Sax Berlin Paintings
British, b. 1953
We are privileged to sell works on behalf of Sax Berlin. Sax, arguably the finest exponent of 21st Century Classicism, has devoted his life to absorbing the culture of art and architecture in Europe, Asia & North America. He is undoubtedly a genius of our times and one of the great secrets of modern art.
When one reviews his oeuvre, 10 distinct & separate styles emerge, displaying Berlin’s mastery of his subject. In fact only Picasso has achieved this height of genius. His students and collectors call him “The Master”.
Berlin is a unique artist, using techniques mastered during his studies; ranging from antiquity through the medieval and Renaissance to the present; he creates the visual outcomes he wants and that delight collectors.
The paintings Berlin has created in his New York, Greek and Cornish studios are of museum quality and are rarely seen in Art Sales offering a combination of beautiful artworks and investment opportunity.
Harvard University refer to him as a Master Artist. The President of the Asia Society on Park Avenue, NYC wrote to Berlin that “your work is beautiful” and Bernard Faure, Professor of Asia Studies at Columbia University wrote “your icons really do have a life of their own”.
Sax Berlin is a modern Master Painter in the truest sense of the term and follows in the footsteps of the Great Masters of the past.to
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Artist: Sax Berlin
"The Goodwill Ambassador Cannot Look Away." Contemporary Neo Expressionism
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A stunning almost minimalist Neo-Expressionist piece from the Atlantic studio of Sax Berlin. Throughout the Summer of 2024 in increasingly unpredictable times Berlin has been creatin...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Triple Halo Lil' Angel of SoHo
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Truly an exceptional, statement piece from Berlin. His Lil’ Angel is perhaps the most eyecatching and iconic of his works depicting the Guardian Angels. The Guardian Angels loomed la...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
The Golden Mind : Life's Celebration. Contemporary Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
We are excited to bring this incredible painting to public attention. Berlin is renowned for his use of colour, pigments and texture but this piece is truly exceptional. Sumptuous in...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Marble, Copper, Gold Leaf
Lady Day
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Homage to Billie Holliday. Created in his idiosyncratic New York City style Berlin, himself a keen jazz musician, pays tribute to one of the greatest jazz singers of all time, the legendary Billie Holliday. Nicknamed Lady Day...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Big Little Angel Of SoHo. Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Berlin has loved Manhattan & New York City for decades. This love is passionately brought to life in the dynamic & vibrant series of Guradian Angels that he's created to protect the ...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Preparing For The Muse (Mark Rylance). Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Portrait of actor Mark Rylance preparing for one of his earlier roles
Gouache on Italian Slate in a contemporary Black frame.
Category
2010s Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Slate
Mystery of Majesty, Contemporary Mixed Media Figurative Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Something so special it's hardly ever seen - creative silver and gold leafing. The face passed through seven stages before it was complete and crushed marble is used to adorn her fac...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Marble, Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
"That Kat Miles" Neo Expressionist Contemporary Portrait of Miles Davis
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Jazz aficionado Sax Berlin offers his homage to Miles Davis. This piece is a street art version of portraiture, bold & incisive. There's a raw feel to this painting that has the musi...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Silver
Cate Blanchett Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR addressing European Parliament
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
"Cate Blanchett, Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR addressing the European Parliament" is a wonderful Neo-Expressionist interpretation of the event by master artist Sax Berlin. This pai...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Jardin: After Monet. Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A riotous explosion from the palette of Sax Berlin. This garden uses the beautiful colours familiar to those who have travelled the southern reaches of France and used to such amazin...
Category
2010s Surrealist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Back to Source : We All from Africa. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A gripping piece referencing our mitochondrial roots. Berlin has created an image that is simultaneously urban jungle graffiti and African tribal mask. It would enhance any space an...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Neo Expressionism Renaissance. Volume 1
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Neo-Expressionism has a justified place in the art pantheon and is currently experiencing a revival on both sides of the Atlantic. The human condition is laid out in this piece which...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Enlightenment. Contemporary Figurative Mixed Media Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
This work was inspired by Berlin's many visits to the Peace Pagoda during his sojourn to Nepal over the Winter. Sax prepares his canvasses and waits for the right conjunction of crea...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf, Copper
Mind Of The Poet. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A High Classical piece from Berlin. Referencing back to the poets of ancient civilisations; some real, some mythical, this work reflects outwardly the innermost thoughts and feelings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil
Golden Buddha: Oil and Gold Leaf on Canvas
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A work of True quality by this master artist Sax BERLIN. Quote from Sax
"….gaze into the face…with this piece the Buddha reveals himself to himself."
Sax Berlin is creating the Gre...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
"Heroin Kills" Large Contemporary Neo Expressionist Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Heroin Kills is a cry from the soul from Berlin. A contemporary of Basquiat in the New York art scene of the 1980's Berlin was very much on the frontline when it came to witnessing t...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Angel Of Peace: Contemporary Mixed Media Figurative Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
In these testing times it's become easy to turn inwards rather than looking outwards into the world. In a painting that is archetypical of Sax Berlin Angel of Peace is a reflection ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Marble, Gold Leaf
To the Dove of Peace I Offer This Elegance
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Very occasionally a painting invites deep study; nothing exists within it without reason, each form has purpose, every shade has nuance, every line has meaning. Berlin has presented...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Marble, Copper, Gold Leaf
Inspiration. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Inspiration offers a beautiful portrait, one is aware of the nods to previous portrayals of iconic faces yet this painting is totally unique. This piece is classic Neo-Expressionism,...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Skull. Contemporary Neo Expressionist Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
What better time than now to introduce Sax Berlin's Mortality series. Since people started creating art works there have been representations of human (and animal) bones; skeletons a...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
One Pearl Of Great Price. Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
One Pearl Of Great Price is part of the "When We Were Harlekings" collection. A pearl, unlike other gems, emerges as a perfect object and represents the true self. Through diligent s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Vigneron: Contemporary Neo Expressionist Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
From Sax Berlin's Wine Drinkers series painted whilst he stayed at the famous Chateau Lescours in St Emillion, France. This Neo-Expressionist work is vibrant and relatable; a real to...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Tathagata: Contemporary Mixed Media Buddha Painting by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Tathagata - a Pali or Sanscrit word used primarily by Siddartha Gautama Buddha to refer to himself. However it also the term for one who has reached enlightenment through Buddhist principles & has as many as eight different meanings. Generally accepted is the translation one who has thus arrived. And this vivid painting from Berlin has arrived! Drawing on his knowledge of the faith & his research into the theme this is a beautiful & informed rendition of Buddha. The colours are vibrant but enable one to look deep and take the essence of tranquility from the image. This Buddha would sit happily on an altar or a home corner of peace and tranquility, giving an essence of calm & preparedness to those who stand before it.
Oil paint using hand ground pigments, 24 ct gold and silver...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
New York City Jazz Club by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Ode to master bassman and composer Lincoln Schleifer from the New York music scene. Sax's look into his head with the musicians seeing, breathing and enveloped by the music.
Yet ag...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Ink, Gouache
"Adoration". Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
From Sax’s Neo Nouveau collection that he recently revisited for one of his private collectors Adoration is a stunningly beautiful painting. The figure is a coquettish representatio...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Grasses They Fall and Lie As They Fall: Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
One sees again the impressionist pieces that originated in the South of France here, think Van Gogh in Arles. Expressionism and Impressionism come together in this painting to form a...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
ZiZi de Montparnasse: Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
An enigmatic portrait in oils from Berlin, stylised and elongated this person is a mysterious figure. ZiZi was a writer and poet who was a friend of the artist. It is certainly a re...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Let's Take the Blame : Wise Up !" Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Such a stark image with a massive amount of depth from master artist Sax Berlin. The message is clear, mankind needs to be mindful of the impact we're having on the planet. We need t...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
"Angel of Manhattan". Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A large, monochrome painting that maximises Berlin's skill. In this piece, which appears deceptively simple Berlin has channeled his raw energy into a painting that has massive impa...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Street Smart: Contemporary Surrealist Portrait
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
His time in New York City has ingrained Berlin with the whole vibe of the culture that existed in the city at that time. He is so passionate when talking about it and the lasting eff...
Category
2010s Surrealist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
"To Whom The Gods Love Destiny Comes Late" Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Just when you think an artist has reached the zenith of creativity and beauty a piece arrives that is simply breathtaking. It truly is Sax Berlin's destiny to create these stunning w...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Copper, Gold Leaf
"Classical Harlequin". Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Classical Harlequin - in this Harlequin painting Berlin shows his character barefaced and out of costume. The Harlequin is quiet and reflective in the foreground, however in the back...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
The Beauty and Inner Light of Woman. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Soulful and spiritual she gazes deep into the innermost sanctum of being. She is not a portrait of one woman she is a representation of all women. Strength with nurture, solace with ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Marble
114, 000, 000 Refugees.
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
114,000,000 Refugees. Cate Blanchett Goodwill Ambassador to UNHCR Addressing European Parliament
Cate Blanchett, Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR addressed the European Parliament on ...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
"Emblem Of Peace" Contemporary Mixed Media Figurative Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sax Berlin is emphatically back in the studio! Emblem of Peace has been woven onto the canvas with the rarest of pigments, precious metal and glistening marble. These precious ingre...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Marble, Gold Leaf
Michelangelo's Apprentice: Contemporary figurative oil painting by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
A boys face straight from the Renaissance down the centuries to the studio of Sax Berlin. Created in Medieval style this portrait could quite easily belong in the Uffizi collections ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Aesthetic Movement Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil
Night
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
hand ground pigments on canvas
Category
2010s Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Skulls (Mortality)
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
What better time than now to introduce Sax Berlin's Mortality series. Since people started creating art works there have been representations of human (and animal) bones; skeletons a...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Ragin' Against The Machine. Contemporary Figurative Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
It's long believed that "the machine" is capitalism and the oppressive structures at the highest levels of society. Renegade artist Basquiat became drawn into this machine and became...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
Curtis Sliwa, Guardian Of The City
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
His time in New York City has ingrained Berlin with the whole vibe of the culture that existed in the city at that time. He is so passionate when talking about it and the lasting eff...
Category
2010s Surrealist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Pursuit of Peace. JFK. Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Sax Berlin is a master of many styles and this Van Goghesque portrait of JFK is both subtle and eye-catching. Shocking events are taking place in the world so it's fitting that Berli...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil
The Pipers At The Dawn of Peace. Large Contemporary Tryptch Abstract Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
The Three Pipers. Large Contemporary Triptych
A riotous explosion of colour leaps from this large contemporary canvas. A swirling vibrant cloud of colours are in synchronicity with ...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
"Basquiat" Contemporary Homage to Basquiat and Street Art by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Portrait of Basquiat - troubled enfant terrible of the street art scene in downtown Manhattan in the 1970's & 80's. Wearing his trademark Armani suits Basquiat worked in fast, furiou...
Category
2010s Abstract Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
"Our Time Is Here" Contemporary Figurative Neo Expressionist Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Right here, right now in the words of the song. This piece from Berlin has an immediacy to it that draws the eye and the emotion. Berlin evokes huge emotional responses to his art, e...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
The Impulse Is Divine: Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
This title encapsulates the whole ethos of Sax Berlin; the impulse to create courses through him in vibrant immediacy resulting in paintings that are timeless. In this work his creat...
Category
Early 2000s Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil
Warning Code Red ! Contemporary Neo Expressionist Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Primary, rich red defines this painting, yet the face is so magnetic. Berlin is hugely conscious of the environment and these highly immediate works are his way of trying to draw att...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Acrylic
Pierrot Enchanted. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
From Sax Berlin's 1991 Pierrot series.
Hand ground pigments on canvas. signed
Category
1990s Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Stop The Hatred". Contemporary Neo Expressionist Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
This is such a pertinent piece from Sax Berlin. Nobody else painting today melds generations and genres in this way; 60's colours, 70's glam, 80's street, 90's hip- hop and 21st cen...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil, Acrylic
Motherhood: Contemporary Surrealist Oil Painting by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Motherhood is a self portrait of Sax Berlin’s experience as a single father. He had to be mother and father at a time when he was aggrieved after his beautiful wife Susan’s passing ...
Category
2010s Surrealist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil
"Peace To America" Large Contemporary Oil, Gold & Silver Leaf Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Perhaps this stunning painting by Sax Berlin is more pertinent than when it was first conceptualised. Sax Berlin, top of his game. Sax lived and painted in America for many years in ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Silver, Gold Leaf
That Kat Coltrane, Neo Expressionist Portrait of John Coltrane by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Wherever one travels to in the world it's inevitable that one sees the heritage of wild-style graffiti. Graffiti writers are the most influential artists of their time; reaching so m...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Oil, Acrylic
Liberty, Neo Expressionist Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
This eyecatching painting was an immediate reaction to 9/11. Berlin spent many years in New York and visits to this day, the city has aspecial place in his heart. The response visibl...
Category
2010s Neo-Expressionist Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Gold Leaf
La Grande Parisienne. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
When this beautiful piece was created Berlin had been staging a one man renaissance of the early 20th Century School of Paris. For 8 years in this wing of study he used the shapes of...
Category
2010s Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Marble
Everyone Eekwal, Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting by Sax Berlin
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
From Berlin's "21st Century Sharp Edge Neo Expressionist New York City Style" Series.
In this piece Berlin has used his immense creativity and his unique styles to bring us a pain...
Category
2010s Street Art Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Acrylic
Neo Expressionism: On The Corner Sheridan Square
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
East Village Art:
From 1978 for 8 years Berlin worked frenetically,at street level, his finger on the pulse of this great city creating The Manhattan Collection. Living & moving in...
Category
1980s Abstract Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Ink
"Fire Bird." Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
In front of the swirling maelstrom Fire Bird sits dispassionately awaiting transformation into his next character. Berlin brings hints of the phoenix legend to bear in this piece an...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
Choreographer. Contemporary Figurative Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
In this Harlequin series work Berlin has The choreographer absent mindedly slipping on a ballet slipper. The hand is hardly discernible on the canvas as it is in his mind. His gaze a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Canvas, Oil
"Monochrome Blue" Contemporary Abstract Oil Painting
By Sax Berlin
Located in Brecon, Powys
Stunning monochrome work from the studio of Sax Berlin. A painting in which one can truly become lost. The colour is rich and indulgent, it allows the mind to follow the flow of the ...
Category
2010s Abstract Sax Berlin Paintings
Materials
Marble
Sax Berlin paintings for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Sax Berlin paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of paintings to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of purple, red, blue and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Sax Berlin in paint, oil paint, acrylic paint and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Sax Berlin paintings, so small editions measuring 8 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Angela Wakefield, Enzio Wenk, and Steven Miller. Sax Berlin paintings prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $2,250 and tops out at $38,224, while the average work can sell for $7,123.