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“Has Found Out Thy Bed” (FRAMED) Photography 20x30 inch Ed. of 5 by Brian Ziff
Located in Culver City, CA
“Has Found Out Thy Bed” (FRAMED) Photography 20x30 inch Ed. of 5 by Brian Ziff “Has Found Out Thy Bed” (2016) Giclee (Archival Ink) Print on Canson Platine Fibre Rag 20” X 30” inch ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Surrealist Art

Materials

Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée

Hunt Slonem "Pink View" Butterflies on Metallic
Located in Houston, TX
Hunt Slonem "Pink View" Butterflies on Metallic Pink and orange butterflies on a metallic gold and silver etched background in a vintage frame. Unframed: 10 x 8 inches Framed: 14.5 ...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Wood, Oil

Untitled
Located in Austin, TX
Oil on canvas. Signed and dated lower right. 41.75 x 61 in. 44 x 63 in. (framed) Custom framed in a hardwood floater with a matte white finish. Provenance Estate of the artist Eri...
Category

1950s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled
Located in Firenze, FI
Untitled Mixed media on canvas Size 100x100 cm Andrea Stella Florence 1950 - 2019 A gifted genius born in Florence of Greek heritage, resided alternately in two cities that are t...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media

Untitled I
Located in MADRID, ES
Oil pastel on 350 g/m2 textured paper. With thoughts on 21st century humans and their future, João Cardoso concludes that technology brings tools for two extremes. Thus, technology,...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil Pastel

Lost Children
Located in Seoul, SO
This is original work by Wada Chizu ( Japanese ) acrylic on canvas Chizu Wada’s artistic practice is centered on engaging with the viewer’s perception to unveil the deceptive nat...
Category

2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Acrylic

Cerulean Flora
Located in Readsboro, VT
Infused with a tranquil palette, this textile sculpture was crafted to evoke serenity and growth, drawing inspiration from the resilience of nature. Its cerulean hues and wood founda...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Fabric, Textile, Cotton, Wood, Latex

Drip, Drip, Drip.
Located in Toronto, CA
Acrylic painting on canvas by artist Troy Smith. The Drip, Drip, Drip painting measures 48" x 72" and is painted on canvas. Painted in his studio in the summer of 2022, Troy experime...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Carnaval Kawaii
Located in OIA, ES
🔸 _Title: Carnaval kawaii 🔸 _Artist: Diego Tirigall 🔸 _Year of Creation: 2024 🔸 _Dimensions: 160 W x 100 H x 2 D cm 🔸 _Medium: Enamel, Spray paint, Acrylic and Oil Stick 🔸 _Su...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Enamel

Original Landscape Oil Painting: Fall Colors
Located in Cincinnati, OH
Charles Jiao grew up in China during the Cultural Revolution, which caused his formal education to be frequently interrupted. To avoid wasting his time, his father had him get tutore...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Prophesy 4
Located in PARIS, FR
A very detailed and life like series from the Artist Huili CHENG. These oil painting are created between 2021 and 2023. Although miniature, they are very rich in details. You can cle...
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Oil

Bird of Paradise II
Located in Queenston, ON
A study in flight and motion.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Obersee by François Roffiaen (1820-1898) Oil on canvas
Located in Gent, VOV
The Watsman, a painted view between Obersee and Koningsee, Upper Bavaria. Study painted in 1856 by François Roffiaen. François Roffiaen (1820-1898): Biography François Roffiaen's f...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ueno Masao “Apricot Blossom” Sculpture
Located in Lake Worth Beach, FL
Additional Information: Provenance: Tai Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Private Collection, Wilmington, North Carolina Marking(s); notes: no marking(s) apparent Country of origin; m...
Category

Late 20th Century Contemporary Art

Materials

Wood

17th-18th Century By Benedetto Luti Head of a Girl Oil Pastel on Canvas
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Original "cassetta" frame in carved and gilded wood. Expertise by Prof. Giancarlo Sestieri.
Category

18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil Pastel

The Broken Mast
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
It is subjectively proven that artistic inspiration strikes individuals in varied and unique ways. In this single painting, an appreciative audience may examine how the early luminou...
Category

1870s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

OIL PAINTING Small by SALVATORE COLACICCO (NAVY ADMIRALTY 20th CENTURY PIECE
Located in Ferndown, GB
OIL PAINTING SMALL SALVATORE COLACICCO (NAVY ADMIRALTY 20th CENTURY Very good condition for age , (see pictures) FINE RARE MARTINE PAINTING ORIGINAL 20th Century OLD MASTER STYLE OIL PAINTING GOLD GILT FRAME By Similar $3,000 Premier Collection NEW COLLECTION Of RARE PIECES OF OLD HISTORY Description ( 19th century Style ) Salvatore Colacicco is a world-renowned marine artist who was born in 1935 in Bellagio, near Lake Como and studied at Brera Academy, Milan. He has been living in England for over thirty years. Nearly all Salvatore Colacicco's paintings during that time have been exported to the United States and sold through Tonkins of Nantucket Island. These now adorn the walls of many a Board Room and Directors Office throughout the States. Colacicco's style of painting very much reminds one of marine artists throughout the 19th century with an obvious Italian feel. Among Colacicco's achievements were 26 panels illustrating the history and development of the paddle steamer (of which he had made a special study of those used on the Italian Lakes), painted for the Russell Cotes Museum in Bournemouth and most works by Salvatore Colacicco fetch good figures even at auction Nice back story to these pieces , We acquired them from a gentleman that went to school with the artist son in Bournemouth , His Father purchased these ones from the artist roundabout 1960 . Title: Racing...
Category

Mid-20th Century Realist Art

Materials

Oil

o.T. (2201)
Located in Berlin, DE
Jürgen Reichert - Maler Freischaffender Künstler, Farbflächenmalerei, lebt und arbeitet in Berlin. o.T. (2201) 2019 Acryl auf Leinwand 50 x 60 cm Jürgen Reichert, 1953 in Mannheim ...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Land of Nod
By Susan Beatrice Pearse
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Right by Artist PROVENANCE: Private collection, Berkshire, NY Sotheby's, New York- The Illustration Art Collection of Kendra and Allan Daniel, April 11, 2011- Lot 84 ...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Watercolor, Pencil

“Evangeline: Tale of Acadia”
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed with initials lower right The painting is one of the 4 illustrations that JWS did for the book “Evangeline: Tale of Acadia”, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow...
Category

1890s Art

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

Untitled
Located in Ljubljana, SI
Original color silkscreen, cca. 1980. Edition of 250 signed and numbered impressions on Arches paper. Victor Vasarely was a French painter of Hungarian origin. Influenced by Bauhaus ...
Category

1980s Op Art Art

Materials

Screen

Cigale
Located in PARIS, FR
Circular oil and acrylic painting by artist Wenyu Zhu. The artist uses bright yellow and red to cover half of the painting, which is in stark contrast with the sunflower shrubs at the bottom of the painting. Especially for the cicada...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Oil, Acrylic

The Superego's a Judge, The Amygdala a Mutineer
Located in Nashville, TN
Ford William is a self-taught folk/outsider artist, who began making art after coming to terms with chronic mental health issues that had plagued him all his life. The piece was made...
Category

2010s Outsider Art Art

Materials

Metal

Grandma Catches Fly-ball, Saturday Evening Post Cover
By Richard Dick Sargent
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed Lower Left by Artist Cover of The Saturday Evening Post, April 23, 1960
Category

1960s Art

Materials

Casein

NELLA FORESTA by Maria Grazia D'Alessandro
Located in MADRID, ES
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Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Tempera

Resilience #1
Located in Singapore, SG
" The paintings I create are my connections to any city, mountain or coast I visit. I’m fascinated by the everlasting relationship I have with every place I visit, even if in passing...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"The Log Team"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim's of Lambertville Fine Art Gallery is proud to present this piece by Harry Leith-Ross (1886 - 1973). The son of an English father and a Dutch mother, Harry Leith-Ross was born in the British Colony of Mauritius, an island in the Indian Ocean a thousand miles off the southeast coast of Africa. His first formal art instruction began in England under Stanhope Forbes, followed by studies with Jean Paul Laurens at the Academie Julian in Paris. Leith-Ross came to the United States to enroll at the National Academy of Design in New York City in 1910, and then to Woodstock, in 1913. It was in Woodstock at the Art Students League, under the tutelage of Birge Harrison and John F. Carlson, that Leith-Ross would receive the training that most influenced his career as an artist. There he formed a lifelong friendship with fellow artist, John Folinsbee. The two artists shared a studio during this time and participated in several joint exhibitions exclusively featuring their work, including an exhibit at the Louis...
Category

1920s Art

Materials

Oil, Board

Untitled
Located in Almaty, KZ
Aruzhan Zhumabek (born in 1997) - young contemporary artist born in Taraz, Jambyl region in Kazakhstan. Graduated from Eurasian National University named after Lev Nikolaevich Gumile...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Plywood, Acrylic

Gouache on Board Painting Titled "Barbecue Stand", by Aaron Bohrod, circa 1935
Located in New York, NY
Aaron Bohrod, 1907-1992 Barbecue Stand, circa 1935 Gouache on board Signed Lower left: “Aaron Bohrod” Inscribed and signed on verso Bohrod-1 Provenance: Private estate, Rhode Island...
Category

1930s Art

Materials

Gouache

Still Life on Wood
Located in Scottsdale, AZ
Very fun painting by artist, Ekaterina Bokotey, a graduate of the prestigious Repin Academy in St. Petersburg. The whimsical, well-painted tells the story of a serious fly fisherm...
Category

2010s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Money is not enough
Located in MADRID, ES
Materials: Acryl auf Leinwand
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Acrylic

Scenery of Mind
Located in Seoul, KR
The Ideascape of Minjoo Kim The artist explains that she painted “not the realistic depiction, but the inner tree, the objects, the shapes, and a psycholog...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

India Ink, Mulberry Paper, Pigment

Muhammed Ali
Located in New York, NY
Purchased from Ward Estate after his passing in 1990. Part of a private collection since mid 1990's till now and custom framed in handmade unique frames. Ward had a unique vision on ...
Category

1970s Tonalist Art

Materials

Oil

Little Sister, Big Sister, c.1970
Located in Franklin, MI
A wonderful painting in the style clearly identified with the artist.
Category

1970s American Modern Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Thoughtful Boy Seated in Garden
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by Artist Lower Left “Tom burst forth as a full-blown hero who had rescued the maiden from a watery grave...” Book illustration: Jo’s Boys, and How They Turned Out, by Louisa...
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Charcoal

Children Playing Of A Hillside, Near Cape Curig, Wales, 19th Century
Located in Blackwater, GB
Children Playing Of A Hillside, Near Cape Curig, Wales, 19th Century by Sidney Richard Percy (1821-1886) Large 19th Century view of children playing in a hillside near Capel Curig...
Category

19th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

View of the Posillipo coastline near Naples by William Marlow (1740 - 1813)
By William Marlow
Located in PARIS, FR
In this drawing, inspired by his stay in Naples in 1765, William Marlow presents us with a view of Cape Posillipo, to the west of Naples, an essential stage during the Grand Tour. Th...
Category

1760s Old Masters Art

Materials

Ink

Sin límites
Located in MADRID, ES
Sin límites
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Zeus
Located in Miami, FL
Approximately 10,000 U.S pennies.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Roman roofs
Located in Paris, IDF
Pascal Vinardel was born on April 29, 1951 in Casablanca, Morocco, to brillant cultured parents, his father a lawyer and magistrate and his mother a school teacher. Both parents infl...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary French School Art

Materials

Oil

Reflection by Clarisse Grenier
Located in MADRID, ES
« Reflection » is the result of a very intuitive painting process, the artist working with and through her emotions and intuitive flow, letting laye...
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Canvas, Linen, Acrylic

Arc En Ciel by Jacquel Persal
Located in MADRID, ES
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Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Tuscan Mythological Allegory Drawing 19 century pencil paper
Located in Florence, IT
This drawing represents a group of putti depicted while they are intent in studying together the "quadrivium". The quadrivium consisted of arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy...
Category

19th Century Other Art Style Art

Materials

Pencil, Paper

Ecce Homo
By Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
Located in MADRID, ES
Oil on canvas. Bartolomé Esteban Murillo and workshop. Certificated by Enrique Valdivieso who is the most inportant expert in this artist.
Category

17th Century Art

Materials

Canvas

A Promised Land - I
Located in Stamford, CT
Presently I am working on a series of charcoal drawings titled “A Promised Land” which is the result as well as a logical progression of my current engagement with art and ecology. The series drew inspiration from my reading of Pranay Lal’s Indica: A Deep Natural History of the Indian Subcontinent (2016). The book’s focus on sheer life force and exuberance stemming out of India’s natural history and the science behind life not only inspired me but also forced me to think deeply about the state of life on the planet. The title, therefore, is ironically suggestive of the way humankind is (mis)treating natural resources to fulfil its unbridled greed. The series across thirty or more drawings attempts to build an apocalyptic vision of life where the natural world and the animals who inhabit it bear the brunt of over-exploitation. The first out of the six drawings which are complete by now shows the dead root-like structure of a tree which looks fossilised and bears the expression of a dissatisfied creature which seems to be stranded on a lonely landscape. The second drawing is that of a neatly fleeced skeleton of a blue whale on a patch of land. The image brings to the forefront issues of poaching and illegal hunting of whales for commercial gains. The third drawing again deals with the same issue but this time the goriness of the misdeeds of humankind is in the shape of a decaying carcass of an elephant. It is half covered in decayed skin and half visible revealing the rib cage. The fourth drawing is a highly metaphorical one where a large pile of elephant tusks is seen neatly arranged and bears an uncanny resemblance with a human pyre. The fifth drawing is that of a synthetic net left on the landscape. The image is a telling account of the ill effects of fishing which results in bycatch thereby impacting the water beds...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Charcoal

014
Located in Almaty, KZ
Bismildin (b. 1987) is a Kazakh photographer belonging to the young generation who actively collaborates with fashion publications, exhibitions, and social projects. Working primaril...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Metal

You will get there faster if you slow down #5
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Acrylic paint, embroidery and poly-fil video
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Cotton, Thread, Acrylic

Woman and Tiger
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signed by artist lower left. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine Cover
Category

Early 1900s Art

Materials

Oil, Gouache

Table lamp by Hagit Pincovici
Located in Milano, IT
Lampada 15 Table Lamp 18.7"L x 7.5"W x 21.2"H 48cmL x 19cmW x 54cmH The light sculptures of Hagit Pincovici embrace the natural variance and craftsmanship in her process and her mate...
Category

2010s Minimalist Art

Materials

Marble, Brass

Still life #5 by Anahid Ypres
Located in MADRID, ES
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Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Resurrection of Christ
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: with “Mr. Scheer,” Vienna, by July 1918; where acquired by: Jindřich Waldes, Prague, 1918–1941; thence by descent to: Private Collection, New York Literature: Rudolf Kuchynka, “České obrazy tabulové ve Waldesově obrazárně,” Památky archeologické, vol. 31 (1919), pp. 62-64, fig. 5. Jaroslav Pešina, “K datování deskových obrazů ve Waldesově obrazárně,” Ročenka Kruhu pro Pěstování Dějin Umění: za rok (1934), pp. 131-137. Jaroslav Pešina, Pozdně gotické deskové malířství v Čechách, Prague, 1940, pp. 150-151, 220. Patrik Šimon, Jindřich Waldes: sběratel umění, Prague, 2001, pp. 166, 168, footnote 190. Ivo Hlobil, “Tři gotické obrazy ze sbírky Jindřicha Waldese,” Umění, vol. 52, no. 4 (2004), p. 369. Executed sometime in the 1380s or 1390s by a close associate of the Master of the Třeboň Altarpiece, this impressive panel is a rare work created at the royal court in Prague and a significant re-discovery for the corpus of early Bohemian painting. It has emerged from an American collection, descendants of the celebrated Czech industrialist and collector Jindřich Waldes, who died in Havana fleeing Nazi-occupied Europe. The distinctive visual tradition of the Bohemian school first began to take shape in the middle of the fourteenth century after Charles IV—King of Bohemia and later Holy Roman Emperor—established Prague as a major artistic center. The influx of foreign artists and the importation of significant works of art from across Europe had a profound influence on the development of a local pictorial style. Early Italian paintings, especially those by Sienese painters and Tommaso da Modena (who worked at Charles IV’s court), had a considerable impact on the first generation of Bohemian painters. Although this influence is still felt in the brilliant gold ground and the delicate tooling of the present work, the author of this painting appears to be responding more to the paintings of his predecessors in Prague than to foreign influences. This Resurrection of Christ employs a compositional format that was popular throughout the late medieval period but was particularly pervasive in Bohemian painting. Christ is shown sitting atop a pink marble sarcophagus, stepping down onto the ground with one bare foot. He blesses the viewer with his right hand, while in his left he holds a triumphal cross with a fluttering banner, symbolizing his victory over death. Several Roman soldiers doze at the base of the tomb, except for one grotesque figure, who, beginning to wake, shields his eyes from the light and looks on with a face of bewilderment as Christ emerges from his tomb. Christ is wrapped in a striking red robe with a blue interior lining, the colors of which vary subtly in the changing light. He stands out prominently against the gold backdrop, which is interrupted only by the abstractly rendered landscape and trees on either side of him. The soldiers’ armor is rendered in exacting detail, the cool gray of the metal contrasting with the earth tones of the outer garments. The sleeping soldier set within a jumble of armor with neither face nor hands exposed, is covered with what appears to be a shield emblazoned with two flies on a white field, somewhat resembling a cartouche (Fig. 1). This may be a heraldic device of the altarpiece’s patron or it may signify evil, referencing either the Roman soldiers or death, over both of which Christ triumphs. This painting formed part of the collection assembled by the Czech industrialist and founder of the Waldes Koh-i-noor Company, Jindřich Waldes, in the early twentieth century. As a collector he is best remembered for establishing the Waldes Museum in Prague to house his collection of buttons (totaling nearly 70,000 items), as well as for being the primary patron of the modernist painter František Kupka. Waldes was also an avid collector of older art, and he approached his collecting activity with the goal of creating an encyclopedic collection of Czech art from the medieval period through to the then-present day. At the conclusion of two decades of collecting, his inventory counted 2331 paintings and drawings, 4764 prints, and 162 sculptures. This collection, which constituted the Waldesova Obrazárna (Waldes Picture Gallery), was first displayed in Waldes’ home in Prague at 44 Americká Street and later at his newly built Villa Marie at 12 Koperníkova Street. This Resurrection of Christ retains its frame from the Waldes Picture Gallery, including its original plaque “173 / Česky malíř z konce 14 stol.” (“Czech painter from the end of the 14th century”) and Waldes’ collection label on the reverse. The Resurrection of Christ was one of the most significant late medieval panel...
Category

15th Century and Earlier Old Masters Art

Materials

Tempera, Panel

Obsession
Located in Petworth, GB
Abstract landscape by Tuëma Pattie. Tuëma Pattie was born in Dublin and studied at Belfast College of Art, the Central School of Art and Design and Morley College, London. Tuëma has exhibited at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition...
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21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

"Home and Food"
Located in Singapore, SG
Mass migration and expression of human struggle during his times.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Untitled
Located in Barcelona, ES
the painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Lithograph

Detente
Located in New York, NY
Purchased from Ward Estate after his passing in 1990. Part of a private collection since mid 1990's till now and custom framed in handmade unique frames. Ward had a unique vision on ...
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Early 20th Century Tonalist Art

Materials

Oil

Study of a Nude Man
By Francesco Maffei
Located in New York, NY
Provenance: John Barnard, London (Lugt 1419) or possibly Saint John Dent, London and Milton (Lugt 1438) Unidentified collector’s mark “W,” lower left of the mount (Lugt 2591a) Private Collection, USA. This expressive and boldly executed drawing is a work by Francesco Maffei...
Category

17th Century Baroque Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Pen

Path of Life # 2
Located in Singapore, SG
Path of life it’s a historical based painting. A lot of example over in history that a king becomes a monk, a robber becomes a monk or nature lover. They always try to spread his lov...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Tempera

Self-Portrait as Mad Queen
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

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