (113.5 cm), unsigned and without its pedestal, was sold at Chris...

Auctions: Another example of this sculpture, probably also Pietro Bazzanti but almost a foot shorter (Height 44¾ in. (113.5 cm), unsigned and without its pedestal, was sold at Chris...

The calm expression contrasts with the underlying energy of the wrestler’s stance. Light glides across the polished surface, reinforcing the sculpture’s inviting softness.

Watanabe transforms the traditional wrestler into a contemporary figure of public exposure.

JERED SPRECHER is an artist who makes paintings, drawings, and installations that abstract the landscape to explore the precarious relationship between nature and technology. His wor...

JERED SPRECHER is an artist who makes paintings, drawings, and installations that abstract the landscape to explore the precarious relationship between nature and technology. His wor...

Unlike the crowded urban scenes characteristic of the series, this work embraces direct confrontation, almost meditative in tone. The wrestler’s steady gaze suggests inner accomplish...

Rendered in warm color, the wrestler’s body emerges powerfully from a dense black-and-white crowd locked in observation.

These paintings are rooted in my contemplating Whiteness and emerge from wrestling with the politics of painting—the connections and gaps between painting and lived experience.

Born in 1970, Fairey gained widespread recognition for his "Obey Giant" campaign, which originated as a sticker campaign featuring the face of professional wrestler André the Giant. ...

Born in 1970, Fairey gained widespread recognition for his "Obey Giant" campaign, which originated as a sticker campaign featuring the face of professional wrestler André the Giant. ...

Each Sumowarrior adopts the grounded, ceremonial stance of the sacred wrestler, here transformed into a playful yet universal icon.

Group Exhibitions: 1965, Robert Henri and his Circle, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York 2003, Edward Hopper and Urban Realism, Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia Solo Exh...

"Echoes of Fragile Desires" paints an evocative tableau that speaks to the shared human experience of wrestling with love's complexities. The scene transcends its visual confines, re...

JERED SPRECHER is an artist who makes paintings, drawings, and installations that abstract the landscape to explore the precarious relationship between nature and technology. His wor...

His work, of course, takes place well outside the historical framework of what Levin aptly referred to as the “modern/postmodern wrestling match”, but neither was this exactly his m...

In the paintings, Johns presents images that move into the realm of objects and wrestle with the validity of representation as a philosophical concept.

Cook’s visits to the Tongan islands were marked by elaborate feasts, dances, and wrestling competitions organised by the chiefs to demonstrate power, hospitality, and social structure.

Beard paints under the fictitious persona of Bruce Sargeant, his half American-half English uncle who painted a parade of Arcadian scenes suggesting afternoons of young men sporting...

Instead, I’m consumed with abstracting the human figure in voluminous, whimsical sensuality, wrestling with the complexities of three-dimensional form, and hunting for each piece’s h...

Original vintage London Electricity Board poster entitled The Power of London - Electricity featuring fantastic artwork From the drawing by Sam Rabin (the artist, singer and wrestler...

Mythologically, Hercules acquired the lion skin headdress from one of his 10 labors: wrestling and killing the Nemean lion by hand. The reverse of the coin features Zeus enthroned, ...

After taking his master's name, he expanded his range to include scenes of sumo wrestling, and the modernization and westernization of Japan.

The concept was clear in my head, but I was wrestling with the execution, as, in a still image, it is impossible to have both the speaker and the crowd facing the camera.

The concept was clear in my head, but I was wrestling with the execution, as, in a still image, it is impossible to have both the speaker and the crowd facing the camera.

An extraordinary original hand-drawn lucha libre poster executed entirely in India ink on kraft paper (papel revolución), representing the rich tradition of Mexican vernacular graphi...

Based on its technique, composition, and execution, this work was likely created as an original layout or master artwork used to produce the street posters that were traditionally pa...

An extraordinary original hand-drawn lucha libre poster executed entirely in India ink on kraft paper (papel revolución), representing the rich tradition of Mexican vernacular graphi...

She was born in New Cross, London and wrestles mainly in Europe and the USA as there have only been a few contests between lady wrestlers in London.

The title is the Greek word for a wrestling ground, and fluted columns and column bases stand across the small horizontal plate in Nicholson's fine etched line, with a rounded capita...

This kind of benches were used in the arenas of Mexican wrestling that were presented in the towns.

Is this a play on the idea that we all wrestle with our own thoughts to resolve a situation?

Here, he depicts a Seminole Indian mother and child at the center of the composition, flanked by contemporary women and men in South Florida -- including synchronized swimmers to the...

The finial is particularly unusual, depicting two figures locked together in what is almost certainly a representation of Schwingen, the traditional Swiss Alpine wrestling sport, add...

I like how people are wrestling with the machines, like a man versus machine kinda thing.

Alexander Korda cast him as a wrestler in in 1933 and as Mendoza, a Jewish prize-fighter, in in 1934.

The silhouette remains iconic: the generous, welcoming proportions, the splayed, confident rear legs that bear the load with visible integrity, and that sense of lightness that Prouv...

In Eternal Navid (2022), Soudeh Davoud commemorates the life and legacy of Navid Afkari, the Iranian wrestler executed in 2020. Against a serene blue backdrop, two wrestlers engage i...

If neither animal retreats, the confrontation can culminate in the dramatic locking of antlers depicted on the lid of this casket. The stags push and wrestle for dominance, sometimes...

Little escaped his lens: he recorded discos, dinner parties, flea markets, wrestling matches, and the social rituals that defined downtown New York in the late 20th century.

Description: This work is executed in India ink, gouache, and chalk on an illustration cut from a book, reproducing the terracotta sculpture Two Wrestlers, one of Michelangelo's lat...

The face of Laocoon from the group of "Laocoon and His Two Sons Wrestling with Serpents," the original of which is a Greek sculpture from Rhodes from the 1st century AD.

Little escaped his lens: he recorded discos, dinner parties, flea markets, wrestling matches, and the social rituals that defined downtown New York in the late 20th century.

JERED SPRECHER is an artist who makes paintings, drawings, and installations that abstract the landscape to explore the precarious relationship between nature and technology. His wor...

Comparisons may be drawn with Mantegna’s Allegory of the Fall of Ignorant Humanity in the British Museum, as well as with the British Museum’s Hercules wrestling with Antaeus, attrib...

The central drop-front panel features a breathtaking, highly detailed biblical scene depicting Jacob wrestling the Angel, framed by classical Corinthian columns.

Victorian Cast Iron Umbrella Stand This great piece shows the story of the young Hercules wrestling with a serpent, this forms the support for the umbrellas, the grassy base forms ...

Painted in mid February, trying to wrestle light from the darkness. Many interesting textures. :: Painting :: Abstract :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticit...

Large Japanese Hirado Porcelain Blue & White grouping of Shi Shi dogs playing, Meiji Period Modeled as a pair of shishi playfully wrestling, the group is fully sculpted in the r...

Dimensions: 7.5 x 12 x 18.5 cm Material: Pottery Name: Kitanoumi Period: Showa (1980s) Kitanoumi Toshimitsu (May 16, 1953 to November 20, 2015), born Toshimitsu Obata (Obata Toshi...

JERED SPRECHER is an artist who makes paintings, drawings, and installations that abstract the landscape to explore the precarious relationship between nature and technology. His wor...

JERED SPRECHER is an artist who makes paintings, drawings, and installations that abstract the landscape to explore the precarious relationship between nature and technology. His wor...

JERED SPRECHER is an artist who makes paintings, drawings, and installations that abstract the landscape to explore the precarious relationship between nature and technology. His wor...

JERED SPRECHER is an artist who makes paintings, drawings, and installations that abstract the landscape to explore the precarious relationship between nature and technology. His wor...

JERED SPRECHER is an artist who makes paintings, drawings, and installations that abstract the landscape to explore the precarious relationship between nature and technology. His wor...