Bay Area - Art

'Romantic Composition is a tall vase' by master watercolorist Gary Bukovnik, who fuses sensual vitality with fluid yet powerful colorations to create floral images of great depth, i...

Boats at sunset depicted in this calm and peaceful oil painting — Tamales Bay Evening — from American Realist Willard Dixon. The canvas is 17 x 50 inches...

This is a framed 19th century color lithograph entitled "Mothu et Doria" created by Theophile Alexandre Steinlen and published between 1896 and 1899 in Paris, France by Jules Cheret in his famous series of miniature colored stone lithographs of popular Belle Epoch posters...

This early 19th century etching entitled "Veduta di Piazza Navona sopra le rovine del Circo" was created by Jean Barbault (1718-1762) after a painting by...

This exceptional mid-18th century etching by Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Piranesi (b. 1720-1778) is titled “Veduta della Gran Curia Innocenziana” (“View of the Palazzo di Montecitorio”). It is from Piranesi’s Vedute di Roma...

This early 1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Bahamas Speed Week in Nassau. This is an estate-stamped and hand-numbered edition of 150 with...

Artist: David Fox (American, 1920-2011) Title: Geometric Figure #25 Year: 2002 Medium: Acrylic on paper Paper: Watercolor paper Image size: 8 x 12...

This early-1980s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features tourists resting from skiing at Cortina d'Ampezzo. This is an estate-stamped and hand-numbered ed...

Artist Comments
"Aura of Orange" was painted from life alla prima style, meaning all in one sitting. Pamela enjoys painting at an energetic pace, which gives her work a loose...

The artist of this piece, William "Bill" Stephens Shields Jr. (1925-2010), was born in San Francisco and following the death of his father in 1931, the then-4 year-old grew up in Tex...

Ryan Snow is an environmental artist creating visual meditations through abstract painting, analog photography and digital media. His field process explores the tranquility of mind a...

This 1990s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a woman experiences the Caracalla Therme spa in Baden-Baden, September 1990. This is an estate-stamped ...

From Christian Stoll's body of works BURST (2015), an abstract exploration of high speed photographs capturing mesmerizing explosions of caleidoscopic color 48 x 72 inches (122 x 18...

This early 19th century etching entitled "Veduta degl' Avanzi delle Torri di Belisario Dalla parte che guarda l' Interno della Città, vicino a Porta S. Giovanni, A. Mura Aureliane" (...

Javier Manrique Vida (Life), 2024 Oil on canvas 36 x 36 inches This is an abstract landscape painting created by Javier Manrique in 2024. This one-of-a-kind painting on canvas is st...

Though it resembles a giant abstract watercolor painting owing to its soft gradations and luminous quality, this is a form of photography called a cyanotype, photogram or sun print. ...

Donna McGinnis’ abstract paintings are composed freely, without concrete ideas of what they will ultimately be. As an intuitive painter, McGinnis’s paintings come into being without ...

Brand-new addition to the Foggy Woods Collection of forests in northern California near San Francisco. New as of May 14, 2024. This is a hand-printed contact photograph using the ant...

Ocean with Crescent Moon - The painting was created in 2024 by celebrated American realist artist Willard Dixon, who has captured the undeniable beauty of the west for the past 35 ye...

Internationally acclaimed watercolorist Gary Bukovnik has devoted his career to celebrating the beauty, abundance, and vitality of the natural world. Renowned for his exuberant flora...

This late-1950s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features holidaymakers waterskiing from the pier of the Carlton Hotel, Cannes. This is an estate-stamped an...

This early 1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Bahamas Speed Week in Nassau. This is an estate-stamped and hand-numbered edition of 150 with...

This a rare 18th century hand-colored large folio-sized copperplate engraving entitled "Platalea leucorodia" (Spoonbill) by Cornelius Nozeman in volume II of his publication 'Nederlandsche Vogelen', engraved by Christiaan Sepp or his son Jan Christiaan Sepp, published in Amsterdam in 1770. This engraving depicts a Platalea leucorodia Spoonbill, a large bird that lives mainly in Europe, Asia and Africa. It commonly migrates long distances on thermal air currents from the colder Northern European climates to Sub-Saharan Africa in the winter, sometimes as far long as Finland to South Africa. The Asian black stork...

From Kim Frohsin's important "Coke Work" collage series. Frohsin began exhibiting in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1990s, and she was included with Nathan Oliveira, Manuel ...

This early-1980s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features a pool at the Meridian Club, owned by Ginny and Bill Cowles, on the Turks and Caicos Islands This...

This artwork "Landscape with Houses and Pond, California" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963. It is signed at the lower left cor...

Marc Chagall’s Les Fleurs Rouges (Red Flowers), 1973 exemplifies one of Chagall’s numerous depictions of a blooming floral bouquet. Pops of crimson intermingled with dark green fill ...

C. 20th Century Vicente Garcia De Paredes Hand Colored Print ( Signed bottom right )

details of an almost monochromatic and timeless urban vignette in Rome, Italy captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale print sizes with incredible image details SPQR ...

Mid-century Italian abstract titled “Lake Garda” Signed indecipherably lower right Oil on masonite 26 x 27.25 framed 21.5 x 22.5 unframed

This early 1960s photograph, captured by society photographer Slim Aarons, features the Bahamas Speed Week in Nassau. This is an estate-stamped and hand-numbered edition of 150 with...

Adrienne Sherman creates works that celebrate the mystery of life, anchored in history, and inspired by dreams, everyday magic, and stories passed from one generation to the next. He...

It’s the hopeful, intelligent expression that grabs you. Especially in a boy framed by the evidence of abject poverty. How long can he endure? The artist, Roy Little, was described a...

This artwork titled "Monkey Business" is an oil painting on canvas board by noted Spanish artist and musician Xavier Cugat, 1900-1990. It is signed at the...

Donna McGinnis’ abstract paintings are composed freely, without concrete ideas of what they will ultimately be. As an intuitive painter, McGinnis’s paintings come into being without ...

mesmerizing large scale photographic capture of strikingly abstract water surface shimmering in soothing tones of cobalt, admiral, azur and lapis blue Wave I (Abstract) by Christian...

Elena Zolotnitsky is a Russian American painter whose work explores beauty, adolescence, and the passage of time. Her paintings emphasize the tactile physicality of paint, creating s...

This is a monochromatic rendering of branches of the native Californian madrone tree. There are two shades of the same green, the darker leaves being the thin slightly translucent fi...

‘Glory Blaze’ oil painting by American Realist artist Peter Loftus, who is known for captivating breathtaking color-rich nature scenes through shadow and light in his oil on canvas p...

Donald Sultan (American, b. 1951) "Fish (From Fruit and Flowers Portfolio)" 1990 Screenprint in colors on Arches 88 paper Pencil initialed, titled, and dated left of image Edition 61...

Artist: (Romain De Tirtoff) Erte (Russian, 1892-1990) Title: Leo Year: 1982 Medium: Color serigraph Edition: Numbered 281/350 in pencil Image size: 17 x 12.75 inches Framed s...

This artwork "Landscape with House" c.1950, is a color etching on paper by Austrian artist Luigi Kasimir, 1881-1962. It is hand signed in pencil by the arti...

Artist Comments
"Weatherworn walls and fresco texture abound on the face of this painting," says Patricia. "Time passed by leaving bits of color to hold onto their space in t...

an homage to Caspar David Friedrich, towering thunder clouds over the Mediterranean Sea, captured with a large format camera to allow epic scale photograph...

large scale conceptual environmental still life photographs playing with viewer's perspective creating individual letters from found objects spelling the word HOPE H-O-P-E by Christ...

Hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on heavy cotton watercolor paper. Just one of 3 prints made in this largest size. These are the foggy woods in the hills of Oakland, across...

This is a rare 18th Century hand-colored copperplate engraving entitled "Der Storch Ciconia" (White Stork) by Johann Leonhard Frisch is plate 19...

Wave I by Christian Stoll a mesmerizing photographic rendering of blue acquatic surface 58 x 58 inches (147 x 147cm) edition of 7 signed 48 x 48 inches (122 x 122cm) edition of 7 s...

This is an original 18th century hand-colored copperplate engraving of a pair of red and black woodpecker birds entitled "1. Pie Roux, de Cayenne 2. Petit Pie Noir, de Cayenne (Red a...

Victoria Veedell captures the essence of nature by examining the effects of light on form in the natural world in her softly glowing landscape paintings. Inspired by her travels thro...

Artist: George Chemeche – Iraqi/American (1934-2022) Title: Dancing Ducks in Red, Green, Blue, Purple Year: circa 1980 Medium: Screen Print Image size: 19 x 27 inches. Sheet size: 22 x 29 inches. Signature: Signed lower right Edition: 260 This one: 77/260 Condition: Very good Unframed This exceptional geometric abstract serigraph is by the noted Iraqi/American artist George Chemeche (1934-2022 ). He is a master of serigraph printing, but this print has more than technical excellence. It is a wonderful, rhythmic abstract composition. I believe Chemeche might have been a proponent of and/or influenced by the Pattern and Decoration Movement which was happening in New York in the 1970s and 1980s. The print has never been framed and is in very good condition. I will ship the print rolled in a heavyweight tube. George Chemeche was born in 1934 and studied at the Avni Art School in Tel Aviv and the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris. The style with which he is intimately associated, pattern painting, The most serviceable definition is that pattern is the systematic repetition of a motif or motifs used to cover a surface uniformly. The spaces between motifs are either other motifs or are an integral part of the repeat. Usually, patterning intentionally acknowledges the decorative function of art, reconciling both the decorative and the meaningful. George Chemeche’s work hangs in the lobby of the Hotel Chelsea where many have admired it for years. Please search online for more biographical information by this fine artist. Selected Biography 1934 Born in Basra, Iraq 1947 Fled Iraq with his family 1947-49 Lives and attends school in Tehran 1949 Immigrates to Israel 1956-59 Studies art in Avni Art School, Tel-Aviv 1959 Gets American-Israeli Culture Foundation grant to study art in Paris 1959-1962 Studies at Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris 1961- Gets two years grant from Lady Francis Fergusson, Scotland 1962 Gets one year grant from Alex de Rothschild, Paris First man show at Gallery Transposition, Paris 1965-72 Exhibits his work in numerous art galleries in Israel including one man show at Haifa Museum 1972 Travels to New York, checks in the Hotel Chelsea 1977-- First one-man show in USA at Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, followed by other shows around the country and Europe. 1995 Travels to Iceland to publish the Aya Series book. Text by Donald Kuspit; Art Resourses & Technologies, New York, NY 2002 Publishes, Ibejis: “The Cult of Yoruba Twins” 5 Continents Edition, Milan, Italy 2003 Curates a show at Museum of African Art, NYC Ibejis: The Doubly Blessed Twins 2005 Reads his poems at the Bowery Poetry Club, New York 2010 Lectures about Ibeji art and cult at Iowa University 2011 Lectures about Ibeji Art and cult at Neuberger Museum 2011 Publishes, The Horse Rider in African Art” ACC, UK INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS 1978 Goldman Art Gallery, Haifa, Israel 1977 Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York 1977 Alexandra Monett Gallery, Brussels 1977 Givon Art GaJIery, Tel Aviv 1974 South Houston Gallery, New York 1974 Ray Landis Gallery, East Brunswick, New Jersey 1973 Gala Gallery, Key Biscayne, Florida 1973 Art Asia Gallery...

Artist: Clayton Anderson – American (1943- ) Title: Landscape With Two Spheres Year: 1989 Medium: Liquitex with Polymer on 300lbs Arches Sight size: 10.5 x 16.5 inches. Sheet size: 19.5 x 25.5 inches Framed size: 22.5 x 28.5 inches Signature: Signed lower left in image and incised lower left of sheet Condition: Very good Frame: Framed in original maple frame. Frame in fair to good condition The painting is in very god condition. The frame is in fair to good condition with some scratches on the side bars. Clayton Anderson is a surrealist painter and a prominent member of the California Visionary Artists Group. He has been on the spiritual path his entire adult life. The quiet meditative quality that permeates his work is a genuine expression of his transcendental quest. He studied art at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and worked with Ben Kimihira, Walter Stuempfig...

This artwork "Landscape with Houses, California" c.1950 is an oil painting on canvas by noted California artist Clifford Holmes 1876-1963. It is signed at the lower right corner by t...

Highly detailed mesmerizing birds' eye view of urban architectural landscape Flying High by Christian Stoll 48 x 67 inches (122 x 170cm) signed edition of 7 32 x 40 inches (81 x 10...

Unframed. New from 2023. This is an original, hand-printed original cyanotype photograph on heavy cotton watercolor paper. Just one of 10 prints were made. Four have sold. Only six...

From the Portfolio 'Winter' printed in the 1970's Beautifully printed by Ketchum. Dry mounted embossed border. Signed in pencil. Limited Numbered 8/20

Artist: Enrique Kico Govantes (Cuban, born 1957) Title: Untitled, Two Personages Year: 1989 Medium: Oil on hardboard panel Panel size: 24 x 47.75 inches Signature: Signed and dated 11/21/89 on the back by the artist Condition: Very good Frame: Unframed About the artist. Enrique (Kico) Govantes was born in Havana, Cuba in 1957 surrounded by art. His grandfather was the Minister of Public Works, his father an architect. Paul Smart wrote in his article on Govantes, “Ace of Cups,” (Ulster Publishing. April 28, 2005) that although they did not support the Batista regime, the Govantes were exiled from Castro’s Cuba with only the art they could carry in their suitcases. He has presented solo shows at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy; Nicole Fiacco/MODO Gallery in Hudson; Hunter’s Point...

Perle Fine: 1905-1988. Very well listed American abstract and geometric abstract artist. Her high auction result was $57,600 in September 2024. She studied with Hans Hoffman, and was...

This artwork titled "Submerged Form" from the suite "Bestiary and some Correspondences" 1968 is an original color lithograph on Arches paper by renown British surrealist artist Graha...

Artist: Salvador Dali (Spanish surrealist, 1904-1989) Title: Le Caducee de Mars Alimente par la Boule de feu de Jupiter Year: 1974 Medium: Etching with embossing and color lithograph...