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Art For Sale
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Tea for two – Tod
Located in Deddington, GB
Tea for two – Tod by Harry Bunce [2017] limited_edition Screen Print Edition number 146 Image size: H:25 cm x W:31 cm Complete Size of Unframed Work: H:41 cm x W:49 cm x D:0.3cm Sol...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Paper, Screen

untitled
Located in MADRID, ES
We consider this artwork one of the best available, if not the best, from Michèle Demedts. The unusual combination of strong greens and earth tones and...
Category

1990s Art Deco Art

Materials

Oil

Burning House , jewelry lapel pin designed by Francis Pavy, made by Thomas Mann
Located in Lafayette, LA
Brilliant color and twisted flames made of layers of precious metals and black acrylic. Burning House is a powerful image, equally impressive as a wearable or a framed art piece. ...
Category

2010s Modern Art

Materials

Metal

Countess
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Since 1977, Larry Torno has worked in the graphic design business as a designer, art director, and creative director for companies large and small, from Fo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Ride the waves
Located in New York, NY
This neon piece is hand blown glass. It is mounted on contoured, clear plexiglas with pre drilled holes for hanging, and comes ready to hang. This piece is offered in the following c...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Neon Light

Untitled V, Self Portrait. Limited Edition Color Nude Photograph
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Untitled V, from the "Sin título" series by Jose Sierra Archival Pigment Print. Semi Matte Sheet size: 40 in. H x 29.5 in. W Edition 1 of 10 + 2AP Unframed 2016 Other sizes are av...
Category

2010s Conceptual Art

Materials

Photographic Paper, Color, Archival Pigment

Sweet
Located in Zug, CH
Interested in cultural iconography, Cotton's art makes use of the common language of consumer culture shared across geographical boundaries. He considers the visual threads in his wo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Acrylic Polymer

066R Jazz
Located in VALLAURIS, FR
"On April 24th, 2018 my studio was flooded in the middle of the night. While excavating the ruins, I uncovered several catalogues of drenched, non-archival small prints. I separated ...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

The Hon. John Spencer
Located in London, GB
PROVENANCE Presumably commissioned by the sitter’s father-in-law, John Carteret, 2nd Earl Granville, Haynes Park, Thence by descent, Lady Louisa Carteret , who married Thomas Thynne,...
Category

Mid-18th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Blue Eyes and a Pink Tie
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Since 1977, Larry Torno has worked in the graphic design business as a designer, art director, and creative director for companies large and small, from Fortune 500 to Not-for-Profit...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Flirtation
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Since 1977, Larry Torno has worked in the graphic design business as a designer, art director, and creative director for companies large and small, from Fo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Allure
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Since 1977, Larry Torno has worked in the graphic design business as a designer, art director, and creative director for companies large and small, from Fo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

17th Century Darius' Family with Alexander Magnus Roman School Oil on Canvas
Located in Sanremo, IT
Painting oil on canvas, measuring 78 x 110 unframed and 97 x 122 cm with coeval frame depicting the family of Darius with Alexander the Great, from the Roman school of the second hal...
Category

Mid-17th Century Italian School Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Earl
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Since 1977, Larry Torno has worked in the graphic design business as a designer, art director, and creative director for companies large and small, from Fortune 500 to Not-for-Profit...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

L'Elegance
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Since 1977, Larry Torno has worked in the graphic design business as a designer, art director, and creative director for companies large and small, from Fortune 500 to Not-for-Profit...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Xantippe #1
Located in Dallas, TX
Edition of 8 Signed, titled, dated and numbered. Paper size: 30 x 24 in. Image size: 28 x 22 in. From the Chattel series. Kevin Horan photographs goats in a very regal manner in his series, Chattel. A variety of domestic goats and sheep get their close-ups, allowing us to explore the detail of their beards, wattels, eyes, horns and hair. Horan's interest in exploring the exchange between people and animals lead to these dramatic, yet humorous portraits...
Category

Early 2000s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

16th Century by Venetian Maestro Deposition of Christ Oil on Panel
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Formerly Canesso Collection, Paris. Publications: Bozzetti, modelletti, sketches: dalla collezione di Giorgio Baratti (From the Giorgio Baratti Collection) curated by Anna Orlando, ...
Category

16th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil, Wood Panel

Tupi
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Henrique Belotti started as a street artist painting murals all over Brazil. He is constantly developing his technique and currently his works are a dialogue between contemporary pai...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

006R Cowboy at Pond
Located in VALLAURIS, FR
"On April 24th, 2018 my studio was flooded in the middle of the night. While excavating the ruins, I uncovered several catalogues of drenched, non-archival small prints. I separated ...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Swimmers
Located in London, GB
Edition of 175. 6 Colour lithograph on Somerset Velvet White 300gsm. Signed, titled and dated by the artist.
Category

2010s Art

Materials

Lithograph

007R Cowboy NM
Located in VALLAURIS, FR
"On April 24th, 2018 my studio was flooded in the middle of the night. While excavating the ruins, I uncovered several catalogues of drenched, non-archival small prints. I separated ...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

048R
Located in VALLAURIS, FR
"On April 24th, 2018 my studio was flooded in the middle of the night. While excavating the ruins, I uncovered several catalogues of drenched, non-archival small prints. I separated ...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Tupi 2
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Henrique Belotti started as a street artist painting murals all over Brazil. He is constantly developing his technique and currently his works are a dialogue between contemporary pai...
Category

2010s Street Art Art

Materials

Canvas, Acrylic

061V
Located in VALLAURIS, FR
"On April 24th, 2018 my studio was flooded in the middle of the night. While excavating the ruins, I uncovered several catalogues of drenched, non-archival small prints. I separated ...
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Untitled
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Mixed Media on canvas by Brazilian artist Alander Especie.
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Portrait of Two Wild Horses, Minimal, Vertical
Located in US
"Kisses" Two wild horses share a affectionate moment in an ethereal scene from Sable Island. This is a best-selling image. The print series Discovering the Horses of Sable Isla...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Snail in a Bowl (Artist Proof inscribed to Fritz Eichenberg)
Located in New Orleans, LA
Leonard Merchant's mezzotint, "Snail in Cup" is inscribed for fellow artist, Fritz Eichenberg. While a student at the Central School for Arts and Crafts in London, a young Leonard Marchant found an engraving rocker in a cupboard and proceeded to turn himself into a master of the painstaking art of mezzotinting. Marchant, who has died in Shrewsbury aged 70, grew up in Simonstown, the Royal Navy's enclave in South Africa. Though his first job was as a parliamentary messenger, he taught himself to paint and, aged 19, was given a one-man show in Cape Town. Fired by this success, he left for England to study painting and, he claimed, to escape the stifling home atmosphere created by his Catholic mother and aunts. (His father was killed in the second world war.) Without contacts in London, he phoned Jacob Epstein, whose recommendation resulted in a grant to study briefly at the Central School. It was later, when studying full-time at the Central, that he saw the mezzotints of the Japanese master, Yozo Hamaguchi, in a London gallery. He was hooked. Creating a mezzotint is tedious in the extreme. The copper plate must first be prepared with a "rocker" which roughens the surface. A plate may be "rocked" 30 or 40 times. The rough texture is then reduced with a burnisher and a scraper, allowing the print a range of tones from velvety black through the greys to white. Marchant's plates could be months in the making. But the technical demands were the least of his worries. In its 18th- and 19th-century heyday, mezzotint was solely a reproductive medium, for copying masters such as Reynolds and Turner. The development of photography rendered it unfashionable, and by the 1960s the technique, known as la manière anglaise, was a bygone medium. Marchant, by now a teacher in printmaking at the Central, began to create original mezzotints with a colleague, Radavan Kraguly. A perfectionist, he seemed to revel in the straitjacket procedure. Perhaps it was the metaphor of bringing darkness out of light that appealed to this straight-talking, sometimes sombre, man, who would suddenly relax and light up like a gleaming hue on one of his prints. His work was of squares and triangles with the occasional cat, black and ominous, and carefully arranged still lifes, featuring plants, a seed pod, a pot he might have bought at auction to celebrate the sale of a print. There were one-man shows, notably at the Bankside Gallery. He sold well at the Royal Academy summer exhibition, was a Florence Biennale prizewinner, spent a fellowship year at the British School in Rome, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers. But making mezzotints was not a paying job. Marchant and his South African wife...
Category

1980s Modern Art

Materials

Mezzotint

Blue Space
Located in LAS ROZAS DE MADRID, ES
Due to the size of the work, it was sent rolled in a tube The painting in question is an impressive work that stands out for the intensity of its colors and the dramatic texture of ...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Acrylic

Sundial
Located in New Orleans, LA
edition 1/5 TRENITY THOMAS is a self-taught photographer who has also experimented with painting and sketching since grade school. As a photographer, he has worked in a myriad of ge...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Desert Night Fox
Located in San Francisco, CA

Artist Comments
This painting is part of a series of whimsical foxes. For these pieces, Tara has a collection of small toy foxes that she sets up like a still life for reference. I needed a dark background to offset the desert sand and warm hues of the fox, so I added in a dark sky flecked with little stars, Tara explains of this painting. I think of foxes as mystical creatures, leading the viewer to an otherworldly destination.

About the Artist

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Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Oil

Helmut Newton Style Topless Woman by Shaving Stand Big Sur
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed photograph by artist. Taken with 2x2 Rolleiflex on film.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

"Feelin' It, III", Vibrant, Bold, Black & White, Large, Abstract, Modern, Vivid
Located in Atlanta, GA
"Feelin' It, III" is a bold, energetic stunner! The movement in this piece will have you "Feelin' It" every time you look at it. Arguably, one of the most versatile paintings you'...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Varnish, Acrylic

Untitled
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Mixed Media on canvas by Brazilian artist Alander Especie.
Category

2010s Neo-Expressionist Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Flowers and Arches
By Helen Lundeberg
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Flowers and Arches, 1943, oil on board, initialed and dated lower left, 4 x 7 1/8 inches, presented in an older, but likely not original frame This work is part of our exhibition A...
Category

1940s Modern Art

Materials

Oil, Board

“Three Movements" Limited Edition Hand-Signed Serigraph by Yaacov Agam, Framed
Located in Encino, CA
"Three Movements," an original silkscreen by Yaacov Agam, is a piece for the true collector. Agam is considered the father of Kinetic art. His iconic style is recognizable across the...
Category

1970s Kinetic Art

Materials

Screen

Nu allongé
Located in LE HAVRE, FR
Marguerite BARTHELEMY (XX) Nu allongé Oil on canvas Size : 50 x 100 cm Signed lower right Provenance : Private collection Normandy Good condition, original canvas Frame included S...
Category

Mid-20th Century Post-Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Nude Woman in Old Hotel
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed silver gelatin photograph. Taken with a Rolleiflex on film. Other sizes available.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Snettisham Sweet Chestnut, Kate Heiss, Limited edition linocut print, Butterfly
Located in Deddington, GB
Kate Heiss Snettisham Sweet Chestnut Limited Edition Linocut Print Edition of 30 Image Size: H 30cm x W 30cm Mounted Size: H 40cm x W 40cm x D 0.5cm Made in 2017 Signed and numbered on the front. Edition numbers may vary from the photo. Please note that in situ images are purely an indication of how a piece may look. Snettisham Sweet Chestnut is a limited edition linocut print by Kate Heiss. The work depicts two Silver Washed Fritillary butterflies feeding on the blossom of the sweet chestnut tree. Kate Heiss is a textile designer and print-maker who has worked with a wide range of fashion brands including Fenchurch, Miss Selfridge and the Japanese fashion designer Michiko Koshino...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Art

Materials

Archival Paper, Linocut

Snake
Located in Hudson, NY
Listing is for FRAMED print. Edition of 6 CURRENT EXHIBITION - runs through December 18th, 2016. Any framed photographs purchased during the show will be available after December ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Digital Pigment

Three Figures
Located in Belgrade, MT
This lithograph is part of my private collection. It is limited in edition ,artist signed lower right and is in very good condition. Walter Becker was a German artist. Another impres...
Category

Mid-20th Century Abstract Expressionist Art

Materials

Lithograph

Man Ray Inspired Nude Woman Posing with Flowers
Located in Carmel, CA
Hand printed by artist. Taken with Rolleiflex on film. Other sizes available.
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Yellow Roses
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Olga Cairols is a Spanish artist with more than 35 years of career. Olga studied Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. She has a bachelors degree in Design, Art ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Jack Elam
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Daniel Tavares considers his oil paintings part drawing and part painting. His artwork is a visual synthesis of his life experiences reflecting the influence of comic books - which ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

'Hotel Il San Pietro' Slim Aarons ESTATE ptrint
Located in London, GB
'Hotel Il San Pietro' by Slim Aarons Guests at the Hotel Il San Pietro in Positano, Italy, August 1979. In his words, he photographed 'beautiful peopl...
Category

1970s Modern Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Jayne Mansfield with Seagrams Dogs (Limited Edition of 10, No 6-10) - 30"x40"
Located in New York, NY
Shot by Barry Kramer (1921- 1984), one of the most prolific photographers of his time, captures the essence of 1950's Hollywood movie star, Jane Mansfield...
Category

1950s Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

From Portfolio "Twilight" with Karin Szekessy
Located in Kansas City, MO
Due to the current situation related to the Novel Coronavirus pandemic, our gallery will donate 10% of our commission from this sale to the Kansas City Artists Coalition, which has b...
Category

1970s Post-Modern Art

Materials

Black and White

La Portadora de árboles
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Olga Cairols is a Spanish artist with more than 35 years of career. Olga studied Art History and Fine Arts at the University of Barcelona. She has a bachelors degree in Design, Art ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Mixed Media, Acrylic

Henry Fonda
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Daniel Tavares considers his oil paintings part drawing and part painting. His artwork is a visual synthesis of his life experiences reflecting the influence of comic books - which ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Bosch
Located in San Francisco, CA
This artwork titled "Bosch" c. 1980 is an original etching with aquatint by American artist Peter Paone, b.1936. It is hand signed, titled and numbered 10/...
Category

Late 20th Century American Modern Art

Materials

Etching

Key Sketch for 60 Foot Movie Announcement on “Safety First"
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Key Sketch for 60 Foot Movie Announcement on “Safety First,” 1948, oil on canvas, signed and dated lower right, 14.5 x 12.5 inches, titled in pencil verso; presented in a newer frame...
Category

1940s Abstract Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Lips of Wine
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Since 1977, Larry Torno has worked in the graphic design business as a designer, art director, and creative director for companies large and small, from Fo...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Art

Materials

Archival Pigment

Surface CP/869 Steel
Located in Roma, RM
SURFACE CP/869 Steel 1951 Tempera, pencil on twelve paper tiles, on sheet Tempera, pencil on twelve layers of paper, on sheet cm 31 x 24 (sheet) 15 x 20 (panel) EXHIBITONS F.R. Mor...
Category

1950s Abstract Art

Materials

Paper, Mixed Media, Tempera

Objects nº2
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Daniel Tavares considers his oil paintings part drawing and part painting. His artwork is a visual synthesis of his life experiences reflecting the influence of comic books - which ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

Calcidicus
Located in New Rochelle, NY
Daniel Tavares considers his oil paintings part drawing and part painting. His artwork is a visual synthesis of his life experiences reflecting the influence of comic books - which ...
Category

2010s Contemporary Art

Materials

Canvas, Oil

16th Century by Neapolitan Maestro Vision of Saint John in Patmos Oil on Panel
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Without frame. Expertise by Prof. Antonio Vannugli A brightly lit gash opens up in the middle of the sky; within it appears the figure of the Virgin with the Child and beside her a...
Category

16th Century Old Masters Art

Materials

Oil, Panel

Flowers in vase
Located in Täby, SE
Yelva Petrea Sophie Vermehren, born February 13, 1878 in Helsingborg, died in 1980 102 years old, was a Swedish-Danish painter. She was the daughter of the wholesaler Johan Carl Emil...
Category

1940s Impressionist Art

Materials

Oil

Brand New Highway
Located in Carmel, CA
BRAND NEW HIGHWAY (1970) is a vintage silver gelatin photograph of a highway that is so clean and new, that it is almost appears to be an abstraction. Hand signed by the artist recto, bottom right. Brand New Highway is Uzzle’s most iconic work. It appeared on the cover of his book, Landscapes, and was the lead image at the Burk Uzzle: American Puzzles exhibition at the Steven Kasher Gallery (New York, New York) in 2015. Region of Origin: California Medium: Silver gelatin photograph Edition: Unknown Photograph Size: 6.875 in H x 8.75 in W Frame: Black wood with 4-ply, white matting and museum glass for maximum UV protection. Framed by J.H. Miller Framing Company, West Springfield, Massachusetts. Frame Size: 17.25 in H x 19.25 in W x 1 in D Condition: Museum Quality ABOUT BURK UZZLE Burk Uzzle (1938- ) was born in Raleigh, North Carolina and has spent his adult life as a professional photographer. Grounded in documentary photography, he was the youngest contract photographer when he was hired by Life Magazine at age 23. For sixteen years, during the 1970’s and 1980’s, he was an active contributor to the evolution of Magnum Photos and served as its president in 1979 and 1980. While affiliated with Magnum, he produced iconic and symbolic images of Woodstock and the assassination and funeral of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. His archive spans more than six decades and captures much of the history of analog and digital photography. His current bodies of work rest deep in social justice issues. A dozen years ago, Uzzle returned to North Carolina to live and work in two century old industrial buildings located in downtown Wilson not far from where he was born. With the energy and determination of someone half his age, he wakes every morning at 5 am, takes an hour to swiftly bike all over the town before the sun is up, and then gets to work. Disciplined, organized, and always open to ideas emboldened through keen intuition, Uzzle states with conviction that photography is his reason to breathe and what he sees is his muse. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 "Perceptions + Recognitions : African-Americans in Eastern North Carolina," Greenville Museum of Art, Greenville NC (Catalogue) 2016 "Burk Uzzle: American Chronicle," North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh NC 2016 "All About America: Photographs by Burk Uzzle," Ackland Art Museum UNC Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill NC (Catalogue) 2016 "Burk Uzzle Retrospective," Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham NC 2015 "Burk Uzzle: American Puzzles," Steven Kasher Gallery, New York NY 2012 "Burned," Laurence Miller Gallery, New York NY 2011 "Burk Uzzle," Flanders Gallery, Raleigh NC 2010 "Martin Luther King, Jr.," Wilson Arts Council, Wilson NC 2009 "Woodstock," Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa FL 2009 "Woodstock 40th Anniversary," Laurence Miller Gallery, New York NY 2008 "Burk Uzzle Recent Work," Barton College, Wilson NC 2007 "Just Add Water: America in Color," Laurence Miller Gallery, New York NY 2006 "Burk Uzzle," Michael Dawson...
Category

Late 20th Century Art

Materials

Silver Gelatin

Four Crowns, Acrylic Painting on Canvas
Located in Yardley, PA
This is a beautiful one-of-a-kind original acrylic/oil/chalk painting. It comes wired and ready to hang on deep-profile canvas. It is signed by the artist.
Category

2010s Abstract Art

Materials

Acrylic

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