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Art For Sale
Color:  Beige
Fashion Couple
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Gouache and Ink on Paper Dimensions: 17.50" x 10.75" Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category

Early 20th Century Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Gouache

Mixed Media abstract painting- by contemporary artist Zhang Chunyang
Located in Beijing, CN
Mixed Media Painting Title: Series Beasts of Burden No. 1 Dimension: 82 x 61 cm Material: Mixed Media Date: 2022 Artist Biography Zhang Chunyang was...
Category

2010s Expressionist Art

Materials

Mixed Media

The News by Annemarie Ambrosoli, Watercolor on paper
Located in Kiens, BZ
The News (2018), Watercolor Paper Fabriano 600 g, 40,5x50,5 cm, by Italian contemporary artist Annemarie Ambrosoli (ICA - International Certified Artist) This watercolor comes direc...
Category

2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Watercolor

Queen Elizabeth
Located in Fort Washington, PA
From the Estate of John McLaughlin. Signed center left. William Andrew (Willy) Pogany was a native of Hungary and his first studies in Budapest and Paris were in engineering. Success in caricaturing led him to pursue and art career, first in London and then in America. His influences were the Oriental artists...
Category

20th Century Other Art Style Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Board

Mending the Shirt, Boys Life Magazine Cover
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Boys' Life, The Boy Scouts' Magazine Cover, February 1922 Harold Anderson studied at the Fenway Art School in his native Boston. Among his instructors were Chase Emerson, Harold Brett, and Arthur...
Category

1920s Other Art Style Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

For Victory the Navy Calls
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right Revere F. Wistehuff was one of the central group of cover artists in the New Rochelle Art Colony in the 1920's, '30s, '40s which ...
Category

1930s Other Art Style Art

Materials

Oil, Canvas

Color Polaroid ‘Sex Parts and Torsos’ by Andy Warhol
Located in Santa Monica, CA
This work is unique. Work comes with a Certificate of Provenance from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts issued by Christie’s. Stamped on the verso by the Estate of the A...
Category

1970s Pop Art Art

Materials

Polaroid

ANGRY BANNER
By Mist
Located in Marrakech, MA
Mixed media on canvas. Work signed on the front & back Black exterior frame included
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Ink, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Female Sexual Nude
Located in Miami, FL
Sotheby's New York . work is elegantly matted and framed with the Sotheby's sticker on verso
Category

1920s Art Deco Art

Materials

Pencil

Shore Leave, Saturday Evening Post Cover, August 1931
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Center August 8, 1931 Saturday Evening Post Cover
Category

1930s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

CALM WHISPERS - STATE 2 - Waterscape / Reflections / Contemporary Art
Located in New York, NY
Original photograph by artist Susan Goldsmith.
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Resin, Mixed Media

Arcane - Mineral and Ink, Landscape painting of Ganges River, Textured, Small
Located in Tokyo, JP
An original mineral painting, made with crushed minerals (natural and synthetic), crushed seashells and Sumi ink on Japanese paper, mounted on a wood panel. Natural colors include se...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Stone

Tree Study, Whittier, CA
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A painting by Gregory Sumida. “Tree Study, Whittier, CA” is a landscape painting, watercolor on watercolor board in an earth-tone palette by American artist...
Category

Mid-20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Watercolor

Untitled
Located in Santa Monica, CA
Emerging from a history of innovative West Coast artists, who pioneered the Finish Fetish and Light and Space movements, Casper Brindle has mastered the industrial materials at his d...
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Resin, Automotive Paint, Acrylic, Panel

FOLIAR POETRY by Marcia Priestley
Located in MADRID, ES
Foliar Poetry
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Yellow Car with Woman and Puppet
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Born in Moscow, Idaho,and raised in Seattle, Robert Jessup received his BFA from the University of Washington in 1975 and his MFA from the University of Iowa in 1979. His work has be...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Still Point (Perpetual Angelus)
Located in ATLANTA, GA
he abstract paintings and drawings of Michael Barringer are steeped in contemplation. The Georgia artist creates works as part of a series, often inspired by art history, archaeology...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Panel

Figura Femminile IV, 2018
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Son of painter Angelo Bonfanti, Maurizio Bonfanti attended Bergamo's Liceo Artistico and studied etching at the Accademia di Belle Arti in the same city. Though he enrolled to study ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Modern Art

Materials

Mixed Media

Venice - Julien Calot, 21st Century art, Contemporary figurative painting
Located in Paris, FR
Acrylic paint on canvas Hand-signed lower right by the artist Unique work Discover the new works on canvas by the French emerging and talented artist Julien Calot in his personal ex...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

Oyster I, C-Print - editon 4 out of 5
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Osyer 1, chromogenic print. Edition 4 out of 5. 40" x 50" Hand signed and stamped on verso.
Category

2010s Art

Materials

C Print

Study for « The Chinese Masquerade » by Jean-Baptiste Pierre (1714 - 1789)
By Jean-Baptiste Pierre
Located in PARIS, FR
Arriving in Rome in June 1735 as a resident at the Royal Academy, Pierre was unable to attend the Winter Carnival festivities of 1735, which he nevertheless immortalised in an engrav...
Category

1730s Old Masters Art

Materials

Graphite

Untitled
By Christian Rosa
Located in Palm Desert, CA
An abstract oil on canvas by Brazilian contemporary artist Christian Rosa. This large format, untitled oil is executed in bright yellow, black, red and blue in a subdued, neutral pal...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Ten Back
Located in ATLANTA, GA
Carlos J. Tirado (born on April 3, 1964 in Caracas, Venezuela) is an artist, painter and sculptor who has developed a very personal and precise line of work linked to Neo-Pop art. Wi...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

Bellhop
Located in New York, NY
Many places, many times intermingle in the work of Roberto Juarez. His life is so much a part of his work, that each new body of work introduces subjects, styles and motifs that seem...
Category

Late 20th Century Modern Art

Materials

Stencil

Untitled from the Series Any Human Heart
Located in New York, NY
36" x 24" Edition of 5 +2AP Hahnmühle paper matt fibre 200gr. Archival digital pigment print, unframed. Humans are complex. We are made up of many different layers, oftentimes unwi...
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Les Vignobles De France - Vins De Bordeaux
Located in London, GB
HETRÉAU, Remy. Les Vignobles De France - Vins De Bordeaux (The Vineyards of France - Wines of Bordeaux) Paris 1954. Fine colour printed promotional map of the wine regions of Bordeaux, drawn by Remy Hetréau in 1954. The map shows the major wine producing regions with cluster of grapes, using red for red wines, and yellow for white wines. The map is surrounded by a compass rose, grapes on the vine. Framed and glazed, overall size: 83.7 by 70 by 2cm. One from a series of 11 titled Les Vignobles de France; these posters were commissioned by the Comité National de Propagande en Faveur du Vin, a government agency that promoted the French wine industry, as well as tourism to the regions. Remy Hétreau was a French artist, printmaker, illustrator and designer, known for his etchings and engravings; he illustrated numerous books. Among his other activities, he created designs for Haviland Limoges china...
Category

1950s Naturalistic Art

Materials

Color

Tristan Et Iseult - The Giant Beliagog
Located in Miami, FL
TECHNICAL INFORMATION Salvador Dali Tristan Et Iseult - The Giant Beliagog 1970 Etching Aquatint 18 x 12 1/2 in. Edition of 125 Pencil signed &...
Category

1970s Surrealist Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Fred C. Dobbs Paddle Steamer
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right This illustration dates circa 1950.
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Untitled 516, 1980s
Located in Quogue, NY
Watercolor on paper
Category

1980s Expressionist Art

Materials

Watercolor, Paper

Girl at the Sink
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Signature: Signed Lower Right
Category

Mid-20th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Flowers Cannes, 2000s
Located in Quogue, NY
Watercolor on paper
Category

Early 2000s Expressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Untitled (Sunset with Hands)
Located in New York, NY
Signed (at lower right): Louisa Chase
Category

Late 20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Ink, Watercolor

Yellow Field, April 24, 2014
By Leora Armstrong
Located in New York, NY
Leora Armstrong grew up on the West Coast of Scotland surrounded by the sea, hills and Scottish weather. It was this changing light of the West Coast, upon the landscape, which happe...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Art

Materials

Oil

Vermouth
Located in New York, NY
Mixed Media/ Wood panel with epoxy resin finish. Homage to vintage Martini & Rossi. Black and cream colors. Woman featured. About the Artist: Seek One is an up and coming ...
Category

2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Mixed Media, Epoxy Resin, Wood Panel

Pigeon, by Gustave Miklos, Animals, Drawing, Work on paper, Sculpture study
By Gustave Miklos 1
Located in Geneva, CH
Pigeon, by Gustave Miklos, Animals, Drawing, Work on paper, Sculpture study Pigeon Circa 1957 Pencil, watercolor and gouache on paper 26 x 38.5 cm / 60...
Category

1950s Art Deco Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor, Gouache

Constructivist Cityscape with Green Horse
Located in London, GB
BÈLA KÀDÀR 1877-1956 Budapest 1877-1956 (Hungarian) Title: Constructivist Cityscape with Green Horse, ca. 1920s Technique: Signed Watercolour on Paper Paper size: 27.8 x 20.2 cm. / 10.9 x 8 in. Additional Information: This watercolour is hand signed in pencil by the artist in the lower right image "Kàdàr Bèla" Provenance: Galerie Jean Chauvelin, 4 rue Furstenberg...
Category

1920s Cubist Art

Materials

Watercolor

Two Wood Ducks on a Flowering Branch
Located in New York, NY
Joseph Stella was a visionary artist who painted what he saw, an idiosyncratic and individual experience of his time and place. Stella arrived in New York in 1896, part of a wave of Italian immigrants from poverty-stricken Southern Italy. But Stella was not a child of poverty. His father was a notary and respected citizen in Muro Locano, a small town in the southern Appenines. The five Stella brothers were all properly educated in Naples. Stella’s older brother, Antonio, was the first of the family to come to America. Antonio Stella trained as a physician in Italy, and was a successful and respected doctor in the Italian community centered in Greenwich Village. He sponsored and supported his younger brother, Joseph, first sending him to medical school in New York, then to study pharmacology, and then sustaining him through the early days of his artistic career. Antonio Stella specialized in the treatment of tuberculosis and was active in social reform circles. His connections were instrumental in Joseph Stella’s early commissions for illustrations in reform journals. Joseph Stella, from the beginning, was an outsider. He was of the Italian-American community, but did not share its overwhelming poverty and general lack of education. He went back to Italy on several occasions, but was no longer an Italian. His art incorporated many influences. At various times his work echoed the concerns and techniques of the so-called Ashcan School, of New York Dada, of Futurism and, of Cubism, among others. These are all legitimate influences, but Stella never totally committed himself to any group. He was a convivial, but ultimately solitary figure, with a lifelong mistrust of any authority external to his own personal mandate. He was in Europe during the time that Alfred Stieglitz established his 291 Gallery. When Stella returned he joined the international coterie of artists who gathered at the West Side apartment of the art patron Conrad Arensberg. It was here that Stella became close friends with Marcel Duchamp. Stella was nineteen when he arrived in America and studied in the early years of the century at the Art Students League, and with William Merritt Chase, under whose tutelage he received rigorous training as a draftsman. His love of line, and his mastery of its techniques, is apparent early in his career in the illustrations he made for various social reform journals. Stella, whose later work as a colorist is breathtakingly lush, never felt obliged to choose between line and color. He drew throughout his career, and unlike other modernists, whose work evolved inexorably to more and more abstract form, Stella freely reverted to earlier realist modes of representation whenever it suited him. This was because, in fact, his “realist” work was not “true to nature,” but true to Stella’s own unique interpretation. Stella began to draw flowers, vegetables, butterflies, and birds in 1919, after he had finished the Brooklyn Bridge series of paintings, which are probably his best-known works. These drawings of flora and fauna were initially coincidental with his fantastical, nostalgic and spiritual vision of his native Italy which he called Tree of My Life (Mr. and Mrs. Barney A. Ebsworth Foundation and Windsor, Inc., St. Louis, illus. in Barbara Haskell, Joseph Stella, exh. cat. [New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994], p. 111 no. 133). Two Wood Ducks...
Category

20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Color Pencil

57 Chevy Bel Aire
Located in Nutfield, Surrey
Leigh Murphy This original work of art by the award-winning watercolour and oil painter Leigh Murphy wonderfully illustrates her super realist technique of using thin layers to bui...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Realist Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

"Ghostly Meditations (waltzing with the forgotten)" drawing collage figures text
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Enrique Chagoya Ghostly Meditations (waltzing with the forgotten), 2012 acrylic and India ink on de-acidified 19th century paper (facing pages of etchings from a 19th century book) 1...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, India Ink, Acrylic

"Nude Woman with 2 Men"
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1970 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 25.00" x 22.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Fawcett book cover. Robert Berran has been a prolific romance and historical book cover il...
Category

1970s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

The Falconer, interior Argosy magazine story illustration
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 16.00" x 24.00" Signature: Unsigned
Category

Early 20th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

John Gould - Himalayan Nuthatch from 'The Birds of Asia' c.1850
Located in BRUCE, ACT
Himalayan Nuthatch - John Gould lithograph with hand-coloured size 54 cm X 37 cm excellent Condition Accompanied by the information page from 'The Birds of Asia...
Category

Late 19th Century Art

Materials

Lithograph

Part of the ring-wall of the Taj Mahal, Agra, India, 1914
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Part of the ring-wall of the Taj Mahal, Agra, India, 1914 Signed with initials and dated bottom right Black chalk on paper, 45.5 x 53 cm Literature: Ernst Braches en J.F. Heijbro...
Category

1910s Art Nouveau Art

Materials

Chalk, Paper

"Yellow"
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Jim’s of Lambertville is proud to offer this artwork by: Rex Ashlock (1918 – 1999) Born in Spokane, Washington in 1918 Rex Ashlock was known for his abstract, figurative expression...
Category

1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Pajama Party
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Signature: Signed Lower Right Medium: Gouache on Board
Category

1950s Art

Materials

Gouache, Board

Terrace Positano, 2002
Located in Quogue, NY
Watercolor on paper
Category

Early 2000s Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Paper, Watercolor

Analogía de la luna
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
#mandala #spiritualart #introspecction #sculpture #nature #landscape #information #outdoors #contemporaryart #clay #sun #energy #moon #female JUANA MARTÍNEZ (Tlalpujajua, Michoac...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Magazine Paper, Clay

Bozzetto for the Christos at St. Patrick's Old Cathedral
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Red Chalk and Brown Ink
Category

1970s Art

Materials

Chalk, Ink, Paper

Omaha Sketchbook: Dog on Hill (Sunrise), Omaha, NE - Contemporary Photography
Located in London, GB
Omaha Sketchbook: Dog on Hill (Sunrise), Omaha, NE - Contemporary Photography Signed on reverse Digital chromogenic print 22 x 18 inches From a limited edition of 7 prints For the l...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

C Print

San Francisco Bay II
Located in Santa Fe, NM
"San Francisco Bay II" is a serigraph print from 2011 emblematic of Soulié's association with the Neo-Post Pictorialism movement of the 1970s. This v...
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Screen

"The Cave Man, " Liberty Magazine Cover, 1927
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1927 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 20.00" x 16.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Liberty Magazine Cover, November 12, 1927 "The Cave Man or the Cave Max?"
Category

1920s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

RECTUS XVI
Located in Barcelona, ES
The painting is being offered with a work and authenticity certificate
Category

2010s Abstract Geometric Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

The Old Couple
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 21.00" x 28.00" Signature: Signed Lower Left Book cover, The Old Couple.
Category

Mid-20th Century Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

(Untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Date: 1928 Medium: Oil on Canvas Dimensions: 16.00" x 22.00" Signature: Signed Lower Right Interior setting with people standing around.
Category

1920s Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Joy, Happiness, Pleasure, Euphoria, Bliss, Ecstasy is a Jump
Located in Miami, FL
A joyful moment preserved. A young woman is about to land on earth. She seems very happy about it. Signed, Dated, number Lower left 3/15 recto, unframed, other size available
Category

2010s Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Photographic Paper

TRESPASS
Located in New York, NY
Homage to Dick Tracey. Pop Art influenced work of amazing, infamous graffiti, pop, street artist. Sprays, enamels, oils acrylics on canvas. About the Artist Born in Belgium and artistically inclined at an early age, V.P. was executing well-defined pencil sketched portraits of anyone who would sit for him by age 4. The family’s emigration to the United States in 1967 landed the 8 year old in the Fordham section of the Bronx at the height of the psychedelic era and POP ART movement.  The Fordham Road shopping district offered the young budding artist a fount of inspiration in the form of vibrant Rock & Roll, “black-light” posters in the windows of “head-shops” and the elaborately colored wardrobes of the hippies crowding the boulevard. The pivotal shift in V.P.’s artistic expression was fueled in 1968 by the sight of a Peter Max designed billboard.  Armed with magic markers and acrylic paints, V.P. recreated the vibrant designs from Max’s billboard, the music posters in store windows and the paisley patterns of the shirts the “flower children” favored, as well as the names and slogans painted on the walls of the neighborhood.  The early seventies brought with it a wondrous sight passing overhead on the sides of the elevated trains. NYC Subway Graffiti had arrived.  Looking up and seeing the esoteric names intricately rendered in multi colored swirls and strategically placed on the sides of the trains completely enthralled V.P.’s creative and adventurous spirit. Compelled to be a part of this fascinating movement he watched and rode the subways, deciphering the names and studying the “styles” on the steel rolling art gallery. Using his artistic influences and skills with markers, V.P. created his first moniker “SONIC-ACE” and obsessively drew it in colorful flowing letters to develop his own style.   At age 13 he set out to traverse the city, facing dangers and overcoming obstacles to enter an unknown and secretive world in order to join those who inspired him.  By 1974, he would change his moniker to “VICTOR-161” and paint hundreds of train cars and soon be admitted into the world famous graffiti clique “WILD STYLE” - an honor bestowed due to peer recognized artistic and stylistic abilities.  (WILDSTYLE was created/coined by the iconic TRACY-168)  V.P. was a well known and respected “writer” who “pieced” with revered writers of the day, under the aforementioned monikers including aka’s T-BOLT-123, SULFA-ONE, FANTA-ONE, BOND & ACES.  V.P. retired from painting NYC subway trains in 1977 with occasional excursions in 1986,1987,1988,1999 & 1992.  He continuously expanded his artistic pallet, studying Art History & Graphic Design in college while seeking knowledge from masters in chosen fields of art.  His works have shown in independent galleries nationally and are sought after by international collectors, with numerous private commissions. He has been featured in several best selling books and magazines focusing on graffiti art as well as his status of having been a part of the 1970’s “Golden Era” of NYC Subway Graffiti. V.P. works with a variety of mediums including aerosol paints, oils, water color & acrylic paints, often combining mediums as well as blending POP, graffiti and abstract styles of painting onto wood, canvas and metal.  His professional artistic background includes commercial art and design, logo design, silk screening, printmaking, large commissioned public murals, sign painting, pin striping and airbrushing cars, sculpting, metal fabrication, woodcarving and tattooing. Exhibitions:  Fashion Moda (BXNY) Group Show 1980/Fun Gallery (NYC) group show 1981, Beef Gallery, (LA) Group Show 1981, Gallery International (NYC) Group Show 1985, Susan Greco Gallery (NY) Group Show 1990, Shady Side...
Category

2010s Pop Art Art

Materials

Spray Paint

Meraud Guinness, 1930s - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography)
Located in London, GB
Meraud Guinness, 1930s - Cecil Beaton (Fashion Portrait Photography) Inkwash signature on mount Stamped with Sotheby's Cecil Beaton studio ink stamp on reverse Silver gelatin print m...
Category

20th Century Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

(untitled)
Located in Fort Washington, PA
Medium: Watercolor and Ink on Paper Dimensions: 28.00" x 19.50" Signature: Signed Center
Category

Early 20th Century Art

Materials

Paper, Ink, Watercolor

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